Raster Wizards have released Hyper Runner, a sci-fi racing game for AGA Amigas, priced at just under 9 euros. Players choose from five vehicles and 12 drivers affecting speed, acceleration, handling and durability, and progress through five stages with branching route choices and a rechargeable speed booster. via amiga-news.de
Jari-Matti Rally, a car racing/reaction game for Amiga by developer lifeschool22, has been updated to version 1.03d. The update overhauls several parts of the game, which was first reported as an early prototype in January 2024 and is now said to feel finished. via amiga-news.de
Hamster Corporation has revealed that Taito's 1987 horizontal shoot 'em up Exzisus will join the Arcade Archives series on November 5, releasing for PlayStation, Xbox Series and Nintendo Switch. The game casts players as a mech pilot able to transform between a humanoid and ship form. via timeextension.com
A fan developer known as bendk97 has released an unofficial, work-in-progress port of Discovery Software's 1989 Amiga action game Sword of Sodan for the Neo Geo. Built with ngdevkit, it is distributed free as a name-your-own-price download in MAME, darksoft and NeoSD formats, and has not yet been tested on real MVS/AES hardware. via itch.io
Sega has unveiled Sonic Racing CrossWorlds Arcade DX, an arcade cabinet adaptation of its recent Sonic kart racer. The announcement came via a dedicated livestream, following closely on the heels of Sega's earlier arcade news about the return of House of the Dead. via arcadeheroes.com
Developer thealfest has released a beta port of their Saboteur 2 mod, originally made for the ZX Spectrum, to the Vector 06C computer. The name-your-own-price release is based on Clive Townsend's original game and includes bug fixes, performance tweaks, adjustable game speed, double buffering, visual elements from a 2019 remake, and new sound. via itch.io
Developer roman126 has released Next on Tap, a free action game for the ZX Spectrum Next inspired by the arcade classic Tapper. The game's code, graphics, sounds and text were produced with AI assistance. via itch.io
Developer ShinobiZ has ported Sega's 1986 arcade platformer Wonder Boy to both the Commodore Amiga and Sega Mega Drive, built as a native 68000 assembly rewrite derived from the original Sega System 1 arcade code with AI assistance. Players control Tom-Tom across eight areas and 32 rounds to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend. via indieretronews.com
AtariAge has added ten new homebrew games to its store to coincide with the 2026 Portland Retro Gaming Expo. The batch includes six Atari 2600 games, two 7800 games, one Jaguar game and one ColecoVision title, each sold as complete boxed cartridges with manuals, and some including posters. via atariage.com
Developer Tokkata007 has released Spyro: Co-Op, a mod for the original PS1 Spyro the Dragon that adds two-player split-screen gameplay with independent cameras. Based on the earlier Spyro 2x2 mod, it supports horizontal or vertical split screen and lets players customize their dragon's colour to tell themselves apart. via psxhomebrewgames.com
Hamster has added Sunsoft's Ripple Island, a 1988 Famicom picture-book adventure, to its Console Archives series. The game follows adventurer Kyle on an icon-driven quest to rescue Princess Nasarell from a castle, and had previously only been available in Japan. via timeextension.com
Amigos Retro Gaming has released Lotus Turbo Challenge II DX, an updated version of the 1991 Magnetic Fields racing game for Amiga. The v13 release fixes a long-standing issue so that music and sound effects can now play simultaneously, and requires at least 1 MB of Chip RAM. via indieretronews.com
