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Crescent Tower coming to Steam

Get your 8-bit fix! Crescent Tower demo drops on Steam!

2025-04-25
By: Gaming Retro Writer
On: April 25, 2025
In: Retro games news

Curry Croquette’s retro-style dungeon crawler, Crescent Tower, has just unleashed a playable demo on Steam, courtesy of AMATA Games. For fans of simple yet addictive 8-bit RPGs, this looks like a serious blast from the past — with a modern twist. Initially making waves in early access since last November,Read More →

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

Return to the twin thrones: Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones lands on Nintendo Switch Online!

2025-04-22
By: Gaming Retro Writer
On: April 22, 2025
In: Retro games news

The acclaimed Game Boy Advance classic, Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, has just been reissued. You can grab it on Nintendo Switch if you have the Online + Expansion Pack subscription! For those who missed it the first time around in 2005 (it launched a year earlier in Japan), orRead More →

SEGA Continues Migration of Retro Games on to the Switch Online Service

2023-07-06
By: Anna Bowe
On: July 6, 2023
In: Retro games news

Following in the recent footsteps of Fire Emblem (GBA library), the Switch lineup sees the addition of two classic Zelda like Mega Drive RPG’s Landstalker and Crusader of Centy. In Crusader of Centy (from Nextech and published by Atlus in 1995) you get to cut up invading monsters, fierce enemiesRead More →

Games Are Like Games, Movies Are Like Movies

2022-12-24
By: John Bowe
On: December 24, 2022
In: Retro gaming features

During a session of watching a friend play Skyrim some years ago, he remarked that the game was similar to reading a book. A silence then, which continued as I chose not to remark back at him and allowed that silence to fill in the details. I was not impressed.Read More →

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