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November 6, 2026 5:34 PM
November 6, 2026
ZERO gameplay on the Game Boy Color — a red antigravity craft races down a neon track at night, with position, lap, power and speed readouts on screen

ZERO Brings F-Zero-Style Antigravity Racing to the Game Boy Color

Somewhere in an alternate 1998, Nintendo shipped F-Zero on the Game Boy Color. We didn’t get that timeline — but Canadian developer Shane McCafferty just built the next best thing….

Mizuki recoils from a masked, cursed figure in key art for Ningyo no Rakuin

A Lovecraftian PS1 Horror RPG Just Got Its First English Translation — 26 Years Later

Halloween may be over, but the PlayStation’s spookiest straggler just showed up fashionably late — and honestly, I’m glad it did. The Curse of Ogaeritō is out now: a complete…

Kiryu Kazumanosuke walks through a lantern-lit Edo-period street in Ryu ga Gotoku: Kenzan!

Like a Dragon: Kenzan Is Finally Playable in English, 18 Years Later

Eighteen years. That is how long English-speaking Yakuza fans have waited to play the samurai spin-off that started it all — and the wait is finally over. A complete English…

Anime cutscene close-up of a young hero from Falcom's The Legend of Xanadu

Falcom’s The Legend of Xanadu Is Finally Playable in English, 32 Years Later

Some games wait a few years for a translation. This one waited 32 — and folks, it was worth every single one of them. Homebrew programmer John Brandwood (known as…

A grey first-generation Japanese Sega Saturn console with controller

Final Fantasy Finally Runs Natively on Sega Saturn — 39 Years Later

Some games wait decades for a second chance. This one waited for a console it never even got in the first place — and now, 39 years after the original,…

Nintendo Switch 2 hardware

The Switch 2 Has Been Jailbroken — No Modchip, No Soldering, and AI Helped Crack It

Well, that didn’t take long — depending on your definition of long. Sixteen months after launch, the Nintendo Switch 2 has its first public software jailbreak, and the story of…

A black budget retro handheld with twin analog sticks and ABXY buttons

Your Cheap Retro Handheld Just Got a Whole Lot Smarter — MustardOS “Andromeda” Is Here

If your budget retro handheld has been gathering dust, this is your weekend project. MustardOS — the open-source Linux firmware better known to longtime tinkerers as muOS — just shipped…

Corporate Rot key art: a lime Game Boy Color showing office gameplay beside a zombie lunging at an office worker holding a stapler

Corporate Rot Is a Game Boy Color Zombie Roguelike Where Your Best Weapon Is a CRT Monitor

Monday mornings are the worst. But imagine clocking in to find your co-workers have all turned into zombies, the elevators are dead, and the only way out is down —…

Warner Bros Interactive Announces Middle-Earth: Shadow Of Mordor

Warner Bros Interactive has announced a brand new Lord of the Rings videogame with the reveal of Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor....

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