A retro-style arcade shooter by NGDEV, responsible for Kraut Buster and Gunlord X, is being ported to the Nintendo Switch on 11th May and it has many exciting features and various gameplay modes. Gunvein saw its initial release on PC (Steam) in November 2022 with Xbox and PS4 ports arrivingRead More →
Scheduled for Saturday, June 17th, RetCon is a retro gaming festival taking place in Greenford, Ealing, in Greater London. If you’re in the area, it’s worth heading to the event, which features various key retro names relevant to UK computing. Costing just £6 per ticket, the event features retro systemsRead More →
Stop reading, and click play above to see this Speccy Soccer – a Sensible Soccer-alike for the Spectrum 128K – in action. You won’t regret it. Seriously, I almost fell off my chair when I saw this. Sure, it looks like a Spectrum game, but once the demo video getsRead More →
Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons is the newest instalment of the Double Dragon series and will be launching on PC and all other modern consoles this summer. Developer Secret Base renowned for horror beat’em up Streets of Red: Devil’s Dare Deluxe, creates a “modernised celebration” yet retro pixelRead More →
Developer of 2021’s platformer Smelter brings us an experience that’s not to be missed by Shovel Knight and Mega Man fans alike. Paying homage to widely renowned platforming classics X PLUS Games will launch their newest project in a matter of weeks! Bat Boy is an 8-bit 2D platformer inspiredRead More →
The Atari STe was the first home computer to arrive at my family home, via a brother who had chosen the machine over the all-popular Amiga. I think he chose it because it offered more programming opportunities, but I had other questions at the time. Mainly: how do you playRead More →
No one needs to navigate a wall of PlayStation controllers hanging on a hook. Retro gaming stores are the visible side of the renaissance in old arcade, computer, and console games. Yet they invariably look like a bomb has just gone off. Carts and discs strewn in glass cabinets (alongsideRead More →
The Sega Dreamcast may have been a commercial failure, but it remains a beloved console, with many looking back on it fondly. Localization/translation issues meant many games never made it to the West, and one such title is Rent-A-Hero No. 1. Led by VincentNL , a group called the Rent-A-ModdersRead More →
A Kickstarter campaign is live for a physical book covering arcade shoot-em-ups. Coin-Op: The Arcade Guide – Shoot’ Em Up Collection Volume 1 covers 66 games across 136 pages and is planned to be the first of 4 books in the series. The Kickstarter page is full of images fromRead More →
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