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GTA 6 Trailer Features 'Dacity' Meme Coin—Here's What Traders Think It'll Do
The recent Grand Theft Auto 6 launch trailer briefly mentioned a "Dacity Coin," and crypto traders are speculating on how involved the apparent meme coin will be in-game. Some believe it'll feature in a few side missions, while others believe it'll be a fully tradeable in-game asset. In response, crypto degens have created an unofficial Solana meme coin of the same name and pumped it to a peak market capitalization of $15 million. Traders say they are essentially gambling on the prominence of Da...
Sep 29, 2026
Gaming
Someone Finally Jailbroke the PS5—Just After Sony Said Players Don’t Own Their Games
Someone finally did it. A public jailbreak for the PS5, dubbed Relapse, works on firmware 7.00 through 13.60 and all it takes to achieve is a DNS change and a few seconds. It comes at an interesting time for the company, just weeks removed from Sony's admission in court that its players don't actually own the games they buy digitally. Myriad: Who wins the ESL Pro League? Click to make your prediction. The recipe, posted on X by Nathan Fargo and shared by console scene figure ApolloHB, consists o...
Sep 12, 2026
Gaming
GTA Mod Adds Flock Cameras—And Lets Players Destroy Them
A Grand Theft Auto V mod has added 235 simulated Flock surveillance cameras to Los Santos, giving players a new source of police attention—and something else to blow up. Created by modder WTTDOTM, Grand Theft Automated License Plate Reader adds cameras that photograph and track players and report in-game offenses to police. Players can destroy the devices throughout the fictional city and save the footage to share online. Myriad: CS2 knife index next move? Click to make your prediction. “Flock i...
Sep 3, 2026
Gaming
Sony Dismisses PS5 Buyers' $508M Tariff Refund Claim as 'Illogical'
Sony has asked a federal judge to dismiss a class action demanding that PlayStation 5 buyers get a share of the $508 million it expects to recover in tariff refunds, in a motion filed Monday and reported by Game File. "Paying fair market price for voluntarily purchased consumer goods is not a legally cognizable injury in fact," Sony's lawyers wrote. They called the claim that tariffs caused the August 2025 price rise "speculative and illogical." The firm pointed to inflation, currency moves, com...
Aug 31, 2026
Gaming
Sony Argues in Court That Digital Games Can't Be Owned
Sony has told a federal judge that no reasonable consumer believes they own the digital games they pay for on the PlayStation Store, according to an August 21 filing reviewed by Game File. The filing is the company's first substantive answer to a proposed class action brought in June in the Northern District of California by four California PlayStation customers. They allege the store's "Buy Now" and "Confirm Purchase" buttons imply ownership when the transaction hands over only a revocable lice...
Jul 6, 2026
Gaming
Yield Guild Kills Crypto Game Publishing Arm, Lays Off 35 in AI Pivot
Yield Guild Games, a blockchain-based gaming organization, announced Monday that it is shutting down YGG Play, its publishing arm for crypto-infused casual games, citing the crypto market downturn alongside broader video game industry struggles. The unit's closure marks a retreat from a strategy the Web3 company had championed as recently as this year: building "casual degen" games—bite-sized titles laced with crypto incentives—for crypto enthusiasts who don't consider themselves traditional gam...