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Today's featured post: 📖 007 First Light is shaken, not shipped as Switch 2 version slips to 2027 by Hanafuda Report hanafuda.report/articles/007-first-…
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007 First Light is shaken, not shipped as Switch 2 version slips to 2027
If there is one thing Bond fans should be used to by now, it’s delays. Yep, 007 First Light for the Nintendo Switch 2 has unfortunately been delayed yet again, and will now launch in March of 2027. The IO Interactive game first arrived on PC, Xbox and PS5 in May of this year, and the Switch 2…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 29/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 How Long It Takes To Develop A Video Game by SpriteCell spritecell.com/bp12-video-game-deve…
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How Long It Takes To Develop A Video Game
How Long Video Games Take To Make – About This Study Video games take longer to make than they used to, but if you ask how long that is you’ll get wildly varying answers. Many will point to how many years there are between releases in major franchises, but that’s not a good way to gauge development…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 28/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 [GGM] Linking My Past by In An Age inanage.com/2026/08/21/ggm-linking-…
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[GGM] Linking My Past
The transition into the 16-bit era represented a substantial leap not just in technology, but also in memories. So, let’s talk about heading into the SNES and what would become my comfort game: Zelda: A Link to the Past. My mother and I moved about an hour away from my father, so that she could…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 27/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 👹 Shiritai Yōkai Shōkai! The Confusing Otoroshi by Nice Gear Games Blog blog.nicegear.games/posts/2026-02-1…
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👹 Shiritai Yōkai Shōkai! The Confusing Otoroshi
Introducing the Otoroshi, or is that Osoroshi? Whatever it is, it's terrifying!
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 26/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Art Tickles - Seeking Comfort from the Apocalypse by TheThesaurusRex www.thethesaurusrex.com/art-tickles…
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Art Tickles - Seeking Comfort from the Apocalypse
Written for Haywire Magazine . Weather in The Zone of Exclusion doesn’t behave the same way it does everywhere else. Sometimes a furious energy storm sweeps through the sky, shaking the ground and spilling violent energy in all directions. Sometimes the sky flickers with distant thunderstorms,…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 25/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Gun Frontier by Tain's Game Log davidwilliams.xyz/gamelog/2025/gun-…
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Gun Frontier
Taito, Arcade, 1991 Landmark STG by the director that would immediately after work on [Metal Black](https://davidwilliams.xyz/gamelog/2024/metal-black/ "‌"). The setting here is a sci-fi spin on the wild west and all of the vehicles show an over-th…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 24/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Hades II feels like Purgatory by Obsidian Moonshine obsidianmoonshine.com/public/1-blog…
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Hades II feels like Purgatory
I've gladly purchased every game Supergiant has put out either on launch day or as close to it as I'm able. They make great games over there. One might say that Supergiant never misses. Hades II threatens to disabuse me of that notion. After completing both the main story and the epilogue, I stand…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 23/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Observing Digital Space Debris #32 - Beholding A One Million Degree Knife by Exalclaw exalclaw.com/carrying-a-one-million…
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Observing Digital Space Debris #32 - Beholding A One Million Degree Knife
It's hard to miss, him and that sun radiating from his pocket. Baggy and protruding, heavy and scalding, it's a street sight that makes every eye look down and wonder how scared should they be of the burden's bulge, the shadows under the knife's eyes. It's fear all the same — we've all been burned…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 22/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Reverse Engineering Crazy Taxi, Part 1 by wretched.computer wretched.computer/post/crazytaxi
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Reverse Engineering Crazy Taxi, Part 1
For some reason I put Crazy Taxi's levels into the browser and You Can Too
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 21/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Kiddy? by cyhwuhx.com cyhwuhx.com/blog/kiddy
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Kiddy?
