Sign In or Join to save for later Platforms: Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Windows, Xbox 360, Xbox One What parents need to know Parents Need to Know About our ratings and privacy evaluation The LEGO Movie Videogame LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Top advice and articles What parents and kids sayJogo p/ Ps3 LEGO Jurassic World ou 03X R$49,97 sem juros Jogo p/ Ps3 LEGO Jurassic World Jogo p/ Ps3 Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Jogo p/ Ps3 Cavaleiros do Zodíaco: Alma dos Soldados ou 03X R$49,97 sem jurosA fully functional PS4 Jailbreak is now available for PS4 running on Firmware 1.76 or lower. The Jailbreak allows to run native code and/or Linux. All files for that exploit have been released here. As such, PS4 models running firmware 1.76 will probably skyrocket in prices very soon, and now might be the last time to get one at a reasonable price.
PS4 Firmware 1.76 was released on 2014/08/20 (August 20th, 2014). Any bundle released before that date will have a firmware below 1.76.Some advice when shopping for a PS4:The ideal way to get yourself an “old” PS4 firmware is to buy one of the old bundles, and to get it new. The ps3devwiki has a page listing these old bundles shipping with the old PS4 hardware, which are guaranteed to come with a firmware <= 1.76, if you buy them new.On eBay, you can look for PS4 Launch in the Game consoles category. Make sure to get a “sealed” unit.Additionally, people are reporting that consoles bundled with The Last of us usually ship with firmware 1.76. Update: several people are reporting that there are 2 types of TLoU bundles, and some of them ship with firmware 2.03. Get confirmation from the seller before buying those!If you know about other bundles that ship with a low firmware, please let us know in the comments section!Heads up for those of you in the US: this week we're giving away a NES Classic Edition to one of the members of our deals mailing lists.
For details on how to participate, see here.Are the days of stand-alone game consoles numbered? This year's new high-end are taking the first step in that direction, with their built-in compatibility with major streaming game services. Samsung's 2016 lineup of smart TVs will enable users to play hundreds of video games. Titles include more than 100 downloadable games as well as 400 streaming games in various categories such as first-person shooter (FPS), role-playing games (RPG), action, sports, board games and racing. Titles include "Assassin’s Creed III," "Batman: Arkham Origins" and "The Lego Movie Videogame." Many of the console-quality titles are available through Sony’s PlayStation Now streaming video game service. If you have a compatible TV, you can play PlayStation 3 games right on your TV, including popular titles such as "God of War III," "Mortal Kombat," "BioShock 2," "The Last of Us: Left Behind" and "Borderlands 2." All you need are a PlayStation Now subscription (Free 7-day trial, then $19.99 for one month or $44.99 for three months) and a DualShock 4 controller ($47.96 on Amazon).
Sony launched the PlayStation Now platform in 2014, but it exclusively ran only on Sony devices such as the PlayStation TV, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3. With this expansion into Samsung TVs, that may indicate wider availability on more manufacturers devices in the future. Rounding out the available titles for 2016 Samsung smart TVs will be more than 100 games from streaming game provider GameFly (for the first three months: $9 per month for game out at a time or $14 for two games out at a time, then $15.95 for one game at a time, $22.95 for two games at a time) LG is following the same path as Samsung in turning smart TVs into gaming-capable devices. The company will be adding support for GameFly in its 2015 webOS 2.0 and webOS 3.0 smart TVs in a software update that will roll out in late April. If you have a compatible LG smart TV, you will be able to play cloud-served video games from GameFly, including "Tomb Raider: Game of the Year Edition," "Red Faction Armageddon," "F.E.A.R. 3," "Pacman Championship Edition," "Batman: Arkham Origins," "Batman 3" and "Darksiders."
