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343 points by theanonymousone | 153 comments
Product page for a 1:1 scale Minecraft Java map of Switzerland built from swisstopo open geodata, with a free Jungfrau-Aletsch area and paid full-country download.
144 points by bpierre | 81 comments
A post-mortem of porting the F-Zero X decompilation (G-Diffuser) to Old and New Nintendo 3DS with a native renderer and 64DD Expansion Kit, built largely by Claude agents.
4 points by imfinn | 0 comments
A Twitch live stream of Pip, a simulated virtual fruit fly in a terrarium that chat viewers can interact with via commands like !treat and !toy.
52 points by adunk | 8 comments
Official page for Sabre Wulf Remastered, a Genesis Project remake of Ultimate's 1984 jungle maze game for the Commodore 64, with downloads, screenshots and guides.
200 points by tosh | 70 comments
GitHub repository for fheroes2, an open-source GPL-2.0 C++ recreation of the Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine.
74 points by xoxxala | 93 comments
News article reporting that Microsoft declined a $500 million, seven-year Netflix offer to adapt Xbox game franchises into shows and films.
38 points by hmm37 | 21 comments
GitHub repository for a TypeScript/WebGL2 remaster of the 1994 robot fighting game One Must Fall 2097, with HD art, mods, LAN play and desktop/browser builds.
89 points by motionlessveloc | 40 comments
A technical write-up reverse-engineering Block Blast's server-delivered traits, showing a rule that forces an unplaceable piece set when a high-value rewarded ad is ready.
59 points by ibobev | 18 comments
A blog post examining cut and disabled rendering features in Sonic 06, such as shader variants, shadow maps, point lights and reflections, found while building Marathon Recompiled.
219 points by maxilevi | 41 comments
GitHub repository for Project Hedra, a low-poly procedurally generated 3D open-world RPG and custom C#/OpenGL engine written by its author starting in high school.
11 points by suejunghuh0 | 2 comments
Camille World play page, a web app for building 3D worlds on a phone and exploring them in XR on Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest; only a logo splash loaded.
64 points by mimasama | 39 comments
ReC98 blog post detailing splitting Shuusou Gyoku's game logic into a library and a replay validation CLI, ending with the developer's retirement announcement.
55 points by surprisetalk | 19 comments
A blog post reminiscing about the memory card save file screens of sixth-generation consoles like the Dreamcast, GameCube, PS2, and original Xbox.
79 points by rex64 | 23 comments
Blog post explaining how the original SimCity ran on a 16 MHz 386SX by spreading simulation work across frames, with similar examples from Assetto Corsa and Lumen.
367 points by entryleveljobsc | 327 comments
Ars Technica article on Microsoft's new Xbox Cloud Playtime packs charging $0.24–$0.40 per hour to stream games users already own.
156 points by klaussilveira | 18 comments
An interview on func_arena with Kristian Duske, creator of the TrenchBroom Quake map editor, covering its history, rewrites, Qt switch, CSG challenges and linked groups.
4 points by tokozedginidze | 0 comments
Open Source Games is a curated directory of new open-source games found on GitHub, filterable by genre, platform, play style and controls, with play links.
618 points by aaronbrethorst | 464 comments
The Verge news article reporting that EA is closing BioWare, cancelling the next Mass Effect game, and cutting about 400 jobs after being taken private.
32 points by civicpivot | 6 comments
Ars Technica report from Pinball Expo 2026 near Chicago, covering a Stern Pinball factory tour, new machines on the show floor, and Multimorphic's modular P3 platform.
17 points by laurentiurad | 4 comments
Official site for Chip Builder, a story-driven Windows puzzle and strategy game teaching digital logic, CPU design, and chip fabrication, sold on Steam and Epic.
33 points by indigodaddy | 29 comments
GitHub repository for Battlezone Online, a free 3D multiplayer tank game playable in the browser (desktop, phone, or VR) and compatible with BZFlag clients and servers.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300M Games [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/24/5269af7b-5fef-42f6-8c80-c1922b2f2642.jpg)
35 points by zdw | 32 comments
YouTube video from Perfect Play simulating eight Monopoly strategies over 312 million games to identify the best approach and common mistakes.
877 points by pcai | 421 comments
Landing page for Permit Pending, a free browser city-builder game where the player, as mayor, must get projects past zoning boards, neighbors, appeals courts and elections.
12 points by richleigh | 0 comments
Playground Arcade, a directory of 700+ AI-built browser games sorted by genre, AI model and device support, with reviews and creator credits.
113 points by 4gateftw | 229 comments
IGN news article reporting that Steam users want a filter to hide AI-generated games as Steam Next Fest is flooded with low-effort AI titles.
8 points by klaussilveira | 1 comments
OpenDE is a web page that lets users play the 1999 Deus Ex demo directly in the browser.
7 points by ulnn | 6 comments
Fizzpoker is a retro-styled browser poker site for playing Texas Hold'em with friends without needing to log in.
23 points by bigwheels | 10 comments
A fan-made browser game combining Diablo 2 with the Vampire Survivors-style survivors-like genre.
