Quake64 - Quake for the Commodore 64? Sort of!

An ambitious new demake is coming to the Commodore 64 as Kweepa aims to bring the iconic 3D shooter Quake to the Commodore 64 under the title Quake64. Completing a trilogy of id Software ports for the system, this project requires significant compromises to fit within the hardware's strict limitations. While it will never have the graphics of the classic game, it will feature a true 3D wireframe perspective, rendering environments one room at a time in a style reminiscent of the classic game Mercenary. Enemies are being transformed into animated stick-figure skeletons using a vertex binding technique, while the game's weaponry is generated as wireframe-style sprites by merging weapon geometry into quads and processing them through Z-buffer and face ID buffers.

Quake Engine running on a ZX Spectrum and ZX Spectrum NEXT looks mighty impressive!

Another hot news story has just been sent to us by Saberman, as if you have a ZX Spectrum or a ZX Spectrum NEXT, and want to play something that's very impressive, especially as it can be run on an original 8bit machine, is the latest Alpha of a playable Quake engine that has been created by Alone Coder together with Dragons' Lord: an engine running at an impressive speed even on a standard ZX Spectrum 128k. In light of this news, we have some more details below and a new video from Saberman and ZX-Retro.

Quake Engine running on a ZX Spectrum looks mighty impressive!

Even though we were rather late with the news update as a bad headache got in the way, but if you have a ZX Spectrum and want to play something that's very impressive, especially as it is running on an original 8bit machine, is the latest release of a fully playable Quake engine created by Alone Coder together with Dragons' Lord; an engine running at an impressive speed on a standard ZX Spectrum 128k. In light of this news, we have some more details below and two videos from both Modern ZX-Retro Gaming and Saberman.

WRATH: Aeon of Ruin - 3D Realms going full retro with the return of the Quake Engine!

If you're looking for a retro inspired shooter that is sure to excite many in the retro community, then look no further than 3D Realms upcoming First Person Shooter game WRATH: Aeon of Ruin. This game of which we were suprised to find out about today, is a wicked shooter of bloody gore that is powered by the Quake Engine and featuring all the best bits we've come to love from classic first person shooter games!

Bethesda joins the GOG digital service with great deals! ( Doom-Quake-The Elder Scrolls)

After blowing us all away with the Forgotten Realms digital premiers, which contained great classics such as Eye of the Beholder and Dungeon Hack. GOG has once again announced the joining of Bethesda to the GOG digital service. That's right ladies and gentlemen, the incredible publisher Bethseda and many of it's classics such as; The Ultimate DOOM, DOOM II + Master Levels for Doom II + Final DOOM, Quake including Mission Pack 1 and Mission Pack 2, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind  - GOTY Edition, The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard  (premier) and The Elder Scrolls: Battlespire - (premier) are now available to buy at 33% off. But wait there's more!

7DFPS - Seven Day First Person Shooter challenge (Free Games!)

Here we go again, it's Jam time, where lots of gamers from around the world create some pretty awesome games using home grown talent. Today's Jam is the #7DFPS in which developers were tasked with creating a first person shooter in just seven days. So if any of you love a good game of Doom, Quake or Wolfenstein then you can do no wrong with 23 cool free games to play.

NeonXSZ - Intense fast paced Descent-Quake fused shooter (Desura/Steam Greenlight+Demo)

Game Type : Action, Arcade, Shooter

Developer : Intravenous Software

Game Quote : Saddened by the lack of old school shooters like Quake, and missing the internal spaceship combat of games like Descent and Forsaken, they have set out to meld together these classic games of the 80's and 90's into the game we always wanted to play. Neon's game play aims to capture the adrenaline fueled speed and thrill of dog fighting. Ships are small and lightning fast with the ability to strafe in all directions. This creates a style of shooter quite unlike anything that has gone before. You can create anything from blisteringly fast fighters to slow, heavy tank like destroyers and tweak them with a nearly endless supply of upgrades to suit your play style. Write your own rules and create your own unique tales of victory or defeat.

Release : Alpha available now, Final TBA
Systems : PC, Mac, Linux