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Work alongside Ennio Salieri in two new chapters of Enzo’s story and dive into the full Mafia experience with Mafia: The OmertàCollection.

Seventh-generation console emulation hit a milestone this summer. On July 31, 2026, the RPCS3 team tagged version 0.0.42 after 244 commits across 58 days of work, adding ARM64 optimizations and graphics stability fixes to the PlayStation 3 emulator. A few weeks earlier, on June 8, 2026, the Xemu project shipped v0.8.136, its latest stable build…

A Japanese company known for a game app based around virtual teen idols has filed for bankruptcy, the latest in a wave of corporate failures that has reached the highest level in 12 years as inflation and worker shortages hit weaker firms.

Usually, the name ‘Famicom’ and the associated Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) don’t exactly bring to mind downloadable content and online services. However, at least in Japan, a modem add-on for the Famicom offered those features. Released in 1988, the Family Computer Network System (FCNS) offered all that using its modem to dial into Nintendo’s servers.…

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The Lands Between—a place of myth, gods, and broken dreams. Long ago, Queen Marika and her divine offspring reigned here, but since the Elden Ring was shattered, the world has fallen into decay. Now, the land whispers for a King.

After popularizing the first-person shooter genre with “Doom,” id Software’s follow-up was the “Quake” series. Launched in 1996, the original “Quake” featured an episodic single-player campaign with the protagonist fighting extradimensional invaders in worlds that blended sci-fi and fantasy. The game included frenetic multiplayer modes and pushed id Software’s technology to the next level, particularly…

LDPlayer 9 is the Android emulator competitive mobile gamers keep coming back to, and the August 2026 build (14.0.22.0) makes it worth a fresh setup pass even if you tried it before. It trades a slower boot time for higher frames-per-second-per-GB of RAM than rivals like BlueStacks, which matters if you’re farming resources in a…

With arcade games still thriving in the late ’80s, many of the medium’s most iconic titles were released in 1989. From beat’em-ups to shoot’em-ups, the year saw plenty of fan-favorite titles that are still just as entertaining nearly 40 years later. While several of these games were ported to home platforms later, there is still…