Retro Song Bird is a new device that plays music and sound effects directly from Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges when one is plugged in. It supports over 1,900 cartridges and offers simple controls to skip tracks and adjust volume. via timeextension.com
Queen's Domain, a retro-fantasy adventure inspired by FromSoftware's King's Field series, will release on October 30 for PC and consoles. Developed by Irish studio Freshly Baked Games, it follows a shipwrecked adventurer exploring the mythic isle of Neasied and its hostile inhabitants. via timeextension.com
RetroAchievements, the achievement-tracking system popular with emulator users, can now be used on genuine PlayStation 2 consoles rather than only through emulation. This lets players earn and track achievements while playing PS2 games on original hardware. via retrododo.com
Pokémon GS Vitro is a newly revealed fan game that remakes Pokémon Crystal using a visual style inspired by the Nintendo DS Pokémon titles, including an open world approach. It is part of the ongoing wave of ambitious Pokémon fan projects and ROM hacks. via retrododo.com
Modders are overhauling the online play of Capcom's Ultra Street Fighter IV on Steam, adding rollback netcode and revamped lobbies. Two competing projects, SF4Enhanced by Faabi and SFEmbers by Kabiefox, are both nearing completion. via timeextension.com
Pokémon Axón is a fan-made ROM hack that places its original story in a setting based on ancient Russia. It adds to the continuing surge of ambitious Pokémon ROM hacking projects from the fan community. via retrododo.com
Byteproduct has announced Sturmjäger, a new horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up drawing on classic genre conventions with a futuristic visual style. The game features 10 stages taking players from deep space to underwater environments, and is planned for release on PC and consoles in early 2027. via timeextension.com
A developer has released a free port of Fruity Frank for the Commodore 64, working from the original Amstrad CPC disk image. The project used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 AI model to write a CPC simulator and decompiler, converting the original Z80 code rather than emulating it or rewriting it from memory. via itch.io
A fan project has brought Halo: Combat Evolved to the Nintendo 3DS as a homebrew port, with a separate browser-playable version also made available. The projects let players experience Bungie's original Xbox shooter on hardware and platforms it was never officially released for. via retrododo.com
Developer acidbottle has released an alpha version of a fan-made Amiga port of Williams' classic arcade shooter Defender, available for free or a chosen price on itch.io. The current build requires an 020 processor and AGA chipset with fast RAM, with OCS/ECS support being considered for the future. via itch.io
ModRetro has revealed a partnership with OpenAI intended to help users make their own AI-generated retro games. The announcement comes alongside continued reveals of ModRetro's new plastic Chromatic handheld colourways. via retrododo.com
A developer known as Foxman is working on an enhancement mod for Westwood Studios' 1992 real-time strategy classic Dune II on Commodore Amiga. Rather than remaking the game or porting it to a new engine, the project works directly with the original Amiga executable to preserve its native visual presentation and core gameplay. via indieretronews.com
