If you're lucky enough to have visited a big-city arcade within the last few years, you may have seen a crowd gathered around a pair of giant flatscreen monitors. If you heard them hollering things like "Over there! Snail!" "Look, look, loo...

Zen Studios' Pinball FX3 is the latest video game to reveal some spooky content it has planned for the Halloween season. The upcoming DLC pack will bring two classic Williams' pinball machines to the simulator, both based on Universal Studi...

Natsume Atari has announced that their subsidiary Tengo Project has a third remake in the works, following on from Wild Guns: Reloaded and the recently released The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors.There are currently no details whatso...

Ninjas. Where would late '80s entertainment have been without them? In the wake of a string of hit movies showcasing the infamous assassins (usually portrayed by famous Japanese actors such as Franco Nero and Michael Dudikoff), the ninja cr...

Retro fans Hamster have returned to Nintendo's "Vs." series for this week's Arcade Archives release, which sees the original Castlevania title now available for download on PS4 and Nintendo Switch.Released back in 1986 for Nintendo's Famico...

NIS America has announced the lineup for its second compendium of classic arcade shmups to the Nintendo Switch, despite the fact we're still waiting on the western launch of the previous six-pack!Psikyo Shooting Stars Bravo will bundle toge...

Following on from its previously announced delay, the recent remaster of the classic 1997 RPG Grandia is now available on PC via Steam, having made its debut on Nintendo Switch as part of the Grandia HD Collection in August.Publisher GungHo...

Analogue is a fascinating company that's not only interested in game preservation, but the creation of retro devices down to the last minute detail. Now they're ready to unveil their most ambitious project to date: the Analogue Pocket. Desc...

The next time you're looking for a semi-mindless distraction on your computer, consider checking out the Internet Archive's now-even-more-massive collection of cool, weird, and sometimes gross MS-DOS games. The preservation website recently...

This week's Arcade Archives release from Hamster is a genuine classic, coming from a decade where you had ninjas in your games, or you had nothin', Taito's The Legend of Kage is available now on Nintendo Switch.Released in arcades in 1985, ...

Gotta Protectors is one of those games that you really have to play to see what all the fuss is about. Unfortunately, I don't nearly enough people have tried it out, neither on the 3DS nor on the Xbox 360 where it originated as Pr...

Following several unfortunate delays, Taito's retro remake The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors will finally be arriving in North America on October 15, where it will be available for purchase on PS4 and Nintendo Switch.The Ninja Savio...

Game Atelier has noted on Twitter that it is once again teaming up with publisher FDG Entertainment on a new mystery title. The two teams collaborated in 2018 for the charming retro platformer Monster Boy and The Cursed Kingdom.Taking its i...

A report from technology website The Register has revealed that the retro-themed Atari VCS console is suffering further issues in its development, with its latest dilemma being the resignation of project architect Rob Wyatt on October 4.Wya...

Zelda is one of those series that means completely different things to each person that's played it. To some it was best during the NES era, with Zelda II as the pinnacle of what it could achieve. To others, Link to the Past's SNE...

This week's Arcade Archive release, courtesy of retro fans Hamster, is getting set for some intense exploding fist action, as classic one-on-one fighter Karate Champ returns for Nintendo Switch.Developed by Technos and originally released i...

Confirming a recent report by Polish games publication Graczpospolita, developer Forever Entertainment has confirmed that it has entered a partnership with Sega to produce remakes of classic arcade shooters The House of the Dead and The Hou...

A new listing with online retailer Amazon Germany appears to have revealed the existence of a Fallout Legacy Collection, compiling six games from Bethesda's legendary post-apocalyptic RPG franchise.The set - currently listed only for the PC...

One of the most genre-defining video games of all time, Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto III, has been mysteriously re-rated by the Australian Classification board, leading to speculation of a re-release in the near future.Released in 2001 on PS...

This week sees retro game publisher Hamster blast off into outer space for the latest entry in its Arcade Archives range. And this week we're going way back, with the return of one of the oldest shmups of all time, Scramble, now available t...

Publisher Mondo Books has partnered with UK publisher Bitmap Books to bring the latter's range of retrospective tomes to North America, following on from their previous success in Europe. Available to purchase now from the official MondoTee...

PC fans hoping to jump back into the beautiful world of Grandia will have to hold on just a little bit longer, as it seems the quest isn't quite ready to begin. Publisher GungHo Online has announced on Twitter that the upcoming Grandia HD R...

Publisher NIS America has announced that it will bring its shmup compendium Psikyo Shooting Stars Alpha to western Switch users in January 2020, bringing six arcade bangers to Nintendo's small-screen console.The six games featured on Alpha ...

The 1995 Mortal Kombat movie is great. Straight up. While I won't deny that some of its CGI effects have aged somewhat hideously, and the film ducks the brand's trademark violence in order to bag that all important PG-13 rating, Paul W.S. A...

Despite becoming Guinness World Record holders, retro publisher Hamster isn't resting on its laurels, with this week's Arcade Archives range receiving the weird and obscure Time Tunnel, now available to purchase on PS4 and Nintendo Switch.R...