MAGFest and partner Mega Cat Studios reveals the winners of the 2026 Indie Retro Homebrew Showcase, several NES and one GBC adventure that delighted attendees.

The Amazon-exclusive C64 Mini Black Edition is preloaded with over $100 worth of the best Commodore 64 homebrew games.

Dying just got some new flavor in Critical Role, thanks to the new campaign’s first bit of homebrewed rules. When Critical Role announced that it was staying with Dungeons & Dragons for Campaign 4, it ...

More than three decades after the NES’s peak, it just got a fresh injection of chaos. The Trial of Kharzoid, a newly released homebrew title, smashes together Arkanoid-style brick-breaking and ...

In 2012, programmer Chris Oberth passed away after a career that spanned from the dawn of video games in the late '70s to the PlayStation 2 era. Now, one of Oberth's unfinished games, Xcavator 2025, ...

NES screenshot of the game Jaws (side view, underwater) A scuba diver shoots a harpoon at a menacing shark. (YouTube) The retro release coincides with the Spielberg movie's 50th anniversary. From ...

The story of Xcavator is a fascinating one. It was originally the brainchild of legendary programmer Chris Oberth (1982's Anteater) and built for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. However, ...

Home brew supplies from F. H. Steinbart Company. It survived the Depression, the Recession, Prohibition, pandemics and both world wars, but in the end F.H. Steinbart Co. was taken down by the world of ...

Houston ISD’s Hattie Mae White Educational Support Center. Campus enrollment data shows steeper declines in Houston ISD schools under the New Education System model, commonly referred to as NES, than ...

Back in November, we reported on the unexpected discovery and unofficial release of Splatterworld, a JRPG spin-off of the horror-themed beat-'em-up series Splatterhouse. Originally scheduled for ...

Josh Speer has been writing about videogames for more than a decade now, but he's loved them since he was a small boy. He grew up with Mario and Mega Man, moved onto RPGs with Chrono Trigger and Final ...

MAGFest and Indie Retro, in partnership with Mega Cat Studios, have announced the finalists for the next Indie Retro Homebrew Showcase. Those who are fans of old-school gaming and quirky indie titles ...