During an archive clean-up earlier this year, I discovered a complete backup of all my older blog iterations. I've been and still am steadily integrating all of them into this version of the blog, so I've got posts running from 2001 all the way up to today. Kind of shocking and nostalgic to look…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 20/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 GAME CLEAR No. 300 -- Casual Birder by Nixon Computer nixon.computer/blog/gameclear/2026/…
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GAME CLEAR No. 300 -- Casual Birder
Casual Birder (2022, Playdate) Developer: Diego Garcia Publisher: Panic Clear Version: Playdate Clear Platform: Playdate Clear Date: 6/19/26 Why should I care? This debut title for the charming Playdate seems to lay out pretty well what the point of this device is (positive). Fowl shots Wow, 2022!…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 19/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Thrilling Machine: A Brief History of George Gomez by Noah's Barks noahsbarks.com/video-games/thrillin…
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Thrilling Machine: A Brief History of George Gomez
The post Thrilling Machine: A Brief History of George Gomez appeared first on Noah's Barks . Issue 52 of Old School Gamer Magazine allowed me the honor of interviewing industry legend George Gomez. The post Thrilling Machine: A Brief History of George Gomez appeared first on Noah's Barks .
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 18/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Psygnosis by Where Were They Now? whereweretheynow.blogspot.com/2026/…
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Psygnosis
Regular readers of this blog might have worked out the area of my cone of ignorance. I have a very sharp and narrow knowledge of eighties games and software houses which gets wider and hazier into the nineties and fades out almost entirely post-millennium. What company released Rockstar Ate My…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 17/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Highway by Hirvox.dev hirvox.dev/posts/highway
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Highway
My previous power cell issue has been resolved. The butane canister and the nutrient container I bought earlier were indeed in demand in the next system, and I was able to buy all of the power cells I needed. With the power cell issue sorted, I did a few back-and-forth jobs from Atlas Prime to the…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 16/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Best 25 of 2025 by Fungus Zone fungus.zone/posts/best-25-of-2025
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Best 25 of 2025
For this post, a donation was made to my friend Marcy’s GoFundMe to help cover living costs for the winter . She recently wrote about Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence here , and is writing longer posts about Princess Arete on her blog here (her site is a little sluggish, switch to reader view!), a…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 15/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Tales of Arise and the Hang Out JRPG by Small Gray Games smallgraygames.com/writing/tales-of…
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Tales of Arise and the Hang Out JRPG
An exploration of the party system in Tales of Arise and the impact of Hanging Out on the narrative.
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 14/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Mage Magazine – April 2026 – Issue #3 – Taito Arcade Classics by The Thirsty Mage thethirstymage.com/2026/04/15/mage-…
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Mage Magazine – April 2026 – Issue #3 – Taito Arcade Classics
MAGE MAGAZINE THE MAGAZINE TO DISCOVER SOMETHING NEW ISSUE #3 – APRIL 2026 Click on the Cover Above to Download Discover the Present and Past of Gaming: Mage Magazine Issue #3 is Now Available! From the team behind the long-running Thirsty Mage Podcast comes the Third issue of MAGE , a video game…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 13/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 New game review on the blog! by Painted Pixels paintedpixels.xyz/rssfeed.html#entr…
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New game review on the blog!
New review post on the blog! Europa for PC! Check it out on the blog page!
