Retro Gaming News
“This is an insane thing to write about game development”. I’m tired of hearing about AI. You’re tired of hearing about AI. However, no matter how much we get bored of it, just spare a thought for those impacted by the game industry’s current fixation with the tech – a fixation that is costing people…
Company is also working on a New Zealand Story update. If you read our earlier news item about the renewed tussle for ownership of the Commodore name, you might have ventured onto Commodore Industries’ website and spotted a news post about a sequel to one of the most beloved Amiga shooters of all time. You…
The developer has now dropped the the previous “Kirby-like style”. The upcoming SNES platformer Till & Hat has debuted a brand new look, following feedback from last year’s demo. Originally revealed back in July of last year, the SNES game about a young boy and his magical hat is the work of the homebrew developer…
“Such claims are not only legally unfounded, but also compromise the truth”. Commodore Industries CEO Luigi Simonetti (seated) with some of the team There was much excitement in the world of retro gaming recently when it was announced that retro gaming YouTuber Christian “Peri Fractic” Simpson claimed to have purchased the Commodore brand from a…
A ROM of ‘Virtual League Baseball 2’ has been acquired. Released back in 1995, Nintendo’s virtual reality system, the Virtual Boy, is regularly regarded online as one of the company’s biggest failures, due to its low sales and a string of other problems that plagued the device at release. This ranged from the lack of…
Will make its public debut at the Snapdragon booth at ChinaJoy 2025. In a livestream broadcast on its YouTube channel earlier today, AYANEO announced plans to release a new device called the AYANEO Pocket DS, which it is describing as the “world’s first flip dual-screen Android handheld”. The announcement follows the release of AYANEO’s Windows-based…
Update: Project has now “entered final testing”. The publisher Songbird Productions and developer Eclipse Software are teaming up to deliver a brand new Atari Jaguar port of the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga shoot ’em up Wings of Death. Wings of Death was first released by Eclipse Software for the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga…
Coming 2026. After over 10 years of development, a remake of Mother / EarthBound Beginnings built inside the cult classic SNES title EarthBound is finally “nearing completion”, according to a new trailer published during last weekend’s Free Fangame Festival (F3). Earthbound Beginnings Remake originally started life back in 2007 under the name EarthBound Zero, and…
In the late ‘70s, Mattel Electronics’ Intellivision machine was carving out a respectable space among the dense pack of lesser-powered gaming consoles and the deluge of Pong clones that were rapidly flooding the marketplace. Distinguishing itself from the horde, the Intellivision represented a multitude of “firsts” for the industry: It was the first console to…
‘Razing Core’ is the new game from BadComputer. If you’re at all familiar with the homebrew community for the Sega Master System, you’ve probably heard of the name “BadComputer” in the past. The homebrew developer has been one of the most prolific creators designing and creating new experiences for Sega’s legendary 8-bit machine, having previously…