Jack Dragon is a new arcade style, single screen platform game for the ZX Spectrum by Jeff Murray (aka PsychicParrot). You play as an Ice Dragon, attempting to save the land from the evil Lord Knumbskull. The Bomb Jack-inspired game has three difficulty modes, and the aim is to collect all of the gems to … New for the ZX Spectrum : Jack Dragon – a Bomb Jack style arcade game
Sega is to acquire Rovio, the company behind the classic mobile game, Angry Birds, for €706m. Angry Birds was originally launched for iPhone in 2009, which makes it a pretty retro iPhone game. Haruki Satomi, President and Group CEO, Representative Director of Sega Sammy, says “Among the rapidly growing global gaming market, the mobile gaming … Sega acquire Angry Birds maker, Rovio
Hamster have announced that Dig Dug II, has been released for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on April 13th, 2023, available digitally for their Arcade Archives series. Dig Dug II is an action game released by Namco in 1985. In this game, you must rid an island of the Pooka and Fygar. In addition to … Dig Dug II arrives on Hamster’s Arcade Archives
Two recent Amstrad CPC homebrew releases are getting a physical release on cassette tape. The games are Penguin Attack and Deep, Deeper, Deepest. In Penguin Attack, which was launched digitally last year by Pat Morita, you play as Pinwi the penguin, an expert snowball thrower, who must rescue your girlfriend Ninwina, who has been … CPC games, Penguin Attack and Deep, Deeper, Deepest to get physical release
The latest issues of Amiga Addict and Pixel Addict magazines are now available to pre-order. ISSUE 11 of Pixel Addict includes: The PC Strikes Back! We look at the change in PC games during the DOS era and consider how the PC evolved from being an IBM-compatible business computer – winning the fight against consoles … New issues of Amiga Addict and Pixel Addict available now
Castle Escape, a platform game by IrataHack, has been released for the Sega Master System. The game was originally launched for the ZX Spectrum last year, and made an appearance on the Spectrum Next earlier this year. “Wee Knight must escape the haunted castle collecting gold coins and dodging the castles deadly inhabitants as … Castle Escape comes to the Master System
Top down shooter, Xenocrisis, which began life on the Mega Drive, is getting released on the N64 and GameCube. As well as the Mega Drive, the game is also available on Dreamcast, Neo Geo, Evercade, Xbox One and X|S, MacOS, Steam, Switch and PS4. On the Nintendo conversions, Bitmap Bureau say “The N64’s supported resolutions … Bitmap Bureau’s Xenocrisis coming to N64 and GameCube, plus news of PS1 and GBA versions
In celebration of Apple’s Tetris movie, the Tetris company have put a version of the very first Tetris game to play on their website. The Tetris game was originally created by Alexey Pajitnov in 1984 on an Electronika 60 computer. Due to the limitations of the device at the time, there weren’t graphic capabilities so … You can now play Tetris – the Electronika 60 version – on the Tetris website
Blaze have relaunched their Evercade Game of the Month series, where owners of Evercade VS and Evercade EXP systems can download a free game every month between April and December. You can play the full version of each game without limits for a month, at which point it will be replaced with a brand new … Evercade Game of the Month returns – first up is Donut Dodo
Mark Moxon, a UK-based web developer, has recreated every Acornsoft box screen shot by hand. Moxon says, “I hand-crafted these images during the lockdown of 2020. It was a surprisingly therapeutic experience, and I had plenty of time to devote to making these shots as pixel-perfect as possible. That said, the original box screenshots were … Developer, Mark Moxon, has recreated every Acornsoft box screenshot by hand