This is our first Playback for 2025. We will cover some entries from December as well. We had stuff to do, folks!

Game News

How should we cover general gaming news anymore? That is the question we’ve been asking ourselves these days. We don’t want to solely be a source of biting commentary on the sad state of the games industry or report on nonsensical fads and funny money from WallStreet making us ANGRY!!! - either. That said, here’s some interesting stuff we bothered to note that we feel like highlighting.

Grand Theft Auto 3 - Dreamcast

Rockstar Games graced us with Grand Theft Auto 2 on the Dreamcast, and that kept us entertained for… checks watch …a while. Now we get a taste of what the sequel is like on SEGA’s latest home console.

Great conversion! Nothing more needs to be said, but we’re not the only ones who think so! People are all over it!

EARTH INVASION ’99

A new free game was released by Shp and Nacchan titled Earth Invasion 99, which is comparable to the Earth Defense Force series of games. It is powered by FTEQW, which puts a smile on everyones face.

Unvanquished 0.55.2 Released

In time for Christmas, we were graced with a new release of Unvanquished 0.55. Thanks to Sweet, bots can now fly jetpacks.

Fortress Forever v3.0.0-alpha4

Check out the updated Source 2013 branch of Fortress Forever, featuring the awesome viewmodel animation overhaul by Raptor Dan!

Help them squash bugs or feed them suggestions by reporting issues on their GitHub

Household Death Updated

You heard that right: Classic Half-Life multiplayer mod ‘Household Death’ got an update out of nowhere.

Half-Life - Dreamcast

No, we haven’t suddenly become a Dreamcast site, although that is very tempting at this point - there are actually fascinating new bits of information that have come to light regarding Half-Life’s development on the Dreamcast. Those extend to the development of Blue Shift, which was of course also released on PC. See! Managed to get that in.

3DO Interactive Core In Development

Totally unexpected, there is a new core for the MiSTer platform in development for a console that gets Marco all excited: The 3DO Interactive Multiplayer. A video of the core in action can be seen on YouTube: srg320 - 3DO FPGA WIP

ScummVM 2.9.0 Released

New games supported! 15 in fact! Check it:

• The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schweik
• Backyard Basketball
• Castle Master
• Marvellous Mice Adventures: Meeting Sea Rat
• Marvellous Mice Adventures: Sea Rat’s Birthday
• Mask Show
• Moonbase Commander
• Orion Burger
• Rise of the Dragon
• The Space Bar
• Thimbleweed Park
• Total Eclipse
• Total Eclipse 2
• Unrest
• Wait for it! Issue 3. Song for a Hare

You can read the full release announcement of ScummVM 2.9.0 for more information.

Over & out

Let us know if we forgot something. We’re out for now.