“My savings had run out”: In a few months, a Sonic 3 animator made an N64-style game based on an iconic Animal Crossing mechanic and chucked it onto Steam because “I needed to pay rent,” and it worked

July 23, 2025 / admin / retro news

Merchant 64 is a fascinating slice of game dev and a cute little sim

2019

Ahead of First Steps, I revisited the Fantastic Four film with a 9% Rotten Tomatoes score, and it’s a fascinating take on Marvel’s first family

July 23, 2025 / admin / retro news

OPINION | Reviled at the time, Josh Trank’s 2015 Fantastic Four film has better ideas than its reputation suggests

2019

Good job, internet: you bullied Microsoft out of $80 Xbox games – let’s do Nintendo, and everyone else, next

July 23, 2025 / admin / retro news

$80 games simply do not make sense

2019

Todd Howard joins fans mourning “the driving force in the creation of The Elder Scrolls and the foundations of Bethesda as a game studio,” Julian LeFay: “Without Julian, we would not be here today”

July 23, 2025 / admin / retro news

“His work and spirit will live on both in our memories and in our games.”

2019

Battlefield 6 release date, price, and Phantom Edition leak early, and it looks like the threat of $80 games persists

July 23, 2025 / admin / retro news

$80 games persist, but so do I

2019

2025 already belongs to double-A games, and Dying Light: The Beast is helping Clair Obscur prove it – “Do you really want to play every game for 100 hours?”

July 23, 2025 / admin / retro news

Horror Special | Techland’s Tymon Smektała got me thinking, and the double and triple-A divide is more pointless than ever

2019

The Witcher 3 dev’s vampire RPG Blood of Dawnwalker plays out in 30 days and nights for the main story, and there will be “consequences” for your family if you waste your time

July 23, 2025 / admin / retro news

The game won’t end, so you can take your time if you want

2019

I hope you weren’t hoping to hear Hatsune Miku talk to SpongeBob in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, as none of the crossover characters will be voiced: “This is just unacceptable for a $70 game”

July 23, 2025 / admin / retro news

This also extends to the Sonic universe DLC characters like the Werehog

2019

Deltarune was the best-selling Switch 2 eShop game at launch, beating everything from Mario Kart World to No Man’s Sky

July 23, 2025 / admin / retro news

Forget Nintendo, Toby Fox was the big winner of the Switch 2 launch

2019

“If I start playing Assassin’s Creed Shadows, I know I will never finish it”: Dying Light: The Beast director says his game is just the right size to let you get “every dollar” out of it

July 23, 2025 / admin / retro news

“Finishing it basically at some point starts feeling like a chore”

2019