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.
Hacker Cyberleek leaked gameplay clips and the entire map of GTA VI in protest of Rockstar’s decision to launch pre-orders of a digital game. They claim that pre-orders were created because physical discs could run out at retailers, meaning gamers will pay more to ensure they have a copy on launch day. But because digital copies cannot sell out, there is no need for a pre-order system.
id Software included locked versions of its entire game library on the $10 Quake shareware CD it released in 1996. But the system meant to allow gamers to pay for and unlock those titles over the phone proved vulnerable to crackers who discovered a way to unlock every game on the disc for free.
Building neural networks in Minecraft using redstone is a relatively common pursuit, but a clever creator has worked around the limitations of command blocks’ available math operations to implement an LLM in just 445,782 blocks, down from over a million in the initial implementation.
A developer posted their Doom port for the Canon EOS 550D on GitHub. The game uses the Magic Lantern firmware add-on to run on the camera, and uses various camera buttons to play the game directly from the SD card.
One man’s trash is another’s treasure, and GameStop just paid out over $10,000 for hundreds of broken consoles.
A reverse engineering and retro gaming enthusiast has finally succeeded in their goal of decompiling GoldenEye 007, the monumental James Bond adventure shooter from Rare.
A games industry veteran is selling off what is ‘probably the rarest arcade game in existence’ via Boston’s RR Auctions.
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.