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...

The Pokemon Company has released a new trailer, hyping the upcoming remake of 1998 anime Pokemon: The First Movie, which is being is being reborn as CGI feature Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution.The remake is being produced as part of ...

Publisher The Arcade Crew has released explosive footage of upcoming Run 'n' Gun arcade shooter Blazing Chrome, developed by indie outfit Joymasher. This homage to platform shooters of yore is expected to launch in the near future on PS4, P...

If you wanted to get your 2019 off to a weird start, you could do it by pre-ordering this latest release from statue-makers First 4 Figures, featuring burned-out gaming mascot Conker, he of Rare titles Conker's Pocket Tales, Conker's Bad Fu...

Hamster has reached into the distant past for another release in their Arcade Archive range, pulling forth platforming classic Donkey Kong Jr., the sequel to Nintendo's smash hit, Donkey Kong.Originally released in 1982, Donkey Kong Jr. tur...

Sony's PlayStation Classic retro console, which released at the start of this month, has dropped its price-tag from around $100 USD to around $60 USD at certain retail outlets.Both GameStop and Walmart are among the retailers knocking almos...

We all remember that, in the '90s, an absolute deluge of colour/block-based puzzle titles swamped the arcade and home market, all looking for a piece of that L-shaped Tetris pie. While many of these titles fell by the wayside, Taito's Puzzl...

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...

Proving that the old adage of "Better Later than Never" always rings true, a developer has released a brand new game for the ZX Spectrum, 30 years after he finished developing it.Andy Beale, (known by the tag "Cosmium"), completed his game ...

I still remember when the Doom phenomenon first hit. It's funny to think today how something that looks so dated and old-school to younglings today was so influential in defining what remains one of the biggest money-making genres of video ...

I was too busy playing the incredible DUSK and Smash Bros. Ultimate this weekend to notice the news, but Atari and Nightdive Studios will be bringing a remastered version of '90s classic Blood to digital storefronts. Not much is known about...

Way back in the 1990s, while the rest of us were in aw at the Sony PlayStation, Atlus in Japan was pumping out spin-offs to the fledgling Megami Tensei series. Obviously these titles not only didn't see the light of day in the west, we bare...

The latest addition to Hamster's Arcade Archive collection features a brand that we all know very well indeed. Even if the original games are kind of a massive chore to play through today, (don't get mad at me unless you've played Double Dr...

In one of their most optimistic releases to date, retro-fans Hamster have added Sun Electronics' maze-racer Route 16 to their expansive Arcade Archives range, with the '80s arcade available today on PS4 and Nintendo Switch.Released way, way...

There are plenty of things in Britain that aren't strong. The pound, the economy, my intestinal lining. But one thing that remains rock solid is our apparent nostalgia for the original PlayStation console. The launch of the PS1 was the mome...

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...

For all of you expensive footwear aficionados, sneaker specialists Nike have a new pair of PlayStation themed shoes on the way, following the success of their previous styles - including the PG1 and the PG 2 x.The new PG 2.5 x PlayStation C...

Good news for shmup fans this weekend, as Japanese developer M2, under their new moniker of M2A, has announced that the old-school Aleste series is preparing to return to the skies with a new title in 2019.The Aleste series of vertically-sc...

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, ...

As part of Hamster's never-ending pledge to bring classic retro titles to modern platforms, the publisher has re-released UPL's mini-mech - and fantastically-titled - shooter Atomic Robo-Kid on Nintendo Switch.Released in the arcades back i...

The contests keep coming: Win a copy of Arrow Video's The Wizard of Gore. It's new release Tuesday, which means we're continuing our streak of giving away great Blu-rays from our friends at MVD Entertainment. This week we've got Arrow Video...

Not long ago, we reported on how a full-size, fire-breathing, talking Spyro the Dragon drone was been sent on a quest to reach legendary rapper Snoop Dogg and deliver him his copy of upcoming Sony release, Spyro: Reignited Trilogy.Well, I'm...

Ok, I get it, sometimes you have to think in context. Well, I don't need to 'cos I lived it, man, and that's why an eyebrow raises when I hear Urban Champion is available to purchase for eight bucks on Nintendo Switch.Originally released ba...