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Around the World:  00:08:50

• Epic Games to put up $100M in cash and prizes for Fortnite's first year of e-sports
• Return of Double Dragon, formerly a Japan-only release (1992, Super Famicom), to get a physical cartridge re-release, in red ($50)
• SNES games made playable on unmodified NES hardware...using heavily modified NES cart with an inbuilt Raspberry Pi 3 and tons of software manipulation
• ~70 presumed lost games recovered from multi-gigabyte ROM dump on a private forum
• Valve gives up on curating anything on Steam, draws a bullshit line at "[anything] illegal, or straight up trolling"
• Sony's continued refusal to allow cross-platform play with other consoles / PC ties player's Epic Games accounts to Fortnite on PS4 only
• Tetris Effect, a new largely kinesthetic / psychedelic variant on classic block-stacking to release on PS4 / PSVR, fall of 2018
• DLC for Fallout 76 to be "free", funded by (wait for it) in-game microtransactions for cosmetic items
• Planet X3 (a DOS sequel to the Planet X series, originally on Commodore 64) kickstarter opens, quickly garners 3x the original goal
• E3

Bonus Level 1:  00:46:59

• Rotten Eggplant - Dark Side of the Moon - DuckTales (OC ReMix)
• 744 - Interruptible Power - Donkey Kong Country (OC ReMix)
• Andrew Thompson, Fernando Valencia, Kristy Mezines - Elements of Time - Chrono Trigger (OC ReMix)

Personal Gaming:  01:03:34

• Everspace (PC; Quest for Semi-Glory, now complete)
• Caveblazers (PC; Quest for Semi-Glory, now complete)
• Overload (PC; Quest for Semi-Glory, now in progress)
• Axelay (SNES; Shmup Book Club, May 2018)
• Thunder Force IV (Genesis; Shmup Book Club, Jun 2018)
• Ketsui (Arcade; Shmup Book Club, Apr-Jun 2018)
• Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES; weekly randomizers)
• Assault Android Cactus (PC; weekly speedrun practice)
• Tetris: The Grand Master (Arcade)
• Bullet Proof Software Tetris (NES)
• Tengen Tetris (NES)
• Tetris (NES)
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Switch)
• Pinball (various)
• Jill of the Jungle (DOS)
• Master of Magic (DOS)
• Blake Stone: Planet Strike (DOS)
• Pathfinder (tabletop)
• OpenITG (Arcade)
• Sonic Mania (Switch)

Bonus Level 2:  01:20:42

• RebeccaETripp - Galuf's World - Final Fantasy V (OC ReMix)
• That Headband Guy - Burning Vigor - Street Fighter II (OC ReMix)
• Deedubs - Echoes of Dusk - Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (OC ReMix)

Ad-hoc Design: 01:31:54

• Light-focused omnidirectional side-scrolling flyer
• Experiential action/puzzler
• Expansion on rhythm+turn-based tactical RPG