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Even as we’re hyped about a new console generation of ever more detailed graphical fidelity, pixel art remains a timeless aesthetic. Yet while plenty of indies love to use that style, the real veterans from the 8-bit and 16-bit days are much rarer, which is why retro fans should feel privileged to be able to play a new game from legendary pixel artist Henk Nieborg.
Having previously worked with Bitmap Bureau on the crowdfunded Mega Drive/Genesis sci-fi arena shooter Xeno Crisis, it seemed apt for the partnership to continue with Nieborg’s own passion project. Battle Axe is a fantasy top-down brawler very much in the vein of Gauntlet or Golden Axe. With a bare-bones plot of defeating the evil sorceress Etheldred, you simply pick from a line-up of three heroes – Rooney the Viking warrior, Fae the dark elf, and Iolo the elderly druid – before hacking and slashing your way to the end.
After five years of development, a wholly independent Oddworld Inhabitants is back to take the puzzle platformer in an epic, cinematic new direction. Lorne Lanning and Bennie Terry III talk to Seth Barton about distributed development, stunning cinematics, Unity, crunch, a technical moonshot and their PlayStation Plus deal.
Chris Wallace reaches out to some of the leading experts in the Scottish games industry to get a sense of the country’s wealth of opportunities. Plus we reveal the size of that industry today thanks to a brand new survey.
The Xbox Store has finally gone multilingual, with clear tagging for all varieties of language support. Seth Barton talks to Microsoft’s Briana Roberts about the update and how publishers and developers can support it.
WIRED
Comfortable to use and well-built. Lots of officially licensed classic game collections to choose from. Works as a controller if you plug into a TV. Affordable.
TIRED
No multiplayer. Requires extra purchases of cable and cartridges.
Great gameplay never dies. That s precisely what my kids and I learned after the Evercade entered my household.
It s an $80 handheld, retro console that can play a curated selection of emulated games from the likes of Atari, Namco, Data East, and many others, mostly from the 1980s and 1990s. These collections are playable on cartridges you insert into the Evercade, each housing about 20 games and costing $20. Very much like the Nintendo Switch, the console can even plug into your TV for big-screen gaming, though you need to supply an HDMI–to–mini-HDMI cable.