Hardware launches, preservation milestones, community projects, and everything happening in the world of classic gaming.
Kitrinx has released a Virtual Boy core for MiSTer FPGA offering multiple 3D presentation modes, including side-by-side output for 3D televisions, plus working save states.
The X7's successor moves to a Cyclone 10 FPGA, doubles SDRAM to 128 MB, pushes USB-C transfers to around 20 MB/s, and adds native 64DD support with a physical disk swap button.
3DOS 1.5.0 doubles horizontal resolution inside the emulated RDP rather than at the HDMI stage, which Analogue says costs nothing in timing authenticity and leaves 2D graphics untouched.
Physical PlayStation releases end in January 2028 and the PS3 and Vita storefronts shut down in stages through July 2027, putting roughly 2,200 digital-only titles at risk.
Dolphin Release 2606 finally implements Game Boy Player emulation, boots the last unplayable Triforce arcade title, and lands major MMU optimizations that make Rebel Strike run at full speed.
Thirty years after the N64 launched in Japan, Epilogue reveals a USB-C cartridge reader for dumping, verifying and backing up N64 carts, while Analogue ships a firmware update the same day.
A factory-sealed NES copy graded PSA 9.6 A++ has set the highest price ever paid for a video game at public auction, found untouched inside a sealed Control Deck bundle after nearly forty years.
One of the hardest remaining FPGA targets has fallen: Jotego has released the first beta of a Capcom CPS3 core for MiSTer, with Street Fighter III: New Generation and Red Earth playable.
Blaze reveals two new Evercade cartridges carrying 21 games between them, with the Activision cart digging further into the Atari 2600 back catalogue and NEOGEO Arcade 4 continuing the SNK run.
The retro game collecting market is experiencing a sustained price correction, with titles across most platforms falling well below their pandemic-era peaks.