Retro Gaming News
When you had to make those 24 exposures count. Gather round, kids, and I’ll tell you a tale. A tale of gaming events where you weren’t packed in like sardines, a tale of the future of the industry: Sega’s Dreamcast, and a tale of photographic limitations where you had a limited number of shots, no…
Two familiar RPG ambitions, better equipment and a cleaner completion record, meet in one of Old School RuneScape’s most demanding solo challenges. The Corrupted Gauntlet combines preparation and combat in one solo challenge. Every veteran RPG player knows the routine. You want one upgrade, so you repeat one dungeon until its corridors start appearing in…
‘Don’t you mean Blocko Land, Bart?’. This year marks the 30-year anniversary of one of the most iconic and notable franchises in gaming, Tomb Raider. That’s three whole decades of cliff-diving, dual-wielding, switch-pulling, dinosaur-killing action, all executed at the hands of one of the most popular video game characters of all time, Ms. Lara Croft….
“Getting here took far longer than any of us wanted”. Rock It Games’ Croc Legend of the Gobbos Collector’s Editions have finally started shipping to customers, with the game’s developer, Argonaut Games, announcing on social media that it has now stepped in to resolve the delays customers have been dealing with. The Collector’s Editions for…
Ubisoft’s prequel yet to enter ‘full production’. It has been eight years since Ubisoft graced us with a CGI teaser trailer for its sci-fi adventure prequel Beyond Good & Evil 2, and a further 10 years since the media were treated to a clandestine demonstration of the long-awaited game “in action”. And despite this almost…
“We recognise that this is unwelcome news”. It’s official! Atari is sunsetting the Atari VCS. Initially teased during E3 2017 under the name ‘Ataribox’, the Linux-based “computer in a box” was the company’s first console in decades and featured a design that was essentially a streamlined version of the Atari 2600. It was officially revealed…
You can’t keep a bad man down. Devolver Digital has revealed that ’00s shooter hero Serious Sam is preparing to make (another) comeback, with the release of a teaser trailer for Serious Sam: The Third Encounter, currently in development for PC. Once again developed by CroTeam, the new game will be a direct sequel to…
Gigantamax Queues set to Return. The PokémonCompany has declared its intention to roll out a series of permanent Pokémon stores outside of Japan. The first store is scheduled to open in London, UK, in 2029. A statement written by Gaku Susai, CPEO at The Pokémon Company International, reads: Read the full article on timeextension.com Gigantamax…
‘The most depressing Steam Next Fest I’ve ever seen’. Steam Next Fest began in earnest this week, with a global community of indie developers offering up demos of their current work-in-progress titles, hoping to share a little of their effort, earn more than a few wishlists or pre-orders, and generally shine a spotlight on their…
Holds for thunderous applause. Seibu Kaihatsu’s shoot em up Raiden Project is getting a new release on consoles (Nintendo Switch 2 and PS5), courtesy of Hamster’s Console Archives series. Released in 1995, Raiden Project (or The Raiden Project, depending on your preference) is a port of the arcade Raiden (1990) and Raiden II (1993) to…