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June 2026

22 Jun
Industry PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5
Sony’s Answer to Soaring PS5 Costs Might Be to Just Sell Fewer of Them

Facing soaring memory costs, Sony signals it may sell fewer PS5s and skip discounts rather than cut prices, with knock-on effects for the future collector market.

22 Jun
Hardware
Retroid Teases the Pocket Nova, a 4:3 OLED Handheld With Plenty Still Hidden

Retroid has teased the Pocket Nova, a 4:3 Modern OLED handheld and its first horizontal 4:3 device since the troubled Pocket Mini. Specs and price are unconfirmed.

22 Jun
Hardware PC
The Steam Machine Has a Price, and It’s a Lot: $1,049 to Start

Valve has priced the Steam Machine: 1,049 dollars for 512GB, 1,349 for 2TB, with preorders June 25 and a June 30 launch. It is powerful, open, and pricey.

21 Jun
Preservation Nintendo 64 PC
Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness Gets a Work-in-Progress PC Recompilation

Developer fliperama86 has released a work-in-progress PC recompilation of the N64's Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness, with higher frame rates and resolution.

21 Jun
Industry PC
Sony Quietly Deleted PC From Its Strategy Report and Filled the Gap With AI

Sony's June 19 SEC strategy report drops last year's pledge to bring first-party games to PC and leans hard into AI instead.

20 Jun
Industry
EU Drops Mandatory Game Preservation Law, Adopts Voluntary Code Instead

The EU has reportedly decided against mandatory game preservation legislation, choosing a voluntary industry code instead, disappointing preservation advocates.

20 Jun
New Release PlayStation 3 PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Xbox 360
Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 and 2 Getting Native PlayStation Ports, Launch Said for July

Activision is bringing Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops II to modern PlayStation consoles, reportedly in July, with full campaign, multiplayer, and Zombies modes.

20 Jun
Hardware PlayStation 1
ArcStation Is a New Solderless ODE for Every Original PlayStation

ArcStation is a new solderless optical drive emulator for every original PlayStation model, loading games from SD card with virtual memory card support.

20 Jun
Industry
A Sega Veteran Is Quietly Cataloguing All 4,500 of Sega’s Games. He Wants Them All Playable.

Sega producer Yosuke Okunari says he is cataloguing all of Sega's roughly 4,500 games and wants the entire library playable on modern formats.