SNK is really on a roll, lately. Following up on the recent release of SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy, the game developer announced at Tokyo Game Show that a new Samurai Shodown title (Samurai Spirits in Japan) was in the works for PlayStation 4. You can watch the reveal trailer below. Unfortunately, not much else is known about the new
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Last week, Tozai games announced that R-Type Dimensions would be coming to both the Nintendo Switch and Steam. R-Type Dimensions is a compilation including ports of the original arcade versions of R-Type and R-Type II. While already available on the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360, this new release on Switch and PC includes two brand new features: the option to
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There’s certainly no shortage of clone consoles out there for retro gaming enthusiasts to choose from. What sets the Polymega apart from other multi-console systems such as the Retron 5 or the Retro Freak is that the base model Polymega is designed to play CD-based games, including those from the SEGA CD, PlayStation 1, Neo Geo CD, and the TurboGrafx-CD.
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According to a very informative thread on the Soulcalibur VI Steam page, Bandai Namco’s latest entry into their weapons-based fighting franchise will not have any kind of loot box system. This probably comes as a relief to many fighting game fans who have recently seen other series adopt a loot box system to unlock character customizations. (looking at you, Injustice
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The retro-inspired action/platformer The Messenger is now available on the Nintendo Switch and PC (via Steam). An unabashed love-letter to the 8-bit era, The Messenger is heavily inspired by fast-paced ninja action classics like Ninja Gaiden. In The Messenger, you play as a ninja master who must traverse the plague world to rescue your clan. Your character unlocks new Ana’s
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As we reported in May, Capcom’s plan for the fiscal year ending in March 2019 included “utilizing dormant IP and remakes”. We speculated at the time that Capcom would do well to dust off the Onimusha series for a revival. On Tuesday, Capcom indicated that they agree with us, because Onimusha: Warlords is coming to PC and all major consoles
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Pause your Shenmue session and grab a clean pair of pants, SEGA fans. On Monday, game publisher Dotemu blessed us with a reveal trailer for Streets of Rage 4, which will be co-developed by Lizardcube and Guard Crush Games. You can check out the trailer for yourself below. Series leads Axel Stone and Blaze Fielding are back, but it remains
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On Thursday, publisher XSeed announced that pre-orders for Senran Kagura Reflexions are now open on the Nintendo Switch eShop and that the game would be available to download on 13 September. Senran Kagura Reflexions is a visual novel game set in the typically action-heavy Senran Kagura universe. A Nintendo Switch exclusive, Reflexions makes use of the Switch’s HD rumble feature
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It’s a good thing that SEGA just released Shenmue I & II HD, because fans still waiting for Shenmue III are going to have to wait quite a bit longer for the long-awaited sequel to see the light of day. Now scheduled for release on 27 August 2019, it will have been more than four years since Shenmue III was
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This week at Gamescom, Bandai Namco unveiled several new details for their upcoming weapons-based fighter, Soulcalibur VI, including a new story mode and DLC character. Titled Libra of Souls, this second story mode differs from the already-revealed Chronicle of Souls mode in that players will use their own custom fighters to overcome challenges in searching for pieces of the Soul
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A lost action adventure game from the 1990s known tentatively as Hardcore is getting a second chance at life on the PS4 and Vita in early 2019. Originally developed by Digital Illusions C.E. (D.I.C.E.) and set to be published by Psygnosis in 1994, Hardcore was cancelled late in development. Versions of Hardcore were developed for the SEGA Genesis, SEGA CD,
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As most Nintendo fans have already seen, the Big N released new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate details via a Nintendo Direct this week. In addition to revealing several new features, stages and fighters including Donkey Kong Country‘s King K. Rool and both Simon and Richter Belmont from the Castlevania series, Nintendo used the opportunity to show Luigi’s soul being ripped
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On Tuesday, Nintendo announced that The World Ends with You: Final Remix is scheduled for release on October 12 for the Nintendo Switch. The World Ends with You was first released for the Nintendo DS in 2007 where it didn’t achieve great sales success, but it was critically well-received and managed to develop a dedicated fan base. This updated Final
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According to the latest issue of Famitsu, both Ares and Odin will be included in the playable roster of Koei Tecmo’s Warriors Oroichi 4. In a separate announcement last week, Koei Tecmo announced that the Greek hero Perseus would be playable in Warriors Orochi 4. Koei Tecmo has also announced five of the eight characters who will have a “Deification
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Since it’s apparently “Terry Bogard Week” and nobody told me ahead of time, I’m a bit late in reporting that the main protagonist of SNK’s Fatal Fury series is joining the roster of Arika’s Fighting EX Layer for PS4. “Terry Bogard Week” or not, Fatal Fury’s “hungry wolf” is certainly making the rounds in this year’s announcements at EVO 2018.
