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The RPCS3 Sony PlayStation 3 emulator has added another PS3 game to its “Playable” list. The RPCS3 team announced this development on X. The news is quite big, as there are only a few games that RPCS3 can’t properly emulate on PCs. The game we are talking about is Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), also…

The new video goes over some of the most notable improvements to it across the summer featuring games like Twisted Metal, LittleBigPlanet, inFamous and God of War 3/Ascension.

TL;DR: An NVIDIA driver bug fix significantly improves RPCS3 performance on GeForce GPUs. The PS3 emulator witnesses roughly 10-25% FPS gains depending on the exact hardware and game, with fans being seriously pleased with the overall results here. Voice: DefaultSpeed 0:00 / 2:04 Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio.

TL;DR: RPCS3, the popular PlayStation 3 emulator, now supports playing PS3 games directly from Blu-ray discs (internal or external) on Windows, Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD, enabling preservation and easy access to physical game libraries without needing an aging PS3 console. Voice: Kosta AndreadisSpeed 0:00 / 2:08 Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio.

RPCS3 crossed a real milestone in July 2026: more than 75% of the entire PlayStation 3 library is now rated playable on PC, according to The FPS Review. That number matters because RPCS3 has always been the slow, methodical emulator of the console world — it took over a decade to get PS3 hardware quirks…

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…