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A Reddit user created an open-source Oblivion Remastered performance mod with the help of Anthropic's Claude AI, delivering 40+ engine-level optimizations that boost FPS by over 40% and greatly reduce stuttering without any visual trade-offs.
Hardware enthusiast Throaty Mumbo demos GCVHS, an experimental gaming system that encodes executable game data and video streams onto real VHS tapes, getting classics like Doom and Super Mario Bros running via a DE1-SoC FPGA board and RP2350 microcontroller, revisiting the 1987 Action Max concept with genuinely interactive results.
Certain Things Studio's Sprout Pi and Sprout Pico are full motherboard replacements for classic iPods, adding Bluetooth, Wi-Fi streaming (AirPlay/Google Cast), USB-C, microSD, and FLAC playback without requiring soldering. The boards are headed to a Crowd Supply crowdfunding campaign but will only support 3rd/4th-gen iPods and the iPod mini.
AI models are now able to decompile old video games into source code in days rather than years, enabling native ports, high-FPS enhancements, and modding support for abandoned titles like the original Flash Binding of Isaac. The trend raises both excitement for game preservation and concerns about AI's broader impact.
AI is driving a massive boom in game decompilation, crossover mods, and VR ports, giving consumers access to almost everything for free, while threatening to upend the gaming industry’s business models and the era of physical discs.
Owners of the NVIDIA CMP170HX 10Gb graphics card can look forward to a VRAM unlock increasing memory from 40GB to 48GB, with the mod expected to arrive soon.
Opus 5.5 autonomously built a Minecraft mod that turns any player-built structure into a fully controllable flying physics object, plus an in-game rendering/film tool, completing everything from design doc to edited video in under 30 hours and shipping it all open-source.
Opus 5.5 is a tool that transforms Minecraft into a realistic Star Wars game experience directly in the web browser.
OpenGOAL is a project that decompiles and recompiles the GOAL language used in the Jak & Daxter game series, enabling native ports with improvements and modding capabilities.
SteamDB and Nexus Mods announce a partnership or merger, combining resources in the gaming database and modding community.
An unofficial version of Nvidia's DLSS 5 AI upscaling technology has leaked and is being modded into various games, demonstrating enhanced visual effects but also causing performance drops.
A GPU modder warns that 96GB 4090 and 5090 cards are not real as of June 2026 and are scams preying on buyers' desperation.
Reports of a 96GB VRAM modded RTX 5090 (Blackwell RTX 6000) are confirmed from Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei market, priced around $8,200 total for the hacked card.
OpenMW 0.51.0 has been released, introducing new features for modders such as magic effects via Lua scripting and terrain vertex painting in the content file editor, along with bug fixes.
Using a SCSI-to-USB adapter to connect a 90MB Bernoulli disk from the 1980s to a Wii U, successfully installed and ran the Game Boy Advance game 'Metroid Fusion', demonstrating a compatibility experiment between retro storage media and a modern game console.
A product that turns the classic GameBoy into a functional workstation for productivity tasks.
A Rimworld modder describes users uninstalling mods that were updated with AI assistance, noting the reaction is based on principle rather than rational arguments.
A Minecraft mod that implements a full Wayland compositor within the game, allowing users to launch and manage windows like Firefox, GIMP, and VLC inside Minecraft. Linux-only.
Valve has released the CAD files for the Steam Controller under a Creative Commons license, allowing modders to create custom accessories and modifications.