80s/90s game development legends Tony Warriner and Stoo Cambridge are collaborating on UrbX Warriors, launching on May 28th as a Kickstarter. The game is planned to release on the Spectrum Next and PC. I’m a big fan of crowdfunding, although I can’t really think of any that I’ve backed thatRead More →
One of the most beloved and challenging titles of the 80s, Head Over Heels, is making a triumphant return, and it’s coming to PC and Nintendo Switch in 2025! For those of you who spent countless hours navigating the bizarre worlds of the original ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and AmstradRead More →
You can now subscribe to a new Spectrum Next magazine, published by Fusion Retro Books, the team behind CRASH. Earlier this year, Chris Wilkins – the driving force behind the revived CRASH and ZZAP! magazines, not to mention everything else output from Fusion Retro Books – announced that the CRASHRead More →
Remember games that relied on ASCII? You’ll look at them in a whole new way after playing LumASCII on Spectrum Next. Programming games from books back in the 1980s usually meant games relying on ASCII characters, rather than sprites. The recently resurfaced LumASCII is a wonderful callback to those days,Read More →
The ZX Spectrum Next almost certainly doesn’t get enough attention in a world of Evercades, C64 Minis, and Odroids. Yet the 2017 machine has been a huge success, reviving the fan community and getting a bunch of games into the deal. For example, the beautiful adventure games from Magnetic ScrollsRead More →
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