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dosbox-staging, a 'soft' forking of DOSBox to work on advanced features has a first release

By Liam Dawe,
DOSBox is about to get more advanced, with the community-made 'soft' fork dosbox-staging have a first proper release out.

Tasty Static, clone of the classic SkyRoads has a new release out

By Liam Dawe,
Remember SkyRoads? A classic 90's racing game with a bit of a twist, that acts a bit like a platformer. It has a free clone called Tasty Static, which recently had a big update. I've been a little obsessed over it too.

Rise up and fight in the crowd-based retro brawler Tonight We Riot - confirmed for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Tonight We Riot, developed by a worker-owned cooperative Pixel Pushers Union 512, is a 'revolutionary' crowd-based retro brawler that looks like good messy fun and it's confirmed for Linux.

Game Boy Color inspired Kharon's Crypt - Even Death May Die to enter Early Access on May 29

By Liam Dawe,
Kharon's Crypt - Even Death May Die, a retro non-linear dungeon crawler that was funded on Kickstarter back in October 2017 is finally about to release.

Wrath: Aeon of Ruin engine source code released - a quick look

By Samsai,
The developers of Wrath: Aeon of Ruin, an FPS game built on the Darkplaces engine, have seemingly been a bit sneaky and released the source code to their engine fork with little fanfare on GitHub.

Battle through a dying Earth in the FPS 'Core Decay' - Steam page now up

By Liam Dawe,
Core Decay is one of those incredible looking retro-inspired shooters we covered recently, and it's now listed on Steam for you to go give it a wishlist.

Mainframe Defenders is a retro-themed tactical squad-based strategy game out now

By Liam Dawe,
Mainframe Defenders combines a supremely cool retro 80s terminal inspired graphical style, with squad building and tactical turn-based battles.

Knightin'+, a Zelda-lite dungeon crawler arrives DRM-free on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
Knightin'+ from Muzt Die Studios, a Zelda-lite dungeon crawling adventure has now officially arrived on DRM-free store GOG.com.

Get ready for more retro FPS goodness as 'Core Decay' is coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The first-person shooter genre is alive and well, especially for retro inspired titles and we have another on the way that looks quite awesome with Core Decay.

ULTRAKILL - a fast-paced and rather violent FPS has a Steam page up and new demo coming soon

By Liam Dawe,
Retro first-person shooters as a genre and theme are very much back in action, I am super happy about this and ULTRAKILL is one that needs to be in your sights.

Dezatopia, a unique feeling multi-directional shoot 'em up is out now - it's awesome

By Liam Dawe,
Developer HEY and Japanese publisher Hanaji Games have released Dezatopia, an imaginative and unique feeling multi-directional shoot 'em up with Linux support.

Dawnthorn, a pixel-art ARPG standalone prequel to Hazelnut Bastille releases this year

By Liam Dawe,
During the Kickstarter campaign for the upcoming Zelda-like ARPG Hazelnut Bastille, Aloft Studio let out their secret other project called Dawnthorn.

Terminal Phase, a space shooter you can play in a Terminal window

By Liam Dawe,
Ever wanted to play a space shooter in your Terminal window? Well, now you can with Terminal Phase which was announced recently.

Move over Sonic, Surge has arrived with Open Surge - a game engine and retro platformer

By Liam Dawe,
I grew up playing the early Sonic games so Open Surge really speaks to me. A retro Sonic-inspired platformer (that's actually quite polished already) and a game engine for others to create with it.

When Kickstarter goes wrong for indie games: Drift Stage

By Liam Dawe,
A lot of the time Kickstarter (and other crowdfunding) for indie games goes well, in fact the vast majority of the time all is fine. Sometimes though, everything breaks down as is the case with Drift Stage.

Up for a retro adventure? The Space Quest II remake is now available on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Space Quest II from Sierra On-Line, originally released back in 1987 not long before I was born, has been revived by Infamous Adventures.

Fates of Ort, a fantasy RPG focused on strategic action releases March with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
A retro inspired fantasy RPG with a focus on strategic action? With a story? Fates of Ort looks and sounds like it's going to be very interesting to play.

Exhumed/PowerSlave can now be played easily with a cross-platform game engine

By Liam Dawe,
Exhumed, also known as PowerSlave, a retro shooter from the 90s has been revived with the power of open source.

Open Fodder, the open source game engine for Cannon Fodder has a new release

By Liam Dawe,
Now this is some classic gaming. Cannon Fodder is a game I remember playing on the Amiga and it's being kept alive with a cross-platform open source game engine called Open Fodder.

GB Studio, a free and open source retro adventure game creator

By Liam Dawe,
Want to create your own seriously retro games? The free and open source GB Studio can certainly help you to do that.
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