Retro Gaming News
No more need to call ‘The Guy’ over. Chronic Concepts has opened orders for a delightful-looking device that replicates the coin-operated slot of classic arcade cabinets, allowing players to use real coins to activate credits in an array of arcade emulators. The TinyBrights Insert Coin Cube Gen 2 is a slick and stylish box that…
There’s more than one way to Brick Meta Glasses. As part of its “Meta Connect” event, Meta revealed its new Meta VR Glasses: a lightweight take on virtual reality that seems frankly magical compared to the classic Virtuality units of yore, or even PlayStation VR2. The new hardware features micro OLED screens, motion capture support,…
Fans inevitably shout, “OBJECTION!”. It’s just been announced that we’re getting a new Ace Attorney game next year. Rather than a brand new entry, however, it appears this new game will instead be a VR recreation of the existing title Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies for Meta platforms (Meta VR Glasses, Meta Quest…
Cubic Curation. Japanese developer BeXide revealed that its Voxel-based puzzler, Namco Legendary Mountains, will be released on iOS and Android today, following on from its PC and Nintendo Switch release back in June. The colourful, “physics-stacker” tasks players with filling a shallow bowl with “capsule” spheres, each containing a voxel model of an iconic character…
Tim Cain reflects on the famous piece of Fallout iconography. The post-apocalyptic RPG Fallout has a lot of famous iconography, but I’d argue none more so than Vault Boy. Debuting in the original Fallout in 1997, the blonde-haired, jumpsuit-wearing character has become the series’s de facto mascot as it has grown to include sequels, spin-offs,…
Get in the Pit. When the Game Boy Color hit the scene back in 1998, one of Nintendo’s first duties was crafting new, full-colour editions of some of the platform’s trademark titles. Tetris, The Legend of Zelda, Bomberman, R-Type, Wario Land and, of course, Super Mario were among the franchises that received a rainbow-washed facelift….
Comes with three Evercade carts. Blaze has announced a special Capcom Super Pocket bundle which is exclusive to GameStop in the US. The pack includes the Super Pocket console – which comes pre-loaded with 12 Capcom arcade titles – as well as Atari Arcade 2, Interplay Collection 1 and Taito Arcade 2 Evercade cartridges. Read…
Gill passed away this past weekend from cancer, aged 51. Former Software Creations and Cloud Imperium developer David Bone Gill has passed away from cancer, aged 51, his friends and family have announced. Gill got his start in gaming as a tester at Software Creations, where he also built SNES DevKits and cartridges and ran…
Space Paranoids from TRON In 1982, Disney released a movie that would help to revolutionize the film industry. TRON was a sci-fi/adventure flick that imagined life inside the computers of the time. While the movie wasn’t the runaway box-office success Disney hoped for, it was a groundbreaking film in its own right. It was the…
Rebirth is one of the biggest progression decisions in Steal a Brainrot. You spend time building income and collecting Brainrots, only to reach a point where the game asks you to reset part of that progress in exchange for permanent benefits. That can make Rebirth feel like a loss, especially when your base contains Brainrots…