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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Going on three years now, Freedom Planet launched on Steam after a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2012. For the uninitiated, Freedom Planet drew heavy inspiration from Sonic the Hedgehog, while also adding a huge emphasis on combat and exploration. Fast forward to now, and we’re highly anticipating the release of the sequel, Freedom Planet 2. […]
With the pagies in cagies and Umburn Witches returning from slumber, today’s releases on Steam includes a platformer from the development team behind Sonic fan games such as Sonic After the Sequel. After a successful kickstarter campaign and given the green light on Steam, Spark the Electric Jester comes out on Steam reliving the glory days of 16-bit platformers […]
Bitmap Books has launched the Kickstarter campaign for the latest in its line of Visual Compendium retro gaming books, and once again Nintendo is the focus. The Unofficial SNES/Super Famicom: A Visual Compendium follows the success of Bitmap Books’ previous effort, which focused on the incredibly popular 8-bit NES console. If you haven’t seen one […]