Retro Gamer
SPLATTERHOUSE
IN A GAME FILLED WITH HORROR CLICHÉS, THIS ONE NATURALLY BEGINS ON A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT, WHEN A COUPLE OF KIDS ENTER AN ABANDONED MANSION. JOIN US AS WE TOO STEP INSIDE THE SPLATTERHOUSE - AND IF YOU'RE FEELING FAINT, JUST KEEP REPEATING, \"IT'S ONLY A VIDEOGAME... ONLY A VIDEOGAME....\"
5 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
Mario Kart World
DOES NINTENDO'S LAUNCH GAME OFFER YOU THE WORLD?
3 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
THE LATEST NEWS FROM JANUARY 2009
Zombies might be cold, dead things, but Valve's coop shooter Left4Dead was full of them and happened to be the hot new thing in town.
3 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
Tutankham
ANCIENT ARCADE TREASURE
1 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
SwanCrystal
■ Tanita Corporation's Mama Mitte, a scale designed to track the health of pregnant mothers and their children, included a SwanCrystal for receiving and displaying data from the scale.
1 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
BANJO-KAZOOIE
AS EARLY MASCOTS OF THE NINTENDO 64, BANJO THE FIST-SWINGING BEAR AND KAZOOIE THE EGG-SHOOTING BREEGULL WERE HERALDED AS BRITISH DEVELOPER RARE'S ANSWER TO SUPER MARIO 64. NEARLY 30 YEARS ON, WE SPEAK TO SERIES COMPOSER GRANT KIRKHOPE FOR HIS MEMORIES OF WORKING ON THE ACCLAIMED PLATFORMER
4 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
A TRULY HYPER SEQUEL
Jonathan Port on his follow-up game that crosses Uridium with Paradroid
3 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
NICK ROBERTS
A true unsung legend of the publishing industry, Nick Roberts started out poking around on Crash before launching, editing and even designing some of the UK's most iconic gaming mags. Given his clear plate-spinning talents, perhaps it's somewhat ironic then that the first videogame he ever played was Wacky Waiters!
10+ min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
THE MAKING OF 押忍! 開元! 応援団 OSU! TATAKAE! OUENDAN
OUENDAN WAS ONE OF THE EARLY IMPORT CULT HITS THAT SHOWCASED THE NINTENDO DS' TECH WITH ITS OWN DUAL FUNCTION OF RHYTHM GAMEPLAY AND STORYTELLING WITH HOTBLOODED EMOTIONS. WE SPEAK WITH FORMER TEAM MEMBERS OF INIS ON HOW THEY MADE THIS UNIQUE MANGA- INSPIRED CHEERLEADING GAME
10 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
The American crash diet
it was 1983 and the country was gorging on videogames. Sales were exploding. Games begat books, begat cartoons, begat top 40 singles. Everything short of a breakfast cereal. (Wait. Never mind. That happened too.)
2 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
1 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
A MEGA JAPANESE COLLECTION
From small acorns mighty collections grow
2 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
Arcade Archives 2: Ridge Racer
DOES THE KING OF DRIFT STILL HAVE IT?
2 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
21 years later
Getting older, time feels increasingly erratic. Things that happened in the past couple of years feel like a lifetime ago, whereas the Nineties feel like last week.
2 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
Thunder Force IV
As great as shmups are, playing them can be a pretty lonely experience due to many of them catering to a single player.
1 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
Power Stone
MORE POWER, MORE POSSIBILITIES
1 min |
Issue 274
Retro Gamer
BUDGET BRILLIANCE
How PC gaming is turning Darran to digital releases
3 min |
Issue 274
PC Gamer
The Spy
BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?
2 min |
August 2025
PC Gamer
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream
Entry-level stealth paired with high-end period drama
5 min |
August 2025
PC Gamer
BLACKSMITH MASTER
Who knew working hammer and tongs could feel so relaxing?
2 min |
August 2025
PC Gamer
ANNO 117: PAX ROMANA
An epic strategy game and city builder with a big toga to fill
5 min |
August 2025
PC Gamer
OFF-WORLD PROSPECTING
Dig to discover in the sands of an alien world
2 min |
August 2025
PC Gamer
EUROPA UNIVERSALIS 5
This grand strategy game is going to take hours to unpack
8 min |
August 2025
PC Gamer
OFFSCREEN
The perils of not getting enough screen time, exposed
2 min |
August 2025
PC Gamer
RECORD SCRATCH
LOST RECORDS: BLOOM & RAGE TAPE 2 leaves more dead space than game
2 min |
August 2025
PC Gamer
CAST N CHILL
Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream
1 min |
August 2025
PC Gamer
OUTWORLD STATION
This sim is threatening to devour hours of my time
2 min |
August 2025
PC Gamer
ROUGH GEM
BLADES OF FIRE doesn't quite manage to bring the heat
6 min |
August 2025
PC Gamer
REDNECK RAMPAGE
A comedic FPS that still leaves me in hog heaven.
5 min |
August 2025
PC Gamer
PC STAYS WINNING
NINTENDO can brick your Switch; I've never been happier to be a PC gamer
2 min |