Lost In Cult has steadily been making a name for itself by producing high-end products based on different aspects of video game culture, from deep dive essays on game design to physical releases, soundtracks, and even board games. I fired a bunch of questions at the company and the CEO, Benjamin Hayhoe, and Founder, Jon …
Pixel Doors is a new publisher founded by Nic van ‘t Schip and Jacek Pudlik, both of whom have extensive experience working in the game industry and related fields. Van ‘t Schip was previously the Senior EMEA Marketing Manager for Twitch, and Head of Licensing, PC & Console Games for MY.GAMES (the studio behind War …
DREADMOOR is an upcoming post-apocalyptic fishing horror game that was first announced in April. It’s being developed by Dream Dock, a new and unknown studio that went radio silent soon after DREADMOOR’s reveal. It turns out the devs were busy behind the scenes seeking publishing, and this is now happening thanks to a partnership with …
Grant Sinclair is the nephew of Clive Sinclair, the inventor of the ZX Spectrum (and many other things). However, Grant is an inventor in his own right, with the IRIS eTrike and a DIY pocket computer, POCO, already under his belt. His latest invention is also related to pocket gaming: the GamerCard. At only 6.5mm …
Techland is a Polish game studio best known these days for its Dying Light series, with the third entry, The Beast, out now on all major platforms. However, the company started in 1991 as a software distribution company and didn’t branch out into games until 2000, with the release of Crime City. It’s since gone …
Katanaut is the debut title of Voidmaw, aka Eugene, an engineer in the video game industry. After around four years of development, Katanaut was released on Sept. 10 this year under the recently-resurrected publisher Acclaim. However, despite getting added to 52,000 wishlists on Steam in the run-up to release, Eugene recently revealed on X that …
Mantis Games is the Ghent, Belgium-based studio behind the recently released Deck of Haunts, a haunted house deckbuilder that tasks players with not only building the house itself but also spooking pesky human investigators to death or madness – or insanity then death for the unluckiest ones. Eneba recently spoke to the team (Philippe Mesotten, …
In part one of our chat with Stephen Kick, the CEO of Nightdive, we talked about horror comics, the impetus for starting Nightdive, and also how important it is to regard video games as art. In the second half of the interview, the conversation turned to game preservation, how projects are picked at the studio, …
Stephen Kick is the Founder and CEO of Nightdive Studios. Best known for its faithful remasters that keep the original idea of a game intact but updated for modern games and systems, Nightdive is also keen on promoting game preservation. Its last release was the System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster, with a remaster of …
Disc 2 Games is a brand new indie studio formed by Black Salt Games (Dredge) colleagues Nadia Thorne and Michael “Mikey” Bastiaens, along with Kris Nicholson and Johannes Otte. The team is based in Christchurch, New Zealand. They were happy to talk about the new studio’s ethos, possible game plans for the future, and their …
Frank Gasking is the author and games preservationist behind the Games That Weren’t (GTW) book and website, which is a long-running project to find and catalogue lost, cancelled, and unreleased video games. His primary focus is on retro hardware such as the Commodore 64, but GTW also highlights titles from other platforms, including the NES, …
When Mike Beaton started working on Alien vs Predator for the Atari Jaguar, he had no idea it would become a cult classic, and that at one point it would lead to staying awake for 72 hours without sleep. As the lead programmer, Beaton pulled off one of the most technically ambitious projects ever seen …
INTERVIEW – ACTION GAME MAKER (AGM) is the latest title from Gotcha Gotcha Games, the publisher behind the ever-popular RPG Maker. Whereas that title is focused on top-down role-playing games, AGM sets itself up as a platformer/side-scroller creator. It’s also built on the popular, free, open source game engine Godot. To get a better idea …
INTERVIEW – DoesItPlay? is a games preservation organization that started in 2019, and came to prominence by highlighting the hidden issue of PlayStation’s “CBOMB” – a technical issue that could render older disc-based games completely unplayable. It most recently partnered with Lost in Cult for that company’s Editions range of games, which highlights cult favorites …
INTERVIEW – GOG itself needs no introduction, but readers may not be familiar with the company’s Preservation Program. This was officially launched late last year, and is GOG’s concerted attempt at game preservation. I recently spoke, via email, with Piotr Gnyp about the Program, its aims and values, and what gamers can expect as it …
