Back in the 1980’s when we wanted information about upcoming games, cheats, reviews or anything else in that field, we had to wait for a monthly fix from the local newsagent, who supplied us with our favourite gaming magazine. The internet was a mere Sci-Fi pipe-dream and the word Google would have been taken as […]
The ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter finishes with almost triple its wanted goal!
The ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter has now closed and they managed to reach their wanted target. To say, “managed to reach” is however rather a massive understatement, as they blew it out of the water, for they in fact they nearly tripled their needed goal when the gates closed late yesterday evening. Initially the ZX […]
ZX Spectrum Next goes live on Kickstarter
At the beginning of April we reported here at Flickering Myth, that the ZX Spectrum Next’s Kickstarter Campaign was possibly just around the corner and the news has just broken – over on the ZX Spectrum Next Facebook page – that it is now live. SEE ALSO: The ZX Spectrum celebrate its 35th Anniversary – #HappyBirthdaySpectrum […]
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night coming to Nintendo Switch, cancelled for Wii U
Fans have been waiting patiently for any news pertaining to the upcoming platformer Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, spiritual successor to the highly revered Castlevania: Symphony of the Night developed by Koji Igarashi. Taking a very similar approach to Keiji Inafune’s Mighty No. 9, Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night was entirely crowdfunded through Kickstarter. Today, on […]
The Brotherhood places Beautiful Desolation onto Kickstarter
Back in October 2016 Flickering Myth’s Jordan Jones gave us “Ten overlooked indie games to play this Halloween” and one in particular was Stasis from The Brotherhood, with Jordan saying of it, “The game has a very old-school look, and feel which serves it really well. The environments are hyper-detailed, and grotesque.” Now over on Kickstarter […]
Gaming Godfather Andrew Hewson brings Hyper Sentinel to Kickstarter
For those of a certain age to see names like Andrew Hewson along with his software publishing house Hewson Consultants Ltd you knew that you were getting a game that was going to be of excellent quality. Games like Exolon, Nebulus and of course Uridium belonged in a special place within your many rows of cassettes. Now arriving […]
Interview – Sam Dyer discusses the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom: a visual compendium
Villordsutch recently managed to speak with Sam Dyer from Bitmap Books, the man behind Sinclair ZX Spectrum: The Visual Compendium, Commodore 64: a visual Compendium and also Commodore Amiga: a visual Commpendium, the latest book that has just entered Kickstarter with a fairly massive bang is the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom: a visual compendium… Villordsutch: Firstly congratulations […]
Dark Souls board game Kickstarter closes at over $5 million
Steamforged Games’ Kickstarter campaign for a Dark Souls-based board game has just closed today. The campaign asked for a meagre £50,000 and, at the time of closing, pulled in an immense £3,771,474 (which equates to about $5,417,610). The campaign began in April and hit its target in 3 minutes, before continuing to exceed expectations and stretch […]
Wield your own lightsaber thanks to Calimacil
Anybody who is into Star Wars female or male, old or young has at some point stood and made a “Voooom! Voooom!” noise with pole in hand. You’ve wanted a lightsaber however, due to pesky physics and boring scientists we’re not currently able to wield (safely) metal cutting laser swords without the fear of killing our […]