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QUByte's first ReConnect showcase revives the Gaelco arcade library and teases a wave of PS1-era ports, including Biomechanical Toy and Tiger Shark.
Lizardcube's hand-drawn Shinobi revival is dated for Switch 2 on September 24 in digital and physical editions, starting at $29.99.
Bobby Prince, the composer behind Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died at 81. His Doom score entered the Library of Congress just a month earlier.
Premier Eleven, an unreleased Atomiswave football game lost for twenty years, has been dumped and made playable on Dreamcast, along with Miracle Stadium.
Hamster's Arcade Archives adds Space Cyclone (1980) and Console Archives adds Legend of Kage (NES) to Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S on June 18, priced from $7.99.
Microsoft reportedly plans to close Compulsion Games, with Ninja Theory and Double Fine also at risk, in a sweeping Xbox restructuring.
GoldenEye 007's long-cancelled Xbox 360 remaster now runs natively on PC thanks to a static recompilation, no emulation required.
A preservation group has uncovered a playable prototype of an unreleased SEGA Rally title for Nintendo DS, lost for nearly 20 years.
Capcom will delist the Dragon's Dogma 2 Deluxe Edition and several microtransaction DLC items on June 24, ahead of the Dark Arisen expansion.
Harbour Masters is bringing a native PC port of Banjo-Kazooie with a standalone randomizer and online co-op, built from the Lighthouse decompilation, coming in July.