A long-lost Thomas the Tank Engine game for the Commodore 64 has finally surfaced, more than three decades after it quietly vanished during development. Back in the early 1990s, Thomas the Tank Engine 2 appeared repeatedly in Commodore Format magazine’s Early Warning Scanner, but never progressed beyond brief mentions. WithRead More →
Against all expectations — and after one of the messiest chapters in modern retro hardware history — the Intellivision Sprint is now officially on sale in Europe. Launched today by PLAION REPLAI in collaboration with Atari, the Intellivision Sprint arrives just in time for Christmas, positioning itself as a premiumRead More →
There are retro-inspired games, and then there are games that look like they crawled out of a time rift and refused to update their design documents. Beyond Logic very much falls into the latter category. Now available on Steam, Beyond Logic is a family-friendly puzzle and logic game that tasksRead More →
Hong Kong 2097, the official sequel to one of the most notorious games of the 16-bit era, won’t be launching on Steam after all. The developers behind the project — Kanipro and Kowloon Kurosawa (Happy Soft), the creator of the original Hong Kong 97 — have confirmed that Steam hasRead More →
Retro Game Zine is shaking things up for 2026, with a new quarterly format launching via Kickstarter — and the first issue is already live and looking for backers. Published by Pixels and Polygons, the newly titled Retro Game Zine Quarterly 2026 Q1 marks a shift away from the previousRead More →
Good news for physical media fans — R-Type Dimensions III is now getting a proper, full cartridge release on Nintendo Switch 2 in both Europe and the US. Following community feedback and a lot of very loud (and very justified) discussion around preservation and physical ownership, the publisher has confirmedRead More →
The Game Boy Camera was never meant to be scary — which makes Encryptid all the more unsettling. Announced by Autumn Knight (Morph Girl, Dark Nights with Poe & Munro), Encryptid is an FMV horror game built around real footage captured using the original Game Boy Camera, and it’s headingRead More →
Every now and then, a new Amiga game pops up that makes you stop, squint at the screen, and think: hang on… this is doing something interesting. Invanoid is very much one of those games. Available now on itch.io, Invanoid is an experimental arcade title for the Amiga 1200 thatRead More →
Inevitably, midway through two existing projects, I’m kicking off a new one. The very nice people promoting the G’AIME Time Crisis AI lightgun have sent me a box to review, and I’ll be sharing some of the footage here ahead of the review, which will subsequently appear on YouTube. TwoRead More →
