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Sony press material showcasing the PS5 Digital Edition and PS5 side by side.

Playden for PS5 creates an app for each Steam game that it downloads, allowing it to appear as a separate tile on the console's home screen.

PS5LM gets a fork, allowing it to run natively and use the GPU and more RAM to run larger LLMs, even running Qwen3.8-27B at 20 tokens per second.

Only digital, as Sony wanted.

PlayStation 5 with disc

Modder Sword has released PS5SX2 for the PlayStation 5, allowing gamers to play discs from previous PlayStation 2 games.

The open-source AnyPS5 project has reached 100% GPU shader instruction coverage.

Sony PlayStation 5 Pro

It's just $100 short of a brand-new PS5 Pro from Best Buy.

The original Xbox can now be emulated on the PS5 thanks to a solo developer's port of Xemu, a popular Xbox emulator.

An experimental PS5 emulator has been shown running the brand-new Marvel's Wolverine game on a PC, with gameplay working for the first time.

A new jailbreak supports firmware 7.00 through 13.60, including on the PS5 Pro. But some game updates may already require a newer firmware, breaking the jailbreak.

In the face of strong demand and device shortages, Sony has decided to filter PlayStation 5 Pro purchasers in Japan using a lottery system.

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