Yesterday, Panic announced a Playdate Update and gave news of amongst other things, an official game store for the yellow handheld device. Reel Steal and Recommendation Dog are two new games available as part of Season 1 of games for every Playdate owner. Reel Steal is a heist game, where thieves are hired to reclaim … Panic add store to Playdate, and announce upcoming price increase
PuttyCAD have released a new shoot-em-up game for the ZX Spectrum. Baby-man Vs Man-baby sees you take on the role of Henry McMannish-man, who has been transformed into an under-cover baby, and sent back in time to deal with a terrible tantrumming tyrant to try to get him to change his ways before he becomes … Baby-man Vs Man-baby is new shooter for ZX Spectrum
The Amiga is being blessed with not one but two new point-and-click adventures. Geo’s Quest “In Search of Queen Lorraine” The game is created in the early Roberta Williams Sierra Quest low res hand drawn 32 color games. It is part of a 9 chapters (this one has 3 chapters) of a parody of … Amiga gets two new point-and-click adventures
Hamster have embiggened their Arcade Archives collection with the addition of Namco shooter, Sky Kid DX. Sky Kid Deluxe (as it was known), was the sequel to Sky Kid, and was the first game to run on the Namco’s System 86 hardware. Players control BARON and MAX to fight enemies with bombs and machine … Hamster add Sky Kid DX to Arcade Archives
If you want to give your SD Cards that retro look, how about getting them some new ‘costumes’? Charlyn Gonda is selling stickers to make your SD’s look like their retro cousins, the floppy disk. Gonda says: “Love the retro look of floppy disks, but frustrated that your modern tech isn’t compatible? Look no further! … Want to make your SD cards look more retro? Now you can turn them into mini Floppies
The Nokia 3310 jam is celebrating its 5th year, and voting has now closed for the winner of the current edition. The idea of the jam is to make a game within the limitations of the Nokia 3310 mobile phone – the games don’t actually have to run on the classic phone, but they need … Winners announced for 5th annual Nokia 3310 jam
Fusion Books have launched new issues of Fusion and Crash Magazine, plus a new ZX Spectrum themed radio station, Crash Radio. Fusion Issue #42 Includes reviews of Wonder Boy Anniversary Collection, Clive ‘n’ Wrench, Evercade C64 Collection1, Dead Space, Deliver Us Mars, Sega Genesis Mini 2, and Capcom Fighting Collection. Plus interviews with Paul Romero … New issues of Fusion and Crash Magazine available, and Crash Radio launch
Islandtimelabs’ The Beach Bum Pays His Rent, is a new Game Boy game, where you must find and sell stuff to pay your rent. It’s the end of the month and the Beach Bum still hasn’t paid his rent…and his landlord is not stoked! Help the Bum earn rent money all around the beach … GBC game The Beach Bum Pays His Rent, now available on physical cart
Blaze Entertainment have teased their upcoming Amiga cart for their Evercade system on their Twitter account. The Amiga will be the second home computer platform to come to the Evercade after the Commodore 64. Evercade announced in October last year that Amiga games will be coming to Evercade – “Home computing is something we’re passionate … Blaze tease upcoming Amiga Evercade cart
The NES has a new block-based puzzle game, Blazing Blocks, by Antoine Fantys of FG Software. Antoine says “I’ve been recently seeing people playing a very specific puzzle game on their phone on the train, the kind where you make lines by placing blocks on a grid. Upon seeing this, I thought it was a … New NES puzzle game: Blazing Blocks