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EmuDeck removes Yuzu And Citra emulator support

By Smellbringer,
The news of the Yuzu team agreeing to pay Nintendo $2.4 million in damages and immediately shut down all operations sent shock waves through the emulation landscape. EmuDeck will now also be removing Yuzu and Citra.

Yuzu agrees to pay Nintendo $2.4 million and will entirely shut down (Citra for 3DS too)

By Liam Dawe,
After Nintendo recently filed a lawsuit against the Yuzu team, it was pretty much inevitable this was going to happen wasn't it.

Nintendo goes after Switch emulator yuzu in new lawsuit

By Liam Dawe,
Well, here we go. Nintendo have formally filed a lawsuit against the creators of the popular open source Switch emulator yuzu.

EmulationStation Desktop Edition (ES-DE) gets new default look and different font sizes

By Liam Dawe,
EmulationStation Desktop Edition 3.0 is out now and it's gone through a rebrand to simply ES-DE, plus a whole bunch of improvements come with this release.

Wine 9.2 brings Mono updates, system tray fixes and more

By Liam Dawe,
Another development release of the Windows compatibility layer is here with Wine 9.2, bringing with it some new features and fixes so here's what's changed.

GE-Proton 8-28 released with ULWGL support for non-steam games

By Liam Dawe,
We recently had the announcement of the new Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (ULWGL) project, and now GE-Proton has been upgraded to make use of it with GE-Proton 8-28 out now.

Wine 9.0 Release Candidate 2 now available, plus VKD3D-Proton 2.11.1 out now

By Liam Dawe,
We're reaching the end-game now Wine fans, the time for Wine 9.0 to release is quickly approaching with a second Release Candidate now available. Plus VKD3D-Proton also had a small update recently too!

EmulationStation Desktop Edition v2.2 brings huge additions

By Liam Dawe,
EmulationStation Desktop Edition is a frontend for browsing and launching games from your multi-platform game collection, it's pretty great and the latest version 2.2 is out now with loads of improvements and new system additions.

Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra gets a performance boost on Linux / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Recently I highlighted that the Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra was doing a big move over to Vulkan, giving it a modern rendering system to keep on pushing performance. The latest updates also give a big boost for Linux / Steam Deck.

Microsoft's buyout of Activision gets closer with the UK CMA consulting further

By Liam Dawe,
The long saga of Microsoft buying up Activision Blizzard took another step forward, with the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) now consulting on remedies Microsoft put forward to address the CMA's concerns.

Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra adds Vulkan support

By Liam Dawe,
Nintendo 3DS emulation is about to get a whole lot better, as Citra now has Vulkan support bringing better performance for players.

VKD3D-Proton v2.10 brings various game fixes, DirectStorage additions and lots more

By Liam Dawe,
VKD3D-Proton, the tool that translates Direct3D 12 to Vulkan for Steam Play Proton, has a brand new release out with version 2.10 and it's an exciting one.

PSP emulator PPSSPP adds RetroAchievements support

By Liam Dawe,
PPSSPP is a free and open source emulator for the Sony PSP, with release 1.16 out now adding in support for the popular RetroAchievements project.

DREAMM emulator for classic LucasArts games v2.1 out with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
DREAMM is another project focused on keeping classic games alive, designed originally for preserving classic DOS, Windows, and FM-Towns LucasArts games.

Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu gets lots of optimizations, fixes for Pikmin 4

By Liam Dawe,
The team working on the Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu have another progress report up, and as usual it's looking mighty fine so here's a little run over what they've done recently.

Dolphin Emulator devs give up on Steam release

By Liam Dawe,
After all the ruckus recently about the Dolphin Emulator for Wii and GameCube coming to Steam, and then being blocked - the team has now given up with the Steam release.

Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu makes some big progress in the latest report

By Liam Dawe,
The incredible team building the Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu have a new progress report out for June 2023 and it's quite a doozy. Yes June, they're running over previous work.

AMD RADV gets feature to help emulation and translation layers

By Liam Dawe,
Some fun news for AMD GPU owners with the open source RADV (Vulkan) Mesa driver, as it recently gained support for fragment shader interlock. This will be useful for emulation and translation layers.

Classic LucasArts games emulator DREAMM adds early Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Want a way to play classic LucasArts games on Linux? While some ways already exist like ScummVM, another is DREAMM and it now has early Linux support.

RetroDECK got a lot bigger and better for emulation on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
RetroDECK is just one of the ways you can set up your Steam Deck for emulation and their team recently put up a rather great sounding upgrade in v0.7.0b.
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