The Italian developer Smallthing Studios may have just released Simon the Sorcerer: Origins, but it doesn't seem to be through with its resurrection of the classic Adventure Soft point-and-click adventure game series just yet.

That's because, as recently revealed in an interview via IGN Italy, it appears the studio now has its sights set on also remaking the original 1993 Amiga title, with the goal of releasing it sometime next year (2026).

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Originally debuting on the Famicom Disk System in 1986, Castlevania has been released on countless other consoles and computers over the years, but not every port was created equal.

In 1990, the Hungarian developer Novotrade released a disappointing version of the Famicom classic on the Commodore Amiga, provoking a fair amount of confusion over how the game somehow managed to look and feel much worse than its 8-bit counterpart.

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Retro Games Ltd., the company behind the C64 Mini and the A500 Mini, announced yesterday (August 19th) that it will be offering the first glimpse of its next machine at Gamescom 2025, which kicks off today in Cologne, Germany and is expected to last until August 24th.

The announcement was made in a press release, which was also shared on the social media site Twitter/X, with the company revealing that the new system will be displayed at the RGL booth in the Retro Area of the event (in Hall 10.2), alongside an atmospheric teaser trailer designed to "spark curiosity and conversation".

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Commodore has been in the news quite a bit lately, thanks to the purchase of the brand and many of its related intellectual properties by YouTuber Christian Simpson.

However, Commodore's most powerful home computer line, the Amiga, is not part of that deal. The Amiga name has changed hands several times since Commodore went bust in 1994, while the Amiga development community has endured over the decades.

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Badger Punch Games' Amiga homebrew Roguecraft is coming to Steam in the future, with a Nintendo Switch port also on the cards.

Roguecraft was initially released for the Commodore Amiga (both physically and digitally) last year, and is also set to get an enhanced version for Evercade consoles featuring new levels, monsters, and music under the title Roguecraft DX later this August.

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While the Commodore Amiga – which turns 40 this year – was a massive success and sold almost five million units during its lifespan, spin-off systems like the CDTV and CD32 were notable commercial duds.

The latter was especially damaging to the brand, as it was seen as Commodore's last-gasp attempt to wrestle market share away from Japanese systems like the Mega Drive / Genesis and SNES.

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Here's something slightly unexpected for you. The publisher ININ Games earlier today announced that it will be releasing a 24-bit pixel remake of the Commodore Amiga shoot 'em up Apidya next year, across PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch.

Apidya, in case you're not up to speed with your Amiga shoot 'em ups or find yourself in need of a quick history lesson, was a side scrolling title originally released by the German studio Kaiko, and has had a few different publishers over the years, including Play Byte (the publishing arm of Blue Byte Software who originally released the game in 1992) and Team17 (who later published it as a budget title in 1994).

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Blue Byte Software's beloved city builder The Settlers II is finally being released on the Amiga later this year, almost 30 years after skipping the platform.

The Settlers series originally began on the Amiga, with the release of 1993's The Settlers. However, when it came time to make the sequel, the popularity of the Amiga was in decline, leading Blue Byte to develop the follow-up for MS-DOS computers instead. Because of this, Amiga fans were never able to experience the follow-up on the original machine that had birthed the franchise, instead having to pick up another platform if they wanted to see where the developer had taken the popular series next.

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British composer Allister Brimble is one of the most prolific artists of his generation, having created music for a host of solid-gold classics, including Alien Breed, The Lost Vikings, Project-X, Cannon Fodder and – most recently of all – The Plucky Squire.

Some of Brimble's most beloved work is found on the Commodore Amiga, which turned 40 recently. He's just released an album to celebrate this milestone, and has dedicated the project to Martyn Brown, who sadly passed away late last year.

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The big news in the world of Commodore is that 'Commodore Corporation BV' and all 47 original Commodore trademarks have been snapped up by Commodore International Corporation, a new entity run by retro gaming YouTuber Christian Simpson.

The first commercial product to be produced as part of this new venture is the C64 Ultimate Edition, an AMD Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA-powered recreation of the famous 8-bit home computer, based on the existing Ultimate 64 Elite-II board created by Gideon Zweijtzer.

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Every now and then, you become aware of gaping schisms within the gaming community that had previously gone unnoticed, and it would appear that this is one of those weeks, as I've just learned that (apparently) not everybody utters the word "Amiga" in the same way.

The topic was raised on the excellent Insert Credit podcast. Explaining his thoughts on social media, Brandon Sheffield says English people say Amiga differently to their American cousins:

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Isometric adventure games really took off in the '80s thanks to titles such as Batman, Head Over Heels and Knight Lore, but the genre has faded into memory somewhat in recent times. That's what made Triple Eh? Ltd's Lumo so refreshing when it launched on pretty much every format in 2016.

If you're a fan of this particular game, you'll be pleased to learn that it's coming to yet another system soon: the Commodore Amiga.

