Retro sports fans, get ready — two of the NES and SNES era’s biggest sports franchises are officially back. Publisher Rock It Games has relaunched Bases Loaded and Goal! — complete with their 16-bit sequels — on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5. This follows previous releases on PC via GOGRead More →
UPDATE November 21st, 2025: Analogue has confirmed that the console is being restocked: Analogue3D will be restocked on November 24 at 8am PST. Orders will begin shipping December 2, after all pre-orders have been shipped. If you’ve been watching the retro hardware scene, you know how long the journey hasRead More →
The sequel to Namco’s classic 1979 arcade oddity Bomb Bee has been released as this week’s Arcade Archives release, and yes, it looks every bit like the peculiar blend of Breakout meets pinball that fans remember. Gee Bee’s quirky arcade legacy Before Pac-Man and Galaxian, Namco kicked off its soloRead More →
Bitmap Books has revealed Trigger Happy: A Visual Celebration of Video Game Controllers, a new hardback dedicated entirely to the weird, wonderful, and occasionally baffling pads, sticks, and input devices that shaped gaming. It’s a chunky 396-page release showcasing around 200 controllers through more than 500 photographs, drawing on collectorRead More →
ArenaNet is giving the original Guild Wars a major quality-of-life overhaul next month with Guild Wars Reforged, a modernised version of the classic MMORPG that bundles every campaign for a newly reduced price of $19.99. As someone who played a lot of Guild Wars back in the day — mostlyRead More →
Somehow this one slipped past me, but I’ve just discovered The Codemasters Archive, and I’ve been glued to it ever since. If you spent your childhood hopping between Dizzy, BMX Simulator, and a dozen flavours of Micro Machines, prepare to lose your evening. Even better: the whole thing has officialRead More →
Sidecartridge has revealed its latest piece of modern-retro magic: a tiny board that drops directly into an Amiga’s ROM socket and lets you switch between multiple Kickstart images stored on the device. It’s a compact upgrade powered by the new RP2350 revision of the team’s ROM emulator platform, and it’sRead More →
Kith has dropped a made-to-order Arcade1Up cabinet themed around Marvel vs. Capcom 2, and as someone who cares deeply about retro hardware, I have to say: there’s something simultaneously cool and cynical about this drop. The actual listing for a made-to-order Kith for Arcade1Up Marvel vs. Capcom 2 was openRead More →
Pepperbox Studios has launched its stylish new deckbuilding roguelike Dice of Kalma today on Steam, iOS, and Android—and it comes with striking retro graphics and audio that feels straight out of the golden era of pixel-heavy dungeon crawlers. All of which works to create quite the spooky gaming atmosphere… DescendingRead More →
