Editing Jeff Minter (section)

===Return to console games===
In April 2013 it was announced that Llamasoft had signed a deal with [[Sony Computer Entertainment]] to create a [[tube shooter]] for the [[PlayStation Vita]] called ''[[TxK]]''.<ref name=txk-announced/> The game would be Llamasoft's fourth tube shooter in two decades and was described as the spiritual successor of 1994's ''Tempest 2000'' for the Atari Jaguar. As Minter explained in his development blog the project goals were to create a more traditional, straightforward and accessible tube shooter than ''Space Giraffe'', to improve on the flaws from ''Tempest 2000'' and ''Tempest 3000'', and to evoke the neo-retro aesthetic without being cheesy.<ref name=dev-blog/> ''[[TxK]]'' was released on 11 February 2014, by digital download through PSN.<ref>{{Cite web|title=PSN Tuesday: Lightning Returns, TxK, Far Cry Classic|url=https://www.engadget.com/2014-02-11-psn-tuesday-lightning-returns-txk-far-cry-classic.html|access-date=2020-09-17|website=Engadget|date=12 February 2014 |language=en}}</ref>

At the beginning of 2015, Minter was threatened with legal action by [[Atari, SA|Atari]], claiming that ''TxK'' was too similar to ''Tempest 2000'' - a game that Minter himself wrote, but Atari owned the rights to.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-03-18-jeff-minter-beyond-disgusted-with-atari-over-txk-block|title=Jeff Minter "beyond disgusted" with Atari over TxK block|first=Wesley|last=Yin-Poole|website=[[Eurogamer]]|date=18 March 2015}}</ref> This raised several issues, including Atari claiming that Minter that had illegally copied material from his own source code and violated design copyrights on his own design traditions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=85897 |title=YakYak • View topic - Regarding the TXK persecution: A brief summary |access-date=23 August 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703153516/http://yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=85897 |archive-date=3 July 2015}}</ref> Sony was unwilling to support Minter and as such future versions of ''TxK'' were blocked from release, although the PS Vita version remains available.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/ps5/games/|title=PS5 games &#124; Extraordinary games coming to PlayStation 5|website=PlayStation}}</ref>

Minter and Zorzin's first publicly available game for a modern home console, ''[[Polybius (2017 video game)|Polybius]]'', was released on the [[PlayStation 4]] on 9 May 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/games/polybius/cid=UP4461-CUSA08328_00-LLAMASOFTPLB0002?emcid=or-st-107804|title=PlayStation  Games|website=PlayStation™Store}}</ref> The game features extensive support for the [[PlayStation VR]] headset, based on Minter's experience building the unreleased VR version of ''TxK''. Shortly after release, Llamasoft were contacted by [[Trent Reznor]] of the band [[Nine Inch Nails]], asking to use visuals from ''Polybius'' as the basis for the music video for the song "[[Less Than (song)|Less Than]]"; the video was released on 13 July the same year.

In August 2017, [[Atari, SA]] issued a press release, announcing a partnership with Llamasoft to develop ''[[Tempest 4000]]'' on the [[PlayStation 4]] and [[Xbox One]] [[video game consoles]] and [[Windows]]-based [[personal computers]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=O'Connor|first1=Alice|title=Jeff Minter making Tempest 4000 for Atari|url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/08/08/tempest-4000-announced/|website=Rock Paper Shotgun|access-date=28 January 2018|date=8 August 2017}}</ref> It was released in July 2018.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Machkovech|first1=Sam|title=Tempest 4000 finally lives after delays, legal threats—but what's up on PC?|url=https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/07/tempest-4000-finally-lives-after-delays-legal-threats-but-whats-up-on-pc/|website=Ars Technica|date=17 July 2018|access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref>

In March 2018, Minter announced that the framework for the Minotaur Project had also been ported to the [[PlayStation 4]] and stated an intention to release enhanced versions of the Minotaur Project games as console games in bundles under the name ''Minotaur Arcade''. In December 2018, Llamasoft released ''Minotaur Arcade Volume 1'' on Steam.<ref>{{cite web|title=Steam page for Minotaur Arcade Volume 1|url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/906110/Minotaur_Arcade_Volume_1|access-date=23 December 2018}}</ref> This contained much enhanced versions of ''GoatUp'' and ''Gridrunner'' with support for playing on the [[Oculus Rift]] but also playable in 2D. A PlayStation 4 version of ''Minotaur Arcade Volume 1'' was released in October 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP4461-CUSA15875_00-LLAMASOFTMARCADE|title=Minotaur Arcade Volume 1|website=store.playstation.com}}</ref>

Minter revisited the enhanced Minotaur Arcade framework to produce an original game, ''[[Moose Life]]'', released on Steam in August 2020 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1342740/Moose_Life/|title=Moose Life on Steam|website=store.steampowered.com}}</ref> and on Playstation 4 in February 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/product/EP4461-CUSA26621_00-9854696025743028|title=Moose Life|website=store.playstation.com}}</ref>

In December 2022, Minter announced that he had been contracted to produce a complete and up-to-date version of Atari's abandoned 1982 prototype arcade machine ''[[Akka Arrh]]'', the original version of which had become available to the wider public as part of the recently published collection ''[[Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration]]''. In 2023, [[Digital Eclipse]] announced that they would be compiling 42 of Minter's games and releasing them as ''[[Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story]]'', the second entry in their ''Gold Master Series''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/digital-eclipses-next-interactive-documentary-is-llamasoft-the-jeff-minter-story/ | title=Digital Eclipse's next interactive documentary is Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story | date=6 December 2023 }}</ref>