All Things Retro
“No thank you. Mission complete. Game over”. It’s hard to think of WipEout without also thinking about The Designers Republic, the Sheffield-based agency that built the franchise’s look and helped it become one of the trailblazers of the 32-bit era. What you may not realise is that The Designers Republic – which was founded in…
No, not THAT Monty Mole, Mario fans. When we recently reviewed Gremlin Collection 1 on the Evercade, we lamented the fact that it didn’t feature Monty Mole, one of the company’s most famous 8-bit titles. It seems we now know why; someone else owns the IP for the character, and we’re getting a Nintendo Switch-bound…
Work. Buy. Consume. Die. Founded in the ’80s by Ian Anderson and Nick Phillips, The Designers Republic will be most famous to gamers for its amazing branding and iconography work on the WipEout series, but, as a design agency, its influence and impact goes way beyond that franchise. The 512-page A To Z Of The…
“Think Scream versus I Know What You Did Last Summer”. Back in 2015, Supermassive Games and Sony Computer Entertainment released Until Dawn for the PS4 — a third-person survival horror game about a group of 8 young adults visiting a remote ski lodge on Blackwood Mountain and having to survive the night. The game was…
The game was being developed by Pseudo Interactive. CombyLaurent — a French video game preservationist whose work we’ve covered in the past — has recently announced that they have managed to archive 11 prototypes of a cancelled Vectorman PS2 game that would have seen the Sega character make the jump to 3D. That’s in addition…
You’ll need to play the demo to learn how to get it… Developer Goldlocke has just released a demo for their new SNES game, Dottie Flowers – but it won’t be getting a digital release. Instead, it’s going to be a physical-only product, and to learn how to get your hands on a copy, you’re…
Update: Port continues to shape up nicely. Update #2 : Here’s even more footage of Street Fighter Alpha / Zero running on the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. Update #1 : Davila Games has posted some new footage of their attempt to bring Street Fighter Alpha / Zero to the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis….
The “true” kill screen has been reached. NES Tetris might be 35 years old this year, but it’s still a mainstay of the competitive Tetris scene, which has been surprisingly active over the past decade. This is because, during that time, new techniques were discovered that have allowed the world’s best Tetris players to set…
Yum! Once upon a time, Sony wasn’t the video game behemoth it is today – it was simply an electronics giant which eyed the video game industry with interest. To that end, it launched its own game publishing label – CSG Imagesoft, later Sony Imagesoft – in the late ’80s and planned to release three…
The game originally released in arcades back in 1986. Nichibutsu’s vertical action scroller Mighty Guy is coming to Nintendo Switch and PS4 tomorrow, Famitsu reports. Released back in the arcades in 1986, the game has been described online as a cross between Nichibutsu’s earlier title Ninja Emaki and Capcom’s vertical run-and-gun shooter Commando. Read the…