In its patch notes for Fortnite today, Epic Games announced it was adjusting how cross-platform play pools are set up by default in the game.
Before, the game's cross-platform capabilities put Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android players all in the same matchmaking pools for games. Now, it seems Epic has opted to divvy them up to improve the game experience for those on Switch and mobile.
Now, Xbox One and PS4 players will be grouped together by default, while Switch users will be grouped with mobile. This does not apply if players are in cross-platform parties already. Fortnite will still allow cross-platform play across all platforms for those already in parties or who accept an invite to one. So, if a Nintendo Switch user is in a party with a friend on Xbox One, they can still play together.

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PlayStation fans, if you think Christmas is the only Season to be jolly, well you’re wrong as we have a great PlayStation Flashsale happening now here at Playasia! Enjoy the 20 Asia Version PlayStation games in the Flashsale including PS Vita and PS4 titles at great discounts. Please note the sale is only available to certain regions.

Grab a bargain on exciting PS4 and PS Vita titles such as Gran Turismo Sport, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Tokyo Xanadu and much more!

PlayStation owners, check out the lineup of games on sale as we have prepared the full list just for you. with discounts shown. So sit back, relax, and pick PlayStation!

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About a week ago, publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Insomniac Games‘ Marvel’s Spider-Man received its third and final chapter of the episodic The City that Never Sleeps DLC, Silver Lining. Players can purchase the DLC alone for $9.99 via the PSN Store.

Here in the last chapter of The City that Never Sleeps DLC, Spider-Man must rely on strange allies to save the city from catastrophe.

So, if you missed it, you can check out the launch trailer for Silver Lining below.



Silver Sable is back in the action-packed conclusion to Marvel’s Spider-Man: The City That Never Sleeps. The deadly mercenary is back to reclaim her stolen Sable International tech and gear from the city’s thugs. But with Police Department Captain Yuri Watanabe on administrative leave after her controversial efforts against crime boss Hammerhead, and bigger threats on the horizon, Spider-Man must rely on unlikely allies to keep the city safe from impending calamity.

New Crimes and Challenges

Wrap up the post-launch downloadable content with exciting missions featuring Silver Sable and her hover-jet, and confront Screwball in a new series of challenges from the prankster Super Villain. Protect citizens from a unique enemy type and thwart new and upgraded crime types.

Fresh Suits and Collectibles

Get three more suits for Spidey’s collection, including Peter Parker’s suit from the Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Collect even more trophies from new tasks that’ll test Spider-Man’s Super Hero skills.

New Episodes of Just the Facts

Listen in on J. Jonah Jameson’s fiery reactions to the events of Silver Lining in brand-new episodes of Just the Facts and read new in-game headlines and social posts from the Daily Bugle and citizens responding to the events in the DLC.

AND…
If you still haven’t played the first two chapters of The City that Never Sleeps DLC: The Heist & Turf Wars, you can still download the two via the PSN Store for only $9.99. Grab your PSN cards here at Playasia! ...

Last week, Sony Interactive Entertainment finally enabled PlayStation 4 users to play multiplayer games with their friends on other consoles - specifically Fortnite, albeit in a test beta with the suggestion that more titles may follow.
It's a feature consumers and developers alike have been demanding from Sony for a couple of years now and Shawn Layden, chairman of SIE Worldwide Studios, has discussed why it took the platform holder so long to comply.
Speaking on the latest episode of PlayStation Blogcast, as spotted by Eurogamer, the exec attributed it to a myriad of technical, business and customer service issues.
"We know this is a want, this is a desire, and we want to be able to deliver that in the best way possible," he said. "Now, enabling cross-play isn't just about flipping a switch and 'there you go'. It's a very multi-dimensional kind of attribute or feature.
"So we had to look at it from a technical point of view, we have to work with our partners from a business point of view, we have to make sure that if we enabled this, do we have the right customer service support, do we have the right messaging out there, do we have all these different things that you have to get in line? It's rather ordinal - they have to go in a certain order to get them all set up."
Layden's comments suggest a strong focus on quality, perhaps backed up by Sony's previous statement that it wasn't enabling cross-play because it wanted PlayStation 4 to be the best place to play.

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I actually have a firmware5.05 ps4 so this is exciting news for me:

• It has just got a whole lot more fun and easier to setup your v5.05 PlayStation 4 console to be fully exploitable with the latest goodies!

  X-Project (XMB SELF HOST PROJECT) aims to be the AIO customizable tool box for all your payload needs. Something the community can dissect and adapt, improve and contribute to: for the good of everyone!
  
