Digital Illusions Collection - A Pinball bonanza for the Amiga CD32

It's getting ever closer to Christmas and now we've just found out Amiga Jay has released the second day of Christmas fun with the ' Digital Illusions Collection '; a glorious Amiga CD32 release packed with three fantastic Pinball games and two games that don't require the smashing of a flipper button. Yes indeed welcome to one of the best Amiga CD32 packs released for some time with three of my personal favourites, Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies, Pinball Illusions, as well as Benefactor and Amiganoid!

Unavowed - Wadjet Eye Games announces 2018 release date with a new trailer!

Wadjet Eye Games, the Studio behind the brilliant adventure games such as Golden Wake and The Blackwell Series have once again contacted us regarding their upcoming supernatural adventure game ' Unavowed ', which tells a story of dark forces and a squad of young blood to protect the mundane world from a threat stronger than any these crime fighters have faced. Wadjet Eye Games has told us not only is the game due to be released in 2018 but a new trailer has arrived that shows off the fantastic design of the game and the possible story to come.

Organism - Isometric Aliens C64 game gets a new tease and it looks fab

During this year we've constantly kept you up to date with Trevor Storey, Achim Volkers and Saul Cross's C64 game ' Organism ', which has that Aliens vibe but looks fantastic as an Isometric action game that is due to be released next year via Psytronik. Well as of today the same game is in the news again, because the team behind the game have announced it as not only 95% complete, but they have released a new teaser to the upcoming release showing not just the intro but in game footage as well.

Knight Hero - Upcoming ZX Spectrum platformer with Chess pieces!

Jaime Grilo has recently announced a new game that is coming to the ZX Spectrum, that is very much inspired by Chess but instead is actually a platformer but using Chess pieces. Titled as ' Knight Hero ', this is a new game in development using Arcade Game Designer that doesn't just look bloody good fun with well timed jumps the order of the day, but the music sounds fantastic thanks to Risky using Musicizer II!

White Light - BBC Micro owners should check this latest game out!

Dave Moore@DaveArcadian has contacted us through our twitter feed about a new game that has launched for the BBC Micro that doesn't just look rather awesome but it's available as a free download and can be purchased as a physical copy on a 5.25in floppy! Tilted as ' White Light ' and developed by Sarah Walker with graphics by John Blythe, comes a new game as an unofficial sequel to FireTrack, which has long been regarded as one of the most technically advanced games ever made for the BBC Micro.

Gunfright Returns - Reloaded Remix - An enhanced version for the ZX Spectrum

If you were an Ultimate Play the Game fan in the 80's, then this latest news which has appeared in our inbox might just interest you, as the Ultimate Play the Game classic of ' Gunfright ', has been enhanced for the ZX Spectrum as ' Gun Fright Returns - Reloaded Remix '. This game which was released in 1985 as an isometric action game written by Tim and Chris Stamper has now been given some rather nice improvements thanks to TomCaT , GoodBoy, tiboh and Panda!

Merry Amiga XMas 2017 - A rather short Christmas themed Amiga game

Christmas is fast approaching with about three weeks to go till the big day and as expected the first of many Christmas themed games have made an appearance to celebrate this very festive season. Titled as 'Merry Amiga XMas 2017', this game was developed by Steril707 as a short Amiga OCS game, in which you play as Santa that needs to avoid being knocked off his sledge.

The Adventures of Elena Temple - A game to be played as a virtual retro experience (Demo)

When I was a youngster I used to bring my Amiga over to my Grandma's house and spent most of the time playing in a slightly darkened room with games that I'd recently purchased at the local market. This new game by GrimTalin, which is called 'The Adventures of Elena Temple ', hopes to give you that experience once more. As from your perspective you'll be playing games on make believe systems that look very much like the systems of old.

HEROES OF GORLUTH - From the creators of Tales of Gorluth comes a new Amiga platformer!

Now if you've not heard of AmiWorx, they were behind Tales of Gorluth and Tales of Gorluth II; two great action adventure games which featured hours of game play, great colour graphics,exciting quests and more than 40 pieces of music that made them both a great experience to play. Well the same team have decided to go away from that original game style, and have announced the next game as a spin off with an Action RPG platformer 'HEROES OF GORLUTH'!

Golden Wing - Amiga game wins Best Game Award at Capacitor Party 2017

The MSXdev'17 competition wasn't the only thing to be finalised this year, as from the 25th to the 26th of November, the third edition of the Capacitor party was held in Spain with new Amiga demo's, music and games shown much to the excitement of the Amiga community. In fact during the event in which a number of people came forward to show off their developments for that winning entry, it was Golden Wing by CopperSky, that aimed high and won the Best Game Award!

