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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.
ArcStation is a new solderless optical drive emulator for every original PlayStation model, loading games from SD card with virtual memory card support.
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.
QUByte's first ReConnect showcase revives the Gaelco arcade library and teases a wave of PS1-era ports, including Biomechanical Toy and Tiger Shark.
Lizardcube's hand-drawn Shinobi revival is dated for Switch 2 on September 24 in digital and physical editions, starting at $29.99.
Bobby Prince, the composer behind Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died at 81. His Doom score entered the Library of Congress just a month earlier.
Premier Eleven, an unreleased Atomiswave football game lost for twenty years, has been dumped and made playable on Dreamcast, along with Miracle Stadium.
Hamster's Arcade Archives adds Space Cyclone (1980) and Console Archives adds Legend of Kage (NES) to Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S on June 18, priced from $7.99.
Microsoft reportedly plans to close Compulsion Games, with Ninja Theory and Double Fine also at risk, in a sweeping Xbox restructuring.
GoldenEye 007's long-cancelled Xbox 360 remaster now runs natively on PC thanks to a static recompilation, no emulation required.