Capcom’s 1987 arcade bruiser missed sega’s 16-bit beast the first time around, but nearly four decades…
Day: 30 May 2026
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…