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While we hope that visitors to our site enjoy the many articles and written content we produce, we also have our own channel on YouTube! We’ve just uploaded several new videos, including some classic productions from the Amiga demoscene, namely State of the Art (Spaceballs) and Arte (Sanity). Just to mix things up, we’ve also captured and uploaded some impressive Windows…
We recently ran a retrospective on Lankhor’s 90’s detective adventure game, Maupiti Island, and it seems that we’re not alone when it comes to remembering this classic title. Thanks to a heads-up from our community, we learned that French development studio, Milleniumprod, has announced that it intends to create a new and updated version of the game for modern audiences. In an interview…
US-based indie game developers, Pixel Arc Studios, has released a short clip of it’s up-and-coming title, Bushiden. Taking inspiration from such 16-bit side-scrolling platformers of the past as Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master (Sega Mega Drive), as well as Capcom’s Strider, Bushiden focus is on fast-paced, rush-and-attack melee combat, chaining together strings of combos in an acrobatic display of…
If you’re a fan of retrogaming – why else are you here? – then be sure to check out Digital Foundry’s latest deep-dive (pun intended) into the history and use of water in video games. From the 16-bit era through to N64 and beyond, series host John Linneman (@dark1x) looks back at some of the milestones in games technology, and…
In this retrospective, we’ll be revisiting what I consider to be one of the most remarkable games that I was fortuitous enough to experience on my Commodore Amiga. Developed by French studio Lankhor and published in 1991, Maupiti Island is the second – and last – in a series of crime-themed adventure games starring the studio’s fictional detective, Jérôme Lange. Set…
Back in 1992, Nintendo scored a major exclusive with Capcom’s seminal tournament fighter, making it one of the main reasons to buy the SNES over the Sega Mega Drive. Sega fans would eventually receive an official conversion in the form of Street Fighter II Championship Edition from Capcom a year later in ’93, but, despite the studio’s efforts, it didn’t quite…
Finnish development studio Kamina Dimension has launched a Kickstarter campaign for it’s new action-adventure game, MindSeize. In this new indie title, players assume the role of a private investigator on the hunt for members of a criminal organisation known as ‘The Ascended’, an enigmatic cult that intends to transcend the boundaries of mere mortality. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1708957978/mindseize?ref=project_link In a bid to bring an…
Gamers looking for some old-school, hardcore run and gun shooting action would do well to take a look at Blazing Chrome, a new indie game title in development by Joymasher. Inspired by such quintessential run ‘n gun shooters as Contra III: The Alien Wars and Metal Slug, Joymasher certainly appears to be distilling the essence from some of the genre’s…
Anyone self-respecting Commodore Amiga owner must surely be familiar with Graftgold, arguably one of the most prominent and talented British software houses during the 1980’s and 1990’s. Among the talented programmers and artists to work alongside Steve Turner was Andrew Braybrook, author of critically acclaimed Uridium for the Commodore 64, and many other titles; he runs and maintains a personal…
For this retrospective, let’s dial back the clock to 1998, one of the most significant years in the history for video games and for good reason. Valve Software would raise the bar with the seminal Half-Life, a first person shooter that broke the mould in terms of storytelling, narrative and flow, whilst Epic MegaGames would release the visually stunning Unreal,…
