This Month In Retronauts: February 2026 edition (Patreon)

HELLLO we are back! But you knew that; this monthly practice is now commonplace. But who are "we," as that matter is far from decided? Well I am Diamond Feit and joining me for February are Stuart Gipp and Jess O'Brien. Also joining us are a TON of news items, hence the extreme length of the podcast. Tune in to learn which Retronauts regular is Baby, hear Stuart apologize for cursing (followed by more cursing), and find out how Stuart DESTROYS me with MY OWN LOGIC?? Egads.

Specific items mentioned in this episode include:

my intro makes light of Nobuo Uematsu's Valentine's Day tacos

Jess & Stu both appeared on Episode 591 (but I did not)

Never forget who produced Age Ain't Nothing But A Number 

High on Life 2

read Alec Robbins' comics! (some are NSFW)

Mewgenics and its "problematic meows"

Romeo is a Dead Man from Suda51/Grasshopper

watch the 2019 NHM3 trailer

 Jubensha, Worms Against Humanity, and Alice is Missing

.Hack//Infection

new game .hack//Z.E.R.O. JUST announced when we recorded this

various Silent Hill games and the recent movie

Retronauts Live Episode 26 in Oct 2011 (!) covered the ENTIRE series (!!)

a teaser for Jess' RiffTrax of Silent Hill (2006)

no Japanese theatrical release for the new flick, straight to streaming

グラウエンの鳥籠 aka "Birdcage of Horrors"

recently translated internet drama released online in Japan via the Dreamcast

it's even on Letterboxd!

Lovish (new game from Labsworks & Matt Kap)

my 2017 stream of Kuso remains online

Banjo: Recompiled for Windows, Linux, and Mac

Minecraft for the Sega Saturn

Final Fantasy on GOG:

Final Fantasy III & IV (3D Remakes)

Final Fantasy VIII Remastered

Final Fantasy IX (not in Japan)

Dino Crisis 1 & 2 dropped on Steam!?

GOG.com listed as "developer"

Wikipedia says Dino Crisis 3 does not feature "real dinosaurs" but "mutations"

I say [quietly] none of this is "real"

don't buy Code Violet, SGF already did

Stu's mystery game is out now: Tokyo Scramble (the dinos are called Zinos)

Rayman: 30th Anniversary Edition from Digital Eclipse

2D action game God of War: Sons of Sparta dropped during State of Play

from Mega Cat Studios/Sony Santa Monica

PC-98 "visual novel" Shizuku English patch

turned 30 in January

note the game is NSFW!

Bangai-O for N64 English patch

Hamster introduces CONSOLE Archives bringing old console games to modern platforms

Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse, out now!

the setting is indeed a fictional island, "Kameshima" (亀島)

Mie Prefecture, Tsu City, and the Ise area are all real though!

Alex coming to Street Fighter 6 in March, has his own anime theme song

also gets a new "Jazzy NYC" arrangement

Obey the Insect God coming to PC

top Youtube comment: "Close enough, welcome back Mortal Kombat Mythologies."

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream takes steps towards inclusion!

I wrote about the previous controversy in a column three years ago

BUT Nintendo is crippling online image sharing??

unreleased Virtual Boy games Zero Racers & D-Hopper coming to Switch Online

the official shell/viewer is optional but the display is stereoscopic

DIY solutions are already out in the wild

Sony State of Play

Time Crisis (PS1) coming in May to PS+

Sebmal (@mrdo.pro on BlueSky) is the "originator of #crisisposting"

Richard Miller, Dick Miller, same guy

Dead or Alive 6 Last Round coming in June

"I'm shortening "jiggle physics" to "jigfizz" and you should too!"

