retro

You can now scroll through your games in nostalgic style, thanks to a new update pushed out for the PlayStation 5. To celebrate the PlayStation's 30th anniversary, Sony released a handful of themes for the PS5, letting you customize your system to look and sound like the PS1, PS2, PS3, and PS4...

Accessory maker 8BitDo is celebrating Saturn's 30th anniversary in style with a new themed variant of its popular Retro Mechanical Keyboard. The keyboard has previously been available in NES and C64 colourways, but this new model pays tribute to Sega's 32-bit system with a brand-new look. As...

One of the biggest surprises in Nintendo's storied history came in June 2021 when Metroid Dread was finally unveiled for the Switch. Up until that point, the game had fallen into legend, with many fans conceding that it simply didn't exist. One of the most significant catalysts for fan...

Over two decades ago, a small company by the name of Bleem! appeared and offered a unique product in the gaming market, the ability to play PlayStation games outside of the original hardware, in what would be popularly known as "emulation" worldwide, be it in Windows PCs at the time (Windows 95...

Update [Tue 19th Nov, 2024 15:00 GMT]: Bleem is being relaunched as "the largest retro gaming project" via a crowdfunding campaign, according to rights holder Piko Interactive. "This project is the culmination of 11 years in the making for our company," says the Kickstarter page. "We have been...

Beloved retro gaming channel Rose Tinted Spectrum has vanished from YouTube, sparking a wave of worried posts across social media from its dedicated fanbase. The channel's creator reached out to the video platform yesterday, highlighting that the channel had been shut down for allegedly...

Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration is expanding its digital museum with The First Console War DLC, set to launch on November 8, 2024. This new content pack will add 19 retro games to the collection, focusing on the rivalry between Atari and Mattel's Intellivision in the late 1970s and 1980s...

Ratalaika Games has recently announced the release of two additional Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) games to the Western market for the first time. This move is a significant milestone for retro gaming enthusiasts and the broader gaming community, as it brings previously inaccessible...

The GameCube's retro styling lives on in this customized PS5 DualSense controller called the "CubeSense" from Killscreen. The CubeSense features a matte purple shell with a transparent back, along with GameCube-inspired face buttons in red, green, and light gray. The controller also includes...

The Atari decanter set sounds like a really cool and sophisticated piece of gaming-themed barware. It takes the iconic Atari CX-10 joystick design and turns it into a functional 750ml decanter, complete with two 300ml whiskey glasses featuring the Atari Fuji logo. The set is being marketed as...

If you're interested in checking out the release, you can find the repository at this link. https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/10/the-source-code-for-the-retro-rogue-lite-rogue-legacy-has-been-released

Horror fans rejoice! The Danganronpa-inspired horror thriller, Kumitantei: Old School Slaughter, has reached its Kickstarter funding goal of $20,000. The campaign will be live until Thursday, October 17th, and the game's development will continue soon after. Details on the game's release date...

We have highlighted the wonderful scanning work of @KeshiCorner a couple of times now on Nintendo Life. This is the retro enthusiast who managed to preserve classic Zelda and Mario rubber "Keshi" figurines through the magic of 3D scanning and now they are back with a new collection. It's a 1993...

Retro gamers are keen on accuracy and faithfulness when it comes to playing classic titles, so it shouldn't be massively surprising to learn that Field-Programmable Gate Array chips – which can be tuned to behave like old-school systems on a hardware level – have become so popular in recent...

Publisher New Blood Interactive and developer Airdorf Games have announced that Faith: The Unholy Trinity will launch on the Switch on 10th October 2024. In addition to the digital version, Fangamer is offering up a physical edition for $35/£35, containing a copy of the game on cartridge, a...

Here's some news no one particularly expected — FreakZone Games (the developers of Angry Video Game Nerd 1 & 2 Deluxe) and Metal X Entertainment (a subsidiary of BitBotMedia) are adapting the cult classic horror musical Rocky Horror Picture Show into a retro-style platformer that is coming to...

Masahiro Sakurai is back with another video, and in this week's 'Grab Bag' episode, the legendary game creator delves into the world of CRT displays. Now, if you've been around long enough to actually own and play games on a CRT (which, yes, you can still do now if you happen to find one out in...

Sour Lemon Studios is thrilled to announce their new game, Tower of Dreams, is releasing in Early Access on Steam this October 8th, with the anticipated Nintendo Switch release coming soon. Hop to the Top Tower of Dreams is a delightful roguelike platformer that challenges players with its...

Get ready to swing, smack, and score in SPORTAL, the upcoming sport-themed first-person shooter from indie developer Sleepwalking Potatoes and publisher Retrovibe. Blending fast-paced FPS mechanics with sports action, SPORTAL hurls players into a portal where vintage sports gear becomes deadly...

Zia and the Goddesses of Magic is one of OrionSoft's previous games A new crowdfunding campaign has gone live for a Windows and Linux tool that aims to make the process of producing retro games for classic systems more straightforward. OrionSoft's Retro Game Designer "uses a very simple...