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A brand new release on Steam has effectively made owning a PlayStation console optional, as this new app allows PC gamers to play their owned PS5 games without the need for a console.

As they do every month, Sony has released the top downloaded games for PlayStation 5 (PS5). The top of July’s games should come as no surprise, as there were a few big releases that happened during the month.

I feel surprisingly emotional today. Ten years ago, on 9th August 2016, PlayStation Travellers across the universe set foot on their first alien planet in No Man’s Sky.

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.

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.

The PlayStation Portal now allows owners to cloud stream purchased digital PS5 games without Remote Play. Some PS Plus Premium subscribers use the feature to avoid buying a console entirely. Unfortunately, likely due to a technical snafu, popular titles, including Ghost of Yōtei, became inaccessible.

Since the launch of Fortnite in 2017, Epic Games has reached hundreds of millions of players worldwide. Fortnite runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and takes advantage of services such as Amazon OpenSearch Service to power certain internal analytics and drive decision making at scale.

Microsoft is preparing to bring Xbox 360 games to Windows PC through an emulation layer, according to a leaked developer roadmap obtained by The Verge in early August 2026. The document lays out a gradual 2027-2028 rollout across Project Helix, Microsoft’s next-generation console, alongside Xbox-branded PCs and handhelds, building on an already-confirmed program that puts…

What was possible for gaming on PCs changed dramatically throughout the ’80s, going from text-based gameplay to early 3D presentation. Platforms like the Commodore 64, the Atari ST, and the Apple II helped popularize home computer ownership across the decade. This was buoyed by a wide selection of games, several of which pushed the technical…