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  • The Commodore 64 is back as new company unveils C64 Ultimate

    The Commodore 64 is back as new company unveils C64 Ultimate


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    Published: Jul 12, 2025 06:31 am

    The Escapist brought you news a short while ago that YouTuber Peri Fractic had seemingly been successful in his crusade to rescue the much-loved Commodore brand and hopefully re-ignite a future for one of the reasons we are all here today. You can read all about that here.

    At the time, he promised there would be new hardware launching, but little further information was available.

    This morning, however, a new video has dropped unveiling the Commodore 64 Ultimate – a new machine that can be pre-ordered and is expected to ship before the end of the year.

    This is the first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years and is a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware, housed in a glowing translucent case, classic beige box, or even the special gold Founder’s Edition.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fGP59mJ5M

    The machine will come in a variety of modern builds as well as that classic beige ‘breadbin’ look, which is the one I am about to order.

    Commodore 64 Ultimate Features

    • Play 10,000+ original games.
    • Plug in dusty old cartridges, CRT TVs, datasettes, or disk drives – it all works.‡
    • Light up the room with a game sound-reactive hidden-LED color-changing case† and the world’s first translucent mechanical keyboard PCB.†
    • Includes a cassette-style USB packed with 50+ titles – full games, licensed classics, music, demos, and Commodore’s exclusive new sequel to our first ever game – Jupiter Lander: Ascension.
    • Get lost in the spiral-bound manual with BASIC coding adventures, and ogle the glossy original-style box.
    • Enjoy HDMI clarity, Wi-Fi game transfer, USB convenience.
    • Hidden inside: the autographs/names of C64 creators past and present, etched forever in the motherboard copper.*

    Commodore 64 Ultimate models

    There are three models available for pre-order:

    • Starlight Edition@ $349.99
    • BASIC Beige: $299.99
    • Founder’s Edition: $499.99

    The Founder’s Edition is described as follows:

    “Inspired by the famous one millionth gold C64, the Gold Founders Edition adds 24k gold-plated badges, satin gold keys, a translucent amber case, commemorative Commodore gold seal ‘share’ certificate, “I Rebooted C=” tee, and a gold label holographic serial number sticker starting at 00000001 – that boosts the mission to reboot Commodore.

    When will the C64 Ultimate be released?

    The first batch of machines is earmarked for October/November of this year and can be pre-ordered now at the website. Like Kickstarter, you will be charged now but there is a full money refund available should you change your mind.

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  • Despite its past DLC disasters, Risk of Rain 2 unveils its next expansion

    Despite its past DLC disasters, Risk of Rain 2 unveils its next expansion


    Risk of Rain 2‘s second DLC was the first to be produced entirely by Gearbox Software after it acquired the rights to the beloved roguelike, and it’s safe to say that it launched in a torrid state. However, after working hard to right the ship, it’s now ready to unveil the game’s third DLC, Alloyed Collective – and it’s apparently roped in help from Risk of Rain experts.

    Risk of Rain 2 is one of the best roguelikes around, there’s no denying that. But what also can’t be denied is that its second expansion, Seekers of the Storm, may go down as one of the most disappointing DLC launches ever, putting the game’s reputation in real jeopardy. However, just this week, it rolled out a transformational ‘2.0’ update for the DLC that brings it up to the quality bar fans expected. With that redemption arc pretty much complete, it’s now revealing RoR 2’s third expansion, and we’re all hoping that Gearbox doesn’t make the same mistake twice.

    Alloyed Collective will be of a similar scale to its previous expansions, and Gearbox says that while it’s still tying up a few loose ends with Seekers of the Storm, it’s “also brought in some additional folks that are familiar with Risk of Rain to help us build out the next DLC.”

    The new expansion will feature six stages, all based deep within Solus territory, which range from “cliffside scrapyards to machinery-choked fortresses and buried caverns.” Seven new types of Solus enemies will also give you fresh threats to take on, alongside new bosses that include a final boss that “reshapes the endgame.” Sounds ominous.

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    As for you, you’ll get access to seven new types of drone, and two new survivors – one of them is totally original, but one returns from the original Risk of Rain. The loot pool expands too, with 15 new items set to be added.

    Gearbox admits that DLC 3 is “still a ways out from launch” and has a few more updates left to come for Seekers of the Storm, despite already being “really happy with where DLC 2’s quality has landed” after all the patches it’s put out so far. Still, it’s nice to see that the fiasco with the expansion hasn’t deterred it from supporting this wonderful roguelike even further into the future.

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