RPCS3 has reached a new milestone: there are now zero games left in its “Loadable” category. Every game in its compatibility database can now get past the initial loading stage. - Around 80% of PS3 games are fully playable. - The last game cleared was Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2. - Developers continue working on games with bugs and performance issues. PS3 emulation keeps getting better

RPCS3, the popular PS3 emulator, has received a graphics update for Apple Silicon Macs. The update introduces a new Vulkan driver called KosmicKrisp, built on Apple’s Metal 4 technology. - Fixes several graphics bugs. - Adds Vulkan 1.4 support. - Improves graphics compatibility on Apple Silicon Macs. - Offers an alternative to the previous MoltenVK driver. There are a few limitations: it requires macOS 26 Tahoe or newer and only works on Apple Silicon Macs.

RPCS3 devs have ZERO interest in making an official PS5 port… but that hasn’t stopped someone else from doing it. An unofficial native version of the PS3 emulator is already running directly on a jailbroken PS5 Pro, without needing Linux. The experimental build was tested on a PS5 Pro running firmware 13.60 with the Relapse jailbreak. Need for Speed Carbon is fully playable at a locked 60 FPS, with DualSense support and games loading from internal storage or an exFAT USB drive. The project even runs RPCS3’s Big Picture Mode directly as the frontend.

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.