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Interview: 15 years after the servers shut down, FromSoft's singular mech game Chromehounds is back online

The PvP mech battler is finally playable online in Xbox 360 emulator Xenia, and I talked to the modder making it happen.

By Wes Fenlon 25 May 2025

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Videogame emulation news and exclusive interviews, from the aesthetics of razor sharp scanlines to the wild technical challenges of making yesterday's games run on tomorrow's hardware.

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