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PlayStation Now Added Download Feature For PS4 and Remastered PS2 Games

Those who are members of the PlayStation Now have the option of downloading PS4 and remastered PS2 video games offered by the service, according to a Sony official announcement released yesterday. As the statement said, the new feature will roll out in just a few days.

Therefore, PlayStation Now subscribers can download virtually every PlayStation 4 game available on the service, but Sony did not offer any details regarding which video games won’t be available. Most probably, those newer titles fall into the unavailable category, but that’s not official information.

All those downloaded games would come with all the DLC packs the user purchased and with PS4 Pro improvements, while the online multiplayer mode would not require a PlayStation Plus membership. However, the only trick is to connect your PlayStation 4 to the Internet from now and then for Sony to verify your subscription plan.

Users with PlayStation Now subscription can download PS4 and remastered PS2 games

Sony announced yesterday that every PlayStation Now subscriber can download the PS4 and remastered PS2 games that are available on the platform. However, since the feature is going live in only a couple of days, Sony did not reveal which games would be available and which won’t.

PlayStation Now platform was released in January 2015 and, at this moment, it houses about 500 titles for PS2, PS3, and PS4. The new download feature will only cover remastered PS2 games, as well as the available PS4 video games, but not those releases for PlayStation 3. To be eligible to download those games you must subscribe to PS Now (unless you’re already a member).

Also, those who have already streamed a game via the platform and now would like to download their save files from the cloud directly to their consoles can do that, too, now, but only if they are PS Plus members.

One subscription on PlayStation Now would cost you $99.99 per year (a special offer until September 25th), while for PlayStation Plus, one membership plan costs $29.99 for the first three months.

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Samsung Announced its New Three-Camera Galaxy A7 2018

Just yesterday, Samsung announced its new three-camera Galaxy A7 2018. Therefore, Samsung Galaxy A7 2018 becomes the second smartphone in the world, after Huawei P20 Pro, to boast a triple camera setup on its back.

Samsung Galaxy A7 2018 packs mid-range hardware and seems to bring a new design for the Galaxy A series, even though it keeps its frontside within similar lines of the previous Galaxy A models. Galaxy A7 2018 boasts a 6-inch Infinity Full HD with a resolution of 2,220 x 1,080. It also has a 24-megapixel front camera with a f/2.0 aperture.

On the back, however, everything is completely changed in comparison with the previous models. The fingerprint sensor has disappeared, and the three-camera system moved to the left of the phone’s backside and is enclosed in a rectangle with rounded corners.

The new three-camera Galaxy A7 2018 announced by Samsung

The three-camera setup seems to be the main component of this model, but the way Samsung chose to do it is at least strange. The new Galaxy A7 2018 has a 5-megapixel sensor with a f/2.2 aperture dedicated to portrait mode, a primary 24-megapixel wide-angle camera with a f/1.7 aperture, and, finally, an 8-megapixel sensor of f/2.4 with an ultra-wide 120-degree lens.

Under the hood, the new three-camera Galaxy A7 2018 boasts an 8-Core ARM Cortex-A53 processor, 4/6 GB RAM, and 64/128 GB internal storage. Also, Galaxy A7 2018 runs with Android 8.0 Oreo, and it boasts a 3300-mAh non-removable Li-Ion battery.

Unfortunately, Samsung decided to keep the micoUSB jack for this new three-camera Galaxy A7 2018, disappointing some of the fans who expected a USB-C. Also, some complained that Samsung could’ve opted for Android 9 Pie, but even though the new device comes only with Android 8 Oreo, that doesn’t mean Samsung won’t release an update to the new Google OS version later.

The new three-camera Galaxy A7 2018 will come out this fall.

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Games

Spider-Man PS4 Sold 3.3 Million Copies in Three Days, Surpassing God of War

According to USA Today, which allegedly have some intel from Sony, the God of War selling record went down, as the newly released Spider-Man PS4 game hit the mark of 3.3 million copies sold in just three days.

Spider-Man PS4 sold 3.3 million copies in just three days, surpassing God of War

After it sold about 3.1 million copies in 3 days after its launch, God of War had become the bestselling title among all the Sony Interactive Entertainment games.

That record, however, is now beaten as the recently released Spider-Man title for PlayStation 4 surpassed any expectations and sold 3.3 million copies in just three days.

A figure that could be even higher since the presented stats don’t include those sales made via the PS4 Pro Amazing Red bundle.

