Retro Gaming News
“Our ambitions are as big as the Wii”. You might have heard of the Nex Playground if you have your ear to the ground on recent gaming hardware developments. Aimed at a family audience, this tiny device is all about controller-free motion-based gaming, and it has already sold over a million units since its launch…
We pity the fool who isn’t excited about this news. The modern-day Atari has done a commendable job of ensuring the company’s legacy remains relevant through a series of revived games and hardware releases, with the latter coming courtesy of partnerships with Retro Games Ltd and My Arcade. So far, we’ve seen systems like the…
Old poker games were great at explaining the rules, but weak when it came to showing uncertainty. They taught us how to calculate hand rankings and how a digital table flows. What they rarely captured was the invisible part of poker: the shifting story built from position, stack size, board texture, and opponent action. That…
The Amiga’s competitive football scene looks to be receiving a significant visual boost with the upcoming demo of a new graphics fix and restyle for the Amiga Competition Version of Kick Off 2. Developed by KONEY-SCANLINES, the project—titled Kick Off 2 CV—is based on the robust Amiga KO2CV v1.37 framework and aims to unify the…
Update: New footage shown with CD-DA audio. Not a week seems to pass without a new porting project for the Genesis / Mega Drive – R-Type, RoboCop, Final Fight, Symphony of the Night, Super Castlevania IV… the list is pretty incredible now. Another notable Castlevania also seems to be coming to Sega’s 16-bit system; werton…
“An all-new action platformer with dungeon exploration elements”. Nalua Studio is releasing a new Neo Geo game called Necro Pop, which has been “built from the ground up” for SNK’s classic system. Available for both the home (AES) and arcade (MVS) formats, Necro Pop is the second game from the studio for the console, following…
By far the best and most influential of these is Westwood Studios’ Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty from 1992, a landmark Real Time Strategy (RTS) game that not only laid the way for Command & Conquer, but also for the whole genre. Of course, Dune II wasn’t the first RTS. Both 1988’s Modem…
Along with some odd AI-generated promotional images… Earlier this week, a new AYANEO handheld leaked called the Pocket Block. A Game Boy-shaped device powered by Google’s Android OS, it appears to be the company’s first attempt at creating a small-format vertical handheld, presumably aimed at the lower end of the market. Read the full article…
“A regional brand licensing agreement meant for the China market only”. A short while ago, eyebrows were raised when an $63 emulation handheld pre-loaded with ROMs appeared on AliExpress bearing Lenovo branding. The Hong Kong-based Lenovo is best known today as one of the world’s largest personal computer vendors, so it came as something of…
‘Air Man ga Taosenai’ was originally released in 2007. McDonald’s Japan is teasing a new video game-related collaboration coming to its stores, and this time it seems to be based on Capcom’s Mega Man series (h/t: Rockman Corner). Last year, as you may remember, Capcom teamed up with McDonald’s Japan on a collaboration that saw…