Retro Gaming News
“This is all the validation I need”. In recent times, we’ve seen a flood of games being ported to consoles that they were never on back in the day. Games like Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, GTA3, Virtua Fighter 4, and many more have been shown running on platforms which, once upon…
The project is now in the works at the French animation studio Eurovisual. Production has begun on season one of a new animated series set in the world of Final Fantasy IX, according to the official website of the French animation studio Eurovisual (h/t: RPGSite). The show, called Final Fantasy: Black Mages Legacy, will feature…
Talking about my generation. I’m fully aware that some people get a bit jumpy when the notion of ‘console generations’ is mentioned, but in the context of Bitmap Books’ latest tome, this kind of terminology makes sense. Leaps + Bounds: a Visual Guide to Nine Console Generations is a book dedicated to charting the various…
More “good” news thanks to the AI craze. The world’s ongoing memory shortage – caused by the tech world’s almost insatiable hunger for a product which, so far, has resulted in precious few rewards – has already hit hardware maker Retroid pretty hard. Earlier this month, Retroid was forced to raise the price of its…
Another Konami arcade title joins Arcade Archives this week. This week, Hamster, the Japanese company behind Arcade Archives, is continuing its unspoken quest to bring Konami’s arcade library to modern consoles, announcing a reissue of the third-person arcade shoot ’em up, Devastators. Released in 1988, Devastators sees players taking control of a group of commandos…
“Trust is our product, and we’re excited to keep building it”. Publisher Limited Run Games has come in for plenty of criticism over the past few years, with fans citing quality control issues, poor communication, and endless delays as key ways the company has let them down. However, it seems that Limited Run is committed…
Remember when every phone was different? Back in the 2000s, before smartphones arrived and turned every device into a large-screen fondleslab, mobile phone manufacturers experimented with some pretty crazy designs. We had flip phones, slider phones, phones that rotated – you name it, somebody probably tried to make it a success in phone form. Now,…
“They are still very cool, and anyone who owned one at launch is absolutely not old”. Retailer GameStop has issued a tongue-in-cheek statement today which declares that the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii U are, “for all practical purposes, now officially retro consoles.” GameStop’s rules for this include “the presence of component cables,…
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Walter Day who is displayed on card number 95, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Walter is also featured on cards 108, 523, 539, 591, 775, 1000, 1021, 1859, 2133, 2149, 2261, 2292, 2321, 2390 and 2462 (And many others). Walter’s visions include starting up the famous known brand…
“This is… really bad”. While it’s designed to celebrate the history of a true gaming icon, the Tomb Raider Remastered series has had a bit of a bumpy ride for one reason or another. First, there was confusion over what seemed to be AI-generated visuals in the first Lara Croft collection (it turned out to…