Capcom Adds All 3 OG Resident Evil Games to Steam, but There's a Catch

Surprise! The first three instalments of Capcom's storied Resident Evil franchise — 1996's Resident Evil 1, 1998's Resident Evil 2, and 1999's Resident Evil 3: Nemesis — are now available to play on ...

The PS3 Just Got A New Update Two Decades After Release

The March 2026 PlayStation 3 system update, version 4.93, allegedly "improves system performance," and comes on the heels of ...

What Ever Happened to Napster?

Napster made digital music feel limitless for the first time, then vanished in lawsuits, rebrands, and sales. Its name faded, ...
HotHardware

Sony Drops Surprise PS3 Update And It's Required To Keep Blu-Ray Working

It's been nearly 20 years since Sony released the PlayStation 3, which at the time ran $499.99 for the 20GB model and $599.99 for the 60GB model. If you've held onto one for that long, your splurge ...
Play Station Universe

PS3 System Software Update 4.93 Is Out Now, Brings More System Performance Improvements

The PS3 turns 20 in November this year, but that hasn’t stopped Sony from keeping the console ticking away with more firmware updates, and sure enough, you can now download PS3 system software update ...
Pocket-lint

My favorite streaming app on the PS3 is gone, but these alternatives still work

Craig is a reporter for Pocket-lint based in Toronto. He earned a diploma in journalism from Seneca Polytechnic and holds a Media Foundations certificate from Humber College. Craig previously interned ...
Eurogamer

Metal Gear Solid 4 and Peace Walker delisted from PS3 store following Master Collection Vol. 2 reveal

Metal Gear Solid 4: Sons of the Patriots and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker have seemingly been removed from the PS3 digital store, shortly after the reveal of the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection ...
Kotaku

Netflix Remembers It Never Shut Down Its Old PS3 App, Announces It Is Doing That Very Soon

Anyone booting up Netflix on an old PlayStation 3 today ran into a depressing warning. The steaming app, which has been around for about 15 years now, is shutting down next month. RIP. On February 3, ...
BGR

5 Clever Uses For Your Old PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 is two decades old — Sony's seventh-generation console launched in 2006 and became the first console to support Blu-ray. Similar to giving your old PS4 new life, an old PlayStation 3 ...
TechCrunch

App downloads declined again in 2025, but consumer spending soared to nearly $156B

The subscription economy helped boost mobile app revenues in 2025, even as app downloads declined for the fifth consecutive year, according to app intelligence firm Appfigures‘ annual report. In 2025, ...
Yardbarker

Sony’s PS3 Store Glitch Sparks Shutdown Panic—But It’s Still Alive

If you thought the PS3 had been taken out back and retired to make room for its flashier, younger siblings, think again. Sony’s plucky last-last-gen console refuses to say die, and its PSN store is ...
Engadget

A native PS3 emulator for Android is available on the Play Store

We're another step closer to getting PlayStation 3 games to run smoothly on an Android smartphone. A little-known developer has released aPS3e, a PS3 emulator that can natively run on Android, onto ...