Let us begin with the records:

Over 3000 C64 releases in 2021 in the whole world on different sources and this compares to the number of Commodore64 releases in 1995. Over 519 so called first releases known for 2021.

Scene news January 2022:

Sarah Jane Avory left Protovision

Monstersgoboom joined Protovision as a coder and graphician.

Eryngi joined Hack n' Trade as Coder, Graphician and Musician

Knight Rider, Artlace, Zirias left Excess

Kreator joined Reality as Coder

Yeon joined Samar Productions as Fullscreen Graphician, Graphician and Logo Graphician. She is the young daughter of Yugorin/Samar Productions.

Peacemaker left SHAPE and joined CD

Firehawk, Talent, Deekay joined Censor Design.

Keymaster joined GP as sysop (The Valley)

Xiny6581 joined Pretzel Logic as Musician

TheRyk left Arsenic

Goto80 joined Divine Stylers as musician and BBS graphician.

Optic Freeze left AOD

Seytan joined Reflex

Vincenzo, Squarewave, R1SC and MegaSparky joined STARZ as Musicians

B/Dual Crew Shining (DCS) passed away on January 4th 2022 from cancer. He was also known in the ASCII scene as nUP!

Rytone of ONS changed handle to Rastertail

Tim, The Founder of Baboons (BBS) is dead.

Werner-Soft left The Stock and C64

Exploding First left The Stock

Nafcom left The Stock

Baracuda is the only member of his group at the moment.

Last THE STOCK releases in 2021:

Tiger Disk games from Tiger Disk 21, ANTIWAR DEMO COLLECTION Disk 1+2/4

The polish demoscene is accepted as living national cultural heritage.

Poland joins the successes of Finland and Germany, and our experience opens doors for other countries, whose demoscene communities are also working on their proposals. The goal of this cooperation is to include the world demoscene on the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity – and it will be the first-ever digital culture on this list.” Andzrej Licherowicz and others at kskpd.pl. We are extremely happy that Poland, right after Finland and Germany, recognized the digital culture of the demoscene as an immaterial cultural heritage. It is a huge milestone, as it confirms on an institutional level that the demoscene is a major influence on digital culture east and west, north and south, crossing all borders and boundaries. We are super grateful for the success of the Polish scene and the community behind Kronika Polskiej Demosceny, which pushed the successful application with great passion and energy. Ogromne gratulacje!” Tobias Kopka – Co-Founder Art of Coding”

http://demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net/2021/12/17/demoscene-in-poland-gets-accepted-as-national-immaterial-cultural-heritage/

Seems to me we break a special record on our beloved c64, these year. Over 515 First Releases in 2021/1 till today (30/12/2021)

Last Record was afaik: 1995 - 362 known First Releases Lowest Releases were done in 2007 - only 19 ! known First Releases

So Keep On Playing !

Hate Bush joined Elysium as Musician while he left under the name chuinho MultiStyle Labs.

After Board Rider left Blazon telling them he had to deal with his late wife's estate the whole month (his wife Stephanie passed away on May 12th, 2021) and that his life has more important things to do right now, BR joined asap the US based group AOD as Sysop and Tester. These group is mixed with genesis project and seventh sector guys and with guys who where in the past in these groups. To join another group with a lie using his death wife to do that is not my cup of tea. May she RIP. So only for the record these strange behaviour.

NoobTracker joined The Solution as Coder

Slaze joined STARZ as Musician

That8BitChiptuneGuy joined STARZ as Musician

Nightrider joined BOOM! as Coder

CatYa joined BOOM! as Diskmag Editor

Kenji joined BOOM! as Coder

Lenyn joined Onslaught as Graphician

Darklord joined Onslaught as Cracker

Peacemaker joined AOD as a modem Trader, Tester

TheFatman joined AOD as Coder and Tester

Count Zero left Success + The Ruling Company

Steel left SCS

Hairdog joined Dream as Graphician and Musician

Sonny left Kraze

The c64 diskmag reactivated by GP at X 2014 Party popped up with new propaganda magazine staff (all GP members).

Facet joined Propaganda Magazine Staff as Graphician. Ksubi, Sparta and Raistlin joined Propaganda Magazine Staff as Coder and Diskmag Editor to spread their news..

LektroiD joined Atlantis as Musician

Graham Axten left all his groups

et1999cc joined Hokuto Force as Musician on 05.11.2021

Higgie joined Onslaught as Graphician on 09.11.2021

SIDWAVE joined Excess as Musician and Tester on 12.11.2021

Ziggy joined Onslaught as Coder on 20.11.2021

Elder0010 left Onslaught one day later

Elder0010 joined Genesis Project as coder on 25.11.2021

Viralbox joined Hokuto Force as Graphician on 26.11.2021

Wix joined STARZ as Coder on 26.11.2021

Cash joined STARZ as Original Supplier on 27.11.2021

Turbosnail left Arise on 27.11.2021

BR joined Blazon as Modem Trader, Net Trader, Sysop, Tester on 30.11.2021 but has to left the group one day later because of personal problems..

The anniversary edition contains:

• Back to 2003 report
• DoReCo 2021 Party report
• short Deadline 2021 report
• 30 Years Excess report

and a lot of News.

Get it here: https://c64.ch/productions/8364/RapidNews_20

Mazn joined Atlantis as a coder