More shmup news? More shmup news. As if genre fans weren't already inundated with exciting tips on the return of new and old franchises, Publisher Dispatch Games has announced that Psyvariar Delta will be headed west on PS4 and Switch come ...

When you hear people throwing around classic FPS games of the '90s, a lot of the same names come up. Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Wolfenstein 3D. These were all genre-defining moments happening a few years apart from each other. Each game ha...

Some of you may have played some of the cutesy (but somewhat obscure) titles in classic shmup series Cotton, which dallied around the arcades and various home platforms in in the 1990's. Well, it appears that it's time to dust off the ol' b...

Every now and again, the fine folk over at Hamster like to throw us all a curveball when it comes to their retro re-releases. Case in point, this week, as Jaleco's weird Buta San is been now available to download on Nintendo Switch.Released...

Two classic Arc System Works fighters blow up on the Nintendo Switch today, with the physical launch of the Guilty Gear 20th Anniversary Edition in Japan and Europe. North American fans can get in on the retro rumble via Guilty Gear XX Acce...

Don Bluth's classic arcade releases Dragon's Lair, Dragon's Lair II: Timewarp and Space Ace are coming to Xbox One as The Dragon's Lair Trilogy late next week. The three games have been "remastered and updated" for modern audiences, and thi...

The 1989 arcade classic Ninja Gaiden will be available for $7.99 on both PS4 and Switch today thanks to Hamster's "Arcade Archives" line. Not to be confused with the NES version of the same name, the arcade version was a more standard beat-...

Four new titles have been inducted to the World Video Game Hall of Fame for 2019, which is hosted at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY. The four new entries are Mortal Kombat, Super Mario Kart, Colossal Cave Adventure and,...

Hamster takes to the skies once again for this week's retro release, as Nichibutsu's 1987 shmup sequel Terra Force has been dusted off for release on Nintendo Switch.The third release in the Moon Cresta/Terra Cresta series, Terra Force took...

It's been a pretty tumultuous week for video game icon Sonic the Hedgehog. After the trailer for his upcoming movie was regarded with the inevitable disdain people have foisted upon it ever since the first teaser poster, it was then announc...

Once upon a time, there were versions of Star Wars Battlefront that didn't make you want to weep into your pillow. While Pandemic's 2005 classic Battlefront II has been available via digital distribution for quite a while now, the OG 2004 v...

DotEmu has announced that LizardCube's Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap has sold nearly half a million copies since its launch back in 2017 on PC and consoles. Furthermore, the Sega Master System remake will also be coming to mobile platforms ...

A listing on the Microsoft store has revealed that SNK 40th Anniversary Collection is set to launch on Xbox One next week. Already available on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, the retro compendium features a glut of the early games that made SNK a...

Those of you eager to get your hands on SNK's upcoming Samurai Shodown title might get a little kick out this week's latest retro release from Hamster, as they bring Samurai Shodown V Special back out of the bag for PS4, Xbox One and Ninten...

Following on from the mysterious rating we reported last week, Shantae developer WayForward and anime game gods Arc System Works have officially confirmed they are working together on a new entry in the face-smashing River City series.Detai...

Square Enix has announced a symphonic concert centered around one of the most beloved video games of all-time. Final Fantasy VII: A Symphonic Reunion, will take place at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on June 9 and is a celebration of the...

Sega has announced the next ten games coming to the Sega Genesis mini and things are looking great. Any fans of the classic Disney game Castle of Illusion are in for a treat, because both it and the sequel, World of Illusion, will be availa...

We now know what Capcom was teasing with its retro-enthused video yesterday. As murmured by many on the grapevine, it is indeed an arcade stick pre-loaded with a ton of classic Capcom arcade titles. It's also £200 and it's... well... ...

Veteran developer/publisher SNK held an investor report in Seoul earlier today. According to a report by Ruliweb - translated courtesy of Twitter user @gatoray_kof - there is not only a new entry in the Metal Slug series currently in develo...

The retro video game purveyors at Hamster are feeling shmuppy this week and have chosen to re-release colourful '80s arcade Time Pilot, now available to download on PS4 and Nintendo Switch.Developed by Konami, Time Pilot hit the arcades in ...

Hamster has dropped another '80s title on the Nintendo Switch as part of their Arcade Archives range. This week they're sticking with first party classics, with Nintendo's own Donkey Kong 3.Originally released in arcades and on the Famicom ...

File this under the "completely random" column, but PS1 classic Mr. Driller has been delisted from the PSN store on PS3. Why is anyone's guess, but even more curious is that only the North American version has gone missing (the title was ne...

As Sega prep their Mega Drive/Genesis Mini for what they hope to be NES/SNES Classic levels of success, video game fans continue to wishlist ideas for further retro devices based on consoles such as the Nintendo 64, Game Boy and Sega Saturn...

SNK and Digital Eclipse are to release a compilation of six classic Samurai Shodown titles. The Samurai Shodown Neo Geo Collection will include, as its title denotes, the six classic arcade releases that hit the MVS scene between 1993 and 2...

Hamster have added another old-school arcade title to their expanding Arcade Archive catalogue. Nichibitsu's sci-fi schmup Armed F is now available to download on the Nintendo Switch.Originally hitting the arcade market in 1988, Armed F (al...