How’s this for a little role reversal? Where Sonic Mania features fan game developers work in a commercial Sonic game, a Sonic game developer makes works on a ROM hack? GameHut is the YouTube channel run by Traveller’s Tales founder Jon Burton which recently celebrated his achievement of 25,000 subscribers. The channel provides a constant […]
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Maximum Power Up Podcast – Episode 56: Nintendo DS

In March 2005 Nintendo unleashed the DS. A brand new dual screen handheld with a user friendly touchscreen. The DS soon became the gamer’s handheld of choice with well known Nintendo titles such as Mario Kart, Animal Crossing and many more. Games companies were soon quick on the uptake to how the touch screen controls […]
SEGA News Bits: Sonic the Hedgehog Comics Return April 2018 Discussion

We all know the long story about how SEGA and Archie had a disagreement with the Sonic the Hedgehog license and that they are now relaunching the long running comic book series under publisher IDW. Thanks to the New York Comic Con ‘IDW Sonic Comic Town Hall panel’ we now know new information on the relaunch […]
Project Hubbard Launches On Kickstarter

If you’re a fan of Rob Hubbard, one of the most celebrated composers of videogame music, you’ll be interested to know that a major Kickstarter project has launched to celebrate his past work and get him back into the studio – and it’s going very well, with over £20,000 of the £50,000 goal already raised. […]
Unreleased Sega Saturn Game ‘ARMED’ Surfaces On eBay

I won’t lie – I’d never heard of ARMED before I saw this news. However, it looks like another prototype game for Sega’s underrated 32-bit machine has popped up on eBay. ARMED appears to have been in development in the mid 1990s and was a side-scrolling shooter in the vein of Gunstar Heroes, but featuring […]
SNES Mini Review

So a few weeks ago I managed to get my hands on SNES Classic Mini. This console is already quite a hit as seemingly – even with bigger stock – it’s sold out quicker than the NES Mini Classic. At least the first batch did. This piece will be my SNES Mini Review, as I take […]
Retrocast Season 2 Episode 3 – Post Mania Processing

Sonic Mania is now older than a month. What was once a pipedream of a brand new Sonic developed by fans has finally happened. David The Lurker, Cinossu, Overlord, Bartman3010 and InstantSonic lend their voices to talk about the Mania and not-so Mania about Sonic’s return to 2D glory before the start of this year’s […]
King Of 94 Tournament Takes Place This Weekend

If you’re an aficionado of digital ice hockey, you’re probably aware that EA’s NHL 94 is considered by many to be the best hockey game of all time. What you might not be aware of is the fact that there’s a competitive scene for the game – and on Saturday 30 September, at the Downtown […]
Sonic Amateur Games Expo 2017 Trailer

We’re less than a week out! We’ll be playing through some of the SAGE 2017 entries before the show this Friday, September 29th, at 8:00pm Central Time on the SAGE YouTube channel! See you then! The post Sonic Amateur Games Expo 2017 Trailer appeared first on Sonic Retro.
Maximum Power Up Podcast – Episode 55: Sports Games

In this episode Paul and Phil take a look at a few of their favourite sports games.This is a genre that is mainly seen as just a load of yearly updates, however dig a little deeper and there’s a wealth of great games.
