All Things Retro
Bitmap Books’ latest arrives this October. Bitmap Books has just revealed its next project, and it’s likely to be of interest to horror gaming fans. Ants To Zombies: Six Decades Of Video Game Horror “delves into the remarkable and long history of games that terrify and delight in equal measure,” according to the publisher. Read…
And you can help! Over the last decade or so, there have been a lot of new localizations of games that were previously unavailable and unreleased in the West. So much so, that it can be a little hard to keep tabs on them all. That’s why a Twitter user named Baust528 (who is also…
“Pokémon had hit our UK business quite hard”. If there are two brands in the world you’d assume would never be in direct competition with one another, it’s Pokémon and Warhammer. The former is a franchise about collecting and battling with a host of cute monsters, while the other is a series of D&D-style fantasy…
“Not even our colleagues knew what we were doing”. It’s hard to believe it now, but back in the early ‘90s, Nintendo was not the dominant force on UK shores. That accolade went to Sega, whose 8-bit Master System and 16-bit Mega Drive were the driving force behind the console revolution in that region of…
Are you not entertained? While you could cite the amazing success of the arcade Donkey Kong or the pocket-sized phenomenon of the Game & Watch series as two points in time when it became evident that Nintendo was something special, the arrival of the Famicom in 1983 is perhaps a more pivotal moment in the…
Update: Launches 2024 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, & PC. Update (Fri 15th Sep, 2023 14:45 GMT): The publisher City Connection has announced that Granzella’s reboot of Jaleco’s Formation Z will be arriving on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam) in 2024. The news came ahead of this year’s Tokyo Game Show 2023…
“We thought this was going to go nuclear. And then it didn’t.”. When the developer Rocket Science Games released the adventure game Obsidian for Windows and Mac computers back in 1997, it needed a miracle. After years of disappointing games, such as Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm, Wingnuts: Battle in the Sky, and Loadstar:…
Don’t get dizzy with excitement! Back in January, we reported on the computer scientist Dr. Tom Tilley and his bizarre contraption that transformed a deodorant ball, a football, some cardboard, and an optical mouse into a fun, new way to play Katamari Damacy. Well, now it appears he’s back at it again, this time turning…
From the developers behind ‘Moon’. Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct had a bunch of incredible announcements for retro gamers, but as is typical the Japanese broadcast hid some incredible announcements that we didn’t get to see outside of Japan. Case in point, the developer Onion Games — which is a company formed by individuals who worked on…
“Soon”. Emulation and preservation specialist Digital Eclipse has just teased a new project related to the classic RPG series Wizadry. Digital Eclipse has been working on making classic games available to a modern audience for years, with The Making of Karateka, the first interactive documentary in its ‘Gold Master Series’, being the most recent example….