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Do You Own Your Games? The Crew, AB 2426 and the Buy-Button Lawsuits
Ubisoft’s shutdown of the online-only game The Crew, followed by reported licence removals from customer accounts, made the difference between a purchase label and a revocable digital licence a live consumer issue. California responded with Business and Professions Code Section 17500.6, effective January 1, 2025, requiring sellers that use terms such as “buy” or “purchase” to separately disclose or obtain acknowledgement that digital goods are licensed.
Oct14
The Road to PlayStation 6: PS5 Pro, Project Amethyst, Two Price Hikes and the Memory Crunch
Sony’s PS5 began at $499.99 in 2020, then moved through a Slim revision and the higher-priced PS5 Pro, whose PSSR upscaling introduced machine-learning hardware to the PlayStation line. Sony and AMD have since made Project Amethyst a joint technology program, publicly outlining AI, ray-tracing and compression designs for a future console while continuing to update PS5-era graphics technology.
