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“We’ve had nothing to do with Duke for over a decade”. Last week, we reported on the news that producer Adi Shankar had obtained the animated rights to Duke Nukem, and that he’s working on a series to follow his work on Netflix’s Castlevania and Devil May Cry adaptions, both of which have given their…
“We reached out separately to him to include his likeness”. When you deal with movie licenses in the realm of video games, it’s rarely plain sailing. Take the upcoming Terminator 2D: No Fate, for example. Given that it’s based on James Cameron’s utterly legendary 1991 movie, you’d expect the one and only Arnold Schwarzenegger to…
‘Griffin’ arrives Q3 2025. The developer Edia is partnering with Ratalaika Games and Shinyuden to reissue the Sega Game Gear shoot ’em up Griffin on PC (via Steam) later this year. Developed initially by Telenet Japan back in 1991, Griffin was released exclusively in Japan and saw players controlling the granddaughter of a kidnapped weapon’s…
“LONG LIVE SUDA51”. Goichi ‘Suda51’ Suda must have had quite a shock the other day when Google’s AI system confidently declared that he had, in fact, shuffled off his mortal coil. As spotted by @nowitsMEGAnaire on Twitter, Google’s ever-reliable AI stated that the legendary game designer, with titles such as No More Heroes, Lollipop Chainsaw…
Iida and producer Koji ‘IGA’ Igarashi speak in new interview. Since leaving Konami in 2014, former Castlevania series producer Koji ‘IGA’ Igarashi has focused his creative energies on Bloodstained, a spiritual successor to the vampire-hunting franchise produced at ArtPlay, his current studio. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night was a critical and commercial success, and received…
‘Turrican 128k’ is now available to download. A new fanmade 128k remaster of Turrican‘s Amstrad CPC port is now available, giving the 8-bit home computer version of the classic run ‘n gun adventure game a welcome upgrade for 2025 (thanks IndieRetroNews/SabermanRetroNews). Created by Rainbow Arts back in 1990, the original version of Turrican was initially…
Lost in Blue Mobile: Marina & Riku is an original game in the classic survival series. Lost in Blue Mobile: Marina & Riku Edition, a super rare mobile spin-off of the Nintendo DS game Lost in Blue has just been preserved by an individual named @frigamarrymepls, according to the feature phone preservationist RockmanCosmo. Lost in…
A fan patch for the 1994 adventure game ‘Belzerion’ is now available. At the end of last week, a group of fan translators released a brand new English language patch for the 3DO graphic adventure/first-person shooter Belzerion, giving people the chance to experience another obscure title in the console’s library. Belzerion is a game from…
No more slowdown or sprite flicker! We’ve seen a bunch of classic NES titles get natively ported to the SNES, and now it’s the turn of Konami’s Life Force / Salamander, an offshoot of the Gradius series. Rumbleminze has leveraged FastROM/HiROM to create a 1:1 conversion of the game on Nintendo’s 16-bit console. The developer…
There’s another awesome news story that’s worth a mention here on Indie Retro News, as thanks to both Ethan Knight and Saberman letting us know through Facebook, we’ve been told that Jon Eggelton and Gianluca Alberico has released a pretty impressive update to their 2023 Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 unofficial hit of ‘SNK vs CAPCOM’;…