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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…

Last week, Microsoft launched Xbox Backwards Compatibility for PC, releasing the feature with four original Xbox games as an “early release”. With this early release, Microsoft’s plan is simple: address bugs and build a stronger foundation for a broader launch later this year.

PC Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility could be coming soon, judging from some recent findings

Xbox is introducing backwards compatibility for PC and handheld devices, starting with four original titles: BLiNX: The Time Sweeper, Conker: Live and Reloaded, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, and Fuzion Frenzy.

As July slowly comes to a close, culminating a month ofthousands of layoffscarried over by Microsoft across its Xbox studios, the company has shared some very different news, as it is slowly rolling out Xbox backward compatibility on PC.

Xbox Backward Compatibility has long been the benchmark for backward compatibility on consoles, and rumors of it coming to PC rightly made more than a few players excited at the prospect of playing classic Xbox games which never received an official PC port. Today, Xbox Backward Compatibility was officially launched on PC with the first…

For years, there have been rumours that Microsoft is working on an official emulation tool to bring classic Xbox and Xbox 360 games to the PC platform. Now, Microsoft is making it official, with the first wave of original Xbox games becoming PC compatible for the first time.