Tetris Mix - 1980's Tetris classic comes over to the Pico-8 as a first preview!

One of the most popular games of all time was a tile-matching, block rotating puzzle video game first released in 1984 which became a huge hit on the Gameboy in 1989.  It just had to be the classic 'Tetris'; a game that caused many people to spend hours playing to the point of addiction. Although we've had numerous clones over the years some of them good and some of them rather bad, today's

Cayne - Free, isometric horror game from the creators of STASIS now on Steam!

We have just been contacted by The Brotherhood, the creators of Stasis, that they have announced the release of their FREE horror Adventure game ' Cayne ' on Steam, for PC, MAC, SteamOS and Linux. ' Cayne ' is an entire standalone game set in the Stasis universe, based around the expectant protagonist, Hadley, who has woken up in a deadly facility and must deal with many stomach-churning

Marvel VS DC-Universe MUGEN V 2.0 - Over 250 characters ready to kick ass!

I'm sure you'll agree with me there are some very good OpenBOR games out there, taking the best well known characters from fighting anime's and movies and putting them against deadly foes in the latest fan based games. But today we are going that much further, as we are going to show a rather special Mugan game which has over 250 original characters battling against each other using lots of

Atomprojekt - Loved Wolfenstein 3D? You should play this!

In 1992 many of us had the pleasure of playing id Software's incredible first person shooter ' Wolfenstein 3D ' for MS-DOS. It was the second major release after Commander Keen and featured a unique 3D game engine with multiple enemy types such as Nazi soldiers and dogs, and multiple weapon types to defend yourself with such as guns and knifes. It is a game that is still loved to this day and

Bitsturbed - PC retro inspired first person shooter with lots of Giblets!

Have you had enough of side scrolling beat em ups or shooters and instead prefer blasting lots of enemies into pieces, in a similar gameplay style and graphics to that of the original Wolfenstein 3D? Then come and play ' Bitsturbed ' developed by TristanD. A free to play working title of an old-school, story-driven, sci-fi first person shooter that features health pick ups, in your face combat

Tujate - Side scrolling shooter inspired by the classics is free to play

Some more PC gaming news for you today and still sticking with the retro theme, is Hijong Park's side scrolling shooter ' Tujate ', which again is available free to play for the PC. Developed using Game Maker Studio, Tujate is inspired by those great classic games defender, choplifter, and cybernoid, and puts you in control of the ultimate fighter destroying enemy targets, waves of enemies and

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rescue-Palooza! - Another great looking 80's beat em up! (Early Access)

Just recently I gave you the heads up for Zvitor and Maru's rather cool looking beat em up ' Marvel Infinity War ', which was developed using OpenBOR and made available for the PC. But now it's time to move away from Marvel and look towards those hugely popular characters 'The Teenage Mutant Turtles'. Once again using OpenBOR and again a beat em up, this one is called ' Teenage Mutant Ninja

Marvel Infinity War - Zvitor and Maru's PC Beat Em Up looks rather cool!

It's been a long time since we've featured a good looking fighting game and so to change that, here's a new game developed by Zvitor and Maru using OpenBOR, ' Marvel Infinity War '. This excellent looking game available for your PC, is a throw back to the days of the side scrolling beat em ups from the Mega Drive and arcade machines we used to play and love. It features many characters from

Chimney Presents - A short and enjoyable festive game by Daniel Linssen

Already Christmas day has come and gone, and although it's still Christmas week, we are fast approaching 2017 which is sure to bring lots more games to play. But before we get there, here's a game to celebrate this festive season ' Chimney Presents ' by Daniel Linssen. In this game you must help Santa deliver all the presents down each of the chimneys scattered throughout the level, but be

The Bear Essentials - A rather lovely looking C64 platformer coming Christmas Eve!

The time has just gone past 1am and I'm nearly ready for bed, but I thought I'd mention a rather lovely platformer called ' The Bear Essentials ' that is coming to a C64 near you this Christmas Eve. Developed by Graham Axten, The Bear Essentials is a fun for all the family experience and your task is to help the big bear collect all the fruit before winter begins. It will feature 60 enemy

Dizzy X - Journey to Russia - A very Dizzy AGE remake is now available to play!

