Nintendo Thinks Your Portion of Its Tariff Refund Windfall Should Be $0

Nintendo argues in a court filing that customers willingly paid the higher prices for consoles and accessories, and aren’t owed any money back.

1994 Sega 32X gets first-person Backrooms game with raycasting engine — retro hardware tour de force includes yellow rooms, buzzing fluorescents, endless procedurally generated levels
 1994 Sega 32X gets first-person Backrooms game with raycasting engine — retro hardware tour de force includes yellow rooms, buzzing fluorescents, endless procedurally generated levels

Developer PaisleyBoxers has released Backrooms 32X, with the strap line ‘welcome to the cutting edge of 1994.’ This is a Sega 32X game set in the Backrooms, the internet phenomenon given a huge boost with the release of the psychological horror indie film earlier this year.

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$399 Nintendo Switch 2 back in stock Woot for new customers, $427 for returning customers with code — get $100 off the most recent price hikes
 $399 Nintendo Switch 2 back in stock Woot for new customers, $427 for returning customers with code — get $100 off the most recent price hikes

Get a brand new Nintendo Switch 2 for less.

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GTA 3 and Vice City are now playable inside San Andreas — a mod lets you revisit Liberty City and Vice City without leaving San Andreas

A GTA modder has embedded GTA 3 and Vice City within San Andreas, even nesting Vice City within GTA 3, with all three games continuing to run simultaneously.

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Security engineer ports password cracker hashcat to Gameboy Advance — 16.8 MHz chip can perform a meager 727 hashes a second, 30 million times slower than a modern rig

Gameboy Advance port of hashcat allows for advanced password cracking in meager hardware — so long as you’re willing to wait

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GameStop CEO says Sony’s decision to go disc-less is ‘totally irrelevant’ — claims software, including physical discs, accounts for only 12% of the company’s business

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen says Sony’s physical game exit is irrelevant to the company’s business, amid a $56 billion eBay takeover, as collectibles now drive growth.

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Mario Kart Wii recompiled for PC using AI, with 4K potential and uncapped frame rates — ‘first static recompilation of a Wii game’ supports over 200 tracks thanks to Retro Rewind compatibility

Mario Kart Wiicompiled, a claimed ‘first static recompilation of a Wii game,’ is scheduled to be released in August.

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Ex-Sega engineer creates ‘super realistic’ CRT monitor emulator — incredible retro offering even includes TV screen tapping to fix picture
 Ex-Sega engineer creates ‘super realistic’ CRT monitor emulator — incredible retro offering even includes TV screen tapping to fix picture

A CRT emulation project has implemented percussive maintenance support. Just hit it for a chance to improve the picture.

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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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PC gamer turns Steam games into cartridges with ingenious 2.5-inch SSD system — games are stored on 128GB drives alongside a script to auto-start the title once plugged in
 PC gamer turns Steam games into cartridges with ingenious 2.5-inch SSD system — games are stored on 128GB drives alongside a script to auto-start the title once plugged in

A PC gamer has created and demonstrated a handy Steam Game Cartridge system.

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