Knight club. Atooi’s Knights of the Rogue Dungeon follows closely in the footsteps of Q*Bert, the popular isometric platformer from the golden days of the arcade. The goal of each randomly selected level is to simply hop onto every single tile (changing its color) while avoiding any of the roaming enemies that randomly drop onto…
And they’re perfect for beginners! If you happen to be in the cross-section of people who happen to love crocheting and retro gaming or just fancy picking up a new hobby, then you might be excited to learn about these adorable Pac-Man crochet sets, from The Woobles, which recently came to our attention thanks to…
Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail is meant to be a narrative reset. Considering Endwalker had us travelling to the edge of the universe on an actual spaceship to throw hands with nihilism incarnate and save… well, everything? It’s warranted. Director and producer Naoki Yoshida (Yoshi-P) has called it “the very best summer vacation a hero could…
Ebisumaru and Dragon King also join the fight. If you have been keeping up to date with your Super Smash Bros. news in recent years (and why wouldn’t you?) then you may have heard of ‘Smash Remix‘, a mod project led by The_Smashfather which has been progressively adding more playable fighters to the game. Well,…
A promising work in progress. It’s fair to say that FPGA hardware has revolutionised the way we play retro games. By replicating the performance of classic platforms on a hardware rather than software level, FPGA allows for a higher degree of accuracy and the lowest latency possible – two things that retro gaming purists value….
Swen Vincke, the CEO and founder of Larian Studio (developer of Baldur’s Gate 3) has taken to Twitter to share some progress on his next game—namely, he thinks he’s got a solid draft going. “Been a great morning! After 4 months of rewriting and rewriting and abandoning ideas and then revisiting them, I finally figured…
“You ever make it to King Koopa?”. If you’ve hopped onto social media this morning, you’ve undoubtedly been inundated with coverage of the 81st Golden Globe Awards event. We’re here to add to that, because we’re nice, but also because it’s kind of, sort of relevant to Nintendo. You see, when presenting the nominees for…
From the developer behind Cyberpunks & Cyberpunks 2. Adrian Cummings, the developer behind the Commodore Amiga titles Cyberpunks, Cyberpunks 2, and Castle Kingdoms, yesterday announced on the English Amiga Board website that he is working on a new hack and slash dungeon crawler called Dungeonette – The New Adventure for the Commodore Amiga and Amiga…
Things are hotting up. The Pokémon Company has announced that Pokémon Scarlet and Violet‘s next 7-Star Tera Raid Battle will kick off this weekend from 12th-14th January before repeating on 19th-21st (thanks, Serebii.net). The upcoming event will put yet another fully evolved starter in the spotlight, with Blaziken taking the starring role. This ‘mon will…
Coining it in. If you’ve been watching Netflix’s Fool Me Once, then you might have spotted a rather famous British retro arcade during the second episode of the Harlan Coben adaptation. Bury’s Arcade Club doubles as a location in the twisty-turny thriller, which stars Michelle Keegan (Coronation Street, Our Girl), Richard Armitage (The Hobbit, Spooks)…