Silverlight Game Development Interweb Mash-Up, Jan. 11 2009 Now that we are expanding 8bitrocket.com to more indie game dev technologies, we…

Flash To Silverlight : Guess The Number Game: Part 2 – Silverlight For my first foray into Flash->Silverlight Game development, I…

Flash To Silverlight : Guess The Number Game Part 1 : Flash For my first foray into Flash->Silverlight Game development, I…

 http://videomedia.ign.com/ev/ev.swf IGN  is running a series of  short videos from Howard Scott Warshaw’s “Once Upon Atari” DVD series.   If you ever…

Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: Jan 7, 2009 The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game…

What Do I Need? So I’m working on moving some of my Flash skills to Microsoft Silverlight. Why? Because it’s there…

Whiflash has been added to the 8bitrocket Retro Arcade Showcase. Whiflash is a nice combination of traditional console / computer action…

Classic Bomb Blitz added to the 8bitrocket Retro Arcade Showcase Bomb Blitz is based on an a classic Vic 20 game…

Everybody’s doing it, so why not do it too… Getting an Xbox 360 that is. I have been on a “vacation”…

Blast Force, a 16-bit era Bomberman style game with some unique features and a whole lot of retro atmosphere has been…

8bitrocket.com Launches Retro Flash Game Hall Of Fame Today we launch our newest feature: The 8bitrocket.com The Retro Flash Game Hall…

Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: Dec 29, 2008 The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game…

Diatribe: I’m a crappy drummer and other Christmas revelations Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Two years ago I tried Steve’s…

A few months ago I wrote a prediction that the Xbox 360 would soon die an untimely death. Since then the…

Merry Christmas: A Stocking full of guilt free and legal retro game roms While I am fully aware of all the places…

Flashkit Game Challenge #8: Game Reviews Well, this weekend’s game challenge is complete and the brave and talented game developers have…

New Star Soccer 4 Chronicles #3 Note: New Star Soccer 4 is a great combination of sports simulation and role-playing game.…

Flashkit Game Challenge #8 Has Started! The theme this time is SHOOT ‘EM UP!!!! Now, that is right up my alley,…

The particularly well  crafted retro pinball game, Law of the West, has been added to the 8bitrocket Retro Arcade. This game…

OK, I just “finished” uploading the new version of the web site.  I’m sure there are some critical/horrible bugs some place,…

Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: Dec 17, 2008 The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game…

Here is the first in a series of “Managment Sucks” “algorithms for modern managers” (written in ActionScript!) private function getManagerChristmasBonus(mgr:Manager, employees:Array)…

Top 10 Most Played Mochi Flash Games of 2008gigaom.com is reporting today a list of the 10 most popular games on…

The Flash game Forever Hunted, by Canadian university student, Evan Miller, has been named one of the Top Video Games of…

A Midcore Gamer Reviews PC Gamer Magazine: January 2009 Issue I recently re-started my subscription to PC Gamer after a 5…

Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: Dec 10, 2008 The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game…

I find myself at a complete loss today because I have nothing useful to post .I have is tons of stuff 2/3,…

Blast-a-thon retro evolved Hey Hey Shooter Classic added to the 8bitrocket Retro Showcase Hey Hey Shooter Classic is a  fast and…

$100,000 Flash Game Revenue Experiment (updated! now with 25% more free content!)I stumbled upon the APMID web site this morning. APMID…

Exceptional Quality Atari ST Remake, Abominaball Added to the 8bitrocket Retro Showcase Here is the description straight from author, Richard Davey:…

Finally: Two New Books About Video Game History Set For Release If you have followed my ranting on this subject, you…

Tutorial: Using MP3 Files InFlex 3 with Flash Player 9.x This tutorial will explore several different methods to use MP3 files…

I wrote about and tested www.whirled.com a few weeks back. It is a slick system by which game developers can create…

The Classic Atari USB Joystick Review My first real video game experience was on an Atari 2600 at a neighbors house…

This week we unveil another new feature for 8bitrocket.com: The Atari Nerd Podcast!  We have decided that Atari fanboys need a…

Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: Dec 1, 2008 The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game…

New Star Soccer 4 Chronicles #2: 8bitjeff season 2 start Note: New Star Soccer 4 (NSS4) is a brilliant independent game by…

Outstanding shoot ’em up Polarity added to the 8bitrocket Retro Showcase WOW! And that’s a pretty powerful WOW! Thomsampson, Jeb (www.stimunationgames.com), …

