AEP Emulation Page reports that Emulator2001, the Emerson Arcadia emulator (as well as other hardwares) for Microsoft Windows, has been updated today. Below are the changes in this version.

game selection menus single column and now uses software's built-in font

You can visit the official homepage here, or simply download it here.

The Emulation64 Network reports that Goomba Color, the open source Nintendo GameBoy/GameBoy Color emulator for Nintendo GameBoy Micro/DS, has been updated to version "alpha 3". Below are the changes in this version.

- No longer shows colored solid tiles when the screen should be off

- Fixed off-by-one scanline problems introduced in alpha 1.

- Now you can specify whether you want to emulate a GB, GBC, or GBA

- Added double speed mode, either timers only or complete

- Fixed splash screen corrupting graphics

- Go Multiboot feature for smaller GB roms (and a couple tiny GBC games too)

- Major changes to SRAM save system

- Added 32k saves, Enter the menu with L+R to save the game's sram

- Stack writes to SRAM are now saved

- Save files smaller in pogoshell

- Some changes merged from Kuwanger's version

- Palette changes apply immediatly

This news originated here at Pocket Heaven. You can obtain "alpha 3" of Goomba Color here.

retroguru.com reports that Outcast, the Atari ST emulator for GP2x, has been updated to version 003. Below are the changes in this version.

- NEW: Virtual keyboard -- needed for entering text or function keys etc of course, but also to get into a lot of games; the crack groups often put loader demos, or multiple games on a disk, and so you sometimes need to hit spacebar, or a number, of function key. Of course, some games require keyboard controls, too.

- NEW: Input modes a little more defined

- FIX: YM chipmusic is pretty good now, though sample playback is still asshat; I'll work on that more. Always running out of time

- NOTE: Most of the START runtime menu should work fine now; CPU Mhz setting isn't yet available, but throttle and frameskip and disk management and savestates and control modes should all be working!

- CHG: Welcome screen text

This news originated here at GP32x.com Board. You can download version 003 here.

All you PC gamers who missed out on Monolith's brilliant Condemned: Criminal Origins on the XBOX 360, fear not! SEGA's German site reveals that the game will be ported to the PC and released during the month of March this year. I'll get an English press release linked as soon as it becomes available. Update: Here's a translation of the first paragraph of the German release (thanks, Cobalt!): Munich, 10 January 2006. One of the most discussed games of the last weeks and months will appear at the end of March for PC: Sega publicizes the uncensored original verson of Condemned, with which PC gamers will experiences the same unfiltered pleasure of the nightmarish atmosphere of the most recent game from something famous developer Monolith.  So we may actually see a version different than the XBOX 360 one? The plot thickens!