For this week's Arcade Archives release, publisher Hamster are sneakily putting out another "Vs." title, (essentially slightly modified NES games made available in coin-op form).  This time it's the turn of block-busting platformer Wre...

It's been 10 years since the events of Streets of Rage 3, and Oak Wood City is only mildly safer than it once was. Having left the police force decades ago to embark on their tax-break vigilante careers, Axel Stone and Blaze Fielding ...

[Photo credit: Japan Retro Gaming Association]Japan is currently in a State of Emergency. With no end currently in sight for the ongoing COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic, some young children are getting understandably restless at being kept in...

Cblogs Recap: Week 18     -Shoggoth2588 announces May's Band of Bloggers prompt, which is all about canceled games. -Spazzzh20 imagines how the pacific theater in World War II can make for a great Call of Duty story. -Gus TT Show...

Yesterday saw the release of Dotemu's excellent Streets of Rage 4. As such, you may have already thrown hands with classic SoR villains such as Nora, Garnet, and Barbon. But I know what you're thinking: "This is all well and good, Y Signal,...

Oddworld Inhabitants Inc. continues in its quest to bring the classic Oddworld adventure series to Switch. As previously noted by the ESRB back in January, Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee is next in line for the Nintendo platform, and will launch...

Limited Run Games has finally revealed its Limited Collector's Edition for brand new brawler Streets of Rage 4, which launches April 30 on PC and consoles. This special set will be made available for pre-order on Friday, May 1, and is expec...

Cblogs Recap: Week 17   -Lord Spencer wonders "Where the Hell is Trauma Center?" in this retrospective , which looks at why the series disappeared and why it would be great to have it back. -Taterchimp writes about his complicate...

Hamster Corp. is pulling another oddity out of its big bag of retro games for this week's Arcade Archives release, as Nichibutsu's old-school shmup Tube Panic returns on Nintendo Switch.Released back in 1984, Tube Panic is not dissimilar to...

Despite ongoing concerns regarding the temporary closure of Japanese ratings board CERO, retro-enthusiasts Hamster continue to announce new titles that are headed to its expansive Arcade Archives range at some point in the future.In a recen...

Are you ready for the second exciting installment of the Sega Shiro story? Well, too bad because here it is. In this episode, we see the son of former Sega mascot Segata Sanshiro educating his classmates on the history of rad Sega products,...

Earlier this week, publisher City Connection revealed that it will be bringing a string of classic Psikyo shmups to PC via Steam. We already know that first on the agenda is Strikers 1945, and we now know it will be followed up by all-time ...

Great news for shmup fans today, as City Connection has announced plans to drip-feed a run of classic Psikyo arcade shmups onto the PC platform over the coming months.The charge will be lead by 1995's super-popular release Strikers 1945, wh...

I'm not in the market for a TurboGrafx-16 Mini – not yet. But something tells me the novelty-fueled mini console will end up at my place eventually, and when that time comes, I'll want a secondary controller for Bomberman. As Chris no...

Japanese game developer M2 has revealed the identities of the first four classic Toaplan shmups being revitalised for future release on modern platforms. The four games were announced this weekend during the Famitsu & Dengeki Game Award...

Cblogs Recap: Week 16 -Nior writes an excellent retrospective regarding the entire shmup genre. This is something to bookmark and reference. -Black Red Gaming reviews Half-Life: Alyx. -Exber writes a report about his gaming exploits in the...

This week's Arcade Archives release takes to the skies once again, as Hamster takes us back to the tail-end of the 1980s and Jaleco's colourful, cutesy shmup Plus Alpha, now available to download on Nintendo Switch.Released in arcades back ...

There is no shortage of mini or micro-consoles on the current market, as publishers look to the past to try and package nostalgia. There's the NES and SNES "Classic Editions" from Nintendo, the Sega Genesis Mini, the Neo Geo Mini, and ...

DotEmu has officially announced that stomach-kneeing, skull-cracking, German-suplexin' brawler Streets of Rage 4 will launch April 30 on PS4, PC, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.The long-awaited sequel to the Sega Genesis classics sees the ret...

Perhaps the one positive to come out of 1999's Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, (although I kinda like Darth Maul), is the great Star Wars Episode I: Racer. It looks like we're all going to get another chance to re-run the fun, as A...

According to a report from VGC, development is already underway on a remake of Capcom's horror classic Resident Evil 4, following on from the success of recent remakes Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3. The new project is supposedly in de...

In today's contest you can win a Steam copy of space simulator Meeple Station! It keeps coming up in these contests lately, but man Earth kinda sucks right now. We've done plenty of building and management, but the planet has struck back. S...

Today can be considered "a happening." After many years of requests, speculation, and development, Final Fantasy VII - considered by many to be one of the greatest video games of all time - is ready to make its grand return, revisioned for ...

Italian director Ruggero Deodato, in collaboration with Fantastico Studio, has announced a video game sequel to his notorious 1980 film, Cannibal Holocaust. In development for release on PC and consoles later this year, it's expected that C...

[Update: The original leaked listing has now appeared on Nintendo.co.uk. In addition, Lizardcube has issued a tweet that confirms the existence of unlockable "classic" characters and original soundtracks. The returning heroes (such as Max, ...