Retro Gaming News
“YOU STILL OWE ME $50,000”. Romhack.ing has just added the English translation for the PC-98 fighting game Variable Geo to its database, which was completed back in February of this year. Developed by Giga and released in 1993, Variable Geo (also known as V.G.) is famous for its NSFW nature, which includes watersports, blood, bondage/BDSM…
Version 1.0 is available now. Life Bottle Productions, the volunteer fan group responsible for translating and remastering numerous games in the Tales series, has just announced the 1.0 release of its Tales of Rebirth PS2 translation. Tales of Rebirth, in case you’re unaware, is the sixth entry in the long-running series that originally began way…
Two Rare classics from the olden days. A while back, the folks over at Retro-Bit announced that they were re-releasing not one but two Rare classics from yesteryear: 1992’s R.C. Pro-Am II (NES) and 1993’s Battletoads & Double Dragon (Game Boy). Both were published by Tradewest back in the day, and came at a time…
We’ve been told through Facebook that Jon Eggelton and Gianluca Alberico has released the final version of their previously announced Stronger Edition of the 2023 Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 unofficial hit of ‘SNK vs CAPCOM’; a C64 game that was developed using their in-development fighting engine known as RetroFighter. To coincide with this HOT…
Maybe hold off installing it at the moment. The SAROO ODE flash cart for Sega Saturn made some real waves when it started getting mainstream attention last year, and it’s abundantly clear to see why; this cheap device allows you to run your Saturn games from a MicroSD card, but, unlike other Optical Drive Emulators,…
A 30th anniversary remix album has also been announced. Bandai Namco has announced it will be holding a live event with DJs early next year to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Rave Racer — the third arcade entry in the Ridge Racer series that launched in arcades in 1995. The event, which is called Ridge…
“There were some faces that were going… what’s going on here?”. Chris Dring’s utterly brilliant Game Business Show has just gone live with a bunch of comments from former Sony Computer Entertainment Europe staffers to celebrate 30 years of the console in the region, and one of the topics that came up was WipEout. Released…
‘Shape Shooter 2000’ & ‘Operation Followthrough’ will launch in 2026. The homebrew publisher Songbird Productions has announced it will be releasing a new 3D, multi-directional shoot ’em up for the Atari Jaguar in 2026. Shape Shooter 2000, as the game is called, has players take control of a ship that is trapped inside a small…
For PS4, PS5, Switch, Switch 2, and Xbox Series X|S. This week’s Arcade Archives release has been revealed to be Battlantis — Konami’s 1987 Space Invaders-esque fixed shooter in which players must defend a castle from an invading army of monsters. The game will be released this week, on October 9th, and will be available…
“Research and art preservation are going to be such a nightmare”. If you’re a long-time reader of Time Extension, then you’ll be aware that we’re not entirely thrilled by how AI is being used right now. While the technology has massive potential benefits in the world of science, research and medicine, it seems that the…