Sony confirms the PlayStation 2, which launched 25 years ago, has sold more than 160 million units worldwide, the most of any gaming console. The PS2 also moved over 1.5 billion games, led by Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas at 17.3 million copies, Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec at 14.9 million, and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City at 14.2 million. Sony produced the console from 2000 until 2013, cutting its price from $299 to $99 over that span.
engadget.com
· 2026-11-10
Rockstar Games will launch Grand Theft Auto VI on November 19, marking the first mainline installment in the series in 13 years. The game returns to a reimagined Vice City and introduces two playable protagonists, continuing the franchise's focus on open-world crime gameplay.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-11-10
Rockstar Games has opened preloading for Grand Theft Auto VI on Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 in most regions, letting pre-order customers install the 212GB game ahead of its November 19 release. Xbox preloading began November 9 at 7 PM EST, while PS5 preloading started at midnight local time on November 10; physical copies ship and arrive at retailers on November 12 with their own preload code.
engadget.com
· 2026-11-10
Xbox Series X/S remain third in global console sales behind Nintendo Switch 2 and PlayStation 5, a gap attributed to a lack of standout exclusives. Despite this, Microsoft's consoles offer stronger backward compatibility with older game libraries than Sony's PS5, letting players access many classic titles cheaply. Sony, by contrast, has leaned more heavily on new releases to drive its platform's popularity.
engadget.com
· 2026-11-07
Gearbox Software announced that its Borderlands series has sold more than 100 million copies total since launch, a milestone reached roughly a year after Borderlands 4 debuted on PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC in September 2025. The latest game has received a year of post-launch content, including two story packs, five bounty packs, two new vault hunters, and additional features.
techspot.com
· 2026-11-03
Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto VI and Nintendo's remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time are both scheduled to arrive within weeks of each other in November 2026. Circana estimates 29% of US gamers intend to buy GTA VI, with analyst Mat Piscatella suggesting the title could drive console upgrades, while most other major releases have shifted their dates to avoid competing with it.
theverge.com
· 2026-11-01
Uninstalling a game on Steam or consoles removes only the files the platform originally installed, leaving behind saves, settings, shader caches, mods, crash dumps and screenshots scattered across other folders. Clearing this leftover data is largely a manual process, though shader caches can be safely deleted since games rebuild them automatically. Separately, an unverified PlayStation Store listing cited by the PlayStation Game Size account pegs Grand Theft Auto VI's PS5 download at 210GB, a figure Rockstar has not confirmed.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-31
FromSoftware has delayed The Duskbloods, its multiplayer game exclusive to Nintendo Switch 2, from its planned 2026 release to sometime in 2027. The studio said an August network test showed strong interest in the game's combat, strategic depth and player expression, prompting it to take extra time to refine rules and balancing.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-29
Virgin Media is hiring one person to play Grand Theft Auto VI for eight hours and provide an honest review of the game, paying €100 (about $112) per hour, roughly $900 total, plus a free copy of the title. Applicants must be 18 or older and can split the gameplay hours across the week; the broadband provider is accepting applications through its website.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-29
A tipster account called PlayStation Game Size reports that Grand Theft Auto VI's download size on PS5 will be approximately 210 gigabytes, based on data pulled from the PlayStation Store backend. Rockstar's game launches November 19 and will ship without a physical disc, meaning even boxed retail copies will only include a download code.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-28
A dataminer account called PlayStation Game Size posted that Grand Theft Auto VI's PS5 download will be 210GB, a figure corroborated by Insider Gaming. The same post lists a preload date of November 12 and a midnight release on November 19 for the standard $79.99 edition. It's unclear whether the 210GB figure includes temporary installer space or reflects the final installed size.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-27
A public jailbreak called Relapse enables PlayStation 5 consoles on firmware up to version 13.60 to play PS2 discs, but applying it blocks future firmware updates and there is no way to downgrade. Sony has reportedly begun blocking PlayStation Network sign-ins for consoles running firmware older than 14.10, meaning jailbroken PS5s lose access to online multiplayer, the PlayStation Store and new games requiring newer firmware.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-27
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