Retro Gaming News
“The only person I was ever prepared to write with”. Former Your Sinclair and Amiga Power staffer Jonathan Nash has passed away, we’re sad to report. Nash’s work will be instantly familiar to readers of those magazines. Like so many publications of the late ’80s and early ’90s, the personality and humour of the writers…
Coming to NES, Nintendo Switch, PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. The Angry Video Game Nerd (everyone’s favourite Retro grouch) will soon be returning to consoles in Angry Video Game Nerd 8-bit — a new Mega Man-inspired adventure from the developer Mega Cat Studios and publisher Retroware. The new game will be released on NES, as well…
Team17 Group is rebranding as everplay group plc. Team17 is one of the oldest companies operating in the British video game industry, having been formed all the way back in 1990. While it cut its teeth on Amiga titles, Team17 has since become a publisher across multiple systems and has IPs such as Overcooked, Golf…
Pittsburgh, PA – Jan. 22, 2025 – Get ready to dive into the world of terrible games once again as Retroware and Mega Cat Studios announce The Angry Video Game Nerd 8-bit, coming to the NES and all modern platforms in Q2 2025. Heavily inspired by classic side-scrollers like Megaman, The Angry Video Game Nerd…
The mid-to-late ‘70s saw the dawn of handheld electronic games and the beginning of my collecting something other than comic books. Console systems like the Fairchild Channel F and Atari 2600 launched in 1976 and 1977 respectively, but their high prices – $250 for an Atari plus $30-$45 per game – were prohibitive for many…
Prepare to qualify. Namco’s Pole Position is rightly regarded as one of the most influential video games of all time. The first racing game to feature a real-life circuit and a qualifying lap, it was also notable for offering a degree of realism that previously hadn’t been encountered in arcades, combining large sprites viewed from…
“I’m not fine at all. Things may happen when you do this kind of project”. Thought you’d heard the end of the SuperSega saga? Think again, as we’re now hearing that refunds—which were supposed to have been issued at the close of 2024—haven’t actually been processed as planned, and Alejandro Martín, the man behind the…
Thanks to MonkeyNess and a group of other Mother / Earthbound fans! A small group of fans has recently gone to the incredible effort of recreating a ridiculously rare tabletop spin-off to Mother 2 / EarthBound to prevent it from becoming lost forever. Slot Brothers is a card and dice game that stars the Sanchez…
You couldn’t make this up. Say what you will about fashion brand Balenciaga, it clearly has its fans—but sometimes it’s tricky to defend everything your favourite commercial entity does. The company has just produced a retro gaming handheld to celebrate the lunar new year and the start of the Year of the Snake, and—naturally—it is…
Arrives on Switch and PS4 on January 23rd. Tecmo’s vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up Final Star Force is heading to Nintendo Switch and PS4 as part of Arcade Archives on January 23rd. Originally released in Japanese arcades back in 1993, Final Star Force is the third title in the Star Force series that originated with the…