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The “Payday” franchise is based around cooperative multiplayer, primarily with player vs. environment (PvE) dynamics as teams of players carry out heists. Since debuting in 2011, the series has seen its fair share of ups and downs, including a divisive launch for “Payday 3” that had its developers apologizing. But when a “Payday” experience really…

Over the weekend, dozens of PS5 games were randomly pulled from the PS Portal direct cloud streaming catalog. While Sony‘s terms of service allow it to add and remove games from the PS Portal library without notice, mass removal of games — including Sony’s own first-party titles — is unlikely to be deliberate.

The Xbox Series X is an impressive gaming console, but its custom chip is no longer the high-end offering it once was. The console features a custom RDNA 2 GPU with 52 compute units running at a locked 1.825GHz, producing 12.155 teraflops of GPU compute power, paired with eight Zen 2 CPU cores at up to…

To help answer that question, we’ll be hosting a live conversation with Ross Scott, the founder of the Stop Killing Games campaign, on August 11 at 2:30 pm ET as part of the Ars Live series. As Ars’ Senior Gaming Editor, I’ve documentedcountlessexamples of once vibrant games being left for dead by their creators.

Sony will soon reveal the list of games leaving PS Plus Extra and Premium in September 2026, and we’re back with our monthly predictions for upcoming departures based on the service’s pattern. Fans of Persona games should try to prioritize Persona 5 Tactica, as it’s set to complete a year on the service.