Retro News

Kept you waiting, huh? A concert dedicated to the music of the Metal Gear franchise is scheduled to take place later this year, at the Royal Albert Hall in London (h/t: VGC). Metal Gear In Concert is an audiovisual celebration of the classic series that debuted in Osaka, Japan back in 2017 and has previously…

Let us know if we missed any… The latest season of Charlie Brooker’s superbly subversive Black Mirror has recently gone live on Netflix, and one episode in particular will be of interest to gaming fans: Plaything. In it, murder suspect Cameron Walker, a former video game reviewer, reveals that he has been “playing” an unreleased…

It’s dangerous to go alone. A new sci-fi top-down adventure game is currently in development for the NES. And it will no doubt look familiar to anyone who has ever played the original Legend of Zelda. Knight on the Moon, as this brand new title is called, is the latest game from the developer kn56k,…

“We also expect that this will be resolved eventually”. Unless you’ve been spectacularly out of the loop, you’ll no doubt be aware that US President Donald Trump has been playing around with tariffs and causing chaos in the global markets. We’ve already covered the fact that Trump’s tariffs on goods shipped from China are putting…

Sometimes it’s fun to sit and try to imagine the pitch meeting for various products. Picture a group of executives and game designers sitting around a boardroom when the following conversation takes place: “So, we’ve had huge hits with Adventure and Space Invaders. Clearly people like battling aliens and searching mythic artifacts. What should we…

From the modder who brought seamless co-op to Elden Ring & Dark Souls 3. A new mod has just been released for Dark Soul Remastered that introduces seamless co-op to the PC version of the classic FromSoftware title (as spotted by Eurogamer!). The mod is the work of Yui, a fan developer who previously released…

The new 2.4GHz controller is available to order now. The video game accessory maker Retro Fighters will officially start accepting pre-orders for the Hunter 360 — a new, wireless evolution of the original Xbox 360 controller — at some point later today. In case you’re unfamiliar, Retro Fighters has had previous experience in producing Xbox…

The offer ends tomorrow, and is to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the original. Last month marked the 15th anniversary of 4A Games’ debut title Metro 2033, so to celebrate the developers are giving away the remastered version of the game Metro 2033 Redux totally for free for a limited amount of time. The offer…

Includes new artwork, remixes, and offline versus play. Yesterday, Capcom released a trailer for a new update coming to Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting: Arcade Classics, which is scheduled to land later this week on April 16th. The “Title update”, as this latest refresh is being called, will bring with it a bunch of quality-of-life improvements…