
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
THE MAKING OF Katamari Damacy
KEITA TAKAHASHI TALKS US THROUGH HIS JOURNEY FROM ART-SCHOOL ODDBALL TO WORLDWIDE ACCLAIM AS THE CREATOR OF THE PS2 CLASSIC KATAMARI DAMACY. ALONG THE WAY WE DISCUSS GOAT-SHAPED FLOWERPOTS, DESIGNING PLAYGROUNDS, HIS ENDLESS WISH TO MAKE PEOPLE SMILE AND HIS NEW GAME, TO A T
10 min |
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Retro Gamer
BASIC BRILLIANCE
Organiser Gunnar Karnold and competitor Ben Coffer talk about the 2025 edition of the BASIC 10-Liner competition
2 min |
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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
YOUR SINCLAIR #64
IN THE DARK DAYS BEFORE THE INTERNET WE GOT OUR GAME NEWS FROM MAGAZINES. COMPETITION WAS FIERCE, BUT A GOOD COVERTAPE COULD STAND OUT AND TEMPT READERS INTO A PURCHASE. IN THIS MONTH'S COVERMOUNT CORNER, WE LOOK AT YOUR SINCLAIR #64, WITH A TAPE MORE STUFFED THAN EVER
2 min |
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Retro Gamer
Sleepwalker
JUST WAKE HIM
1 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
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
Power Stone
MORE POWER, MORE POSSIBILITIES
1 min |
Issue 274

Retro Gamer
Arcade Archives 2: Ridge Racer
DOES THE KING OF DRIFT STILL HAVE IT?
2 min |
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Retro Gamer
A MEGA JAPANESE COLLECTION
From small acorns mighty collections grow
2 min |
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Retro Gamer
BUDGET BRILLIANCE
How PC gaming is turning Darran to digital releases
3 min |
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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
PC STAYS WINNING
NINTENDO can brick your Switch; I've never been happier to be a PC gamer
2 min |
August 2025

PC Gamer
“As you unlock new librarians, you’re going to need a lot of cards”
Though it does itself no favours, LIBRARY OF RUINA presents a stacked deck I just can’t resist
2 min |
August 2025

PC Gamer
ALL BY MYSELVES
Fraught and flexible, THE ALTERS expertly blends storytelling with survival
6 min |
August 2025

PC Gamer
REDNECK RAMPAGE
A comedic FPS that still leaves me in hog heaven.
5 min |
August 2025

PC Gamer
NIGHT SHIFT
ELDEN RING: NIGHTREIGN is a flawed, but strangely compelling experiment
6 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 |