Scott Duwe    Vampire Survivors, the game that started off the action roguelike bullet hell craze, is evolving with a new title that’s part of the official lineage of the genre. And it’s a pretty big collab, too. Warhammer Survivors can be thought of, for all intents and purposes, as a licensed sequel or...

Bhernardo Viana    Anbernic, which makes handheld consoles for emulating several classic systems, recently threw all the hype the company built with the retro gaming community in the trash. The company already has a dedicated user base because of how its emulation devices look like actual handheld consoles like Game...

Scott Duwe    I was never a Neopets player growing up, but I have several friends who shrieked when I told them about this exciting announcement today. The Flash-based web browser game was a massive title with kids in the 2000s, and now a big hit of nostalgia is coming in 2026 by way of Neopets: Mega Mini Games...

Andrej Barovic    I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, a 1995 video game based on a short story of the same name, has received an update out of the blue, making the game more intuitive and fun to play on various modern systems, because some developers still value old titles. Nightdive Studios, known for its...

Scott Duwe    It will never not blow my mind that one single person can create an entire video game, and this latest whoa moment came to me by way of a reminder of a demo I played a few years ago. Agent 64: Spies Never Die has been in development by solo dev Replicant D6 for several years now, and I added it to...

Adam Newell    I awoke this morning to check social media like I usually do for the Morning News run, expecting nothing much apart from a few sprinklings of details for the upcoming Pokémon World Championships. Instead, though, I was greeted with a massive amount of retro social media users discussing an apparent...

Bhernardo Viana    I’ve started playing Jeanne d’Arc on the PSP as an experiment. I grew up loving to play on Game Boy Color, Advance, and Nintendo DS, but I had never put my hands on PlayStation’s portable console. In 2025, I wanted to leave my Nintendo fan-boyism aside while also playing a tactical RPG, a genre I...

Bhernardo Viana    It was late 2024 when I grabbed my Nintendo Switch to play some old games. I had never really gotten into retro gaming deeply, and I’m not a walking encyclopedia on obscure Mega Drive and Super Nintendo titles though I secretly admire those who are. So I went the most mainstream route and used...

Adam Newell    For the past few days, I’ve been dusting off my old retro consoles to play some old games with some friends. During that time, I came across a bunch of retro gems that have never been given a re-release, remake, or much love since they were first created. It got me thinking about what type of older...

Adam Newell    Hey Destructoid, and welcome to a new series I’m trying to set up revolving around all things retro gaming. I haven’t quite decided on an overarching theme for this quite yet, instead looking at different topics from across the retro spectrum. Maybe sometimes I’ll discuss beloved games from my...

Adam Newell    The bear and bird are a classic retro duo that, at one point, ruled the 3D platformer collectible genre during the N64 era back when times were good. And then suddenly, one buyout later, the duo have been sidelined after a disastrous motorized sequel that left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth. For...

Kyle Ferreira    I finished Final Fantasy VII back in 1999, and it left a huge, JRPG-shaped hole in my life. I desperately needed another game to play that could hit that same vibe, scratch that same itch. But then I was only 12 years old, and guns were cool. So I bought Rainbow Six and, while it was an awesome...

Scott Duwe    If you’ve ever felt like playing a video game that’s like a digital snuff film with retro graphics, Steam Next Fest has your back. PIGFACE is now just a couple months away from launching in early access on Steam, but the June 2025 Steam Next Fest demo for the game is now live and ready for you to...

Zoey Handley    I consider the N64 to be my main stomping ground, comprising a large portion of my video game library. Although I recognize the considerable drawbacks of both the hardware and the era in which it was spawned, I love it all the same. I suppose the fact that it’s a contrasting mix of good and bad is...

Andrew Heaton    As an aging gamer myself, nostalgia is something that’s always going to make me sit up and pay attention. Maybe this is why I keep going back to Streets of Rage 2 when the mood strikes. And the mood strikes quite a lot. It could also be why I’m excited about the Analogue 3D. If you’re a fan of...

