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After successfully taking down the Yuzu and Ryujinx Switch emulators back in 2024, Nintendo has had to deal with an increasing number of clones popping up. This week, Nintendo carried out its biggest takedown effort yet, hitting more than 400 GitHub repositories housing Switch emulation tools.

GitHub is home to hundreds of millions of code repositories, including some repositories that rightsholders would rather not see online.

Nintendo Switch Pokémon emulation looks different than it did two years ago. Yuzu is gone. The original Ryujinx shut down in October 2024 after its lead developer was contacted by Nintendo. What replaced them is a small cluster of community forks, and by mid-2026 the field has narrowed to three names that actually matter: Eden,…

Sega’s Dreamcast died a commercial death in 2001, but its emulation scene has never been busier. In the last seven months alone, three separate projects have shipped meaningful updates: Flycast hit version 2.6 in January 2026, redream pushed a fresh Android build (1.2.12) on August 9, 2026, and a scrappy Zig-language newcomer called Deecy kept…

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Mobile shooters like PUBG Mobile, Call of Duty: Mobile, and Free Fire were built for touchscreens, but competitive players have spent years moving those games onto keyboard and mouse. Tencent’s GameLoop is the emulator most of those tutorials point to, largely because it’s built and maintained by the same company that owns PUBG Mobile and…

You install it from SideQuest rather than the Horizon Store. The project’s own site is blunt about why: official storefronts restrict the low-level Android APIs the app needs, so the app lives outside them. The current build, Computers Are Totally Screwed 27, shipped on July 1. A developer credited as Luboš V. handles the XR…

Dolphin has been around for a while, but there’s a new contender for GameCube emulation.

Multiple PS5 emulators are advancing, with progress made on another PlayStation exclusive game. Released in October 2025, Ghost of Yotei is one of the newer titles SharpEmu has seen success with. After Sony reportedly cut back on PC ports, it has become an even more tempting target.

Valve spent 2025 and 2026 throwing SteamOS at every handheld it could find. The recovery image that once worked only on the Steam Deck picked up official support for the Asus ROG Ally and the original Lenovo Legion Go in May 2025, then SteamOS 3.8 broadened that support to the MSI Claw and the wider…