Retro Gaming News
The project is believed to have inspired elements of Shadow of Mordor. A bunch of remarkable footage has resurfaced online of Monolith Productions’ abandoned Batman game that was in development for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC around the time of the Dark Knight Rises (thanks Eurogamer!). The game, which was codenamed Project Apollo, was previously…
Introduction would have been canned otherwise. Back in the Genesis / Mega Drive’s early days, we didn’t see many cool introduction sequences because developers were limited when it came to cartridge ROM sizes, and preferred to use up that valuable memory with gameplay-related content, rather than window-dressing. However, MUSHA Aleste – known as plain old…
Scheduled to arrive April 11th in Japan. The MSX2 version of Dragon Slayer IV: The Drasle Family is heading to the Nintendo Switch as part of D4 Enterprise’s EGGCONSOLE series of retro reissues, which is comprised of games originally released for classic Japanese computers (thanks 4Gamer!). It is scheduled to arrive on April 11th in…
Coming to Switch, PS4/PS5, Xbox consoles, and Steam. Atari has announced that it will be bringing its retro racer NeoSprint, to PC and consoles this Summer. The isometric arcade-style racer had previously only been available in early access exclusively on the Atari VCS, but now it looks to finally be ready to make the jump…
Was previously released on Switch in Japan in December 2023. Update #2 : Cosmia Machia’s rerelease of Triggerheart Exelica finally has a worldwide release date (as spotted by Gematsu). As you may already know, the game was previously released for the Nintendo Switch in Japan on December 14th, 2023. But it has now been revealed…
Coming to PC. Canari Games, the developer of the excellent cinematic platformer Lunark, has just announced an adorable new retro adventure game that is coming to PC, and the Steam page for it is now live. Castaway, as the project is called, is described on the Steam page as a “short and sweet adventure the…
If you have an Amstrad CPC 128k or a GX4000, then you are going to love this latest news story that was just sent to us by XeNoMoRPH. As thanks to the hard work of Amstrad GGP, at some point soon you’ll be able to play the eagerly awaited ‘Mighty Street Fighter’; A rather unique…
The new prototype reimagines Terranigma as a “HD-2D”-style game. Over the years, Quintet and Enix’s 1995 Super Nintendo title Terranigma has earned itself a reputation as one of the finest RPGs on the SNES. That’s despite the fact the game was only ever released in Japan and Europe, with the North American launch being scrapped…
Alltynex was originally released back in 1996. The 1996 doujin shoot-em-up Alltynex isn’t a title that we expect many of our readers to have played before, but the game has built up a pretty solid reputation in the FM Towns community over the years. This likely explains why the retro gaming enthusiast and English fan…
Moon Patrol wasn’t the only game to grace our Commodore Amiga screens today, as I’ve been informed via our good friend Liqmatrix, that bwldrbst has released a demo of the work in progress turn based tactical combat and role playing game of ‘ECLIPTIC’. A game in which you play as a number of robots that…