The absolutely fantastic retro shooter DUSK will be leaving Early Access on December 10, 2018. For a limited time after launch, the game will be available for the special price of $16.66. The game will ship with three episodes of hellish le...

As part of their latest financial briefing, video game giant Nintendo has revealed that the NES Classic and SNES Classic consoles have passed a combined global sales milestone of 10 million units.The two dinky devices allow players to run t...

We're bearing down on the release of Spyro Reignited Trilogy, which compiles three classic PS1 adventures, polishing them up for a return on modern platforms. Though most buyers will pick the game up from their local store, or perhaps order...

Another SNK release is headed over to modern platforms this week courtesy of Hamster, as little-known one-on-one fighter Savage Reign makes its return on PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.Released in 1995 for the arcade and Neo Geo platfor...

This weekend, a real curio showed up on a Japanese Yahoo! auction. Prospective buyers were bidding on a rare prototype controller, originally designed for the Nintendo Gamecube, that is a Wiimote and Nunchuck in all but name.The "Wiimote" s...

We now have a confirmed line-up of the iconic titles that will be included on the PlayStation Classic, the shrunk-down edition of Sony's industry-changing console from the mid-'90s.Revealed last month, the PlayStation Classic will launch on...

Halloween is upon us. It's that time of year where kids roam the street looking for candy, Michael Myers stands in people's laundry lines, and tabloids print stories about LSD-laced sweets and razor-blade filled apples that probably never a...

In my formative years, a huge part of my life revolved around the pseudo-sport of pro-wrestling. Not just as a ticket-buying fan, but as a student of the game, a backstage producer and, for a short but painful time, a worker myself. Since t...

Limited Run Games and Screaming Villains has announced that notorious 1993 "classic" Night Trap will be getting a PS Vita release in the near future.Launching last year, conceived by one passionate visionary, Night Trap: 25th Anniversary Ed...

You know, I was just beginning to think that Yooka-Laylee was too good looking. Part of the charm of N64 era mascot platformers is the chunky, low-resolution graphics. Mixed with childlike imagination, it imbued a sense of atmosphere that i...

Voidpoint's upcoming Ion Maiden is a total blast, as evidenced by our three different previews for it. While it sadly won't be making a 2018 release, there is some really good news for fans of physical media. Co-publisher 3D Realms has part...

Super '90s flying disc game Windjammers is now available to purchase for Nintendo Switch via the eShop. A new launch trailer was also uploaded by developer Dotemu to spread the good word.Windjammers, which originally hit the arcades and Neo...

Activision and developer Toys For Bob have released a final trailer heralding the return of late '90s PlayStation hero Spyro the Dragon, who returns in just under a month in the Spyro Reignited Trilogy.Reignited takes the young dragon's thr...

Is Konami starting to make a comeback? It's too hard to tell, right? They seem to be supporting Bomberman R quite well, Zone of the Enders Mars is a success, and they're making an effort to bring Castlevania into the fold in multi...

The second offering from retro enthusiasts Hamster is a twitchy arcade classic. Fans of shmups can take to the skies once more in a great arcade release from the late '90s, Strikers 1945 Plus, available now on PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Sw...

[Header image: Sorceress (1982)]Video Game Movies. They rarely work out, right? Sometimes made as a quick straight-to-video cash-in, sometimes made with the best of intentions, either way they usually fail deliver an experience worthy of fa...

Hamster has once again reached into the wayback machine and pulled forward a vintage and obscure title, to be experienced by a whole new generation of video game fans on the Nintendo Switch. This week, it's UPL's arcade adventure Ninja-Kid ...

Long-running UK magazines GamesMaster and GamesTM have sadly announced that they are to close. Publisher Future has announced that both publications will be releasing their final issues in November.GamesTM first launched in 2002 under Imagi...

Screaming Villains is following its nostalgic Night Trap re-release with another over-the-top FMV adventure game from the Sega CD days. Double Switch: 25th Anniversary Edition is coming to PC and PlayStation 4 on December 11, and it is a si...

A Kunio-kun compilation is going to be released in Japan this December. Coming to the PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Switch, it is set to include 18 games (19 with a pre-order) that span the entire legacy of Kunio-kun. If you aren't familiar with t...

November sees the launch of retro compendium SNK 40th Anniversary Collection on Nintendo Switch, bringing a host of classic - and seemingly endlessly re-released - arcade hits to the hybrid console.NIS America has popped a new trailer annou...

Namco Bandai has released the second part of their mini-documentary series looking at classic fighting title Soulcalibur, the latest edition of which goes on general release tomorrow on multiple platforms.In part two of the Souls and Swords...

Better start saving up, retro game collectors. Analogue is coming out with new hardware. The Seattle-based company has been making recreation systems that sell at a premium but deliver an equally high-end experience. There's the Analogue Nt...

On November 13, 2015, a highly coordinated terrorist attack wrought havoc across Paris, France. In just one hour, terrorists struck several locations, including the Stade de France and the Bataclan theatre with suicide bombings and mass sho...

We all, at some point, played our very first video game. Maybe you remember it well, perhaps it's all a blur. You might've been six, or 16. In the '80s, the '90s or even just a few years back. We all started on this rocky road of time-sink ...