All Things Retro
It’s already been six years since Nintendo delivered the NES Classic Edition to the masses, causing an unexpected major market demand while creating a new niche in the process. They followed this up with the similarly successful Super NES Classic Edition a year later. Then poof. The company that created the stir in the first…
Celebrate the console’s 30th birthday. The 3DO launched on this day 30 years ago. Today, the console is widely remembered as one of the video game industry’s most notable follies; the brainchild of EA founder Trip Hawkins, the system was intended to become gaming’s VHS player. While its core specs would be designed by The…
Would you pay to support a Nightdive Studios’ Patreon? Nightdive Studios has made a name for itself over the last decade or so for producing incredible remasters and remakes of previously inaccessible titles, but recently its CEO Stephen Kick took to Twitter to pitch his followers on a brand new idea that would hopefully allow…
Coming October 5th. Hamster has announced that this week’s arcade archives release will be Taito’s arcade shoot ’em up Darius II (thanks Game Watch!) It will be released on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 tomorrow (October 5th). Originally launching in the arcade back in 1989, Darius II was later ported to the Sega Mega Drive…
Retro-Bit is working on an all-new translation for the game. Assault Suits Valken – known in the West as Cybernator – is getting a physical re-release thanks to Retro-Bit. Originally released in 1992 in Japan, the game was localised (and heavily censored) for release in North America and Europe the following year. Read the full…
Marco Rossi and Eri Kasamoto report for duty. SNK’s Metal Slug 3 is joining forces with the competitive RTS game Warpath, it has been revealed. Developed by Shanghai-based Lilith Games and available on PC, iOS, and Android, Warpath is a “classic real-time strategy game where players build their forces to unleash fury on enemy units…
“We called it Xbox assuming there would be a better name coming along”. The Xbox brand is one of the most recognizable in modern gaming, having established itself over the course of several console generations starting way back with the release of the original Xbox in 2001. However, as its co-creator Seamus Blackley told Time…
“The past year has been indescribable”. When we launched Time Extension over a year ago, we ran an interview with Lost in Cult founder Jon Doyle. Just like us, Doyle’s creative studio was still something of a baby at that point; it had produced a few issues of the excellent periodical and was working on…
Nine commercial i-mode games have now been saved. When it comes to video game preservation, NTT DoCoMo’s popular Japanese feature phone service i-mode has often been overlooked. That’s in spite of famous Japanese companies like Capcom, Enix, Konami, Namco, and more having published high-quality games & applications for the platform. This mostly comes down to…
Did we mention it’s free? One of the key creatives behind the original Fable, Dene Carter, has just released a free retro, turn-based RPG on Steam, called Moonring. Carter was credited on the original Fable as a designer and was later present for the development of Fable II and Fable III, before leaving Lionhead in…