The Snow Bros. inspired arcade game Slam and Roll heads to Steam soon

When the world’s monuments become targeted by aliens, mankind’s plan to wipe them out with heavy artillery backfires. All is not lost, though – turns out the aliens are susceptible to baseballs, hockey plucks, and other sports equipment pelted into their faces. Who knew? That’s the premise behind Slam and Roll – a modern arcade-style …

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The Atari 400 Mini’s game list has been confirmed

Ahead of its looming 28th March release date, Retro Games Ltd and PLAION have confirmed the twenty-five titles pre-installed on the Atari 400 Mini, aka The400 Mini. While the amount may seem a little low when compared to other mini consoles, the The400 does offer USB game loading – with support for cart, disk, and …

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Horror beat’em up revival Night Slashers: Remake is coming to all formats

Forever Entertainment has confirmed that Night Slashers: Remake is coming to all current formats – PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC via Steam, GOG, and Epic. That’s both the PS4 and PS5, plus the Xbox One and Xbox Series, if you’re wondering. This news doesn’t come as a huge surprise. We haven’t covered Night Slashers: Remake before …

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Balls of Steel rebounds onto Steam, now published by Atari

Atari has re-released the 1997 PC pinball game Balls of Steel on Steam. If you’re currently scratching your head, then you aren’t alone – this wasn’t originally an Atari published title, handled instead by Apogee Software/3D Realms. You may know it as a parody title in Duke Nukem 3D. It was first shown at E3 …

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Surprise! The Monty Mole Collection launches on Switch next week

If you’re currently scratching your head and wondering who Monty Mole is, it’s likely you didn’t grow up in the UK during the ‘80s. Monty was an 8-bit platformer mascot, usually found adorning the pages of ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 magazines alongside Dizzy and Jet Set Willy. This new collection for Switch brings together …

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‘Tis the sea’man – Christmas Seaman, a questionable master of romance

The offbeat virtual pet/life sim hybrid Seaman was a hit in Japan, becoming one of the Dreamcast’s best-selling games in that region, and one closely associated with the console itself. It offered a remarkably different experience to the arcade conversions and beat’em ups the system was renowned for, while also riding the tailcoats of the …

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The Chicken Run movie tie-in wasn’t bad at all, surprisingly

With the long-time-coming Chicken Run sequel imminent on Netflix, memories are stirring of the late 2000 PC, PSone, and Dreamcast tie-in for the original movie. Somehow, this plucky little game managed to break movie tie-in convention, being quite good. Not amazing, but the gaming press were surprisingly receptive at the time. Published by Eidos, home …

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