Badger Punch Games' modern-day Amiga title Roguecraft is coming to Evercade, it has been confirmed.

The latest entry in Evercade's single-game cart range, Roguecraft DX "features new levels, new monsters, new music, power-ups, and more," all of which are "exclusive to this current Evercade release."

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We've now got fresh information and images of the cancelled Warhammer racing game Kult of Speed, thanks to Games That Weren't and Steve Cook.

Planned for release by Electronic Arts in 1994 on the Amiga, Mega Drive and MS-DOS PC, the game features Ork racers on motorcycles and would allow extensive customisation and upgrades, Road Rash-style combat, two-player split-screen and even a track editor.

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BSzili - a developer known for his unofficial Amiga ports of Blood, Wolfenstein 3D, and Shadow Warrior — has recently released a new proof-of-concept demo of the Sega Saturn and PlayStation classic Tomb Raider for the Commodore Amiga (as spotted by IndieRetroNews).

According to the BSzili, who posted a build of the game over on the English Amiga Board last Thursday, the demo only took him a few days to put together in total and is based on the GBA and 32X version of OpenLara — an open source engine created by XProger for the original Tomb Raider.

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Ruff ‘n’ Tumble is one of the most visually stunning Amiga games, but it was sadly released towards the end of the platform's viability as a gaming system and, therefore, didn't get the level of exposure or acclaim it deserved.

However, there's a chance it might get a second chance at fame thanks to Worms creator Andy Davidson. Davidson is currently working on Worms The Director's Cut 1.5 and has been showing off some of the cool crossovers he has planned for the game.

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Retro Games Ltd., the company behind the C64 and A500 Mini micro-consoles, has revealed its product roadmap for the next few years.

The headline news is that the company plans to release a full-size "Amiga console" in Q4, 2024. This will sit alongside the A500 Mini system, which launched in 2022. It has been confirmed that the new system will have a fully working keyboard.

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Decades after the game originally debuted in Japan, Sega's Mega Drive / Genesis classic Phantasy Star II is getting an unofficial port for the Commodore Amiga (h/t: IndieRetroNews).

The port is the work of the fan developer monoz, and the musician Simone "JMD" Bernacchia, and is being created using Earok's Scorpion Engine — a creation tool for the Commodore Amiga, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, and SNK NeoGeo.

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Toaplan is famous for its shmups, but the Japanese company also produced games in other genres, with 1987's Wardner being one of the most well-known.

Now, indie developer RetroRic is leveraging Earok's Scorpion Engine to bring this side-scrolling cult classic to "stock" AGA and OCS Commodore Amiga computers.

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Former Your Sinclair and Amiga Power staffer Jonathan Nash has passed away, we're sad to report.

Nash's work will be instantly familiar to readers of those magazines. Like so many publications of the late '80s and early '90s, the personality and humour of the writers really shone through, and Nash's brand of comedy has resonated with fans across the decades.

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Nintendo's F-Zero launched alongside the Super Famicom / SNES and gave players a taste of what the system was capable of thanks to its smoothly-rotating Mode 7 tracks.

While the Amiga can't replicate this graphic mode, it's getting an F-Zero-style racer which at least aims to mimic the feel of the anti-grav racer (thanks, Indie Retro News).

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Like many popular arcade games of the '80s, Sega's OutRun was ported to many home platforms, including the Mega Drive, Master System, PC Engine, ZX Spectrum, C64 and more.

It was also ported to the Commodore Amiga in 1989, a system which was more than capable of handling a decent conversion – but sadly, US Gold's port has gone down in gaming history as a complete mess. It was apparently ported from the Atari ST version, which means it doesn't make use of the Amiga's powerful blitter.

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A new fanmade Star Wars game has just been released for the Commodore Amiga, and it's definitely one you'll not want to miss.

Star Dust Wars - Director's Cut was released last week, as originally spotted by IndieRetroNews, and is described as "a fan-made homage to the legendary Star Wars arcade game that captured the imagination of players worldwide back in 1987-88".

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Worms creator Andy Davidson is currently working on a free 1.5 Director's Cut of the game for the Amiga, which is expected early next year. He's already confirmed that the game will include community-made levels, having shown off one based on the classic classic British sci-fi comedy series Red Dwarf.

Davidson has now confirmed that another bonus stage will see Worms teaming up with another legendary Amiga series: Turrican.

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Earlier this month, the original creator of Worms Andy Davidson announced plans to work on a free 1.5 Director's Cut of the game for the Amiga, scheduled to come out in January of next year.

