Leaked PlayStation store files suggest that Sony could be exploring cross-buy between PC and PS5

Sony appears to be exploring potential cross-buy games between PC and PS5, according to recent leaks from the PlayStation store. The leak first appeared on X, where user Amethxst posted an image purportedly showing new, hidden symbols that have been added to the PlayStation store. One icon reads “Cross-Buy”, while the second reads PS5/PC. “New…

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Larian publishing director says Steam is dominant because ‘It isn’t providing a s*** service defined by public shareholder KPIs,’ but concedes ‘A post-Gabe world is a terrifying one’

Recent news that 72% of devs (most of whom occupied the rarefied airs of the C-suite) consider Steam a monopoly set tongues wagging all over the internet. Turns out, people have strong feelings about the videogame launcher in their taskbar, and they weren’t shy about expressing them. One of those people? Larian publishing director Michael…

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Unsurprisingly, players have already found a way to use parts of Peak’s newest biome to fire themselves into the stratosphere

Peak dropped its Roots update last week, adding a new biome filled with towering redwood trees and filled with spore clouds and undead creatures. Between the trees though, you’ll find giant red mushrooms which you can bounce off, and it hasn’t taken players long at all to find an exploit which drastically increases the air…

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This bright spark built a 90 KB Minecraft server and got it running on a Wi-Fi-equipped lightbulb

We’ve seen Doom running on all sorts of low-powered hardware, but it looks like it might be Minecraft’s turn in the sun. YouTuber and minimalist hardware extraordinaire Vimpo has created a tiny custom Minecraft server implementation for machines with limited resources—and to show off its potential, they’ve got it running on a smart bulb, of…

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I’ve already been getting my hopes up for The Expanse game from RPG factory Owlcat, and its main theme just skewered my Mass Effect-loving lizard brain

It’s tough out there for BioWare fans: Veilguard was better than it gets credit for, but the studio still looks like it’s on its last legs. Our only solace seems to be other developers picking up the torch of those big, cinematic, ensemble cast, wish fulfilling RPGs: Larian, CDProjekt, and now, maybe Owlcat with its…

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This mad lad got Battlefield 6 to run on a 12-year-old AMD CPU, circumventing its stated anti-cheat requirements

Despite some recent unrest within the community, Battlefield 6 is mostly a home run for the venerable military shooter series—thanks in part to its pristine optimization. It boasts a low barrier to entry due to non-prohibitive system requirements, and those requirements are so low fans have been putting it through the wringer to see just…

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