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The Real Story Behind Rare’s Cancelled GoldenEye 007 Remaster

The Real Story Behind Rare’s Cancelled GoldenEye 007 Remaster

Image: MGM/Eon Over the holidays we’re republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pieces and talking points from the previous 12 months from staff and contributors alike — articles that we feel represent our best of 2021. In them you’ll find our usual mix of thoughtfulness, frivolity, retro expertise, gaming nostalgia, and — of ...

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How Takara Brought SNK’s Arcade Fighters To The Humble Game Boy

How Takara Brought SNK’s Arcade Fighters To The Humble Game Boy

Over the holidays we’re republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pieces and talking points from the previous 12 months from staff and contributors alike — articles that we feel represent our best of 2021. In them you’ll find our usual mix of thoughtfulness, frivolity, retro expertise, gaming nostalgia, and — of course — ...

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Retro Nintendo Games Cost Too Much, But Nostalgia Is Expensive

Retro Nintendo Games Cost Too Much, But Nostalgia Is Expensive

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Over the holidays we’re republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pieces and talking points from the previous 12 months from staff and contributors alike — articles that we feel represent our best of 2021. In them you’ll find our usual mix of thoughtfulness, frivolity, retro expertise, gaming ...

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Clammy Consoles, Humid Horrors, And Retro Regrets

Clammy Consoles, Humid Horrors, And Retro Regrets

Image: Nintendo Life Over the holidays we’re republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pieces and talking points from the previous 12 months from staff and contributors alike — articles that we feel represent our best of 2021. In them you’ll find our usual mix of thoughtfulness, frivolity, retro expertise, gaming nostalgia, and — ...

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Toki Tori For Game Boy Color Is Being Re-Released, 20 Years Later

Toki Tori For Game Boy Color Is Being Re-Released, 20 Years Later

When Toki Tori was released back in 2001, the adorable puzzle-platforming game was well-received, becoming a cult classic among its fans — but, being released towards the end of the Game Boy Color’s lifecycle, it only had one run of physical copies. Until now! Limited Run Games and Two Tribes have teamed up to create ...

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Retro trailer: Jak and Daxter are turning 20!  The making-of with Jason Rubin

Retro trailer: Jak and Daxter are turning 20! The making-of with Jason Rubin

The principle of nostalgia in the world of video games is very SIMPLE: every game and console has an anniversary, and every anniversary provokes inner emotions of strong intensity (or not) associated with virtual moments in a sometimes distant past. . As you can see, this section has a slightly sadistic calling to the shedding ...

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Epic Games Store Adds Over 1,200 Free Retro Games

Epic Games Store Adds Over 1,200 Free Retro Games

No one doubts that the Epic Games Store has become an ever-growing Titan, that the developers see that it is also a good place to advertise. The Unreal Engine parent store continues to add new features, free games, and benefits for players and creators as a referral code to support them. Now the store has ...

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Retro Studios prototyped Metroid Prime as a third-person shooter, but Nintendo insisted on making it first-person to appeal to the West

Retro Studios prototyped Metroid Prime as a third-person shooter, but Nintendo insisted on making it first-person to appeal to the West

Nineteen years ago as of last week, the first game in the Metroid Prime series released for GameCube, putting a 3D first-person spin on the 2D side-scrolling formula that the franchise was known for at the time. Jack Mathews, a former developer at Retro Studios, recently sat down with KIWI TALKZ for an interview, discussing ...