Days after Valve started sending Steam Frame kits to buyers, iFixit already had one open on the bench and mostly liked what sat inside. Steam Frame launched September 14 as a standalone SteamOS headset that also streams from a PC through an included wireless adapter, starting at $1,059 for 256GB and $1,299 for 1TB, with controllers and Half-Life: Alyx in the box.
FlyWithRookie streams from a Boeing 737NG flight deck that occupies a room the way a real jet occupies a hangar. Flight Deck Solutions in Canada supplied the fixed-base trainer, mixing replica hardware with real aircraft parts from the shell inward, and the result includes circuit breaker walls, a crew jumpseat, a working cockpit door that latches, and a custom galley aft of the flight deck. He has said there is nothing more satisfying than pressing TOGA and watching a real-world throttle walk forward as the jet builds toward V1, rotate, and V2.
A three-and-a-half-minute video released this weekend made an N64 first-person shooter look like it belonged on the Super Nintendo, a 16-bit machine that many grew up with. Bond stands on the Arkhangelsk dam, the gun is in the lower corner of the frame, and the concrete bunkers pass by in chunky polygons while fog eats the far cliffs.
TwilitRealm shipped Dusklight 2.0.0 earlier this week, and the build is the first time this unofficial Twilight Princess port feels finished as a platform rather than a careful reconstruction. Dusklight is a reverse-engineered reimplementation of the 2006 GameCube and Wii adventure, grown out of the zeldaret/tp decompilation and the Aurora framework. You still supply your own legally dumped disc, usually converted to a compact .rvz file. Nintendo assets are not in the download. What arrives from GitHub is original code, licensed CC0, that compiles natively for Windows, macOS, Linux, Steam Deck, Android, and iOS.
In 1994 Nintendo handed Scotland’s DMA Design a Kirby license and a Super NES Mouse and asked the studio to make a prequel. DMA was already known for Lemmings and Uniracers and would, two years later, ship Grand Theft Auto. Kid Kirby started even earlier as a golf-style mouse prototype from freelancer Tony Colgan, then became a stretch-and-launch blob called Jellies before Nintendo suggested the pink puffball.
Cody Rhodes posted the Street Fighter clip yesterday and immediately made the whole thing look inevitable. He wears a tall blond plastic flattop on his head, the exact silhouette Guile has carried since the early Street Fighter games, and talks about it the way old luxury car ads used to talk about leather and wind resistance. “It’s ergonomic and it’s aerodynamic. And it can be yours,” he says, while Noah Centineo and Callina Liang reach up and pull popcorn out of the hollow where the hair should be.
Google Research and HHMI Janelia’s FlyEM team released MaleCNS v1.0 earlier this month, a complete wiring diagram of an adult male fruit fly’s brain and ventral nerve cord. More than 166,000 neurons and about 125 million synapses sit in that public map, rebuilt from electron-microscope slices of a real Drosophila with machine-learning reconstruction. Hobbyists spent the next two weeks pointing those cells at DOOM, Beat Saber, Minecraft, a Rubik’s Cube, crypto tickers, and a parallel-parking drill. Then someone pointed them at Jimbo from Balatro.
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Plaion Replai pushed the worldwide launch of Neo Geo AES+ from November 12, 2026 to Thursday, September 16, 2027, blaming a mix of unexpectedly high demand and a global squeeze on memory chips driven by AI infrastructure. Official wording is blunt: the company cannot build enough units for a proper worldwide launch this year, and shipping a thin November batch would have meant instant sell-outs and secondary-market chaos. Commercial director Ben Jones said Plaion looked at every way to keep the original timetable, then chose extra time to lock down more chips and expand factories rather than shortchange the people already in line.
Vals AI, a completely independent evaluator, tested OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra by throwing it into Minecraft and allowing it to its own tools for 141 hours with only ordinary computer controls: screen, mouse, and keyboard. No fancy game-modifying plug-ins were employed. Thousands of people tuned in to the Twitch stream to watch how it performed. Which wasn’t surprising given that the first, shorter attempt had already created a Nether portal in two and a half hours, long before the game had ever been released. Finally, Astra was the first system Vals had witnessed approach a Nether Castle.
Two years after a single developer launched a fake card shop on Steam, TCG Card Shop Simulator has exited Early Access, with a 1.0 build now available for PC, Xbox, PlayStation 5, Switch, and Switch 2. Ding Shen Sia of OPNeon Games began the project after burning out on mobile work in 2023, expecting that Steam Trading Cards would be enough of an incentive to ship. The store sold 100,000 copies in three days and eventually surpassed four million players.