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Just a few days after we shared a new 3D “Quake-like” engine for Spectrums comes another one, this time providing a glimpse of Elite Dangerous: Odyssey, on an 8-bit computer. Created in 2022 by Alone Coder and Dragons’ Lord, a 128k Spectrum is the last place you would expect toRead More →
Single player games are great, but if we can agree on gaming as no less than interactive media, with multiplayer games stacking on top ad infinitum, then there is a space between the two; a multiplayer that isn’t. A shotgun game, a single player experience wherein a second person mayRead More →
Bad news if you have been expecting an Evercade EXP to land in November. Blaze Entertainment has made the decision to push back release of the console, with December 15th targeted. Citing the need “to spend a bit more time on the Evercade EXP to hone some of the technicalRead More →
One of my fondest Amiga memories is playing and eventually completing Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure. It took a few weeks, exchanging solutions with friends at school, but eventually I made it to the knight, made the right choice, and defeated the Nazis. It was aRead More →
It has just been announced by Granzella, that the R-Type series is set to come to PS5 and PS4 consoles in 2023. This will feature R-Type Tactics and R-Type Tactics II in a remastered collection bundle. This bundle will be named R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos and will have extraRead More →
Small game creators and coders never cease to amaze us with turning beloved games into a completely different experience entirely! The very first Resident Evil title is one of these games. Creator Mark Watson has reached out to the public via his social media for game testers to try outRead More →
As we approach Halloween 2022, the biggest DOOM news out there is that the Adafruit team has turned a Milky Way chocolate bar into a receptacle for DOOM. The accompanying video demonstrates how good this looks, but at the time of writing there doesn’t appear to be any guide orRead More →
I can’t be alone in thinking that Freescape was the extent of the ZX Spectrum’s capabilities. But in its 40th anniversary year, two developers have relesed what can only be described as a Quake-style game engine for Sir Clive Sinclair’s amazing little computer. From the minds and fingers of AloneRead More →
The creation of a YouTube channel based on video game development by Nintendo’s very own Masahiro Sakurai means that we can get sneak peaks on early work that we wouldn’t see otherwise. A recent video by Sakurai revealed a prototype of Super Smash Bros. for the N64. The creator ofRead More →
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