Retro Gaming News
Coming this summer! A new Wizardry Variants Daphne collaboration event has been announced for this summer, in which the dungeon RPG will team up with the long-running MMORPG Final Fantasy XI. If you are a fan of classic JRPGs, you’ll likely already know that the Wizardry and Final Fantasy series have long been linked, thanks…
“My birthday gift to the community”. This week brought us news that Sony is ending production of optical discs for its PlayStation 5 console and has confirmed that it will be the last machine it makes with a disc drive. With Microsoft widely expected to follow suit with its next Xbox, it leaves Nintendo as…
LETCHWORTH, UK: Evercade, a brand of Blaze Entertainment, has published an informative instructional video on the process of sharing your physical Evercade game cartridges with friends. In this short video, available on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok and Bluesky, the team at Evercade gives a concise and detailed explanation of how you can share your Evercade game cartridges with friends in order to…
“It’s dragging along this dead body and it’s going to slow them down”. Sony’s recent confirmation that it is abandoning physical media on PS5 and future consoles has sent shockwaves through the industry – but for some, the shift to a digital-only landscape is long overdue. Back in 2013, Microsoft was forced to perform an…
“This is how you share a game…”. Yesterday, Sony dropped a bombshell – it’s dropping physical media for its PlayStation 5 console, and has confirmed that its successor will be digital-only. The news comes as the market follows the trend set by the music and movie sectors, which have become largely digital over the past…
“We have attempted to work with the industry’s trade organisation to find a legal path”. Yesterday, PlayStation hit fans with a double whammy of bad news, revealing that it would not only stop producing disc versions of its games by 2028 but that it also plans to close the PS3 and PS Vita digital storefronts…
A atualidade da personalização: do físico ao digital A cena de customização em jogos eletrônicos alcança uma nova relevância com o crescimento de comunidades dedicadas à modificação e personalização visual. O interesse por itens exclusivos e raros permanece constante entre os entusiastas do retrô e gerações que buscam novas formas de colecionar. Uma tendência recente…
Coming this August! It’s a good time to be a Worms fan. Not only has Digital Eclipse just released an amazing anniversary edition of Worms Armageddon, but the series’ original creator, Andy Davidson, has recently revealed plans for an updated version of Worms Director’s Cut for the Commodore Amiga, tentatively titled Worms DC 1.5. The…
Crisis Force released for the Nintendo Famicom in 1991. The M2-developed Ganbare Goemon collection, Ganbare Goemon! Daishuugou is out today in Japan, bringing 13 games from Konami’s popular series to Nintendo Switch, PS5, and Steam. But as if that wasn’t enough to make us all jealous of Japanese players who are able to get their…
The company “did not anticipate such fragmentation of rights”. Well, that didn’t take long at all, did it? Less than a week after announcing it acquired “the trademark and select intellectual property rights of The 3DO Company,” Empire Interactive has now announced plans to “withdraw from the 3DO project.” The announcement was made in an…