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November 4, 2026 6:29 AM
November 4, 2026
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 —…

Suda51’s Lost PS1 Horror Gem Moonlight Syndrome Is Finally Playable in English

Some games make you wait a few years for an English version. Moonlight Syndrome made us wait 29 — and honestly, I had started to assume it would never happen….

Sin and Punishment gameplay running on PC via the snprecomp port

Sin and Punishment Finally Runs on PC — One Fan Recompiled the Whole N64 Shooter

It was import-only for years, and arguably the best rail shooter the N64 ever got — now it runs natively on your PC. Twenty-six years after Treasure and Nintendo unleashed…

PS3 Slim console with DualShock 3 controller and stacked PS3 game cases

RPCS3 Just Pushed 80% of the PS3 Library Over the Finish Line

Remember when PS3 emulation was considered functionally impossible? The Cell processor, the SPUs, the whole “you’d need a supercomputer” line? Well. On October 21, the RPCS3 team announced on X…

Yoshi battles Samus in Smash 64 Recompiled, with a 'High Framerate' graphic overlaid

Smash 64 Recompiled Is the Human-Made Answer to the AI PC Port Wave

Another PC port of a Nintendo 64 game is on the way — but this one arrives with a mission statement. Meet...

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