October 24th free games roundup
Six indie games and a seven-game bundle are free to claim and play across itch.io, GitHub, and web portals today, including a retro stealth fighter sim and a one-hour fantasy RPG.
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Humble Bundle's $25 sci-fi pack includes Marathon and Xenonauts 2
Humble's 15th Anniversary Sci-Fi Exposure Bundle packages eight PC games, including the Crysis Remastered trilogy and RoboCop: Rogue City, for $25.
The Sega Saturn port of the original NES Final Fantasy is finished
Veteran modder TrekkiesUnite118 has released version 1.0.0 of his native Sega Saturn port of the 1987 NES Final Fantasy, complete with optional bug fixes.
Shigeru Miyamoto is the first game creator to get Japan's Order of Culture
Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto is the first person from the video game industry to receive Japan's Order of Culture, with the ceremony set for November 3. I'm not Japanese and I am just learning about this honor. I really hope I do it justice.
Studio 64 lets you build Super Mario 64 ROM hacks in a browser
Developer mochi64 has released Studio 64, a free browser-based editor that lets you build Super Mario 64 ROM hacks by hand or with AI text prompts.
Running HBMAME and regular MAME on macOS through RetroArch
Mac users can now run the HBMAME arcade homebrew fork and mainline MAME side by side inside RetroArch on Apple Silicon.
Suda51's PS1 horror game Moonlight Syndrome now has an English patch
Nearly 30 years after its 1997 Japanese PlayStation release, Goichi Suda's psychological horror game Moonlight Syndrome is playable in English.