FIFA 2001’s scratch-and-sniff disc was peak PS1 weirdness

Most PlayStation discs did one job. You put them in the console, waited for the familiar…

Castlevania Symphony of the Night recomp update adds Linux and big improvements

The unofficial Castlevania: Symphony of the Night PC port has just taken a pretty big step…

Frog revives Team17’s Superfrog for Windows and Linux

If you played platform games on the Amiga in the early 1990s, Superfrog is a name…

AmigaAMP update improves streaming, M4A playback and AmiSSL support

AmigaAMP 3.35 is now available for both AmigaOS 3.x and AmigaOS 4.x, bringing a useful set…

Donkey Kong Land Remake adds bigger levels, new visuals and updated controls

Donkey Kong Land has been rebuilt for PC in a new fan-made remake that gives the…

How Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney started Atari with $500

Atari officially started in 1972 with just $500 in cash. That figure sounds almost absurd now.…

Counter-Strike: Source is playable on Switch with controllers, bots and multiplayer

Counter-Strike: Source is now running on Nintendo Switch thanks to css_nx, an open-source port that brings…

Sony once built a PlayStation 2 directly into a Bravia TV

Sony has made plenty of unusual hardware over the years, but the Bravia KDL-22PX300 still stands…

WatermelonDS update targets better Nintendo DS emulation on Android

WatermelonDS has landed at version 0.7.0, and there’s quite a bit going on here. The Android…

How GTA Online’s alien civil war split Los Santos between green and purple players

For a few weeks in 2020, GTA Online became a very different game. Los Santos was…

Black Mesa just opened its doors on AmigaOS 4.1 with a new Half-Life port

Half-Life 1 can now run natively on AmigaOS 4.1, thanks to a new Xash3D-FWGS port by…

This Metal Gear Solid fan remake looks amazing and you can play it now

A new Metal Gear Solid fan remake is now available to download, giving PC players a…

The Half-Life 2 leak that became one of PC gaming’s biggest security breaches

In 2003, Valve had a serious problem. Someone had broken into its internal network and gained…

Rick Dangerous DX hits Neo Geo with remastered graphics and classic traps

Rick Dangerous is back on another machine, and this time it’s the Neo Geo. Rick Dangerous…

How one Halo 2 player outsmarted Microsoft for nearly a month

On 15 April 2010, Microsoft shut down the original Xbox Live service. That should have been…

SEGA vs Capcom: The Next Level unleashes Sonic, Ryu, Mega Man X and more

SEGA vs Capcom: The Next Level has a simple hook. Take characters from two of Japan’s…

This ambitious Doom 3 mod rebuilds Doom II from the ground up

Doom II running inside Doom 3 sounds like the sort of experiment someone would try just…

vAmiga update prepares the macOS Amiga emulator for AGA

vAmiga has reached version 4.5, and while this isn’t the kind of update packed with flashy…

How Fallout made economics surprisingly easy to understand

Fallout looks like a game about radiation, mutants, ruined cities and trying not to get shot.…

Why pixel art remains popular with gamers and developers

Pixel art used to exist because computers didn’t give developers much choice. Memory was tight. Resolutions…

Pokémon Dark Rising remake gets new maps, mega evolutions and 650 Pokémon

Pokémon Dark Rising is back with a rebuilt version that adds a long list of new…

Wild Blue Skies from Star Fox veteran Giles Goddard gets August release date

Wild Blue Skies is a new arcade flight shooter from Chuhai Labs, led by veteran programmer…

A working Day of the Tentacle port has appeared on Sega Saturn

Day of the Tentacle is running on the Sega Saturn. That’s the headline here. Developer Happy-Ferret…

Quake 4’s unreleased The Awakening expansion is finally playable

More than 20 years after Quake 4 launched on PC, one of its cancelled expansions has…

Worms: The Director’s Cut receives huge free Amiga expansion nearly 30 years later

Worms: The Director’s Cut is getting new content almost 30 years after its original Amiga release.…

This Steam Deck mod turns floppy disks into game launchers

Someone has found a new use for floppy disks. Not for storage, obviously. A Steam Deck…

Quake gets huge 30th anniversary update with 19 new maps

Quake is 30 years old. Somehow, it’s still getting new stuff. The latest addition is Dawn…

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