Retro Gaming News
The company’s social accounts seem to disagree on the game’s current status. Black Jewel Reborn for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis is still in development, PSCD Games said in a recent social media statement. The Rastan-like hack-and-slash game was originally crowdfunded in 2022, with Michael Mrozek (OpenPandora GmbH) setting up the Kickstarter on PSCD…
The team behind the Air Y talks value, vertical form factors, and resisting the AI hype. 2026 is a rough year for the handheld business. Rising storage and component prices have rippled through the supply chain, pushing brands to hike prices or pull out of the market entirely. In the face of all that, the…
“Launching this holiday season or Early 2027”. If you’ve been reading this site for a while, you’ll no doubt be aware that I have a particular fondness for Computer Exchange, otherwise known as CeX. This isn’t based on the modern-day iteration of the store, I should note, but the original ’90s and 2000s format, which…
“It’s basically Forgotten Worlds on steroids”. Capcom is no slouch when it comes to pumping out brilliant video games, and that’s as true now as it ever was. However, gamers of a certain vintage (like myself) will have a particular soft spot for the company’s ’90s output, which included everything from one-on-one fighters to belt-scrollers,…
Arrives this November! It’s been almost 30 years since Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble! was released, and since then, we’ve been treated to two more entries in the Country series: Donkey Kong Country Returns and 2014’s Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. Both of these took the classic side-scrolling gameplay fans loved and…
“I’m returning to the original promise with four decades of different experience”. Michael Cranford is a true legend of the video game industry. He’s most famous for designing and programming 1985’s The Bard’s Tale and its 1986 sequel The Bard’s Tale II: The Destiny Knight, and his other credits include Maze Master, Dark Seed and…
Though clearly a fan of GoldenEye 007 herself, Alyse Knorr has a surprisingly functional depiction of the Bond Team at Rare in the late nineties. Her Boss Fight book, centered as it is around the working environment of the developers, provides a compelling argument that GoldenEye 007 may well have been the last major…
Some game mechanics are trends, and some are permanent. The ball-drop, where a disc, a ball, or a coin is released from the top of a pegged board and allowed to find its own path down through a maze of obstacles to a prize slot at the bottom, belongs firmly in the second category. It…
AYANEO’s latest budget handheld is one of its best. AYANEO’s budget brand, KONKR, has already given us some welcome options in the handheld emulation space, but few of them have attracted the kind of fevered attention that the Pocket Advance has managed. This GBA-inspired portable sold out of its pre-order quota in astonishingly quick time,…
Pixels the size of postage stamps still fill Discord chats, school clubs, and handheld screens in 2026. Retro gaming keeps pulling in players who never blew dust from a cartridge or waited for a CRT to warm up. The draw is plain. Old games start fast, ask little, and put skill on display after one…