Category: PC
Developer Sunteam has announced that their retro-inspired game Grelox is close to completion, and has released a new website and set of screenshots. Grelox is inspired by the Sega Master System game Zillion (an indeed uses the SMS colour palette) and casts you as a ‘Galactic Troubleshooter’ who has to infiltrate the base of the curiously named ‘Lady Mandrill’. The…
John Romero is one of the most famous computer game designers, most known for his 3D Ego shooters like Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Quake, and the jump’n’run series “Commander Keen” In this interview he talks about his history in the video game industry, how he happen to design the games he did, working together with other industry legends like Bobby Prince…
EA has finally revealed information regarding it’s plans to remaster the classic PC real-time strategy series, Command & Conquer. The franchise will be celebrating it’s 25th anniversary in two years time, and EA has finally confirmed that remasters of the original games being developed to mark the occasion. In a post created on the Command & Conquer reddit, EA producer…
PLATO is the great, great, great granddaddy of the online computer network. Developing forums, email, multiplayer networked games, screen sharing, and instant messaging, it is responsible for many of the things we take for granted today. AJ and Joerg take a deep dive with IRATA.ONLINE’s Thomas Cherryhomes into why PLATO is as awesome as it is, and how it still…
You feel dizzy and your head is spinning around, you open your eyes only to find yourself in a filthy room. You stand up and you realize that you are hostage inside an asylum. There is something worse than your headache, the thing that you don’t remember anything about your past. You suffer amnesia and you have to read the…
How do you keep track of all the different machines released over the years? How do you catalogue different versions of games, down to the different packaging? And how can you ensure that the game you’re looking for is real and authentic? Databases, that’s how! The Martin Ahman, AJ Heller and Joerg Droege talk to Fred Fischer from Consolevariations and…
Our yearly gamescom podcast special (#54) has been released now: https://scene.world/gc2018podcast (video+audio versions). Martin Ahman, AJ Heller and Joerg Droege are talking about the experiences in the #retro area & biz area at our appointments EA – Electronic Arts, Konami THQNordic and Assemble Entertainment
Readers of a certain age will almost certainly remember the CD-ROM revolution of the 1990s. Suddenly the entire games industry was fixated on filling shiny discs with streamable audio and heavily compressed pre-rendered video. This led to the new era of fully voiced games. Exciting, right? Unfortunately, like a puppy climbing the stairs, this proved to be somewhat of a…
In this edition of Retro Revisited, we’ll be looking back at Syndicate Wars, the much-anticipated sequel to one of the best real-time action-strategy games of the early 90’s, Syndicate. The original game proved to be incredibly popular, and remains one of my favourite games of all time – to say that I was excited when I learned that a sequel was in development would be something of an understatement! The game…
We just received some fantastic News from Jason Aldred a few minutes ago. Everyone’s favourite C64 Shoot ’em up Galencia is coming to Steam today! Paulo Garcia wrote a full game review back in early January which you can read again here. Everyone at Vitno HQ have been putting the game through it’s paces, and we are delighted to let…
