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‘The Blue Crystal Rod’ is the fourth and final mainline entry in the ‘Babylonian Castle Saga’. A new English fan translation has just been released online for The Blue Crystal Rod — the fourth and final mainline entry in Namco’s ‘Babylonian Castle Saga‘ that started with the 1984 arcade classic Tower of Druaga. Launching for…
I can still remember in the late 80’s on my Amstrad CPC 464 playing the brilliant Arcade port ‘ Bomb Jack ‘. It is a game that required you the player to high jump and float about getting rid of all the bombs on the screen before they are used to blow up historic places…
The Saturn & PlayStation classic comes to Amiga… kind of. BSzili – a developer known for his unofficial Amiga ports of Blood, Wolfenstein 3D, and Shadow Warrior — has recently released a new proof-of-concept demo of the Sega Saturn and PlayStation classic Tomb Raider for the Commodore Amiga (as spotted by IndieRetroNews). According to the…
“I’ll be 50 before we can do that here in the States”. United States President Donald Trump’s new reciprocal tariffs have been causing widespread chaos all over the world, even going as far as to delay pre-orders for Nintendo’s shiny new Switch 2 console. However, as we’ve touched upon previously, they will have a dramatic…
“What a fundamental misunderstanding of not only this tech but how games WORK”. As part of Microsoft’s continuing push into the world of generative AI, the company has recently released a new AI-generated tech demo based on Quake II that is generating some strong opinions online. The new Quake II “replica” was built using Microsoft…
A port of Fusix is in development. The Sega Mega Drive—or Genesis, if you’re in the US—remains the company’s most commercially successful home console, and is famous for going toe-to-toe with Nintendo during the early ’90s console wars. It’s also a system which, in recent times, has seen an inordinate amount of homebrew development, with…
I have a bit of a soft spot for the Sega Mega Drive, especially with my ever growing collection of great games, such as FINK, Golden Axe, Mickey Mania and my personal favorite Comix Zone. So to find out that RetroLover was aiming to port the Sega Mega Drive game of ‘Phantasy Star II’ over…
Do you remember your first video game / arcade you played and what do you remember about it? I believe it would have been Astrosmash! On the Intellivision. I know that the Intellivision was our first video game system when I was a kid and I have many memories playing games with my older brother…
The studio was originally formed in 2002 as FreeStyleGames. Earlier this year, in January, Ubisoft announced as part of its staff that it would be closing Ubisoft Leamington, amidst a larger restructuring of its business, bringing an end to the UK studio’s impressive 22-year run. Over the last few days, the studio put out one…
“A rare blend of art and mechanics”. It’s perhaps hard for anyone raised in an era when digital downloads are king to imagine a time when video game packaging was anything other than an afterthought for many publishers. Back in the 1990s, when physical PC games were still a thing, it wasn’t unusual to see…