
Nintendo is doing Nintendo things again as it goes after 7 different master repos containing Switch emulators, which total out to 401 repos wiped in a single day. Most of these belonged to Yuzu forks, such as Suyu, but there was one exception.

A game preservation group is asking PlayStation users to stay away from their consoles for a week in protest of Sony’s plan to axe physical game disc production. However, others say this is too soft, and a more concrete move would be to cancel PSN subscriptions en masse or refund purchases of pre-sold games.

Take-Two Interactive filed two DMCA subpoenas demanding that Microsoft and Discord identify the person or people behind the “CyberLeek” persona.
U.S. console hardware sales fell 39% by unit volume in July against a year earlier, while the average price paid for a new system rose 16% to $542.
YouTuber Kouzex has transplanted the internals of a pair of Joy-Con 2 controllers into two original Wii Remote shells, producing motion controllers that snap magnetically onto a Switch 2.
One man’s trash is another’s treasure, and GameStop just paid out over $10,000 for hundreds of broken consoles.

Astro’s Playroom runs at 0.5 to 1 FPS on the Steam Deck when emulated through SharpEmu. It’s not much — it’s nothing at all, in fact — but just the proof-of-concept alone is enough to stir up excitement for both Steam Deck and PS5 emulation scenes.

PlayStation Remote Play allows you to stream games from your PS4 or PS5 console to a variety of devices locally, but the Asobi: Remote Play service goes farther by extending the PlayStation Portal’s exclusive PlayStation Plus Premium cloud game streaming support to the Steam Deck and other Linux devices.
A Steam Deck enthusiast and modder is close to finalizing their ‘SteamBoy’ design.

The upcoming Xbox Helix is starting to feel more like a PC than any console before, and Microsoft’s latest efforts to unite all Xbox generations under one roof, according to a new leaked memo, seem to signal that very explicitly.