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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Dune II is regarded as one of the most influential RTS titles of all time. Based on the famous sci-fi novels by Frank Herbert, it took the epic battle for Arrakis and turned it into a real-time contest of cunning, strategy and resource management, paving the way for subsequent games like Command & Conquer and Warcraft.

Originally released on the Amiga, PC and Mega Drive, the game established Westwood Studios as one of the leading lights of the RTS genre – but the company arguably never quite captured the same magic with its sequels, Dune 2000 and Emperor: Battle for Dune.

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A crowdfunding campaign for an Amiga-based card game has already passed its initial funding goal of £1,500.

Amiga Trumps is the brainchild of Commodore fan Mark Nuttall. "I really love old Commodore Amiga games, and particularly the brilliant graphics and characters that defined them," he says. "I want to help them to endure and be enjoyed, and I so decided to combine two of the best things from my youth - trump card games, and Amiga computer games."

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Last year saw the inaugural Kickstart Amiga show, a live event in the UK spearheaded by The Retro Hour's Ravi Abbott.

Attended by plenty of like-minded Commodore Amiga lovers, the show had hardware, software and special guests – and, by all accounts, went down a storm.

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Update : Marv (@MoreC64) has now released an in-browser demo for his C64 port of the legendary Amiga shooter The Chaos Engine.

The demo is a bit rough — letting players walk out of bounds, for instance — and only covers the first stage of the game (the demo ends just before the level 1 exit gate), but still, it's remarkable to see this project coming along and the progress that is being made.

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Duck Hunt is one of those iconic games which helped illustrate the worthiness of a particular piece of hardware – in this case, the NES Zapper.

One of the first light gun games to achieve fame and fortune in the home, its instantly accessible gameplay meant that anyone could play; the premise was easy to understand – point the gun and shoot – but there's a surprising amount of skill involved regardless.

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The retro publisher Thalamus Digital has revealed that it will be selling physical versions of Hoffman's Amiga port of Triple Eh Ltd's indie twin-stick shooter Cecconoid.

The publisher made the announcement yesterday on Twitter, with pre-orders going live on its web site. There are five different options to pick from, ranging from a budget boxless CD-only version (priced at £14.99) to a more extravagant and ridiculously named "OMG WTF" Edition (costing £44.99).

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Sensible Soccer is one of the greatest video game representations of the sport ever made, and while we haven't had a new entry in the series for a while, fans are keeping the dream alive via Sensible World of Soccer 2020, which was recently updated to reflect the 23/24 season.

Available for both Amiga and PC, Sensible World of Soccer 2020 offers a wide range of improvements over the original game – including online play, HD widescreen support, improved sound and a full database for all teams and players.

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Adrian Cummings, the developer behind the Commodore Amiga titles Cyberpunks, Cyberpunks 2, and Castle Kingdoms, yesterday announced on the English Amiga Board website that he is working on a new hack and slash dungeon crawler called Dungeonette - The New Adventure for the Commodore Amiga and Amiga CD32 (as spotted via IndieRetroNews!).

According to the developer's post, the game entered development shortly after work on Cyberpunks 2 (which was released last year) ended, and has been a bit of "a slow burner". He claims he is currently two-thirds of the way through mapping the title, which he states is going to be "pretty big" and set in the fictional lands of 'Amigea'.

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While gaming history tends to be dominated by home consoles, it's important to remember that, at one point, many players got their fix from a home computer.

During the '80s and early '90s, powerful 16-bit machines like the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga went toe-to-toe with the NES, Master System, SNES and Mega Drive / Genesis – and, in many cases, hosted games that would later be ported to consoles to critical and commercial acclaim.

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Games That Weren't, the incredible online resource for lost and cancelled games, shared the news earlier today that it has recovered a missing Amiga port of Codemasters' side-scrolling platformer Stuntman Seymour. And better yet, it has made the files for the port available online, should you want to check it out for yourself.

Stuntman Seymour, in case you've never heard of it, was originally released on the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC in 1992 and was developed by the company Reflective Designs and published by Codemasters. An Amiga version of the game was in development between 1992 to 1993 and was pretty much finished. However, it was ultimately never released and has pretty much been missing ever since its cancellation.

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Retro Games Ltd has revealed that its 'Amiga Mini' The A500 Mini has been updated to v1.2.1.

The update brings with it a host of fixes and improvements, as well as a new game, Time Bandit, which Zzap! magazine rated at 92% back in 1988.

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Allister Brimble, the composer behind a bunch of classic soundtracks including the various Alien Breed titles, has just contributed some original music for a brand-new release for the Commodore Amiga.

The confusingly-titled C64 - The Mysterious Cassette is a text adventure game developed by the Italian studio Darkage Software. It apparently focuses on a young 12-year-old boy who inherits a mysterious audio tape that belonged to their grandfather and is based on an Italian novel called "C64 – La Cassetta del Mistero" by Carlo Pastore.

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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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Shadow Dancer is part of the long-running Shinobi series, but is perhaps seen as something of a black sheep by fans. The original arcade version was created for the Sega System 18 arcade hardware, and was ported to a wide range of home systems, including the Master System, ST and Amiga.

For the Genesis / Mega Drive port, Sega followed the same approach it had taken with the 16-bit version of ESWAT and totally overhauled the game, creating an all-new adventure.

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Originally debuting on the Famicom Disk System in 1986, Castlevania has been released on countless other consoles and computers over the years, but not every port was created equal.

In 1990, the Hungarian developer Novotrade released a disappointing version of the Famicom classic on the Commodore Amiga, provoking a fair amount of confusion over how the game somehow managed to look and feel much worse than its 8-bit counterpart.

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