Bomb Munchies - Bomberman clone updated for the ZX Spectrum

It might be heading towards 1am, but boy do we have a nice ZX Spectrum game for you to play! It's ' Bomb Munchies ' developed by Mat Gubbins, which is kind of like Bomberman but has lots of deadly spiders walking about placing webs! Oh and this game is also up to 4 player, so if you've got some friends around for a party, load this game up for an evening of ZX Spectrum enjoyment!

Dungeon Kingdom - Enjoyable Dungeon Crawler gets a highly requested feature added!

Although we do gaming write ups, we tend not to mention every single update that happens to games while they are in Early Access. A game during that stage of feedback development, can be a completely different beast to when they are first mentioned, plus it's hugely time consuming. But when it comes to Hydro Games dungeon crawler of ' Dungeon Kingdom ', of which we did an early preview. Not only is it an enjoyable experience to play so far, but the developers have today announced a number of features added to the game, with one of them being a highly requested Auto-map!

WinUAE 3.2.2 B2 - The best Amiga emulator beta update 2

Although Toni Wilen did say he was going to release one beta a week, it seems as if he just couldn't hold back and as such today he released the latest Amiga emulator version of ' WinUAE 3.2.2 Beta 2 ', which is now available for download in 32bit and 64bit form. In my opinion I thought the previous final was perfect but alas it was not so, as Toni has found even more bugs to fix such as No MIDI out devices detected and SASI/SASI (CHS) options were not visible in GUI when listing SASI controllers. For further fixes and improvements for this seriously sweet Amiga emulator, read the change log below.

Donkey Kong Jr - Atari 8-bit Arcade HACK update v8

Just days ago (link) we mentioned Darryl1970's Atari 8-bit hack of that classic game ' Donkey Kong Junior ', which was originally released in 1982 for Arcades and later released for home systems such as the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit , ColecoVision, Coleco Adam, Intellivision, NES and BBC Micro, with a C64 overhauled version released by Mr Sid at the end of last year. Well that same hack has just been updated again this week with new colour changes, a redraw of Mario's step, edits to Donkey Kong, spring redraw, bird tweaks and the redraw of all of Juniors frames compared to the arcade.

Back in Time Symphonic Collection - C64 Symphonic Box Set Kickstarter success!

After a recent article and a big social share by ourselves, the ' Back in Time Symphonic Collection - C64 Symphonic Box Set ' is now a Kickstarter success with still 35 hours to go! Currently at £32,230 pledged of a £30,000 goal with project lead by C64Audio, they are going to arrange and produce a box set of Symphonic Commodore 64 studio arrangements that sound like properly large, epic )(or bouncy and fun, or eerie and mysterious) film soundtracks with full transcripts for orchestras to play live in concerts, creating a new generation of SID fans with incredible scores for people of all ages. To coincide with this glorious news, C64Audio have released a new update video with a powerful orchestra!

Combat Monsters - Prepares for the 'OMG It's MASSIVE!' V4 update

Rubicon Development - Creators of the brilliant mobile Great Little War Game series have been hard at work on the latest update for their already cracking Combat Monsters - a free Collectible Card Game and Hex battler. Currently in final Beta stages, Rubicon will be pushing this to go live by the end of the month for PC players. but this is not just a minor update, this one is so big it's been dubbed the OMG It's Massive! update with features galore.

WinUAE 3.2.0 - Toni Wilen's Amiga emulator reaches a new final build!

After many months of beta updates with a ton of fixes and improvements including 64bit support, today is the day that Toni Wilen has released a brand new WinUAE version 3.2.0. This is no small release either with major improvements such as a 64-bit compatible 680x0 JIT, Accelerator boards, HD controllers and much more to keep it going as the best Amiga emulator for all your Amiga gaming needs. So if you have love the Amiga way of life and want to play Amiga games on your computer or install an Amiga OS, you can do no wrong with WinUAE!

C64SD V3.0 PRINCESS FLC - The best SD2IEC device improved even further!

Truth be told, of all the C64 devices we've featured so far this is by far one of the best, coming second to the 1541 Ultimate-II. You can read our review (Here) of why it was so good! But enough about our review, today we are here to tell you, the C64SD V3.0 Princess has just got even better with the in development  ' Princess FLC (Full Logic Control) microcontroller ' that gives this fantastic device some unique new features, of which you can read below.

Roland of Sherwood - Carnivac improves his WIP Amstrad CPC styled game

Carnivac has given the CPCwiki community a rather nice screenshot update today for his in development Amstrad CPC styled game of ' Roland of Sherwood ', which looks like it may be released at some point this year for the PC. An update of the Roland in Time/Space pics with his time travelling phone booth having landed in medieval England. This latest update features a completely different view of the original landscape to the one seen above, that's far more bleak and more gritty, to that of a bewitched look.

Caren and the Tangled Tentacles (v1.1) - Winner of the Forum64 Adventure Compo gets a new release

Once again one of our readers by the name of Retro Nerd has given us the quick heads up over a fantastic release which is sure to excite the C64 gaming crowd. Winner of the F64GC 2015: Adventure competition coming first place amongst 6 entries and a previous mention by ourselves (link). Caren and the Tangled Tentacles, developed by Oliver Lindau and team such as Martin Wendt and Kamil Wolnikowski has now reached version 1.1!

