By Patrick Hickey Jr. Old School Gamer Magazine chats with “Canvas Hockey” creator Brandon Holt, who discusses his game and what inspired it as well as an eventual Switch release. About Canvas Hockey: Canvas Hockey is a top-down, arcade-style party game based on the sport of Ice Hockey. You can team up with friends in local multiplayer for 1v1 or 2v2 battles, or set up custom Tournaments for up to 12 players. You can also start a single player Career, where you start at the bottom (Bronze league) and work your way up to the top (CHL elite). Manage your roster by trading your partner and goali ..read more

By Patrick Hickey Jr. Old School Gamer Magazine chats with “Canvas Hockey” creator Brandon Holt, who discusses his game and what inspired it as well as an eventual Switch release. About Canvas Hockey: Canvas Hockey is a top-down, arcade-style party game based on the sport of Ice Hockey. You can team up with friends in local multiplayer for 1v1 or 2v2 battles, or set up custom Tournaments for up to 12 players. You can also start a single player Career, where you start at the bottom (Bronze league) and work your way up to the top (CHL elite). Manage your roster by trading your partner and goali ..read more

Very few film and comic franchises have yielded positive results when translated into the video game medium. Pick any random five video games based on either a film or comic and the odds of just one of those games being remotely decent are pretty slim. As gamers we‘ve gotten use to seeing some of our favorite films and comics get turned into completely unfaithful steaming piles of hot moist garbage that we tend to either shrug it off, or simply avoid. The Aliens Versus Predator (AvP) video game franchise happens to both fit and break the mold. With numerous games spanning across various platf ..read more

As many an industry suffers due to the continuing effects of the lockdown, the same cannot be said of the gaming industry – and video gaming in particular. With entertainment drifting away from live sporting events given the danger that they pose, people have had to devise their own type of fun in the home. This has, inevitably, led to a greater focus on consoles and devices. No wonder then that the American gaming industry has seen a new quarterly spending record. What the numbers are A remarkable statistic rises above them all: American consumers have spent more this past quarter on video ..read more

Classic WoW has been a huge success for Blizzard, attracting new and returning fans of the game in their thousands! We’re now in phase 4 out of 6 of Classic WoW and racing through the much-loved old content. This has led fans to ask, “what’s next?”. Well, we have the answer. In late March, Blizzard sent a select number of World of Warcraft Classic players a survey. This survey asked players whether they’d like Classic The Burning Crusade (TBC) servers and how they want this transition to be handled. Although Blizzard hasn’t confirmed they will be rolling out Classic TBC servers, this survey i ..read more

Developers recognize the entertainment value of incorporating casino games into their own titles. Some games get it wrong by bombarding players with loot crates — tedious tack-ons, which ruin immersion and squeeze every penny from your pockets. Others create masterpieces, expertly weaving the casino aesthetic into its game world. In such cases, the casino-esque experience adds a refreshing turn of pace, deviating from the gun toting and monster slaying we gamers grow accustomed to. Gambling can be a fantastic tool to contextualize events, build story and cultivate a little added tension. Alth ..read more

A new episode of The Retro Hour has been released! This time they’re joined by both David Pleasance and Trevor Dickinson. Ever wondered what happened to the Amiga after Commodore went bust? We’re joined by David Pleasance and Trevor Dickinson to get the story on the struggles and triumphs of the Amiga over the last 25 years! Source: The Retro Hour on YouTube ..read more

If you want something a bit different to impress your friends with at the next shindig, or just want a new way to play solitaire at home, the 8-Bit Deck is one worthy contender to satisfy this desire. https://www.the8bitdeck.com/  The 8-Bit Deck was created pixel by pixel and inspired by the Pico-8 gaming console. Each deck is manufactured by the USPCC (United States Playing Card Company) and retails for $15- excluding shipping. https://www.the8bitdeck.com/ The pips, numbers and faces were all designed and rendered using a nifty little art pixel editing suite called Aseprite, while caref ..read more

Kaze Emanuar has just released their new 'Zelda: The Missing Link' rom patch. This is a completely original Zelda game designed in the OoT engine for the N64! This is a new fan-mod of the famous Ocarina of Time. This mod takes place after OoT but before the events of Majora's Mask. There are new areas, custom code, plus a wonderfully fresh, remixed musical score. The game was created by Kaze, CDi-Fails, and /Zel/.   Whenever creating something expected to stand up to the metrics of the amazing Zelda series, it is hoped they live up to the original intent – and in this case, they absolute ..read more

Beneath a Steel Sky is a story about Robert Foster, a regular man abducted from his village in the wastes, and forced to watch as his village is destroyed and family slaughtered. He is kidnapped, but escapes in a freak helicopter crash, only to find himself lost with only the circuit board of his friend Joey– the AI he built as a kid. Foster resurrects his AI friend and tasks them both with exploring Union City, where its subjugated citizens live and toil in massive towering apartment blocks, watched by a brutal and totalitarian AI dictator– as the rich live below them in a far nicer, less p ..read more