Retro Gaming News
Taking aim. After years in the technological wilderness, light gun games are making a long-overdue comeback. In what feels like a relatively short space of time, we’ve seen the Sinden, Polymega GC01 and Gun4ir hit the market, and now we can also add the G’AIM’E light gun to that list. Produced by Japanese peripheral maker…
The company has promised to issue replacements for affected devices. Since the Retroid Pocket Flip 2 was released a few months ago, there have been an increasing number of reports online about the hinges on the emulation device developing small hairline cracks after only a short period of use, throwing into question the durability of…
PEW PEW. Luxury watch maker Nubeo has form when it comes to video game collaborations – it has already produced Asteroids and Space Invaders timepieces – and its latest product revisits the former in a slightly different way. While the Ventana Automatic celebrated the 45th anniversary of Asteroids’ arcade release, the Console Automatic is focused…
Full acquisition of Commodore Corporation B.V. secures all official Commodore trademarks dating back to 1983 DOVER, Del – July 31, 2025 (OSG was given permission for early publishing) – Commodore International Corporation today announced a monumental milestone: the successful acquisition of Commodore Corporation BV and all 47 original Commodore trademarks, the oldest of which dates back…
“This is an insane thing to write about game development”. I’m tired of hearing about AI. You’re tired of hearing about AI. However, no matter how much we get bored of it, just spare a thought for those impacted by the game industry’s current fixation with the tech – a fixation that is costing people…
Company is also working on a New Zealand Story update. If you read our earlier news item about the renewed tussle for ownership of the Commodore name, you might have ventured onto Commodore Industries’ website and spotted a news post about a sequel to one of the most beloved Amiga shooters of all time. You…
The developer has now dropped the the previous “Kirby-like style”. The upcoming SNES platformer Till & Hat has debuted a brand new look, following feedback from last year’s demo. Originally revealed back in July of last year, the SNES game about a young boy and his magical hat is the work of the homebrew developer…
“Such claims are not only legally unfounded, but also compromise the truth”. Commodore Industries CEO Luigi Simonetti (seated) with some of the team There was much excitement in the world of retro gaming recently when it was announced that retro gaming YouTuber Christian “Peri Fractic” Simpson claimed to have purchased the Commodore brand from a…
A ROM of ‘Virtual League Baseball 2’ has been acquired. Released back in 1995, Nintendo’s virtual reality system, the Virtual Boy, is regularly regarded online as one of the company’s biggest failures, due to its low sales and a string of other problems that plagued the device at release. This ranged from the lack of…
Will make its public debut at the Snapdragon booth at ChinaJoy 2025. In a livestream broadcast on its YouTube channel earlier today, AYANEO announced plans to release a new device called the AYANEO Pocket DS, which it is describing as the “world’s first flip dual-screen Android handheld”. The announcement follows the release of AYANEO’s Windows-based…