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Behind the Pixels - Week 27

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  Games discovered between Monday, July 01 and Sunday July 06, 2025 Little Nightmares III PS4 | PS5 | Steam | Switch | Switch 2 | Xbox One | Xbox Series X/S Release Date: October 10, 2025  We have played both I and II, when I say we, he was "driving" and I giving advise on where to go and what to do, one of the best games we have played together. Terminator 2D: No Fate PS4 | PS5 | Steam | Switch | Xbox Series X/S Release Date: September 05, 2025  This one is more for me old "skool" type platformer. Warcraft Rumble  iOS | Android | PC Released Date: November 03, 2023  Finished reading - Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard and absolutely love the trailer. Cast n Chill  Steam Released Date: June 16, 2025  Need to add a pixel art game to the post.

Behind the Pixels - Week 26

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Games discovered between Monday, June 23 and Sunday June 29, 2025 WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers PS5 | Steam | Xbox Series X/S Release Date: July 24, 2025 Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess PS4 | PS5 | Switch 2 | Steam | Xbox One | Xbox Series X/S Released Date: July 19, 2024 Onimusha: Way of the Sword PS5 | Steam | Xbox Series X/S Release Date: 2026 Black Myth:  Waking PS5 | Steam | Xbox Series X/S Released Date: August 24, 2024 

Behind the Pixels - Week 25 - Fighter Game Edition

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Games discovered between Monday, June 16 and Sunday June 22, 2025 This week has been a bit of a tough one, with work taking a front seat to personal time. Due to this it was difficult for me to do the normal weekly “game hunting” that I do to put Behind the Pixels weekly post together.   In saying that this week I have been thinking a lot about fighting games and speaking to my son we both agree, there are many aspects when it comes to fighting games but for us it is all about the characters or should I say “Fighters ”.   I came across this blog on Play S tation but below are a few of the games that we think or I think the characters look really cool . Super Smash Bros Ultimate  Switch Released Date: December 7, 2018  When it comes to fighting game characters this games is one of our favorites. Street Fighter 6 PS4 | PS5 | Steam | Xbox Series X/S Released Date: June 2, 2023  Street Fighter is my favorite fighting game franchise, it features my "digita...

Code the Classics - Volume II - Pi 400 and 500 Guide

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A few months ago I posted on how to get the code from Code the Classics - Volume II up and running quickly on macOS . Since the book was published by Raspberry Pi Press, it thought let me do the same the Pi 400 and 500. I’ve put the below steps together to help anyone wanting to get the games up and running quickly. If you just want to play the games, not code review or tinker with the code, I have added how to play the games standalone at the end of the post. On the Pi 400 I ran the code on Raspberry Pi OS (32-bit) bookworm but found the games very sluggish, so would recommend  upgrading to the Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit) bookworm. Below is a summary on how to upgrade to Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit) for full steps go here .        - Download the 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS image          - Flash the image to an SD card using the Raspberry Pi Imager        - Insert the SD card into your Pi 400        - Bo...

Compiling Prince Of Persia (SDLPoP) - Debian Linux Edition

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  A few m onths ago, I came across a blog po st - Games for sysadmins: Prince of Persia 1 on Linux with SDLPoP , where the disassembled DOS version of Prince o f Persia was compiled on Fedora 32.   Fedora 32 is x86 and a Red Hat based distro having a Pi 500 w hich is   Arm 64 and running Raspberry Pi OS ( Debian based) , I thought it would be fun to try and get the game working on my setup.   Just a quick history l esson, SDLPoP is an open-source (GPL v3) port of Prince of Persia that runs natively on Windows and Linux.   I t was originally programmed  in 6502 assembler for the Apple II . All the below steps are performed in the Terminal -   Firstly, let’s make sure Raspberry Pi OS is up to date .                             $ sudo apt update                   $ sudo a...