Games

games 1 sources · Oct 12

Kotori Yoshimura Traces Star Cruiser Back To Sasebo Microcomputer Days

The account puts the making of Star Cruiser, a 1988 polygon space title, in the hands of a programmer whose start came from a public microcomputer center, which is the paper trail the Game Preservation Society's interview series is built to record.

Game Spark
games 2 sources · Oct 12

F-ZERO GX Hidden Command Unlocks F-ZERO AX Content

The F-ZERO AX content has sat behind arcade hardware and memory card linking for 23 years, so a portable command that works on the current Nintendo Classics release turns a dead unlock path into something anyone with four controllers can attempt.

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gamesreview 1 sources · Oct 12

Fire Emblem's New Switch Entry Divides Critics And Players Alike

The review argues the split comes from the game's structure itself: it leans closer to strategy and CRPG habits than to the series' usual tactical rhythm, which the review suggests overseas players may find more familiar than domestic ones.

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gamesrelease 1 sources · Oct 12

Tekken 8 Reveals Roger Jr. Early Access Date For November 11

Roger Jr. reaches players a month after Bob's August release, so the Season 3 cadence holds, but the trailer spends its last beat on a character not due until early 2027, which makes the January 17 Tekken World Tour Finals trailer the next real checkpoint for the season.

Anime News Network
gamesrelease 1 sources · Oct 12

Silver Pines Hits Very Positive On Steam With 94 Percent Of Reviews

A small studio's resource-management take on the Metroidvania format has landed a 94 percent positive Steam rating across more than 900 reviews at launch, which is the reception Team17 would have wanted before deciding how far to push the game beyond PC.

Automaton
gamesannouncement 1 sources · Oct 12

Astro Shaft Announces Angel Mall Mystery ADV For Steam In 2027

Astro Shaft is positioning Angel Mall on a timed exploration loop rather than a pure scripted story, which puts the doujin circle in the same design space as recent cooperative and puzzle-focused mystery games on Steam.

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gamesreview 1 sources · Oct 12

Townfall Carries Silent Hill Series Traditions, Game Spark Feature Notes

Townfall moves the series into first-person exploration and a new tool in the CRTV, while keeping the fog, creature design, and psychological themes that define Silent Hill, so the game tests a new direction without dropping the series' established markers.

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games 1 sources · Oct 12

Arc Raiders Hits 185,443 Concurrent Steam Players After Frozen Trail

The surge shows that Embark's shift to two large updates per year can pull players back to a title that had settled around 30,000 concurrent Steam players, though the free play period ending on the 13th leaves the durability of that return unresolved.

Automaton
gamesrelease 2 sources · Oct 12

Yuji Horii Releases Short AI-Made Adventure Game Komiya in the Interrogation Room

Horii, the creator behind The Portopia Serial Murder Case and Dragon Quest, used the same suspect name from Portopia in a game he says he built in about 30 minutes by directing AI, which puts a veteran adventure game designer's own workflow behind the claim that instruction alone can yield a playable game.

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games 1 sources · Oct 12

Project SEKAI Adds Abaraya Song Hoshi, Tokidoki Hikari

Sega and Colorful Palette are running the song drop, the Leo/need event, and the gacha on the same day, so the October 12 update concentrates new content for one unit into a single window.

4Gamer.net
gamesrelease 1 sources · Oct 12

CherryPicker Releases New Repair Animation For D1AL-ogue+

Two years into a documented funding crunch, CherryPicker is trickling out the sequel's repair animations one android at a time, turning the game's erotic-mechanical gimmick into a drip-feed of development proof while the title stays unfinished.

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games 1 sources · Oct 12

Bunnyhop's Brick Buddies Builds Block Toys For Four Players On PC

The pitch leans on the physical ritual of a parts bag and a workbench rather than combat or scoring, so the multiplayer appeal rests on whether assembling and decorating a shared creation holds four players' attention.

Denfaminicogamer
gamesannouncement 2 sources · Oct 12

One Bucket Studio Announces Fill The Sea For PC

The premise turns the genre's usual exponential curve into a literal restoration project: every automation tier is a step from a bucket back toward a sea, which gives the idle loop a visible end state rather than an abstract number.

Automaton
gamesannouncement 1 sources · Oct 12

352 Interactive Announces SCREW IT!, An 8-Player Steam Party Game

The bidding mechanic turns the usual trivia loss into a public bluff, and the announced Japanese interface and subtitles signal the studio is aiming the Steam release at a Japanese audience from the start.

Denfaminicogamer
gamesannouncement 1 sources · Oct 12

Gley Lancer: Overdrive Hands-On Details Remake For Neo Geo

A playable TGS 2026 build puts the Neo Geo remake past the announcement stage, and the report's focus on redrawn animation and the new Overdrive system says the project is being judged on how it reworks the 1992 original's feel rather than on emulation.

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games 2 sources · Oct 12

Steam Sets Concurrent-User Record At About 43.5 Million

The record arrives about half a year after the March peak, and the games carrying it are a mix of long-running staples and new releases like AION 2 and WARDOGS rather than one title alone.

Denfaminicogamer