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Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation Store will be shut down on the PS3 and PS Vita by mid-2027. Players will no longer be able to purchase digital games or DLC after the closure, but previously purchased content will remain available for download for the 'foreseeable future'.

Dead or Alive 6: Last Round has launched to heavy criticism on Steam, with players citing a costly DLC structure, limited upgrade options, delisting of the original release, and missing features such as rollback netcode and cross-play. While reviewers acknowledge the underlying fighting mechanics remain strong, many argue the re-release is undermined by aggressive monetization and insufficient value for returning players.

The latest firmware update can render the Philips Hue Bridge Pro inoperable, as several user reports indicate. Until Signify fixes the issue, it’s recommended to disable automatic updates, since setting up lights and accessories again can take several hours, depending on the setup.

In a move that many in the gaming community online consider an elaborate 'ragebait' scheme, one scalper has announced his intentions to 'corner' the digital preorder market for GTA VI. This is why things might not play out as expected for them.

Sony will remove 551 previously purchased StudioCanal films from PlayStation libraries in the UK and Europe on September 1, 2026. The move, with no refunds expected, underscores the fragility of digital ownership.

Microsoft is raising Xbox console prices worldwide from August 1, with Series S and Series X models increasing by up to $150. The company blames memory and storage costs, warning further price hikes could follow by 2027. Microsoft will also offer financing options in select markets and sell refurbished consoles at a discount.

According to the product page for the GTA 6 Ultimate Edition, it appears to include several exclusive shops. If that is the case, Rockstar would be locking entire parts of the game world behind a paywall for the first time – and many fans are not happy about it.

Sony had to pivot quickly after learning that physical GTA 6 PS5 pre-orders lacked a disc. The company uploaded a corrected ad depicting the digital version of the PlayStation console. Despite the slip-up, Rockstar is embarking on a critical marketing partnership with the gaming giant.

The collapse of EVRStudio appears to have brought an abrupt end to one of the most intriguing stealth-action projects announced in recent years. Following reports of bankruptcy proceedings in South Korea, the future of Mudang: Two Hearts looks effectively sealed.

Pixel owners are reporting touchscreen problems following the update to Android 17, including brief freezes and reversed scrolling gestures. Google has acknowledged the issue but has not yet released a fix, leaving users with unreliable workarounds and recommendations to delay updating where possible.

Electronic Arts is expanding its advertising business. With “EA Advertising,” the publisher plans to integrate ads directly into gameplay in the future. What EA describes as authentic and dynamic brand integration is already drawing heavy criticism from the gaming community.

A social media post from PlayStation Japan caused panic among Xbox, Switch 2, and PC gamers. An apparent Grok translation error suggested that Final Fantasy 7 Revelation was a PS5 exclusive. The wording contradicts Square Enix’s announcement of a simultaneous multi-platform release date.

In a series of unfortunate events, a gaming PC was destroyed by a gunshot. It was an accident, and no one got hurt, but apparently, the gun was discharged by a dog.

Since the March update, many users of Google Pixel smartphones have been complaining about a bug that causes a bootloop, which can render smartphones practically unusable. Even after more than three months, the problem has still not been resolved, but Google is now offering possible solutions.

Confusion lingers about Microsoft’s return to Xbox exclusivity. Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Ball shared a post criticizing CEO Asha Sharma for inconsistent messaging. He later claimed it was a mistake, but it remains unclear which games will abandon multi-platform releases.

In Gothic Remake, forgetting to save can quickly cost players several hours of progress. One Reddit user recently had to learn that the hard way – and was met mostly with schadenfreude from the community. A simple habit can prevent the same mistake.

The Finnish start-up Donut Lab wanted to change the world with a solid-state battery with extremely high energy density and a particularly long service life. This has earned the company a valuation of $1.25 billion, but doubts about the existence of the advertised battery are growing.

McAfee researchers say a Malware-as-a-Service operation called WeedHack has infected more than 116,000 Minecraft players worldwide through fake mods, clients, and utility tools promoted via malicious links and YouTube SEO poisoning.

