Retro Gaming News
“Three full games, one epic Stone Age experience.”. This October will see the return of the prehistoric heroes Joe & Mac in a new retro collection from Red Art Games, in partnership with the Japanese developer/publisher G-Mode. The collection was initially crowdfunded on Kickstarter last year, raising €36,952 from 612 backers, and will be coming…
“The original DLC might only exist today because SaveMGO kept it available”. A reference to SaveMGO, a community project focused on preserving the Metal Gear Online series through reverse-engineered servers, has been found within the executable of the recent Master Collection Volume 2 rerelease of Metal Gear Solid 4. Metal Gear Online is an online…
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“Real heroes don’t yell and act tough”. Canadian actor Peter Cullen, who voiced Transformers‘ Optimus Prime, has passed away at the age of 85. A prolific voice actor for several decades, Cullen’s career started in the 1960s, and he supplied his vocal talents to a wide range of productions over the years, including Spider-Man, Knight…
Features all 10 songs from the album. There’s been something of a trend when it comes to using old-school game cartridges as delivery methods for music – we’ve recently seen the “brutal party slam band” Party Cannon publish an album on an N64 cart, for example – and Nottingham-based alt/emo group Pillow Fort has followed…
Out today! D4Enterprise’s EGGCONSOLE reissue of the PC-9801 version of Puyo Puyo is back on the Nintendo Switch eShop in Japan, a year after being removed from sale. The Japanese publisher originally reissued the Compile-developed puzzler last year, on August 28th, 2025, but quickly pulled it from sale for undisclosed reasons at the same time…
It’s strange to think about now, but for a long time, nobody really knew what to make of the Super Smash Bros. series. Not regarding critical reception—the games were beloved practically from day one—but in how to classify them. Nowadays, no one bats an eye if you call Smash a fighting game. But this distinction…
“About 55-60% of the script has been altered in one way or another”. 1995’s EVE Burst Error kicked off a franchise which is still going strong to this very day, with the most recent entry being 2022’s EVE Ghost Enemies – but it’s easy to forget that this visual novel franchise began its life as…
“That’s an easy way to know you made the right decision”. Remember Donald Trump’s tariffs? They caused all kinds of aggro for manufacturers and consumers, only for the US Supreme Court to rule that they weren’t a legal use of the ‘International Emergency Economic Powers Act’, allowing impacted companies to apply for refunds. Some of…
“I was in no way consulted or involved with this collection”. James Pond is one of those characters whom people have a lot of affection for but who only seems to make it into the news in the most negative of ways. Back in 2025, Gameware announced it was creating an AI-filled ‘sequel’ called James…