Another week, another classic shmup from Hamster's Arcade Archives, bringing the quarter-munchers of yesteryear onto today's platforms. This week sees the return of Konami's space shootin' sequel Time Pilot '84, now available to download on...

Cblogs of 5/22 to 5/28/2021 -Gamingnerd writes an excellent retrospective on the Dragon Quest series on its 35th anniversary. -Nior discusses the gaming industry in Brazil by sharing the story about the failings of the world's first digita...

Earlier in the week, we revealed that Sega's upcoming slugger Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown was getting an amusing DLC bundle, offering players the opportunity to play as the entire Virtua Fighter 5 clan in a fashion recalling their o...

The world of the Shadowrun tabletop RPG is the best, stupidest, most tantalizing mash-up ever. High fantasy meets cyberpunk. Elves, mages, and dragons, all mixed amongst political turmoil and megacorporate conspiracies. I get goosebumps ju...

The super dev squad of Guard Crush Games, Lizardcube, and Dotemu have revealed the third character headed to their fantastic scrolling brawler Streets of Rage 4. In what is unlikely to come as a surprise to the fanbase, it is the high-kicki...

While Sega offered a variety of details pertaining to its upcoming release Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown yesterday, one aspect of the game went mysteriously unspoken: the all-important netcode. The silence has been deafening, as Ultim...

It might not have hit the ring just yet, but Sega has already announced a day-one DLC pack for its upcoming Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown. The aesthetic-only add-on sees Akira and pals return to their strangely unnerving polygonal roo...

In case you missed it, Konami recently revived the 1987 classic Getsu Fuma Den in the form of GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon, which is now in Early Access. Konami has a soft spot for Getsu Fuma Den, as it pops up every now a...

Cblogs of 5/15 to 5/21/2021 -Eggs&Brewsterjr discusses eight Game Boy games they know they would love to play. -GamingDino highlights another gaming dinosaur in ARK. -D-Volt writes about how the Sonic franchise may be limited by their ...

If you think Hamster has already re-released every single 1980s shmup to its Arcade Archives range, they've only scratched the surface. Easily replicable at speed, the credit-killing genre saw a tidal wave of releases, reaching well into th...

Nintendo has announced that it will be adding four new titles to the Nintendo Switch Online Collection app — a compilation of classic NES & SNES releases that are readily accessible to all users who have a Nintendo Switch Online s...

[Update: Huntdown is now live on Steam, early purchases will bag a 20% price discount.] There's no denying 2020 was an explosive year for video games. But among the mega-bucks, mega-marketed, mega-sellers of the industry, smaller titles wer...

Cblogs of 5/8 to 5/14/2021 -Gamingnerd wonders if single-player games are simply a multiplayer game against the game's AI. -Febochulus reviews indie game, Hylics. -Lord Spencer reviews Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix as part of his PS1 REVIEWS ...

Does Duke Nukem Forever really need an introduction? It was announced before I hit puberty. It spent 15 years in development hell, becoming legendary for its protracted development time. Every few years, another tease would come out, saying...

Following on from last week's excellent obscurity The Astyanax, this week sees Hamster add another relatively unknown title to its Arcade Archive range. Now available on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, Guzzler is a post-Pac-Man maze title from Teh...

Xbox has certainly come a long way since the brand's initial debut way back in 2001. The industry has transformed ten-fold in those two decades, and while Xbox has sometimes been in the lead, sometimes been behind, it has nonetheless endure...

Sega has released its latest financial earnings report, and among the facts and figures pertaining to the legendary publisher's fiscal year, lies a mysterious tease for a brand new project set to launch at some point this generation. As spo...

We’ve been friends for a while now, right? And after all these Famicom articles, you’re probably thinking, “gee, that lady sure does know Japanese.” That’s not true. My Japanese can best be described as existen...

Cblogs of 5/1 to 5/7/2021 -Black Red Gaming continues listing their "Game Selections" with entries 17-20 regarding games everyone should play. -LaTerry presents this month's Band of Bloggers prompt focusing on Photo Modes in Video Games. -...

After going a little shmup-happy in recent weeks, the retro-loving folk over at Hamster have returned to the world of fantasy platformers for this week's Arcade Archives release, having re-released Jaleco's hack 'n' slash adventure The Asty...

If you fancy filling your summer with a hefty dose of mid-'00s adventure, then Nippon Ichi Software (NIS) has you covered. The publisher has announced a release date for Prinny Presents NIS Classics Vol. 1, which hits PC and Switch in North...

It's taken a while to get to this point, but developer ININ Games finally has a launch date for the incoming Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World. The cutesy retro remake will launch on PS4 and Nintendo Switch on May 28, with a PC port hitting...

In real out-of-the-blue news, retro-lovin' publisher Microids has announced that the 16-bit adventure classic Flashback is to receive a sequel. The new game, tentatively titled Flashback 2 is scheduled to launch on PC and consoles sometime ...

The official release date of the Nintendo Entertainment System was October 1985, but in truth, that was a test launch. Most people in North America didn’t have a chance to buy the console until Autumn of ‘86. At that point, the ...

Cblogs of 4/24 to 4/30/2021 -La Terry responds to April's Band of Bloggers prompt by writing about how Nier: Replicant subverted their genre expectations. -Black Red Gaming writes about 007 Legends, the James Bond game that almost kil...