Retro News

The new 2.4GHz controller is available to order now. The video game accessory maker Retro Fighters will officially start accepting pre-orders for the Hunter 360 — a new, wireless evolution of the original Xbox 360 controller — at some point later today. In case you’re unfamiliar, Retro Fighters has had previous experience in producing Xbox…

The offer ends tomorrow, and is to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the original. Last month marked the 15th anniversary of 4A Games’ debut title Metro 2033, so to celebrate the developers are giving away the remastered version of the game Metro 2033 Redux totally for free for a limited amount of time. The offer…

Includes new artwork, remixes, and offline versus play. Yesterday, Capcom released a trailer for a new update coming to Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting: Arcade Classics, which is scheduled to land later this week on April 16th. The “Title update”, as this latest refresh is being called, will bring with it a bunch of quality-of-life improvements…

‘Mechanoids 2 – The Final Conflict’ was in development at Enigma Variations. Games That Weren’t’s founder Frank Gasking revealed earlier today that he has managed to preserve another lost Enigma Variations game, following the discovery of unreleased NES versions of Sensible Soccer and Populous. This time it’s the turn of the 1993 side-scrolling mech beat…

The “Will It Run Edition” is limited to 666 copies. Limited Run Games has announced that it will soon be releasing various physical editions of Bethesda, Nightdive, and Id Software’s Doom + Doom II collection, for collectors to get their hands on. This includes standalone versions of the game (priced at $29.99) for Xbox, Nintendo…

CAVE legend Junya Inoue worked on the game. Today, the name CAVE is synonymous with amazing arcade shooters, but the company can trace its lineage back through time to other companies, with Toaplan being perhaps the most notable. When Toaplan declared bankruptcy in 1994, its staff splintered off to establish their own studios, one of…

A.I was founded in 1990. The Japanese developer behind Nintendo-based entries in Banpresto’s Super Robot Taisen / Wars series has declared bankruptcy almost 35 years after it started (thanks, Anime News Network). A.I Co., Ltd. (pronounced in Japanese as “Ei-Ai”) was established in July 1990 in Machida, Tokyo and is responsible for developing titles such…

Od’s Tower is being built as “a love-letter” to the freeware game Tower of the Sorcerer. A promising new indie game is currently in development for the PC that pays tribute to Tower of the Sorcerer (or Magic Tower as it is known in Japan) — an influential piece of freeware for the NEC PC-98…

The Stern of the Union Address, your monthly resource for news, information and highlights on all things Stern Pinball. Without further ado my fellow pinheads: Stern Pinball’s Silverball: While Chicago might have the bean….we have the ball. Stern Pinball Cup: Compete against players worldwide in an exciting series of week-long pinball races. It’s not about…