LCLDIY took a flexible display from one of the earliest foldable phones and built an actual PlayStation 2 around it. The result is a clamshell handheld, called the PlayStation 2 Duo, that runs genuine PS2 discs or their digital equivalents, folds for easier carrying, and looks finished enough that someone might mistake it for a limited-run product.
BioWare’s long run as one of the most influential studios in role-playing games ends today as Electronic Arts announced its closure along with the cancellation of early work on the next Mass Effect title. Founded in 1995 in Edmonton by a group of doctors who left medicine for game development, the studio built a reputation on titles that let players shape stories through dialogue choices and party companions. Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic established the approach before Mass Effect and Dragon Age turned it into a global franchise that players still revisit years later.
Xbox Series X owners can now boot certain PlayStation 5 titles on Microsoft’s console through an experimental port called PS5X. Developer Devran Cosmo Uenal built the project by adapting the open-source KytyPS5 emulator, which normally runs on Windows and Linux PCs, into a UWP application that operates exclusively inside Xbox Developer Mode. His September video showed the PS5 build of Quake II running with an Xbox controller, and three additional titles soon followed.
Sony Interactive Entertainment announced a new Midnight Black version of the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition that remains available only inside Japan. The console carries model number CFI-2200B02S and carries a suggested retail price of 55,000 yen including tax. Preorders open at PlayStation retailers and online stores across the country on October 20, with the actual launch set for November 19. That date lines up with the worldwide release of Grand Theft Auto VI, though Sony has not framed the timing as anything more than a shared calendar slot.
KyTyPS5 just turned a pair of PlayStation 5 holdouts into the week’s most watched PC clips. Bluepoint’s 2020 Demon’s Souls remake, a game Sony never sold on computers, is now running real combat at 40 to 50 frames per second in a closed build, with scenery that looks close to the console original. Twelve days after Insomniac’s Marvel’s Wolverine launched on September 15, the same project can open that game’s start screen on a desktop, even if the menu crawls.
Handhelds keep getting larger, with Valve’s Steam Deck leading the charge, but one modder decided to go in the opposite direction. A PSP still slides into a jacket pocket. Tito from Macho Nacho Productions took that contrast and rebuilt an original Sony PSP-1000 as a device he calls Steam Portable, a pocket shell that can stream his Steam library and run retro emulation. Sony never sold anything like it. He used OtherMod’s latest PSPi 6 kit, a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, an 800×480 replacement screen, and a UV printer to stamp Steam branding onto the plastic.
Set 72306 PlayStation is LEGO’s first official collaboration with Sony, revealed September 3, 2026 during PlayStation’s State of Play. Builders 18 and up get 1,911 pieces that form a near 1:1 replica of the original grey console and its first wired controller. The finished set is just over 6 cm high, 26 cm wide, and 19 cm deep, which is close enough to the 1994 hardware to let the model to sit beside a real device without appearing toy-sized. The pricing in the United States is $179.99, while in the United Kingdom it is £139.99 and Europe gets it at €159.99.
Sony used today’s State of Play to show two limited-edition DualSense wireless controllers built around Grand Theft Auto VI. The DualSense Wireless Controller, Grand Theft Auto VI Black Limited Edition and DualSense Wireless Controller, Grand Theft Auto VI White Limited Edition are both inspired by Vice City, with one side designed for sunny seaside days and the other with neon nights. They arrive on the same day as the game, November 19.
Sony Pictures Television switched on Live TV on PS5 for United States players on August 31, handing anyone with a console and a PlayStation account more than 100 live feeds plus on-demand movies and series at no extra monthly fee. Ads pay the bill. No separate download sits in the way, and PlayStation Plus is not required.
Electronic Arts spent nearly four years treating Motive Studio’s Iron Man game like a locked workshop. Announced in September 2022 as a single-player action adventure and the first title in a multi-game Marvel deal, the project then went dark. Fans filled the gap with rumors. Some of those rumors said the game was dead. Friday’s leak, and the company’s own reply a few hours later, said otherwise.