Atelier Marie: The Alchemist of Salburg is a role-playing video game developed by Gust Co. Ltd. and released in Japan for the PlayStation console in 1997. The game was soon ported to the Saturn and Microsoft Windows, and later PS2 and Dreamcast. The game never recieved an official English translation at the time. Koei Tecmo … Atelier Marie to get remake and English translation
Pixel Addict, the multi-format retro tech magazine from the same people as Amiga Addict, has just launched its Issue 9. The cover story is about the cultural impact of the original PlayStation, which features guests including Violet Berlin (Bad Influence), Dominik Diamond (GamesMaster), Geoff Glendenning (Sony), Glen O’Connell (Psygnosis), Julian “Jax” Rignall (Virgin Interactive), Alex … Issue 9 of Pixel Addict out now
We’ve updated our mega list of Antstream games, with the latest games added to the retro-game streaming service. The new games included Loaded – the first PlayStation game added to Antstream. The line-up of newly added games include: Amiga Fire & Forget II Amstrad CPC Cybernoid II: The Revenge Splat! Who Dares Wins II Arcade … Latest games added to Antstream Arcade, including first PlayStation game for the system, Loaded.
Mike Dailly, the creator of Lemmings and GTA, has made the design documents for Grand Theft Auto 2 available on his website. As well as docs for GTA2, the website also features design information and history for Lemmings and the original GTA. You can find the GTA docs by going to http://lemmingsgame.com -> Pictures/Projects -> … Mike Dailly makes GTA2’s game design documents available on his website
Bandai Namco Entertainment are teaming up with Wayfarer Studios to produce a live-action Pac-Man film. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the movie is based on an original idea from Chuck Williams – producer of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie. Really, we have absolutely no idea how Pac-Man will translate to a live-action movie, but it … Live-Action Pac-Man Movie in the works, plus re-boot of Pac-Man World
Update July 2023 – Antstream now lists all the games on their platform on this page here. When we first looked at Antstream Arcade three years ago, it featured just over 500 games across C64, Spectrum, Amiga, Megadrive, and Arcade platforms. Since then the platform has grown to include additional platforms (MSX, DOS, Atari Lynx, … List of games available on Antstream Arcade (Updated August 2022)
In Net Yaroze Month, we are playing every Net Yaroze game featured on the UK Official Playstation Magazine, and ranking them all in the order we liked them. You may have other opinions as to the ranking, which is awesome. To learn more about Net Yaroze, read our introductory article here. Game: Super Bub Contest … Net Yaroze Month: Super Bub Contest
Sew 8-bit, who create plushes of a range of game characters have announced the launch of a new cuddly version of Alfred Chicken. Alfred Chicken was a platform game launched in the nineties on a variety of platforms including the Amiga, SNES, PlayStation and Game Boy.
There’s a whole bunch of retro-game related croud funding projects being crowd-funded at the moment – here are a few of our picks. The ones nearer the top of the article are ending soonest, so act fast if you’re interested. Bear in mind that when you contribute to a crowd-funding campaign, there is no guarantee … Round-Up of retro-gaming crowd funding projects : July 2020
For those of us that still use snail-mail, the Royal Mail are launching a set of stamps commemorating the history of the British video game industry. The stamps feature images from Elite (BBC Micro), Dizzy (ZX Spectrum), Sensible Soccer (Amiga), Lemmings (Amiga), Populous (Amiga), Worms (Amiga), Micro Machines (Mega Drive), Wipeout (PlayStation) and various Tomb … Royal Mail to release stamps commemorating History of British Video Games