Okay, so let’s get this out of the way: Night Trap is not a great videogame. Really, it’s not even a good one. If you’ve never played Night Trap before, you basically play backup for a special ops team as they investigate the goings-on at a house where young girls keep disappearing. You do this by […]
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First Full Look At Classic Sonic in Sonic Forces
After getting a sneak peek during a Nintendo Direct earlier this month, we now have our first full look at some Classic Sonic gameplay in Sonic Forces. And yes, it’s Green Hill Zone again. Though now it’s no longer much of a tropical island and more a grassy field in a desert. Also it has […]
ZX Spectrum Next Smashes Kickstarter Goal
Sinclair’s ZX Spectrum celebrated its 35th anniversary on Sunday, and fans have celebrated with the launch of a hardware revival on Kickstarter. The ZX Spectrum Next differs from other Spectrum revival projects in that it is a full-fledged computer, rather than a keyboard or plug-and-play console. Not only that, but it’s an evolution of the […]
“Zoned,” A Sonic the Hedgehog Tribute Album
A little late, but better than never! Back at the end of 2016, Opus Science Collective released their album “Zoned,” which debuted on RadioSEGA. Taken from the Bandcamp page for the album: Zoned – a nostalgic trip (at the speed of sound) down Sonic The Hedgehog’s memory lane. Zoned aims to pay homage to the creativity […]
Fan Game ‘Sonic Time Twisted’ Finally Released After 12 Year Development
You have to hand it to Sonic fans – they don’t do anything by halves. Even less so when it comes to making their own games based on the Blue Blur’s escapades fighting Dr Robotnik/Eggman or whatever his name is these days. Unlike Nintendo, which seems hell-bent on crushing anything that even remotley resembles an […]
Sonic Time Twisted Released After 12 Years of Development
It’s rare that a Sonic fan game gets fully released. Many are often cancelled or often stay in development hell after releasing one or two demos. But for once one of those games managed to get out of said development hell and be released as a full fledged game. Sonic Time Twisted, created by Overbound Game […]
BennVenn Reveals Game Boy Advance VGA Out Board With Zero Latency RGB & SNES Controller Ports
For those of us who strongly believe the Game Boy Advance is nothing more than a portable Super Nintendo, having the ability to play the handheld’s strong line-up on a TV is priceless. While the GameCube’s Game Boy Player may be a suitable solution, die-hards retro gamers tend to disagree due to all kinds of […]
South Korean Presidential Candidate Releases Free StarCraft Maps
Here’s one of the weirder stories we’ll ever publish, courtesy of our colleagues over at Kotaku UK. It turns out that Moon Jae-in, one of the current presidential candidates in South Korea, has released a couple of free StarCraft maps to promote his campaign. They’re pretty simple, of course, but it’s a shrewd move given […]
Maximum Power Up Podcast – Episode 47: Point & Click Adventures
In this episode Paul and Julian discuss their history playing the point and click genre. Back in the late 80’s and throughout the 90’s this time of game offered hit after hit for fans of the genre.
Big’s Big Fishing Adventure 3 – Dr. Eggman Trailer
We can finally show the first trailer of Big’s Big Fishing Adventure 3, featuring the voice of Mike Pollock! This trailer, inspired by Sonic Adventure‘s Japanese commercials, teases Dr. Eggman’s role in the game. It also shows the Big-Hazard Battle mini-game in action for the first time. This is the first in a series of trailers that […]