PortMaster rounds out 2025 with ten new games, including a full-featured reimplementation of Warcraft 2 and four ready-to-run freebies!
Author: Jim Gray
Jim Gray
Jim is a dad from Massachusetts by way of the Northeast Kingdom (IYKYK). He makes music as Our Ghosts, and with his band, Tiger Fire Company No. 1. He also takes terrible photos, writes decent science fiction and plays almost exclusively skateboarding games. He cannot, however, grow a beard. Favorite Game: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
Sony’s AI ghost patent presents as help but positions the platform as an authority deciding what content players see and how much they play themselves.
JarPlay brings J2ME emulation to iOS, letting users run lost early-2000s mobile games via .jar files, marking another small but real win for game preservation.
Gameplay footage of a near-complete 1993 Japanese NES RPG thought lost has surfaced, alongside plans for a book of unreleased materials with dev approval.
Mere weeks before the launches of the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii, Mattel stormed confidently back into the console wars with a truly terrible idea.
Tiger’s R-Zone (1995-97) was a head-mounted LCD gaming system that projected red images into your eye. Multiple models, licensed games, all equally terrible.
Casio’s 1983 PV-1000 was a rushed, underpowered Z80 console with only nine games that sold poorly and vanished quickly, now prized mainly by collectors.
Sony patented AI that can detect and sanitize violent, sexual, or profane content in games in real time, letting parents set rules and profiles across devices.
Playtiles turns your phone into a pocket retro handheld, working with Delta, GB Studio games, and open-source-friendly, movable on-screen button emulators.
Because Jim can’t read a calendar, today’s PortMaster roundup is for a full month’s worth of games and apps, and it is a stacked one!