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Christmas productions have a long history in the demoscene, with hundreds and hundreds of festive releases over the past 35 years or so. Thanks to our pretty cool tagging system we have gathered over 500 Christmas-themed productions, an amount which should you wish to check them all out, would probably keep you busy for a large part of the upcoming holidays! To save you some time we have come up with a little selection of releases that will definitely put you into the Christmas mood:

• X-Mas '92 by Cascada (MS-DOS demo, 1992)
• X-Mess by Sunrise Industry (MS-DOS intro, 1996)
• Christmas Chips 2 by Talent (Windows music-disk, 2002)
• No Santa Porn by Marshals (Amiga OCS/ECS intro, 2003)
• Happy Holidays by Inque and Poo-Brain (Windows intro, 2014)
• Chiperia Christmas Edition by The Chiperia Project (Amiga OCS/ECS music-disk, 2015)
• Merry Xmas 2017 by Genesis Project (C64 demo, 2017)
• Left Unsaid by 5711 (Pico-8 demo, 2020)
• Christmas Megademo by Atlantis, Bonzai, Genesis Project, Lethargy, and Offence (C64 demo, 2020)

There were a fair amount of releases for Demodulation, a retro event taking place in Russia earlier this month. It's all on oldschool platforms obviously, but not only for ZX Spectrum as sometimes in that region.

Demodulation 2020 on Demozoo / scene.org

Long-running Aussie party Syntax took place online last weekend and saw a tonne of releases submitted in its competitions. You have to admire the enthusiasm of the C64 crowd in particular.

Syntax 2020 on Demozoo / scene.org

Demosplash, the long-running North-American demoparty, has reached the 10-year mark with this edition, and we're happy to extend our congratulations to the persistent organization team. As more or less expected those days, this year's event was online only, but that obviously didn't deter the motivation of the hardworking people who submitted many entries in the various competitions. There's a bit of everything, newschool and oldschool, so please have a peep!

Demosplash 2020 on Demozoo / scene.org

Even the mighty Assembly was an online event this year, which evidently didn't stop the releases from pouring in. See for yourself, there's something for everyone!

Assembly Online 2020 on Demozoo / scene.org

Nordlicht, which usually takes place in Bremen, Germany, was held this year as an online-only event. The results and releases are now available and there are plenty of nice prods to peruse.

Nordlicht 2020 on Demozoo / scene.org

Inércia was also held online this year, fully streamed on Twitch, and seems to have been a resounding success judging by the amount and quality of releases.

Inércia Demoparty 2020 on Demozoo / scene.org

Function took place last weekend in Budapest, Hungary as an actual physical event with actual people meeting in an actual room! That doesn't happen very often those days. Plenty of releases came out of it, with a nice balance of newschool and olsdchool productions.

Function 2020 on Demozoo / scene.org

A new website was launched yesterday, all about the wonderful world of 4k executable graphics. Plus, it links back to your friendly neighborhood Demozoo which we naturally appreciate a bunch. So head on over and shove some eyecandy into your eyeholes - and be sure to tell yx what an excellent site it is :)

https://executable.graphics

Ah, the sweet summer nights of Salzgitter... Camping, barbecue, campfire, and... C64? That's right, Atwoods Summer Open-Air, the first outdoor-only C64 party in Germany, managed to go ahead in August unlike many other events this year. It took us a little while, but the results and releases are now properly listed and eager to catch the attention of more pairs of eyes.

Atwoods Summer Open-Air 2020 on Demozoo / CSDb