Danthrax (Sega Saturn SHIRO!)

Radiant Silvergun, Cotton 2 See Improvements in MiSTer Saturn Core

A bevy of updates to the Saturn core of the MiSTer FPGA have targeted problems with specific games’ graphics. One prominent one that was fixed recently was Cotton 2, whose VDP2-drawn backgrounds were reported in January as having problems. “I’ve seen that srg320 is working quite intensively on the VDP2 these last days,” said Kubo, […]

Rany Battikh

Cave’s Dodonpachi Saidaioujou coming to exA-Arcadia

Veteran shoot-em-up developers Cave are hitting back the arcades, after almost 8 years of absence, with the release of DoDonPachi Saidaioujou Exa Label, through the exA-Arcadia platform. Every since their first effort back in 1995, with the original DonPachi, Cave have been synonymous with the bullet-hell sub-genre in general and established quite a household name […]

Ray Commend

New Neo Geo Shmup “Project Neon” in Early Development

A developer who goes under the screen name Coin feeder on the arcade-projects forums has recently revealed that he is developing a new “tate” style shmup game for the Neo Geo MVS. I had the opportunity to video chat with him, and during our conversation he demonstrated a very early version of this new game running […]

Vanessa (Vanessaira)

New Amiga Game Called Reshoot·R (Shoot’em-Up/Shmup)

A brand new Amiga ‘Shoot’em-Up'(Shmup) game called Reshoot·R has been released for the AGA (Advanced Graphics Architecture) series of Amiga computers.  This means owners of Amiga 1200, 4000, and the CD32 are able to play this game with no addon cards, and is developed to run on standard hardware setups.  Two Megs of Fast-RAM is […]

SmokeMonster

Project Peacock 2.0: Every Shoot ’em Up for the PC Engine Platform (CD, PCE/TG16, SGX)

I spent several weeks completely rebuilding Project Peacock from scratch, and it’s finally ready. PP is a list of every shoot ’em up, or shooter-element game for the PC Engine platform (minus active indie): PC Engine, TurboGrafx-16, SuperGrafx, PC Engine CD (all variants), and Turbo Duo. Actively sold indie games are purposefully kept off the […]

SmokeMonster

Devil Engine: Glorious New 2D Shoot ’em Up on Steam & Switch

Devil Engine by Dangen Entertainment is a beautiful new 2D Shoot ’em Up for the Nintendo Switch and Steam. It could be considered as a spiritual successor or genre-piece tribute to the Thunder Force series, at least if their marketing motto “Lightning Strikes Again” is any sign (Thunder Force/Lightening Force reference). My Life in Gaming […]