Retro Gaming News
Jobst has been ordered to pay over 350,000 Australian dollars (plus interest). The Queensland-based YouTuber Karl Jobst has been ordered to pay over 350,000 Australian dollars (plus interest) in damages to Billy Mitchell, by an Australian court (h/t: PC Gamer). The verdict, which was delivered earlier today (on April 1st) stated that Jobst had defamed…
Lowtek Games’ Parasite Pack contains three games. It may be April 1st, but this is one piece of news that is actually legit despite being utterly incredible: the Nokia N-Gage is getting a new physical release. Lowtek Games’ Parasite Pack is the first boxed N-Gage game in almost 20 years and brings together Tapeworm Disco…
Monolith Productions co-founder Toby Gladwell reflects on the company’s history. On February 25, 2025, it was announced that the Washington-based developer Monolith Productions would be closing its doors for good, causing a mass outpouring of grief from all corners of the games industry. Since its formation back in 1994, the developer had built up a…
Update: Campaign is now live. Update : Bleem is being relaunched as “the largest retro gaming project” via a crowdfunding campaign, according to rights holder Piko Interactive. “This project is the culmination of 11 years in the making for our company,” says the Kickstarter page. “We have been collecting the rights of video game IP…
We can rebuild him. As we so often like to inform you, all of your vintage gaming hardware is slowly but surely shuffling towards the grave. As the old saying goes, everything put together falls apart, and systems like the SNES are now operating way beyond their intended lifespan. Sooner or later, things are going…
Old-school game elements are slowly making a comeback in the world of casino gaming. Levelling up, bonus rounds and even designs are all hugely popular in the field, particularly when it comes to slots. The links between the two are strong, and this is evidenced in the types of games being developed for release. In…
“A platform dedicated to the arcade community”. In 2025, there will be plenty of options available to people who want legal access to retro games, including Evercade, Antstream, Nintendo Switch Online, and PS Plus. However, the team behind Recade is hoping there will be room for one more and is building “a platform dedicated to…
A joke worth playing along with. April Fools’ Day is the one day of the year when you have to take every news story with a pinch of salt, and the announcement that Argonaut Games had found an early C64 demo of Croc certainly set our alarm bells ringing. While this is a pretty obvious…
“Watch this space…”. 35 years ago this October, British publisher EMAP launched Mean Machines magazine, a console-focused spin-off of CVG, its leading multiformat monthly. Spawned from the CVG ‘Mean Machines’ section created by Tony Takoushi in 1987, the magazine would become one of the most commercially successful of its era. It lasted 24 issues before…
“Millions of artists are being violated before everyone’s eyes”. If you’re on pretty much any social media platform right now, you’ll no doubt have noticed a massive uptick in the volume of Studio Ghibli-style artwork appearing in your timeline. This is all thanks to OpenAI’s recent update to ChatGPT, which introduces a bunch of tools…