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After over a decade of ios exclusivity, DOOM 2 RPG is now available on PC, and best of all, it’s free! DOOM and DOOM 2 are some of the most iconic first-person shooters in gaming history. These masterpieces have seen ports and remasters on just about every platform you canRead More →
A Kickstarter project emanates and pays homage to the DS era of puzzle games. It’s minimalist style and fun challenge is seeking more supporters before it can become fully available to modern platforms. Reflectile relies on player accuracy and has explained to be a “minimal, stylish, and challenging top-down puzzleRead More →
One of the key draws of the Evercade EXP is the option to rotate it 90 degrees to play shooters in portrait mode. It’s a fetaure the Evercade VS sadly lacks – but that could all be about to change. Responding to a Facebook group post observing “We need VSRead More →
A retro-style arcade shooter by NGDEV, responsible for Kraut Buster and Gunlord X, is being ported to the Nintendo Switch on 11th May and it has many exciting features and various gameplay modes. Gunvein saw its initial release on PC (Steam) in November 2022 with Xbox and PS4 ports arrivingRead More →
Scheduled for Saturday, June 17th, RetCon is a retro gaming festival taking place in Greenford, Ealing, in Greater London. If you’re in the area, it’s worth heading to the event, which features various key retro names relevant to UK computing. Costing just £6 per ticket, the event features retro systemsRead More →
Stop reading, and click play above to see this Speccy Soccer – a Sensible Soccer-alike for the Spectrum 128K – in action. You won’t regret it. Seriously, I almost fell off my chair when I saw this. Sure, it looks like a Spectrum game, but once the demo video getsRead More →
Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons is the newest instalment of the Double Dragon series and will be launching on PC and all other modern consoles this summer. Developer Secret Base renowned for horror beat’em up Streets of Red: Devil’s Dare Deluxe, creates a “modernised celebration” yet retro pixelRead More →
Developer of 2021’s platformer Smelter brings us an experience that’s not to be missed by Shovel Knight and Mega Man fans alike. Paying homage to widely renowned platforming classics X PLUS Games will launch their newest project in a matter of weeks! Bat Boy is an 8-bit 2D platformer inspiredRead More →
The Sega Dreamcast may have been a commercial failure, but it remains a beloved console, with many looking back on it fondly. Localization/translation issues meant many games never made it to the West, and one such title is Rent-A-Hero No. 1. Led by VincentNL , a group called the Rent-A-ModdersRead More →
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