{"id":30781,"date":"2026-02-10T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/?p=30781"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:00:18","slug":"shadow-gangs-gets-reprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/modding\/shadow-gangs-gets-reprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreamcast Action Title Shadow Gangs Gets Reprint Thanks To PixelHeart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/shadow-gangs-reprint\/\">reported<\/a> on the <strong>Shadow<\/strong> <strong>Gangs<\/strong> reprint back in September 2025 when the pre-orders went up on publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pixelheart.eu\/en\/?s=Shadow+gangs&amp;utm_source=mailpoet&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source_platform=mailpoet&amp;utm_campaign=Shadow%20Gangs%20Dreamcast%20PixelHeart%20Edition!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>PixelHeart<\/strong>\u2019s website<\/a>. Following some delays, the highly acclaimed Dreamcast side-scroller is finally available to buy. The PAL editionis limited to 1000 copies and will be selling fast, so interested parties should get in quick to avoid disappointment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Shadow Gangs<\/strong> is an arcade-style ninja action game developed by <strong>JKM<\/strong> <strong>Corps<\/strong> with HD hand-drawn graphics and traditional animation. Players take control of Dan, the current master of the ninja order. Their mission is to rescue their family from the Shadow Force crime organization, known as the Shadow Gangs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a press statement, <strong>PixelHeart<\/strong> said. \u201cAfter months of anticipation, preparation, and passion, <strong>Shadow<\/strong> <strong>Gangs<\/strong> is officially available for purchase on Dreamcast PAL, US, and JPN in the PixelHeart edition. This release marks an important milestone for everyone who has followed the project since its inception, as well as those who are discovering the game today. Shadow Gangs now joins the catalog of titles available to the public, ready to be played, collected, and shared.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Key features:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HD sprites and background art<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">15 levels, and a special bonus stage<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6 bosses<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10 different melee attacks, 2 hero forms<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 30 different enemies<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">11 different music tracks<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3 difficulty levels<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Shadow Gangs Release Trailer\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p4U_eapqHeE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We first reported on the Shadow Gangs reprint back in September 2025 when the pre-orders went up on publisher PixelHeart\u2019s website. Following some delays, the highly acclaimed Dreamcast side-scroller is finally available to buy. The PAL editionis limited to 1000 copies and will be selling fast, so interested parties should get in quick to avoid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[258,259,63,260],"class_list":["post-30781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modding","tag-dreamcast","tag-jkm-corps","tag-pixelheart","tag-shadow-gangs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}