out now, get at it https://store.steampowered.com/app/3179820/Radirgy_Swag/ not only has it been liberated from Switch but the loc's been completely redone
for the uninitiated, Radirgy Swag is a more compact, non-traditional STG: no bosses, no discrete stages, just high-tempo wave-based score rush
Ko-fi subscribers have an exclusive additional post to read today! This one's on the short-lived SaGa TCG - come take a look!
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BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.
Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.
More info:
Today we have an amazing interview from 1989 with Shigeru Miyamoto and Shigesato Itoi. Conducted shortly after the release of Mother, it's full of deep musings about realism, creative exhaustion, the moral panic over kids & gaming, and prescient visions of the future. shmuplations.com/itoimiyamoto/
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Got a new piece here everyone can read on PC-FX exclusive Last Imperial Prince!
Screenshots are sure to prompt nostalgic feelings of time spent gazing at screenshots of niche, unattainable Japanese RPGs - just make sure you don't actually play it:
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OK, here we go! This is my take on Resident Evil: Requiem: 2100+ words on excellent battles, polished graphics, hollow, empty storytelling, a, um, game even more terrified of the unknown than its new lead character, and an aching, ruinous need for nostalgia:
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alright it's up - new Sonic Perfect System update!
Finally removes the obsolete SA2 mods that people have been emailing me about for 5 months now, and adds a little Crossworlds bit too
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Nice. The Dragon's Dogma Online Revival now has a proper site! Also an update today added higher-refresh support (up to 100fps) to the game, which should make it feel significantly slicker.
A genuinely great action RPG (not really an MMO, but co-op optional) given a second chance beyond capitalism.
PFFFTTTT I can't do that, the stream would never end!! :V
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I said I'd stream this next week, and I still will, but it'll be more of a whistle-stop tour because, as you can see in my own thread below, it's Not Very Good
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A nice update to our old Phantom Breaker localisation timeline page- an anonymous source confirmed a few things and provided some extra materials, including a first translation pass of the English manual for the planned US release!
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For no reason at all, I feel like rewatching HiโsCoool! SeHa Girls in the near future... Maybe you can read about it on some website~
www.gaminghell.co.uk/SehaGirls.html
Anyway!
Segagaga's packed with heart, humour, and humanity. It's a guttering candle in the night. A defiant middle finger. A rebellious peek behind the curtain. A fond farewell. An honest record of mundane troubles.
A wonderful game:
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Game Lab (ใฒใผใ ใฉใ) โ September 1999 has been scanned by @thestacks.ca in 600DPI. Enjoy! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2026/02/g...
27.02.2026 19:36 โ ๐ 29 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1I will not mince words: Segagaga is a deeply personal, human game about passionate developers making the best of a bad situation. This is not the first patch to employ MTPE as a shortcut, but it is particularly tone deaf to deploy in this climate for a game about the people who made Sega what it is.
28.02.2026 00:36 โ ๐ 740 ๐ 176 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0I say this as a professional who came up from fan translation and has friends at Sega who will likely never get to work on this officially: when you fan translate ANYTHING that was previously untranslated, you have a deep, heavy responsibility in setting people's first and typically only impression.
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I replied to the wrong post, so here's the real 'went well' moment, a genuine photo finish!
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The stream went well. Almost!
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The Gaming Hell Stream is back tonight, with... Arcade Archives: RAVE RACER. And other games. But mostly RAVE RACER.
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(Please support writers willing to drop everything and spend a few days with a sorely overlooked game and Czech dictionary to bring you articles like this!)
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And here's my Don Doko Don article, which is also about the awesome transformative power of deciding to take a game seriously:
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Got a brand new article on the incredible 1996 PC Czech action-adventure Colony 28 here for you! You really need to play this game!
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This week's Arcade Archives release is RAVE RACER. 31 years since its arcade debut, Namco's 3D racing sequel comes with two brand new courses, a slipstream mechanic, smooth drifting and a soundtrack of nothing but hot jams.
Dreamwidth post!
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COMING SOON
WORLD OF HORROR 1.2
FREE UPDATE
๐๏ธ 3 new characters
๐๏ธ 2 new Old Gods
๐๏ธ 10 new allies
๐๏ธ New injuries, curses, and items
๐๏ธ 60 new events
๐๏ธ First scenario added
๐๏ธ Enhanced modding support
Read more:
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An overhead photo showing a wide variety of games, from PC88 RPGs like Ys to popular retro games like Star Fox and modern hits, such as Baldurโs Gate 3.
Feel free to prod my siteโs random article link below if youโd like a bit of a break from *broadly gestures* (heaven knows I need one). Iโve written hundreds of features on all sorts of games, so Iโm sure youโll something fun in there:
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A cropped photo of Page 106 from Phantom Breaker Official Visual Works published by Udon Entertainment in English. A girl in gothic attire, including a black waistcoat, tartan skirt, necktie, white hair and bat wings, weilds a large key with an axe edge. UNUSED CHARACTER This is a rough sketch that Suzuhira prepared as a sort of feeler to see how detailed and outrageous the character costumes could get. This particular character has a very punkish yet girlish style. Punk Style Her weapon is a key-shaped long axe. I wasn't sure how detailed I could get with the various parts, so I might have gone a bit too far. I'd like to know if it would be possible to add more frills...
The internet-famous gothic angel girl, drawn by Hiro Suzuriha as seen in the book Girls Girls Girls! Illustration Collection. The photo is taken from the blog below, but please be advised it's probably Not Safe for Work (lots of panties) but I wasn't going to just steal the image from the first hit on Google, I had to figure out where it came from, so here we are. http://www.nattoli.net/art/4231/girls-girls-girls%21-illustration-collection-3
Looking up some Phantom Breaker things and in Phantom Breaker Official Visual Works, this character design is shown among rough sketches and cancelled characters.
The character designer of this game was Hiro Suzuhira, the artist of the famous gothic angel girl, just me or do they look similar?
For #OSThursday... It's got to be Rave Racer this week! There's 12 tracks to select from by Shinji Hosoe, Takayuki Aihara, Nobuyoshi Sano and Ayako Saso, so picking just one is tough, they're all excellent! Nobuyoshi Sano's EXH* Notes is my personal favourite though~
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Finally updated the list in here so it actually includes my most recent Outbreak and Village features ๐ซ
(18 entries! Not bad, eh?)
Reiko Nagase's 1st appearance in the Rage Racer intro
Reiko Nagase in Rage Racer as a Race Queen
Reiko Nagase in the R4 intro as an office lady with a dodgy high heel
Rave Reiko who is canonically the driver of car 3, not a race queen & definitely not Reiko Nagase
Namco liked the name & kept her 1st name as a homage when game, film & TV artist / animator / designer Kei Yoshimizu joined Namco & created Reiko Nagase as the intro girl for PS1 Rage Racer a year after Rave had been released. She is his creation & is not related to Rave
see alts for a bit more
So who is the mystery Rave Racer girl?
Well, Namco never named her. They continue to say as much in the rereleases of the PSP Ridge Racers. However, fans in 1995 called her Rave Reiko (tentative) / ใฌใคใใฌใคๅญ(ไปฎ), which is the name Gamest used when she placed 20th in their '95 Best Character Awards