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This weekend, Bandai Namco revealed that Soulcalibur series mainstays Seong Mi-Na and Astaroth would be included in the fighting roster of Soulcalibur VI. Both characters are well-known to fans of the series, as Seong Mi-Na first appeared in Soul Edge while Astaroth first appeared in the original Soulcalibur. The announcement came during EVO 2018, where Soulcalibur series producer Motohiro Okubo
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SNK revealed last week that Fatal Fury lead character Terry Bogard would appear in gender-bended form in the upcoming female-only fighter SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy. As it turns out, female fans of SNK and its characters have heralded the arrival of fem-Terry for quite some time- in cosplay form! Below is just a sample of the dedicated ladies who
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If you’ve ever wanted to take a spiked baseball bat to Heihachi’s teeth, Tekken 7 is giving you that chance. This weekend, Bandai Namco announced new fighters who would be joining the Tekken 7 roster via DLC, including The Walking Dead‘s iconic villain, Negan. The announcement came at EVO 2018 following a Tekken 7 tournament, series producers Katushiro Harada and
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SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy is certainly turning out to be a bizarre fighter, but according to the latest release by the game’s publisher, NIS America, it just got quite a bit stranger. Terry Bogard, the main protagonist of SNK’s Fatal Fury series, has been added to the roster. “Isn’t SNK Heroines only supposed to have female characters and isn’t
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Marvelous Games may finally be giving Western PS4 owners the chance to play their stylish brawler Uppers, as a recent Australian rating suggests. Released on PlayStation Vita in 2016 exclusively in Japan, Western gamers following Uppers were possibly losing hope of ever seeing a release overseas due to the dwindling support of the PS Vita platform. Uppers is an over-the-top
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Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford blames SEGA, not his own developers, for the “Aliens: Colonial Marines” typo controversy by citing years of poor spellchecking on SEGA’s part dating back to the 1980s
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I like to give Australians a bit of crap over how miserably their government approaches mature-themed video games, but truth be told, Australia has nothing on the over-the-top nonsense that comes out of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This week, several Western news outlets reported that the Saudi Arabian government had added 47 games to the list of those banned
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At E3 2018, Nintendo announced their plans to release more classic arcade titles on the Switch eShop as part of its “Arcade Archives” program. Priced at $7.99 a pop, Nintendo added the original Donkey Kong as well as the previously Japan-only Sky Skipper to the list of already available digital games, with the latter arriving on the eShop this week.
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The once PlayStation-exclusive Yakuza series will soon be expanding its audience when Yakuza Zero comes to PC later in August. But will Xbox One owners ever get a chance to enjoy Yakuza titles on their platform? Series producer Daisuke Sato says, “Maybe.” In a recent interview with Gameblog, Sato indicated that his team at SEGA would consider porting the Yakuza
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Publisher Microids has announced that their retro arcade platformer Toki is coming to Nintendo Switch in November along with a special edition that features a physical arcade cabinet. This remake published by Microids not only features upgraded visuals and re-orchestrated music, but there will also be the ‘Retrollector’ edition which includes a physical copy of the game, a comic book,
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Note: while this post contains some factual information, it is largely for entertainment purposes. Oi, cunts! It’s me. Your ol’ pal Randy Pitchford.* The Randino. Y’know what, Australia? I was pretty angry a few weeks ago when I found out that We Happy Few, a game that my company, Gearbox, has taken under our wing and shepherded as publisher, was
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NIS America has announced that the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection will be available November 13th in North America and November 16th in Europe. This collection includes over a dozen old-school SNK arcade games, and by “old-school,” I mean pre-Fatal Fury fighting game era SNK, though publisher NIS has teased that more games will be revealed at a later date. This collection
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Bandai Namco has announced Namco Museum Arcade PAC (…pack. Get it?) for the Nintendo Switch. This is a seemingly cool announcement until you realize that this new release is merely a retail version of both Namco Museum and Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 Plus, both of which are already on the Switch eShop. Still, if you’re a retro gaming fan and don’t own either
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On Monday, UK-based Bitmap Books launched a Kickstarter campaign to create an officially-licenced coffee table book on the SEGA Master System. SEGA Master System: a visual compendium is officially licensed by SEGA and is the first book of this kind to be released focussing on the Master System. SEGA Master System: a visual compendium is being created by an experienced
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I’ve attended the Too Many Games convention in Phoenixville, PA for several years now, and over that time I’ve seen it grow and expand into quite a girthy experience. I only had one day (Saturday) to see and do as much as I could, but I was not lacking activities to jump into. Below are the highlights of the trip.
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The Splintering 