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The Xbox Outage Took the Discs Down Too
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.
16
Jul
A New Sega Master System Game Is Shipping on Cartridge, Hand-Drawn Manual and All
Devwill, a 2017 Brazilian PC platformer, is getting a real Master System cartridge on August 5 via LMS Retro, with a hand-drawn, no-AI manual made the old way.
June 2026
05
Jun
Studio MDHR is shipping a real Sega Master System game
Studio MDHR announced Mighty Cuphead Adventure, an 8-bit platformer programmed in Assembly for the Sega Master System, with a confirmed physical cartridge release alongside modern platforms.
February 2026
15
Feb
Hideki Sato Passes Away at 77