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We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip – Steam

Think you and your bestie can take on any challenge together? We’d like to see you try! This new bite-sized standalone We Were Here experience will really put your friendship to the test. To prove that your friendship can overcome anything, you will need to take on several puzzling challenges.

It’s all about Communication, Teamwork… and Trust. Talk together, work together, and most of all, believe in your friend.

Note:
The game is also claimable in the PlayStation-Store. Have a look there too, if you are a PlayStation gamer.

Looking for something else? Try one of the following links for discounted games:

PlayStation Plus – Prices will increase soon – Get now up to 13% off

I’m sure you have already read the news, but there are just a few more days remaining before Sony increases prices on all of its PlayStation membership packages.

Sony has officially announced price increases of approximately 40% on all of its memberships. The price change comes into effect on the 6th of September. You can read more about it here.

PlayStation gamers seeking the best value on their membership should stock up now before the price increases!

Games located in US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy can get a PlayStation Top-Up card here at up to 13% off. Enjoy the still cheaper prices for the next few days.

Link: Get your subscription still at the current prices for up to 13% off

Happy gaming.

RPCS3 introduces high resolution rendering

RPCS3, the promising Playstation 3 (PS3) emulator, introduces high resolution rendering. What does that mean? That RPCS3 is producing a much nicer picture then the original PS3 could handle. This is achieved by using a much higher resolution which brings many more details of the texture and assets of the games to the light. Have a look at the below video to see the difference:

Check out their blog posts for further details on this exciting feature the RPCS3 team developed.

PS3 Emulator – RPCS3

As I am usually more interested into older systems to play, I read the first time about a working PlayStation 3 emulator today. You as well? They call themselves the ‘The world’s first open-source Sony PlayStation 3 Emulator for Windows and Linux’, so we are probably not the only ones. So lets have a look at what RPCS3 exactly is and what it can do already. From their ‘About’ page:

The History of RPCS3
RPCS3 is an open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger written in C++ for Windows and Linux. The project began development on May 23rd, 2011 and currently supports modern Vulkan, Direct3D 12 and OpenGL graphic APIs. The emulator is capable of booting and playing hundreds of commercial games. With each and every contribution and donation, more and more games are becoming closer and closer to either booting or full playability.

RPCS3 was founded by programmers DH and Hykem. The developers initially hosted the project on Google Code and eventually moved it to GitHub later in its development. The emulator was first able to successfully boot and run simple homebrew projects and was then later publicly released in June of 2012. Today RPCS3 is dubbed one of the most complex video game console emulators of all time with an endless goal to effectively emulate the Sony PlayStation 3 and all of its aspects.

Requirements

As we all now the PlayStation 3 is quite a powerful piece of hardware hence you need pretty beefy hardware on your PC to emulate it. Lets look into the recommended requirements for RPCS3:

Windows 7 64-bit or greater / Linux 64-bit
A modern x64 processor with SSSE3 support
A GPU that supports OpenGL 4.3 or greater
Minimum: 4GB of RAM. Recommended: 8GB of RAM or greater
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 redistributable
Microsoft DirectX End-User Runtime
PlayStation 3 PS3UPDAT.PUP system software file (get it from Sony directly)
PlayStation 3 self-dumped games or applications
Storage requirements will expand depending on installed PlayStation 3 software.

Download and install

Lets grab a copy of RPSC3 and install it. Head over to their Download page and get either the Windows or the Linux binary, depending on your Operating Platform. Download and the run it.

Linux users have to execute the command “sudo chmod a+x ./rpcs3-v0.0.3-2017-08-14-b44f5e5-7621_linux64.AppImage” before running the AppImage.

Once started and in the main windows of RPSC3, install the firmware you downloaded from Sony’s site via “File -> Install Firmware” and selected the just downloaded file PS3UPDAT.PUP. That takes a while and RPSC3 will report back once successfully installed.

Now it is time to start the first title. Either use your own self dumped game or head over to the PD Roms section and download something or the PS3. Download and extract the zip archive.

Run the game

Depending on the file you like to run, lets assume we got a PKG file, you have to install it. Go the RPSC3 select “File -> Install .pkg”, select the downloaded and extract PKG file and let RPSC3 do some magic. It should look similar to this screenshot:

SELF or ELF files can be executed via “File -> Boot SELF/ELF”.

Now it is time to start the PS3 file: Double click (or right click and “Boot”) to start the image. Depending on your machine’s horse power it takes a bit long or even longer to start.

Enjoy.

Dungeon of the ENDLESS
Free (~~TBD~~)	10/13/2023
Web link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2296990/We_Were_Here_Expeditions_The_FriendShip/	Launcher link –