Xbox price increases across the UK and Europe have been revealed, with prices upped by as much as £170 or €200.

Sony confirms that its stance has not changed on ending the production of physical game discs for titles released after January 2028.

A Nintendo DS game that was classified as ‘lost media’ for nearly two decades is now within tantalizing reach of video gaming fans and archivists.
The PS5 emulation scene is showing extremely impressive progress, with 3D titles now being playable at around 30 FPS just two weeks after the first 3D titles even became bootable.
You can now upgrade your Wii U from an 8GB or 32GB internal storage to more than a TB with this SSD kit. You’ll have to install the Aroma custom firmware on your console to use it, though.

Microsoft has confirmed that you should’ve been able to play your discs offline during the Xbox outage yesterday. The company has identified an issue with entitlement checks that prevented the correct ones from loading during the outage, breaking intended functionality.

How far are you willing to go for physical media? That’s the question the Neo Geo AES+ asks above anything else, given the $90 price tags of its game cartridges. Though, comparing it to its original prices from the 90s, especially when adjusted for inflation, makes it start to look like a bargain.
Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet said that a licensing service sitting outside Xbox, which the platform depends on, began failing late on July 26 and took roughly 16 hours to clear.

I go through the steps of replacing the standard 1TB SSD in an MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ with a 2TB SSD.
A Steam Deck devotee was so fed up with their family borrowing their handheld and leaving it with a flat battery that they have resorted to quite extreme anti-sharing measures.