Retro Gaming News
Kid Dracula 2? Castlevania turns 40 this year, which makes me feel utterly ancient, as it’s perhaps my favourite video game series of all time. Of the many amazing games in this franchise, the one that stands out to me (and no doubt many others) is 1997’s Symphony Of The Night, an epic fusion of…
No Pokemon left behind. Homebrew developer RetroSync has announced that its GBA-to-Switch trade adapter is nearing completion. The wireless device, once connected to Game Boy Advance hardware, will allow for the trading of Pokémon from the GBA to the Nintendo Switch. Earlier this month, RetroSync posted video of a rudimentary version of the hardware in…
Demonstrated at TGS 2026. Tassei Denki has shown off new prototypes of its G’AIM’E Light Gun system at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, dubbed ‘Pro’ and ‘Lite’. The Pro appears to use the same basic design as the existing G’AIM’E gun – which we reviewed back in November of 2025 – but improves accuracy and…
Some game ideas refuse to retire. The three-reel format still has enough pull to survive new hardware and decades of changing player habits, which says plenty about good design today. Classic slot-style games have one big advantage: you know what to do the second the reels appear. Spin them, watch where the symbols land and…
I’m just not sure about that ‘Extreme Green’ colour… Retro Fighters has iterated on its core range of controllers so many times I’m honestly in danger of losing track; when the Brawler64 Pro ($69.99) sample arrived in the office, I was certain I’d covered a similar pad not so long ago (and I had –…
“I have no recollection of this lawsuit or the claims around it ever taking place.”. A few years before the Dundee-based developer DMA Design created the hugely successful open-world crime series Grand Theft Auto, it produced an offbeat racing game featuring a bunch of sentient unicycles as its main characters, in collaboration with Nintendo. Uniracers…
Look at the little lad fly… A homebrew developer has released an unofficial, pint-sized recreation of a ’90s Kirby game that never was. Available now on NovaStar’s itch.io, Kid Kirby is an imagining of the superstar’s unrealised SNES adventure, which was cancelled way back in 1995. Kid Kirby was originally conceived as a key title…
0% Crystals 0% Crashers 100% Clowns. One of my personal favourite gaming heroes makes their grand return this week, as Universal’s madcap platformer Mr. Do!’s Castle welcomes guests, new and old, to Hamster’s Arcade Archives. Released to arcades in 1983, emblazoned with one of the most punctuated titles of all time, Mr. Do!’s Castle is…
Choosing an online casino often comes down to a handful of practical questions: is the game selection worth the time, are payouts reliable, and does the platform actually work well on a phone. Winbox Malaysia has been gaining attention in Malaysia for answering most of these questions reasonably well, which is why it’s worth a…
Thanks to a nifty fan creation for Tabletop Simulator. This one is for the die-hard Paper Mario-heads within our audience. Decades after its original release, an iQue-published Paper Mario board game, released exclusively in China, has just been translated into English and recreated in the Steam game Tabletop Simulator, giving more people the chance to…