SpiritSphere - Pong meets Zelda in this rather lovely Indie game

Earlier last week Eendhoorn released the competitive local multiplayer game ' SpiritSphere ' for the PC. It looks to have a number of inspirations from classic games such as Pong, Zelda and even Windjammers while mixing them up to create something rather unique and enjoyable to play. Featuring an 8-bit art style that sticks closely to the NES colour palette and a great soundtrack by Gas1312,

Foggy's Quest to Narg and Back Again - John Blythe‎'s ZX Spectrum game is nearly here!

Usually it takes developers a number of weeks or months to get a ZX Spectrum game out in the wild, but it looks as if John Blythe's ' Foggy's Quest to Narg and Back Again ' is actually coming soon. Developed using the very popular software Adventure Game Designer, this game puts you in control of Foggy, who is on a quest to find the lost crystals stolen by the evil NARG's from his very own

Bomberman Cx - Play as Black Bomberman and more in this great NES hack!

When I was growing up there was a game I used to love playing with friends, whereby your task was to drop bombs and either blow up other enemies or your very best friend(s) in a maze like game screen. That game was Bomberman also known as Dynablaster, which was actually first released way back in 1983 by Hudson Soft and then published by Konami. It was and still is a fantastic game that can

Legend of the Amazon Women - All female beat em up new C64 re-release

Hokuto Force return with a fresh crack and re-release of scrolling beat em up: Legend of the Amazon Women (Nothing to do with popular tax-dodging online retailers).  New game modes include Infinite Time, 1 shot kills, zone skipping, infinite lives and invincibility.




Your main character is Lady Wilde, whose plane has crashed in the Amazon Jungle, and a hostile tribe has stolen her baby

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

Super ACE 1942 - TND's SEUCK C64 game inspired by a classic!

In 1984 a great shoot em up was released for the Arcade by Capcom and that game was 1942. A game in which you shoot down enemy planes, avoided being shot out of the sky and performed awesome rolls while collecting power ups. One of the more unusual power ups was being escorted by two other planes in formation that gave you the edge. It was an awesome game and still is today, but thanks The New

Blasphemous - Adventure creators The Game Kitchen announce a brutal platformer!

The first time I heard of The Game Kitchen was when I played their brilliant pixelated horror adventure game ' The Last Door '. It was a game that turned into a series, which had me hooked right from the very beginning, and that wasn't just because of the story but also the characters, the tiny pixels and the dark menacing overtones. Well that same team behind that game, has just announced '

Days of War - Driven Arts WW2 shooter released via Steam Early Access!

Driven Arts has announced that the Kickstarter success of Days of War is now available via Steam Early Access. This is a fast paced online multiplayer game that aims to revive the style of classic WW2 shooters, where your combat skills and knowledge of the map will be put to the test. You will fight with up to 32 other players either as the Americans or the Germans, on the beaches at Omaha,

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

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

The Hunter - Destroy underwater mutants in this latest C64 SEUCK game

As most of you know The New Dimension have been running another Shootemup Construction Kit (SEUCK) competition for 2017, which aims to bring developers together making action packed games for the C64. Now we've already mentioned one such game in the competition as Border Blast 3, but this time we are going underwater against Mutants and Subs in Errazking's latest C64 game ' The Hunter '.

A new Monty Mole game by Andy Johns is in development!

Only just recently many of us had the pleasure of playing Andy Johns brand new Monty Mole game 'Montys Honey Run'. It was one of Andy's very first games developed using AGD and put you in control of that classic character Monty but on a personal quest to recover some honey pots stolen by Bee's. It is a fantastic ZX Spectrum game to play and impressed us even more so that it was his very first

Zap Fight 2 - Special Edition [seuck] - An EPIC shoot em up hits the C64

Glorious news this Sunday evening, especially you are a fan of shoot em ups, as Psytronik Software and Reset Magazine Staff have released the latest frantic shooter for the C64 ' Zap Fight 2 'aka 'Zapped to Oblivion!' Featuring the graphics of Alf Yngve, code by Martin Piper and music by Richard, this rather eye opening shoot em up is inspired by the classic game Slap Fight and features lots

FS-UAE 2.8.3 - An Amiga Emulator with a great GUI gets a new update for 2017

Karsten Majok from the Commodore Amiga Facebook group has just informed us of the release of 'FS-UAE 2.8.3', which is an update to one of the best Amiga Emulators with a full GUI that you can use for Amiga based gaming. As we said before FS-UAE at its core it uses WinUAE, but with a fantastic GUI and the brilliant Open Amiga Game Database and FS-UAE Arcade! What that means is, if you have the

Wolfenstein 3D remake now on the Pico-8!

As the 8-bit fantasy console Pico-8 gets improvements to its engine, people are pushing its boundaries more and more. As a result, more and more raycasting demos and games are coming out of the woodwork. As well as a Duke Nukem 3D demake/demo, is a WIP of the granddaddy of them all, Wolfenstein 3D, which many will recognise as the starting point for the whole First Person Shooter genre.

Cyber Shadow - In development retro styled platformer with a hint of Ninja Gaiden

Alepos Arkoudis‎ recently contacted us via our Facebook page of a new NES style platformer that is in development for both PC and MAC by MekaSkull and Pentadrangle. Titled as ' Cyber Shadow ', this game mixes the best bits of Metroid, Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden and Megaman and puts you in control of a mighty warrior slashing your way through the armies of mechanical fiends to free your clan and

Chuck Rock - Another C64 Game that Wasn't... Case Closed!

One of my favourite pieces of news to do write ups on are the reports from "Games That Weren't" ... A dedicated investigative news website which delves into the histories of C64 games. Especially ones which were either left unfinished, or mysteriously vanished at some point, usually between magazines' reviews, and actual release day. Last year saw some high profile Hi-Tec and Warner Bros

The Minstrel’s Legend - Open world RPG making its way to the Intellivision

It is a rare thing to mention an open world game coming to an old 70's machine, but here we are with ' The Minstrel's Legend ', which is a brand new RPG developed by Intv Prime, that is making its way to the Intellivision. If you like games such as the Ultima series or even Nethack, then you probably know what to expect with Intv Prime's latest game, as the game mechanics are similar but

Jr. Pac-Man - Bally Midway's Arcade game is coming to the Intellivision

Lots of gaming news to get through today and the first one is a well known classic Arcade game called ' Jr.Pac-Man ', which is coming to the Intellivision this year by the publishers Intellivision Revolution. This game was first released by Bally Midway way back in 1983 and is based on a child like version of Pac-Man that also has to eat dots in a maze style gaming screen while also avoiding

FOGGYS QUEST - John Blythe moves over to the ZX Spectrum for his next game

John Blythe has moved away from the BBC Micro and Electron with his horror 8bit adventure The Darkness of Raven Wood, and has come over the ZX Spectrum with a brand new in development platformer called ' FOGGYS QUEST '. Announced only recently on Facebook with the help of Andy Johns , FOGGY is being developed using Arcade Game Designer and will have detailed rooms, enemies, items to pick up