Enthusiast crams reversed-engineered PS2 into a handheld, designs custom motherboard — bespoke “PlayStation 2 Portable” pairs modern features with original silicon

What if you wanted to play PS2 games on the go but didn’t want to emulate them? Meet the PS2 Portable: an open-source handheld pieced together with a custom motherboard featuring original PS2 silicon and modern niceties su…

Origin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world-model builders

Origin Lab will serve as a marketplace where AI labs can buy high-quality licensed data, and video-game companies can sell it.

Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2 by $50 starting in September — Console will soon cost $499, but you can avoid the price hike if you buy now

The price hikes have come for the last remaining current-gen console, as Nintendo has just announced that it’ll make the Switch 2 more expensive in various regions around the world. America is getting a $50 bump this Septe…

GameNative unlocks up to 100 fps gameplay for PC games on Android devices by adding multi-frame generation — Vulkan version of Lossless Scaling boosts performance

GameNative’s latest update brings Lossless Scaling’s multi-frame generation technology to Android devices. Enabling a triple-digit FPS experience from a 30 FPS base frame rate.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma kills Copilot for Gaming — overhauls leadership with CoreAI veterans

Sharma took over as Xbox CEO in February after Phil Spencer retired following 38 years at Microsoft.

Latest Apex Legends update smooths out stutter on Ryzen X3D CPUs — physics algos apparently struggled at high frame rates unlocked by V-Cache

The Apex Legends Season 29 update reduces stuttering by addressing physics calculations that struggled to keep up at high frame rates enabled by modern high-end CPUs.

Keychain-size ‘GameCube’ uses genuine Nintendo silicon — system also includes a dock, design shared to GitHub

Video showcases the Nintendo Kawaii project, in which modders have shrunken a boxy GameCube down to a keychain.

Sony increases prices for refurbished PS5 slims by $100 — PS5 Fortnite bundle is out of stock, marking the end of new $399 consoles

Sony increased prices for refurbished PlayStation 5 Slim consoles, following its move last month to make brand-new models more expensive.