AlarCity - PixelGlass latest Amiga game gets a rather cool demo!

We've already done a big feature for this game, but this latest announcement is more towards an update, as we've been told by PixelGlass, that their in-development top down shooter now comes with a nice demo of which you can play right now on your Amiga. This demo features fast 50hz scrolling, tons of projectiles, effects, and enemies to wipe out all contained within a game of lovely Amiga detail!

Ghoulboy - Dark Sword of Goblin - Hack n Slash platformer gets a Steam release

Right that's enough of the Amiga as now we look towards Serkan Bakar's retro-inspired style action platformer ' Ghoulboy ', which was released on Steam not long ago, and shockingly we've only just found out about it today! This game combines the best bits of classic games such as Ghouls and Ghosts and other fine titles, while keeping it fresh and awesome with 2D action, heroic characters, gloomy environments, demonic bosses and even neat little touches such as throwing a spear to create additional platforms!

Blue Escape - A new Amiga game going flappy in Space!

Platformers and run and gunners aren't the only Amiga games to appear, as we've recently been told that Johnny Acevedo's game of ' Blue Escape ', had been shown off at the Retromania 2017 videogame programming contest and since then has been made available for everyone to download and enjoy. For those of you who love games like Flappy Bird, but would rather play a game with a more Space vibe, then read on!

Miky's Land - Endless Amiga run and shooter gets new gameplay footage

Per-Ola Eriksson has once again sent us another heads up about the in development game of 'Miky's Land' which is coming to an Amiga near you very soon. Classed as an endless runner, with lots of jumping and shooting involved, this game is being developed by Michael Gibs and is inspired by games such as Wonderboy and Mario. To coincide with this news the developer has released a new update showing us even more gameplay footage including an end of level boss

Black Jewel - A very good C64 styled game releases on Steam TODAY!

It was only just last month we gave you a heads up, to let you know that Oscar Celestini Retrogames ' Black Jewel ' was released on itch.io, as a PC game created in a C64 style with lovely retro styled pixel art and hard to master gameplay. Well you'll be pleased to know this very eye opening tribute to Storm Warrior from the C64, is not only a game you should play, but it's going to be released on Steam TODAY!

Hudson Soft Collection - The first of many Christmas Amiga CD32 packs!

It's bloody cold outside, it's snowing, there's decorations up and Radio 1 keeps playing Christmas music, so that means we are getting close to the big day and such Amiga Jay has released the first of many Amiga CD32 packs in the lead up to Christmas with ' The Hudson Soft Collection '. Although it isn't the biggest of game packs we've seen from Amiga Jay, it does contain 3 great games from Hudson Soft, such as B.C Kid, Dyna Blaster and Yo! Joe!

Empires of the Undergrowth - Could this be the next SimAnt, coming to Steam Early Access?

A long time ago on the Amiga I played a game called Sim Ant; a highly addictive Ant simulation game released in 1991 by Maxis, that gave you the player control of an Ant colony, from birth, to domination across a garden and into a persons house. It was and still is, a game that I'd recommend to everyone to pick up and play. But if you can't, then it might be worth your time looking towards 'Empires of the Undergrowth', which looks like someone took Sim Ant and put it through a modern Ant Simulation blender.

Contradiction - A recommended retro-styled action indie-game!

Are you bored and looking for something to play that doesn't require an emulator or a download on to a work computer? ;) Then look no further than Games by Michi's latest addition of ' Contradiction ', which is not only free to play but you can play it right now in your browser. This game that takes its inspiration from Contra as an action shooter, puts you in control of Commando Billy Lancer of the Contradiction unit on a mission to take down Dr Hiorishita and his bionic horrors!

Donkey Kong 3 - Is this Arcade classic coming to the ZX Spectrum?

Throughout these last few months we've been featuring a numbers of games that have been entered into the ZX-DEV conversion competition, games such as Gimmick! Yumetaro Odyssey, Gandalf and even Mighty Final Fight, each one aiming for a very decent prize and even a speccy tape called Thrust. Well the competition is still ongoing, and as of this week a new entry has been added and it looks to be an Arcade to ZX Spectrum port of the 1980's game ' Donkey Kong 3 '.

Mirror - A new arcade puzzle game released for the Amiga

Cobe 002 Burnout Ultimate and Project X :SE 2.0 wasn't the only additions to the Amiga today, as we've just learnt that Zener has made available his arcade puzzle game of ' Mirror ', which has graphical artwork by Sandman and music by Estrayk/Capsule, and was developed using the Amiga game creation software 'RedPill' and originally presented at Capacitor Party 2017 (Malaga).