It must be said, Wizkid is a game with an odd atmosphere. It doesn’t quite set in until you hit Mount Wizimanjaro, the third stage. It takes place in an active volcano, yet you’ll be casually steering a disembodied head around the screen, dropping rocks onto butterflies to some extraordinarily relaxing background music. Sometimes, you […]
Earlier today, American based anime and asian films DVD and blu-ray company Discotek Media announced on Facebook details on their upcoming “Sonic X” DVD. First revealed back in April of 2015, Discotek Media plans to release the first two seasons of the “Sonic X” English dub to DVD in a 52 episode collection with a […]
If you’re out shopping this weekend and fancy a bit of classic gaming action, we’ve got good news for you! First up, a brand new issue of Retro Gamer is on shelves now and ready for you to devour. You can see Darran and our new designer Sam Ribbits go through the issue in the […]
Whilst many of us thought Nintendo’s plan for retro gamers ended with the VIrtual Console, today’s announcement from the Japanese gaming juggernaut turned countless heads after appearing completely out of the blue. Believe it or not but the Nintendo NES hardware is set to make a prominent comeback this Christmas in miniature form, with pre-loaded […]
Whilst many of us thought Nintendo’s plan for retro gamers ended with the VIrtual Console, today’s announcement from the Japanese gaming juggernaut turned countless heads after appearing completely out of the blue. Believe it or not but the Nintendo NES hardware is set to make a prominent comeback this Christmas in miniature form, with pre-loaded […]
We love the idea of plug-and-play consoles, but we don’t always love the execution. The ones we’ve tested often suffer similar issues – inaccurate hardware, poor video output and underwhelming game line-ups. The Nintendo Classic Mini: Nintendo Entertainment System looks like it might just sidestep those problems when it arrives on 11th November this year. In […]
Cast your mind back to the early Noughties, when Sega had only just stopped making consoles and Limp Bizkit was still considered a relevant musical act. Back in those days, an upstart games magazine called GamesTM had just launched and the star of its first cover was a chap named Sam Fisher, a stealthy spy […]
Although there seems to be little mention of BT’s involvement with Nintendo in the mid-nineties, it would appear the tele-communications company was trialling a United Kingdom equivalent of Japan’s Satellaview service. Despite little record of BT’s testing, one retro gamer has uncovered the Super Nintendo cartridge which would have served a digital-download based service for the […]
Wondering what to look for in a SEGA Saturn game now that Saturn game encryption has finally been cracked? Why not one of the biggest multiplayer experiences on the console? Multiplayer Showcase continues to take a look at Saturn Bomberman by covering our favorite stages, gimmicks, exploit the dinosaurs and try to figure out what […]
It wasn’t long after the Dreamcast’s arrival that we began to see unauthorised methods towards booting game backups with ease. Despite this quick turnaround, Sega’s prior console, the Saturn, still remained uncracked and has done up until now. Two decades after the Saturn’s debut the underloved 32-bit powerhouse has finally been broken into, with plenty […]