Retro Gaming News
‘Pro’ means ‘pronounced increase in size’, it seems. If you cast your mind back to when I reviewed the TrimUI Brick back in 2024, you’ll recall that I was quite taken with the Game Boy-style emulation handheld. Sure, it was perhaps a little too dinky for some people, and the lack of analogue input meant…
Doth thine heart yearn for the glory days of 90s arcades, when conquering evil demanded a friend on the couch, blistered thumbs, and a battle-ready broadsword? https://www.qubytegames.store/allgames/blades-%26-battles Picture this: King Arthur meets the raw, visceral combat of Golden Axe and Knights of the Round. That is the essence of Blades & Battles, the new flagship 2.5D arcade…
A place is only as good as the people in it… If you’ve taken a wander around the streets and houses of the ol’ hometown recently and figured that, yes, you could do better, actually, well now’s your chance to prove it in Urbanitas, a new city-building sim from indie studio The Plush Girls. Built…
Two floors of gaming goodness with more than 60 coin-ops. Retro arcade bar operator NQ64 has just opened its biggest venue yet in the heart of London’s swanky Soho district. Located in Orange Yard, Manette Street, NQ64 Soho follows the tried-and-tested format of the company’s other locations, mixing retro arcade games with vintage consoles, all…
It’s NEVER Game Over Yeaaaaaah! Prepare to take another Very Long Easy Right Baby, as notable modder “Shuouma” has successfully restored online connectivity to the Dreamcast muddy mudripper Sega Rally Championship 2. Originally ported to the Dreamcast in 1999, only the Japanese edition of Sega Rally 2 took advantage of the console’s rudimentary online capabilities,…
Water lot of fuss. System 3 has just released the first gameplay trailer for its upcoming retro collection, James Pond Legacy. The trailer shows footage from all four games included in the pack, as well as its digital museum. There’s also a focus on the various modern features that will be included, such as screen…
They’re comin’ out the freakin’ walls. All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the Corps! It’s time to jump into another bug hunt, as publisher Commodore International has released a Steam demo for the upcoming compendium Alien Breed: 35th Anniversary Collection. Launching later this month on PC…
The Lucky Crush editorial team has spent time watching how digital platforms try to recreate something the classic video arcade did without thinking about it: put strangers in the same physical space, give them a shared frame of reference, and let connection happen on its own. What the arcade produced wasn’t a side effect of…
A video’s like count is one of the visible details people may notice when discovering new content. For creators and businesses, that helps explain the appeal of purchasing likes: the aim is to give a post a more established appearance while continuing to publish and attract an audience. However, increasing a counter is not the…
“A loving salute to the original Mega Drive release”. Nalua Studio, the developer of games like Necro Pop and Vengeance Hunters, has released the first trailer for Gley Lancer: Overdrive, a reimagining of NCS Corp and Masaya’s 1992 Mega Drive title Gley Lancer for the Neo Geo and modern platforms (PlayStation, Switch, Xbox, Steam). Gley…