Retro Gaming News
Pre-orders open October 19. Here’s something unexpected to end the week: Analogue has just announced refreshes of its FPGA-SNES & Mega Drive consoles, the Super Nt & Mega Sg, with pre-orders set to kick off at the beginning of next week. The Super Nt was originally released in 2017 and was able to play your…
Don’t Go in the House. As the evenings draw closer and the skies get darker, Indie publisher New Blood Interactive has drawn back the curtain on Tenebris Somnia, a grim and gothic horror that comes crawling onto PC and console platforms today. Developed by Andrés Borghi and Tobías Rusjan, in conjunction with Argentinian outfit Saibot…
Includes categories like “Best Nu-Retro Game of the Year”. Move over, Geoff Keighley, there’s a new awards show in town. Pixel Helix, the marketing company behind August’s Pixel Arcadia, has just announced a trio of live broadcasts for next year, including the inaugural Pixel Arcadia Retro Awards, which is set to take place in January….
Certainly can’t be accused of running scared. Manufacturer Anbernic has released a new video offering a “first look” at its next incoming handheld hardware, RG DDS (“Dual Dream Screen”). The promotional video (which is a reupload of a clip shared late yesterday) shows the new dual-screen device running releases such as Monster Hunter Generations: Ultimate,…
‘Utopia has a special place in my career’. Earlier this week, we broke the news that boutique publisher 33 Games had failed to pay its staff, contractors and licensees, with money to the tune of several thousand pounds being owed. Since our investigation went live, 33 Games has taken its site offline, and Time Extension…
Addams Family ‘Backgrounds Edition’ is available now. If you happened to play Ocean Software’s 1992 port of The Addams Family for the Commodore Amiga back in the day, you’ll know that it came with a pretty big compromise. Namely, that the game lacked the detailed backgrounds seen elsewhere in the other versions (SNES, Atari ST,…
‘I’m a little late to this party, but I’ll still come’. Krikzz’s range of EverDrive flash carts has paved the way for retro gamers to have their entire collections at their fingertips, and now the engineer is looking to expand the range with an Optical Drive Emulator, or ODE for short. ODEs let you load…
Fully Decompiled. Homebrew site decomp.dev has announced that it is “sunsetting”, effective immediately. The resource and progress report database, which was first established in 2024, submitted a lengthy statement explaining its actions and speaking heavily on the topic of A.I.-based decomp projects, which have blown up tremendously in the past 12 months. Read the full…
First images released… DomKid, the developer behind Castlevania fan game Maria Renard’s Revenge, is working on a title for the Commodore Amiga which is inspired by some of Mickey Mouse’s most iconic video game adventures (thanks, Indie Retro News). Forest Of Illusion is currently in beta and is being built using the powerful Scorpion Engine….
Paul Drury: The Stories Behind Classic Coin-Ops To Order Book, Click here. Limited QTY left For generations of gamers, classic arcade games seemed to arrive almost magically. One day there was an empty corner of an arcade, pizza parlor, bowling alley or convenience store, and the next there was a colorful new cabinet demanding a…