One of the most exciting announcements to come out of this wretched summer was Arcade1Up's reveal of its Marvel Vs. Capcom and X-Men Vs. Street Fighter arcade cabinets. I've been salivating over the latter one for weeks now, and t...

September will see one of the most beloved shmups of all time come blasting on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, as Treasure's 2001 classic Ikaruga takes to the skies once again for another round of frenetic, twitch-inducing arcade action. And for d...

Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs. Maxiboost On had a reputation to live up to outside of Japan's arcades and the import community who played its predecessors. The first major waves it made outside of that community was around the release of Gu...

One of the few remaining landmark arcade centres has announced that it will be closing its doors at the end of the month. Sega Building 2, located in Akihabara, Japan, will hit the lights for the last time on August 30, ending a 17-year run...

After a string of intriguing and obscure shmups, Hamster has pulled out one of the all-time classics for this week's Arcade Archives release: Data East's BurgerTime, now available to download on Nintendo Switch.Chances are if you're reading...

The biggest news from this morning's Japan Fighting Game Publisher Roundtable was definitely reserved for Arc System Works and its lovely-looking anime fighter Guilty Gear Strive. Not only did the developer reveal classic and brand new rost...

As we approach the Thursday release date for Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs. Maxiboost On, Bandai Namco has released a new trailer for the game. The focus of the trailer is the new Maxi Boost Mission mode, which is the other half of the game...

Well, we've been talking about a lot of old-school shmups on this here site lately. Today is no exception, as Hamster has added UPL's little-known coin-op Koutetsu Yousai Strahl to its bursting-at-the-seams Arcade Archive range.Released to ...

Hamster has released another oddity from the golden age of the coin-op era. Kangaroo from Sun Electronics joins the Arcade Archives range, and is now available to download on PS4 and Nintendo Switch.Released back in 1982, when even yer boy ...

City Connection is spoiling shmup fans with a marvelous array of genre classics, currently spilling out all over the Steam platform. Having released Samurai Aces III: Sengoku Cannon just yesterday, the publisher is already queuing up the gr...

One of the most pioneering shmups of all time is ready to jet off on Nintendo Switch this week, as Konami classic Gradius joins the bulging Arcade Archives range.Originally launched in arcades in 1985, before eventually being ported to nume...

Hello folks and welcome back to our own little corner of this ker-azy globe. I hope that life is treating you and yours very well, and that you continue you find your own quantum of joy as we move well into July. We're pretty much halfway t...

Sega isn't done scaling down beloved old video game hardware. The company's next retro revival project for 2020, at least in Japan, is the Astro City Mini – a tiny arcade cabinet featuring 36 games. The Astro City Mini surfaced in a n...

It'ss a good time to be a shmup historian, as recent years have seen both old and new examples of the genre blasting back on multiple platforms with reckless abandon. Case in point: Jaleco classic P-47 Thunderbolt, the latest addition to Ha...

City Connection continues on its quest to bring a selection of iconic Psikyo shmups to the Steam platform. The publisher has revealed that July 13 will see the arrival of the strange and ethereal Samurai Aces III: Sengoku Cannon.Originally ...

This week's Arcade Archives release has me stumped, as Seibu Kaihatsu's Wiz - now available to download on PS4 and Nintendo Switch - is one of the few games to grace Hamster's retro range that I've never encountered once in my extended life...

Taito has released a brief update regarding the upcoming shmup compendium Darius Cozmic Revelation. Regarding western localisation, the legendary publisher has announced that the title will be winging its way west on PlayStation 4 and Ninte...

Taito has announced that its cutesy arcade title Bubble Bobble 4 Friends will launch worldwide this November on PS4. In the west, the colourful game will be known as Bubble Bobble 4 Friends: The Baron is Back! Sure, why not?The announcement...

Taito has released some details regarding its second compendium of classic Darius titles. Originally revealed back in March, Darius Cozmic Collection 2 is now Darius Cozmic Revelation, and will blast off on PS4 and Nintendo Switch in Japan ...

In today's contest you can win a Switch copy of Super Rare Games' release of Graceful Explosion Machine! You guys know how much I love Super Rare Games, so I won't bother to wax poetic about them this time around. After all, I wouldn't keep...

As we slowly inch toward the release date for Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs. Maxiboost On, Bandai Namco has announced a lovely present. Every weekend before launch, there will be an open beta for everyone in all regions. That's great news f...

Over the many decades I've been playing video games, I've owned enough books on the subject to fill a small library. As years have passed and space became more limited, many of these tomes went the way of friends, eBay, and charity stores. ...

Now this is more like it. After several weeks of perfectly acceptable but frankly obscure releases, Hamster's Arcade Archives is knocking it out of the park with one of the most beloved arcade games of the golden age, Konami's rootin' tooti...

As great as the current era of fighting games is, my heart will always belong to the '90s. The decade produced some of the fighters I consider to be my all-time favorites because they featured characters from X-Men: The Animated Series,&nbs...

Following on from last week's Microsoft Store leak, Namco has confirmed that Namco Museum Archives Vol. 1 and Namco Museum Archives Vol. 2 are headed to PC and multiple console platforms. The retro compendiums will be available for digital ...