Retro Gaming News
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…
Fly, power disc! The recent announcement that Evercade and SNK are working together to bring some of the Neo Geo’s most famous titles to a new audience was met with a positive response, but one game that sadly couldn’t be included as part of this deal is Windjammers—because SNK doesn’t own the rights to it….
Graphics from the game ‘Earthquake’ recently recovered. The National Videogame Museum in Frisco, Texas announced on social media recently that it had discovered graphics for a never-before-seen Atari 2600 title, in a batch of floppy disks belonging to the ex-Atari artist Jerome Domurat. Domurat, in case you’re unfamiliar, was an artist that worked at Atari…
An updated version of the 2014 classic. Over a decade ago, Read-Only Memory published Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works, a book which gave a surprisingly in-depth look at Sega’s most popular home console. Packed with artwork, interviews and concept drawings, it quickly became an essential purchase for fans—so much so that the company was convinced…
A Western release for Switch is also on the way. The PlayStation 2 shoot ’em up Triggerheart Exelica Enhanced is coming to PC (via Steam) later this year, Cosmo Machia has announced. Developed as an enhanced version of the 2006 arcade game, the game was released on the PlayStation console in 2009, bringing with it…
The “easy version” to be precise. The enhanced PC-98 remake of Nihon Falcom’s action RPG classic Xanadu is out today on Nintendo Switch, D4 Enterprise has announced. Released in 1995 as an attempt to revive the game for modern audiences, Revival Xanadu is a loose recreation of the second entry in the Dragon Slayer series,…
Yokai Buster: Navinosuke will arrive in “early 2026”. Kohachi Studio – the company set up by ex-SNK and Irem developers back in 2023 — has announced it is working on another project, in addition to the upcoming run ‘n gunner Black Finger Jet. According to the announcement that has been picked up by Japanese publication…
The Wing Commander AllTinker Overhaul Mod is here! A new overhaul mod has just been released for the 1990 DOS version of Origin Systems’ legendary space flight simulator Wing Commander. W.C.A.T. (or The Wing Commander AllTinker Overhaul Mod to give it its full and proper name) is the work of a veteran developer named AllTinker…
“ChatGPT got absolutely wrecked on the beginner level”. We’ve been told repeatedly by boorish tech companies that AI is soon going to overtake humanity when it comes to intelligence, but it would seem that playing chess is not a strong suit of these billion-dollar “Large Language Models”. As reported by Extreme Tech, Citrix Engineer Robert…
Benten-Maru wrote the music to legendary theme song. We’re sad to report that the composer of “Edge of Soul” — the iconic opening theme song to the Namco 1990s PlayStation fighting game Soul Blade — passed away last year. Masahiro Ohki (credited under his stage name Benten-Maru) reportedly passed away on October 6th 2024, after…