Retro Gaming News
“VB Mario Land” was shown at Winter CES 95 in January 1995. A bunch of screenshots from a cancelled Virtual Boy Mario game have recently been discovered and shared online, giving us our best look at the game since it was first advertised back in the 1990s at industry trade shows (h/t: Polygon). The screenshots…
The artwork is by the late artist Stephen Peringer, who passed away last year. When it comes to finding the vocabulary to describe the work of the late video game artist Stephen Peringer, who sadly passed away last year, prolific is probably the first word that springs to mind. Throughout both the 80s and ’90s,…
Otherwise known as “Sky Robo”. Hamster, the creator of Arcade Archives, has announced the latest game coming to Nintendo Switch and PS4, as part of its popular series of retro reissues: Nichibutsu’s 1989 sidescrolling shoot ’em up Tatakae! Big Fighter (previously localized in the West as “Sky Robo“). According to an article from the Japanese…
Kept you waiting, huh? A concert dedicated to the music of the Metal Gear franchise is scheduled to take place later this year, at the Royal Albert Hall in London (h/t: VGC). Metal Gear In Concert is an audiovisual celebration of the classic series that debuted in Osaka, Japan back in 2017 and has previously…
DOOM + DOOM II Gets Multiple Physical Releases from Limited Run Games, Including a Box That Actually Plays DOOM! Limited Run Games also reveals the CRKD® NEO S RED KEY CARD Edition Controller and DOOM-themed Trading Cards Apex, North Carolina – April 15 2025 – Limited Run Games, a premium publisher of physical games, has partnered with Bethesda…
Let us know if we missed any… The latest season of Charlie Brooker’s superbly subversive Black Mirror has recently gone live on Netflix, and one episode in particular will be of interest to gaming fans: Plaything. In it, murder suspect Cameron Walker, a former video game reviewer, reveals that he has been “playing” an unreleased…
It’s dangerous to go alone. A new sci-fi top-down adventure game is currently in development for the NES. And it will no doubt look familiar to anyone who has ever played the original Legend of Zelda. Knight on the Moon, as this brand new title is called, is the latest game from the developer kn56k,…
“We also expect that this will be resolved eventually”. Unless you’ve been spectacularly out of the loop, you’ll no doubt be aware that US President Donald Trump has been playing around with tariffs and causing chaos in the global markets. We’ve already covered the fact that Trump’s tariffs on goods shipped from China are putting…
Sometimes it’s fun to sit and try to imagine the pitch meeting for various products. Picture a group of executives and game designers sitting around a boardroom when the following conversation takes place: “So, we’ve had huge hits with Adventure and Space Invaders. Clearly people like battling aliens and searching mythic artifacts. What should we…
From the modder who brought seamless co-op to Elden Ring & Dark Souls 3. A new mod has just been released for Dark Soul Remastered that introduces seamless co-op to the PC version of the classic FromSoftware title (as spotted by Eurogamer!). The mod is the work of Yui, a fan developer who previously released…