Retro Gaming News
Dark Castle series returns, just in time for its 40th anniversary. Two classic Macintosh platforming games, 1986’s Dark Castle and its 1987 sequel Beyond the Dark Castle, have made a surprising return on Steam. Built as a “living interactive animation” by a team that included Mark Pierce, Eric Zocher, and Jonathan Gay, Dark Castle was…
“We have a vision for your game shelf”. Atari is teasing “one of the biggest announcements” it has ever made. A landing page on the official Atari site has gone live which is encouraging fans to pop in their email and phone number so they can be informed of exactly what this news is about….
Most popular video games eventually end up on platforms other than the one for which they were initially created. Obviously, there are exceptions. You wouldn’t have seen a Super Mario Bros title on a Sega console, just like you weren’t going to see the blue hedgehog on a Nintendo machine. But third-party developers often took…
Don’t go expecting PS2 power. Still a relative newcomer to the handheld emulation scene, Mangmi has released the Air X and Pocket Max so far, and both devices have impressed enough for the company to gain followers in a market flooded with products from the likes of AYANEO, Anbernic, and Retroid. Mangmi’s next venture is…
Could this be the unlikeliest video game revival of 2026? If I were to mention the words “DRM-Free” and “preservation,” the first thing to spring to mind would likely be GOG, the digital storefront previously owned by the Polish company CD Projekt. It’s worth highlighting, though, that it isn’t the only company working hard to…
Hamster’s rerelease is sadly missing a full localisation, but help is at hand! When Hamster released Nippon Ichi Software’s PlayStation RPG Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure on Nintendo Switch 2 & PS5 last month as part of Console Archives, I had a feeling it would be only a matter of time before the sequel followed, and…
“We got source for these”. One of the more welcome pieces of news for retro gamers in 2026 was the announcement that Rare and Blaze are bringing Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie to the Evercade family of systems on a single cart, which launches in October. We’re already aware that this double pack goes way beyond being…
The fighting game genre dates back about five decades. It has been a major pillar in the gaming industry for much of that time. The genre is built on a simple premise: two opponents fight in close-quarter, one-on-on combat. They battle across (typically) best- of-three rounds until one emerges victorious. High-stakes combat and a unique…
Works on real hardware, too. Frogbull, the developer behind the unofficial tech demos of Metal Gear Solid, Crash Bandicoot and Final Fantasy VII on Saturn, has just revealed their next project: Panzer Dragoon on Dreamcast. The developer has been decompiling the Saturn game over the past few months and is now ready to show off…
“Know the track, and attack!”. Since launching Ridge Racer as part of Arcade Archives & Arcade Archives 2 last year, Hamster has been on a run of bringing Namco’s System 22 games to modern platforms. Some of these have been fairly well known (such as Rave Racer and Aqua Jet), while others have been a…