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Experimental firmware 1.99.0 and 1.99.1 for the RetroTINK 4K add a Multi-frame Glow option and a Motion Clarity control that match the open-source CRT beam simulator by Blur Busters and Timothy Lottes, capping a month of builds that also brought true VRR, a new inverse telecine engine and steadier Lumacode.
Nintendo added Kururin Paradise, Metal Slug Advance and Monster Rancher Advance to Game Boy Advance - Nintendo Classics on 14 October, giving the 2002 Kururin sequel its first release outside Japan.
My sibling's game that I barely touched in 2003, finished properly in 2026 on an original GameCube. Springfield still feels more alive than most modern open worlds, even if the last missions test your patience.
The Entertainment Software Association has nominated Anbernic's store for the US Trade Representative's 2026 Notorious Markets List, calling handhelds sold with preloaded game cards the industry's version of superfakes.
Krikzz's 12 October firmware for the EverDrive-64 PRO adds an in-game menu with multi-slot save states, provided the console has an Expansion Pak, and a follow-up build two days later refined it.
ScummVM's fourth release of the year, nicknamed Never-slop, adds what the project counts as 194 games and 12 engines, including FTL's Dungeon Master and both Star Wars: Rebel Assault games.
The 10 October release of BigMig, an Amiga for MiSTer whose 68k runs as a JIT on the board's second ARM core, adds BigMig 3Dx2: a two-pipeline 3D card in the FPGA with its own Warp3D and MiniGL libraries.
THE 800XL, designed by Retro Games Ltd and distributed by PLAION REPLAI, has a mechanical keyboard, a working cartridge slot, HDMI and 25 built-in games. Pre-orders are open at $219.99, with shipping from 23 April 2027.
VBoy Color, a free and open-source Virtual Boy emulator, shows the library in stereoscopic 3D on Meta Quest headsets and repaints it in colour, with hand-made colour packs for more than a dozen games. It went through nine public betas in its first week.
I finished it once in 1993, aged seven, and it took most of a summer. I finished it again last Sunday in a day. The DOS original, on an AO486 core, still one of the best written games ever made.
The murder I left unsolved for nineteen years. Quantic Dream's wildly ambitious 2005 thriller still owns one of the greatest openings in gaming, so I went back, on original PS2 hardware, to finally finish it.
You cannot buy this game anymore. It came off every storefront in January 2024 because a contract nobody will explain ran out, and the only way in now is a second hand disc. Which turns out to be the whole argument.