Retro Gaming News
A big selling point of the Chromatic has been the extent to which ModRetro has promised to bring classic Game Boy titles back in physical form. Though a noble mission, in practice, most of the best Game Boy games are owned by famous gaming corporations that still exist and certainly aren’t going to authorize…
Presented by Spawn Point Coffee I was able to interview Michael Lepsch on March 11, 2025, at my company function, where we all played a ton of games and had some great food. Michael owns Arcade 92 at the Flower Mound, Texas location, one of their two locations; the other is in McKinney, Texas. You…
Say “bonjour” to my little friend as the demo for the hardboiled cyberpunk shooter adds support for new languages Philadelphia, PA – June 11, 2025 – While Neon Inferno’s love language is usually spoken through the business end of a hulking magnum, players worldwide can now enjoy the upcoming run-and-gun shooter’s gritty narrative without the…
Friends, Family & Colleagues, I’m thrilled (and relieved) to share that our new doc – Arcades & Love Songs: the Ballad of Walter Day – is now available through all major video-on-demand platforms – https://linktr.ee/arcadesandlovesongs As my first feature as a director, it has been incredibly rewarding to see audiences reactions (and reviews) be so positive. Our…
“I would probably pitch a different pantheon…”. Monolith Productions — the company behind games like No One Lives Forever, F.E.A.R, and Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor — once pitched a video game adaptation of John Carpenter’s 1986 film Big Trouble In Little China to Fox. That’s according to a recent interview between Time Extension and…
“There is no way to make that make sense”. Earlier this year, it was announced that on-demand book publisher Unbound had slipped into administration following “cash-flow” problems, an event which led to many of its authors not getting paid royalties from book sales. Unbound, founded in 2011, produced books using a crowdfunding system, where customers…
“Some games were never meant to be translated…”. A new English fan translation has just been published for Yaku: Yūjō Dangi, a cult classic Japanese kusoge (“crap game”) released for the original PlayStation. Launched back in 1996, the same year as Resident Evil, Yaku: Yūjō Dangi (which is translated here as as Misfortune: A Story…
A pair of Amazon listings have appeared for physical copies. Earlier this week, a couple of listings appeared on Amazon for physical PS5 and Nintendo Switch versions of Simon the Sorcerer Origins, suggesting Smallthing Studios point-and-click revival of the Adventure Soft classic is still on the way. It’s been a while since we last heard…
Earthion 8BitDo M30 Gamepad also announced. Yuzo Koshiro’s highly anticipated shmup Earthion now has a release date: July 31st, 2025. It’s coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Switch, and Steam on that date. The Mega Drive version, however, has been pushed into next year, according to Japanese physical publisher Superdeluxe Games. Read the…
The ‘Craig Stitt Art & Design Papers’ are now available. The Video Game History Foundation has added yet another collection to its digital library — this time focusing on the work of the former Sega Technical Institute and Insomniac artist and designer Craig Stitt. Stitt worked at the Sega Technical Institute between 1990 to 1995…