Retro Gaming News
“The OLDEST known existing Nintendo Playstation hardware artifact”. Once upon a time, Nintendo and Sony were such close buddies that they decided to create a console together – the legendary Nintendo Play Station (or “PlayStation” if you prefer). As we all know, the arrangement was short-lived and Nintendo backed out of the deal, leaving Sony…
“2.4G wireless, virtual memory cards, accelerometer & gyro”. 8BitMods has already done some amazing work upgrading the Sega Dreamcast for a new era with the superb VMU Pro, but the company is back with another pair of products that aim to further improve the console. First up is the BitLink Dongle, which, according to 8BitMods,…
GBC gets a ‘demake’ of the infamous mobile phone entry. Released on Java-based phones back in 2007, Castlevania: Order of Shadows is considered the black sheep of the franchise’s wider lineage, and with good reason – like many mobile games from the era before smartphones, it suffered from poor visuals and ropey controls. In fact,…
PPSSPP Version 1.20 out now! Adds portrait mode, new game fixes, & more. A new version of PPSSPP has been released, bringing some great new improvements to everyone’s favourite PSP emulator. Version 1.20 started rolling out to users yesterday and introduces a bunch of cool new features, including proper portrait mode support for iOS (in…
Improved textures, realistic clothing and more. The classic PS2 title ICO has already been remastered once on PS3, but that hasn’t stopped modder Sad_Origami from giving the original game a spruce-up. A new texture pack has been previewed which allows you to run the original game under emulation with improved detail. Read the full article…
With the resurgence of retro gaming hardware enabling us to play old classics on big TV’s with lots of built in games such as the NES Mini, SNES Mini, Playstation 1 Classic, NEO GEO Mini,PC Engine Mini and the C64 Mini/Maxi you’d be forgiven in thinking there wasn’t much else to get excited about especially…
‘Nobunaga’s Ambition’ launches this week on PS5, with Switch 2 to follow. Following in the wake of Ninja Gaiden II: The Sword of Chaos, Cool Boarders, and Dezaemon, Hamster has announced that the next Console Archives title heading to PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2 will be Koei’s Famicom / NES port of the legendary 1986…
Let’s all meet up in the year 2000. Polymega Collection Vol. 12 – Tempest is a significant release for the modular retro gaming system because it marks the debut of Atari Jaguar emulation on the platform. Atari’s ill-fated 64-bit console doesn’t have its own Polymega ‘Element Module’ (yet), but this collection – which is part…
Has just been successfully funded on Kickstarter. Look, I’m a simple man. When you tell me your freshly-crowdfunded video game is inspired by such luminaries as Shining Force, Fire Emblem, and Final Fantasy Tactics, I sit up and take notice. That’s precisely what has happened in the case of Aegis Force: The Scorian War, a…
‘Plump Pop’ originally landed in the arcades back in 1987. Taito’s colourful animal-themed “action game” Plump Pop is making the journey to modern consoles (Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S) later this week (Thursday, March 5th), as part of Arcade Archives and Arcade Archives 2. Originally released in the arcades…