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Includes Cho Aniki (1992) and Ai Cho Aniki (1995). Edia’s ‘Cho Aniki COLLECTION’ is coming to PC, the publisher has revealed, with a Steam page having gone live to wishlist ahead of launch (thanks Gematsu!). The collection, which includes the PC Engine shooters Cho Aniki (PC Engine) and Ai Cho Aniki (PC Engine), originally launched…
“It just felt like the game was so much about America”. In a newly published interview with the American podcaster Lex Fridman, the Rockstar Games co-founder and former writer on the Grand Theft Auto series, Dan Houser (who left Rockstar in 2020), weighed in on why we will never see the series return to London…
“Experience Deltarune as if it were made in the ’90s”. After two years of work, a group of EarthBound ROM hackers has released something truly special for fans of the Toby Fox-developed indie game Deltarune: a recreation of the game’s first chapter inside the SNES RPG. Bound to the Dark World had been developed in…
“I used Castlevania, a game I was really into at the time, as a reference”. Back in 2023, former Tecmo staffer Hideo Yoshizawa – who served as director on 1988’s Ninja Gaiden – posted a series of messages on social media which really dug into the legendary game’s genesis and development. The always-excellent Shmuplations has…
Including Dreamcast & Neo Geo AES/MVS. PixelHeart, the publisher behind retro games like Gladmort, Shadow Gangs Zero, and Chronicles of the Wolf, has announced it is planning to release a sequel to Visco’s single-screen Neo Geo platformer Bang Bang Busters. The sequel is crowdfunding now on Kickstarter, offering backers the chance to order a digital…
Close to becoming Nintendo’s best-selling console of all time, though. Nintendo has just released sales figures for its consoles, and the headline news is that the Switch, which launched back in 2017, is within touching distance of overtaking the Nintendo DS as the company’s most successful console of all time. As reported by our friends…
Rapper is under fire again for rebranding other people’s products. Remember when one-hit-wonder Soulja Boy (real name DeAndre Cortez Way) got caught selling rebranded handhelds? Well, he’s back at it again (actually, this is technically ‘again again’) because he’s now flipping Retroid handhelds via his shady Soulja Game branding. As spotted by Retro Dodo, Soulja…
The PasocomMini PC-8801mkⅡSR has been delayed for a third time. Dempa Shimbun’s miniature recreation of the classic Japanese computer, the NEC PC-8801mkⅡSR, has been delayed for a third time, according to the company’s Twitter/X account (as spotted by Gosokkyu) The PasocomMini PC-8801mkⅡSR was originally announced back in May 2024 and is designed to be a…
Pricing starts at €99 / $115 / £87 / ¥17,500. The crowdfunding campaign for the Vectrex Mini is now live. “At 50% the size of the original classic console, the Vectrex Mini features a 5-inch vertical AMOLED display that helps recreates the crisp, glowing vector graphics that defined the arcade era,” says the team behind…
More Simon looks to be on the way! The Italian developer Smallthing Studios may have just released Simon the Sorcerer: Origins, but it doesn’t seem to be through with its resurrection of the classic Adventure Soft point-and-click adventure game series just yet. That’s because, as recently revealed in an interview via IGN Italy, it appears…