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Microsoft begins an ad-supported cloud streaming test for Xbox Insiders, offering free access to owned games with pre-roll ads.
Atlus released a new character trailer for Persona 4 Revival, introducing Chie Satonaka voiced by Anne Yatco, ahead of the remake's February 2027 launch.
Bandai Namco confirms the physical release of The Blood of Dawnwalker contains the full game on disc and is playable offline, despite a planned day-one update.
RPCS3 added support for ATI's TeraScale 1 GPUs from 2007 to 2009, running PS3 games on hardware older than the console itself. Open source keeps ancient cards alive.
Microsoft launched Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC today: four original Xbox games on Windows and handhelds, with Game Pass support, graphical upgrades, and Achievements coming later this year.
Cathedral: Crow's Curse, a standalone prequel to Decemberborn's NES-inspired Metroidvania, showed a new trailer at the Convergence Showcase, with a demo on Steam now.
A Redditor turned €7 SSDs into working Steam 'cartridges' that auto-launch when docked, and has now open-sourced the 3D files and code so anyone can build their own.
RPCS3 just crossed 75% of the PS3 library rated 'Playable' on PC, 2,681 of 3,559 games, even as Sony moves to close the PS3 store. Preservation in real time.
Culdcept BEGINS, the first new entry in the cult 1997 card-and-board-game series in a decade, is out now on Switch and Switch 2 via Clear River Games.
Star Ocean: The Second Story R, the acclaimed 2.5D remake of tri-Ace's 1998 PS1 RPG, gets a surprise native Switch 2 version, out now for $49.99.