Not to be confused with the Ocean title of a similar name, Cavelon 64 by Timo Brueggmann is something of a quest where the player has to guide a balloon through a series of twisting, turning caverns (apparently in a place called Morgor). During this tortuous journey there are also assorted moving barriers to avoid that attempt to pop the player and lots of evil, twisty bits to weave through as well.

  News source:    CSDb entry for Cavelon 64

As usual, the summer months are the quietest time for new 8-bit games but there is at least one new title for the Spectrum; Myth 2 - Return To Hell is, as the name should suggest, a follow up to the rather fabby Myth. The file can be downloaded here and there is a World Of Spectrum thread here that explains the rather fiddly process of getting the TRDOS image running under emulation and indeed discusses which emulators can actually use it.

  News source:    World Of Spectrum

Developed by Leif Bloomquist, Six and Robin Harbron, NetRacer is a top down, vertically-scrolling car racing game for the C64... that supports up to eight players (wait for it) over a local area network or the internet! Sadly, there are no network adapters connected to the C64s here at Oldschool Gaming Towers but fingers crossed there'll be a chance or two for some of us to try the game properly in the near future and it will at least run, albeit less than interestingly, in a single player mode if no outside world is detected.

  News source:    CSDb entry for NetRacer