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 12/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 One Hundred Tales of Solidarity by Rascal News www.rascal.news/one-hundred-tales-o…
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One Hundred Tales of Solidarity
Content warning: mention of threats of suicide In 2019, a very special campaign of Band of Blades took place at Phoenix Community College in Ballarat, Australia. Normally, the game is played with about four players. This campaign had somewhere between 30 to 60. Phoenix is far from a fancy school.…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 11/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Soul Blazer: all things bright and beautiful by MoeGamer moegamer.net/2026/07/14/soul-blazer…
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Soul Blazer: all things bright and beautiful
I’m not a religious man, but I do have some enduring memories of my time attending a Church of England primary school. One of those was, presumably as part of our government-mandated Daily Collective Act of Worship , hearing stories of what God, Jesus and friends had been getting up to in Olden…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 10/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Fin or Bin: Devil May Cry 3 by BB's Backlog Challenge bblc.beebs.xyz/post/817430607655321…
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Fin or Bin: Devil May Cry 3
Fin or Bin: Devil May Cry 3 ALT Good news! The operation to restore our boy Dante’s personality after he lost 90% of it in a tragic sequelisation incident was a complete success, and he even gained a little extra. DMC3’s Dante is the cocksure bell-end we all love and cherish, and he absolutely…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 09/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Making a Game for My Friends by Equip Story www.equipstory.com/making-a-game-fo…
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Making a Game for My Friends
Most games are designed for thousands or millions of players. I decided to make my next game for a target player base of four humans: my wife, our friends Frank and Becky, and Becky’s sister Carol Ann. I thought the game would take a month or two to develop, even around the busyness of a full-time…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 08/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Sony Removes 15 Countries from Marvel Tokon PC Restricted List by Special Cancel specialcancel.com/sony-removes-15-c…
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Sony Removes 15 Countries from Marvel Tokon PC Restricted List
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Sony Interactive Entertainment has made Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls available for purchase in some previously restricted countries. Recently, this site reported on the PC version of the game being region-locked in 130 or so countries due to Sony’s PSN limitations…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 07/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Do Not Buy The War Crime Games by Dialed Indie dialedindie.net/p/do-not-buy-the-wa…
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Do Not Buy The War Crime Games
Satya Nadella is an evil fucking worm and dipshit beneficiary of government contracts. He’s the Azure jackass with a tall ass melon who runs an AI company called Microsoft. I could continue to talk about the general ways I dislike him on a personal level, but I’ll instead focus on a specific one:…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 06/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Editing GDScript by Skelly Devlog skelly.taffer.ca/devlog/2026/editin…
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Editing GDScript
#Godot
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 05/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Cross-Play Chronicles by Pixels and Polygons pixelsandpolygons.beehiiv.com/p/cro…
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Cross-Play Chronicles
I’ve been digging into the PlayStation 2 recently, coincidentally, for a few projects. I was working on a new episode of Millennium Edition about Final Fantasy XI and its unique history as one of the earliest cross-platform games, and that got me thinking. What are some other early cross-platform…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 04/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Update 8/31/2026 by Mcoorlim dot com mcoorlim.com/update-8-31-2026/?utm_…
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Update 8/31/2026
What I've been up to: Tutorials, Torches, and Shadowgate. The post Update 8/31/2026 appeared first on Michael Coorlim .
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 03/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 What's New by West Mansion: The Splatterhouse Homepage splatterhouse.kontek.net/new.html
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What's New
The latest news from the house that West built
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 02/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 The Hammer’s Edge: How the Division Trains Players in Authoritarian Logic by Critical Reflection www.criticalreflection.no/the-hamme…
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The Hammer’s Edge: How the Division Trains Players in Authoritarian Logic
The Division disguises authoritarian conditioning as tactical gameplay. Through mechanical complexity and dopamine-driven progression, it trains players to see state violence as skillful, necessary, and rewarding —while foreclosing moral alternatives and rendering community resilience invisible.…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 01/09/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 rpg-o-mania news for 2019-06-21 21:12:04 by rpg-o-mania www.rpg-o-mania.com/newsarchive.php…
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rpg-o-mania news for 2019-06-21 21:12:04
Recently, I checked out some of my sites using the wayback machine of archive.org. And after trying out some URLs, I was really able to find the old reviews that were online on this site (which was calles RPG WorldWide back then) in 2001! I thought that I had lost them in a hard disk crash in late…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 31/08/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Croc: Legend of the Gobbos by Sega-16 www.sega-16.com/2026/07/croc-legend…
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Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
Argonaut Software's attempt at a 3D platformer on the Saturn is original enough to remain fun, despite suffering all the growing pains the genre endured during the 32-bit era. A finicky camera and tank controls are likely to turn some players away, but there's enough quality here to occupy an…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 30/08/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 drifting without friction by Terminal Levy terminallevy.net/entries/drifting-w…
