Limited Run Games has announced a slew of retro re-releases as part of its LRG3 summer showcase, including cult classic platformers, PS1-era action games, and more.
Over the course of the roughly 37-minute showcase, Limited Run revealed its intention to revive games from franchises like Gex, Tomba!, and Fighting Force, and we also got a new look at upcoming titles like Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland and Clock Tower: Rewind.
The show also saw Ubisoft finally unveiling Beyond Good and Evil: 20th Anniversary Edition, which was probably one of the company’s worst-kept secrets prior to the reveal. It’s landing on June 25th across PC and consoles. Sadly no news on the still-AWOL Beyond Good and Evil 2, though.
Also revealed during the showcase were new Carbon Engine releases for cult PS1 platformers Tomba and Tomba 2. The former is coming to PC, PlayStation, and Switch on August 1st, while the second doesn’t have a release date yet.
Those two games were far from the only fifth-generation strings to Limited Run’s bow, however. Fighting Force Collection will include Core Design’s two Fighting Force games and is coming to PC, PlayStation, and Switch in 2025, as is a Carbon Engine version of Fear Effect.
Of course, we also finally got confirmation that a long-missed hero of gaming is making a triumphant return. That’s right: Gex Trilogy is coming to PC and consoles, and it includes the first (and only) three Gex games.
The showcase concluded with the announcement of Bubsy In: The Purrfect Collection, which includes several remastered Bubsy games (including the much-maligned Bubsy 3D) as well as interviews and artifacts from the troubled mascot’s history.
It’s well worth checking out the full Limited Run Games showcase to see everything else the company announced. Though Limited Run has not been without its fair share of controversy over the years, these efforts to preserve gaming ephemera should be celebrated.
Here’s the full showcase in case you missed it and want to catch up.
