RQ Magazine Issue 3 Winter 2026 RetroNomicon Quarterly Issue Three explores Japan’s indie and retro gaming underground. From homebrew cartridges and chiptune culture to experimental horror a

Issue 3 of RQ is available and baby this thing is pumping with the blood of our retro gaming motherland... JAPAN.

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REliC on Steam WEM3 presents their debut horror adventure! Wield your camera to materialize invisible entities and reveal the hidden truth.

🕯️ RELiC — Psychological Horror

Built by a small team that almost didn’t make it and chose horror as a way to finish, heal, and prove they could.
Inspired by P.T., Layers of Fear, Outlast

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@WEM3_IndieGame #IndieDev #HorrorGames

@dalecoop.bsky.social So appreciate the kind words and encouragement. Hoping to get more people to know about the pure joy of playing homebrews (and seeing them beautifully displayed on the shelves of their homes)

#NESdev #homebrew

RetroNomicon Quarterly Issue 2 is here! Free copy available! Dive into the latest homebrew game news, dev interviews, and more! 😍

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RetroNomicon Quarterly Issue #2 This Quarter: Issue #2 (Autumn 2025) As the veil thins and the harvest moon rises, RetroNomicon Quarterly returns with an issue devoted to the darker currents running through retro gaming’s past and p...

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Made a goofy little rap to celebrate RetroNomicon Quarterly Issue 2... our spooky autumn edition full of retro horror & homebrew weirdness 👻📼

Monster parties, haunted pixels, electric ghosts… RQ’s got that sick, sick flow

Links after.

Stay spooky AF 4-evah!
#retrogaming #homebrew #indiegames

In 1999 the internet was microscopic... and 81,000 downloads was unreal.

Steve McCall’s early horror fangame blew up on Download .com and became a cult classic.

Clip from our interview with 8-Bit Slashers: youtu.be/4PrxK-FLKTo

#RetroGaming #IndieDev #GameHistory #OldInternet #HorrorGames

RetroNomicon Quarterly Issue #2 This Quarter: Issue #2 (Autumn 2025) As the veil thins and the harvest moon rises, RetroNomicon Quarterly returns with an issue devoted to the darker currents running through retro gaming’s past and p...

Issue 2 is live! 🍂
Horror homebrews, FAITH Trilogy, 8-Bit Slasher, con coverage.
Free digital + print copies.

Stay spooky.

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From Demakes to Horror Icons | 8-bit Slasher Interview YouTube video by RQ: Retronomicon Quarterly 🐙

The full interview with 8-bit Slasher is live now.

The Shorts only scratched the surface... this is the full conversation about demaking games, nostalgia, and those full-circle moments with horror icons.

Watch here if that kind of story is your thing:
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8-bit Slasher talks about the wild journey from demaking his childhood games to getting responses from horror icons:

Tony Todd (Candyman)
Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger)
Nick Castle (Michael Myers)
Kane Hodder (Jason Voorhees)

Retro gaming & horror fandom collide:
#HorrorCommunity #RetroGaming

I didn’t expect to feel GUILTY playing an NES game…

But Friday the 13th: Return to Camp Blood feels *wrong* in a way I can’t shake.
Beautifully wrong. Boys watchin Cinemax late Friday nights in the 80s wrong.

Talkin w/ 8-bit Slasher

#NESDEV #8BitHorror #RetroGaming #HomebrewHorror #FridayThe13th

A drunk night in a carpet store…
a shark on the wall…
and suddenly: CARPET SHARK, an NES homebrew horror game. 🦈💀

Just posted a short with 8-Bit Slasher about its chaotic origin story.
Full interview coming soon.

#neshomebrew #retrogaming #indiedev #8bitslasher #pixelhorror #gamedevinterview

A quiet moment with a piece of hardware.
Slow, deliberate, and a little strange.

EverDrive N8 Pro unboxing... full video on YouTube.

#NES #RetroGaming #Unboxing

Do NES developers still play NES games?

Pubby talks about PC strategy games, creative sims, and why NES is more of a social experience for him.

#retrogaming #nesdev #homebrew #gamedev

Slingin' bolts like Green Arrow
Robinhood from Sherwood
Takin’ gold, no Pharaoh

Check out this new C64 drop:
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#SherwoodC64 #Commodore64 #RetroGaming #CollectorEdition

Why would a Japanese indie dev choose to make a game brutally hard?

884Games talks about growing up on unforgiving platformers and how that obsession became Giri Jump Extreme.

Failure isn’t punishment. It’s the path.

#IndieGames #JapaneseIndie #Platformer #HardGames #GiriJumpExtreme

This clip is from a longer developer feature... more about process, learning, and small-scale game making in the full video.

A Japanese indie developer explains why he animated his game one frame at a time.

Every movement in Gili Jump Extreme was hand-drawn... not to be perfect, but to feel good to play. There’s something quietly beautiful about that.

#IndieGameDev #GameDesign #PixelArt #Nintendo

⌛ Ending soon

The window to get RQ Issue One (print) for free is closing in the next few days.

Shipping only while it lasts.
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It’s fascinating how a single movement can become a named mechanic... and then an entire game. Game design language across cultures is wild.

A Japanese term for the perfect edge jump in platform games AND the indie NES game built around it.

Tokyo dev insight in 60 seconds.

#GameDesign #IndieGames #TokyoIndie

🩸 Necro Nancy just hit Kickstarter.
An NES arcade horror game where you blast the undead into submission.

Funded almost instantly because NES + horror + physical cartridges is irresistible.

Charming. Cursed. Chaotic.

#NecroNancy #NES #Homebrew #RetroGaming #Kickstarter #HorrorGames #8bit

A new 8-bit console just dropped: GameTank.
No emu. No FPGA. Real hardware + physical carts.
W65C02S CPU + open-source files, start coding now.

It's definitely something worth sinking your fangs into.

#GameTank #HomebrewHeadlines #RetroGaming #Homebrew #IndieDev #8bit

✨ You’ve arrived just in time. The ritual is beginning.
Today’s Homebrew Headline: Changeable Guardian Estique.

Born on real 8-bit Famicom hardware, soon on Steam, Switch, PS5, & Xbox.
A cartridge discovering it has a 2nd life... adorable.

#Homebrew #FamicomDev #IndieDev #RetroGaming #Estique

The NES wasn’t built for drama, so Ninja Gaiden invented its own.
32 black sprites.
The 8-sprite limit reached.
And Ryu slips quietly into the void.
A technical constraint transformed into art.

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#RetroGaming #Famicom #GameDev #NESdev

This looks so incredible. My heart started racing after the first 2 seconds.

Working on a special package for new initiates!
We’ll include RQ and a killer homebrew cart, but what else would YOU want as part of your welcome into the order?
🕯️📦🗝️

#Homebrew #NESHomebrew #RetroGaming #IndieDev #8bitCulture #NESdev

Pubby built his own NES programming language (NESFab) to make his games.
The man is on another level.
New clip up now.

#NESDev #Homebrew

When portals open and shadows fuse with pixels, there is no pause for hope.
In Necro Nancy, Grimware invites you to the witch’s playground on the NES and your only option is purge magic.

#NES #Horrorgame #Homebrewvideogames