A GTA 6 fan appears to have taken the hunt for clues about trailer 3 a step too far. After reportedly trying to gather information with audio equipment near Rockstar’s offices, he has now turned his attention to the company’s parking lot – and the community is responding mostly with mockery and disbelief.

Microsoft not only accepts AI addiction, but declares it as the primary goal of the brand new Scout AI agent. As leaked documents show, functionality only plays a subordinate role in the first phase of the rollout; Microsoft primarily wants users to become addicted to the AI agent.

Unreal Engine 6 is supposed to lead Epic into the future, but Reddit users remain skeptical and question why Epic is not fixing Unreal Engine 5’s lingering problems first.

FIFA Heroes has missed its May 2026 launch window for the second time and is now confirmed for June 22, landing deep in the FIFA World Cup 2026 group stage.

Rockstar let GTA 6’s former launch date go by without a tweet, screenshot or thank-you to fans. Many users on X and Reddit are disappointed. However, there is also another side to the debate.

Riot Games’ latest Vanguard anti-cheat update has reportedly neutralized high-end DMA PCIe cheating devices used in Valorant, prompting the developer to mock affected users by calling their $6,000 hardware “paperweights.” The patch uses IOMMU-based restrictions to block cheat firmware, escalating Riot’s fight for competitive integrity while raising debate over the legality and limits of disabling hardware tied to cheating.

A Tesla driver tried to test the Cybertruck’s Wade Mode in a lake in Texas, but the experiment ended with a flooded electric pickup truck, an emergency recovery operation and ridicule on social media.

A new Riot Vanguard update directly attacks DMA cards often used by cheaters to read/write to a game’s memory. The only way around it involves fully reinstalling the operating system.

With fans bombarded by often questionable GTA 6 leaks, Google is also guilty of raising false hopes. The search engine listed the PS5 version for an incredibly low price of £0.16. The PlayStation Store result was erroneous, leaving gamers desperate for official pre-order news from Rockstar.

YouTuber Coffeezilla has some jarring information about Trump Mobile. Its website is supposedly leaking a lot of personal data, such as names and email addresses.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed during the University of Arizona’s commencement ceremony as graduates reacted sharply to his remarks on artificial intelligence and its growing role in work and society, even as his speech acknowledged widespread fears about AI, jobs, climate, and politics, but urged students to help shape the technology rather than see the future as already decided.

A potentially overzealous cease-and-desist email to the OrcaSlicer fork developer, Pawel Jarczak, by Bambu Lab, is not playing out well on social media, with YouTube giants such as Gamers Nexus and Louis Rossmann weighing in on what they feel is unfair behavior.

Former Microsoft Game Studios executive Laura Fryer criticized Sony’s quiet PS5 digital licensing update, arguing that an unannounced 30-day online verification prompt alarmed players and risked undermining trust in digital ownership. While Sony says the check is intended to curb refund abuse and does not require ongoing logins, Fryer warned that the lack of transparency makes the change feel like a self-inflicted replay of past console DRM controversies.

Alejandro Martin, creator of the troubled SuperSega FPGA console, has returned with “SuperSega V3,” a handmade wooden PC-style system promising support for original Sega cartridges and discs alongside user-installed high-end hardware. Given the project’s vague pricing, limited production claims, past refund controversies, and apparent reliance on standard emulation, the new pitch is likely to face deep skepticism from retro gaming consumers.

Playground Games has confirmed that a pre-release build of Forza Horizon 6 leaked online, denying claims of a Steam preload error and warning players against accessing or sharing the unauthorized version. The studio says offenders could face franchise-wide and hardware bans, while SteamDB suggests the leak likely came from someone with early access, possibly a reviewer.

A new era of accidental "butt dials" is about to land after Google's annoucement during The Android Show: I/O Edition 2026 that new and enhanced Gemini Intelligence AI features will be added to Android OS. The AI will have the ability to use apps and the web browser autonomously, including placing orders using personal information and sending messages with photos.

