Early hands-on testing of the Retroid Pocket Duo Lite suggests the handheld's dual-screen setup runs into sluggish performance and multitasking problems, apparently because its chipset was not designed with dual displays in mind. via retrohandhelds.gg
Developer NinjaConor has released Baby Escapes from Mushroom Manor, a platform-puzzle-adventure for the Commodore 64. Players guide Baby, an infant bored with life after three weeks, as he attempts a breakout for adventure and freedom through the manor. via indieretronews.com
Almost There Games is producing an unofficial PC modernization of Binary Asylum's 1994 Amiga 3D shoot 'em up Wolf Duology, adding ultrawide support and high-resolution visuals. It follows the same team's earlier PC overhauls of Ruff 'N' Tumble and Superfrog. via indieretronews.com
A new homebrew project brings an unofficial recreation of Williams Electronics' arcade classic Stargate to the Commodore VIC-20. The game was built from scratch in pure machine language to capture the fast-paced feel of the original, with no official corporate affiliation. via indieretronews.com
Toni Fingerroos of Fingersoft presented an Amiga port of his mobile game Hill Climb Racing at the Saku 2026 event. He hopes to release the single-player driving game, which lets players collect coins to buy or upgrade vehicles across various tracks, later this year through APC&TCP for nearly all Amiga models. via amiga-news.de
Sega Saturn Shiro's #BestOfSaturn series highlights Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon, a top-down roguelike action RPG set in the Madou Monogatari universe. Compile produced and released the game for the Sega Saturn in April 1998. via segasaturnshiro.com
TR Fight Stick has released the Kraken Spinner, a $170 optional module for its Octopus Arcade Stick that adds spinner control, useful for games like Arkanoid. The Octopus stick supports systems including Dreamcast, MiSTer and PC, and was designed to be upgradable with modules like this one. via timeextension.com
Bill Winters Sports is a new game styled after classic LCD handheld games, featuring protagonist Amiga Bill through nine events over a week, from a New York photo assignment to an Emmys ceremony and a live-streaming marathon. Challenges include racing, crate sorting, boxing matches against caricatures of Bill Gates or Bill Murray, and resource management, all played with the precise timing typical of old LCD games. via amiga-news.de
The Finnish Amiga Users Group demonstrated, for the first time, a patch that allows Commodore's Amiga Unix to run on 68040 or 68060 CPUs at this year's Saku event. A video of the demonstration has been published. via amiga-news.de
BrewOtaku, a magazine covering new games for old systems, is now available in print through APC&TCP as well as digitally. The current issue, No. 10, covers titles including AmiDuke, AmiKlotski, Bouncy Bonzo's Space Journey, The Settlers II Gold Edition and US Championship V'ball. via amiga-news.de
Cookie#Soft has released C64 Classic Collection, a free name-your-own-price Windows package that recreates Commodore 64 classics such as Artillery Duel, Lemmings, Sim City and Boulder Dash as reworked Microsoft Excel games with a standalone launcher. via itch.io
A previously unreleased Nintendo 64 title, Kaminari no Gotoku: Choukousoku Igo, has been discovered and preserved. The game, based on the board game Go, was in development at Japanese company SETA Corporation but never saw release. via timeextension.com
