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BillyTime!Games Teases ‘Ghostbusters: Special Edition’ Update
Three years ago, BillyTime!Games had remedied a glaring omission with their mod of the Sega Genesis title Ghostbusters, adding Ernie Hudson’s Winston Zeddemore into the game. Now they’re teasing an update for their Ghostbusters: Special Edition romhack, further adding several new features, including a brand-new playable character.
Per Ghostbusters News, BillyTime!Games had taken to X to tease the update in a series of posts. The “big swing” of an update adds three new cheat codes, “7 or 8 different” title screen colors and “maybe 5 or 6” different Sega Logos can now appear when booting up the game, confirmations on cheat codes entered, some new Qualtiy-of-Life upgrades, and a “goofy crossover character” that you never saw coming.
Obviously keeping the identity of the character secret (for now), BillyTime!Games says that character was “designed for newcomers who want to play the game at their own pace.” If that wasn’t enough, BillyTime!Games is planning on another character that will represent the expanded universe of Ghostbusters, bringing the total roster of characters in the game to nine.
No timeline on when exactly fans will expect the update to Ghostbusters: Special Edition, but you can still check out the previous version of the romhack via ROMhacking.net.
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Critical Reflex Debuts ‘Grobnopolis | Last Days’ Gameplay Trailer, ‘Sated’ Playtest Signups [Video]
Critical Reflex has followed up the April reveal of Bananadevjeff’s Grobnopolis | Last Days with a new gameplay trailer for the upcoming narrative horror adventure, as well as announcing signups for the first playtest for their recently-announced roguelike horror cooking game, SATED.
For those who missed it, Grobnopolis | Last Days continues and expands the story of Bananadevjeff’s itch.io hit Funeralopolis, and casts players as an apartment block caretaker in 1983 Huta-Grobno. You find fragile comfort in keeping things running smoothly while the city curdles into panic. When the locals begin to whisper of a thick “Soup” overtaking the streets and the local ecclesiastical order tightens its grip on your community, you must piece together what’s happening through newspapers, uneasy conversations, and a homemade radio. Though you may find in this slow, oppressive atmospheric horror experience that curiosity is both compass and curse.
Meanwhile, SATED is a cooking roguelike from developer Forest Reges, where you descend into a dripping megastructure to cook increasingly grotesque delicacies for ever-hungrier monsters. Your only tool is a sentient, cursed fridge that works like a deranged slot machine. Spin for twitching ingredients, bet everything and pray the customer leaves satisfied…or become the meal yourself.
As mentioned, you can sign up for the upcoming playtest via the official Steam page. Just click the “Request Access” button and wait.