Retro Gaming News
Info by a thousand cuts. Following on from last week’s initial announcement, tech manufacturer AYN has released its first teaser trailer for its upcoming handheld, Odin 3 Portal. The short video is a little light on info, but offers up some key details about the sleek-looking unit’s infrastructure. The AYN Odin 3 Portal is powered…
Development house Team17 has become a prolific, popular company best known for its Worms series, which has appeared on nearly every platform since the 16-bit era. But in 1991, they were a new group that formed from the European demo scene. Their first major release was a top-down shooter called Alien Breed, which was released…
Some coming sooner than expected, and others… AYANEO has released a shipping update for its range of current and upcoming handheld consoles. The updated info, shared by RetroHandhelds, arrived in an email sent to backers and pre-order customers. The bad news first: The company has stated there have been further delays in the shipping of…
‘Drop your tacos or I’ll blow your brains out’. It’s been a loooong development cycle, but we’re getting ever closer to the release of Retroware’s old-school beat-’em-up Toxic Crusaders, based on what is perhaps the single most inappropriate IP ever to be adapted into children’s television: The Toxic Avenger. Debuting in 1991 and enjoyed by…
Serious Computer Business. Super Mario 64 is perhaps the most mysterious release in the history of Nintendo’s prized franchise. Since its release back in 1996, the 3D platformer has been subject to a variety of rumours regarding its secrets, narrative themes, and, of course, the missing Super Mario Brother, Luigi. But now, as reported by…
An AI-assisted patch was released last week. An individual named pzappzap recently released an AI-assisted English fan translation for Xing’s 1999 PlayStation 1 mermaid RPG Meremanoid. But in response, a group of fan translators and hackers are encouraging people online to ignore it, stating that an “all human-made” fan translation is just around the corner….
‘Medical Courier!’ (Said in booming voice). Homebrewer and Resident Evil fan “Nocturne” (aka “Notreallyjulian”) has uploaded a series of short clips of a fan game based on Zach Cregger’s 2026 movie Resident Evil, which, naturally, is itself based on Capcom’s iconic and generation-spanning survival horror franchise. A series of clips uploaded to TikTok showcases a…
“Suck in the guts, guys. We’re the Ghostbusters”. A new “screen-accurate” mod has just been released for Ghostbusters II on the Amiga, bringing the game closer to the movie with new graphics and sounds (thanks, Ghostbusters News!). As you will probably already know, in the ’80s and ’90s, it wasn’t uncommon for the latest blockbuster…
30 PPS (Pages per Second). Modder “Bo Made It” is in the process of developing open-source software that they hope will allow Game Boy games to run on E-paper/E-Ink displays. A curious contraption first spotted by The Register. The cutely titled “InkBoy” takes advantage of the waveform-based display of E-reader hardware to recreate the LCD…
Current-ly targeting Spring 2027 release. Remember Gravity Circuit, the acclaimed Mega Man-inspired action platformer from 2023? Well, it appears the developer and publisher team of Domesticated Ant Games and Dear Villagers are currently working on a sequel for PS5, Switch, Switch 2, and PC (via Steam), due out next year in Spring, and they’ve just…