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Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling is an adventure-RPG following three heroes, Vi, Kabbu, and Leif, as they embark on an epic quest in Bugaria in search of The Everlasting Sapling, a treasure that can grant immortality! Bug Fables combines colorful platforming with the heroes’ unique abilities as they explore a wide variety of areas in…
Includes the first level and co-op. MegaPixel Studio and Forever Entertainment has released the first demo for its upcoming House of the Dead 2: Remake, as part of the February 2025 Steam Next Fest. Forever Entertainment first announced it was making a remake of the 1998 Sega light gun shooter back in 2019, at the…
“This game is such a beautiful Sega treasure”. 2001’s SEGAGAGA is one of the most unique games on the Dreamcast. In it, the player is tasked with restoring the fortunes of an ailing Sega against its evil rival, DOGMA, a company which owns most of the console market (and is clearly inspired by Sony). Laced…
The ‘Middo’ is a new ship “overtaken and fused with the Bydo”. Irem’s R-Type never graced the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, and was instead exclusive to the PC Engine, SNES, Master System and Game Boy back in the day. This egregious oversight is being fixed by TheRoboZ (Andrea Baldiraghi), who has been hard at…
The RetroN GX launches this May. Back in 2022, Hyperkin officially revealed its PC Engine / TG-16 clone, the RetroN GX. Like the company’s other consoles, it uses software emulation to replicate the performance of NEC and Hudson’s iconic 8-bit system. Back in 2022, it was reported that the console wouldn’t be seen until 2023…
Benefits Out Youth, an LGBTQ+ youth centre. As we’ve noted before on this site, print media is having a moment right now—however, we’re not talking about magazines on the newsstands here, but fan-made publications created by enthusiasts. If you’re a fan of grassroots media, then you might want to take a look at the second…
An unfinished build has been published online. An unfinished build of the Sonic fangame Sonic & The Moon Facility has been released online, letting players experience a mostly playable version of the cancelled project. If you cast your mind back to August 2023, you may remember hearing about the promising upcoming Sonic fangame, when it…
While RetroSouls has released many games such as GLUF, Old Tower and Alter Ego, one of the more unique games they released, was a game called Ringo. What made this game unique was the fact that it was one of the first games to use their new ‘experimental graphics mode’. While I’m unsure about the…
“An incredible find”. Seven brand-new Fighting Vipers arcade cabinets have been discovered in a warehouse 30 years after the game launched. As highlighted by Gabe Fowlkes, the find was announced on Facebook, with the “completely NOS Sega Fighting Vipers arcade cabinets” being described as “completely untouched, still boxed, monitors never powered on.” Read the full…
Time flies when you’re piloting massive robots. Square’s Front Mission series is now 30 years old—it made its debut in Japan on February 24th, 1995. The first game was released exclusively on the Super Famicom in Japan, and was created by Toshiro Tsuchida. Read the full article on timeextension.com Time flies when you’re piloting massive…