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67 posts · Newest first · ← All NewsSony is closing the PS3 and PS Vita digital stores in phases: August 2026 in three countries, worldwide by July 2027. Re-downloads survive for now.
The Video Game History Foundation recovers a lost Indiana Jones demo built in SCUMM, a never-before-seen marketing tie-in for a VGA graphics card.
Andrew Elmore spent three years documenting every Namco Museum port across every platform and region, a roughly two-hour record of gaming's compilation era.
Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier, Signs of the Sojourner, and Boom Boom Rocket have all been pulled from the Xbox Store, with no physical editions to fall back on.
For Operation Flashpoint's 25th anniversary, Bohemia Interactive released the GPL source code to Arma: Cold War Assault, plus a remastered demo.
Dolphin release 2606 finally emulates the GameCube's Game Boy Player, a feature requested over 16 years ago, plus fixes and the last unplayable Triforce game.
After nearly 20 years, fans have remade the original Mother (EarthBound Beginnings) on the SNES EarthBound engine, released as a patch led by romhacker Gabbls.
Developer fliperama86 has released a work-in-progress PC recompilation of the N64's Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness, with higher frame rates and resolution.
Premier Eleven, an unreleased Atomiswave football game lost for twenty years, has been dumped and made playable on Dreamcast, along with Miracle Stadium.
GoldenEye 007's long-cancelled Xbox 360 remaster now runs natively on PC thanks to a static recompilation, no emulation required.