Harrier Attack - Amsoft classic coming to your PC - Gets new footage!

To our amazement just last week (link) we found out some very special news related to the PC remake of the 1984 Amsoft classic 'Harrier Attack'. Originally one of the greatest games I have ever played, with the concept of the game to fly a British Harrier Jet across the landscape on bombing runs destroying both enemy buildings and aircraft. Has now received another YouTube update and this time it doesn't just have sound, but it looks smooth with clouds animation, moving planes and big explosions!

Crystal Kingdom Dizzy - Classic Dizzy is back and he's out of beta

Dizzy fans have we got news for you as we've just heard from the YolkFolk, of the final release for the remake of  'Crystal Kingdom Dizzy'. First released in 1992 on many different systems by Codemasters such as the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, DOS, and Amiga, has now been given a graphical de-make to the likes of the 8 bit classics. Not just that but unlike the original version, this one has been made into a traditional Dizzy style game and is no longer split into four levels.

Roland of Sherwood - Carnivac's Amstrad CPC styled game gets an update!

You may remember our recent feature of Carnivac's most impressive looking Amstrad CPC styled platformer game of 'Roland of Sherword' which is still in development. But we've just been given the update of a new screenshot which looks rather nice to say the least. The developer has also noted since our most recent article, that he only started it not long ago but it's a relatively simple game with almost all of the main code and 75% of level graphics are done, so technically it's already the most complete of his CPC projects.

New A1200 Computer Housing Project - Lukhash Special Edition!

After the recent Amiga's 30th annivesary, and the fact that Philippe Lang's latest Kickstarter the 'New A1200 Computer Housing Project' reached 10% of it's Kickstarter goal in just 24hrs. We have just been informed that this Kickstarter has just got a great treat in store for those of you who pledge €159 towards this rather special Amiga case based project. It's the Lukhash Special Edition case in eye popping black or transparent detail, with a rather special badge sticker, 3 Lukhash Albums signed by his hand and a Lukhash signature embossed on the inner Metal frame, as well as with serial number.

Amiga prototypes that Commodore hid from the world see light of day!

Pretty much everywhere you go now someone is talking about today's Amiga 30th birthday. So it came as no surprise to us to find the odd golden jem in a land of lost ideas, prototypes of Amiga systems that either didn't see the light of day or only one person ever had a working model stored in a dingy basement. However thanks to Techradar they've tracked down never-before-seen prototype versions of the multi-tasking powerhouse and a D-44 Amiga development system - only 100 of which were ever made - in addition to a prototype Amiga 2000 called 'The Ranger'. So go and check these rather special beasties out and wonder what type of Amiga we would've had, if these got a commercial release.

Links : Amiga Prototypes / Commodore Amiga Facebook group

New A1200 Computer Housing Project reaches 10% of its Kickstarter goal in 24hrs!

As today is the Amiga's 30th annivesary, we also have some fantastic news for Philippe Lang's latest Kickstarter 'New A1200 Computer Housing Project', as it has reached 10% of it's Kickstarter goal in just 24hrs. A Kickstarter campaign that we have been closely supporting forcing other sites to join in on the fun, has reached an amount so far of €16,540 pledged of a €125,000 goal with still 28 days to go. But that's not all this Kickstarter update has to offer as the creator has mentioned not just shiny new cases but new enhancements as well!

Donation from Marek Panczyk

More awesome games to come today and even a possible Amiga Kickstarter, but before that we'd like to say a huge thank you to Marek Panczyk who sent us a donation yesterday all the way from Poland! I'm so grateful to all of you, all around the world helping me with server hosting costs and to keep this site growing to be even better year in year out. So a BIG thanks once again and to all of our readers from Indie Retro News.

Dizzy The Last Hero v2 - The best looking Dizzy game this year just got even better!

We've just been informed by Adam of Yolkfolk.com in our Dizzy RetroGaming Facebook group, that the latest version of the brilliant retro styled Dizzy fan game 'Dizzy The Last Hero', of which we featured recently, has just been given a very nice update. Currently coming first in the DizzyAGE Easter Competition 2015 with Sunken Castle Dizzy coming second, this is possibly one of the best looking Dizzy fan games we've seen so far.  Developed by trz & Dr. Titus and available in English and Russian, the detail is of very high standard, with a great intro tune and sound affects that might just give you the goosebumps.

Umbra - Diablo 2 styled action RPG is highest grossing Kickstarter game campaign from France to date!

The developer 'SolarFall Games' must be overwhelmed today as they have announced that not only is their open world RPG of 'Umbra' a Kickstarter and Steam Greenlight success, but they have smashed their Kickstarter goal with an incredible $406,979 - 181% funded. As such it is now the highest grossing Kickstarter campaign, for a videogame, from France to date! Umbra is powered by CryEngine 3 and blends the hack and slash game play with state of the art graphics and truly modern AI inspired by the hit classic Diablo 2.

2015 C64 SEUCK Competition Winner announced as Abyssonaut by Anthony Stiller

Throughout this year we have featured many C64 homebrew games that have been entered into the fantastic 2015 C64 SEUCK Competition. Using the Shoot Em Up Construction Kit, programmers from around the world stepped forward up to the challenge to make a game that would appeal enough to be crowned winners in the competition. Well that day has finally come and we are pleased to announce the winner is 'Abyssonaut' by Anthony Stiller!