Sega’s $5M investment saved Nvidia in 1996, now Jensen Huang is heading to Tokyo to mark 30 years of partnership — Akihabara event will include a GeForce RTX 5090 FE lottery, an RTX Spark presentation, and more

Nvidia and Sega have scheduled an event next week to celebrate their history and longstanding friendship.

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Future Nostalgia Project asks retro hoarders to ‘Copy That Floppy!’ — flips the early 1990s anti-piracy campaign on its head to encourage budding archivists
 Future Nostalgia Project asks retro hoarders to ‘Copy That Floppy!’ — flips the early 1990s anti-piracy campaign on its head to encourage budding archivists

Flipping the infamous early 1990s anti-piracy campaign messaging on its head, the Future Nostalgia Project is asking retro hoarders to Copy That Floppy!

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Cracked version of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced leaked days prior to official release despite Denuvo DRM protection — Denuvo unable to stop crackers, with some finding ways to completely remove it from other titles

Ubisoft’s remake of the 2013 game has been circulating online more than a month before its official release date, despite Denuvo DRM protection. Incident questions the effectivity of anti-piracy app, which causes performance hits and requires intrusive online check-ins.

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Modding tool ‘DLSS Swapper’ might infect your PC with malware if you download the wrong files — App creator warns against using random, user-submitted DLLs

The creator of DLSS Swapper is warning against using random DLLs that claim to fix issues pertaining to DLSS, FSR, or XeSS, even if said file is available on the app’s GitHub repo.

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Valve releases drivers, notes to make Windows work on Steam hardware, but refuses to support it — tells users it doesn’t offer support for ‘Windows on Steam Hardware,’ gaming company provides resources ‘as is’

These drivers will make it easier for your Steam Deck or Steam Machine to play nicely with Windows 11. However, Valve says it does not offer customer support for ‘Windows on Steam Hardware,’ and instead points stuck users to the SteamOS recovery instructions.

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PlayStation disc petition approaches 200,000 signatures as backlash grows over Sony’s decision to stop producing new physical media — firm still plans to produce optical media for existing titles, but new games will be digital only

A Change.org petition urging Sony to keep making physical PlayStation games has passed 172,000 signatures.

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Microsoft ‘resets’ Xbox by cutting 3,200 jobs this year, divesting five game studios — firm cites ‘margins that are 3-10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses’
 Microsoft ‘resets’ Xbox by cutting 3,200 jobs this year, divesting five game studios — firm cites ‘margins that are 3-10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses’

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced that Microsoft’s gaming division will cut 3,200 jobs throughout FY27 and is spinning out studios but not canceling any games.

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You can now use your Sony headphones as a free real-time head tracker for race and flight simulators on PC, several hundred games already supported — enthusiast creates open-source app that translates live sensor data into in-game camera controls

A new open-source app called Sony Head Tracker, developed by Nicholas Slattery, reads raw sensor data from Sony headphones and earbuds and converts them into something OpenTrack can understand. From there, it can be used for head tracking in over 200 PC games.

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Steam Machine interview full transcript: Valve engineers discuss $1,049 pricing, compact design, component shortages, and Windows support
 Steam Machine interview full transcript: Valve engineers discuss $1,049 pricing, compact design, component shortages, and Windows support

Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais and Yazan Aldehayyat talked to Tom’s Hardware about the Steam Machine, it’s pricing, engineering, and even Windows support.

Germany’s massive 60,000-game preservation project collapses after €1.5 million funding dries up — world’s largest game archive was entirely publicly available, now abandoned just as Sony kills physical media

A German effort to assemble the world’s largest publicly accessible video game archive is being wound down after roughly €1.5 million in public funding expired.

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