Retro Gamer
Pigeon steps
Am I the only person on the planet who isn't massively excited about the Switch 2? It's a rhetorical question. I know I am. I don't know what has happened with this current generation of consoles, but they feel like they're pigeon-stepping forwards. I've got a PS5 - someone very kind gifted it to me - but there's still so little to play on it that really justifies the hardware.
2 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
Bump 'N' Jump
RUSH HOUR RELIEF
1 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
GAUNTLET IV
A bunch of Japanese students, including a young man named Naoki Horii, fell in love with Atari's coin-op classic Gauntlet... and a few years later, they just start porting Ed Logg's hoary dungeon adventure to the Sega Mega Drive and by doing so, created the definitive adaptation
7 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
DIRECTLY RETRO
The latest online shows from Nintendo and Blaze were full of retro goodness
3 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
Octopus Arcade Stick
ONE STICK TO RULE THEM ALL?
3 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
ULTIMATE GUIDE SUPER MARIO KART
TAKE SOME GO-KARTS AND MODE 7 TRACKS, ADD A HEALTHY HELPING OF COMBAT AND THEN SPRINKLE IN A LITTLE MARIO MAGIC. WHAT DO YOU GET? ONE OF THE FINEST GAMES EVER MADE FOR THE SNES, AND THE FIRST ENTRY IN A LEGENDARY SERIES OF MULTIPLAYER RACING GAMES
5 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
Street Fighter II Turbo
WHO'S THE BOSS?
1 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
TOMONOBU ITAGAKI
Director and producer of some of the most praised fighting games and beat-'em-ups developed by Team Ninja, Tomonobu Itagaki upholds to his somehow nefarious reputation, frankly answering Retro Gamer's questions
10+ min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
AMY LEE
The superstar vocalist discusses Evanescence's new Devil May Cry song and classic games
4 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
MASTERING THE ZX SPECTRUM
ON 21 APRIL 1982, SINCLAIR RESEARCH UNVEILED ITS LATEST HOME MICRO, THE ZX SPECTRUM. THIS SMALL AND IDIOSYNCRATIC DEVICE WOULD HELP KICKSTART THE UK GAMES INDUSTRY, INSPIRING PEOPLE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TO START PROGRAMMING. IN THIS SPECIAL FEATURE, WE LERAN FROM SOME OF THEM JUST WHAT CREATING GAMES ON THIS MAGICAL YET FLAWED COMPUTER WAS LIKE
10+ min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
THE MAKING OF SUBWAR 2050
MICROPROSE UK'S SUBWAR 2050 WAS A UNIQUE BLEND OF SUBMARINE WARFARE, SIMULATION, AND STRATEGY SET IN THE NOW NOT-TOO-DISTANT FUTURE. MANNING AN ADVANCED FIGHTER SUB AND ACTING AS A MERCENARY, THIS MISSION-BASED 3D UNDERWATER GAME FOR THE PC AND AMIGA SENT THE PLAYER BENEATH THE WAVES...
6 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
Split Fiction
If you read last month’s thrilling column, I was about to nip upstairs and play the new game Split Fiction. I wasn't completely sure what to expect but what I'd seen made it look decent.
2 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
Er*Bert
NO WONDER Q*BERT SWEARS
1 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
GOD OF WAR
IN ADDITION TO BEING A BEST-SELLING PS2 GAME, GOD OF WAR IS ALSO REMEMBERED FOR ITS ENVIRONMENT-ORIENTATED SCORE, ADAPTING TO PLAYER MOVEMENTS IN A FASHION RARELY SEEN IN GAMES AT THE TIME. COMPOSER GERARD K MARINO CELEBRATES ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY
3 min |
Issue 272
Retro Gamer
THE MAKING OF FX FIGHTER
IN THE MID-NINETIES, WHEN 3D FIGHTING GAMES HAD ALREADY TAKEN OVER ARCADES, THE GENRE WAS STILL HEAVILY UNDERREPRESENTED ON THE PC. THAT IS, UNTIL 1995 - THE YEAR ARGONAUT SOFTWARE'S FX FIGHTER MADE ITS DEBUT
8 min |
Issue 272
PC Gamer
WELCOME TO MASQUERADE VAMPIRE: THE BLOODLINES 2
I HAVE WOKEN UP IN AN ABANDONED BUILDING IN SEATTLE, A CENTURIES-OLD VAMPIRE WHO HAS BEEN IN A TORPOR FOR 100 YEARS. WHO FORCED ME INTO A SURPRISE SLUMBER? HOW DID I GET TO SEATTLE? AND WHY THE HECK AM I HEARING ANOTHER VAMPIRE IN MY HEAD? THESE TANTALISING QUESTIONS ARE JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG IN A GAME THAT UNEXPECTEDLY FEELS LIKE A CLASSIC PULP NOIR DETECTIVE YARN.
10+ min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
MEDIUM WELL DONE
GPU upgrades aren't coming soon – time to make peace with average performance
3 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
GUIDE to the GALAXY
A hitchhiker's guide to Racoon Logic's planethopping, co-op trolling, Metroidvania mission REVENGE OF THE SAVAGE PLANET
5 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
COUNTER ARGUMENT
AI has made FPS meaningless – we need a new performance metric
4 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
SCP SECRET LAB'S PROXIMITY CHAT
The art of deception. By Elie Gould
3 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
CRYSIS
Peering at the screen in a way unbecoming of a serious journalist
5 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
A CUT ABOVE
There comes a time in everyone's life when you can't just shake off aches and pains anymore. It's around the same time you start needing to say 'hnnnggggh' every time you stand up. I came across this point last year when my doctor's eyebrows furrowed with concern rather than a quick dismissal. A few tests and scans later and I'm on a waiting list for surgery.
8 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
DUELING BLADES
Does ASSASSIN’S CREED SHADOWS deliver a clean one-cut kill?
9 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
WASTED
Take-Two nukes a playable GTA VI fan map
2 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
The Spy
BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?
2 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
CURSED ARTEFACTS
A second Tomb Raider Remastered trilogy tries to redeem LARA'S CURSED ADVENTURE
4 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
GO BERSERK
Reap bloody Soulslike vengeance in THE FIRST BERSERKER: KHAZAN
3 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
DEN OF WOLVES
10 Chambers' kinetic co-op heister is a cyberpunk take on Payday 2
6 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
INZOI
A gorgeous life sim with so many unimportant things to do
9 min |
June 2025
PC Gamer
FBC: FIREBREAK
New co-op shooter is built for chaos and 'joyful discoveries'
4 min |