Steven Mills    The team behind the upcoming 2D side-scrolling platformer Angry Video Game Nerd 8-bit realized it would be attending various conventions over the coming months and put together a mobile version of the iconic ’nerd room’ from the upcoming game. It’s a cool nod to the retro vibe of AVGN 8-bit, but it...

Damiano Gerli    The original Nintendo 8-bit console has an incredible library of games, with more than 1000 officially licensed games and even more unofficial titles. Which ones are the most overlooked and worth rediscovering? We have selected ten of them. What are the most overlooked NES games? Monster Party...

Damiano Gerli    Retrogaming is getting more expensive each day. With consoles from the 80s now approaching the forty-year-old mark, and gamers wanting to get their hands on ’90s consoles, it seems prices aren’t going to slow down anytime soon. So which are the cheapest retro consoles to collect, to avoid breaking...

Zoey Handley    More good news in the world of tardy translations, Ratalaika Games and Shinyuden are localizing Technos Japan’s 1991 dice-centric Famicom RPG, Sugoro Quest: Dice Heroes. It’s coming February 7 to Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X S. It’s interesting news coming in the wake of Super...

Zoey Handley    Multiplayer was a lot harder to pull off on the NES than you may imagine. While the system was designed with two players in mind, the limitations of the hardware threw up a lot of obstacles, and there was never an elegant way around them. Elegance is overrated. So, while multiplayer was better in...

Zoey Handley    The NES library has north of 700 games on it. That’s a lot, but in terms of successful consoles, it’s kind of in the mid-range. It still makes it difficult to choose any number of the best games. That’s probably why no one has been brave enough to make a Top X NES games list. I’m not saying I’m the...

Zoey Handley    Are you a fan of Accolade’s classic sports games? I mean, it’s not impossible, but I’m not sure I’ve ever heard anyone make the claim before. Well, if you’re the exception, then Atari and QUByte have a collection of five of the developer’s title coming your way. The collection releases January 30,...

Zoey Handley    Hey, gamer, are you ready for some 60 re-releases of old games? I know - perhaps unironically - that I am. I love playing games I’ve already played, preferably when they look slightly better than I remember. Again, totally sincere here. This is something I do more often than I’m comfortable with....

Zoey Handley    Retro-Bit has announced the next game in its line of retro reproductions, although this one is less of a reproduction and more of just a production. That’s because the game, P-47 II MD, never got released as intended, instead being canceled and never reaching the Genesis Mega Drive. That’s not to...

Paula Vaynshteyn    As part of the selection of gifts that I purchased for my fiancé to open on Christmas morning 2024, I chose a special Tamagotchi-style Kingdom Hearts virtual pet. It’s one of his favorite games, and it was something cute to stuff into his stocking, but it got me feeling nostalgic about my own...

Zoey Handley    I technically never stopped playing retro games. When I had my Gamecube, I was still playing games on my SNES. However, around that time, I also bought an NES. The games I got with it - games like Total Recall and Kid Icarus - had me convinced that I just hated games on the NES. It wasn’t until I...

Zoey Handley    If you’re someone who likes retro gaming with original hardware while still getting the best image quality, then the RetroTink 4K is currently the absolute best way to go. However, it is expensive, so if you’re not willing to pay for such an enthusiast device, then a cheaper version is on its way....

Zoey Handley    After ruling the home console roost for almost a decade, the mid-nineties were a turning point for Nintendo, and not in a they finally quit cocaine and got their act together kind of way. After creating their own worst enemy by screwing Sony in an effort to make a CD expansion for the Super...

Zoey Handley    There are many great companies working to keep old PC games going. Some, like Nightdive Studios, work to remaster them for modern audiences. Others, like Ziggurat and SNEG, keep older games updated and functional on newer operating systems. Good Old Games has always done that to an extent, but now...

Zoey Handley    Curious about the game that Destructoid (well, I) put at #9 on the list of top 20 N64 games? It could be your chance because physical N64 cartridges of Battletanx and Battletanx: Global Assault will be up for preorder on Limited Run Games starting tomorrow. This is, unfortunately, a rather...