75% of all PS3 games reportedly now run on PC via open-source emulator RPCS3 — announcement comes weeks after Sony’s plan to shutter the PlayStation Store for PS3 and PS Vita by 2027

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.

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PS5 emulation ramps up in response to Sony killing physical games — PS5 titles now booting across different emulators with rapid community development for both 2D and 3D games

SharpEmu and KytyPS5 are two emulators that have exploded in terms of development milestones in the past two weeks, receiving several high-profile updates that have now made it possible to run a handful of 2D and even 3D PS5 games on PC.

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Retro Nintendo Switch 2 dock looks exactly like the Nintendo 64 and holds six Game Cards in its cartridge slot — the 64BITDOCK is available now starting at $89
 Retro Nintendo Switch 2 dock looks exactly like the Nintendo 64 and holds six Game Cards in its cartridge slot — the 64BITDOCK is available now starting at $89

A new Nintendo Switch dock shell has been designed to mimic the sleek undulating curves of the classic Nintendo 64.

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Microsoft loses Brazilian court case after telling hacked Xbox user to re-purchase games — tech giant ordered to restore Xbox account with all games and pay $400 in damages

A Brazilian gamer who lost his Microsoft account and all his digital games has won a court order requiring the company to return them.

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Valve releases drivers, notes to make Windows work on Steam hardware, but refuses to support it — tells users it doesn’t offer support for ‘Windows on Steam Hardware,’ gaming company provides resources ‘as is’

These drivers will make it easier for your Steam Deck or Steam Machine to play nicely with Windows 11. However, Valve says it does not offer customer support for ‘Windows on Steam Hardware,’ and instead points stuck users to the SteamOS recovery instructions.

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PlayStation disc petition approaches 200,000 signatures as backlash grows over Sony’s decision to stop producing new physical media — firm still plans to produce optical media for existing titles, but new games will be digital only

A Change.org petition urging Sony to keep making physical PlayStation games has passed 172,000 signatures.

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Microsoft ‘resets’ Xbox by cutting 3,200 jobs this year, divesting five game studios — firm cites ‘margins that are 3-10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses’
 Microsoft ‘resets’ Xbox by cutting 3,200 jobs this year, divesting five game studios — firm cites ‘margins that are 3-10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses’

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced that Microsoft’s gaming division will cut 3,200 jobs throughout FY27 and is spinning out studios but not canceling any games.

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PS5 Disc Drive purchase cap predates Sony’s disc cutoff — ‘high demand’ order limit has been on the store page since at least March 2025

Meanwhile, the largest petition against the disc cutoff sat beyond 74,000 signatures on the morning of July 4th, closing in on its 75,000 goal.

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Sony crammed an entire PS1 into a DualShock controller that connects to your TV, but killed the project — PlayStation Puga offered game studios a mere 10 cents per unit sold

Sony successfully built a PlayStation 1 console that fit inside a controller but had to cancel the project after game studios were unhappy with the royalties they would make from the project.

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Brand new Steam Machine hit with ‘red line of death’ GPU failure after playing No Man’s Sky for just five minutes — console ‘bricked itself’ following update in failure that echoes the horror of the Xbox 360’s infamous RROD

A Redditor experience the deadly “Red Line of Death” on their Steam Machine, indicating GPU failure. They’ve just been playing for five minutes and then updated the console before experiencing the issue.

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