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Do you love the Game Boy? Would you love to make games for it? GB Studio 2 is around the corner...!

It's 2020 and we do get a brand new physical Wii game. Vblank Entertainment and the guys at Nintendo made this possible. If you are into games like GTA, you will love this one. Let's read on...

Mangangá Team released their Sega Genesis / Mega Drive game Arapuca to the public. The full version of this game has 15 puzzles, 4 original songs and offers lots of fun. The game makes heavy use of Mode7.

Journey to Oblivion by Mega Studios is a space shooter game for Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis, currently in development by Mega Studios. For 2US$ you can get a recent version from itch.io.

Orkie still dives into GP2x development, which is a great thing. He recently contacted us to let us know about Open2x Bootloader. It's an alternative bootloader for GP2X. Requires Orcus and DevkitARM to compile. 'make' will generate a gp2xboot.img file which can be flashed with the GPH u-boot. The bootloader has a simple command line interface accessible via UART - type 'help' to see the list of commands

If you happen to be amongst waterpipe smokers, you may enjoy the waterpipe selection from PaffPaff. They have a wide range of high-end quality waterpipes and accessoires - the quality aspect is really a very important one to them as only top notch material is used. These guys have their shop in Karlsruhe, Germany, but you can order online too. Tobacco products are not offered on this page. Please mind smoking is bad for your health.

If you are one of the few ones here running their own gastronomy business have a look at servier.bar - It's a German company giving you the ability to create your own menu using QR-Codes. It's a quite interesting system, so please go ahead and check it out. And yes, this is actually sort of off topic, but maybe interesting to the one or other. They offer a free trail month, so there is nothing to lose. All information is available in German language only yet.

There is about one more week left to fund a brand new Game Boy game named Where is my body? by Dana Puch. The type of game is very particular, an original idea from the graphic adventures of the early 90s. You have to find out the different types of mysteries and follow the thread of the story. Your mission is to find the body. Surely you have not seen many games of this type in Gameboy, and surely you will spend some very entertaining hours.

Yo-Yo Shuriken is a fast-paced arcade game for 1 or 2 players on Super Nintendo (SNES). Want to know some development background? Make sure to read Making a SNES game in 2020.