Consoles
Fraudulent PS4 Console Sale Ends With A Fatality
In today’s day and age, video games have acquired a huge break in popularity. This popularity has reached a global scale as well, making a very lucrative market business as well. However, this also means people will try to take advantage of others through illegal means.
This is made very clear by the number of criminal incidents we have seen a lot in the gaming community. Sadly, a bigger demographic means that we’ll be seeing higher chances of things going awry. As such, a 20-year-old man who was looking for a birthday present was a victim of this.
According to a report from The Washington Post, Danny Diaz Delgado from Trenton, New Jersey left his house to buy his little brother a PS4 console. What was meant to be a simple transaction that would’ve taken an hour turned into a tragedy when a passerby found his body next afternoon.
Once police got involved, they found out that Diaz’s hands were tied behind his back with pink duct tape and a black electrical cord. While the cause of death was being shot around nine times. All according to the affidavit by Detective Michael Castaldo of the Mercer County Homicide Task Force.
The low-life scumbag responsible for the crime is none other than Rufus Thompson, 29. He set up to meet with Diaz Delgado to then kidnap him and take his money alongside some more he had on his card. Totaling around $700 dollars stolen from Delgado’s account.
Detectives said there was never a PlayStation 4, to begin with. A search of Thompson’s residence revealed an empty PS4 box, pink duct tape and a TV with its power cord cut off, according to the affidavit.
Thompson was arrested March 31 and charged with murder, robbery, and kidnapping, among other things, according to a statement from the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office. He made his first court appearance Monday, pleading not guilty. He’s being held pending a detention hearing.
It’s important to mention that whenever you are going to do transactions in person, you have to make sure it’s in a public place that’s crowded. As such, there will be little to no problem when making this sort of transactions. Also, it’s important to leave accompanied by your friends or family. To the family of Mr. Diaz Delgado, we offer our condolences and hope that justice will be served.
Belgian developer Larian Studios’ work on Baldur’s Gate 3’s Xbox Series S version will improve performance on all platforms, including PS5. The game’s fifth major patch, expected to launch this week, will include upgrades and new features. More details will be revealed later today.
Director of Publishing Michael Douse says PS5 performance improvements may be the “least exciting thing” in the title’s next update, so it sounds like a big one. Larian Studios employees are proud of “finally” implementing tweaks, fixes, and changes, Douse says. Later today, we’ll bring you all the Baldur’s Gate 3 update details.
Those who reached the RPG’s third act have reported technical issues during the narrative’s conclusion, especially in co-op, so today’s update should fix them. New features like a permadeath mode are expected, along with Xbox Series S optimization fixes. What else should be added to the game?
We love the PlayStation ecosystem, especially its top first-party studios, but Sony Interactive Entertainment could do more to build goodwill. The long-awaited Trophy support for PS5 games on PC appears to be closer to reality, though nothing official has been announced.
TrueTrophie’s scanners found a new PS5 Trophy list with “PSPC” as a platform. The list, titled “Trophy Set” and unattached to a game, appears to be a test. TrueTrophies notes that developers rarely submit their own platforms to PSN, suggesting Sony is behind it.
TrueTrophies says this platform is separate from PS5 but can connect to it, suggesting compatibility. As PlayStation fans know, PS4, PS Vita, and PS3 games could share a list. In October 2022, Sony added PSN support to Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered’s PC release, allowing players to link Steam accounts to unlock an exclusive skin. Potentially minor, but something we’ll watch.
TrueTrophies lists PlayStation Trophies for serious hunters. They scrape the PlayStation Network’s ominous underbelly with scanners to provide the most up-to-date trophy lists, sometimes dangerously. TrueTrophies posted Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’s trophy list weeks ago, with spoiler titles.
Despite Microsoft’s acquisition of Bethesda, The Elder Scrolls 6 was not confirmed as an Xbox exclusive a few months ago. This happened because Xbox executive Phil Spencer indicated that target platforms hadn’t been selected yet, but it always felt like he was talking about the game being years away rather than the RPG being on PlayStation.
If you’re still holding out, Microsoft plans to release The Elder Scrolls 6 just on Xbox and PC. Documents from the company’s FTC lawsuit were recently released. In the document, Bethesda’s announced titles (both as a publisher and developer) are listed, and The Elder Scrolls 6 is listed for Xbox, PC, and nothing else.
We expected this, but The Elder Scrolls 6 was announced before Microsoft acquired its developer. The Elder Scrolls is a beloved franchise that’s been on various platforms for generations, so this isn’t Starfield.
However, the game isn’t due until 2026 at the earliest, according to the paper, and who knows what the gaming landscape will be like then.
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