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Today marks a very special occasion for Commodore Amiga fans — the 40th anniversary of Commodore's initial unveiling of the first-ever Amiga computer (otherwise known as the Commodore 1000).

It was on Tuesday, July 23rd 1985 that Commodore first unveiled the eagerly-anticipated computer at the Lincoln Center in New York, in what was described in the press at the time as a lavish "coming out" party, with its plan being to position the $1295 Motorola 68000-based computer as a potential rival to Apple's Macintosh computer, which had released one year earlier.

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Released in 1991 across Amiga and Atari ST, Utopia: The Creation Of A Nation was one of the more novel attempts to do something new with the successful formula set out by the popular city builder SimCity,

Not only did it change the setting to a sci-fi environment, placing players in charge of populating an entire planet rather than a single city, but it also increased the focus on combat and defence, allowing players to amass an army of tanks and spaceships to defend themselves against their neighbours.

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German electro-pop composer Denis Karimani – better known as Remute – has cornered the market when it comes to creating albums which run on retro gaming hardware.

He's already produced albums for the SNES, C64, Game Boy and Mega Drive / Genesis, and now it's the turn of Commodore's iconic 16-bit home computer, the Amiga, which turns 40 this year.

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Back in 1989, the Oliver Twins released Fast Food, a Dizzy-themed take on Pac-Man's maze-based action—and the game is now getting an unofficial sequel for the Amiga, thanks to developer AcidBottle and BitmapSoft.

Built using the Scorpion Engine, Fast Food 2 will offer 25 levels, split into five different zones. It will offer three difficult settings, multiple audio tracks and the ability to save high scores.

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Head Over Heels is one of the most beloved video games of the 1980s.

Developed by Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond as a spiritual successor to their equally adored isometric take on Batman from 1986, it launched on pretty much every home computer format of the era, including the C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore Amiga and Atari ST. It was even given a new lease of life on modern formats quite recently, reaffirming its status as a stone-cold classic.

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Decades after the game originally debuted in Japan, Sega's Mega Drive / Genesis classic Phantasy Star II is getting an unofficial port for the Commodore Amiga (h/t: IndieRetroNews).

The port is the work of the fan developer monoz, and the musician Simone "JMD" Bernacchia, and is being created using Earok's Scorpion Engine — a creation tool for the Commodore Amiga, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, and SNK NeoGeo.

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Badger Punch Games' modern-day Amiga title Roguecraft is coming to Evercade, it has been confirmed.

The latest entry in Evercade's single-game cart range, Roguecraft DX "features new levels, new monsters, new music, power-ups, and more," all of which are "exclusive to this current Evercade release."

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We've now got fresh information and images of the cancelled Warhammer racing game Kult of Speed, thanks to Games That Weren't and Steve Cook.

Planned for release by Electronic Arts in 1994 on the Amiga, Mega Drive and MS-DOS PC, the game features Ork racers on motorcycles and would allow extensive customisation and upgrades, Road Rash-style combat, two-player split-screen and even a track editor.

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BSzili - a developer known for his unofficial Amiga ports of Blood, Wolfenstein 3D, and Shadow Warrior — has recently released a new proof-of-concept demo of the Sega Saturn and PlayStation classic Tomb Raider for the Commodore Amiga (as spotted by IndieRetroNews).

According to the BSzili, who posted a build of the game over on the English Amiga Board last Thursday, the demo only took him a few days to put together in total and is based on the GBA and 32X version of OpenLara — an open source engine created by XProger for the original Tomb Raider.

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Ruff ‘n’ Tumble is one of the most visually stunning Amiga games, but it was sadly released towards the end of the platform's viability as a gaming system and, therefore, didn't get the level of exposure or acclaim it deserved.

However, there's a chance it might get a second chance at fame thanks to Worms creator Andy Davidson. Davidson is currently working on Worms The Director's Cut 1.5 and has been showing off some of the cool crossovers he has planned for the game.

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Retro Games Ltd., the company behind the C64 and A500 Mini micro-consoles, has revealed its product roadmap for the next few years.

The headline news is that the company plans to release a full-size "Amiga console" in Q4, 2024. This will sit alongside the A500 Mini system, which launched in 2022. It has been confirmed that the new system will have a fully working keyboard.

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Toaplan is famous for its shmups, but the Japanese company also produced games in other genres, with 1987's Wardner being one of the most well-known.

Now, indie developer RetroRic is leveraging Earok's Scorpion Engine to bring this side-scrolling cult classic to "stock" AGA and OCS Commodore Amiga computers.

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Former Your Sinclair and Amiga Power staffer Jonathan Nash has passed away, we're sad to report.

Nash's work will be instantly familiar to readers of those magazines. Like so many publications of the late '80s and early '90s, the personality and humour of the writers really shone through, and Nash's brand of comedy has resonated with fans across the decades.

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