In a computing world increasingly ruled by cloud accounts, monthly subscriptions and assistants that pop up…
Month: May 2026
SimCity 2000 fan patch adds weather, Lua scripting and improved audio
There are few games as good at making urban planning feel both relaxing and mildly disastrous…
Atre: Dominance Wars preview: apocalyptic 4X strategy meets godlike ambition
Most 4X strategy games begin with a familiar fantasy: a small settlement, a fog-covered map, a…
International Amiga Day: Jay Miner’s dream machine still bounces
Every May 31, Amiga fans celebrate more than a classic computer. They celebrate an idea that…
Hyperkin Mega95 update: portable Sega Genesis handheld faces new delay
Hyperkin’s portable Mega Drive/Genesis machine still sounds like a dream for cartridge collectors. Unfortunately, the latest…
New 86Box release gives retro PC fans the lan party upgrade they wanted
There are few experiences more authentically 1990s than trying to convince two computers to talk to…
From Turrican II to Symphonic Shades: the lasting legacy of Chris Hülsbeck
In the history of the Commodore Amiga, some memories come back as pictures: the glow of…
Kazutoshi Miyake at Sega Europe: the executive who kept Sega fighting in Europe
By the time Kazutoshi Miyake was helping steer Sega Europe through the mid-1990s, Sega was already…
ugBASIC update released: new features for MSX1, Commodore, ZX Spectrum and CoCo
The latest release of ugBASIC 1.18.1 is worth paying attention to, it is the kind of…
Street Racer Amiga retrospective: from console hit to late Amiga port
By the mid-1990s, the Amiga was no longer the glamorous machine in the shop window. The…
Capcom’s Black Tiger heads to Mega Drive in new 16-bit homebrew project
Capcom’s 1987 arcade bruiser missed sega’s 16-bit beast the first time around, but nearly four decades…
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 lives on with the new OpenRCT2 update
Some games age, some games fossilise, and then there is RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, still marching around…
Eyetech and the AmigaOne legacy: how a British company tried to revive Amiga
The AmigaOne legacy did not begin in a glass office tower, with venture capitalists pointing at…
Distant Shore: Bretagne is an upcoming indie game with serious Mirror’s Edge energy
Every so often, a game appears that makes you stop scrolling and think, “Right, I need…
The Rise and fall of Maxtor: what happened to the famous hard drive maker?
Before cloud storage, before SSDs, and before every phone casually carried more storage than an entire…
Speedball characters explained: the brutal captains behind the Amiga classic
The original Speedball did not have characters in the modern sense. Nobody leaned against a locker…
The Last Ninja legacy: how one C64 game shaped retro gaming history
In 1987, the Commodore 64 was already a superstar of the home-computer world, but The Last…
Theme Hospital retrospective: Bullfrog’s brilliant hospital sim still makes us laugh
Some games begin with a sword, a spaceship or a prophecy. Theme Hospital begins with a…
EntwicklerX launches Radon Break, a new brick-breaker for AmigaOS 4
Some game ideas are so pure they barely need explaining: a paddle, a ball, a wall…
Full Circle wants to revive classic PS1 JRPGs with a post-apocalyptic twist
Some games arrive with explosions, celebrity trailers, and marketing budgets large enough to frighten small countries.…
Lernout & Hauspie: how Belgium’s speech technology star rose and collapsed
Before Siri answered questions, before Alexa started sitting in kitchens pretending not to hear private conversations,…
Sarah Jane Avory: from Amiga classics Thunderhawk and Jaguar XJ220 to modern retro games
Sarah Jane Avory is one of those developers whose career connects several very different eras of…
Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog races onto ZX Spectrum Next in fan-made beta
There are some phrases you never expect to write in a games magazine, and “Sonic the…
3dfx vs NVIDIA: how the Voodoo empire collapsed
In the late 1990s, before graphics cards became the size of roof tiles and required enough…
Why Simon the Sorcerer is still the Amiga’s funniest fantasy adventure hero
Fantasy heroes are usually noble, brave and annoyingly willing to run towards danger because someone in…
SNK opens Neo Geo Styles store with Fatal Fury and Metal Slug merch
It feels like Neo Geo is seriously trying to make a comeback lately. SNK has already…
Atari moves to Luxembourg after shareholders approve France exit
Atari is preparing to move its legal home from France to Luxembourg, after shareholders approved the…