Blaze Entertainment held its May 2023 Evercade Showcase and announced a number of new game collections. Most notably, two Duke Nukem game collection cartridges are on the way, and there will also be a special Evercade VS Atomic Edition variant of the console based on the series. The presentation also noted there will be updates to the systems that add features like per-game button-mapping.
Duke Nukem Collection 1 will give Evercade owners Duke Nukem 1+2 Remastered and Duke Nukem 3. The second collection features Time to Kill, Land of the Babes, and Advance. Both will appear in November 2023, with pre-orders opening in August 2023. As for the Atomic Edition of the console, only 2,000 will be made. They will be sold for £119.99/$148.66 and each one will include a certificate of authenticity. Funstock pre-orders are open now ahead of its November 2023 debut while supplies last.
Here’s the list of all new Evercade game collections that showed up during the May 2023 showcase:
- Delphine Software Cinematique Collection 1: September 2023
- Duke Nukem Collection 1: November 2023
- Duke Nukem Collection 2: November 2023
- Piko Interactive Arcade 1: August 2023
- Sunsoft Collection 1: September 2023
- Sydney Hunter Collection: August 2023
And this is the full Evercade Showcase:
A second Evercade Showcase will also appear in 2023. That one will air sometime in July 2023. It’s billed as an “indie showcase.”
The next Evercade game releases will be Piko Interactive Arcade 1 and Sydney Hunter Collection in August 2023.
