The best Metroidvanias capture what makes Metroid and Castlevania so iconic and combine them to make a product that stands on its own. This task is much harder than it sounds, but one title that rose to the occasion is 2018’s Timespinner by Lunar Ray Games. Timespinner is such aRead More →
Sonic the Hedgehog needs no introduction and is one of the most iconic video game protagonists of all time. I have fond memories of this game as a kid, and in this review, I’m going to see if it’s still good 30+ years later. Sonic games are known to haveRead More →
We’ve seen several retro classics get the sequel/reboot treatment in recent years to great success. Streets of Rage 4 and TMNT: Shredders Revenge are superb examples of sequels done right, but I never imagined Slave Zero getting the same treatment. If you’ve not heard of it, Slave Zero is a third-person shooter where you play as a biomechanicalRead More →
Praises for Street Fighter games are sung from the rooftops, but none are piped as loud as they are for 3rd Strike. In the game’s heyday, I’d never even heard of Street Fighter III outside the famous Evo Moment 37 video, but after revisiting it 20 years later, it holdsRead More →
We’ve recently reported on several titles in development for retro consoles, like Chords for the Genesis/Megadrive, proving the homebrew scene is alive and well. The next game to join those ranks is DaemonClaw by small studio BitBeamCannon, which is already off to a promising start. DaemonClaw is a 2D side-scrollingRead More →
You can find nods to retro games in many modern titles, but few pay homage to the classics quite like the Yakuza and Like A Dragon series. Sega has revealed that Daytona USA 2 and Fighting Vipers 2 are playable inside the upcoming Like A Dragon Gaiden. If you’ve never played a Yakuza game before, you may be surprised to learnRead More →
Bandai Namco has announced they are porting the first two GameCenter CX games to the Nintendo Switch. Sadly, the games are coming exclusively to Japan with no mention of when/if they will ever be ported elsewhere. If you’ve not heard of GameCenter CX, you may know Retro Game Challenge. This Nintendo DS game is theRead More →
Nintendo has just added four new titles to the Virtual Console libraries on the Switch, although many players in the West won’t have heard of all of them. The new titles are for the SNES, Game Boy, and NES, so you only need the base subscription to play them. Here’sRead More →
Matteus Beus is developing a new graphic adventure for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. If the name is familiar, you may know him from another title in the works, Crypt of Dracula, a dungeon crawler that will run on genuine Sega hardware. We can’t glean too much from the short gameplayRead More →
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