FINJI and Adam Saltsman – better known to many retro fans as Adam Atomic, the creator of Canabalt – have launched CorgiSpace, a lovingly crafted collection of short, playful 8-bit games built using the PICO-8 engine. Revealed during Day of the Devs, CorgiSpace is very much about small games withRead More →
Colourful platformer Go Slimey Go! is now available on PC via Steam, following a surprise shadow drop during the Latin American Games Showcase (LAGS). The launch, which took place yesterday, quickly generated buzz among both players and developers, particularly across the Latin American indie scene. A squishy platformer built onRead More →
ININ Games has announced a reissue and remastering of R-Type Dimensions III, and honestly, this feels like one of those “circle the date on your calendar” moments for shmup fans. Not just because it’s a new R-Type project — those are rare enough — but because this one is huge.Read More →
If your idea of a perfect sports game is more Tecmo Bowl energy than modern sim complexity, Acclaim and indie duo Namo Gamo have just served up an early holiday treat. Basketball Classics, the retro-inspired 8-bit basketball tribute, is headlining Steam Sports Fest with a massive 65% discount — runningRead More →
This could be the closest thing to Reunion you will ever play. If your strategy brain was forged in the fires of Civilization II, Master of Orion, or Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, there’s a new retro-styled 4X game on Steam that might be worth settling into over the holidays. SplinterRead More →
Somehow — and I genuinely can’t explain this — I completely missed Blood in the 90s. In 1997 I was clearly too busy pushing tiny sprites around strategy maps to notice that an undead cowboy named Caleb was out there delivering a Lovecraftian splatterfest that feels like it was engineeredRead More →
Every so often, a game comes along that looks straight out of the late ’90s — the kind of thing you’d swear you once played on a GBA cartridge with a slightly chewed label — yet somehow feels fresh. Avemary Rocket – Captain Patchwork – is exactly that sort ofRead More →
It’s a modern spin on the stone-cold Atari arcade classic, but can Astro Busters bring Asteroids up to date? I’ll be honest: when I first skimmed the description for Astro Busters, I wasn’t convinced. Asteroids is one of those games that’s been “reimagined” so many times that most new takesRead More →
If you ever cracked open a big, glossy game box as a kid — manual smell, floppy disk snap, the whole sensory overload — the new Hyper Sentinel Fusion Kickstarter is basically engineered to hit you right in the nostalgia gland. Andrew and Rob Hewson are back, and they’re goingRead More →
