Retro Recap: All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (April 26th 2026)

As Enter the Gungeon celebrates its 10th anniversary, its creators have some choice words for the modern roguelike: ‘We’re seeing it mutate to the version of itself that popularity obfuscates’

Enter the Gungeon celebrated its tenth anniversary earlier this month. Having sold over 14 million copies in its lifetime, Enter the Gungeon was one of the early architects of the modern action roguelike, alongside games like Nuclear Throne, forging the path for the genre’s modern phenomena like Hades, as well as variants of it such…

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Xevious – by Jeremy Parish

Part of that discrepancy stems from the fact that the American console crash derailed Xevious’s journey. Atari Inc. manufactured and distributed the arcade machine here, but the company’s dissolution prevented the game from reaching eager audiences at home until well after it had ceased to be relevant. Xevious is a timeless classic, but it would…

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A minor Fallout: New Vegas quest got its own ending slide because the team was transfixed by the choice where you make the NCR’s worst soldiers take Psycho

In a new video on his YouTube channel, Obsidian studio design director and Fallout: New Vegas lead Josh Sawyer described the company’s largely vibes-based approach to which quests make it to its RPGs’ signature “where are they now” ending slide shows. Along the way, he dove into the decisionmaking around a fairly minor New Vegas…

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