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My Time at Evershine, the first confirmed 'Switch 2' game, has smashed its Kickstarter goal with another 23 days to go. With an initial goal of $200,000 (£149,583), the Kickstarter has raised a total of $1,561,080 (£1,167,556) at the time of writing thanks to the backing of over 17,000...

Over the weekend, Team17 have officially given the thumbs up to Project X: Light Years — a new follow-up to its 1992 horizontal shooter for Amiga that is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter. When the campaign's organizer, the "big Amiga fan" Retronix originally launched the project, it stated...

If you are an avid user of the GameCube controller, you might want to check out this new Kickstarter by Mitch Cairns of Hand Held Legend. For the last three years, he's been developing the 'PROGCC line' of competitive conversion controller kits and now he's launched this campaign for the 'GC...

Zia and the Goddesses of Magic is one of OrionSoft's previous games A new crowdfunding campaign has gone live for a Windows and Linux tool that aims to make the process of producing retro games for classic systems more straightforward. OrionSoft's Retro Game Designer "uses a very simple...

Tech lovers in the UK will no doubt recognise the name Jason Bradbury – he was one of the hosts of the popular Gadget Show programme for many years. What you might not be aware of is the fact that Bradbury is a keen retro gamer, and he's making a film about a group of old-school players who are...

System 3 today welcomed the return of one of video games most loved brands with the announcement of The Last Ninja Collection launching on Kickstarter soon. Bringing together every Last Ninja title from the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Commodore Amiga for the first time, including The Last...

Hand Held Legend is a well established and quite popular company that's been around for more than a decade and focuses on controllers, upgrades and replacements for retro consoles and handhelds of all kinds, be it Nintendo's or Sega's older consoles like the NES, Game Boy or Master System, to...

Remember the Thumby? Dubbed the world's smallest handheld, it launched back in 2021 and was so small it could fit on your keys. Now, TinyCircuits – the company behind the original Thumby – has launched another Kickstarter campaign for its successor, the Thumby Color (thanks, Retro Dodo)...

A new card game has just been announced, which aims to poke fun at the topic of console wars while turning fan toxicity into something fun and positive that everyone can appreciate. Console Wars The Card Game, as the project is called, is being developed by the gaming outlet XboxEra and is...

Nintendo's F-Zero series has inspired all sorts of futuristic racing games over the years, and the latest one to arrive on the scene is Aero GPX. This Kickstarter project by solo developer Aaron McDevitt has launched this week on PC (via Steam Early Access) and is described as an anti-gravity...

Update [Mon 5th Aug 2024 15:15 BST]: An upcoming book looking at every Club Nintendo reward has smashed its initial Kickstarter goal on the first day of funding. Dubbed 'An Unendorsed Anthology of Club Nintendo', the book is currently sitting at an impressive £4,084 out of an initial goal of...

Mekanical Void is looking to port the Game Boy-style action platformer Linked Mask to Nintendo's iconic handheld – which is fitting, as it's the console which inspired the project in the first place. Linked Mask GB is based on Linked Mask, a game developed by Klonoz and Spoonman Games, and...

Satoru Yamashita, an artist and designer who worked on games like Final Fight, Street Fighter II, and more, has just launched a Kickstarter for a brand new game for PC. Dhalman, as the game is called, is inspired by Yamashita's travels around the world and focuses on a young boy who must gather...

Mega Cat Studios has announced that its upcoming Sega Mega Drive / Genesis shmup ZPF will be making its way to the Nintendo Switch after securing the necessary funding to unlock the stretch goal. At the time of writing, there are mere hours remaining on the Kickstarter campaign, but the studio...

Tiny Wonder Studio, the new development team behind the upcoming koROBO, has stressed that the project is very different from the Chibi-Robo series and that fans shouldn't go into it expecting a similar experience. This comes via a new interview from our friends at VGC, during which...

Developer Deneos Games has just revealed some more information on its upcoming project, a GBA-style JRPG by the name of Tako no Himitsu: Ocean of Secrets – and there are some famous names involved. Motoi Sakuraba (Golden Sun) and Masanori Hikichi (Terranigma) are both on-board to create music...

Tiny Wonder Studio, which includes developers from the oiginal Chibi-Robo series have revealed koROBO, a new game for current gen consoles and PC. Crowdfunding campaigns are due to begin on both Kickstarter and Campfire shortly. Set in a modern day apartment in Brocklyn, New Yock City, the game...

Tall Story Games, the developer behind the 2022 point-and-click adventure game Lucy Dreaming, has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its latest project, Heir of the Dog. Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 gothic novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the comedy...

KeokeN is delighted to announce theKickstarter Campaign for Deliver Us Home has hit its funding target. This means eveyrthing to the studio, who want to thank everyone that has helped them to continue their dream. Deliver Us Home, a solitary sci-fi experience where a lone astronaut seeks to...

Deneos Games, the developer behind Save Me Mr Tako, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its GBA-inspired RPG Tako no Himitsu: Oceans of Secrets, which is currently slated to launch in 2026. Boasting music from Motoi Sakuraba (Golden Sun) and Masanori Hikichi (Terranigma), the game might be...