Retro Gaming News
Saiyūki World 2 & Rod Land announced! City Connection has announced it will be bringing two more Jaleco-published Nintendo Famicom titles to the Nintendo Switch in the near future, as part of its JALECOlle Famicom Ver series of retro reissues. These include the Journey to the West-inspired platformer Saiyūki World 2 (which was localized as…
The threat of Generative AI is very real. Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic at present, and not always for positive reasons. While the relentless march of technology is giving us AI-based solutions for scientific and medical breakthroughs, the arrival of ‘Generative AI’—where AI text, audio, video and image models hoover up human-made content and…
Exerion DX announced for G-Mode Archives+. G-Mode — the Tokyo-based publisher that specializes in ports of old Japanese mobile games to modern platforms — made an appearance over the weekend at Shooter Fes 2025, where it revealed some more information about its upcoming slate of titles. At the event, the company ended up making a…
Version 1.1 is now available to download. A new version of the Super Mario 64 ROM Hack Mario Builder 64 has just been released, introducing a range of new features and bug fixes to the popular mod. Mario Builder 64, in case you’ve never heard of it, is a hack for the classic N64 platformer…
Coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PS5. As part of last weekend’s Shooter Fes 2025 event, Compile Heart, D4 Enterprise and M2 finally debuted some gameplay footage of its upcoming Aleste / Zanac crossover Zaleste, which was first announced earlier this year, back in January. This footage was shown off as part of a livestream,…
A big selling point of the Chromatic has been the extent to which ModRetro has promised to bring classic Game Boy titles back in physical form. Though a noble mission, in practice, most of the best Game Boy games are owned by famous gaming corporations that still exist and certainly aren’t going to authorize…
Presented by Spawn Point Coffee I was able to interview Michael Lepsch on March 11, 2025, at my company function, where we all played a ton of games and had some great food. Michael owns Arcade 92 at the Flower Mound, Texas location, one of their two locations; the other is in McKinney, Texas. You…
Say “bonjour” to my little friend as the demo for the hardboiled cyberpunk shooter adds support for new languages Philadelphia, PA – June 11, 2025 – While Neon Inferno’s love language is usually spoken through the business end of a hulking magnum, players worldwide can now enjoy the upcoming run-and-gun shooter’s gritty narrative without the…
Friends, Family & Colleagues, I’m thrilled (and relieved) to share that our new doc – Arcades & Love Songs: the Ballad of Walter Day – is now available through all major video-on-demand platforms – https://linktr.ee/arcadesandlovesongs As my first feature as a director, it has been incredibly rewarding to see audiences reactions (and reviews) be so positive. Our…
“I would probably pitch a different pantheon…”. Monolith Productions — the company behind games like No One Lives Forever, F.E.A.R, and Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor — once pitched a video game adaptation of John Carpenter’s 1986 film Big Trouble In Little China to Fox. That’s according to a recent interview between Time Extension and…