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Coin-Op Vice hitting Steam later this month
Any game that has the phrase “coin-op” in its title is sure to pique the interest of we arcade fans here at Retro Faith, and Coin-Op Vice certainly looks like it’ll be right up our indie retro street! Coin-Op Vice is a 2.5D top-down retro-inspired action game with deckbuilding elements, as well as over 100…
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Gooooooooooaaaaal! Bitmap Books look set to score another screamer
Bitmap Books have been responsible for some truly gorgeous tomes covering a variety of gaming formats and genres, including their recent run ‘n’ gun history, on which we previously reported, and we were previously enamoured with their volume on the Sega Master System, too. Now, Bitmap Books have announced that their next publication will have…
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Indie shooter Stratogun blasting onto Steam next year
Stratogun is an arcade-style shoot ‘em up influenced by classics such as Asteroids, Super Stardust HD and Robotron 2084. Developers Horsefly Games say that, “Stratogun offers a modern twist on the iconic space shooters of the ’80s, challenging players to survive a relentless onslaught of enemies while battling for supremacy on the global leaderboard.” They…
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Demon Go! Switch review
We previously reported on the Nintendo Switch release of Demon Go! a 2D platform game developed by Korean indie game developer Artifact, and published by indie publisher CFK . And now we’ve had a little time to run through Hell with the Switch version of the game, here are our thoughts on its devilish delights.…
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Last Ninja sneaking onto Kickstarter next week
System 3 are to run a Kickstarter crowdfunder to fund The Last Ninja Collection. The collection will compile all of System 3’s Last Ninja titles from the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Commodore Amiga for the first time, including The Last Ninja, Last Ninja 2, Last Ninja 3 and Ninja Remix, plus some other well-remembered…
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Evercade stock shortages reported
It seems that Blaze Entertainment’s revised Evercade home console, the Evercade VS-R has become somewhat of a victim of its own success, with reports of some pre-orders going unfulfilled. We previously reported that Blaze Entertainment had delayed the release of their latest handheld Evercade model, the Evercade EXP-R, and at the time, the 30th August…
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Mining Mechs Switch review
Mining Mechs is the latest title to be unearthed from budget indie publishers Eastasiasoft, as we previously reported. The game has been developed by one-man game dev Delayed Victory, AKA Barry Young. Although the game was initially released on Steam over a year ago, it has now tunnelled its way onto consoles, and it’s the…
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Capcom Fighting Collections will battle onto Xbox after all
Last week, we reported that Capcom had announced Capcom Fighting Collection 2, a second compilation of some of their best-loved brawlers, which was notable for two things in particular: the first being the inclusion of Power Stone and Power Stone 2, making their first appearances on (non-handheld) home consoles since their original release on Dreamcast…
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New Speccy documentary loading into cinemas next month
We previously reported on the forthcoming new ZX Spectrum plug and play console, The Spectrum, about which we’re rather excited here at Retro Faith, but that’s not the only upcoming project that Spec Chums have to be excited about as the computer celebrates its 40th birthday! Film Stories have reported that ‘The Rubber Keyed Wonder,’…
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Antstream PlayStation launch dated
We previously reported that the Antstream Arcade retro gaming streaming service, which boasts a catalogue of over 1,300 titles, was heading to PlayStation following its success on other platforms, beginning with its 2019 launch on Windows, before expanding to platforms including iOS, Android and Xbox. However, at the time of reporting, the service’s launch date…
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