Fancy playing the original Half-Life but not impressed with the graphics compared with modern standards. You’re in luck–there’s a thing called Black Mesa Half-Life: Enriched, a new mod that delivers a graphical overhaul to Gordon Freeman’s original adventure. Developed by a modder called Hezus, the game features: Full overhaul ofRead More →
It seems that an Evercade Amiga games collection is coming! Following months of rumours and wishlists since the announcement of the C64 collection, the Amiga 37 event was where the news was confirmed. Taking place in Moenchengladbach over the last weekend, the Amig 37 event is a sort of social/conventionRead More →
Half of the games I have installed on my Steam Deck at the moment are retro titles: Zool, Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, Thief, and The Settlers. Despite its power and capabilities as a AAA gaming device, the Steam Deck has considerable potential as a retro gaming device way beyond theRead More →
I once believed you can never have enough Turrican. To challenge this, developer Factor 5 teamed up with ININ to issue a two-volume Turrican Anthology collection, gathering all the Amiga, SNES, and Mega Drive releases from the Turrican series. But how does this differ from 2021’s Turrican Flashback? Well, theRead More →
The new Evercade VS Game of the Month has been announced for October. Lunar Journey is a classic-style 8-bit adventure by Greenboy Games, originally issued as a Nintendo Game Boy title and is now coming to Evercade as part of December’s Indie Heroes 2 cartridge. If you plug in yourRead More →
A new issue of SEGA Powered magazine is now available to order, and is subtitled “the Virtua Issue” – for quite obvious reasons. Aside from that smart front cover, the magazine includes a multi-page feature on the Virtua series, fro 1992’s Virtua Racing to 2021’s Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown,Read More →
Half-Life and Half-Life 2, appropriately enough, just won’t die. Despite being 25 years old, the original game has ben remade as Black Mesa, and still has a bunch of mods released for it every year. One of the most notable, Codename: Loop, is a top-down shooter based around the originalRead More →
You have never seen a BBC Micro like this. The RGBeeb is an original BBC Micro that has been given a new home in an open-frame ATX case. The brainchild of retro hacker dekuNukem, the RGBeeb includes original and working 5.25-inch disk drives, along with a stunning RGB backlight. AsRead More →
Ever thought you’d need an operating system on your Nintendo Entertainment System or Famicom? No, of course you didn’t. But that didn’t stop one hacker creating NES-OS. While not strictly an operating system – more of a GUI – NES-OS brings a whole new aspect to the original Nintendo “familyRead More →
