Hamster has released another old-school SNK title via their Neo Geo Classics range. Here's a suprise, its a forgotten, colourful fighting game from the mid-'90s. Kizuna Encounter is now available on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.Release...

NIS America has announced that retro compendium SNK 40th Anniversary Collection is expected to arrive in the west on PS4 in March. The collection was made available for Nintendo Switch worldwide back in November 2018.The 40th Anniversary Co...

It's a new year, and Hamster are already continuing their pledge to re-release hundreds of arcade classics on modern platforms. This week sees the return of a particularly obscure SNK title, Ragnagard, which has been dusted off for the Nint...

Fight like a girl with this contest for your chance to win a PS4 copy of SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy. I'm terrible at fighting games, but I've always enjoyed the spectacle around them. Bonu points for any fighting series that really goes ...

Retro publishers Hamster don't seem to be taking a break this festive season, already announcing the first of this week's classic titles making their return to modern platforms. Tomorrow, it's SNK's great scrapper The King of Fighters 2002,...

The first of Hamster's retro re-releases this week looks at the origins of one of SNK's most popular heroines, goddess warrior Athena, often muddled with KoF's Athena Asamiya, but we'll get to that.Princess Athena is the heroine of 1986 arc...

Developer Arika has announced that there will be three more characters headed to their fighting game Fighting EX Layer in the first part of 2019. Two of these three characters will be added to the roster free-of-charge, whereas the third ch...

Those delightful retro-enthusiasts at Hamster have brought something a little different to the table for this week's Arcade Archive re-releases. From the mid-90s, Twinkle Star Sprites is a very colourful and cute anime shmup that might appe...

Fans of physical copies have a lot to rejoice about today. Announced at the Kinda Funny Games Showcase, both Celeste and Windjammers will be getting boxed copies in the near future courtesy of Limited Run Games. Windjammers is limited to Sw...

As part of the recent IPO conference held by Japanese developer SNK, further details were hinted at regarding the next entry in the Samurai Shodown franchise, which we first heard about back in September.According to the presentation shown ...

Longtime developer/publisher SNK recently held an IPO press conference in Seoul, South Korea to discuss the state of play for their current and upcoming games. Among the announcements made was the confirmation of a new title in the long-run...

Hamster are taking to the football pitch once again for this week's release from their Neo Geo Archives. Neo Geo Cup 98: The Road to Victory has been made available on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.Originally releasing in 1998 (obviousl...

The King of Fighters XIV is a great game. I say that without bias as an SNK and KoF devotee. Unfortunately, like a lot of great punch-ups in recent years, it failed to set the scene alive, despite having its own dedicated community of playe...

SNK has revealed the next historic fighter joining the roster of SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy. Actually bothering to dip into the past, for someone outside of the KoF universe, the newest DLC gal is brave warrior Jeanne D'Arc of World Hero...

Hamster, continuing their ongoing weekly missions to return of all the classic SNK titles to modern platforms, has re-released a particularly popular game this week, as King of the Monsters 2 is now available to purchase on PS4, Xbox One an...

I don't know what's going on with the Neo Geo Mini. Shortly after I got my hands on one, SNK announced that an upgraded Holiday version of the hardware would be going up for pre-order in the coming days. That's not a good sign. I have to gu...

Hamster has brought another lost SNK title kicking and screaming into the modern era this week, as horse-racing title Stakes Winner 2 is now available on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.Stakes Winner 2 hit the Neo Geo MVS market in 1996, ...

SNK's over-the-top fighter SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy now has a another slugger available for its roster; Miss X, the boss character from Neo Geo Pocket title Gals Fighters, is making her long-awaited return to the ring.Miss X, who bears...

In one of today's weirdest bits of news, SNK has revealed the existence of a limited edition "Christmas" model of their nostalgia console, the Neo Geo Mini, which launched worldwide mere weeks ago.This yuletide console is decorated in festi...

Hamster revs its engines for this week's classic Neo Geo re-release, as SNK's Thrash Rally is back to burn rubber on PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.Released on arcades and the Neo Geo platform back in 1991, the ADK developed title is a ...

Nintendo completely dominated the late '80s and '90s scene and it's weird to think of any other timeline in which that didn't happen. But sure enough, a lot of other publishers were lurking in the background, either blazing trails of their ...

We're taking to the pitch for the first of this week's retro offerings from Hamster, as the amazingly-titled Pleasure Goal: 5-on-5 Mini Soccer makes its return on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.Developed by Saurus and published by SNK, P...

SNK low key crafted a lot of influential arcade games: ones that would create the framework in various genres so that other publishers could really take advantage of the market. We're going to see a lot of those in the SNK 40th Anniversary ...

Another SNK release is headed over to modern platforms this week courtesy of Hamster, as little-known one-on-one fighter Savage Reign makes its return on PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.Released in 1995 for the arcade and Neo Geo platfor...

This week, your retro friend and mine, Hamster, has pulled up another classic '80s arcade and given it a new lease of life on a modern platform, as SNK shmup Alpha Mission takes to the skies once more on Nintendo Switch.Released in arcades ...