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Audi Sorlie is back, joining John Linneman for the first of two Nintendo Game Boy specials. Each of them picks their top three titles for the classic Nintendo handheld, with …

MegaMan X on Super NES is a much-beloved platform game that still holds up well today, but did you know that the Sony PSP actually hosted a full 2.5D remake? …

Haven't heard of Gunbuster, or Operation Gunbuster? We're not surprised. It's an arcade shooter from 1992 released mere months after Wolfenstein 3D re-architected the first-person shooter on PC. The thing …

Crowds in games used to be a big focus on prior generation consoles, culminating in - and ending with - Assassin's Creed Unity. However, back in the PS2 era, developers …

Join John Linneman along with Marc and Coury from My Life in Gaming to review some of the MLiG team's never-seen-before 60fps footage taken from the showfloor at E3 2002! …

John Linneman teams up with My Life In Gaming's Marc Duddleson to re-examine Microsoft's attempt at a console mascot character - Blinx! Both the original game and its sequel get …

The Legend of Doom is a total conversion of id Software's classic Doom, created by DeTwelve, looking to recreate the original NES classic in its entirety within the Doom engine. …

The recent release of GoldenEye 007 for Xbox consoles and Nintendo Switch was certainly an event, but it's not the first time that GoldenEye returned to consoles. Way back in …

Far Cry 3 is a brilliant game - so brilliant, in fact, that it's still fun to play even in the face of some of the worst levels of performance …

John and Audi (fresh from a rainy day outside) are back with a mammoth 93 minute Q+A session, exclusive to our Retro Patreon tier! From converting CRT sets to collecting …

The RetroBuds strikes back with yet another installment of DF Retro Play, and this time it's all about 3D! The boys take on a set of Super Nintendo 3D games, …

In another close collaboration with My Life in Gaming, DF Retro presents Final Fantasy 13 - the full story. John Linneman and Marc Duddleson revisit the origins of this fascinating …

The Bodacious RetroBros are back with another pickups. Summer is over and winter is looming, so the boys snuggled up and found their warmest pickups for the season. John sought …

DF Retro's journey across the generations of Namco's Klonoa saga concludes in this second part, where John Linneman - joined by Coury Carlson from My Life In Gaming - take …

The NEW DF Retro finally emerges from early access, split into two parts. John Linneman and My Life in Gaming's Coury Carlson join forces to revisit Namco's Klonoa sage across …

Remember Geo-Mod? Created by Volition for Red Faction, Geo-Mod essentially delivered dynamic, destructible enviroments. The system evolved considerably over time, but in this video we're going back to its very …

Yes Patrons, it has been a while since we last talked pickups but we are finally back and settled in so why not kick it all off with an extended …

John Linneman and Coury Carlson from My Life In Gaming team up to discuss 25 years of Klonoa, from the game's origins before and up to the original PS1 debut, …

Hailing from the tail-end of 2005, True Crime: New York City is an exceptionally impressive console game... on PlayStation 2 and OG Xbox at least. The situation is somewhat less …

The RetroBuds are back with a brand new DF Retro Play! Months ago, we took a look at N64 futuristic racers. This time, we take a look at a selection …

THE FINAL PART OF A FOUR-PART SPECIAL! In an era defined by sub-HD resolutions and 'challenging' performance, the concept of PlayStation 3 delivering on its promised 1080p dream seems almost …

PART THREE OF A FOUR-PART SPECIAL! In an era defined by sub-HD resolutions and 'challenging' performance, the concept of PlayStation 3 delivering on its promised 1080p dream seems almost ridiculous. …

PART TWO OF A FOUR-PART SPECIAL! In an era defined by sub-HD resolutions and 'challenging' performance, the concept of PlayStation 3 delivering on its promised 1080p dream seems almost ridiculous. …

In an era defined by sub-HD resolutions and 'challenging' performance, the concept of PlayStation 3 delivering on its promised 1080p dream seems almost ridiculous. And it's true that only a …

Randy Linden is a bonafide industry legend and trailblazer in the arts of video game development. From his early start calling programmers on the phone at age 11, join us …

