Retro Remakes, the largest game remakes community on the internet has announced the winners of the Retro Remakes "Big 2006 Compo". This means that a slew of new Classic Remakes are available for your downloading pleasure. Congrats to all of the winners, especially those that took home some new X-Arcade™ toys from it!

The website has also just gotten a bit of a makeover - switched over to Wordpress and generally gave the whole thing a lick of paint. It looks great, and they have also announced that a new easier to navigate and fully searchable game remakes section is coming soon. We can't wait!

Check Out The Retro Remakes 2006 Winners

The Greatest Video Game Collection EVER!

This is not a warehouse, though it could be. This is not a rental store, one could only wish the local ones carried this many titles. This is not heaven, but if it was that would be sweet.

This collection is so big, this one picture simply does it no justice. Luckily there are plenty more, just click the link and pretend you are there...

Sneak Peek Into Heaven

Focus Group: Child's Play II

What happened when EGM printed that Donkey Kong is "lame." Tetris is "boring." Space Invaders "needs a superbomb or something." And why play Pong when it's more fun to "jump up and down on one foot"? It became their most popular article ever!

EGM and 1up.com rounded up nine children of the PlayStation generation—ages 9 to 12—and forced them to play a variety of titles from the late'70s to the mid-'80s.

And now they're doing it again with a new batch of scrubs and a new bucket of classic games. If you grew up with these classics prepare to feel very old.

Kids Do Say The Darndest Things

The Mario You've Never Heard Of...With ROM Download!

A piece of gaming history whose existence has until now escaped even the most supposedly definitive of books and web archives - a lost Super Mario Brothers game has been discovered!

Called "Super Mario Brothers Special", the game ran on the obscure Japanese PC-8001 computer, and was created in 1986 by veteran developers Hudson Soft. Looking and sounding very much like the arcade/NES original, SMB Special has two major differences to its parent.

Firstly, it contains a complete new set of levels, different from both the first game and the Japan-only "Super Mario Bros 2" which later appeared on the SNES Mario Allstars compilation. And secondly, rather than having a scrolling display in the manner of the other Mario games, SMBS features a flick-screen format which changes the gameplay significantly.

Despite these changes, and the primitive hardware the game was running on, SMB Special is an entertaining game, significantly harder than the original and a challenge even in comparison to the Japanese SMB2. But hey, don't take our word for it...

Download Super Mario Bros. Special

Never Fear, The Underdogs Are Here

Last month it was revealed that apparently abandonware has been legalized. So where must one go for their newfound classic gaming fix? The Underdogs is the legendary site dedicated solely to this spectrum of retro gaming . They have every classic PC game you could think of, and there are reviews for every game, along with what makes each game noteworthy. There's also a lengthy section devoted to the under-played masterpieces, and the organization of the site is incredible. Go! Go stroll down game-memory lane, right now!

The Underdogs Are HERE

Goldeneye: Source Beta Released!

In December 2005 we told you about Goldeneye Source, a 22-man team working to modernize Goldeneye 64 with the Half-Life 2 Source Engine, and an Alpha was released. Just when you thought the project at a standstill, they followed up last month with another present, the beta!

The mod, which requires a Source-based game to work, has already garnered much attention over the years for the level of detail in its stage design and weaponry. The beta version is much closer to a perfect remake of the game that revolutionized the FPS.

Download The Goldeneye Source Beta

Metal Slug Anthology Wii Released

The Metal Slug™ franchise offers some of the most hardcore traditional shooter gameplay to date, and is jam-packed with awesomely animated 2D art. It's kind of like Contra™ with a sense of humor. For arcade fans this compilation has been a long, long time coming.

Over the years there have been seven main Metal Slug games, labeled one through six, and Metal Slug X. For the first time, these six games are finally in the same package together and readily available somewhere other than an arcade or PC emulator (tisk tisk).

The reviews say that they just couldn't come up with a better way to play this classic with the Wiimote. Luckily though, you can play it the way it was meant to be played, yes the X-Arcade™ works with this game!

Check Out The Reviews

IGN's Best of 2006

Well, we blinked and 2006 was gone. Where did it go and what happened? Well, IGN has their yearly summary for those of you who slept through it.

2006 was a busy year with the release of two new gaming systems -- Sony's PS3 and Nintendo's Wii -- as well as the dawning of two new video platforms: HD-DVD and Blu-ray. Although this is a transition year both for videogames and the entertainment industry, we were certainly treated to some great games, movies, and CDs throughout 2006.

IGN's Best of 2006 Starts Here

Gamespot's Best of 2006

Not to be out done, Gamespot presents their Best and Worst of 2006. More than 40 unique award categories, celebrating the greatest achievements of the year in gaming--and commemorating some of the biggest missteps, too. It features many of the traditional categories that have carried GameSpot's Best and Worst for more than a decade, as well as a number of new ones inspired by the industry's changing trends and standards.

Not only do you get the addition of such categories as "Most Despicable Use of In-Game Advertising", "Worst Use of Celebrity Voices", and "Worst Game Everyone Played" , you also get videos for every one!

Gamespot's Best of 2006 This Way

IGN Takes On The Tank

As the X-Arcade Tankstick slowly makes it's way around the media houses and reviewers, it is quickly becoming clear that it's a hit. Now comes the review from one of the biggest and best gaming websites, IGN.com.

They start with the question "The best, most fully featured arcade stick ever?" and end with "it's arguably the best arcade stick available today.". You can't ask for better than that!

Thanks to IGN for taking the time to review it. Check out the full review..

IGN's Tankstick Review

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