Category: News
Mattias Gustavsson recently shared some interesting News on Facebook about a game called Afterworld. Even though this is the first time I have heard about this project, after a bit of investigating, it seems that this isn’t new News at all, as Mattias started work on the project way back in 2014. The game is much inspired by an old…
Back in June Nogalious was released for Windows PC. A successful Kickstarter project from 2017, Nogalious is a retro platformer, much in the style of many 8-bit video games of yesteryear. The evil Darama has kidnapped your daughter Mariet with a dark purpose that goes beyond ruling Russadir. You must cross different worlds until you reach the castle of Darama,…
I’m sure many of you have played Psytronik’s awesome Soulless on the Commodore 64 by now, a fantastic platform adventure with massive maps to explore, stunningly detailed graphics & animation, plus some very atmospheric soundtracks. For those of you that aren’t aware, a sequel is in the making. It was announced in May that the cavern level of the game…
We covered Clive Townsend’s upcoming Saboteur 3 back in June, which I am sure you are all very excited to hear about. It seems there is more good News on the horizon, with an announcement on Facebook not long ago by SimFabric Studio that Sabotuer will be heading it’s way to the Nintendo Switch console. The Switch version will be…
After a good read through Chris Wilkins new Retro Game magazine Fusion, it’s time to pre-order issue 2. Each issue is packed with no less than 52 pages of Retro Gaming content including Indie games, hand-held gaming, Arcade and even some info about current gaming too! The magazine is A5 in size and printed using high quality silk paper. For…
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…
Guillermo “Willysoft” Fuenzalida has created and released a selection of reproduction game cartridges for the Atari XE Video Game System (XEGS) console and other Atari XL/XE computers. What makes these reproduction cartridges interesting is the fact that they do not require a machine with expanded memory capabilities to run. This includes a selection of games that were available for the…
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, originally developed by Bitmap Brothers and released back in 1990, is a futuristic cyberpunk themed sports game that combined elements from both Ice Hockey and Handball, resulting in one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful sports game of the early 90s era. In a shining example of what positive outcomes can be produced by…
I recently received an email from one of our readers who asked us… “Why don’t we feature more Indie Games?” This is a good question, and in the past we have in fact featured a few Indie titles and Steam releases we thought were fitting. However, over time, these kinda got pushed to the back of the queue. As most…
We rarely share much Atari ST/e Homebrew, it’s not that we don’t cover it, more that there really isn’t much going on in the ST/e Homebrew scene compared to say C64, Spectrum and Amstrad. Today though we do have something special to share with you. A new Homebrew title for the Atari STe has been recently released, the game is…
