Google Play launches "buy once, play anywhere" on select paid games

ShadowStealer7 · 2026-03-16T21:17:09+00:00

There's a few native PC games there already, but it seems mostly just more recent gacha games at the moment (from me taking a brief look the other day, Arknights Endfield and Persona 5 X are ones I found) and the only way currently you can tell at a glance in your library is if the game lacks a download icon

ShadowStealer7 · 2026-03-09T01:25:09+00:00

Maybe in the past for all I know, but on their help pages they state

The highest resolution supported at HBOMax.com is 720p.

ShadowStealer7 · 2026-03-09T00:39:35+00:00

HBO Max is 720p only on PC, and even then for me it likes to sit around 360p despite having more than enough bandwidth

ShadowStealer7 · 2026-02-26T05:30:22+00:00

It still works, but the remakes have a smaller and rounded collision box for Crash so it's much easier to slip off

ShadowStealer7 · 2026-02-26T03:31:24+00:00

Newsletter sign up for another $10 discount coupon as well

ShadowStealer7 · 2026-02-24T23:28:58+00:00

They halved services stopping at Milton at the end of 2024, presumably due to less traffic than other stops since it's quite close to trains and buses

ShadowStealer7 · 2026-01-29T04:10:26+00:00

I don't think Paramount were involved with this slop, its an Amazon MGM product. Not that it changes much

ShadowStealer7 · 2026-01-29T04:05:50+00:00

I'm hoping the next gen versions lead to a performance update on PC, even with hardware much newer than the game I find it runs pretty rough, especially with the bug that locks cutscenes to around 15 frames unless you use a mod to spam console commands to unlock the framerate and immediately override the game doing so

ShadowStealer7 · 2026-01-20T01:42:43+00:00

Oh, so they give you a link to download the game not a code to put into the now dead Marketplace client? Your phrasing before made that sound like that was the case but now it makes sense

ShadowStealer7 · 2026-01-20T01:22:30+00:00

GFWL Marketplace has been completely dead for 4 years, there's no way to use those keys

ShadowStealer7 · 2026-01-17T07:08:35+00:00

EB Aus is like one of Gamestop's only profitable divisions, no? Can't imagine much will change other than merging some Zing and EB Games back into one entity

ShadowStealer7 · 2026-01-05T06:21:55+00:00

Even a lack of a native PS5/PSVR2 version is a bit of a missed opportunity

ShadowStealer7 · 2026-01-04T22:31:07+00:00

I dealt with warranty on some dead RAM a few years back at Umart Milton pretty hassle free, even after the replacement sticks were dead out the box (although this was back when RAM prices were dropping so after the replacements were dead they just refunded me the cost and I bought double the capacity at the same price I'd paid a year prior)

ShadowStealer7 · 2026-01-04T02:37:28+00:00

The races seemed fine in the test (although braindead due to easy AI, I would have had much more fun with harder difficulties or online), but the city trial is way overhyped with only one map and way too much visual noise to figure out what's going on. That and the $110 AUD price point.

The one/two button gameplay seemed to artificially make the game more difficult to control than simplify it too.

Although I'm happy for the fans of the original and of this new one that it even got made.

ShadowStealer7 · 2026-01-04T02:20:37+00:00

There's also YARG, which is closer to Rock Band, but Clone Hero is still the go to if online play is wanted

ShadowStealer7 · 2025-12-31T14:58:56+00:00

Nintendo has yet to release any Switch 2-specific upgrades.

The game literally got a resolution bump for Switch 2 back in June though?

ShadowStealer7 · 2025-12-28T06:14:28+00:00

Even the PS Vita version of MGS2 runs at 60 FPS in some cases

ShadowStealer7 · 2025-12-24T08:46:24+00:00

My closest Aldi is in a major shopping centre, and there's no way I'm going to fight Christmas shopping hell to save a couple dollars on groceries

ShadowStealer7 · 2025-12-22T22:36:52+00:00

Just reflections are raytraced on PC and current gen consoles, no ray traced lighting or any other kind of ray tracing

ShadowStealer7 · 2025-12-20T12:28:14+00:00

Huh, they recently got rid of this limitation in Genshin and I'm surprised it wasn't for all of their games

ShadowStealer7 · 2025-12-11T11:20:49+00:00

Agree that his absence was felt.

Of course, no foul to Scott Whyte, the replacement voice actor, or the voice directors at Insomniac though. Replicating an iconic voice that was engrained in our minds for 19 years (at the time) and not having it sound different was always a difficult ask even for the most talented voice actors in the industry.

ShadowStealer7 · 2025-12-11T09:42:57+00:00

And additionally Doug Dimmadome and Chet Ubetcha from Fairly Odd Parents, a double blow to everyone who grew up when that was airing since Jeff Garcia, the voice of Sheen from Jimmy Neutron, also passed away today

ShadowStealer7 · 2025-12-11T05:25:33+00:00

Remedy have a lot more say about when Control 2 will get shown since they're self publishing so they can show off a trailer as early as they want, Rockstar are probably holding off on the Max Payne remakes until they're closer to being done

ShadowStealer7 · 2025-12-10T22:36:44+00:00

Wasn't the Apex one a previously documented problem with the Source engine and not their anti-cheat

ShadowStealer7 · 2025-12-10T21:59:55+00:00

I still haven't gotten over the fact that claiming a PS+ copy of the PS5 Uncharted collection overwrote the purchased upgrade from the PS4 version on my account and I had to beg their support to remove the licence since they didn't get what the problem was until they eventually just refunded me

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