Retro Gaming News
“I wish I had thought of ten million dollars, because he would have said yes”. To celebrate the surprise announcement of a new Star Fox outing, we thought it would be a good idea to dig into the archives for previous features we’ve written on the series. Jez San occupies a pretty unique place in…
“I should also have the first assembled prototype cartridge ready soon.”. A new Wolfenstein 3D-style first-person shooter is currently in development for the SNES. Veins of Iron was first unveiled just over two weeks ago on YouTube with a gameplay video and is being pitched as “a brand-new horror experience for the Super Nintendo”, inspired…
[7th May 2026, Islamabad] – Lost Twins 2 launches on Nintendo Switch today, the charming and brain-teasing puzzle-platformer that has already captured hearts on other platforms. Starting today, Nintendo players can join siblings Abi and Ben on a magical journey filled with shifting tiles, phoenixes, and beautifully hand-crafted worlds, now enhanced with exciting new water-level…
Behind the scenes of this much-maligned GameCube title. To celebrate the surprise announcement of a new Star Fox outing, we thought it would be a good idea to dig into the archives for previous features we’ve written on the series. Although it’s hard to believe now, when Star Fox Adventures launched in 2002 (yes, it’s…
The two-time academy award winning actress used to play the game with Robin Williams. The two-time Academy Award-winning actress Sally Field is currently doing press for her new Netflix movie, Remarkably Bright Creatures, and has let slip during an interview with entertainment reporter Jake Hamilton her love of the Legend of Zelda series. Even going…
Before RPGs, 1986,to strong narrative. Sir-Tech’s Wizardry from 1981 dumped players into a massive 10-floor dungeon with little more than a sentence of congratulatory text for beating the game. The first Ultima came out the same year and switched players from a first-person perspective in dungeons to a quasi bird’s-eye view when venturing the overworld,…
How a tiny British studio helped Nintendo fly in 3D. To celebrate the surprise announcement of a new Star Fox outing, we thought it would be a good idea to dig into the archives for previous features we’ve written on the series. 30 years ago, British engineering ingenuity and Japanese design savvy elegantly combined to…
Bride Hard. Mega Cat Studios has announced that it is bringing the top-down shooter Lethal Wedding to Genesis / Mega Drive via a Kickstarter campaign. Described as “a love letter to 16-bit shooter classics like Zombies Ate My Neighbors and action flicks from the ’80s and ’90s,” Lethal Wedding sees you assuming the role of…
Wizardry 1-5 are now owned by Atari, though Drecom still retains its rights. Atari has just announced the acquisition of “the complete and exclusive rights to the first five Wizardry games and their underlying IP”. This includes Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (1981), Wizardry II: The Knight of Diamonds (1982), Wizardry III: Legacy…
Jupiter Fracture Title Screen In case you haven’t heard, the classic Commodore has undergone a rebirth. Retro computer YouTuber Christian “Peri Fractic” Simpson managed to gather the support and financing to purchase the bits and pieces of Commodore held by other companies and bring them together into the new Commodore International Corporation. The first major…