They say that three things are inevitable in life: Death, taxes and Hamster re-releases. In fact the retro-loving publisher has been so dogged in its efforts to bring classic arcade and Neo Geo titles to modern platforms, that it is bagged ...

The Summer season may be coming to an end, but retro game enthusiasts Hamster are keeping the sports-day spirit riding high, having released Konami classic Track & Field on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, as part of the publisher's ongoing Arc...

French developer Microids has announced that Delphine Software's classic platform adventure titles Another World and Flashback will be bundled together in a double pack for release on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.First released in 1991...

I have to admit, this is one of those franchises I'd long considered lost to time. But it appears, against the odds, that the classic Dreamcast puzzler Chu Chu Rocket! is preparing to make a comeback, bringing its addictive cat-and-mouse ga...

It's a good season for beat 'em up fans. This week saw the release of WayForward's radical brawler-cum-RPG River City Girls. There's an exciting looking return to the Streets of Rage on the horizon, and even Battletoads is getting a look-in...

There has been a run of news related to titles in the groundbreaking first-person shooter series Doom. These tidbits are mostly pertaining to older titles in the franchise, which recently found new life in the form of re-releases on PS4, Xb...

Retro game publisher Hamster continue to reach out for titles from the NES VS. range for its weekly Arcade Archive releases, as this week's offering sees the return of NES launch title Pinball, now available to download on Nintendo Switch. ...

Activision has announced that the pretty dang good Spyro Reignited Trilogy will finally see the light of day on Nintendo Switch and PC (via Steam) on September 3, following its release in late 2018 on PS4 and Xbox One.Reignited Trilogy feat...

At the start of August, we reported on Krome Studios' efforts to port 2002 platform adventure TY the Tasmanian Tiger to Nintendo Switch. A little over halfway into its Kickstarter campaign, the studio has succeeded in securing its $50,000 t...

There's something inherently old-school about water skiing. One of the more classic water sports (grow up) water skiing wither conjures up images of girls from the 1930's forming dangerous pyramids, or some poor sap getting annihilated in m...

MGM's The Wizard of Oz should have been a disaster. After the release and subsequent success of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the studio sought its own potential hit film to be adapted from a children's book. In 1938, ...

Kalypso Media has released a gameplay trailer for Yippee Entertainment's upcoming HD remaster of classic strategy title Commandos 2, which originally launched for PC and consoles back in the early '00s.Much like its companion series Despera...

Windjammers fans got a double dose of day-glo news yesterday, as Dotemu released a new trailer revealing new characters headed to the upcoming Windjammers 2, along with the announcement that the sequel would be hitting the Google Stadia pla...

Revolution Software has released a new trailer giving us our first real look at their upcoming title Beyond a Steel Sky, a sequel to the classic point-and-click adventure Beneath a Steel Sky, which wowed critics and players back in 1994, th...

Hamster have pulled out an instantly recognisable name for this week's retro release - even if it isn't quite the arcade original - as VS. Gradius joins their Arcade Archive lineup on PS4 and Nintendo Switch.VS. Gradius is the Nintendo lice...

Old school adventure heads will be pleased to hear that Gung Ho's remaster of the classic Grandia RPGs is now available on Nintendo Switch, with a PC port of the original title coming as soon as September.The Grandia HD Collection features ...

M2 continues on its quest to re-release a bevy of awesome Cave shmups on modern platforms. The publisher recently dropped a new trailer for its next planned released, ESP Ra.De. Psi, coming to PS4 and Nintendo Switch in Japan this holiday s...

If there's one title from 2019 that came out of nowhere, kicked down the front door, and immediately captured the attention of the video game community, it's WayForward's upcoming brawler River City Girls. With a reveal trailer dropped like...

Retro funsters Hamster have us blasting into innerspace for this week's Arcade Archives release, with the re-release of body horror shmup XMultiply, available now on PS4 and Nintendo Switch.Released in Japanese arcades in 1989, just two yea...

Of all of the brands jumping on the "mini nostalgia console" bandwagon, easily the most surprising was the announcement of the PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 Mini. A console that only the most hardcore - and wealthiest - kids had back in my day,...

Krome Studios has begun a crowdfunding campaign in efforts to get their 3D platformer TY the Tasmanian Tiger onto Nintendo Switch. Fans of the genre may remember TY from his original 2002 appearance on PS2, Xbox and Gamecube, before being p...

We're a little over a month away from the release of the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis Mini. After a series of frankly pretty crappy attempts to capitalise on the emulation console market, Sega is hoping this much-improved venture will capture ...

For this week's retro release, Hamster has reached into its bag of '80s games and pulled out Victory Road - the sequel to classic scrolling shooter Ikari Warriors - now available on PS4 and Nintendo Switch.Released in arcades in 1986, befor...

Fans of Travis Touchdown, particularly his earlier exploits, might soon have reason to dust off the old beam katana, that is if No More Heroes creator Suda51 gets his way. The esoteric game designer has teased that he is currently in talks ...

With the Genesis Mini set to release in roughly six weeks, Sega is gearing up a new promotional campaign to garner awareness for the device. Shifting the focus towards the fans, the house of Sonic is asking gamers to share their memories of...