Developer Revive8Bit has released Let's Go for Vrouves, a name-your-own-price tower defense style game for the Commodore 64. The game is set in a Cretan village resisting corporate forces trying to destroy the local wild greens, and was made with AI-assisted code, graphics, sounds and text, with English and Greek manuals included. via itch.io
Developer Technician Ted has released Zombies Ate My C64, a name-your-own-price Commodore 64 top-down action adventure with a Halloween theme. It spans ten levels of monster-filled neighbourhoods and draws inspiration from the SNES game Zombies Ate My Neighbors, with AI-assisted code and graphics. via itch.io
Developer Frogotten Games has released Farmer Jack's Pumpkin Smash, a name-your-own-price Commodore 64 shooter with a Halloween theme. Players control Farmer Jack as he fights through four levels of possessed pumpkins, with three selectable difficulty settings. The game was made with AI-assisted code. via itch.io
Developer ready64 has released NEON//88 part 2, a free Commodore 64 platformer adventure set in a cybercity. It is a different game from the earlier NEON//88 text adventure, offering platforming action in the same setting. via itch.io
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