  This project is a joint venture between myself and Leeful and is the evolution and culmination of my now discontinued 4.55 self host packs and leefuls current exploit hosts bundled into something for 5.05 which was far more dynamic than anything I had done before
  
  ADDED MEDIA PLAYER!:
  

  • Drop Down File Selector.
  • Plays MP4 only currently (need to work on more formats)
  • Play, Pause, Stop, Skip, Restart
  • 2 preset resolutions + full screen to suit your TV.
  • Dark mode toggle, Mute toggle.
  • Playback info (file location, name, time remaining/total time etc)
  • Companion BAT for easy alphabetized playlist generation (must run after new files are added to /MEDIA/ folder)
  • Just host your MP4 files from /MEDIA/ folder within xproject (easy to customize to share files from elsewhere depending on your host method)

  
  Other Changes:
  
  

  • Lodash finally fixed thanks to @Leeful
  • D-Pad navigation added as requested (L/R works perfectly U/D needs work)
  • GTA menus rewritten by @Leeful (now detect hen and load before payload (same goes for BO3/AFR payloads)
  • Slight restyle for uniformity thanks to @Leeful
  • ADDED NotAnotherMenu127
  • ADDED IH RTM EDITOR 1.0.0.0
  • ADDED Community Trainer 1.0.0.0
  • ADDED Arcade category (Coming soon in v1.4)

  
  
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  OFFICIAL SOURCE: --> https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-...3#post-8199179
  
  via https://www.maxconsole.com/threads/p...eeful74.47728/

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PlayStation VR sales have apparently picked up the pace in the past year. Sony today announced that it has sold through more than 3 million units since the PlayStation 4 peripheral's debut in October of 2016.
After enjoying sales of 915,000 over its first few months, the PSVR installed base seemed to stall, ending its first year on sale with "one million-plus" players. The acceleration in sales since then was likely boosted in March of this year, when Sony cut the price of the PSVR to $299, making it the least expensive of the high-end VR headsets on the market.
Beyond celebrating the hardware milestone, Sony also announced that it has sold through 21.9 million PSVR games and experiences, with a total catalog of almost 340 games and experiences on sale worldwide. The 10 most-played PSVR games follow below.

1. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
2. PlayStation VR Worlds
3. Rec Room
4. Resident Evil 7 biohazard
5. The Playroom VR
6. Job Simulator
7. Until Dawn: Rush of Blood
8. Batman: Arkham VR
9. Farpoint
10. Superhot VR

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This is very interesting news for me as i have a 5.05 ps4 firmware:

• With a 'web cache' exploit, means you only have to load up 'payloads' via PC or ESP device once, then you are forever 'exploited' on your PS4 v5.05 unless you decide to 'wipe out the cache', nah, whom would do that silly idea, check out the details and video below:

  All credits go to somebody called ps4dev for his comment on github about using Webbrowser application cache (https://github.com/Al-Azif/ps4-exploit-host/issues/108).
  
  To install offline exploit, you have to:
  

  • For 5.05 PS4 : go to https://renpdrm.customprotocol.com/PS4/505/
  • For 4.55 : soon.
  • For 4.05 : soon.
  • For 1.76 : only devs have this firmware so no need.

  
  
  

  
  
  PS4 Exploits - No need for an ESP or PC anymore !!!
  
  NEWS SOURCE: @CelesteBlue123 (via) Twitter
  
  via https://www.maxconsole.com/threads/p...anymore.47178/

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Awesome to see the PS4 scene progressing well, heres the latest news:

Developer Wildcard has updated his kernel dumper for the PS4. The tool supports firmware 4.05, 4.55, and 5.05.
For those of you interested in digging into the PS4 Firmware, you’ll want to have a look into this tool which lets you dump the PS4 kernel for further analysis. This includes, but is not restricted to, looking for vulnerabilities in the firmware. (And if that’s your thing, you’ll probably want to have a look at Belf, the recently released ida pro loader for PS4 Elfs)
Since some people were apparently having issues dumping the kernel through the original technique of a network socket, Wildcard has added direct support for dumping on the usb drive.
There’s no compiled payload release though, so you’ll have to build the payload yourself from source.

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Great news for me as i have a PS4 on the 5.50 firmware:

Linux loader for PS4 FW 5.05 has been released and it’s fully working. Unlike last time this release has everything you need to run it and it’s not a WIP.

• @HackInformer informs us via Twitter, that the WIP project for pushing up Linux working on later PS4 firwmare is now completed, and those running v5.05 can now enjoy loading up the 'other os' that Sony has not supported since the early days of their PS3 console!

  How to use
  
  For now, only some PS4 FAT models are supported, see the list here.
  
  You need a FAT32 formatted USB drive plugged in on any PS4’s USB port with the following files in the root directory: bzImage and initramfs.cpio.gz. You can download them here.
  
  Then you will need to send the payload (PS4-Linux-Loader.bin) to your PS4. For that go to your PS4 web browser, go to darbness.com/ps4 and send the payload to your PS4 using netcat or other.. (You can also use my tool: PS4 Payload Sender).
  
  PS4 owners with 5.05FW can now try different versions of Linux on the PS4 with this release but you will still need to compile video driver for it. I recommend trying out PSXITARCH Linux as it has everything already set up for you. If you are on FW 4.05 or 4.55 don’t update until the other stuff gets released here soon.
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  Download: PS4 Linux loader FW5.05
  
  NEWS SOURCE: Linux Loader for PS4 FW5.05 released!! (via) HackInformer
  
  via https://www.maxconsole.com/threads/l...eleased.47002/

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