John Girvin, the man behind Turbo Tomato and Dodgy Rocks, has been showing some early footage of his upcoming game, Rogue Declan: Zero. The game is described as a twinstick roguelite shooter for the Amiga, and features support for using two joysticks or a CD32 controller. You can see an alpha release video of … Rogue Declan Zero is upcoming twinstick shooter for Amiga
In the early days of the Amiga, the company wanted to show off it’s graphical capabilities, and so in 1985 Jack Haeger, art director of Commodore, produced a collection of images to show off what Commodore’s 16-bit computer could do. One of these images was Four-Byte Burger. The software that Haeger was using, Graphicraft, was … Ahoy’s Stuart Brown recreates lost Amiga art, Four-Byte Burger
Barren Planet is a turn-based strategy game by Cyningstan, which is designed to run on the original IBM PC from 1981. It supports the original 4.77 MHz 8088 processor, and requires only four-colour CGA graphics. It is compact enough to run from a 360k floppy disk. Players take on the role of a strategist, … New turn-based strategy game for DOS, Barren Planet
If you are the owner of Blaze’s latest console, the Evercade EXP, you may be wanting a way to keep your screen from getting scratched. Well never fear, the official Evercade EXP Tempered Glass Screen Protector Kit is here! According to Blaze it gives you all the protection you need for your Evercade EXP console, … Blaze Entertainment release official Evercade EXP Tempered Glass Screen Protector Kit
Last June, a new joystick – Unithor – launched on crowdfunding website, Kickstarter. The joystick, described as “a newly designed classic-styled game controller” featuring a choice of DB9/DE9 plug or USB, raised €64K and the product was expected to ship at the end of 2022. As the deadline passed by, backers were starting to get … Crowdfunded joystick, Unithor, appears to be dead
Sega and Lego have teamed up to create four new sets of Sonic Lego. With the brand new ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ product range from the LEGO Group, Sonic fans can build, create and play as Sonic, Tails, Amy and Dr. Eggman in levels including Sonic’s Speed Sphere, Tails’s Workshop and Tornado Plane, Amy’s Animal Rescue … Lego to launch Sonic the Hedgehog set
Chris Bradburne has made a BBC Micro conversion of Deathchase, the ZX Spectrum game by Mervyn Estcourt. Deathchase was originally released in 1983. It is a first-person vehicular combat that involves the player controlling a motorcycle and chasing down enemy bikers while avoiding obstacles in a forest environment. The game was published by British software … Beebchase – The BBC Micro gets its own version of Deathchase
Jack Dragon is a new arcade style, single screen platform game for the ZX Spectrum by Jeff Murray (aka PsychicParrot). You play as an Ice Dragon, attempting to save the land from the evil Lord Knumbskull. The Bomb Jack-inspired game has three difficulty modes, and the aim is to collect all of the gems to … New for the ZX Spectrum : Jack Dragon – a Bomb Jack style arcade game
Sega is to acquire Rovio, the company behind the classic mobile game, Angry Birds, for €706m. Angry Birds was originally launched for iPhone in 2009, which makes it a pretty retro iPhone game. Haruki Satomi, President and Group CEO, Representative Director of Sega Sammy, says “Among the rapidly growing global gaming market, the mobile gaming … Sega acquire Angry Birds maker, Rovio
Hamster have announced that Dig Dug II, has been released for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on April 13th, 2023, available digitally for their Arcade Archives series. Dig Dug II is an action game released by Namco in 1985. In this game, you must rid an island of the Pooka and Fygar. In addition to … Dig Dug II arrives on Hamster’s Arcade Archives