The NES has a new block-based puzzle game, Blazing Blocks, by Antoine Fantys of FG Software. Antoine says “I’ve been recently seeing people playing a very specific puzzle game on their phone on the train, the kind where you make lines by placing blocks on a grid. Upon seeing this, I thought it was a … New NES puzzle game: Blazing Blocks
Avaliable to order are the latest editions of Pixel Addict and Amiga Addict magazines. Pixel Addict Issue 10 includes: The history and the legend of SGI, the company behind the Silicon Graphics workstations that enabled next generation movie effects and powerful 3D design. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider movies starring Angelina Jolie. Archer Maclean memories – … New issues of Pixel Addict and Amiga Addict available now
SOH Tactics GX is a strategy RPG game by SOH Digital Entertainments for the Amstrad GX4000. The game can be downloaded and played via a C4CPC cartridge. The game is a turn-based strategy RPG, inspired Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. You can either play alone, or two player co-op. A video about how to play … SOH Tactics GX: New strategy RPG game for Amstrad GX4000
Atelier Marie: The Alchemist of Salburg is a role-playing video game developed by Gust Co. Ltd. and released in Japan for the PlayStation console in 1997. The game was soon ported to the Saturn and Microsoft Windows, and later PS2 and Dreamcast. The game never recieved an official English translation at the time. Koei Tecmo … Atelier Marie to get remake and English translation
Lego have recently been making lots of retro gaming inspired kits, such as the Mario one, and the recent Atari 2600 set. One thing they are very unlikely to produce is a Lego set for the city of Antescher from the 1983 ZX Spectrum classic, Ant Attack. Ant Attack was developed by Sandy White and … Steven Goodwin recreates Ant Attack’s Antescher in Lego
If you have a Nuon DVD player and want to be able to use a USB controller on the device, then you are in luck. Controller Adaptor are taking pre-orders for such a device, which they claim will allow you to “use a wide array of USB controllers with any Nuon player with Nuon Ports.” … Pre-orders open for Nuon USB controller adaptor
Atari have teamed up with Jeff Minter’s Llamasoft to create a modern version of Atari’s lost arcade game, Akka Arrh. The game was originally designed by Dave Ralston and Mike Hally in 1982. The game was reportedly completed, but Atari decided not to release it, supposedly as the game had unconventional gameplay and high level … Jeff Minter brings back Atari’s lost arcade game Akka Arrh, with new version
Arlasoft have created a version of the 1983 8-bit classic, Chuckie Egg, in Z80 assembly to run on Ponpoko arcade hardware. Arlasoft say: “It’s the port possibly only one person wanted, the home computer classic from 1983, complete with its trademark janky physics and platforming action, now playable on arcade hardware via an emulator such … Arlasoft releases Chuckie Egg for Ponpoko arcade board
San Francisco designer and manufacturer WaterField Designs have announced a new Playdate Magnetic Case, a protective case to carry the popular Panic gaming console and its power cord. “Our customers and social media followers have been clamoring for a classy Playdate case, so we’ve designed a unique one I think they’ll appreciate,” said company owner … WaterField launch Magnetic Playdate Case in variety of materials
The Commodore PET finally has it’s own version of Space Panic, called PET Panic! thanks to Jim Orlando. Space Panic was launched in the arcades in 1980, and was the first game that involved climbing ladders between platforms. The game was cloned on most 8-bit platforms, most notably by Apple Panic, released on the … Jim Orlando ports classic game, Space Panic, to PET