Retro Gaming News
“They had an early draft of a Resident Evil movie from Romero, but it was not good”. Over the years, the Resident Evil series has inspired a large number of films, and even a Netflix TV show, with the latest news being that the series is set for another adaptation from Zach Cregger (the director…
“Every game doesn’t need a remake”. Yesterday, it was confirmed that Forever Entertainment’s long-delayed Panzer Dragoon II Zwei remake will be playable at this year’s TGS. Originally announced all the way back in 2018, the game soon vanished from release schedules – so much so that we even asked what had happened to it back…
Video Hustler arrives tomorrow! Konami’s early arcade billiards game Video Hustler (known as Lil’ Hustler in the West) is coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4, Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S tomorrow (September 11th) as part of Arcade Archives. Released in arcades back in 1981, the game is sometimes described as “a simplified version of…
“The first fully open-source FPGA retro-emulation handheld”. Eli Lipsitz‘s FPGA-based Game Boy clone, Game Bub, has hit crowdfunding and is already well on its way to achieving its target. Powered by the Artix XC7A100T FPGA, the Game Bub runs physical Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cartridges, and supports original accessories, like…
Rolling start! Shinobi: Art of Vengeance recently hit modern-day systems and is an excellent update of Sega’s legendary ninja-based action series. Developed by Sega and French studio Lizardcube, the game is a 2D action platformer which places franchise protagonist Joe Musashi very much in the spotlight – although he remains relatively mute throughout the adventure,…
“I had no idea who Sir Clive was”. Back in 1986, Clive Sinclair’s tech empire was in trouble. After the success of the ZX Spectrum, Sinclair found his market share under threat from rivals such as Commodore and Amstrad, and was forced to do a deal with the latter’s Alan Sugar, selling the company’s entire…
“30- recounts the PS1’s journey to the top, blow by blow”. PlayStation launched in North America 30 years ago today, and a new book is aiming to celebrate the 32-bit console’s amazing legacy. Penned by seasoned journalist Jeremy Parish, -30- | A PlayStation Retrospective will come “packed with commentary about the system’s biggest and most…
On September 9, 1999, the Sega Dreamcast launched in North America and forever changed the gaming landscape. More than two decades later, the Dreamcast is still alive thanks to indie developers who continue to create new titles and thanks to publishers like VGNYsoft, who are still producing them on physical media. To celebrate the system’s 26th birthday, VGNYsoft is…
The Kirby franchise first kicked off in 1992 with Kirby’s Dream Land on the Game Boy, and over the course of five mainline entries, the formula was pretty established by the turn of the century. Yet, for the pink puffball’s big debut on the Nintendo 64 in 2000, developer HAL Laboratory was brewing up something…
“We had so many other names that we were in love with”. In an exclusive interview with Time Extension, which went live yesterday, Leslie Swan, a former localization director at Nintendo and one of the individuals responsible for bringing Animal Crossing to the West, shared some fascinating insight into the arduous process behind naming the…