Private and community servers for Minecraft and COD are illegal and amount to piracy, ESA tells California Senate — Stop Killing Games-backed bill fails to pass committee

The Entertainment Software Association, in its infinite wisdom, has told a California Senate committee that private and community servers are illegal and amount to piracy.

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HamsterOS jams a 32-bit GUI operating system in a single 1.44 MB floppy disk — retro OS for 386-era hardware should make for easy living with DOS machines and software
 HamsterOS jams a 32-bit GUI operating system in a single 1.44 MB floppy disk — retro OS for 386-era hardware should make for easy living with DOS machines and software

HamsterOS fits on just a single 1.44 MB floppy disk, and it’s set for a full release this November.

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Designer turns discontinued E-Ink dev board into a 60Hz Game Boy handheld — dual-core chip runs at 100% to power handheld, 960×540 display employs ultra-low-cost ESP32-S3 microcontroller
 Designer turns discontinued E-Ink dev board into a 60Hz Game Boy handheld — dual-core chip runs at 100% to power handheld, 960×540 display employs ultra-low-cost ESP32-S3 microcontroller

The hardware is discontinued and the experience isn’t perfect, but the fact that the emulator exists at all is a true technical achievement.

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PlayStation is removing over 500 movies from UK customers’ accounts with no refunds — Iconic films like Terminator 2, Apocalypse Now, and Mulholland Drive are getting deleted
 PlayStation is removing over 500 movies from UK customers’ accounts with no refunds — Iconic films like Terminator 2, Apocalypse Now, and Mulholland Drive are getting deleted

Sony will delete 551 movies from PlayStation users’ accounts in the UK on September 1, 2026. These are films distributed by StudioCanal that no longer come under licensing agreements between the two companies.

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Steam Machine scalping hits $3,000 on eBay as sellers list preorder reservations — scalpers already flipping queues for 2X the MSRP of the 2TB model
 Steam Machine scalping hits $3,000 on eBay as sellers list preorder reservations — scalpers already flipping queues for 2X the MSRP of the 2TB model

Several listings for Steam Machine pre-orders are being sold at markups so high that buyers will have to pay 140% to 167% above Valve’s selling price.

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Rosewill’s M.2 SSD Cloner and Eraser drops to its lowest-ever price of $47 — become an IT hero, or just save yourself some time and frustration
 Rosewill’s M.2 SSD Cloner and Eraser drops to its lowest-ever price of $47 — become an IT hero, or just save yourself some time and frustration

Clone and erase NVMe drives, offline, or connected to a PC, for less than $50.

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Nintendo Switch 2 is once again $399 at Woot for new customers, $419 for returning customers with code — save up to $50 while supplies last
 Nintendo Switch 2 is once again $399 at Woot for new customers, $419 for returning customers with code — save up to $50 while supplies last

Get a brand new Nintendo Switch 2 for less.

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Microsoft increases Xbox Series console prices for the third time in two years, kills off 2TB model — $100-$150 upswings on every model

Microsoft increases Xbox Series console prices for the third time in two years — $100-$150 upswings on every model except the now-dead 2 TB version

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Riot Vanguard finally drops its controversial always-on requirement for anti-cheat — new on-demand mode requires a strict Windows 11 security stack

Riot Games has announced that it plans to let players stop its Vanguard anti-cheat from loading on startup.

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Steam Machines will only come with one 16GB stick of RAM — company may change this to two 8GB sticks in the future, but the first batch of consoles is limited to single-channel memory

Valve confirmed to Gamers Nexus that the first batch of Steam Machines will only have one 16GB RAM stick. This would have a negative effect on the console’s performance, but the company likely did this to keep its price as low as possible, or because it’s the only available option left for the company.

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