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 ...

With the recent announcement made by GameStop declaring that the Sony PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii U are, for all practical purposes, officially retro consoles, Sony has also put out a ...

Despite the device's recent classification as a so-called retro console, Sony's PlayStation 3 received a new software update on March 18, 2026. The console launched in 2006 and was discontinued in ...

Since it launched, we’ve known the PlayStation 5 was successful; however, in only five years on the market, it’s already jumped past the PlayStation 3 on the all-time sales list, at least in the ...

Subscribing to the newsletter provides deep dives on the PS3 era — hardware evolution, the making of Uncharted and The Last of Us, and thoughtful retrospectives that tie classic consoles and games ...

WTF?! In news that seems anachronistic in 2026, Netflix has announced that it will be ending app support for the 20-year-old PlayStation 3 next month. For the few people still using the ancient ...