Japanese developer Beep has announced that its old-school shmup Cotton! Reboot has slipped from its spring 2020 release window, and is now expected to launch in the summer.Cotton Reboot was originally announced back in May, and is a modern-...

This week's retro release from Hamster lets players fly the adorable skies of 1985, with a port of Konami's cuddly shoot-'em-up TwinBee, now available to download on Nintendo Switch.Back in 1985, the shmup scene was really starting to come ...

Interstellar twin-stick shooter XenoRaptor, already available on PC via Steam, will be headed to PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch this month. An energetic trailer was released by publisher Digerati to announce the console ports.Developed b...

Retro games publisher Hamster has something a little different and a little special for this week's release, as Irem's attractive shmup In the Hunt has returned for PS4 and Nintendo Switch.Originally released in arcades in 1993, (and appear...

I remember the first time I sat down to play Jamestown (also known by its full name Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony) back in 2011: it was bliss. Not only is the premise incredible (an alt-history Mars that mirrors colonial co...

If there's one arcade classic that seems to turn up again and again, no matter the time or technology, it's Irem's iconic 1987 shmup R-Type. Having been ported, re-released, remastered, and reinvented numerous times since its initial releas...

It's becoming harder and harder to stick out on the Switch eShop. As we've seen in the last year or so, it was the mission of the top dogs at Nintendo to get roughly 30 or more eShop games listed each week, and they've been following throug...

Indie developer Good-Feel has released the first trailer for its twin-stick shooter Monkey Barrels, ahead of its upcoming release on Nintendo Switch next week.Monkey Barrels is the story of two simian pals who set out on a quest to rescue t...

NIS America has announced the lineup for its second compendium of classic arcade shmups to the Nintendo Switch, despite the fact we're still waiting on the western launch of the previous six-pack!Psikyo Shooting Stars Bravo will bundle toge...

Developer Granzella is considering adding another new vessel to upcoming shmup R-Type Final 2, (a remake of Irem's 2003 title R-Type Final), and is asking the community which of four potential designs they prefer.The poll - which you can vo...

Despite having already far surpassed its initial goals, developer Granzella has re-opened its Kickstarter campaign for the upcoming R-Type Final2, following on from the successful showing of a playable build at this year's Tokyo Game Show.T...

This week sees retro game publisher Hamster blast off into outer space for the latest entry in its Arcade Archives range. And this week we're going way back, with the return of one of the oldest shmups of all time, Scramble, now available t...

Publisher NIS America has announced that it will bring its shmup compendium Psikyo Shooting Stars Alpha to western Switch users in January 2020, bringing six arcade bangers to Nintendo's small-screen console.The six games featured on Alpha ...

Today's contest is for a Steam copy of bullet hell shmup Azure Reflections! This one is a bit out of my personal wheelhouse, but I figured you guys would enjoy it. There are magical fairies flying around shooting stuff. Bullets or energy be...

Good news for shmup fans, as City Connection has announced that anime arcade blaster Deathsmiles and its sequel, Deathsmiles II, are currently being prepped for ports on a selection of currently unknown platforms.The announcement came this ...

Enter the Gungeon didn't inflict enough pain on this world, apparently. Game developer Dodge Roll wants us to survive another bullet-hell gauntlet. Its next venture, Exit the Gungeon, is a spin-off with the same manic vibe but a slightly di...

Indie developer Wide Right Games has announced that their animated shmup title Freedom Finger will launch late next month, jetting off on PC and Nintendo Switch September 27.The "Batshit Crazy Space Shooter" sees players control a hand-shap...

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...

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...

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...

Jamestown is back on the scene with a Nintendo Switch port coming at the end of 2019, and I couldn't be happier. It's been far too long! This game is the ideal shoot-'em-up for people who tend to only dip their toes in the genre on the best...

UFO Interactive has released, nay, unleashed the awesome power of Raiden V: Director's Cut onto Nintendo Switch. The high-intensity, updated edition of the shmup sequel can be picked up in physical or digital form right now.Raiden V: Direct...

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 ...

Ikaruga is one of the all-time classics of the shmup genre, but there hasn't been a physical edition for any modern console. Despite now being on PC, PS4, and Switch, the only way to own a disc is to go back to the Dreamcast or GameCube, w...

UFO Interactive has announced that the Switch edition of shmup remaster Raiden V: Director's Cut, will be arriving digitally and physically on July 25.Raiden V: Director's Cut is a port of the 2016 Xbox One release and the fifth entry to th...