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From developer sodaraptor. A new Halloween-themed PS1-style 3D platformer has just been released on itch.io for free, ahead of the big day in less than two weeks (thanks @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk for the spot!). Sugar Ghouls is the latest game from sodaraptor — the developer of titles like Hypnagogia – Boundless Dreams, Late Homework, and Bubble Dreams…

Costs £120, comes pre-loaded with 45 games. Atari recently purchased the Intellivision name and associated IP, and today has announced the first fruit of that unlikely union: the Intellivision Sprint. Based on Mattel’s classic console, the Sprint comes pre-loaded with 45 original Intellivision games – including Astrosmash, Boulder Dash, Shark! Shark!, Baseball, Body Slam and…

For those of you interested in the latest news for the Commodore Amiga, will be interested to know that Docster has released a work in progress demo of a new game called ‘Fight’. For those of you who don’t remember this game when it was featured some time ago on Indie Retro News. It was…

“I actually had a meeting with the chaps over at Epoch Japan several months back”. It’s the year 2025, and we have not one, but two new Barcode Battler decks. What a time to be alive! Created by industry veteran Keith Webb of Tanukii Studios, who Nintendo Life interviewed about his DSi title Go! Go!…

“It sounded as good as anything else we had on the board.”. As you may be aware, recently we spoke to the former vice president of sales at Nintendo of America, Bruce Lowry, about what it was like launching the NES in the States, his time at Sega, and his reasons for returning to Nintendo…

“We look forward to the day when we will be able to see you again!”. The arcade industry has been on a slow but steady decline for some time now, and nowhere is this felt more keenly than in Japan, where several notable amusement centres have shut up shop in recent years. We’ve sadly got…

Will ship in Q4. Analogue’s FPGA N64 console is still on target for release in Q4 of this year, the company has reiterated. The Analogue 3D was originally supposed to launch in 2024, and has been delayed multiple times. However, the firm – which also makes the Analogue Pocket, Analogue Duo, Super NT, and Mega…

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream originally came out in 1995. Nightdive Studios has released a brand new “definitive update” for its Steam & GOG reissue of Harlan Ellison’s cult-classic horror adventure game I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. Loosely based on a short story that Ellison wrote in 1967, the…

“Take me back”. The march towards an all-digital future is the reason we can’t have really good brick-and-mortar video game stores anymore – and if you needed a reminder of that fact, Limited Run’s Josh Fairhurst has just supplied it. Fairhurst has found b-roll footage of a North American Electronics Boutique outlet, dating back to…