RPCS3 is one step closer to letting users play PS3 games without installing the official PS3 firmware. The emulator has now fully reimplemented another PS3 system module, cellSysmodule, replacing the version that would normally be loaded from Sony’s firmware. You still need to install the PS3 firmware today, but this is another important milestone toward RPCS3’s long-term goal of eventually making it unnecessary.

RPG Maker’s official forums will shut down permanently on December 11, 2026. When that happens, more than 14 years of community content will be deleted, including tutorials, guides, screenshots, images, attachments, and countless discussions that have helped RPG Maker users for years. No official archive or backup has been announced. For many developers, the forums have been an important source of knowledge. Some of this information cannot be found anywhere else. Many images and files are hosted directly on the forums and could be lost forever once the site goes offline.

RPG developer Josh Sawyer says Obsidian Entertainment is not against romance systems like the ones in Baldur’s Gate 3. He explained that these features take a huge amount of time, money, and work to create properly. “It’s not like an opposition to their existence,” Sawyer said. “It’s just that I don’t know if we’re going to be able to do it.” Sawyer said romance systems need a lot of extra writing, voice acting, cutscenes, and character reactions. Because of this, Obsidian would rather focus on other parts of a game instead of adding romances that feel incomplete or low quality. He also said players now expect romance content to be as detailed as Baldur’s Gate 3, which raised the standard for RPG games. Sawyer added that Obsidian still cares about emotional stories and character relationships.

The RPCS3 team, creators of the top free emulator for playing PlayStation 3 games, has asked people to stop submitting AI-generated slop code changes. They said: “Please stop submitting AI slop code pull requests to RPCS3. We will start banning those who do without disclosing. There are plenty of resources online to learn how to debug and code instead of generating slop that you don’t understand and that doesn’t work.” The team is not against AI tools, but many AI code changes are just AI slop, not even tested, and sent by people who do not understand the code. This wastes the team’s time on this very hard project that needs deep knowledge of PlayStation 3 hardware. Many other free software projects have the same problem.

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