Spider-Man also set the record for the highest number of pre-orders and surpassed other famous superhero-themed

Another record set by Spider-Man is that of the highest number of pre-orders, as more than one million copies of the new Insomniac Games title had already been pre-ordered worldwide way before the release date.

Also, among the superhero-themed games, this new Spider-Man PS4 title surpassed all the games of the Batman Arkham franchise, in special the Batman: Arkham City title, which sold only 2 million copies in the first week after launch.

Batman: Arkham Knight had totaled about 5 million copies in its first four months, a sum that Spider-Man should surpass without any difficulty.

Additionally, Spider-Man made quite a buzz in the United Kingdom where it made the best video game launch of 2018, overcoming that of Far Cry 5. The most important stats would come from the United States, but only when the NDP will launch its next report in about a month.

Meanwhile, for the Spider-Man PS4 fans, there is some excellent news as three additional chapters would come soon.

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Crypto News

Dash (DASH), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), and Litecoin (LTC) Updated To Tackle the DoS Vulnerability Addressed by the New Bitcoin Core

Dash (DASH) team announced the launch of the new Dash Core 0.12.3.3 to tackle the Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability addressed Tuesday by the new Bitcoin Core version. Besides Dash (DASH), the teams responsible for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Litecoin (LTC) were the first to announce the updates of their software clients and are urging the respective communities of miners to install them as soon as possible.

Dash (DASH) launched Dash Core 0.12.3.3 update

In the case of Dash, the announcement of the update to Dash Core 0.12.3.3, released this Wednesday, notes that it is “correction of a critical bug in the Dash Core 0.12.3.x release series” and explains that the update is related to the Bitcoin Core vulnerability, recently discovered and resolved this Tuesday with the announcement of a new release.

“A major vulnerability was recently discovered in the Bitcoin Core code base that can cause a node that receives a specially forged block with double-spending transactions to crash,” says on the Dash Forum.

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) also updated to tackle the DoS vulnerability

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) client software team, Bitcoin ABC, notified on Tuesday through its Twitter account, soon after the new Bitcoin Core update, that a new version of Bitcoin ABC will be available, correcting “an error” they did not specify.

Most probably, the mysterious “error” they were talking about was also related to the security flaw discovered by Bitcoin (BTC) community of devs and tackled with the Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 version.

Litecoin (LTC) 0.16.3 launched soon after Bitcoin Core

In the case of Litecoin (LTC), it was not necessary to clarify that the new version of its client, published shortly before midnight on Tuesday, was due to the DoS vulnerability discovered in Bitcoin Core, already corrected in the latest version of it.

Litecoin’s development team uses the same terminology in its versions as the Bitcoin Core.

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Six Brazilian Banks Are Under Scrutiny For Illegally Closing Bank Accounts Of Several Crypto Trading Companies

The Brazilian Administrative Council of Economic Defense opened an investigation against six Brazilian banks for allegedly using their market position to restrict crypto trading operations, putting cryptocurrency exchange platforms at a disadvantage. This inquiry comes following a request filed by the Brazilian Association of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain.

Six Brazilian banks under scrutiny from the Administrative Council of Economic Defense

The Brazilian regulatory agency began investigations on Tuesday, September 18th, alleging that monopolistic practices are being carried out at Banco do Brasil, Bradesco, Itau Unibanco, Santander Brasil, Banco Inter, and Sicredi, according to Reuters.

The association accused the six Brazilian banks of closing accounts related to cryptocurrency trading without offering explanations, which was considered by the authorities as one of the critical elements to initiate the investigation.

In the Administrative Council of Economic Defense’s report, according to Reuters, the institution questions the right of the six Brazilian banks to close accounts for crypto-related operations

“It does not seem reasonable for banks to apply a priori restrictive measures in a linear manner to all cryptocurrency companies, without analyzing the level of compliance and the anti-fraud measures adopted by each crypto exchange individually, which gives a treatment of illegality per se to the activity of crypto trading,” stated the Brazilian Administrative Council of Economic Defence in their report.

The war between banks and crypto trading companies continues in Brazil

The report also cites sources linked to banks that alleged that, in Brazil, there is currently no established cryptocurrency regulatory framework, nor guarantees for cryptocurrency exchanges to apply specific rules to prevent money laundering, for example. The banks point out in their defense that there are “illicit activities that should be avoided” and that “banks should take restrictive measures when there are indications of illegal practices.”

The conflict between Brazilian banks and crypto trading companies continues as, in the most recent case, Bradesco illegally closed the bank accounts of Braziliex cryptocurrency exchange.

With this new investigation, the war between the Brazilian banks and the crypto trading companies across Brazil could settle down.

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