by Jim Gray | Jan 30, 2026 | News
Invanoid is mashing up two of the most iconic arcade ideas on the Amiga, and making it look completely natural. The new homebrew from developer DjPiotrs takes Arkanoid’s paddle-and-ball precision and bolts it directly onto a descending Space Invaders-style formation,...
by Jim Gray | Jan 30, 2026 | News
Huntdown is one of the best retro-style action games around, so a new entry felt like an inevitability. Sure enough, Huntdown: Overtime is a grimy, VHS‑soaked follow‑up that dials up the brutality, leans harder into the gunplay, and sends bounty hunter John Sawyer...
by Jim Gray | Jan 29, 2026 | News
After nearly two years of organizing, petitions, and public frustration over disappearing libraries, the Stop Killing Games movement finally has a firm timeline for its biggest test. The European Commission has confirmed that it will deliver its official response to...
by Jim Gray | Jan 29, 2026 | News
One of the most significant missing pieces of ’90s visual novel history just quietly became accessible to English speakers for the first time. Leaf’s 1996 PC-98 title Shizuku has received a full fan translation patch by Her‑Saki, landing almost exactly 30 years after...
by Jim Gray | Jan 29, 2026 | News
Sonic R has always been a strange outlier: a Saturn racer with big, explorable stages that never quite let you slow down and look around. Now, a new mod finally leans into what those levels hinted at all along. Hacker and reverse engineering specialist Bo Bayles has...