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Load your rifles and get ready to deliver some democracy to those heathen alien interlopers, because Helldivers 2 comes to PlayStation Plus today. Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that the game will be added to the roster of titles PS Plus Extra and Premium subscribers can access as part of its August 2026 update (sorry, Essential-tier…

Buying a PlayStation 5 console in this climate isn’t for everyone, and there are other hardware options available, such as the Steam Deck. If you’ve ever dreamed of playing PS5 games on your Steam Deck, then it’s time to wake up.

Xbox says it has fixed the issue at the heart of the major service outage suffered in July. Chief technical officer Scott Van Vliet, who initially offered an explanation as to why so many services were affected, promised to investigate further at the time, and he has now returned with an update.

An older PlayStation 5 has developed a severe overheating problem that appears to be linked to degradation around its liquid metal thermal interface. The affected console is a CFI-1116 model, although other PS5 owners have reported similar symptoms after several years of use.

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S-Games teased that we would be getting “something unexpected” real soon, and it appears that the PlayStation Store might have just spoiled that surprise. As spotted by some users online, it looks like a playable demo for Phantom Blade Zero is set to release. 

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The largest gaming convention in Northeast Wisconsin is returning to Appleton for its fifth year, from Aug. 13 through 16.

Back in May, Brazilian regulator Anatel appeared to have accidentally leaked images of the unreleased Xbox Elite Controller 3. Now, someone who said they were only looking to buy the Elite Controller 2 on the OfferUp mobile marketplace app may have received the unreleased controller instead. Take note that Microsoft has yet to formally launch the…

We’ve just had an interesting new look at Microsoft’s Xbox Elite Series 3 controller as a Reddit user posted new pictures of a prototype device they claimed to have bought on the online marketplace OfferUp. While the post has since been removed from Reddit, the new images reveal a built-in screen that wasn’t visible in…