Items tagged with console gaming
Microsoft's Xbox disc-to-digital program has exited the Xbox Insiders Program, so anyone can now utilize the feature to convert disc games into digital licenses for use on Xbox consoles or even PCs. Per Microsoft's official announcement...
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Earlier this year, we wrote about hackers successfully uncovering the BootROM keys for the PlayStation 5, which sparked a wave of fresh PS5 console modding and emulation efforts. Today, those efforts culminated in the release of a new...
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PlayStation 5 emulation on the PC is an ongoing effort. The most noteworthy of the current emulators are KytyPS5, SharpEmu, and perhaps AnyPS5. AnyPS5 is somewhat different than the others, however, because it is technically not a...
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As expected, Nintendo's historically-high $4.5 million lawsuit against a single Nintendo Switch piracy subreddit operator has proven successful, likely thanks to the assortment of at least 4 "Pirate Shops" and numerous piracy-related...
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Over on the NeoGAF forums, which are popular among gaming industry insiders, credible leaker Kepler_L2 appeared in a thread claiming that the PlayStation 6 would have performance surpassing NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5080, citing support for dual-issue compute as the reason why. Kepler did not back...
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According to patent documents originally spotted by Respawn First, Microsoft is studying ways to enhance in-game advertisement solutions. Specifically, Microsoft showcased a context-aware ad system that times ad interruptions to specific...
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DuckStation, one of the more popular Sony PlayStation 1 emulators, received a major update that significantly boosts performance and enhances the user experience. The developers of DuckStation have incorporated multi-threaded shader...
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In bittersweet news for fans of emulation everywhere, prominent Nintendo Switch emulator & Yuzu successor Suyu is shutting down with version 0.04, but not before introducing a limited static recompilation mode for emulated titles. While...
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After Hideo Kojima's infamous split from Konami following the release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, fans of the legendary Metal Gear series were left waiting for Kojima's next big stealth project. While Death Stranding and Death...
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Retro gaming enthusiasts eager to relive the golden age of arcade gaming will have to exercise serious patience, as Plaion Replai has officially pushed back the worldwide release of the NeoGeo AES+ to September 16, 2027 due to components...
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Amid the ongoing Sony PlayStation physical media controversy, the developers behind the renowned RPCS3 emulator have achieved a milestone in the preservation of PlayStation 3 games.
With its latest update, any system with a mainstream...
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In an interview with the BBC, Xbox division CEO Asha Sharma had a lot to say about the current state of gaming hardware, and let slip that Project Helix is not a single console.
Specifically, when the BBC reporter asked Sharma if...
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Microsoft's rumored disc-to-digital program is coming to fruition as an opt-in for Xbox Insiders on the Xbox Series X and Xbox One consoles. It doesn't apply to all games across the Xbox One and Xbox Series X consoles and at least for now...
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Grand Theft Auto VI footage has been repeatedly leaked by self-declared hacktivist group CyberLeek for the past week, and the latest unsanctioned reveals have been focused on the most risque, M-rated areas of the game, including the strip...
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U.S. video game spending tanked in July as soaring hardware prices and a rapid shift toward digital downloads crushed traditional retail sales, which haven't been this bad since 1995.
The gaming market faced a major slump last month...
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Newly leaked photographs of the unannounced Xbox Elite Series 3 controller have appeared after a previous major leak in May. While the original Reddit post to the r/Controller subreddit made by user u/ssuberlex has been deleted along with...
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Following an extensive, six-month optimization run on the PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3, developer Whatcookie is showing off the Arm branch's massive improvements on the previous-gen Ayn Odin 2 handheld, and the results are impressive. The...
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An internal Microsoft roadmap leaked to The Verge bodes well for the future of game preservation, but a few questions and concerns remain. The good news is that, as we suspected, due to the existing Xbox-to-PC emulator already featuring...
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Comments made on a recent podcast by Windows Central executive editor Jez Corden prompted various outlets to post rumors suggesting that Microsoft is planning to stop publishing games on Steam, and the rumor mill got in such a fervor over it, that Corden himself stepped in refuted the claims...
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The launch trailer for Arc System Works' highly anticipated Marvel tag fighter Marvel Tokon: Fighting Soul has dropped, and people are really talking about Deadpool's brief appearance. Deadpool's reputation as a fourth wall breaker isn't...
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When we covered the planned PlayStation service blackout, I pointed out that both the Xbox and PlayStation platforms had seen major downtime in their online services that week, rendering digital games unplayable. At the time, the Xbox...
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Fans are displeased with Sony's decision to stop disc releases for its consoles. Virtually everything PlayStation-related accounts do on social media now gets bombarded with angry players demanding a reversal to the decision, and the...
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