Retro Gaming News
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original Xbox, toy giant Mattel, alongside Microsoft have released a 3,509-piece Brick Shop premium building set featuring the iconic gaming console, as well as its classic “Duke” controller and three iconic “game experiences.” According to a press release from Mattel, the set, which will SRP for $329.99 will…
“These new ports were developed from the ground up for Evercade”. Blaze Entertainment has just released a new deep-dive video showing the lengths the company went to bring Rare’s Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie to its Evercade family of systems. We’ve already experienced some of the improvements via the Rare Super Pocket handheld, which includes the first…
Hilko Janssen’s satirical sim is coming to Steam Early Access this Fall. I’ve had my eye on Car Park Capital ever since I first saw development GIFs of the game all the way back in 2024. As someone who played a lot of simulation games like Theme Park, RollerCoaster Tycoon, and SimCity 2000 on my…
33 Games also has “a major licence” it will be announcing soon. 33 Games is a relative newcomer in the retro gaming space, but it has already made waves with a re-release of Gremlin’s 2D platformer Zool on the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis, and has followed that up with new physical launches for Utopia…
Dark Castle series returns, just in time for its 40th anniversary. Two classic Macintosh platforming games, 1986’s Dark Castle and its 1987 sequel Beyond the Dark Castle, have made a surprising return on Steam. Built as a “living interactive animation” by a team that included Mark Pierce, Eric Zocher, and Jonathan Gay, Dark Castle was…
“We have a vision for your game shelf”. Atari is teasing “one of the biggest announcements” it has ever made. A landing page on the official Atari site has gone live which is encouraging fans to pop in their email and phone number so they can be informed of exactly what this news is about….
Most popular video games eventually end up on platforms other than the one for which they were initially created. Obviously, there are exceptions. You wouldn’t have seen a Super Mario Bros title on a Sega console, just like you weren’t going to see the blue hedgehog on a Nintendo machine. But third-party developers often took…
Don’t go expecting PS2 power. Still a relative newcomer to the handheld emulation scene, Mangmi has released the Air X and Pocket Max so far, and both devices have impressed enough for the company to gain followers in a market flooded with products from the likes of AYANEO, Anbernic, and Retroid. Mangmi’s next venture is…
Could this be the unlikeliest video game revival of 2026? If I were to mention the words “DRM-Free” and “preservation,” the first thing to spring to mind would likely be GOG, the digital storefront previously owned by the Polish company CD Projekt. It’s worth highlighting, though, that it isn’t the only company working hard to…
Hamster’s rerelease is sadly missing a full localisation, but help is at hand! When Hamster released Nippon Ichi Software’s PlayStation RPG Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure on Nintendo Switch 2 & PS5 last month as part of Console Archives, I had a feeling it would be only a matter of time before the sequel followed, and…