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POSTAL 2 available for free on GOG
What better way to start a Thursday than with some news about free games! We have a special deal for fans of a dark sense of humor – Postal 2 is now up for grabs on GOG until the 22nd of April 2022, 10:30 PM UTC – just head over to GOG's front page and look for...
Console Review: THEA500 Mini
The Amiga Story As hard as it is to imagine now, when the Amiga line of computers came on the scene in 1985, the Commodore 64 was only three years old. And, contrary to common misconception, the two Commodore personal computer platforms coexisted all the way until...
NEW Re-release from Retro-Bit! Battletoads & Double Dragon
Open Pre-Orders April 19th - May 22nd! ONE-TIME RELEASE! Worlds collide in Battletoads & Double Dragon in an officially-licensed limited collector’s cartridge re-release of the classic Nintendo® Entertainment System brawler from Retro-Bit® Publishing, a publishing...
Iris and the Giant Giveaway Available Now on The Indie Spring Sale on GOG
Iris and the Giant GiveawayAvailable Now on The Indie Spring Sale on GOG The fusion of the roguelike, RPG and CCG genres is available for free for 48 hours •Discover over 300 deals on Indie games up to -90% • April 15th, 2022 – There’s nothing like a creative spirit...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Gil Velez
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Gil Velez who is displayed on card number 3420, from the Superstars of 2020 Collection. Gil is also featured on card 3421. In 2016 Gil founded a Facebook group called “Arcade Game Repair Help Group”. This group offers real...
From Below – A great Tetris style game recently released for the NES is coming to the Game Boy
If you loved the 1984 game of Tetris or the 1989 game of Columns then you might like this latest news story featured here on IRN. As trawling through Facebook today, we have found out that the previously released NES game of ' From Below '; a game which gained...
Podcast of the Week – The Retro Hour
In this Edition, the Retro Hour hosts chat to the awesome James Rolfe (aka The Angry Video Game Nerd) about his memories of gaming and his love for terrible retro games. The Angry Video Game Nerd - The Retro Hour EP321 Click Here to listen to the Podcast Show Notes...
Farawaydius – A super tiny Gradius inspiration for the C64 gets a preview
We've just received some rather interesting news from a good friend of ours, especially if you've got a C64 or emulator at hand, as if you loved playing the classic game of Gradius/Nemesis; a side scrolling shoot-em-up that was originally released as a Japanese coinop...
This Day In Video Game History
