Xbox announces new disc-to-digital feature for physical media

Microsoft has opened preorders for the Designed for Xbox 25th Anniversary Collection.
Thieves broke into a home in Washington and stole 850 retro NES games thought to be worth more than $50k.

At gamescom, Asus finally announced the pricing for the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20, either as a standalone handheld or a bundle with AR glasses.

Nintendo is doing Nintendo things again as it goes after 7 different master repos containing Switch emulators, which total out to 401 repos wiped in a single day. Most of these belonged to Yuzu forks, such as Suyu, but there was one exception.

A game preservation group is asking PlayStation users to stay away from their consoles for a week in protest of Sony’s plan to axe physical game disc production. However, others say this is too soft, and a more concrete move would be to cancel PSN subscriptions en masse or refund purchases of pre-sold games.

Take-Two Interactive filed two DMCA subpoenas demanding that Microsoft and Discord identify the person or people behind the “CyberLeek” persona.
U.S. console hardware sales fell 39% by unit volume in July against a year earlier, while the average price paid for a new system rose 16% to $542.
YouTuber Kouzex has transplanted the internals of a pair of Joy-Con 2 controllers into two original Wii Remote shells, producing motion controllers that snap magnetically onto a Switch 2.
One man’s trash is another’s treasure, and GameStop just paid out over $10,000 for hundreds of broken consoles.