Retro Gaming News
“That old Xbox is no-longer the heart of this new organisation”. Layoffs aren’t new in the games industry, and in recent years, we’ve seen numerous studios let go of staff or close down entirely. The game industry is in a difficult spot right now, and no company is immune, not even Microsoft. Yesterday, the company…
Luckily, though, Hamster’s ACA Neo Geo versions are still available. At the beginning of this month, a bunch of SNK titles were removed from the Google Play Store, with the developer issuing a press release saying that these games will now no longer be able to download, even if you previously bought a copy prior…
Jaz Rignall, Gary Harrod, Paul Davies, Paul Glancey and Radion Automatic are all involved. UK gamers of a certain age will no doubt fondly recall EMAP’s Mean Machines magazine. First published in 1990 after being a console-focused section in CVG, the mag would often sell hundreds of thousands of copies each month and ran for…
‘Vivi and Grandpa On the Day of Departure’ is out now in Japan. Square Enix has just released a picture-book prequel to its beloved PlayStation RPG Final Fantasy IX in Japan, for mark the series’s 25th anniversary (thanks Famitsu!). The book, which is called Vivi and Grandpa On the Day of Departure, is the work…
“I always enjoyed the illustrations at the beginning of the NES manual as a kid”. When Nintendo released the original Legend of Zelda in North America in 1987, it promoted it with a pretty odd commercial, with actor and comedian John Kassir walking around a darkened room spouting the various enemy names from the game….
But “it just ended up looking really cheap”. Technosoft’s Thunder Force series may not have the widespread fame that Gradius, R-Type or Darius have achieved, but it remains a favourite with fans of the shmup genre, and here at Time Extension, we sincerely hope that the franchise returns in some shape or form soon. One…
The figure is an exclusive at San Diego Comic Con. The California-based toy manufacturer Jada Toys has announced that it will be releasing a new “Deluxe” player two variant of its M. Bison Ultra Street Fighter figure later this month. But, before you go getting too excited, we should probably mention that the new figure…
Jet Set Radio was released in Japan on June 29th, 2000. The video game preservation website Sega Dreamcast Info has released an early localization build of Jet Set Radio (otherwise known in the North America as Jet Grind Radio), in order to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Dreamcast title’s Japanese release. The build, which…
This is just what I wanted to see! Ridge Racer Type 4 is one of the greatest racing games of all time, and certainly doesn’t get enough praise and attention these days, if you ask me. Thankfully, Devolver Digital’s Andy Kelly – a former games journalist and author of the excellent Perfect Organism: An Alien:…
That’s quite the line-up. BitSummit, Japan’s premier indie game event, is back this year for its 13th offering, and it will be joined by some pretty famous names from the world of gaming. Dubbed ‘BitSummit The 13th: Summer of Yōkai’, this year’s festival will see the debut of Final Fantasy creator Nobuo Uematsu, who will…