Nightdive Studios, a company known for efforts in updating and preserving outdated video games, has revealed that it would like to start remastering games from the PS3 and Xbox 360 era. In an interview with VGC, studio head Stephen Kick and director of business development Larry Kuperman said that they want to look at games … Read more
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR The RPCS3-Android emulator has now been updated with Bluetooth controller support. This allows you to play PS3 games on your Android device using a mobile controller, Xbox gamepad, and more. This new update also adds initial support for game folders and fixes several issues. The RPCS3-Android emulator was released … Read more
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR The RPCS3-Android app has just received a significant update which brings a settings menu to the PS3 emulator. This allows you to tweak everything from the resolution and frame limit to save states and more. The app is still in the early stages of development, so we expect even … Read more
This isn’t a mistake or a typo. Sony has released a new update for the PS3–not the PS4 or PS5–that “improves system performance.” While that description is especially vague, it’s possible the patch relates to renewing the Blu-ray player encryption key for the home console. On X, the Ask PlayStation account announced the new PS3 … Read more
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR The Android port of the PS3 emulator RCPS3 is now in available in alpha. This comes less than a week after RCPS3 founder DH started work on the project. It’s still early and many features are missing, but it’s a great sign for PS3 emulation in 2025. PS3 emulation … Read more
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR DH, one of the founders of the PS3 emulator RPCS3, is now working on an Android port. Interest in PS3 emulation on Android has been on the rise due to aPS3e, a legally dubious RPCS3 port using stolen code. DH hasn’t been actively involved in updating RPCS3 since 2016, … Read more
Nick Fernandez / Android Authority The era of PS3 emulation on Android is here! To some degree, at least. Android emulation geeks are abuzz with excitement over aPS3e, the first native PS3 emulator for Android phones. Sure, most of the code appears to be cobbled together from open-source PS3 emulation projects like RPCS3, Vita3K, and … Read more
TL;DR The aPS3e PS3 emulator has been removed from GitHub, possibly because of copyright and licensing issues. The developer Aenu’s account also seems to have been removed. aPS3e had quickly risen to fame in recent days for bringing quality PS3 emulation to Android. In a sudden and somewhat expected move, the aPS3e emulator, which had … Read more
Nick Fernandez / Android Authority Update (3:58 AM EST, February 18, 2025): The aPS3e PS3 emulator on Android has gained considerable notoriety in the past 24 hours, as new details about the developer and the emulator have emerged. We’ve also had more time to test the app, which requires a small trick to work with … Read more
By and large, a lot of gamers believe that the cozy game movement is a newfangled idea that came about sometime in the late 2010’s, meaning that the PS3 was just outside of this cozy gaming window. Related 10 PS2 Cozy Games You Need To Play Cozy games are all the rage now, but they … Read more