If you are not from the USA, then you might not be aware that today we celebrate a holiday we know…

Fresh Kill : Spike Arcade Edition  Spike.com, the web arm of Spike TV has launched an arcade filled with games that…

3d Space Shooter Star Force added to 8bitrocket Retro Showcase Star Force,  a very well made 3d first person perspective space…

Squize, over at Gamingyourway.com has posted a heart tugging piece on Cessation Time Distortion – the brain’s way of dealing with…

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I’ve been getting into 60’s punk lately and I “found” this gem from the L.A. 60’s punk/garage band Love fronted by…

Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: Nov 20, 2008 The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game…

OK, so I back-slid to Phantasy Star I last weekend after trying in vain to enjoy Phantasy Star II and Phantasy Star…

Unique shooter, Split ’em Up, added to the 8bitrocket retro showcase Created by Mochi user, mattS, Split ’em Up is a…

The Flash Maximizer 1.06 has been released on the Firefox Ad-On page. Here is the description from the site:–This small extension…

New Star Soccer 4 Chronicles #1: 8bitjeff mid season 1 report Note: New Star Soccer 4 has been released by Simon…

iMac Gaming: Playing Fallout 3 With A Boot Camp Partition. Note: iMac gaming is a blog about playing games on a…

Superb Retro Shooter Hallows Revenge Added to The 8bitrocket Retro Showcase Play it now in our Retro Showcase: Created by Mochi…

Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: Nov 13, 2008 The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game…

Flex Files: Tutorial –  Flex 3  HelloWorld in FlashDevlop I have decided to start exploring the world of developing Flash games…

I started Phantasy Star II last night on the GBA.  I played for about 20 minutes and decided I had enough. …

A new Whirled? I get a lot of press releases, and while I read them all, I rarely spend the time…

I hate to do this. I like to keep these blogs as positive as possible, but in this case I just…

Epic Shadow’s new game Corruption uses one or more of our free music loops,  and  the developers actually used our attribution…

Kyle Orland over at my current favorite “general” gaming site, CrispyGamer.com has a new article named “What If” that proposes some…

Note: I started this series to document my “return” to the old RPG series Phantasy Star played via the Gameboy Advanced…

New Star Soccer 4 is coming Nov 7th! I don’t write too many coming soon articles on PC games, but there…

After some very constructive feedback from a few players (Rich D and Mark G especially), I have posted the final version…

8bitrocket Diatribe: My Development Environment and Game Pads / Joysticks for Flash Games My Development Environment By Development environment, I don’t…

Flash Game Development Inter-web mash up: Nov 1, 2008 The latest in Blog entries and articles that might interest Flash game…

After making some last minute story and graphics changes, I have finally finished release candidate #2 for my latest game, Jack’s…

Over the past few years I have been making an attempt to find and play many of the Japanese RPG games…

This type of thing happens as you get older. Jack’s Beach Blitz was launched yesterday (last night), but unfortunately needs to…

New 8bitrocket Game Goes Live: Jack’s Beach Blitz I have finally put the finishing touches (at least for tonight) on my…

A few months ago (April 30th 2008 to be exact) we wrote a story about a possible “military” version of Missile Command.…

Making Games: Jack’s Beach Blitz Pre-Mortem I have been working all weekend long to put the finishing touches on Jacks’ Beach…

8bitrocket.com’s Project: Save Atari #7: A Modest Proposal: The VGS-8200 Note :This week we are exploring some ideas that we believe…

8bitrocket.com’s Project: Save Atari #5: Remake And Download Quality Atari 8 And 16-bit Computer Games Note :This week we are exploring…

Making Games: Jack’s Beach Blitz Part 4 Note: I have been working on a game the last few weeks in my…

8bitrocket.com’s Project: Save Atari #4: Atari 7800/Lynx/Jaguar Games That Should Be Remade In The 21st Century Note :This week we are…

8bitrocket.com’s Project: Save Atari  #3: 10 Lesser-Known Atari Coin-ops That Would Make Kick-Ass Casual Games Note :This week we are exploring…

8bitrocket.com’s Project: Save Atari #2: Top-10 Atari 2600 Games That Could Have Been Franchises 8bitrocket.com’s Project: Save Atari #2: Top-10 Atari…

8bitrocket.com’s Project: Save Atari Week Starts!!! Anyone who follows the game industry closely knows a few facts about the name Atari:…

Making Games: Jack’s Beach Blitz Part 3 I have changed the name of my game from Pumpkin Man Beach Blitz to…