Games: GTA, Oldies, Chess, and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 08, 2026

• Tom's Hardware ☛ GTA Vice City and GTA III return to web browsers after a DMCA takedown — Open-source reverse engineering brings the classics to the web with over 100 FPS performance

  You can play GTA: Vice City and GTA III in your browser right now across pretty much any modern device. The projects are compiled from source codes of the original games and are available on either DOS Zone, where you're required to upload or torrent a few assets, or Quenq.

• New York Times ☛ Virtual Taekwondo Takes the Contact Out of a Combat Sport

  They kicked and jabbed at each other, standing 10 feet apart, their attacks connecting only through the avatars projected onto a screen behind them. But the American scored enough hits to fill his opponent’s “stun bar” — a video game staple that increases as a character takes damage — leaving her avatar temporarily unable to move. Then he delivered a flurry of kicks to pull off a narrow victory.

• Max Glenister ☛ An Amiga game ported to Godot, a Playstation 2 house, HyperCard on the web, and Ganon's Kamen Rider origin

  A retro-heavy week over on social.omgmog.net between 31 August and 6 September. There’s a 1993 Amiga platformer getting an LLM-assisted port to Godot, HyperCard stacks running in the browser decades after anyone last opened HyperCard, and someone working out what it’d actually be like to live in a Playstation 2 scaled up to house size. Plus a proper dig into where Ganon’s name really comes from, and a map of real filming locations if you fancy losing an hour to it.

• Devon Dundee ☛ Streaks Are Broken

  I believe there are specific instances where streaks can be beneficial, such as when you’re just starting to build a new habit and need all the motivation you can get. But before long, the point of any streak becomes keeping the streak alive, not actually improving your life or having fun, and that’s when they become a problem.

• GamingOnLinux ☛ Third Bloc is a supremely cool looking text-based political management sandbox set in the Cold War | GamingOnLinux

  Something about cleverly done animated ASCII really hooks me in, and Third Bloc doesn't just look good it sounds really unique too. A recent discovery I just happened to stumble across on Steam, and it immediately pulled me in with the idea behind it.

• GamingOnLinux ☛ Ghostship - the Super Mario 64 PC port from Harbour Masters gets Vulkan, post-processing, a web player and more | GamingOnLinux

  Ghostship is the impressive unofficial PC port of Super Mario 64 from the Harbour Masters crew, newly upgraded with a web player and Vulkan support. It got a Native Linux release back in January.

• GamingOnLinux ☛ Get some hit games in the Dread and Dark Fantasies RPG Collection Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux

  Want some more interesting action RPGs in your life? Check out the Dread and Dark Fantasies RPG Collection Humble Bundle. Launched a week ago, I somehow missed covering this one here on GamingOnLinux even though it's quite good!

• Futurism ☛ MElon Is Insisting He Knows More About Chess Than Chess.com

  Musk, with his towering intellect, "felt diminishing returns from chess."

• GamingOnLinux ☛ Thank You Bus Driver is the first game post-XBOX from Double Fine | GamingOnLinux

  Double Fine announced a brand new game - Thank You Bus Driver, their first since splitting off from XBOX.