Retro Gaming News
…you know the rest. When Giants Software—creator of the best-selling Farming Simulator series—announced it was creating a version for the beloved Sega Mega Drive / Genesis, many people glanced at their calendars to make sure it wasn’t April 1st (it was the 11th, so quite close). This wasn’t some kind of low-effort prank, however; Giants…
Steam demo now available. Publishers Pqube and PixelHeart have confirmed that Migami Games’ Chronicles of the Wolf will launch on 19th June 2025. Like the developer’s previous effort, Wallachia: Reign Of Dracula, this particular title takes a massive helping of inspiration from Konami’s Castlevania franchise. Migami Games actually started out creating unofficial fan games based…
Trio of games is back online. The Aero Dancing series—known outside of Japan as AeroWings—saw six different games on Sega Dreamcast, and three of them have now returned to active service thanks to the efforts of fans. As reported by Sega Saturn Shiro, Aero Dancing F: Todoroki Tsubasa no Hatsu Hikou (or FSD), Aero Dancing…
NIGHTMARE BUSTERS REBIRTH is coming to Kickstarter on May 13! From dream to reality Pix’n Love Games and Aurora Game Studio are proud to announce the upcoming Kickstarter launch of Nightmare Busters Rebirth, scheduled for May 13, 2025. This modern reimagining of the cult 2D run ’n gun from the 90s invites players to dive…
“We want to deliver a fantastic fighting game for Lynx fans”. Songbird Productions has announced that it is reviving a lost Atari Lynx game from the early 1990s called Ultravore. Created by Beyond Games (Battlewheels, Ultra Vortek), Ultravore is a one-on-one fighting game which was picked up by Songbird 25 years ago. Read the full…
Do you feel lucky? This week’s Arcade Archives title is a deep cut from Konami. Released in 1990, Punk Shot is a two-on-two street basketball title in which players have the ability to physically attack their rivals (you can even suplex people). Read the full article on timeextension.com Do you feel lucky? This week’s Arcade…
“We want to offer an environment for you to play them”. Capcom has been doing a pretty decent job of mining its back catalogue of one-on-one fighting games recently, having released Capcom Fighting Collection, Capcom Fighting Collection 2 and Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics in recent years. In fact, the company has been…
Monkey Wrench Films has announced a global TVOD and digital release for the documentary Arcades & Love Songs: The Ballad of Walter Day which came out in theaters earlier this year. The musical documentary about Walter Day discusses the lawsuits faced by the founder of Twin Galaxies as he also seeks to record and…
It’s strange to think of tower defense games as being a retro concept. Of course, depending on how strictly you define the phrase tower defense, they were there from the beginning. Defender, for example. But usually, when we say tower defense today, we’re referring to games from the early cell phone era, where you…
A bit of a short news story for this one, as trawling through Facebook, we’ve found out through Earok who created the Scorpion Engine, that Basement Ape is working on what looks to be a new beat ’em up platformer for the Commodore Amiga, using yes you guessed it, the Scorpion Engine. While there is…