Like Streets of Rage 4 before it, TMNT Shredder's Revenge works wonders in modernising the 2D arcade brawling concept, delivering a stunning sequel to the classic Konami arcade machine. John …

Yes, another quarterly installment of our Retro Q&A, which seems to always grow in length each time we sit down to record them. This time we field over 30 questions …

In an era defined by sub-HD resolutions and 'challenging' performance, the concept of PlayStation 3 delivering on its promised 1080p 'dream' seems almost ridiculous. And it's true that only a …

Journey back to 2003 and the misbegotten arrival of the PC port of Turok Evolution. Can the power of the Turok series mitigate the awful shortcomings of the PC version …

On this special overseas episode of Pickups, Audi visits Marc 'Try4ce' Duddleson from My Life in Gaming for an extended look at the many games they procured during the trip. …

From the infamous target render, through early production to release and onto the birth of a new racing franchise, John Linneman revisits the Motorstorm Saga, from the three main series …

The Retro Best Buds are back in town, and this time around they are going all the way back to March 2002, issue #4 of the Official Xbox Magazine demo …

Pocky and Rocky's original Japanese release on SNES was 30 years ago, but the three key figures in its development are still making games - and this year, they've gone …

Known for its extreme gore and near-constant death screams back at launch in 2000, Soldier of Fortune finally receives the Digital Foundry retro time capsule treatment, with Alex Battaglia breaking …

A polarising game on PlayStation 3 - and a title that never escaped the limitations of the hardware - until the arrival of accurate PS3 emulation. John Linneman revisits the …

John Linneman concludes his analysis of the early days of Gran Turismo with this detailed look at Polyphony Digital's PlayStation 2 era games - what made them special, and how …

Join Audi Sorlie for a deep dive into the Amiga A500 Mini - it's a mini-computer that aims to bring back the heights of 16-bit microcomputer gaming. Emulation is decent, …

The infamous E3 press conference from 2005, where Sony first presented the PlayStation 3 alongside an assortment of real and 'fake' tech demos. This has been AI upscaled from a …

Originally released in Japan in 1997, Sony's Gran Turismo for PlayStation 1 revolutionised the driving game for console players. In this special DF Retro episode - split into two parts …

The Retro Brüders are back with DER ULTIMAT RETRO SPIEL PICK UP SHOW! This time around, the best buds goes over some interesting aftermarket games across several systems, John picks …

Following on from the release of Gran Turismo 7 for PlayStation 5, John Linneman goes back in time to the original PlayStation era, revisiting the origins of Polyphony Digital, the …

The Retro bestbuds™ are back with another Patreon exclusive installment of DF Retro Pickups! This time, suspiciously sporting the same haircuts they had 3 months back, John and Audi highlight …

Lobotomy Software's amazing Powerslave (or Exhumed as it's also known) is easily one of the greatest first-person shooters of the Sega Saturn/Sony PlayStation era. Nightdive Studios returns to the game …

The boys are back in town, and they're having themselves a Disney afternoon. This time around, John and Audi go for some co-op action in Capcom's excellent Magical Quest 3, …

Rejoice! Retro Corner is back for another installment kicking of 2022 in proper style! In this episode, John Linneman and Audi Sorlie discuss various news from the retro community over …

90 minutes, 30 questions, GO! Audi and John are back with another Retro Q&A, answering all of you retro supporters' most burning questions. And we run the whole gamut here, …

Content sponsored by Nvidia. In this DF Retro special, we revisit the original GPU - the Nvidia GeForce 256. First released in 1999 in an age of phenomenal progress in …

Namco struck gold with the brilliant Splatterhouse - an arcade game that tapped into the horror movie genre that was so popular back in the 1980s. In this DF Retro …

The Analogue Pocket aims to bring us the definitive handheld experience for classic gaming, combining FPGA-based emulation with a simply sensational, state-of-the-art LCD display. The pedigree of Analogue is beyond …

With the upcoming arrival of Halo Infinite and its campaign's many callbacks to the original Combat Evolved, John and Audi decided to revisit the original game, as played on classic …