retro

Does Vblank’s ROM City Rampage signal a shift away from Retro as a trendy aesthetic?

26 Feb 2013 3 min read News

When we spoke to Brian Provinciano back in October 2011, he was nearing the end of work on his game Retro City Rampage, a parody of everything Eighties through the lens of a modern sandbox game like Grand Theft Auto (if that game came out for the NES). It was an ambitious project, especially for wha

Etrian Odyssey 4’s new art direction is impossibly banal

12 Feb 2013 2 min read News

A few years ago, when retro games were making a comeback, and new games were frequently “nostalgic” of games from the ‘80s and ‘90s, I admit I thought it was pretty great. Games looked like something I played as a kid on my huge analog tube television while sitting on shag carpet. We got a new class