Oblast Elevates Classic Blasto Gameplay on Commodore 64

Oblast Elevates Classic Blasto Gameplay on Commodore 64

Vintage computing enthusiast Cameron Kaiser has released Oblast, a sophisticated reimagining of the 1978 Gremlin arcade game Blasto for the Commodore 64. The free game dramatically expands upon its predecessor’s simple maze-and-mine formula while working within...
CATii Frontend Announced, Immediately Declares War On iiSU

CATii Frontend Announced, Immediately Declares War On iiSU

A new Android emulation project called CATii has been announced for dual-screen handheld devices, but its launch announcement quickly drew controversy after the developer criticized a competitor for allegedly using AI-generated code, only to face immediate accusations...
Game Over: Goodbye DVD Gaming, We Hardly Nuon

Game Over: Goodbye DVD Gaming, We Hardly Nuon

At the dawn of the new millennium, several companies all independently asked the same question: “What if your DVD player could also play video games?” Most companies wisely kept the idea hypothetical; VM Labs went all in. Thus emerged the Nuon, a “DVD...
Game Over: RDI Halcyon

Game Over: RDI Halcyon

In the mid-1980s, while home gaming was still recovering from the industry crash, RDI Video Systems had a vision of the future. They believed the next great leap in interactive entertainment would not come from cartridges or simple sprites, but from full motion...