It’s been a long time–a seemingly eternity, really–since my mind had reason to focus on America’s earliest days. Sure, I love the works of Thomas Paine, but those philosphical and political pieces, don’t dig into the minutae of colonial and pre-colonial times. Likewise, Final Form Games’ Jamestown also doesn’t detail John Smith’s and Sir Walter Raleigh’s adventures in a settlement that would evolve into Virginia –it details John Smith’s and Sir Walter Raleigh’s Martian adventures to hunt down a crazed Spanish conquistador in a delightful 2D shmup.

Retro gaming fans recently celebrated (lamented?) 9/9, which was the launch date of the groundbreaking and much beloved Dreamcast in 1999 . The system may have died prematurely, but Germany-based Redspotgames is adding to its legacy with a new game release: Sturmwind. The region-free shmup, on paper, looks nicely stacked. Check the features:

Treasure’s SEGA Saturn shmup classic returns to action very, very soon.

When it’s not suffering horrible hardware maladies, the Xbox 360 can be a special thing sometimes. It has some decent exclusives, a robust online matchmaking service and the Xbox Live Arcade where one can download arcadey games of the past and present – Metal Slug 3, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game and Ikaruga [...]

I’m amazed that shooters/shmups aren’t released by the boatload. They’re relatively simple to program and inexpensive to produce, plus they cause people who like big exploding thingies to grin with much glee. Perhaps the collective gamingverse O.D.’d on the genre during the ’80s to mid-’90s shooter glut, but like beat ‘em ups, they deserve much [...]