All articles tagged with #game porting
Naoki Horii, founder of M2 Co., Ltd., explains that the studio’s acclaimed retro ports come from a shared passion for classic games, a culture of meticulous polish, and close collaboration with publishers; from Gauntlet IV on Genesis to Darius, Space Invaders 90, and future arcade dreams, M2 seeks to keep beloved series alive and pass the baton to future generations of players.
A developer successfully runs the classic text-based game Zork on the Intel 4004, the first commercially available microprocessor, demonstrating the game's portability and pushing the limits of early computing hardware.
Footage from Milan Games Week 2025 shows that Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition running on Switch 2 appears to be improving, with performance less tarnished than expected, though not yet on par with PS5. The game is still delayed to 2026, but early impressions suggest progress in the port's development.
Clever developers successfully ran Doom on an ESA satellite, using real Earth images captured by the satellite as the game's backdrop, demonstrating an impressive feat of space-based game porting and innovative use of satellite imagery.
Square Enix emphasized the importance of lighting in making Final Fantasy VII Remake look impressive on Switch 2, with the director highlighting proper hardware utilization as key to delivering high-quality graphics on the new console, which is set to launch in January 2026.
Apple has created a Game Porting Toolkit that can translate and run the latest DirectX 12 Windows games on macOS, making it easier and quicker to port Windows games to Mac. The toolkit allows developers to launch an unmodified version of a Windows game on a Mac and see how well it runs before fully porting a game. While the toolkit is more for evaluating games right now, it is a big step to get more Windows games on macOS.
Apple has announced Game Mode, a new feature exclusive to macOS Sonoma that prioritizes CPU and GPU power for running games, improving gaming hardware performance. The company has also doubled the sampling rate for paired Xbox and Playstation controllers and introduced a Game Porting toolkit to make it easier for developers to port games from other platforms.