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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…

Gears of War: E-Dayis quickly approaching, and so far the consensus is rather positive.

The handheld gaming PC market just got its clearest fork in the road yet. On one side sits Valve’s Steam Deck OLED, a device that has spent three years proving that a Linux-based, console-like handheld can outsell expectations and keep getting cheaper relative to its power. On the other is Asus and Microsoft’s joint effort,…

Xbox has had a lot of ups and downs this year, from layoffs en masse to calls for the return of exclusive games.

On November 15, 2001, US tech giant Microsoft released a large black box into a gaming industry traditionally dominated by Japanese companies.

A triple threat of free games worth over $100, you say? Yes, you heard correctly: Xbox Game Pass has gearedup for a huge weekend of entertainment with another quids-in giveaway.

Minecraft Dungeons II, the co-op dungeon-crawler sequel from Mojang Studios and Double Eleven, joins the service the same day it launches everywhere else — September 29 — as a Game Pass day-one title priced at $29.99 for those purchasing outright. The Minecraft Dungeons II Xbox reveal confirmed day-one access on Game Pass Ultimate and PC…

The Xbox Series X is one of the most powerful video game consoles ever made, but the GPU inside isn’t that different from the type that goes in a PC. Its GPU instead is based on AMD’s Radeon RX 6800, and in real-world gaming, the Xbox performs most equivalent to an Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti.…

Bought the wrong game or want your money back for an Xbox subscription? Here’s what to do.