"Animal sales was a profitable and prestigious business, since most real animals had died out after the Terran War; there were plenty of electric ones, though—" Oh, ahem, didn’t notice you there. ScummVM Team is thrilled to announce the release of ScummVM version 2.1.0. This release is the culmination of nearly two years worth of work, adding 16 new games based on 8 engines, a Nintendo Switch port and nearly 500 bug fixes. All this done by the hard work of 147 contributors across 8,493 commits. The newly supported games are: **Blade Runner* **Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick* **Hoyle Bridge* **Hoyle Children's Collection* **Hoyle Classic Games* **Hoyle Solitaire* **Hyperspace Delivery Boy!* **Might and Magic IV - Clouds of Xeen* **Might and Magic V - Darkside of Xeen* **Might and Magic - World of Xeen* **Might and Magic - Swords of Xeen* **Mission Supernova Part 1* **Mission Supernova Part 2* **Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness* **The Prince and the Coward* **Versailles 1685* In addition, we enhanced the Android and iOS ports considerably. You will also notice the new GUI facelift, improved Roland MT-32 sound emulation, a new pixel-perfect stretching mode, Text-to-Speech support on macOS and Linux, and last but not least, support for synchronizing saves and downloading game data from cloud-based file services (see the up-to-date list of the platforms in [our user manual](https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=User_Manual/Using_Cloud_and_LAN_features)) As usual, we have improved many of the existing engines: added support for the *25th Myst Anniversary* releases, fixed more than 100 original SCI script bugs that have plagued Sierra games for decades, added support for Amiga and FM-TOWNS versions of *Eye of the Beholder*, improved audio quality in Humongous Entertainment games and added lip sync to the newer LucasArts adventure titles, squashed tons of bugs in *Starship Titanic* and *Bud Tucker*. The list goes on and on, and you may see the comprehensive change log [here](https://downloads.scummvm.org/frs/scummvm/2.1.0/ReleaseNotes.html). Have no more tears in rain and [grab](/downloads/) this electric release. Windows and macOS users may get the auto-update when starting ScummVM.
We are thrilled to announce that the *Blade Runner* point and click adventure game, developed by Westwood Studios and originally released in 1997, is [now available again for purchase](http://gog.com/game/blade_runner?pp=22d200f8670dbdb3e253a90eee5098477c95c23d), thanks to the efforts of GOG.com. This new digitally distributed version includes the officially dubbed versions of the game (English, French, Italian, Spanish and German). Of course, it runs on top of ScummVM, which means it contains various bug fixes and quality of life improvements (like mouse-scrolling in KIA and fan made subtitles support) over the original 1997 version of the game. You will find subtitles for the English and French versions of the game on the Games section of the ScummVM website. We still have plans to complete the restored content version for the game, which is built from content and code segments that are already in the game’s resources but left unused or untriggered. PS. If you use the link above we will get a commission from your purchase.
After a short break, the ScummVM Team is pleased to announce a bugfix release for the 2.1 series - ScummVM 2.1.1, codenamed “:More Sheep:”. This release contains a substantial amount of fixes and minor enhancements. The most notable ones are: better multi-language support in the GUI, improvements in FM TOWNS/PC-98 audio, optimisations of the cloud saves, a couple dozen SCI script fixes, improvements to Blade Runner and fixes to another 7 engines. Also, this is the first release with official support for the Nintendo 3DS. Additionally, we added cloud support to the Nintendo Switch port. For a more comprehensive list of changes, please refer to the [Release Notes](https://downloads.scummvm.org/frs/scummvm/2.1.1/ReleaseNotes.html). As always, the set of pre-built executables can be found at our [downloads page](/downloads/). Enjoy, and have fun!
 It is the 14th time when ScummVM is accepted as an organization for Google Summer of Code, and we're going with our sister project ResidualVM. The Summer of Code is a yearly event organized by Google to encourage students to contribute to open source projects. Open source organizations provide mentors and projects to work on, while Google give some money to participating students. You can find more information on the [official web site](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com). We also have some information on [our wiki](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code), and in particular [project rules](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code/Project_Rules) that applicants will need to follow. If you feel adventurous, and would like to contribute to one of the largest game preservation projects, we are eagerly waiting for you! Have a look at [our ideas page](http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code/GSoC_Ideas_2020). Of course, you are also very welcome to bring your own idea (though it must be our projects-related)! The deadline for the student proposals is March 31st, and on April 27th accepted students will be announced. You are welcome to join [our Discord server](https://discord.gg/4cDsMNtcpG) and ask any questions of #scummvm-gsoc channel. Looking forward to your applications!
