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In 1998, when most of the games industry was busy falling in love with polygons, CD-ROMs,…

ZeeWolf 2 Wild Justice retrospective the cult Amiga sequel that refused to land

In 1995, the Amiga was not supposed to be doing this. Commodore had gone bust the…

Krush Kill ’N Destroy returns with modern multiplayer, 4K support, and classic RTS chaos

There is a particular kind of late-’90s PC strategy game that seems to arrive with its…

Endless Rails preview: build, upgrade, and defend your apocalypse train

There is something wonderfully ridiculous about the idea of surviving the apocalypse by train. Cars are…

Visual Assembler 1.5.1 improves modern Commodore 64 development

There is something wonderfully stubborn about the Commodore 64. More than forty years after its launch,…

Napalm Amiga Retrospective: Amiga’s bold answer to Command & Conquer

By the late 1990s, the real-time strategy war had already been won — at least that…

Wolfenstein 3D at 34: how Id Software’s MS-DOS shooter changed gaming forever

On May 5, 1992, PC gaming became louder, faster, bloodier, and considerably more likely to involve…

Amiga game development gets a modern boost with BASSM 0.9.0

There is a moment every retro developer knows well. The idea is fresh, the enthusiasm is…

ChatST brings ChatGPT to the Atari ST in a charming retro AI experiment

There is something wonderful about watching an old computer do something it was never meant to…

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