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.
Sony is shutting down PSN for PS3 consoles next year, so preservationists are being asked to wake up from their slumber to archive everything before it’s too late.
Microsoft is reportedly testing a feature to digitize physical games going back to the Xbox One with digital copies tied to the owner of the physical disc.
Sony will stop producing physical discs for all new PlayStation games beginning in 2028, as the company embraces an all-digital future.
While Nintendo remains a holdout, this announcement essentially sounds the death knell for physical media in cutting-edge gaming.
A town in northern Philippines closed down all computer rental shops, with the mayor saying that these establishments distracted students from their studies and led to abuse and other dangers. The move came a little over a week after many people have started blaming a deadly school shooting in central Philippines on a violent video game that the perpetrators played.
The Entertainment Software Association, in its infinite wisdom, has told a California Senate committee that private and community servers are illegal and amount to piracy.
HamsterOS fits on just a single 1.44 MB floppy disk, and it’s set for a full release this November.
The hardware is discontinued and the experience isn’t perfect, but the fact that the emulator exists at all is a true technical achievement.
Sony will delete 551 movies from PlayStation users’ accounts in the UK on September 1, 2026. These are films distributed by StudioCanal that no longer come under licensing agreements between the two companies.