Oh joy of joys guess who's back? It's that lovable character Dizzy, who's once again staring in his very own story for kids and adults to enjoy from around the world, and not just in Russia. This is Dizzy X - Journey To Russia, a brand new fan remake by VK007 of the rather unknown ZX Spectrum of the same name originally developed by Sergey Gorshkov in 1994, and part of a long list of

Dreamworld Pogie - A 'new' old game by The Oliver Twins gets a Kickstarter

Well this news came as a complete surprise to us, as once again The Oliver Twins has found a game in their rather large and mysterious attic, Dreamworld Pogie. Now many of you may remember Wonderland Dizzy being found as a source code and graphics on a once long lost floppy disk, that needed a ton of work to get it to a final state. But I bet you haven't heard of Dreamworld Pogie! That's

Thrust 30 - Hayes Maker Games celebrates the 30th anniversary of Jeremy Smith's "Thrust"

I'm sure many retro gamers will remember Thrust, which was first published by Firebird Software Ltd and released in 1986. It also originally came on a multitude of systems including the Atari 2600, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, BBC Micro, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, Electron, Vectrex, and ZX Spectrum. In fact it was such a popular game, over the years we've had many remakes and

Stunt Car Racer - The best stunt car game on the Amiga easily launch-able on PC and MAC

Of all the games to appear on the Amiga, this in my opinion was one of the best stunt style racers and one of Geoff Crammonds finest games,  it had some of the craziest tracks ever with one of them being the ultimate track the "Ski Jump". Yet what made it so good was not just the feeling of speed, but the thrill of accelerating into the sky and coming back down with an almighty crack,

Twisted Insurrection 0.6 - Command and Conquer fans, don't miss out on this update

I know for a fact there are gamers around the world who enjoyed playing the Westwood Studios epic RTS game Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun, which was released way back in 1999. Well you'll be pleased to know ' Twisted Insurrection '; a standalone RTS total conversion based on the Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun engine that has a new alternate in-depth storyline, has just been upgraded to

Mini DOOM - First person shooter hit classic transformed into a 2D platformer!

The original hit Doom was developed by id Software way back in 1993 as a first person shooter playing as a space marine fighting hordes of demons and the undead in order to survive. But now a team by the name of Calavera Studio has released a short tribute to that famous game, but this time as a 2D action platformer called ' Mini DOOM'. Developed using Game Maker Studio, you must collect keys

Donkey-Me - An old retro inspired Donkey Kong with a twist that's still enjoyable today!

The designer behind the hit retro game such as Bruce Lee II and the retro inspired Maximus Action Carnage released a rather cool indie game in 2013 that has a slight twist to the original. This is Donkey-Me which is intended to be a collection of games, each of them inspired in a classic movie but with a Nintendo's Donkey Kong arcade game look. This is of course "Donkey Me Raiders of the Lost

PicoFox - Fly your Arwing in this Pico-8 demake of an iconic SNES game

Day in day out we get the latest updates from around the world of games being released, or are in development. But when it comes to this gem of a Pico-8 game which is also playable in your browser, it is a rather special breed indeed. This is a demake of the classic 1990's SNES game ' Star Fox/Star Wing ', developed by electricgryphon for the Pico-8 and renamed as ' PicoFox '! It  has 3 levels

OutRun CPC - An Amstrad CPC style remake of a hit racer gets a beta update

In 1986 Sega released one of the coolest racers of our time, it was none other than Out Run. An Arcade racer designed by Yu Suzuki, that was not only a commercial success but became one of the best selling games of its time with great graphics, fantastic music and fast paced track racing. It was just a shame however, the Amstrad CPC port was terrible with poor frame rates, colours and sound

Twisted Insurrection 0.6 - Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun players will love this update!

Over these last few years we have kept a keen eye on ' Twisted Insurrection ', a standalone RTS total conversion based on the Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun engine that has a new in-depth storyline, which puts you in an alternate timeline where the Brotherhood of Nod were victorious during the first Tiberian War rather than the GDI. Well this month the creators of the standalone conversion