Well, since then, the developer has continued posting new updates about the project, informing people that yes, Team17 is aware of what he's doing (and they're okay with it); and posting some of the early-level concepts that have been created for the updated game by himself and others in the Amiga community. This includes two dual-layer stages — one of which is designed after the Sega logo and another that is based on the classic British sci-fi comedy series Red Dwarf.

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It's a good time to be a Worms fan. Not only has Digital Eclipse just released an amazing anniversary edition of Worms Armageddon, but the series's original creator Andy Davidson has recently revealed plans for a new updated version of Worms Directors Cut for the Commodore Amiga, tentatively titled Worms DC 1.5.

The free update was hinted at earlier this week after Davidson managed to get the Amiga he originally made Worms on recapped and running again. But we weren't entirely sure at the time exactly what it would entail.

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Andy Davidson, the man behind the original Worms, has revealed that the Amiga used to create the original 1995 game is back in action.

"The Amiga I made Worms on is all recapped and working again," he says on social media. "Everything is also finally backed up."

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If you happened to have played Team17's top-down racer ATR: All Terrain Racing for the Commodore Amiga or Amiga CD32, then you may be excited to hear that its original programmer Jamie Woodhouse (known online as @mrqwak) is currently working on a similar title for mobile devices, called Retro Racing 2.

The game is a sequel to the original Retro Racing, which was a title released for iOS back in 2012 that received average to positive reviews from publications like Pocket Gamer, AppSpy, and Touch Arcade, and currently holds a 5-star rating on the App Store.

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Badger Punch Games' Amiga roguelike Roguecraft will be released digitally on September 2nd, according to its publisher Thalamus Digital.

The game, in case you've never heard of it, is a reimagining of Badger Punch Games' previous C64 homebrew Rogue64, and sees players picking from a small list of classes (a mage, fighter, or a rogue), before delving into the dungeons of Moredecoom to kill a tentacled monster waiting at the end and claim an ancient treasure for their own.

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In its latest update, the workbench setup AmigaVision has introduced Amiga CD32 support for MiSTer.

The exciting news was announced in a blog post on AmigaVision's website and now means that you can boot CD³² disc images (in either CHD or bin/cue formats) on MiSTer, directly from the launcher.

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It has been confirmed that Chris Blackbourn's legendary Amiga racer Super Skidmarks will come pre-loaded on the A600GS, a new Amiga-based mini console and 68K-compatible computer powered by AmiBench.

The series began in 1993 with Skidmarks and was followed up with Super Skidmarks in 1995. Its visuals pushed the hardware to its limit, while the multiplayer focus made it popular with players. The game was also released on the Amiga CD32 and Sega Mega Drive / Genesis.

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Update : Both LemonAmiga and Lemon64 are now back up after recently being the victim of a web attack.

In a new forum posted across the two sites, Kim Lemon, the founder of both communities, asked users to change their passwords, enable multi-factor authentication, and exercise caution about "unusual activities or communications". They also issued a message of hope for visitors:

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Last week, Bit Beam Software (the company behind DaemonClaw) published a playable preview of John Tsakiris and Enable Software's upcoming beat 'em up Metro Siege, which is being developed for the Amiga 500 (thanks @dantemendes for the spot!).

Metro Siege, in case you've never heard about it, is a 2-player sidescrolling beat 'em up in a similar vein to classic arcade belt scrollers from the 80s and 90s and sees players battling against rival gangs for control of a city.

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We don't think it's an exaggeration to call Roguecraft one of the most hotly anticipated Amiga games in recent memory

Created by the Norwegian development studio Badger Punch Games, it is an ambitious follow-up to the spectacular Commodore 64 homebrew Rogue 64 — a game that earned a ton of praise upon its release in 2022 from indie outlets as well as from more mainstream outlets like Destructoid.

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Update #2 : Pre-orders for the game are open now from Thalamus Digital's website.

You can secure your copy of the game from this link.

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As was so often the case back in the early '90s, the Amiga version of Final Fight is pretty rough. Ported to the computer by US Gold, it looked washed out and didn't play particularly well.

Fast forward to the present day, and we've got a new fan project which aims to remedy this injustice. Jonny Severn is working on Super Final Fight, an unofficial effort to produce a more authentic port of the game for Commodore's 16-bit system.

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For Worms creator Andy Davidson, his love of gaming started when he would play his Atari 2600 and Nintendo Game & Watch. It wasn’t long until he received his first computer, a Commodore 64, which led to a passion for developing his own games.

“It’s in my blood,” Davidson tells us. “Video games were the first things that captured my imagination as a kid. Just being able to make something move around on a television screen seemed like magic, and I knew as soon as I saw my first computer, aged nine, in the classroom at school, I wanted to make a game.”

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