Retro Gaming News
“Perfect for gaming obsessives, retro collectors, tech historians, and product design obsessives”. Bitmap Books has just announced that its latest project, Leaps + Bounds: a Visual Guide to Nine Console Generations, will be available to order next month. Running to 336 pages, the book is billed as “a journey through the history of home gaming,”…
The game would have been inspired by Star Wars, Akira Kurosawa films, and Lone Wolf and Cub. Before working on Metal Slug: Super Vehicle-001 for SNK’s Neo Geo platform, the former Nazca & SNK artist Akio Oyabu envisioned making a “sci-fi comedy game” based on the Samurai Shodown series. If you’re a diehard fan of…
“That’s born from cherishing the artform, not a desire to be contrarian”. If you’ve been paying attention to the world of video game print media, you’ll be aware that the number of magazines in active circulation is perhaps at its lowest point since the industry began. Once upon a time, newsstands were packed with publications…
Coming this May! City Connection and Granzella have announced the release date for their upcoming remake of Jaleco’s 1984 arcade shooter Formation Z, as spotted by Gematsu. According to the latest announcement, FZ: Formation Z, as the project is called, will be released on May 21st, 2026, across a range of platforms, including Nintendo Switch…
Wide open space. This week saw the welcome release of Banjo: Recompiled, a native PC port of the original 1998 N64 classic. This statically recompiled port includes a host of new features and improvements, one of which is the ability to run the game in widescreen and ultra-widescreen modes. Read the full article on timeextension.com…
The brick breaker originally landed in arcades back in 1987. Namco’s 1987 brick-breaking arcade game Quester has been revealed as the next classic arcade game coming to modern consoles as part of Arcade Archives. It will be released digitally tomorrow (January 29th) on Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, with two…
Fang-tastic news for Sega fans. The Sega Genesis / Mega Drive is doing pretty well when it comes to fan-made ports of Castlevania games – not only is the 16-bit system getting Symphony of the Night, Rondo of Blood and Super Castlevania IV conversions, it’s also getting Circle Of The Moon, the title which launched…
Here’s another banger of a news story especially if you were a fan of the Halo games, as thanks to a heads up by Earok, developer of the Scorpion Engine, he has announced a preview download of ‘Halo Zero’. An unofficial fan port of a classic fan game, which in turn was inspired by the series…
82 million units sold and you still can’t catch a break. A debate has broken out on social media about the “failure” of Sony’s PlayStation Portable, leading many to defend the beloved handheld. The origin point of this particular ruckus appears to be a post by @JaAmfan, citing a two-year-old video with the title “Why…
“Can you feel the sunshine?”. If you’ve ever played Sonic R on the Sega Saturn and wished to explore the stages at your own pace, and without the somewhat unwieldy racing controls, then you’re in luck. That’s because the hacker and reverse engineering expert, Bo Bayles, has just released a new patch, Sonic R&R, for…