As we covered earlier this week, game researcher DRX is set to release his collection of rare SEGA prototypes this afternoon. Our last article got a lot of people’s attention, and it caused some big problems for the Sonic Retro servers, so rather than linking you to relavent forum topic, we’ve posted a mirror of [...]
DRX, a member of the Sonic Retro Forums, has done something unprecedented in the gaming community. After years of research and detective work, he has gotten his hands on a treasure trove of materials from the golden age of SEGA, including hundreds of prototypes, documentation, and possibly other things as well.
It’s not currently known how [...]
With the release of DRX’s SEGA prototypes just a couple of days away, a lot of people are looking forward to trying some of this classic gaming goodness on their own. Ubuntu users need look no further: Gens is an awesome Sega Genesis emulator. And thanks to Ubuntu Forums user megamaced, anyone can get the [...]
If you’ve got more hours on your hands today than you know what to do with, Evolution is probably exactly what you need. Unlike some of our other Time Wasters, it plays at a slow place - you won’t need to have good aim or mad clicking skills - just some patience and the will [...]
Look, we like broccoli as much as the next technology web site, but we all know that asparagus could take broccoli in a fair fight any day. And to prove our point, we bring you Attack of the Killer Broccoli.
This Flash based video game is basically a space shooter. But instead of controlling a spaceship [...]
Ever wish you could play your favorite adventure games from the 80s and 90s on your PDA, iPhone, or modern PC? ScummVM is an open source project that lets you run a huge number of games including classic LucasArts titles like Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island.
ScummVM 0.11.0 was released today with support [...]
Similar to Dangerous Dave and Brutal Bob, the object of Throw Me is to launch a projectile as far and as high as possible. After you click the mouse button to start, you have to swing the ball around (like a hammer toss) to build up momentum. When you’re ready to release, you press the [...]
Looking for a good way to avoid reading those important work documents on your train ride home this evening? Spacetime Arcade has re-released Realms, an Asteroids-style space shooter as freeware.
The game, which is a couple of years old, used to be a commercial title. But now you can download a free version for Windows [...]
The folks who brought you the original SimCity nearly 20 years ago have now brought you the free edition of that game. Not necessarily free as in beer, but free as in speech. The SimCity source code has been released for anyone who wants to port it run on other devices or operating systems, or [...]
Hacking game consoles to run homebrew code is all the rage these days, but until recently, Wii owners were only able to join the fun with software that ran in Gamecube mode, which was a serious limitation.
No longer! At the 24th Annual Chaos Communication Congress, a homebrew developer presented a hacked Wii running native [...]