
Microsoft has confirmed that you should’ve been able to play your discs offline during the Xbox outage yesterday. The company has identified an issue with entitlement checks that prevented the correct ones from loading during the outage, breaking intended functionality.

How far are you willing to go for physical media? That’s the question the Neo Geo AES+ asks above anything else, given the $90 price tags of its game cartridges. Though, comparing it to its original prices from the 90s, especially when adjusted for inflation, makes it start to look like a bargain.
Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet said that a licensing service sitting outside Xbox, which the platform depends on, began failing late on July 26 and took roughly 16 hours to clear.

I go through the steps of replacing the standard 1TB SSD in an MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ with a 2TB SSD.
A Steam Deck devotee was so fed up with their family borrowing their handheld and leaving it with a flat battery that they have resorted to quite extreme anti-sharing measures.
Microsoft dropped four OG Xbox titles on PC a couple of days ago and they came with a native Xbox 360 emulator baked in. These games are packaged as Xbox 360 files, to the emulator runs them as such, then another emulator takes over to translate OG Xbox code inside the virtualized 360 environment.

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The RPCS3 team has successfully ensured that more than 2,600 PS3 titles are now compatible with the emulator. This means that 75.33% of all PS3 games can now be played on Windows, Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD using either x86 or arm64 processors.