Retro Gaming News
“What a fundamental misunderstanding of not only this tech but how games WORK”. As part of Microsoft’s continuing push into the world of generative AI, the company has recently released a new AI-generated tech demo based on Quake II that is generating some strong opinions online. The new Quake II “replica” was built using Microsoft…
A port of Fusix is in development. The Sega Mega Drive—or Genesis, if you’re in the US—remains the company’s most commercially successful home console, and is famous for going toe-to-toe with Nintendo during the early ’90s console wars. It’s also a system which, in recent times, has seen an inordinate amount of homebrew development, with…
I have a bit of a soft spot for the Sega Mega Drive, especially with my ever growing collection of great games, such as FINK, Golden Axe, Mickey Mania and my personal favorite Comix Zone. So to find out that RetroLover was aiming to port the Sega Mega Drive game of ‘Phantasy Star II’ over…
Do you remember your first video game / arcade you played and what do you remember about it? I believe it would have been Astrosmash! On the Intellivision. I know that the Intellivision was our first video game system when I was a kid and I have many memories playing games with my older brother…
The studio was originally formed in 2002 as FreeStyleGames. Earlier this year, in January, Ubisoft announced as part of its staff that it would be closing Ubisoft Leamington, amidst a larger restructuring of its business, bringing an end to the UK studio’s impressive 22-year run. Over the last few days, the studio put out one…
“A rare blend of art and mechanics”. It’s perhaps hard for anyone raised in an era when digital downloads are king to imagine a time when video game packaging was anything other than an afterthought for many publishers. Back in the 1990s, when physical PC games were still a thing, it wasn’t unusual to see…
Panda Entertainment’s 1995 title gets a new 16-bit lease on life. Earlier this month, Piko Interactive — the current rights holders to the Bleem license — launched a Kickstarter for Bleem.Net, a new online marketplace that was aiming to become “the Ultimate Retro Platform”. As outlined in the campaign, this platform would be a brand-new…
“The culprit was definitely that French person”. When Sega released Virtua Fighter in the early ’90s, it represented one of the single biggest leaps the competitive fighting genre had since in years; without Yu Suzuki’s 3D masterpiece, things would have been very different indeed. Unsurprisingly, other companies quickly released their own 3D fighters in the…
Another huge win for keitai preservation! We have another exciting update to share from the feature phone preservation community. Yesterday, on social media, RockmanCosmo revealed that a remarkable 23 titles, developed for i-Mode compatible Japanese feature phones by Konami, had been dumped and preserved online. The majority of these titles had previously been considered “lost…
Final production units are apparently almost ready. Tue 15th Oct 2024 Polymega’s much-delayed GC01 Gun Controller is shipping soon, we can confirm. Read the full article on timeextension.com Final production units are apparently almost ready. Tue 15th Oct 2024 Polymega’s much-delayed GC01 Gun Controller is shipping soon, we can confirm. Read the full article on…