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HarkinianPad is a free native iOS port of Ocarina of Time built on Ship of Harkinian by Chris Sotraidis, running at 60fps with widescreen and touch support.
A day-long Xbox outage stopped digital games, and then it stopped disc-based and backward-compatible ones too. The plastic did not save anybody.
Developer kitchen34's English translation patch for Saturn fighter Dragon Ball Shin Butoden has passed a major technical hurdle by rebuilding the game's sprite compression system.
The Video Game History Foundation opens a massive free digital archive documenting E3 from 1995 onward, including rare ephemera and footage.
A new MiSTer FPGA core plays NBA Hangtime and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 on MiSTer FPGA hardware. More Midway Wolf Unit titles are on the way, and the developer is pushing back against AI-use rumors.
MiSTer can now boot original PlayStation, Sega CD, and other discs via USB optical drives, marking a major step for game preservation on FPGA hardware.
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.
Experimental MiSTer core DreamSTer boots Dreamcast games, challenging the long‑held belief that the platform couldn't run them.
Tencent and Square Enix are shutting down Final Fantasy XIV Mobile's Chinese servers on September 30, 2026, and the global version has been cancelled. Player data will be deleted, leaving nothing behind.