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July 2026
109 posts · Newest first · ← All NewsWhistle1, a solo-developed retro football manager, adds a full country editor with 78 templates and Brazil as a playable nation. Still free, still in a browser tab.
A veteran of EA, Crystal Dynamics and Rockstar has released his first solo game in over three decades. It is a vector arcade shooter that owes everything to 1981.
A day-long Xbox outage stopped digital games, and then it stopped disc-based and backward-compatible ones too. The plastic did not save anybody.
Developer kitchen34's English translation patch for Saturn fighter Dragon Ball Shin Butoden has passed a major technical hurdle by rebuilding the game's sprite compression system.
US hardware spending fell 62% year-over-year to $383 million in June, driven by the impossible comparison with Switch 2's 2025 launch, even as Xbox Series spending doubled.
Atari has signed a deal with Universal Pictures to develop movies from 10 classics, including Asteroids, Breakout, Centipede, Missile Command, and Pong.
Disgaea creator Sohei Niikawa says PlayStation may as well eliminate its hardware if Sony removes physical games from the console ecosystem.
Nintendo's new Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Switch 2 Edition trailer confirms 4K/60fps TV play, Merc Assault, MOMO from Xenosaga, and an October physical release.
Anbernic has published the first official gameplay footage of the RG SP, its GBA SP-inspired foldable handheld, showing titles from GBA, Dreamcast, DS, and more.
Falcom’s 1984 action RPG Dragon Slayer, in its Level 2.0 revision, hits the Switch eShop for $6.49 as an EGG Console release.