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Bandai Namco Humanitarian Donation

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Bandai Namco has followed CD Projekt Red, in making a substantial donation to humanitarian aid following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On twitter, the video game publisher announced that 100 million yen, approximately £650k will be donated to Save the Children support. The Tokyo-based publisher, which has published games for decades, follows wide condemnation of the war throughout the games industry. Last month CDPR donated nearly £200k, and most recently
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Dij-a see this 8-bit era book?

Paul Morrison0
Mark R. Jones, who was (predominantly) a graphic artist at games giant Ocean Software in the late 1980s/early 1990s, has written a book about his experiences in the games industry. It's called "LOAD DIJ DIJ", with the unusual name coming from the act and sounds of loading a ZX Spectrum game. Spanning 253 pages, it's an excellent, and very personal behind the scenes look at one of the biggest early
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Amstrad CPC News

PUZZLE BOBBLE GETS AN UPDATE ON THE CPC

Ben Honebone0
Back in October 2021, the Amstrad received a fantastic port of Taito's classic arcade hit Puzzle Bobble. Developer Crazy Piri delivered a dream come true for CPC owners with a very faithful port of the original game, not to mention some extra polish in the form of stage backgrounds featuring other Taito hits like Chase HQ, New Zealand Story, Rainbow Islands, Bubble Bobble, and Arkanoid. Now the team at Crazy
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Indie News

You’re in a room, exits are S, E, W. AdventureX to return in 2022!

Paul Morrison0
AdventureX: The Narrative Games Convention is to return after an enforced two year absence. The convention, which is a love letter to all things in the world of narrative-driven gaming, will be held on November 5th and 6th at the British Library in London. Although details are yet to be announced, there will be a healthy collection of speakers and exhibitors in attendance, and the event promises to be a
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Commodore 64 News

Radarsoft to the Rescue!

Paul Morrison0
Radarsoft's long-lost Commodore 64 game, Rescue 17, has been found, dumped, cracked and released! Programmed by Radarsoft stalwart Cees Kramer, it's a frankly terrible mish-mash of game styles featuring poor graphics, horrible sound and awful gameplay but hey, it's another piece of recovered history so if you're a C64 fan, you should definitely check it out! If nothing else, it gives you an appreciation for how far things progressed from
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Sarah Jane Avory is droning on with Bayraktar

Paul Morrison0
Sarah Jane Avory, coder of recent Commodore 64 classics Neutron, Zeta Wing, Soul Force and The Briley Witch Chronicles, has tentatively started work on a mysterious new game. It's to be called Bayraktar, which is the name of an unmanned combat drone. Details are minimal as work only started on 9th March, but given the inspiration behind it and Sarah Jane's past works, and the knowledge it's using the Zeta
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Atari News

New Atari 2600 title up for pre-order

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Soul of the Beast is a new Atari 2600 title being released by Icelandic developer Aerıform. The action game is heavily inspired by Shadow of the Beast and features fast and brutal side-scrolling actıon. The story is centred around your quest to destroy the evil High Sorcerer Rynkar across 4 large areas. There are fourteen enemy types, puzzles to solve and bosses to beat in a non-linear world. The difficulty
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Lego Princess Peach at last!

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The Lego Group has announced that Princess Peach will finally be added to the Super Mario Adventures range of toys.  These sets have been around for a couple of years, but the main lady was oddly absent until now. The full list of Lego Super Mario products are:71403 Adventures with Peach Starter Course €59.99 / $59.9971404 Goomba's Shoe Expansion Set €9.99 / $9.9971405 Fuzzy Flippers Expansion Set €24.99 / $19.9971406
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