It looks like Hamster has returned to its big bag of nameless titles for this week's retro re-release, as Technos Japan's sumo wrestling title Shusse Ozumo is now available to download on Nintendo Switch.Released in arcades back in 1984, Sh...

Taito has announced that their retro remake The Ninja Warriors: Once Again will be kicking ass worldwide on July 25, when the arcade reboot comes to PS4 and Nintendo Switch digitally as the pointlessly retitled The Ninja Saviors: Return of ...

After a few weeks of frankly uninspiring releases, retro funsters Hamster return this week with a neat Irem title from the late '80s, Ninja Spirit, now available to download now on PS4 and Nintendo Switch.Originally hitting the arcades back...

Space Invaders: Invincible Collection, the upcoming arcade compilation from publisher Taito, will be releasing in Japan on March 26, 2020. Coming in standard (5,200 yen) and special edition (16,800 yen) variants, the title looks to contain ...

Retro video game publisher Hamster continue to roll out some of the most obscure titles in their Arcade Archives range. This week sees Nintendo's own 1984 NES release Clu Clu Land (which was an "arcade classic" in the sense that it was a Vs...

Square Enix has announced that one of the Final Fantasy franchise' most recognisable and beloved characters is headed to Dissidia Final Fantasy as DLC. That hair, those gloves, it's none other than spunky sister Tifa Lockheart.June has been...

My Friend Pedro is a ballistic game of skill, timing, reflexes, and, surprisingly, efficient time management. This new title from Swedish indie outfit DeadToast Entertainment falls under the highly-replayable score-attack genre, of which p...

I'm gonna break away from my normal shtick of weird shit and animals for something a little more grounded, but no less esoteric. Growing up playing video games in public, in arcades, now counts as esoteric, right? 198X looks to tickle that ...

Taito has announced that their recent Japanese release The Ninja Warriors: Once Again will be coming to North America and Europe courtesy of German publisher United Games. The old-school scrolling brawler will launch on PS4 and Nintendo Swi...

Dangerous Driving, Three Fields Entertainment's answer to the lack of Burnout in our lives, has finally gotten its promised multiplayer mode. Offering the chance for six players to duke it out, the online-exclusive mode has 18 pre-set event...

Konami isn't presently held in the highest regard by most people. After canceling Silent Hills, firing Kojima at the tail end of Metal Gear Solid V's production, adapting long-dormant franchises into pachinko machines, and releasing the s...

Retro game enthusiasts Hamster have gone all obscure with us again this week, reaching into their bag of odd classics and pulling out Konami's Pooyan, now available to download on Nintendo Switch.Originally released in arcades in 1982, befo...

XSEED Games has finally released a gameplay trailer for upcoming Nintendo Switch throwback BurgerTime Party! which takes the classic 1982 arcade game and reinvents the action for the Nintendo platform. And it actually looks pretty good.As I...

Just days after revealing it was creating arcade cabinets for classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Marvel games, Arcade1Up is back with one more huge announcement from the E3 show floor. Later this year, it will be releasing a new ...

Few franchise names immediately recall the dawn of video games like Space Invaders. Legitimately a cultural icon, Taito's 1978 arcade, that didn't cause a shortage of the 100-Yen coin on release, has been referenced time and again in the 40...

Growing up, two of the biggest cartoons in my house were X-Men and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Unfortunately, like most shows from my childhood, neither really holds up all that well for me. However, the games spawned from those series ab...

Okay so this is actually one of the most wild announcements out of E3 yet. Devolver has been stepping up its E3 game, giving us a few indie announcements peppered into its mindscrew E3 "conference" video with cynical executives, time travel...

This week's Hamster release takes us to the mid-1980's, with a memorable fantasy game that was popular in the arcades, but made a much bigger impact on the home computer market: Solomon's Key, now available to download on Nintendo Switch.Re...

XSEED Games has announced that BurgerTime Party! will be arriving in the west on Nintendo Switch this fall. G-Mode's "reimagining" of Data East's classic 1982 arcade will spice up the old-school platforming gameplay with a slick new look an...

Devolver Digital has announced that super-OTT shooter My Friend Pedro will come cartwheeling into battle on June 20, bringing its whirling dervish of death to PC and Nintendo Switch."My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, ima...

Sega's line of wonderful Switch conversions by M2, Sega Ages, is getting a couple of extra entries this month. Both Virtua Racing and Wonder Boy: Monster World will release on June 27, 2019, on the US and European eShops for $7.99 each. Alo...

Last week, we reported that indie developer Granzella was opening a Kickstarter campaign in hopes to raise funds for a sequel to Irem's 2003 shmup R-Type Final. It appears to have been a resounding success, with the crowdfunding campaign sm...

Game Atelier's awesome platform adventure Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom will be arriving on PC via Steam and GOG next month. The pseudo-sequel to the classic Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap will be hitting the platform on July 25. Al...

Every now and then, Hamster reach into their bag of retro games and pull out a title that perhaps isn't quite the renown classic crying out for a re-release. The preservation of video games is important, but at eight dollars a pop, some of ...

Developer Granzella has announced that it will launch the crowdfunding campaign for shmup sequel R-Type Final2 on June 3 at 09:00 PT / 11:00 ET. The campaign is expected to run for just a scant week, in hopes of raising the cash for a new t...