[Update: Well, I think we can call this a done deal, as the ESRB has also released a "T for Teen" rating for Castlevania Requiem for PS4. The ratings board describes Requiem as "a collection of two action platformers in which players assume...

This week, retro-fans Hamster have pulled up another old-school arcade title and primed it for re-release on multiple platforms. But this week sees a particularly obscure release from the house of SNK, as Cyber-Lip is made available on PS4,...

Feeling a little famished? Enter our contest to sate your hunger with a Switch copy of Johnny Turbo's Arcade: Super Burger Time. They just don't make games like this anymore, do they? Back in the '80s it was the norm to play as tiny li...

Capcom and iam8bit have finally released their reproduction carts of both Mega Man 2 and Mega Man X. Announced earlier in the year with a production run of 8,500 units each, you can now grab both games for $100 a pop. Mega Man 2 will come i...

Zen Studios has released details on their first Williams tables pack for their excellent pinball simulator Pinball FX 3. The pack will contain four classic real-life pinbal machines that lit up many an arcade in the '90s.Williams Pinball Vo...

Two new robot masters have been revealed for Mega Man 11. Rockman will be battling against the likes of "Acid Man" and "Tundra Man" as he takes on eight brand new robot masters before an inevitable showdown with Dr. Wily. This new TGS 2018 ...

It's been a while since we heard any news on the Sega Mega Drive Mini, yet another nostalgic console which is currently in development for the Japanese market. Today sees some good news and some bad news on this 16-Bit re-release.Sega has a...

[With all the mini consoles being announced, both official and unofficial, it's fascinating to hear about what was essentially the NES in Japan, except not really. But don't listen to me prattle on about what the Famicom Disk System was or ...

Now there's a header image from my childhood. That poster for the home computer release of Rygar adorned many a gaming magazine in the late '80s, and I remember being shocked by the blood gushing from the stomach of the warrior's hapless vi...

[Update: Those sneaky dogs! While Nintendo got to steal the spotlight of having Final Fantasy on the Switch, it isn't the only new platform receiving these games. All of the titles mentioned below (save for Crystal Chronicles and Chocobo) w...

As part of today's Nintendo Direct presentation, Nintendo and Capcom announced that a selection of seven classic Capcom arcade brawlers are coming to Nintendo Switch as part of the Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle.Final Fight, King of Dragons, Kni...

Today sees another '90s SNK title return to enhance the video game history of a whole new generation, as Aggressors of Dark Kombat launches on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.Shuffling into arcades and on the home Neo Geo platform in 1994...

[Update: Various European retailers have gone live with Neo Geo Mini pre-orders today. The price is around £130 for the main unit, with searate controllers retailing for around £25. The stated release date is October 29. U.S. si...

Retro game fans Hamster has once again pulled out an SNK blast from the past for re-release on modern platforms. This week saw the release of Ninja Commando, now available on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.Released in the Global Hypercol...

Capcom has just announced that a demo for Mega Man 11 is available on the eShop right freakin now! What was likely to be announced during today's cancelled Nintendo Direct, the demo will be heading to PS4 and Xbox One tomorrow for those wit...

Japanese merchandising company Chara-ani has released the debut trailer for their double pack of '90s strategy RPGs Langrisser I & II, which are currently being remade for release on PS4 and Nintendo Switch in 2019.The short preview sho...

Last year's sudden resurgence of Windjammers blew right over my head. I never owned a Neo Geo as a child, don't keep up with the crew at Giant Bomb, and am certainly not French. So when it reappeared in the spotlight last year, the new...

Developer Tozai Games has announced that their remastered editions or Irem's classic shmups, R-Type and R-Type II, are headed to PC and Nintendo Switch this Winter, in the form of R-Type Dimensions.Originally launching on PS3 and Xbox 360 i...

In news sure to make the day of pinball fans the world over, Zen Studios, developer of Pinball FX 3 have purchased the rights to the classic Bally/Williams catalogue. The team plan to start pushing out digital recreations of some of the '90...

This week, Hamster fly back into the mid-'80s to bring you an early entry in the vertically-scrolling shmup genre, Jaleco's Argus, available now on PS4 and Nintendo Switch.Launching in arcades in 1986, just as arcade gaming began to revive ...

In the early '90s, games developer SNK were well known for filling the arcades with over-the-top, futuristic cyber-sports titles such as Super Baseball 2020, or rule-breaking, cartoonish titles like Soccer Brawl. But the developer did attem...

The great thing about modern hardware is how something that fits in your pocket can now run games that once required 120lbs worth of circuits and plastic to run 25 years ago. Where you'd once crowd around a CRT screen, embedded in a giant w...

It's immediately obvious at first glance that Sabotage Studios' retro-inspired platformer The Messenger owes a debt of gratitude to the classic Ninja Gaiden titles of the late '80s/early '90s. But what would those original 8-bit developers ...

Owlboy developer, Simon S. Andersen, posted a mock-up for a Chrono Trigger sequel on Twitter today. While this is something Simon did for fun and it's almost guaranteed to say we'll never get Chrono Break, the whole video is pretty freaking...

In a touching show of gratitude, fans of Donkey Kong Country's troublesome antagonist, King K. Rool, have offered up their heartfelt thanks to Masahiro Sakurai for giving the crafty crocodile a roster slot in the upcoming Super Smash Bros. ...