We are tantalisingly close, at time of writing, to the release of Nightdive’s long-awaited remaster of System Shock 2. When it happens, I think we can put the BioShock era behind us. We all had a whirlwind time in Rapture and also that one in the racist sky hamlet, but between the System Shock 1…
(Image credit: Arrowhead Games) Helldivers 2 is revealing, uh, something? Typically I’d position myself as a seat of authority on gaming news, but I’m just about as confused as the rest of the game’s playerbase right now. This morning, a livestream dubbed STATION-81 // OFFLINE _ [ REBOOT ] kicked into gear, displaying what appears…
There have been many Pac-Man games mentioned on Indie Retro News, from the Pac-Man Xtreme romhack, to Jr. Pac-Man on the Intellivision, which all vary in style to the 1980’s hit classic that can still be found today sitting as a port beside an Atari 2600 ( or if you’re lucky an original Arcade machine…
Brave Wave Productions broke the news of Masashi Kageyama’s passing earlier today. Masashi Kageyama, the Japanese musician and composer behind the music to the Famicom/NES platformer Gimmick, has sadly passed away at the age of 62, following a battle with stomach cancer. Brave Wave Productions, a record company that had recently been working with Kageyama…
Rollhub continues its end-of-year bounty rollout with the launch of Advanced Dice Bounties, going live on December 29, 2025. This promotion is part of Rollhub’s broader holiday campaign, designed to highlight the platform’s most refined inhouse games while maintaining full transparency and consistency across all bounty mechanics. Dice is one of Rollhub’s internally developed titles,…
Can you see it now? Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo has received a small software update; it’s first since March 2025. When we say small, we really mean it. There are only two notes for this one, the latter of which provides that which we all desire in our Nintendo products: stability. Good ol’ fashioned stability….
It had to happen at some point but Valve’s much-loved Steam Deck has been falling down its weekly revenue charts for a little while now. For the past two weeks, though, it’s dropped outside of the top ten, suggesting that competition from ASUS, Ayaneo, OneXPlayer, and Aokzoe has taken a sizeable slice of the handheld…
Top Deal: If the eyes are the windows to your soul, then what’s a PC monitor? It must be the window to your system’s soul, and if you’re going to peer at such a thing, you can get a better look with an In-Plane Switching (IPS) panel. Looking for one? If so, check out today’s…
I love deckbuilders. I don’t have any children (at time of writing), but if I did, I would love my deckbuilders more. I’m not comfortable admitting how many hours I’ve spent slaying a certain spire. Odd, considering I’m actually proud to tell you that I’m coming up to 1000 hours in Monster Train. Yikes. 2023…
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