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Dusklight the reimplementation of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess gets a major update

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Dusklight (originally called Dusk) is an open source reimplementation of the classic Nintendo game The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

Classic strategy games Empire Earth 1, 2 & 3 arrive on Steam

By Liam Squires-Hand,
While they were already on GOG, the Empire Earth games have now arrived fully on Steam so you can jump into this classic RTS series.
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Retro fantasy slashers Witchaven and Witchaven II: Blood Vengeance get delisted in June

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Publisher SNEG have announced that the classics Witchaven and Witchaven II: Blood Vengeance will be vanishing from stores on June 15th.

Square Enix rolling out Steam Cloud support to various classics

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Square Enix are going back over some of their older titles to see what small improvements they can make - like hooking up Steam Cloud support.

Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.16 is out now

By fheroes2,
After a month of development, we are happy to release a new version of the fheroes2 engine for Heroes of Might and Magic II.

Previously console-exclusive, Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Cursed Sands is finally on PC

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Cursed Sands is a prologue to Return to Castle Wolfenstein, previously exclusive to consoles and now available on PC.

Dusk is a reverse-engineered reimplementation of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess comes to PC thanks to a new open source reverse-engineered reimplementation called Dusk.

Atari acquires the rights to the classic Legendary Wizardry RPGs 1-5

By Liam Squires-Hand, [updated]
Atari are continuing their gradual acquiring spree, as they just announced they've sucked up the the rights to multiple classic Legendary Wizardry RPGs.

GOG bring Polish history to the Preservation Program along with a big sale

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The GOG Preservation Program has expanded with some historical polish games, along with a Polish themed sale and one of the games has me really excited.

Retro strategy games Krush Kill 'N Destroy 1 & 2 to get major updates with online play

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Krush Kill 'N Destroy (KKnD) and the sequel Krush Kill 'N Destroy 2: Krossfire, two classic strategy games from the 90s are getting some major upgrades in June.

More retro goodies - Microsoft open sources 86-DOS and PC-DOS

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Following on from officially open sourcing MS-DOS 4.0 back in 2024, Microsoft have announced more early DOS code has been made available.

The popular ZSNES emulator returns as SUPER ZSNES with enhanced features

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Two original developers of the Nintendo emulator ZSNES have returned with a new project, SUPER ZSNES - a fitting name don't you think?

Classic 90s platformer Moon Child gets the source code released and a modern port

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Moon Child has a bit of a colourful history starting off as an Amiga game that never released, and eventually saw a limited PC release but it has returned.

The classic Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri from 1996 has a surprise update from Nightdive Studios

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri originally released back in 1996 has received a surprise update from Nightdive Studios to add a few upgrades.

Classic survival horror Alone in the Dark gets a cross-platform reimplementation with enhancements

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The original Alone in the Dark survival horror series has a fresh cross-platform game engine reimplementation, with lots of enhancements.

Nintendo 64 emulator Gopher64 adds RetroAchievements support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
If emulation is your thing - check out the Gopher64 emulator for the Nintendo 64, as a major new release of the open source project has arrived.

TRX the open source re-implementation of Tomb Raider is making progress on Tomb Raider 3

By Liam Squires-Hand,
With the classic Tomb Raider 1 and Tomb Raider 2 fully playable with the open source re-implementation TRX, the team makes impressive progress with the third.

Various Warhammer Classics arrive on Steam along with some returning upgraded games

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Games Workshop announced that a bunch of Warhammer Classics have arrived on Steam. Some brand new to Steam, others returning with some upgrades.

D7VK version 1.7 brings even more retro Direct3D gaming to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
D7VK is a Vulkan-based translation layer for D7VK 3, 5, 6, 7 to run with Wine / Proton on Linux and version 1.7 further improves running retro games.

OpenGOAL project adds the Naughty Dog classic Jak 3

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The much loved Jak series continues getting modern enhancements from the OpenGOAL project, which recently added Jak 3 to the collection.
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