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June 2026
29 Jun
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Lost Indiana Jones SCUMM demo recovered by Video Game History Foundation

The Video Game History Foundation recovers a lost Indiana Jones demo built in SCUMM, a never-before-seen marketing tie-in for a VGA graphics card.

27 Jun
Preservation Arcade
One Man Spent Three Years Documenting Every Namco Museum Ever Made

Andrew Elmore spent three years documenting every Namco Museum port across every platform and region, a roughly two-hour record of gaming's compilation era.

27 Jun
Preservation Xbox 360 Xbox One Xbox Series X|S
Three More Games Have Quietly Vanished From the Xbox Store

Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier, Signs of the Sojourner, and Boom Boom Rocket have all been pulled from the Xbox Store, with no physical editions to fall back on.

26 Jun
Preservation Linux PC
Bohemia Has Opened the Source Code to the Game That Became Arma

For Operation Flashpoint's 25th anniversary, Bohemia Interactive released the GPL source code to Arma: Cold War Assault, plus a remastered demo.

25 Jun
Preservation Arcade Game Boy Game Boy Advance Game Boy Color GameCube
Dolphin Can Finally Emulate the Game Boy Player, 16 Years After It Was First Asked

Dolphin release 2606 finally emulates the GameCube's Game Boy Player, a feature requested over 16 years ago, plus fixes and the last unplayable Triforce game.

23 Jun
Preservation NES / Famicom SNES
The Original Mother Has Been Remade on the EarthBound Engine, After Nearly 20 Years

After nearly 20 years, fans have remade the original Mother (EarthBound Beginnings) on the SNES EarthBound engine, released as a patch led by romhacker Gabbls.

21 Jun
Preservation Nintendo 64 PC
Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness Gets a Work-in-Progress PC Recompilation

Developer fliperama86 has released a work-in-progress PC recompilation of the N64's Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness, with higher frame rates and resolution.

19 Jun
Preservation Arcade Dreamcast
A Lost Atomiswave Football Game Is Finally Playable on Dreamcast

Premier Eleven, an unreleased Atomiswave football game lost for twenty years, has been dumped and made playable on Dreamcast, along with Miracle Stadium.

16 Jun
Preservation Arcade Nintendo 64 Nintendo Switch PC Xbox 360
GoldenEye 007’s Cancelled Xbox 360 Remaster Arrives as a Native PC Port

GoldenEye 007's long-cancelled Xbox 360 remaster now runs natively on PC thanks to a static recompilation, no emulation required.