Retro Gaming News
“If they’ve used any generative AI at all, it should have been clear in that statement”. The James Pond Legacy saga rumbles on. Not long ago, we revealed that the company behind the game’s GenAI-infused trailer (and its core development) was Antstream, and now System 3 boss Mark Cale has told GameSpot that the studio…
Earlier this year, Broke Studio provided a physical release of The Echoes of Worlds, based on the Game Boy Studio project of the same name by TC Studio. It’s perhaps the most fiendish Game Boy release in recent memory, and I’m not just saying that because one of the many characters you play is…
Micro blaster headed to 16-bit big brother. Back in 2020, shmup specialists M2 gathered together the titles from its long-running Aleste series and released them on PlayStation and Nintendo Switch as the succinctly titled Aleste Collection. As a special treat, M2 included a brand-new Aleste title, GG Aleste 3, coded for Sega’s handheld platform Game…
“Reaching the right person at a large company in 2026 is sometimes near impossible”. MicroProse’s Steam reissue of the racing title Geoff Crammond Racing 4 (originally published as Grand Prix 4 in 2001) has run into licensing issues with some of the brands included in the original game. On account of this, MicroProse is asking…
Temporal Toad. Scientific papers have resurfaced, summarising an experiment to establish a link between video gaming and the plasticity of the human brain. Conducted in 2014, the results suggest that gaming can actively increase the amount of grey matter found in key areas of the cerebrum. Or, to put it in a more soundbite-friendly fashion:…
It will eventually have a dock, too! The team behind the upcoming Multisystem 2 Pocket has revealed what it hopes will be the final design of the FPGA-powered handheld before it goes into full production later this year. Factoring in feedback from the community, the team has tweaked the design over the past few months…
Why does a profitable studio with two shipped titles and no fraud history get handed a 10% rolling reserve and a 90-day hold? Founders tend to treat the answer as a clerical error by a bank that has never shipped a game. The decision is narrower than that. Underwriting prices a set of behaviors game…
There is a particular silence that belongs to Escape from Tarkov. You have found something valuable, your bag is full, the extract is two hundred metres away, and every footstep you take sounds like a confession. Nothing in thirty years of shooters prepared players for that feeling. Yet the genre that produced it is a…
“I got so frustrated with the whole thing, I started looking for other work.”. This week marks the 25th anniversary of the Nintendo GameCube’s original release in Japan, which also means Wave Race: Blue Storm is turning 25. The third in Nintendo’s series of jet-ski racing games (which originated all the way back in 1992…
Of Crocs & Catwomen. This week sees British developer Argonaut Games celebrating its 44th birthday. For the past four decades, the studio has built one of the most varied and unique portfolios in gaming history, ranging from bedroom-programmed releases and handheld adventures to major film licences and some of Nintendo’s biggest franchises. Originally formed in…