8 points by avaraujo | 3 comments
GitHub repository for LeTrain, an open-source Java train simulator game playable in the terminal with ASCII graphics and vi keybindings, plus a libGDX graphical UI.
138 points by ibobev | 18 comments
Blog post with an interactive visualiser explaining how NetHack generates Gnomish Mines levels using random fill and four passes of cellular automata.
10 points by doener | 5 comments
Steam store page for Beyond These Stars, a strategy city-builder where players build a city on the back of a space whale and manage supply chains.
194 points by frizlab | 82 comments
Michael Steil's blog post presenting diorama64, an open-source port that renders Super Mario 64 levels as tabletop dioramas on Apple Vision Pro.
525 points by debo_ | 162 comments
Starcraft: Ashfall is an unofficial browser-based StarCraft fan shooter game with commanders, companions, and a squad deployment menu.
45 points by MatiErnst | 5 comments
Steam store page for Tiny Brutalism, a relaxing diorama building game based on brutalist architecture with concrete towers and impossible structures.
142 points by memalign | 33 comments
GitHub repository by ardiri containing a Lemmings clone for PalmOS, with source, level packs, images, and compiled PRC builds.
189 points by jsomau | 111 comments
An interactive fan-made Legend of Zelda timeline showing Hyrule's history and release order, with a countdown to the Ocarina of Time remake.
283 points by croes | 23 comments
Weball is a browser toy that lets you roll a Katamari-style ball over a website, collecting page elements; shown here on the Katamari Damacy Wikipedia article.
27 points by mellosouls | 39 comments
Edge magazine article examining the video game industry's crisis of layoffs and studio closures and how it might be fixed, featuring Tim Sweeney.
373 points by guiambros | 171 comments
Tom's Hardware news article on a New York bill requiring games be sold as owned goods rather than licenses and remain functional after publisher support ends.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Beyond Tetris: The other games of Alexey Pajitnov [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/18/9ba83e4a-7741-40e8-9ae8-93f5e7c188ff.jpg)
53 points by zdw | 5 comments
A two-hour YouTube video by RndStranger surveying the lesser-known games created by Tetris designer Alexey Pajitnov.
41 points by Kate0CoolLibby | 26 comments
Bryant Review article about a modder inspired by a 1980s VHS-based console who builds interactive VHS versions of Doom and Super Mario Bros.
13 points by speckx | 3 comments
GameSpot article about an espresso machine that has been modified or programmed to run the classic game Doom.
138 points by ibobev | 10 comments
A devlog post, part 34 of a series on the sea exploration game Around The World, about rendering a pretty sky.
56 points by Kapendev | 15 comments
GitHub repository for Parin, a simple cross-platform 2D game engine written in the D programming language with WebAssembly support.
337 points by speckx | 212 comments
A personal blog post by James Mackenzie about his love of software-rendered 3D graphics in classic MS-DOS and PC games like Quake.
290 points by starkparker | 292 comments
RespawnFirst gaming news article claiming the Steam client now outperforms Epic Games' new launcher, which it describes as vibe coded.
64 points by popcar2 | 54 comments
A personal blog post arguing that AI tools are enabling mass decompilation of video games, which the author sees as both exciting and worrying.
86 points by mtlduo | 73 comments
Wonderhop is a daily browser guessing game where players name the most common, rarest, oldest, or newest answers to prompts, with a daily leaderboard.
173 points by cvoss | 123 comments
Polygon impressions piece on Order of the Sinking Star, the dense, meticulously designed puzzle game follow-up to The Witness billed as a 500-hour experience.
5 points by croes | 0 comments
Steam Community news page for the game Teach My Little Sister How To Drive, showing patch notes and development status updates.
91 points by dmit | 36 comments
Blog post by Frank Force announcing that LittleJS, a small open source JavaScript web game engine, now supports 3D in addition to 2D.
66 points by neuling | 39 comments
Landing page for Brickbrag, a free multiplayer browser game set in a shared brick-built town with racing, flying, and house building.
58 points by pavel_lishin | 34 comments
A.V. Club news article reporting that Epic Games' delayed Disney game featuring Marvel and Star Wars characters will become an "AI first" project, with employees told to use AI.
279 points by deadxwarrior | 146 comments
GitHub repository for ps2-web-recomp, a project that statically recompiles PS2 games to WebAssembly with a native runtime to run them in the browser.
653 points by jttnr | 247 comments
Landing page for Nanolathe, an open-source MIT-licensed 2.5D RTS engine that rebuilds Total Annihilation for modern computers, with a playable demo.
13 points by LarsDu88 | 3 comments
A web game recreating Timur's (Tamerlane) 14th-century chess variant, with play against an AI engine, local two-player, and online multiplayer modes.
521 points by JumpCrisscross | 173 comments
A browser-based simulation game where you play a housing developer in San Francisco navigating the Board of Supervisors, permits, and city politics to get projects approved.
258 points by gregsadetsky | 100 comments
Blog post on Mark Green's Pixelatron site republishing a full 2001 interview with Giles Goddard about the making of Super Mario 64.
69 points by astlouis44 | 60 comments
Kotaku news article on AI vibe-coded web browser ports of decompiled games like Halo: CE, GTA: Vice City, and The Simpsons: Hit and Run.
