Developer Ozak has released Alien Fury, a name-your-own-price arcade space shooter for the Commodore 64. Players fight a hopeless battle against an invading alien race, with the game growing progressively harder the longer it is played. via itch.io
Developer Absent42 has released Adventures in Videoland for the ZX Spectrum Next, a free text-based interactive fiction conversion based on the first ever laserdisc video game. The release is a text adventure playable with a keyboard, with an average session lasting about half an hour. via itch.io
Konstantinos Patronas has released Volt's Circuit Lab, a Commodore 64 puzzle game about digital logic. Players wire switches, gates and chips on a breadboard and test the results, progressing from a simple battery-and-lamp circuit up to building a small CPU, with a character named Volt explaining each new concept. The game is sold as a cartridge for 4.99 euros. via itch.io
Pokémon Mirror Gold is a difficulty hack of HeartGold built on the hg-engine, converting all trainer battles into double battles with smarter custom AI. It also features a fully rebalanced roster spanning Generations 1 through 9, aiming to make every Pokémon viable in the Johto adventure. via pokecommunity.com
Developer zooperdan has released a free, name-your-own-price Wordle clone for the Amiga as a tribute for a Twitch streamer's 50th birthday. Players guess words and earn points that can be spent on hints, undos or solving the word, with the game using AI-assisted graphics. via itch.io
Sega-16 has reviewed Dracula's Castle, a Japanese aftermarket release for the Sega Game Gear. The single-screen action/maze game spans 32 stages that grow progressively harder, though it lacks a password save feature, and can be enjoyed without knowledge of Japanese. via sega-16.com
Developer cbragatto has released a free Atari ST port of Stop the Express, originally a ZX Spectrum action game. The port was built with AI-assisted code. via itch.io
Developer Dictatorgame has released Dictator Simulator, a free text-based strategy and simulation game styled after the Commodore 64. Built for HTML5, it casts players as a dictator trying to stay in power, and the game's graphics were made with AI assistance. via itch.io
Daily Red is a fan-made Pokémon ROM hack built around a single recurring challenge: beating the champion Red every day. Each attempt uses a randomly generated team, so players face a different fight each time they take it on. via retrododo.com
MJB Software has ported Phil Searching for Mort, the 1988 isometric adventure originally created by graphic artist Alfonso Fernández for the ZX Spectrum, to the ZX Spectrum Next. The game is based on Francisco Ibáñez's Mortadelo y Filemón comic characters and aims to faithfully recreate the original title. via indieretronews.com
A new free-to-play browser game reimagines Pokémon characters as American football players, letting creatures such as Nidoking and Gengar face off on the field. The project blends the sports genre with Pokémon's roster of monsters. via retrododo.com
A new port of Dune II has been released for the ZX Evolution, a modern Spectrum-compatible system, adapting the Mega Drive version of the game in native Z80 code. The release includes all 27 missions along with music, sound effects and the game's strategic systems, and runs on real hardware. via console-classics.com
