Dolphin emulator gives up on Steam — but won't remove Wii decryption key

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

Resident Evil 4 DLC might be on its way sooner than we expected, as survival horror game developer Capcom implements some changes to RE4 on Steam, updating the shooter for some possible new material. Naturally, we’re expecting the Ada Wong-led campaign Separate Ways, which was not originally included as part of Resident Evil 4 Remake. But the Steam updates could also be connected to new material for the Resident Evil 4 Mercenaries minigame.

RPCSX, the upcoming PS4 emulator from the team behind the popular RPCS3 PS3 emulator, can already successfully run its first PS4 title.

A new Yuzu Early Access build that was made available earlier this week introduces some welcome emulation improvements for a variety of high-profile titles such as Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and 3, and Metroid Prime Remastered, as well as performance improvements.

Microsoft has convinced the EU that their Activision deal won’t change anything in PC gaming outside Windows, for a simple reason.

20 years ago, expansions for PC games were as commonplace as CD drives. If a game was a hit, it probably got an expansion—that was certainly the case for Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2, which both saw their stories continue in 20-hour-plus add-on adventures. When I heard Larian's Baldur's Gate 3 imposes a level cap of 12 out of D&D's possible 20, I thought that sounded like prime expansion setup to me. But Larian founder Swen Vincke says the studio isn't working on one, and it sounds unlikely (though not impossible) that it'll happen.

Square Enix has announced Dragon Quest X Online‘s version 7.0 expansion Dragon Quest X Online: The Door to the Future and the Sleeping Girl. It will launch in 2024 in Japan. More information will be announced after the story of version 6.0 comes to a close.

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An enterprising developer is working on reviving a lost piece of gaming history. A YouTuber using the handle Tuxality has posted a video (via GamesRadar) showing early work on an emulator that can play the games from an obscure rival to the Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3 that only launched in two countries.

Players will get to experience Microsoft's biggest-ever booth at Gamescom this year as the publisher is gearing up to bring two big names, among others, to the convention. 

It took several months, but you can finally play the Wii U versions of Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon online. Nintendo has confirmed that both titles will once again be available for multiplayer as of August 3rd. The company has fixed the security vulnerability that prompted the shutdown of online service in March.

Nintendo UK has revealed that online services for Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 are returning to the Wii U after nearly half a year of outages.