1327 points by robin_reala | 265 comments
A browser-playable Minesweeper game with a classic 9x9 grid, mine counter, timer, and smiley reset button.
78 points by speckx | 15 comments
Blog post describing how the author got childhood Macromedia Director games running on modern hardware by working around old copy-protection mechanisms.
5 points by vasyop | 0 comments
BottleShip is a web app that runs classic Windows games (up to Direct3D 9) in the browser, with a library of built-in demos and support for adding games.
196 points by ilreb | 160 comments
A browser-playable port of Quake rewritten in safe Rust, shown loading its engine with fullscreen, sound, and key controls.
196 points by Philpax | 45 comments
Official Bevy news post announcing the 0.20 release of the open-source Rust game engine, by the Bevy contributors.
8 points by dyarosla | 3 comments
Wordminos is a daily browser word game that combines crossword-style word building with domino-like tile placement.
133 points by adunk | 117 comments
A BBS-styled web page hosting classic 1990s PC demoscene productions like Unreal and Second Reality, recompiled to run natively in the browser.
598 points by Michelangelo11 | 113 comments
Pat Kerr's project history of the 2D vehicle physics simulation he wrote in 1996 that became the basis of Grand Theft Auto's vehicle system, with an interactive Motion Lab demo.
185 points by sn001 | 98 comments
GitHub repository for a project that runs PSP games in the browser via static recompilation to WebAssembly, an HLE kernel, and a WebGL2 renderer.
73 points by password54321 | 68 comments
Push Square news article reporting that PS5 jailbreaks are advancing rapidly and posing a growing problem for Sony.
30 points by thm | 38 comments
The Verge report that Microsoft's Xbox has secured exclusive streaming rights for GTA 6, arriving in November as Xbox Cloud Gaming access opens up.
295 points by Fe2O3 | 247 comments
GitHub repository for AnyPS5, a tool that automatically ports PS5 executables to run natively on Linux and Windows without emulation.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: VECOS – A windows-like operating system for the Vectrex for the UVMC2 [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/7/728a0755-67b1-4144-9572-fbe2a0f8eb1d.jpg)
49 points by CharlesW | 12 comments
YouTube video by Arcade Jason demonstrating VECOS, a Windows-like operating system for the Vectrex console running via the UVMC2 cartridge.
51 points by networked | 23 comments
A design document by Gwern for Samon, a one-stroke Zen garden sand-raking puzzle game, covering rules, solver experiments, level generation, and a playable prototype.
14 points by plicerin | 4 comments
A browser-playable recreation of Activision's 1982 Atari 2600 game River Raid, rebuilt instruction by instruction from the original ROM, with notes on how it was built.
93 points by Ariarule | 38 comments
A 2015 essay by qntm analyzing the time travel mechanics in the puzzle platformer game Braid.
15 points by cautiouscat | 34 comments
Reddit post in r/2007scape about RuneScape's stance on generative AI; the page was blocked by Reddit's network security.
95 points by rdmuser | 16 comments
Video Game History Foundation blog post announcing its digital archive has passed 5,000 magazines and outlining plans for the collection.
141 points by droidjj | 78 comments
Jagex teaser page announcing development of a new RuneScape MMO, showing a flaming "4" graphic behind a privacy consent dialog.
345 points by trwhite | 85 comments
Hole Punch is a browser puzzle game where players place black holes whose gravity bends a spaceship's trajectory toward a target.
150 points by lexx | 143 comments
Blog post by Alex Lingris, the second part of an essay arguing city-building games like Cities: Skylines 2 lack soul.
15 points by zug_zug | 18 comments
Landing page for Rely, a browser-based automation puzzle game about building reliable systems from components that randomly fail.
172 points by tobr | 36 comments
Andrew Plotkin's blog post describing a wild pointer memory-corruption compiler bug he found in Infocom's game Infidel while building a memory-level debugger.
31 points by stelabouras | 6 comments
Blog post by Stelios Petrakis showing a raycaster game that renders mazes from the Atari 2600 game Entombed in first person.
430 points by azhenley | 126 comments
Newgrounds homepage, a community site for games, music, and art, shown here behind a Spooktober-themed bot-check/security interstitial.
51 points by paulgerhardt | 12 comments
A blog post on Behind The Code with Gerry about the Partner-N64 PC development kit used for creating Nintendo 64 games.
16 points by Kayvanian | 5 comments
Blog post by therun.gg's operator discussing speedrun.com's new terms of use removing Creative Commons licensing and how it affects third-party leaderboards.
35 points by xbmcuser | 20 comments
Reddit post in r/LinusTechTips about a user who bought a used CPU that was hardware-banned in Valorant; the page shown is a Reddit network security block.
59 points by nor-and-or-not | 26 comments
Blog post from indie studio Against All Odds about PasRISCV, the RISC-V emulator running Linux inside their space terraforming game SEEDS.
76 points by kitao | 8 comments
GitHub repository for Pyxel, an MIT-licensed retro game engine for Python implemented in Rust, with built-in pixel art, tilemap, sound, and music editors.