Retro Gaming News
Arrives March 5th! Yoyogi Games’ Playdate exclusive shoot ’em up Gun Trails is about to get an amazing new update that aims to address some of the issues we identified in our recent review including the long initial loading time upon booting up the game and its high difficulty. Update V.2, which is scheduled to…
Step it up. Tanita, the company behind the $460 Virtual-On Twin Stick controller for PS4, has opened pre-orders for a pedometer based on the Sega mech combat series. Designed by Yasuhiro Mori, the graphic artist of the Virtual-On franchise, the pedometer will be available to pre-order until March 11th. It’s only confirmed for Japan. Read…
Digital distribution starts on February 29th. Hamster has revealed that this week’s Arcade Archives release will be Allumer’s vertically-scrolling shooter War of Aero: Project MEIOU (thanks Famitsu!). It will begin distribution on February 29th for Nintendo Switch & PS4 (international storefronts usually take a little longer to update). Read the full article on timeextension.com Digital…
“I know you will probably put it up again just to tick me off”. Final Fantasy VIII had a tough act to follow. Final Fantasy VII had turned the series into a global megahit, making JRPGs mainstream all over the world in the process. Its sequel would need to be bigger, better and bolder –…
A Rare breed indeed. Founded all the way back in 1985, Rare is one of the United Kingdom’s most famous developers and has been responsible for some of the best-selling video games of all time. Spawned from the incredibly successful home computer developer Ultimate Play The Game, Rare found fame as a ‘studio for hire’…
Coming to Steam Early Access. Last year, we told you all about Pizza Bear Games’ Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess, an exciting new Steam game inspired by the likes Desert Strike & Choplifter, which is scheduled to come to Steam at some point in the far future. Well, as it turns out, it isn’t the…
UPDATE: Parts 1 & 2 available now! Update #2 (Tue 27th Feb, 2024 14:00 GMT): We’re admittedly a little late to this, but the hacker Yuvi and translator SnowyAria have finally published part two of their translation patch for Madou Monogatari 123. The patch was released earlier this month on February 22nd, and once again…
Grab your popcorn! While it’s quite common now for modern video game consoles to come pre-built with the ability to play movies, back in the days of the Atari 2600, the hardware’s limitations meant that people never even dreamed about the possibility of being able to watch films on the device. Yet, despite that, a…
“We never imagined it would end like this”. A Japanese retro arcade which housed many iconic arcade machines was consumed by fire this week, destroying 10 years of hard work. The Living Bird store, located in Towada City, Aomori Prefecture, was devastated by a blaze which started in a neighbouring unit and spread through the…
Coming 10.10.2025. A trailer recently dropped online for a new Super Mario World ROM hack that aims to imagine what a Super Mario Bros. game might have looked like had it been released on a fictional CD-based version of the NES / Nintendo Famicom. Super Mario Bros. CD, as the project is called, is the…