Midwinter is being rebuilt as a faithful PC remaster in Rust/Bevy, keeping its 1989 mechanics and huge frozen map while adding modern visuals and QoL.
Author: Jim Gray
Super Storm Buster is a dark sci‑fi SNES shmup aiming for huge bosses, dense bullet patterns, and real hardware carts, with a Kickstarter campaign incoming.
Yuji Horii is getting a 160-page, RPG-styled biographical manga in Japan, charting his path to creating Dragon Quest, supervised by Horii himself.
Radical Reflux’s Magenta Sky & Welcome 2 The Machine form a linked cyberpunk duology for the ZX Spectrum, following rebel-in-training Clark in the u_nvrz saga.
A new fan project restores online play and DLC for Lord of the Rings: Conquest, giving Pandemic’s ill-fated final game a second shot at multiplayer life.
Romero’s new Catacomb 3-D mini-doc shows how id nearly stuck with lucrative Keen, and how one scrappy texture-mapped dungeon pushed them toward Wolf3D and Doom.
AYN updates the Thor with better OLED uniformity for dim gaming, smarter Home/Return binding for the active touchscreen, and a volume slider fix for Bluetooth and wired audio.
Stockpiling free Epic games pays off: GameNative v0.7.1 syncs your Epic library on Android and adds new performance options, dropdown installs, and dual-screen support.
AYANEO’s Pocket Play is a chunky slide-out gaming phone with a 6.8-inch 165Hz OLED and Dimensity 9300 power. Kickstarter is listed as “Launching Soon.”
Square Enix is delisting FF7’s 2013 Steam release in favor of a new “improved” PC version, free for existing owners, but saves and many mods won’t carry over.