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Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Zach Kaczor
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Zach Kaczor, who is displayed on card number 99, from the Superstars of 2011 Collection. Zach is one of the youngest gamers to appear on a Video Game Trading Card. When the card was produced, Zach was 11 years old. He took...
International Amiga Day – The day has come to celebrate the Amiga!
It's time to have an Amiga party as throughout the Commodore Amiga Facebook they are celebrating the 'International Amiga Day 2026' for May 31st, which celebrates over 30 years of Amiga fun! The retro community want to keep the Commodore Amiga name alive and what...
Five Sega Saturn Games That Deserved a Bigger Audience.
The Sega Saturn may not have reached the commercial heights of the Genesis or the PlayStation. However, for those who owned one, it was home to some truly unforgettable gaming experiences. For instance, games like NiGHTS into Dreams, Panzer Dragoon, and Virtua Fighter...
Atari Makes Universal Movie Deal
Atari Makes Universal Movie Deal For 10 Iconic Game Properties; First Up Is Original Script By Matt Reilly & Carl Hampe, With Entertainment 360 Producing Partnering with Entertainment 360, Atari has signed a deal with Universal Pictures giving the studio the right...
A review of Kero Kero Cowboy
Late last year, MetagameMike partnered with Broke Studio to release a physical edition of his platformer Kero Kero Cowboy, a Kickstarter project that saw completion in early 2025. The concept is pretty simple. The title character, Kero Kero, is an...
Gaelco’s lost 90s run-and-gun masterpiece is now available for PC and consoles! Play today!
Biomechanical Toy is a frantic, arcade-style 2D side-scrolling run-and-gun platformer built for retro gaming enthusiasts who crave intense, nostalgic challenges. It delivers a highly unique, imaginative dark-fairytale aesthetic centered on biomechanical toys that have...
Fallout 3 and New Vegas Remakes Confirmed By Bethesda
According to a Press Release From Bethesda Game Studios today, remasters of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 classics, Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas are on the way. Read a Part of the Announcement Below: THE FUTURE OF FALLOUT Fallout is one of our biggest...
Sticky Business Coming to Switch Physical!
Super Rare Games is joining Spellgarden Games and Assemble Entertainment to bring you Sticky Business! Coming exclusively to Nintendo Switch™! Experience the joy of running your own cozy small business: Create stickers, pack orders and hear your customers’ stories....
Retro Review: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies
For over 20 years, Capcom’s Phoenix Wright series has been a diamond in the rough for Nintendo and the newest entry in the series, “Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies” on the 3DS may be the most charming of all. Regardless it doesn’t change the problems that...
Spindle – Nintendo Switch Review – by Todd Friedman
Developed with clear affection for old-school titles like The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Spindle marries pixel-perfect visuals with a surprisingly thoughtful narrative about mortality and meaning. But this isn't your typical grim reaper tale. Here, Death...
Retro Review: ‘Wii Fit U’
With over 80 mini-games, GamePad integration and the Wii-Fit meter, “Wii Fit U” manages to expand upon the already solid workout experience provided in the original game. Regardless of if you’re a gym rat or a couch potato, there’s something for everyone in “Wii Fit...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Derek Sorrells
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Derek Sorrells, who is displayed on card number 832, from the Superstars of 2014 Collection. Derek is also featured on cards 1280, 2158 and 2254. Derek is an old school gamer who loves arcade machines. He grew up in the...
Why Comix Zone Remains One of Sega’s Most Unique Experiments.
In the mid-1990s, the video game industry engaged in a frantic, creative arms race. As the 16-bit era waned and 32-bit technology loomed, developers desperately pushed the boundaries of gaming. Amidst this innovation, Sega released a title that felt less like a...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Patrick Hickey, Jr.
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Patrick Hickey, Jr. who is displayed on card number 3258, from the Superstars of 2019 Collection. Patrick Hickey, Jr., is the founder and editor-in-chief of ReviewFix.com and a lecturer of English and journalism at Kingsborough...
Bubble Buddies – A reimagination of Bubble Bobble, arguably the best c64 game ever?
If you enjoyed Taito's Bubble Bobble in the Arcades or at home, then you'll be pleased to know that not only can you still download Dave Retro Forge's graphically superior version of 'Bubble Bobble Remastered' for the C64, or 'Bubble Bobble: Lost Cave', which is a...
A review of Life Is Strange from Boss Fight Books
With a release date of 2015, Life Is Strange is another one of those games that's kind of pushing it in terms of the "retro" designation, although if you've ever seen the game in action, graphics aren't the strong suit and Life Is Strange certainly looks like...
Xi Rao – Student, Curator, Gamer
Xi Rao is a research assistant and PhD student in Technology and Humanities at Illinois Tech. She is interested in social media analysis, information design, as well as fan study. She studies and curates Twitter discussions on games such as #1ReasonWhy and...
Snoop Dogg Debuts Theme for New Backyard Baseball Title, ‘110% Juice’
The song is set to release on digital music outlets on July 15. Multi-platinum recording artist and pop culture icon Snoop Dogg has collaborated with Backyard Baseball’s Playground Productions on the theme track for the game, aptly titled “110% Juice.” "Backyard...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – David Klingler
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features David Klingler, who is displayed on card number 416, from the Superstars of 2013. David created an independent software company called Solanimus which has created games such as Signal to Noise and Crashland. You can view his...
Batter Up! Backyard Baseball is Available Now on Steam
Grab Your Gloves! It’s Game Time! The neighborhood baseball classic is back in action! Backyard Baseballis now available on Steam with more ways to play than ever before. Mega Cat Studios and Playground Productions invite you to take the field in 11 remastered...
Silent Hill: The Struggle of Making Good Movies
Judging by the consistent quality of recent movies and television shows, it's clear that we're in a golden age of video game adaptations right now, but decades ago, truly good video game movies were an exception to the rule. In fact, up until the last few years, video...
Steel Ranger 2 – Hessian creators Covert Bitops are working on another fantastic C64 game!
If you've ever heard of Covert Bitops then you would've known they released the fantastic action adventure game ' Hessian ' for the C64 in 2016. A game which blew us away with over 667 screens with specialized AI enemies found throughout that must either be avoided or...
Germany’s Video Game Preservation Project Loses Public Funding
Germany-based, Internationale Computerspielesammlung (ICS), whose goal was to assemble the world's largest publicly accessible video game archive, has lost its public funding, leaving the future of the program in jeopardy, according to the Gameswirtschaft website. ...
Thrilling Machine – by Noah LaPointe
When imagining the environmental sounds George Gomez must be used to, it may explain why he doesn’t rest: the erratic flicking of a pinball table’s flippers, the raucous ricocheting of a metal ball desperately trying to escape its containment, and electronic...
This Day In Video Game History
