Retro Gaming News
“We all thought it was the greatest idea in the world”. Back in 2013, publications like Siliconera and Nintendo Life both published articles about a number of Disney projects that never came to life. The inspiration for these articles was a series of images posted to the former Disney Interactive concept artist Ken Christiansen’s portfolio…
“I don’t want easy misinformation to spread”. Castlevania means different things to different people, but a generation of players, when they think about the franchise, immediately recalls Ayami Kojima’s sumptuous artwork, which has graced entries such as Symphony of the Night, Aria of Sorrow, and Lament of Innocence. This year marks Castlevania’s 40th anniversary, and…
New York has a New Problem. Tengo Project, purveyors of fine pixelated fare, are currently developing the next title in the studio’s range of dazzling, modern-day remasters. As announced by publisher Winning Entertainment Group, the studio’s next release will be Cybernetic Attack Final Mission, an updated edition of the classic 8-bit shmup Final Mission. Originally…
“No AI was used for the coding of this game”. The 3DO hardware has something of a complicated legacy. Developed and conceived by The 3DO Company’s CEO, Trip Hawkins, who had risen to fame as the Electronic Arts’ original founder, it took a slightly different approach from the other consoles available at the time. Rather…
“I’m not making this up. It really is this insane”. Arxel Tribe’s point-and-click adventure Ring: The Legend of the Nibelungen hardly got pulses racing when it launched on PC in 1998. While it sold over 600,000 copies, contemporary reviewers largely savaged it, with IGN even calling it “abysmal at best” in a 2.7/10 review. Like…
Ancient Magic: Bazoe! Mahou Sekai launches this November. The SNES had more than its fair share of amazing RPGs, so you’d be forgiven for having not heard of Ancient Magic: Bazoe! Mahou Sekai, which was released exclusively in Japan by Hot-B in 1993. Thanks to the lack of an English localisation, Ancient Magic doesn’t have…
The “Netflix-style service” Bleemcast! is available now as a beta. If you cast your mind back to last year, you may remember Piko Interactive launching a failed Kickstarter for a project called Bleem.net, named after the famous PS1 emulator from the early 2000s for the Sega Dreamcast. Pitched as “the ultimate retro platform”, the idea…
Fans of the classic Joe & Mac platformer series will have something cool in 2027, as three games in the series will be made available physically early next year. Available on Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam digitally on October 29, 2026, the collection had a successful Kickstarter that prompted the…
Released in 1994 by Atari Games, Primal Rage emerged during one of the most competitive eras in arcade gaming history. Fighting games dominated arcades in the early-to-mid 1990s, fueled by the massive success of titles like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II. Into this crowded arena stepped a bold and unusual contender, one that replaced…
Frogbull has released yet another “alternate reality” project. The homebrew developer Frogbull has brought us some bizarre crossovers over the past few years: from creating playable versions of PlayStation classics like Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy VII, and Crash Bandicoot for the Sega Saturn to showing off a Nintendo 64 edition of Spyro the Dragon….