Stuart Gipp heartily endorses FlipWitch

Metal Gear Master Collection Vol 2 coming in August

MGS4, Peace Walker (HD), & Ghost Babel (is that "BAYbel" or "babble"?)

my Twitter is locked but you can still see Maddie in the MGS box

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse????????

the JP producer kept saying キャッスルヴァニア not 悪魔城ドラキュラ

Brian Clark's "The Fate of Castlevania" video, now more relevant than ever

Silent Hill Townfall coming 2026

developed by Screen Burn (formerly No Code) in Glasgow

Konami also dropped Super Bomberman Collection (worldwide)

Ganbare Goemon Daishūgō coming to PS5, Switch, & Steam

JP only but you can always import a disc/cart

John Wick game (no date) developed by Saber Interactive

John Wick Chronicles (VR) came out in 2017, Hex came out in 2019

multiple cameos in other games like Call of Duty & Fortnite

Ballerina gets a thumbs up from me despite my caveats

no shooting in this clip, it's GRENADES ONLY

God of War Trilogy Remake coming someday

literally zero footage, just some logos

does anyone want a Tecmo Bowl movie

Stu invites you all to enjoy this Family Guy sequence

"School RPG" Villion:Code coming in June (to Japan)

SMT/Persona veterans on the staff: Koji Okada, Tasashi Satomi, Tsukasa Masuko

Kyoto Xanadu also coming in "summer 2026"

Kensuke Tanabe says Metroid Prime 4 is his last game at Nintendo

Tanabe believes Risa Tabata will take over his future projects

Hideki Konno has also seemingly left Nintendo after (nearly) 40 years

updated his Facebook last summer to indicate his departure

Netflix pulling the plug on the PS3 app on March 2

is Xbox 360 oldest supported platform at this point?

Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection delisting March 31

Sony wants to patent "LLM-Based Generative Podcasts for Gamers"?

Polygon published a fun piece about this crap

Keiji Inafune's studio Comcept shuts down

Ubisoft hates people, video games, and art

"at least 1,200 employees" went on strike in protest of these moves

Riot Games lays off 80 devs after releasing free-to-play fighting game 2XKO in January

Wildlight Entertainment says hold my beer, lays off "most of" the Highguard team

the game's website also went down after we recorded this

RIP Shilo Prychak, co-founder of New Wave Toys

Shilo guested on Episode 404 to discuss Replicade

RIP Hideki Sato, former Sega president and "father of Sega hardware"

RIP Shutaro Iida aka Curry the Kid

the curry-throwing Castlevania skeletons are an "homage" to Iida

Koji Igarashi on Twitter: "It is no exaggeration to say that many titles that are considered masterpieces would not have been possible without his contributions."

Iida's final tweet: "The end is near. I'm in pain and grow weaker each day. Please love the upcoming Bloodstained 2 and the games I previously made."

talk of Mr. X in Resident Evil 2 leads to Metroid Dread complaints

by the time you read this RE9UIEM is less than one week away

can you think of other games that imitate RE2's Zapping System? Tell us!

Lucky Luke originated in Belgium although the cartoonist did work with others

the creator died in 2001 and the current writer is French

Sam Barlow has two unnamed projects in the works:

one collaboration with Brandon Cronenberg

another tagged as survival horror

Half Mermaid is Barlow's NY studio 

Art & edits by Diamond (photo source: Nobuo Uematsu on Twitter). Music heard in this episode:

7:54 "Age Ain't Nothing But A Number" as performed by a literal child

18:34 "Born to Be Wild" (愛と友情のネコ物語。 ジングルキャッツ ラブパラ大作戦の巻)

33:46 "You're Not Here" (Silent Hill 3)

44:49 "Hello Zepp" (the Saw music that we all know and love) 

51:58 "Kingdom of Birds" (Lovish)

1:02:58 speaking of Minmo

1:13:00 "GO! ALEX! Hope is Born!" by JAM Project

1:36:20 "The Beginning" (Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania)

1:52:39 audio from the Kyoto Xanadu website

2:22:43 "You're Not Alone" (Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow)

2:33:55 modded enhanced audio from Resident Evil 2 (2019)

2:49:32 "If U Can't Dance" (Spice World, PS1)

2:56:22 "Tower of Dolls" (fan remix)

Finale: "Powerful Baby" (That's the real title, I looked it up!)