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drifting without friction
SIREN (Sony Computer Entertainment, 2003) NEO: The World Ends With You (Square Enix, h.a.n.d., 2021) Umamusume: Pretty Derby (Cygames, 2021) Friction and polish Ideally, I'd like to go a little less than four-ish weeks between updates here, but so it goes. In reality, the thing that's been blocking…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 29/08/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 PPR 49 by Press Pause Radio www.presspauseradio.com/presspauser…
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PPR 49
T he newest episode of Press Pause Radio has landed on Earth, like Kal-El when he was rocketed from Krypton. And like Superman's alter ego, Clark Kent, this episode is going to be extremely nerdy. This week, we are discussing the flawed past and hopeful future of Superhero video games. The crew…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 28/08/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 The lost Mirror's Edge sequel by Design Room www.designroom.site/mirrors-edge-lo…
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The lost Mirror's Edge sequel
I n 2016, DICE released Mirror’s Edge Catalyst , an open-world sequel to its innovative 2008 first-person action game. Faith returned as the protagonist; the magnificent glass city framed by cerulean blue skies returned as the parkour playground. But while the game was developed by the same studio,…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 27/08/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Vectorman 2 - Sequels for Nobody and 32Xes for Free by herzogzwei herzogzwei.neocities.org/reviews/ve…
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Vectorman 2 - Sequels for Nobody and 32Xes for Free
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 26/08/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Animating a Dice Roll by g.roll blog groll.dev/blog/animating_dice
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Animating a Dice Roll
intro & goals inspirations the plan creating the spritesheet programming the movement [1 of 2] programming the movement [2 of 2] the final result conclusion My current project, , is a dice game; so it's very important to me to create a dice roll animation that feels Isle Anamalo right!…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 25/08/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Cleared Hot’s Disappointing AI Slop by Nuclear Monster nuclearmonster.com/2026/08/cleared-…
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Cleared Hot’s Disappointing AI Slop
Desert Strike and its sequels were some of my favorite series of games to play as a kid. Zooming over a landscape in a helicopter with objectives you could complete in any order. Most of them were just blowing things up but some had you winching up people to try and get them to a battlefield drop…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 23/08/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 The Wolf Among Us And Godzilla Are Both Getting The Remasters They Deserve by Remastered www.remastered.blog/the-wolf-among-…
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The Wolf Among Us And Godzilla Are Both Getting The Remasters They Deserve
Welcome back to Remastered! This week, the newsletter finally lives up to its namesake by covering two remasters as the featured story. Thanks for supporting Remastered through this busier, Summer Game Fest-fueled period. If you’ve enjoyed everything I’ve written, then please consider subscribing…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 22/08/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Xbox 360 was the first modern console by Ravi 64 ravi64.com/xbox-360-first-modern-co…
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Xbox 360 was the first modern console
The funny thing about the Xbox 360 is that it actually lost. I know the idea of winners and losers in the Great Console Wars ™ are a bit childish. But it feels surprising that, between the Wii , PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, it’s Microsoft’s console that sold the fewest of that trio. It even had a…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 21/08/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 2026-07-01-updates by Megadrive Aftermarket md.jmus.fr/2026-07-01-updates.html
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2026-07-01-updates
2026-07-01-updates 1.Added Streets of Rage 2 Captain Commando The Ooze Redux MD Port Swap - Utility ISS Deluxe for Mega Drive with Real Names [AI] Flicki's Escape Tower Tic Tac Toe Panda Jump Preorders opened for a very rare game Sonic the Hedgehog (35th Anniversary) - Legacy Cartridge Collection…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 20/08/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Dr. Sulfur’s Night Lab by The Obscuritory obscuritory.com/educational/dr-sulf…
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Dr. Sulfur’s Night Lab
Box art for Dr. Sulfur’s Night Lab, courtesy of Stuart Feldhamer via MobyGames . Science is a tough subject for an educational game. Looking at a sample of edutainment games from the 80s and 90s, I’m willing to say that a large portion of them are about math, maybe because math is easier to…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 19/08/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Planet Crafter – Wrecks and Portals and Over Abundance by The Ancient Gaming Noob tagn.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/plane…
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Planet Crafter – Wrecks and Portals and Over Abundance
We have blown through the age of abundance in Planet Crafter and have reached a point of over abundance. We have too much stuff. Certainly A Planet Crafter I know, I know, inventory management in games like this often makes you feel like you have too much stuff. And we have spent most of our time…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 18/08/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #453 by Virtual Bastion virtualbastion.com/2026/08/14/youtu…
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YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #453
Up this week: Kingdom Hearts 3 – let’s go boss battling in this latest addition to the Kingdom Hearts lineup! Connect: wegameunited@gmail.com Watch: YouTube ~ Video Bastion Shop: Spreadshirt Kingdom Hearts 3
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 17/08/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Happy 4th Birthday Chronicles! by The Ebonheim Chronicle blog.brianna.town/happy-4th-birthda…
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Happy 4th Birthday Chronicles!
