Category: Indie Games News
It was released a few weeks ago a new episode of the Apple Time Warp podcast, a show hosted by John Romero (Wolfenstein 3D, Doom… you know him) and Craig Johnston. The podcast has a sparse schedule, with only eight episodes published in the last 6 years. This year, however, they managed to release two episodes, and with very prominent…
New entrant to the retro game publishing scene, Bitmap Soft have been busy signing up game titles to release to the market in physical cassette format. In addition to their launch titles – All Hallows (ZX Spectrum) and Chronicles of Nanako (Amstrad), Bitmap Soft have announced that they will be making available the following titles: Cousin Horace (ZX Spectrum) Gluf…
Stefan Vogt (@8bit_era on Twitter) has two text-adventure games (with nice graphics!) available for a while for the C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS. The games are Hibernated 1 and Eight Feet Under (an add-on for the former). If all that wasn’t enough, Stefan has announced yesterday that he ported the game for yet another…
Another World is one of those cornerstone titles that turned heads upon it’s initial release for the Amiga and Atari ST back in 1991 with its cinematic cut scenes and wonderful game art and animations, attaining both critical and commercial success. Digital Monastery (the gaming division within Hokuto Force) has just released the introductory cut scenes of Another World for…
The Future Was 8-bit (TFW8b), predominately known for producing SD2IEC devices and the Penultimate+ Cartridge for the VIC20, has recently launched a new ‘9.99 Range’ of cartridge games featuring a number of in-house and user created titles. Initially catering for the Commodore VIC20 and Commodore 64 platforms, the ‘9.99 Range’ launched with the following titles: Cheese and Onion (VIC20) Nibbler…
Christian Gleinser is the guy behind Dr. Wuro Industries and some of the most popular and unique games to come out for the C64 in decades. He joins AJ and Joerg to talk about how he got started, where he gets inspiration for creating such unique products, and where he’s headed in the future. Also, AJ learns some German. (Interview…
The Kilrathi-blasting space saga is set to return in style in this ambitious update to the Origin classic!
Following 6 months of ASM-hacking, register-poking and generally slaving over a hot keyboard, the C64 community has served up yet another batch of exciting and intriguing titles for this year’s RGCD 16K Cartridge Competition. An impressive 20 titles were submitted by the July 1st deadline, and it’s fair to say that the judging panel has its work cut out this…
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…
I confess I was unaware of this project until I saw the news on Call A.P.P.L.E. Thanks to them, ViTNO can share the good news. The CRPG Book Project is a collaborative, non-profit effort to create a free, easily available ebook on the history of Computer Role-Playing Games. The project started in 2014 and finally, late last year was finished….
