Retro Gaming News
Steam Heart’s & Advanced Variable Geo’s Xbox One release has been cancelled. City Connection has announced that it has cancelled the Xbox One version of its upcoming Saturn Tribute collection featuring Steam Heart’s & Advanced Variable Geo. In a message posted on social media, as translated by video game publication Gematsu, the developer/publisher laid the…
Psygnosis were responsible for games like Shadow of the Beast, Lemmings, and WipEout. A new book on the legendary British developer and publisher Psygnosis is currently in the process of being crowdfunded, by Éditions 64k — a French independent publisher who previously released various books on the Amiga demoscene. Psygnosis, as you may well be…
Another Plus/4 announcement of which RPG genre fans might enjoy reading about, is the fact that Synergy has released the Ultima like CPRG of The Tale for the Commodore Plus/4. A full-fledged entry in the BASIC category of the Commodore Plus/4 játékfejlesztői verseny Plus/4 GameDev competition . A game that features rather large PETSCII graphics during…
Kenji Eno 55: Soundworks is a curated 7LP vinyl box set. Yesterday, Lost In Cult announced its latest project Kenji Eno 55: Soundworks — a new 7LP vinyl box set dedicated to the music of the legendary musician and game designer, Kenji Eno. To those in the West, Eno is perhaps best known as the…
“VB Mario Land” was shown at Winter CES 95 in January 1995. A bunch of screenshots from a cancelled Virtual Boy Mario game have recently been discovered and shared online, giving us our best look at the game since it was first advertised back in the 1990s at industry trade shows (h/t: Polygon). The screenshots…
The artwork is by the late artist Stephen Peringer, who passed away last year. When it comes to finding the vocabulary to describe the work of the late video game artist Stephen Peringer, who sadly passed away last year, prolific is probably the first word that springs to mind. Throughout both the 80s and ’90s,…
Otherwise known as “Sky Robo”. Hamster, the creator of Arcade Archives, has announced the latest game coming to Nintendo Switch and PS4, as part of its popular series of retro reissues: Nichibutsu’s 1989 sidescrolling shoot ’em up Tatakae! Big Fighter (previously localized in the West as “Sky Robo“). According to an article from the Japanese…
Kept you waiting, huh? A concert dedicated to the music of the Metal Gear franchise is scheduled to take place later this year, at the Royal Albert Hall in London (h/t: VGC). Metal Gear In Concert is an audiovisual celebration of the classic series that debuted in Osaka, Japan back in 2017 and has previously…
DOOM + DOOM II Gets Multiple Physical Releases from Limited Run Games, Including a Box That Actually Plays DOOM! Limited Run Games also reveals the CRKD® NEO S RED KEY CARD Edition Controller and DOOM-themed Trading Cards Apex, North Carolina – April 15 2025 – Limited Run Games, a premium publisher of physical games, has partnered with Bethesda…
Let us know if we missed any… The latest season of Charlie Brooker’s superbly subversive Black Mirror has recently gone live on Netflix, and one episode in particular will be of interest to gaming fans: Plaything. In it, murder suspect Cameron Walker, a former video game reviewer, reveals that he has been “playing” an unreleased…