Yesterday was the 4th anniversary of the 1st commit of the 4th codebase trying to create Chronicles IV. As is tradition , here's a blog post! Couple of Updates Warp Point This blog is now a part of Warp Point ! Wes Fenlon & Matt Sayer have developed a new blog directory collecting gaming-related…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 16/08/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 i would like to see good dev commentary in more things by joe wintergreen internet zone www.joewintergreen.com/i-would-like…
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i would like to see good dev commentary in more things
the dev commentary in valve games is so interesting and useful and educative, but their games come out somewhat rarely and most of the others that i’ve seen do commentary have done it badly it’s usually either self-serving pr-type junk or just sort of rambly nothing. what’s the missing ingredient…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 15/08/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 A train skating game and a very cozy grove: July 15-21 new games and headlines by Autofill www.autofill.news/p/autofill-newsle…
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A train skating game and a very cozy grove: July 15-21 new games and headlines
The wishlist is growing Hey readers, There’s some chatter going around about an upcoming “friendslop” game (i.e.: a silly multiplayer game with proximity chat and low graphical specs with lots of hijinx, like Peak). This one is called Dear Passengers, which has you and your friends act as crew…
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Drew Mackie @drewgmackie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A quick post for a Friday, featuring the best theory for the origin of Ganon's name that I've come across so far — with surprise appearances by Kamen Rider, Kate Winslet and Dolph Lundgren. www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/ganon-n...
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Ganon’s Mysterious Origins (Revisited) — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games
Kamen Rider might help explain where the Zelda big bad gets his name.
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 14/08/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 Big Walk is really good by Laura Michet's Blog blog.lauramichet.com/big-walk-is-re…
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Big Walk is really good
I've played several hours of Big Walk by now. It's a multiplayer puzzle game where you look like this: And solve puzzles in buildings that look like this: In a much more "realistic" forest environment that looks like this: That contrast between the game's bright and toylike tools, structures, and…
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 13/08/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 OPUS: Prism Peak Review – A Haunting Story About Regret and Moving Forward by Indiecator indiecator.org/2026/05/16/opus-pris…
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OPUS: Prism Peak Review – A Haunting Story About Regret and Moving Forward
SIGONO is at it again, making me laugh, cry, and utterly shattering the already high expectations I have of them with their latest release into the OPUS series.
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Warp Point @warppoint.games · 12/08/2026
Today's featured post: 📖 What's the Deal With Video Game Remakes Anyway? by Seer talks about games seerofthe.net/whats-the-deal-with-v…
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What's the Deal With Video Game Remakes Anyway?
I really like it when video game companies re-release their old games. Did you know that you can buy and play the original 1984 Hydlide for PC-88 on PC 1 and Switch? I think that's neat. Outside of Japan, we really only know Hydlide as that odd 1989 game on the NES that plays a knockoff of the…
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