Microsoft’s Japan-set Forza Horizon 6 is already running on many gaming PCs. A full Steam build leaked on Valve’s marketplace, delighting piracy advocates. Online features likely won’t be available until the official Xbox and PC early access debut on May 15th.

(Update: Restrictions lifted) GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen’s attempt to buy eBay took an unusual turn after his newly created seller account, used to auction personal memorabilia and promote the bid, was temporarily suspended for suspicious activity.

The consumer PC and laptop market is in absolute shambles. A new report out of Taiwan has now revealed that major motherboard makers like Asus and MSI have revised their shipment targets by quite a bit for 2026. This development is reportedly in response to the detereorating RAM and CPU supply and price situations that have collapsed the consumer tech market.

Tesla is being forced to walk back its major Full Self-Driving (FSD) promise: Older models with Hardware 3 apparently cannot achieve fully autonomous driving through software updates alone. Tesla customers feel misled and have clear demands: a free retrofit or a refund.

A Redditor shared a cautionary tale about downloading early-access games before release dates. A GTA 6 leak with a playable build turned out to be a virus, wreaking havoc with a Windows OS. It later became apparent that the gamer likely tricked posters and never possessed a pirated copy.

YouTube has taken down a video from Moore's Law Is Dead detailing AMD's future Zen 7 CPU architecture. Moore's Law Is Dead, known for leaking upcoming CPU, GPU, and gaming consoles, has claimed that the video takedown doesn't seem to be AMD's doing.

A rare $5,100 MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z became unbootable after its owner attempted a DIY resistor mod, tearing pads and PCB traces near the GPU die. California repair specialist NorthridgeFix rebuilt the damaged traces and replaced missing components without schematics or donor boards, restoring the card to a successful POST pending full reassembly and stress testing.

Sony is expected to refresh its Xperia smartphone series soon with a new Xperia 1. In the meantime, the company has been caught accidentally referring to the Xperia 1 VIII while advertising the older Xperia 1 VII.

Multiple Google Pixel smartphones have been practically unusable since applying the March 2026 update. While Google's latest firmware did not address outstanding bootloop bugs, the company's support team has indicated that will change in May 2026.

(Update: A source claims the issues are a bug) YouTuber Modded Warfare has spotted some new changes brought forth by the newest PlayStation 4/5 system update. Essentially, the console has to connect to the internet periodically to ‘renew’ the license for some digitally purchased games.

In the US, Amazon is facing a class action lawsuit over older Fire TV sticks. The allegation is that the end of software support was not disclosed clearly enough, causing apps and features to stop working properly and leaving some devices barely usable.

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is here. The CPU features 16x Zen 5 cores, two 3D V-Cache chiplets, and an up to 5.6 GHz boost clock. This is all sounds fantastic on paper. However, AMD has reportedly been very stingy with Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 review samples, as even Gamers Nexus didn't get one.

Build A Rocket Boy employees, represented by the IWGB Game Workers Union, have unionized to pursue legal action alleging the studio installed Teramind surveillance software, including keylogging, screen recording, and microphone monitoring, without consent, potentially capturing activity in workers’ homes. Although the software was reportedly removed in March after a collective grievance, the union says management has not disclosed what data was collected, where it was stored, or why it was deployed, and has also filed a separate claim over last summer’s redundancy process that cut 300 jobs.

A Dutch journalist demonstrated a major operational-security flaw by slipping a $5 Bluetooth tracker into a postcard that, once aboard the $585 million HNLMS Evertsen, broadcast the frigate’s real-time location via a crowdsourced network for roughly 24 hours. The incident, enabled by lenient mail screening and a tracker “phone-leeching” design, prompted the Dutch Ministry of Defense to ban battery-powered electronic greeting cards and renewed scrutiny after similar location leaks, such as Strava activity on France’s Charles de Gaulle.