Here's a bit about the game...

Tetris bricks are falling, the only way to interact with them is to shoot one or more blocks while they drop. You can move on all the already dropped bricks. Of course, the main goal is to make lines, like in real Tetris. You lose if columns are too high, like in real Tetris...

Last year we released Eggsavier's Cackleberry Rescue around Easter time, this year we didn't have time for a brand new game, so we decided to update Eggsavier with graphic improvements, some new sounds and a new 'virus' game play mode where you have to avoid catching viruses instead of trying to catch falling eggs.

You can download it for free over here: https://atarigamer.itch.io/eggsavier.

It's a perfect game to play while you're in isolation during the current pandemic!

Remember when BennVenn announced his budget Lynx LCD kit? Well he's continuing the trend with budget alternatives and this time he has an SD flash cart in the works...

ElCheapoSD-Lynx cart assembled and coding commenced! Instant load times, EEPROM save support, 64gb SD card support, open source GUI, 512kbyte rom size limit. Firmware Upgradable via SD.For lynx game developers, hardware pass-through to the ARM CPU is available which means unlimited streaming from the SD and enables the use of the ARMs 32bit hardware divide/floating point math etc... RRP $45 with high quality injection molded shell

We've announced this year's Lynx Programming Competition not long ago. We've now finished putting together our list of sponsors and prizes and are ready to kick things off formally. We welcome both Atari Age and Mark/Space on board!

The prizes have been updated too. The top 3 placing games will each receive a copy of the RetroHQ Lynx Game Drive cartridge and will be offered the chance to have their game published in physical form by Atari Age (with 5 free copies of your game), as well as in digital form by Mark/Space. In addition - the 1st place winner will get a $150USD cash prize, and the 2nd place winner will receive $100USD.

So get ready, and join the competition over at itch.io.

A Bug's Lynx and the A Bug's Lynx eJagFest 2018 Edition have been available to play online for some time now. A physical release was due very soon but due to COVID-19 everything has been thrown into turmoil. So to ease the boredom of staying at hime, Fadest has released the "#Stay@Home Release" version of this game for free on itch.io.

"My first intention was to sell digital (via itch.io) and physical games.
But with all this madness, I guess we need to take care each other, and we need some gardening. So digital is (and will remains) free. Physical relase should come when everything will be back to normal.
This version may not be the final one, some minors changes (bugs, audible music - don't be afraid about pressing Option 2 in order to mute music) may be added in the near future before official release."

The Lynx Game Drive is inching ever so closer to being a reality. Atari Age have listed it on their store. It's not available for preorder yet but you can register for the waiting list. Once available it will set you back $95 USD. Don't know what the Lynx GD is? Here's a description...

"The RetroHQ Lynx GameDrive cartridge allows you to play all your Atari Lynx games and homebrew games directly from a memory card. This updated version of the Lynx GameDrive cartridge has support for EEPROM save games as used by some homebrew software as well as improved game load time (no longer than one second for even the largest games), and an improved game selection menu."

We published this year's April Fool's joke about a Virus found to infect homebrew Atari Lynx cartridges containing EEPROMs. Well there was an actual ROM behind it, so we're making it and the source code available to download and play. The information page is here, you can play the ROM here or download it. Then the source code is available here.

Also don't forget we are running the 2020 Lynx Programming Competition, so if you can code, you should register for that!