Veteran, and dare I say legendary, game developer Jeff Minter (he of the most spectacular Llamasoft) and Atari have announced that the psychedelic arcade-style shooter Akka Arrh will release on the Playstation 5 and PS VR2 on 8th March. Already available on Steam and other consoles, Akka Arrh will bring a tapestry of colours, shapes, patterns […]
Ten great ZX81 games you really need to play!
Villordsutch with ten great ZX81 games you really need to play… Sir Clive Sinclair’s ZX81 celebrated its 35th Anniversary in March 2016. This small unassuming machine to most people today, with a mere 1K of RAM, is quite possibly laughable 0 but this sleek flat-keyboarded machine began a revolution that is still rolling today. When […]
Movie Review – Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, 2018. Directed by David Slade. Starring Fionn Whitehead, Will Poulter, Asim Chaudhry, Craig Parkinson, Alice Lowe, Tallulah Haddon, Laura Evelyn, Catriona Knox, Jonathan Aris, Paul Bradley, Alan Asaad, Suzanne Burden and Jeff Minter. SYNOPSIS: A young programmer makes a fantasy novel into a game for a big company. Trying to keep his […]
Tempest 4000 coming to the Xbox One and PS4 in July
Back in 1981 games developer and genius Dave Theurer released upon the world – via Atari – Tempest, a frantic 3D wireframe shooter that required all your gaming skills to be wired to perfection. Now near forty-years later Jeff Minter – fellow gaming genius – of Llamasoft whose catalogue reaches back decades, though more recently […]
The Yorkshire Games Festival to return in 2019, legendary game developer Jeff Minter confirmed already
Returning to Bradford from the 6th – 10th February 2019 is the Yorkshire Games Festival, at National Science and Media Museum in the heart of Bradford. This will be the Festival’s third outing and not only will there be a new BAFTA partnership competition held during the event, but this year see’s the legend that […]
