When you take retro-style in the broadest sense, it comes with both a sense of comfort and a set of rules that feel ...

Few arcade shooters have left fingerprints as deep as R-Type. Its imagery is burned into the collective memory: the Force ping-ponging about the screen, the Wave Cannon charging in silence, levels ...

Like a Pokemon that hit itself in confusion, my mind was a bit of a mess as I started playing R-Type Final 3 Evolved. See, the game’s opening sequence starts out exactly just like R-Type Final 2. I ...

'R-Type Dimensions III' will be released in May 2026. In a rather interesting announcement, ININ Games will be publishing R-Type Dimensions III next May, bringing the classic SNES shmup to modern ...

ININ Games and Tozai Games announced the latest entry in the R-Type franchise, as R-Type Dimensions III is in the works for next year. The team boasts that this game will build upon the previous two ...

In what is already the weirdest thing we've seen in 2025 (two days in), someone decided to make a parody version of R-Type featuring the cartoon strip Garfield. Simply called Gar-Type, this is a ...

Granzella has simultaneously announced two new R-Type titles that it will release in 2023. The company revealed R-Type Final 3 Evolved for PlayStation 5 Kite is a Japanese translator and avid gamer ...

Mohamed from Egypt has been covering Japanese and indie games for more than 5 years for local and international outlets. He is very interested in the Japanese language and culture, and is a long term ...

TL;DR: ININ Games mistakenly revealed smaller Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge sizes, later clarifying no official announcement exists. Nintendo currently produces only costly 64GB Switch 2 cartridges, ...

I always loved the R-Type games, but never had the skills to get past the second level with the brutal Revival (Classic) respawn system. This package finally lets me see the later levels in both their ...