You can also access the GameFly streaming service through Amazon Fire TV Gaming Edition ($139.99 on Amazon) hooked up to any TV. Or, you can buy an Amazon Fire TV Game Controller separately ($49.99 on Amazon) if you already own a Fire TV or Fire TV stick. Cloud-based gaming services such Sony PlayStation Now and GameFly use the Internet to stream video games to media devices and smart TVs without the need for a game console. So if you have a consistent 5Mpbs connection and don't need the latest titles, this new approach lets gamers play at prices lower than those that require dedicated gaming consoles — a new era for living-room gaming fans.On Tuesday, American video game rental company GameFly launched a cloud-based game streaming service exclusively on the Amazon Fire TV set-top box. The new subscription service, simply named GameFly Streaming, piggybacks off the technology and servers used by Playcast, an Israeli cloud-gaming service that GameFly has officially acquired as of today.
"Our goal with GameFly Streaming is moving forward to position cloud gaming, in the short and medium-term, as a compliment to console gaming, and in the long term, as the new technology," GameFly CEO David Hodess said in a phone interview with Ars Technica. "Nobody I speak to these days believes that there’ll be another set of consoles as successors to the current ones." The service, which should already be live in the Amazon Fire TV App Store, is made up entirely of PC ports of console games, meaning players will need a compatible Xbox-styled controller (such as the official Amazon Fire TV controller) to play them. To access the service's launch library of 35 games, users will have to try out an unorthodox subscription model: a series of game "packs" that users must subscribe to individually. Packs start at a rate of $6.99 a month, and each one currently unlocks unlimited play of seven games in a given genre. For example, the "Lego" pack includes seven Lego-branded games—pretty much all of the most recent ones, including Lego: The Hobbit and Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham—while the "speed" pack includes six admittedly older racing games, such as GRID 2, Moto GP '13, and Ridge Racer Unbounded, along with the 2001 arcade-flying game Ace Combat 4.
The "gamer" pack is the closest GameFly Streaming comes to a discounted bundle, offering 16 games across its library for $9.99 a month. The full list of games and packs is available on GameFly Streaming's official site. This pricing structure differs from streaming services like , which offers both a flat rate for access to most of its streamable games and a la carte pricing for one-game rentals, and , which is offering free service until July, but limits its access to users of Nvidia's family of Shield devices. "We do have plans to refresh these packs over the course of a year," Hodess said, but he didn't clarify exactly how often customers should expect new games—or how often older games in a pack might be retired. "If you’re still interested in a certain genre, we’ll hopefully provide enough games to keep you interested. Otherwise, we hope there’s another pack you’re interested in." GameFly Streaming's launch library leaves a lot to be desired, especially compared to Nvidia Grid's 50 games and PlayStation Now's even larger library, but the service's current ace-in-the-sleeve is its impending launch on a wider variety of devices than any other current game-streaming service.
"We are absolutely going to be on other platforms," Hodess said, and while he didn't offer a timeline, he noted that Playcast's original app, which is already available on Ouya systems and select smart TVs, will change to GameFly Streaming "over the next several months." Update: Even though GameFly Streaming's site says the service is "coming soon," the app has indeed launched on Amazon's App Store, exclusively for Amazon Fire TV boxes at this point. We downloaded and installed the app on our own Fire TV unit on Tuesday morning and got it running on WiFi, at which point the app suggested we plug in an ethernet cable to improve performance—even when we switched to our router's 5 Ghz signal. With an Ethernet cable plugged in, we were informed that the app had improved to a 720p signal streaming at 8 Mbps—which seemed a little pesky for our test unit's gigabit connection. The menus, whose button taps had a hint of lag, didn't appear to reach 720p resolution, however, nor did the games, which suffered from some pretty severe visual artifacting.
In good news, users get ten whole minutes of free demos per game, which we figure is a fair offer for people who want to test streaming performance on their home connections. We put three games to the test: 2D fighting game BlazBlue, 3D car game Ridge Racer Unbounded, and Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX. All of these suffered from noticeable but inconsistent moments of lag; this was forgivable in some instances, but as Pac-Man reached ludicrous speeds in that game's updated, remixed modes, we absolutely couldn't compensate to turn sharp corners and grab last-second power pellets. That, to us, was a dealbreaker, especially when connected to this cloud-gaming service with one of the highest-level consumer-grade Internet connections currently available to Americans. We can't even imagine how an average Time Warner or Comcast customer would manage. Considering this cloud-gaming service already existed as Playcast for over a year, we're not chalking this up to day-one jitters, either.
