Welcome to our weekly feature, Virtually Overlooked, wherein we talk about games that aren't on the Virtual Console yet, but should be. Call it a retro-speculative.

Talking about the execrable Renegade last week put us in a Technos kind of mood. It's not really fair to Technos or to you to focus only on their one terrible NES game. Let's cleanse our palates together with a good Kunio game.

River City Ransom EX is a Game Boy Advance remake of the NES River City Ransom, which is significantly improved in almost every respect-- except boxart, unfortunately.

Hot on the heels of the smaller tech demo that NIBRIS recently showed us is this fairly lengthy trailer for Raid Over the River. While mostly comprised of cutscenes, the trailer does feature some gameplay that looks very exciting. Now that we've actually seen something concrete on the game from NIBRIS, we're anxious to get our hands on the game.

You know, NIBRIS has been talking about Raid Over the River for quite some time now, providing little-to-no explanation of the method to their madness. That is, until now. Over at the Gamespot forums, one of the NIBRIS staff dropped a small tech demo for the DS version of their upcoming title Raid Over the River. While only a short clip, it manages to boast some amazing graphics and what already looks to be an equally wonderful gameplay experience. A direct link to the video may be found here.

See also:

• Raid Over the River a DS game too?
• New Raid Over the River info, screens

[Note: Video is in .avi format and requires the Divx codec to play.]

According to Advanced Media Network, they were notified via email today that Polish publisher NIBRIS would be unable to show their recently announced title Sadness at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo as they are without publisher. AMN have said that they expect their other title for the Revolution, Raid Over the River, to in fact be making it to the show. There is a silver lining to this dark cloud, however, as NIBRIS has confirmed that they will have new media to present for Sadness come the end of April.

NIBRIS has been so kind as to provide an extensive array of pictures and content of the most delicious sort in regards to their upcoming Revolution title Raid Over the River. The lucky recipients over at Revolution Report have up an extensive 4 page first look into the title.

"The main character of the game is a 40 year-old veteran of the "Sand Storm" operation, named David McBride. He discovers, by pure coincidence, the plans of the "Molayarius" sect which wants to summon a demon by the name of "Bafomet" into existence. By co-operating with one of the members of the sect (who continuously sabotages their actions), David strives to halt Molayarius' plans."

The article also goes on to provide overviews of not only the other characters who'll be in the game and the two main organizations, The Molayar and Order of the Nine, who represent the evil and good respectively. This war between the two takes place throughout several different time periods including World War II (yawn), the year 2024, and the time of Antiquity where Ramzes the 2nd reigned.

Also, the piece goes into some details regarding every mission in the game, so those who would not wish to have it spoiled for them might want to stop reading at page 2.