The ScummVM Team is pleased to announce a new bugfix release for the 2.1 series - ScummVM 2.1.2, codenamed “Fixing Powerful Windows”. You will notice that this time, our [downloads page](/downloads/) is not exactly extensive. Don't worry, we are not touching ScummVM's (quite incredible) portability here. ScummVM 2.1.2 is a maintenance release intended for Windows and Mac OS X, providing some [bug fixes](https://downloads.scummvm.org/frs/scummvm/2.1.2/ReleaseNotes.html) for those platforms. Since all other platforms are not affected, you don't need to worry about a seemingly missing update for now. While browsing the downloads page, you probably noticed a new entry there, especially when browsing our website using a PC running Ubuntu: ScummVM is now officially available at the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/scummvm)! Thanks to the ongoing support from Alan "popey" Pope and Alan Griffiths, the Snap Store release of ScummVM is now on-par with our other Linux releases. Compared to the traditonal way of distribution software on Linux, we have a lot more freedom in terms of new releases using the Snap Store. The moment we release a new version of ScummVM, you will receive it as an automated update. The ScummVM Snap comes in two flavours. The "stable" channel contains our official releases which makes it a great choice for most users. In case you want to explore the latest and greatest features of our current development versions, simply follow the "edge" channel and get an updated build each and every day! We also have some pretty neat additions to the Snap Package in mind - but more on that later. Enjoy, and have fun!
 The ScummVM team is excited to welcome CadiH and b-gent, our talented technical writers and participants of Google’s Season of Docs. CadiH will be working with us to launch a new documentation portal, which will include a revamped user manual and centralize our diaspora of information from the Wiki, Readme, and various other docs within our repository. b-gent brings his expertise and experience to help us modernize our Doxygen documentation. The Doxygen portal has long been neglected, this will benefit our developers and community as a whole. The work will officially begin on September 14 and will last 3 months. You can follow the progress of our two writers on the [ScummVM Blogs](https://planet.scummvm.org) and in the scummvm-gdoc channel on [our Discord server](https://discord.gg/4cDsMNtcpG). In the meantime join us in welcoming them to our community.
After many months of development Blazing Dragons is now ready for public testing. Join young dragon Flicker as he attempts to win the hand of Princess Flame and save Camelhot along the way. This is a rather odd Point and Click game as it was only released on Consoles. ScummVM's new Dragons engine allows you to run the Playstation version of this somewhat forgotten title. Throw away that PS1 controller and enjoy the game with a mouse/keyboard interface. We've also taken out all the annoying loading screens. Only the US and GB Playstation 1 versions are supported at the moment. You will need a [daily development build](https://buildbot.scummvm.org/#/snapshots). As always, please submit the bug reports to our [issue tracker](https://bugs.scummvm.org/).
In 2008 Google Summer of Code we had Kari Salminen aka Buddha^ working on adding <i>Operation Stealth</i> game support. While it was an overall success, still certain important game features were missing. Now, 12 years later, Kari got time for completing his work. Thus, we are proudly announcing support for the <i>Operation Stealth</i> game also known as <i>James Bond 007: The Stealth Affair</i> in the US release. Grab your copy of the game, fetch the [daily build](https://buildbot.scummvm.org/#/snapshots) of ScummVM and give it a go. If you encounter any oddities or bugs, please submit to our [bug tracker](https://bugs.scummvm.org/).
ScummVM Team is proud to announce support for a small freeware RPG game named <i>The Griffon Legend</i>. It was [originally](http://syn9.thehideoutgames.com/index_backup.php) written in the FreeBASIC programming language by Daniel "Syn9" Kennedy and later ported byDmitry Smagin to the GCW0 console, which we base this port on. The original story says: >500 years after the Griffon-Dragon war, the Dragons have returned to reclaim their empire. Cities are falling, everyone is dieing, and the lone Griffon Knight Fayne is caught up in the middle of it all. Since the game is freeware, you may grab a copy directly from our game [downloads page](https://www.scummvm.org/games/) or from the [original site](http://syn9.thehideoutgames.com/index_backup.php?table=griffonlegend). You will need the latest [development build](https://buildbot.scummvm.org/#/snapshots) to play it. Of course, if you encounter any bugs, please submit them to [our bug tracker](https://bugs.scummvm.org/).
*“Sorry for the wait Mr. Flores, I’m ready to take you now”*– Grim Fandango. Today is a special day, special in a number of ways. First of all, we hit a milestone with19 years of ScummVM. Our first-ever public release, ScummVM version 0.0.1, happened on October 8th, 2001. And second, something else finally happened, something which has been in the talks for a long time: The ScummVM project is officially merging with the ResidualVM project. For a long time ScummVM limited itself to 2D point-and-click adventure games, and so ResidualVM was born as a sister project to support 3D games. But from now on, there will be no more confusion about which project a game belongs to. ScummVM now embraces adventure games and RPGs, whether they are 2D or 3D, point-and-click or not. It is a natural step for both projects which have been developed alongside each other and cross-pollinating each other with ideas, patches and design decisions. Moreover, several developers belonged to both projects. With this merger, ScummVM adds several games to our supported list: _Grim Fandango_, _Escape from Monkey Island_, _Myst III - Exile_, _The Longest Journey_ and an unfinished engine for _In Cold Blood_, as well as Wintermute 3D engine. We’re excited to embrace most of the ResidualVM team and will continue development together. Of course, there are still more things to do and, in the coming weeks, you will see more project resources merging like forums, wikis, etc. Stay tuned and go 3D!
