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06 Aug
Physical Copies Dreamcast Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Sega Saturn
SuperGroupies is selling Mega Drive, Saturn and Dreamcast watches, and you will get yours in April

Three officially licensed Sega console watches, $319.99 each, built to order. The window closes August 30 and they do not ship until early April 2027.

06 Aug
Hardware Android Linux
MagicX shows off the Mini Dream’s renders, and the number that stands out is the chip

MagicX says the Mini Dream's design renders are finished: a 3.3in OLED, four variants, and an $80 entry model reportedly running an RK3566.

06 Aug
Preservation PC Xbox 360 Xbox One Xbox Series X|S
Microsoft reportedly plans to bring Xbox 360 games to PC

A leaked document reportedly details Microsoft's plan to let developers sell Xbox 360 games on PC, with a gradual rollout between 2027 and 2028.

05 Aug
Preservation Browser Game Boy
Brick Boy’s DMG-01 screen shader lands on the Analogue Pocket

A Brickboy core is now on the Analogue Pocket, bringing fugudaro's obsessive DMG-01 LCD recreation, blur, panel grain, dead lines and all, to real hardware.

04 Aug
Hardware Android
The Pocket Nova goes to $239, and Qualcomm’s price hike has not even landed yet

The 8GB Pocket Nova goes to $239 on August 6, about a week after it started shipping. Qualcomm's double-digit chip increase does not take effect until September 1.

04 Aug
New Release Arcade Nintendo Switch 2
The Ninja Turtles arrive in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds with a New York City track

Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo joined Sega's kart racer on July 29. The roster has more than doubled since launch, and the cartridge holds what it shipped with.

03 Aug
Preservation Arcade DOS Nintendo 64
MiSTer FPGA gets a console-style UI and a wave of new cores

Taki Udon's Console Mode gives MiSTer FPGA a home-console-style UI with box art and favorites, and it runs on any MiSTer. A batch of new cores includes Apple IIgs, Apple Lisa, and 3DO.

03 Aug
Hardware Nintendo 64
Krikzz Puts a 64DD Inside the Cartridge with the EverDrive-64 PRO

Krikzz's EverDrive-64 PRO brings native 64DD support to a Krikzz N64 cart for the first time, with a Cyclone 10 FPGA, 128 MB SDRAM, and USB Type-C, orderable now for $169.

02 Aug
Preservation Nintendo DS
Lost self-deleting PokePark DS game surfaces on eBay for $9,100

A DS development cartridge said to hold PokePark Fishing Contest DS, a download-only game built to delete itself after 12 hours, is on eBay for about $9,100.