Retro Gaming News
Sovietborgs’ IndieGoGo campaign has one week left. If you’ve been visiting the site over the last few months, you might have heard of Sovietborgs, a new homebrew title in development from Retro Sumus, the small studio behind the 2021 Dreamcast game Xenocider. Featuring an over-the-top Soviet-themed aesthetic and a top-down run ‘n’ gun-style game in…
With permission from its original programmer. The source code for the engine that powered the 1996 Sega Saturn first-person-shooter PowerSlave was released yesterday on the code-sharing website GitHub, with the approval of its original programmer Ezra Dreisbach. This means that now it’s not only possible for people to take a closer look at how the…
Telenet RPG Collection announced. Edia has revealed that it will be releasing a new collection for Nintendo Switch later this year in Japan, bringing together three Telenet Japan RPGs from the past (thanks Gematsu). The Telenet RPG Collection will include the Super Famicom titles Dark Kingdom, Hiouden: Mamono-tachi tono Chikai, and The Journey Home: Quest…
“We’re really not far off now”. Bitmap Bureau has to rank as one of the hardest-working indies working in the UK right now. Not only is the small team continuing its epic quest to bring the superb Xeno Crisis to every console under the sun, it is also working on the promising-looking Terminator 2D: No…
Gen AI appears to have been used to create new dialogue. Tomb Raider IV–V–VI Remastered has given Lara Croft fans both old and new a means of reconnecting with her past adventures, but recent updates to the collection have attracted criticism from some sectors of the community due to the alleged use of Generative AI…
Recently I set up a Nintendo Entertainment System in my home. I’m just slightly too young to have any personal nostalgia for the NES (I was more in the SNES/N64 cohort), but my girlfriend is a different story. Despite being excited about having an NES in the house, she thought I was being ridiculous…
The Google Memory Game is a modern, digital version of the classic card-matching game, designed to be simple yet mentally stimulating. It challenges players to remember the location of cards and match them in as few moves as possible. While it might seem straightforward at first, the game offers a surprising depth of strategy, making…
“I was surprised at how it felt almost exactly like playing back then”. Aqua Jet is available now as part of Hamster’s Arcade Archive range, bringing Namco’s 1996 jet ski coin-op to the home for the very first time. Arcade buff @yggdrasill_SIM / AEX-RYU has revealed that he was involved with play testing the Arcade…
Rave Racer? Time Crisis? Alpine Racer? Cast your vote! One of the most welcome retro-related events of 2025 so far has to be Hamster’s recent Arcade Archives releases, which now include 3D games made for Namco’s legendary System 22 arcade board. So far, we’ve had Ridge Racer (1993), Air Combat 22 (1995) and Aqua Jet…
“A high-difficulty 3D dungeon RPG”. Hummingbird Soft’s PC-88 horror RPG Diable De Laplace is coming to Nintendo Switch next week, as part of D4 Enterprise’s EGGCONSOLE series of retro reissues. First launching in 1987, Diable De Laplace (which is also referred to in various places online as Laplace No Mia and Laplace’s Demon) originally debuted…