Fears is getting another shot. The 1995 Amiga first-person shooter is the basis for Fears Reloaded,…
Category: Retro gaming news
Classic Sega racer Out Run gets major new features in Gumball Edition ROM hack
Out Run has been tinkered with plenty over its long life, but Gumball Edition goes much…
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night gets a browser based castle editor
Castlevania: SotN has been pulled apart plenty of times over the years, but its latest editing…
Final Fantasy VII Revelation: 10 big changes from the original PS1 game
Final Fantasy VII Revelation isn’t recreating the final stretch of the 1997 PlayStation game scene for…
Borderlands Online returns after 11 years with 1440p, 120 FPS and English support
Borderlands Online never made it to a full release. More than a decade later, a group…
R-Type Dimensions III update reworks key gameplay systems
R-Type Dimensions III has changed quite a bit since its May 2026 release. Three major patches…
Toki is getting fresh retro conversions based on the 1989 arcade original
Toki is getting another round of releases, but this time the 1989 arcade game is heading…
The Secret of Monkey Island gets a full MSX2 conversion
The Secret of Monkey Island is now playable on MSX2, MSX2+ and Turbo R computers, bringing…
Chromatic gets OpenAI Codex support for creating Game Boy Color games
OpenAI and ModRetro have teamed up on a curious little hardware-software experiment: using Codex to help…
Free Halo: Combat Evolved browser version adds 128-player multiplayer
Halo: Combat Evolved has made an unexpected move onto the web. An unofficial browser version of…
Marble Marvell is a new 3D browser game inspired by Atari’s Marble Madness
Marble Marvell starts with a simple idea. Roll a marble across a tricky 3D course, keep…
Mexico targets server shutdowns with new rules for digital game publishers
Mexico is weighing new consumer rules which could change what happens when a publisher switches off…
Konami appears to be teasing a Castlevania 3D Collection
Konami could be lining up another Castlevania collection, this time centred on the series’ 3D games.…
Quake Champions moves to paid release and removes battle pass
Quake Champions has changed course. After years as a free-to-play arena shooter, id Software’s fast PC…
Minecraft is getting its own hotel and theme park area in the UK
Minecraft is getting a permanent home at Chessington World of Adventures, and this one goes far…
Rockstar Games leak reveals GTA 5’s cancelled Liberty City and Zombie DLC
A huge collection of leaked Rockstar Games files has revealed fresh details about cancelled GTA 5…
SuperStation One Batch 5 is ready to ship for $249, with new hardware coming later this month
Retro Remake has opened orders for Batch 5 of its SuperStation One, the PlayStation-inspired FPGA console…
The rise and fall of video game helplines: how Nintendo, Sega and PC publishers helped players
Before Google, YouTube and online walkthroughs, getting stuck in a video game could leave you with…
The AI backlash against indie retro developers is getting too brutal
AI has become a remarkably effective way to start an argument in retro gaming. Mention AI-generated…
Commodore 77 and Neo Geo AES+ show retro hardware is getting serious again
Commodore is making computers again. Fine. But what does Commodore mean in 2026? The C64 Ultimate…
Portal movie rumours return after Kane Parsons visits Valve
A Portal movie has spent years sitting somewhere between an announced project and an idea nobody…
Toshinden Collection revealed ahead of Tokyo Game Show 2026
Battle Arena Toshinden is getting another run on modern hardware. Edia has announced Toshinden Collection, a…
From 8-bit to 64-bit: the marketing trick that sold a generation
For years, games consoles came with an easy sales pitch. Eight-bit became 16-bit. Sixteen became 32.…
Nightdive Studios has Eternal Darkness on its remaster radar
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem has been stuck on the GameCube since 2002. Now its name has…
Retro gaming in Türkiye: Atari, DOS and the first Turkish fantasy RPG on Amiga
Türkiye’s retro gaming history took a different route from Europe, Japan or the US. Nintendo never…
From Dark Souls to Genshin Impact: 7 games shaped by Zelda
The Legend of Zelda has influenced far more than games built around swords, dungeons and fantasy…
The Xbox 360 is now older than the SNES was when it launched
The Xbox 360 launched in 2005. Read it again if you need to. Microsoft’s second console…