Roguecraft DX, an acclaimed turn-based roguelike, is now out on Game Boy Color, Mega 95, and Amiga with real-hardware-friendly ports.
Browsing: Retro gaming
A ZX Spectrum from the 1980s just landed a spacecraft in Kerbal Space Program. Check out how this “ancient” 8-bit computer can still tackle modern space simulation challenges.
Midwinter is being rebuilt as a faithful PC remaster in Rust/Bevy, keeping its 1989 mechanics and huge frozen map while adding modern visuals and QoL.
Super Storm Buster is a dark sci‑fi SNES shmup aiming for huge bosses, dense bullet patterns, and real hardware carts, with a Kickstarter campaign incoming.
Yuji Horii is getting a 160-page, RPG-styled biographical manga in Japan, charting his path to creating Dragon Quest, supervised by Horii himself.
A new fan project restores online play and DLC for Lord of the Rings: Conquest, giving Pandemic’s ill-fated final game a second shot at multiplayer life.
Romero’s new Catacomb 3-D mini-doc shows how id nearly stuck with lucrative Keen, and how one scrappy texture-mapped dungeon pushed them toward Wolf3D and Doom.
Square Enix is delisting FF7’s 2013 Steam release in favor of a new “improved” PC version, free for existing owners, but saves and many mods won’t carry over.
With Ubisoft’s Sands of Time remake canceled, a free PC “remaster” mod upgrades textures, cutscenes, and visuals, making the 2003 classic shine on modern rigs.
GOG is giving away Alone in the Dark: The Trilogy until Feb 5 to spotlight its Preservation Program, making it easier than ever to revisit this classic series.