What changed on Vibe Arcade each week: new games, games that were rebuilt or improved, and fixes. Newest first.
Games here are built with AI and checked by a person before release, and they keep changing after launch. Player reports and feedback go into the same queue as everything else. Something broken or missing? Tell me.
Every game page now names its game in the page heading, and some old blog posts that only repeated what the game pages already say were folded back into those games.
Week of October 19
New: Faultline, a 3D artillery game on living ground: sand slides, water floods, oil burns and frost turns a lake into a bridge.
Deadlock was rebuilt from the ground up as a space-station trap defence, with an airlock countdown, animated boarders and a voiced villain, VEX, who explains the rules.
Castling captures now play out as short fights between living chess pieces, and checkmate ends in its own finale, "The Last Stand".
Acorn Madness got a new golden-hour meadow, level goals and stars.
Acorn Madness now shows its touch controls on any touch screen, including big ones like car browsers. More games follow.
New puzzles: Galley (set a newspaper by hand, letter by letter), Isobar (weather charts) and Casebook (a Victorian courtroom).
The whole site got a new look, a search box and a "Continue playing" row on the homepage.
Week of October 12
New: Tiki Dash, a 3D island runner; Pacenote, a night rally game; Holeshot, 3D motocross with tricks and a track builder; and Hashi, a bridge-building puzzle lit by a lighthouse.
Stacker 3D brings the classic stacking game into three dimensions.
Strata got a full graphics facelift, and now saves a dig in progress so you can come back to it.
Fixed a crash on some phones in the 3D games by drawing a lighter version of the scene there.
Week of October 5
New: Pip and the Lost Letters, a learn-to-type adventure for kids, with a storybook voice reading along.
Older games that get a real improvement now carry a "Recently updated" badge and appear on the New page.
Bubble Wrap got a facelift, medals and a new Roll mode, and its pop sound is back.
Week of September 28
New: Lanternfall, a lantern-lit 3D dungeon crawler, and Quartet, a daily word-grouping puzzle.
Space Destroyers 3D was rebuilt in full 3D with boss battles, then extended with breakable rocks and new armour.
Games are now sorted into seven clear categories, with new Sports, Shooting and 2 Player pages.
A round of bug fixes across more than a dozen games: Curling stones stay on the sheet, darts throws score, and several Start buttons work again when a sound library fails to load.