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Debug is a brand new quarterly magazine purely for Indie Games. WAVE Game Studios, which has published a large number of new indie SEGA Dreamcast games since 2021, and Super8 Media, publishers of the popular gaming magazine, SEGA Powered, have united to launch Debug, a quarterly publication...

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...

Arlasoft have created a version of the 1983 8-bit classic, Chuckie Egg, in Z80 assembly to run on Ponpoko arcade hardware. Arlasoft say: "It's the port possibly only one person wanted, the home computer classic from 1983, complete with its trademark janky physics and platforming action, now...

Plants vs Zombies is a tower defence game that was originally launched by Popcap in 2009. The game made its way to a variety of platforms such as Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, iOS and Android, and Popcap was eventually acquired by EA. Once platform it didn't launch on was the Commodore 64. Well...

Awesome VIC-20 racer, Super Monza Grand Prix has had a small update, so you can now change the difficulty of the game. Author, AJ Layden says: "Seeing as the game was proving to be a little tough for some players I have added an option to select the difficulty in the "race for position" mode...

Earlier this year when appearing on the news, it was noticed that Andrew Gwynne MP, Shadow Minister for Public Health had a VIC-20 on his desk. We reached out to Mr Gwynne, not to ask about his ideas for health policies, but to chin-wag about old Commodore computers! Was the VIC-20 your first...

When I was growing up, I had the luxury of having the best (cough) 8-bit computer, the wonderful Commodore Plus/4. No-one wrote games for the Plus/4 but they did wrote games for its less capable sister, the Commodore 16. One company that released a fair few C16 games was Uk-based Tynesoft...

The Mojon Twins have released a new game for the ZX Spectrum, Zombi Mall. The game sees you hiding out in a mall to hide from the hungry undead. There's food in the mall, you should be fine right? But no, the Zombies have found their way in... The doors gave in to the horde and the undead...

Oscarbraindead has launched One-Bit Demon Attack for the Playdate. The game is inspired by Demon Attack - the classic game for Atari 2600, Intellivision, VIC 20 and more. The author says it is not intended to be a remake, nor a reboot of it and of course it is not endorsed by it in any way...

Fans of Rhythm Shooter games such as Rez or Child of Eden should check out Oratorio - a new game by John Vanderhoef for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game was originally created as a demo for the NESMaker Byte-Off III (2022) competition. This demo features a full stage, which consists...

Launched over the weekend, was Knights & Slimes, a new single-screen platform game for the Commodore 64. The game was coded by Monte Boyd, who previously brought us the C64 game, Monster Catcher. You can choose from eight different knight characters to play, and the aim is to clear the kingdom...

A few years ago we did a round-up of 20 great Vic-20 Homebrew games. Well, in the last few years the humble Vic has seen a great number of new games. Many of these games will require memory expansions, if you are running on real hardware, but all should run fine on emulators such as VICE or...

Reset64 have released a compliation of all of the games entered into their annual Craptastic C64 competition. Each of the games entered need to be less than 4K in size. Reset64 say: It certainly doesn’t mean crap, although it can! Craptastic can mean ludicrous, bonkers, outrageous, funny...

From the same people who gave us the awesome Plus/4 platformer, Pets Rescue, comes a new adventure / RPG for the Plus/4 and C64. Lykia is an epic quest for the C64 and expanded C16 + Plus/4 that spans 4 disk-sides! The beautifully presented adventure features lots of characters to interact with...

Bukster Games have created a new ZX81 game, which runs on an expanded 16K machine. If you have a Chroma Interface, you can see the game in colour, and if you have a Zonk Sound Interface, you can have sound too! Buckster says: The game uses a unique 3D rendering system which allows the computer...

Dungeoneer is a new game for the Atari 8-bit computers by godlikemouse - collect money, keys, open doors and avoid monsters and traps. See how far into the dungeon you can get. Godlikemouse says on AtariAge, "I used to program on the Atari computers when I was a kid, I used BASIC back in the...

In 2020, Amstrad coder Abalore released their Amstrad port of Toaplan's arcade shooter, Slap Fight. If you act fast, you now have the opportunity to purchase the game as a cartridge for the GX4000 and CPC Plus models. (If you don't have a cartridge port on your Amstrad then Abalore also sell a...

James Lambert is currently working on an Nintendo 64 version of Valve's classic game Portal. You can see how he is getting on as he regularly updates his Youtube channel with the latest updates. You can also download the latest build to test here. Portal is a first-person puzzle game...

Here's a brief run down of recent ports, home-brew and indie games from the last few weeks. Check out the video at the end, and if you've made a game for a retro machine that you'd like us to cover please let us know :) Beethoven's Revenge (ZX Spectrum) Check out our news article here...

Somehow Beethoven has come back to life and has been imprisoned alongside other great composers. Break out of prison and collect the necessary instruments to rescue your fellow composers. Perhaps then, you can "seize fate by the throat", and maybe even the one who captured you... The game is...