Blip is a newly released Android frontend app designed specifically to take advantage of dual-screen retro handhelds such as the AYN Thor and Retroid Pocket Duo. It adds to the growing number of launcher options available for organizing and running emulated games on these devices. via retrododo.com
NQ64 Arcade Bars Ltd., which runs a chain of gaming bars across the UK, has announced it will open a new venue called NQ JPN in London's Soho district later in October. The bar will focus on imported Japanese arcade cabinets alongside Japanese-inspired cocktails and music, similar in format to existing NQ64 locations. via timeextension.com
Pokémon Enigmatic Emerald, a fan-made ROM hack based on Pokémon Emerald, has been updated to version 1.1. via reddit.com/r/PokemonROMhacks
Developer eldontyrell has released PsychoFox-Next, a free conversion of Sega's Master System platformer Psycho Fox for the ZX Spectrum Next. The port was made with AI-assisted code and graphics and uses joystick controls. via itch.io
New studio The Arena, led by former Lionsgate and Sony Pictures executive Erik Feig, is developing a film based on SNK's Samurai Shodown fighting game series. It joins previously announced Arena projects based on Fatal Fury, which has writer David S. Goyer attached, and Art of Fighting. via timeextension.com
Nintendo Switch Online's Game Boy library has expanded with two titles that are notoriously expensive to collect physically, each fetching around $199, alongside a classic pinball game. via retrododo.com
G-Mode and developer room6 have announced a Japanese release date for NEXT: THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE, a remake of Yuji Horii's 1983 detective adventure, coming to Nintendo Switch, Switch 2 and Steam with physical editions on the Nintendo platforms. The game was revealed during a Japanese Nintendo Direct, and no international release has been confirmed. via timeextension.com
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos is getting an official physical port for the Nintendo 64, a system the game never launched on originally. The news follows recent attention on the franchise after its Collector's Editions for Switch and PS5 finally began shipping. via retrododo.com
A free Commodore 64 text adventure called NEON//88 has been released, set in a cybercity and written in 100% 6502 machine code. It tracks identity, credit, body and pursuit status, offers context-sensitive choices, and features SID music, a classic boot screen and multiple endings that are recorded as players find them. via itch.io
Clear River Games has launched Cotton Reboot! and Cotton Reboot: High Tension! on PS5 and Nintendo Switch. Cotton Reboot!, developed by Beep Software, is a remake of the 1991 Sharp X68000 cute-'em-up Cotton, following witch-in-training Cotton as she aids space fairy Silk. Physical edition pre-orders are now available. via timeextension.com
Developer J5 has released Blind Spot, a free Commodore 64 puzzle game where players sneak through 15 rooms of Grey Holt castle visible only by a guard's lamplight. It supports one player alone or two players racing to grab the treasure first, and was made with AI-assisted code, graphics, sounds and text. via itch.io
Developer Dimitris Giannakis (MVG) has released SplatterHouse: A1200 Edition, a name-your-own-price port of Namco's PC Engine horror action game for AGA-equipped Amiga 1200 systems and CD32. The release is billed as a near 1-to-1 conversion with both USA and Japanese presentation options and a new ProTracker soundtrack. via itch.io
