When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works .
🚨 NEW: Lawyers of Sony Interactive Entertainment reportedly sent a cease and desist letter to PS5 jailbreak hackers of OVERDRIVE, an illegal online app which offered more than 1,600 PS4 & PS5 games as free downloads.
As for now the storefront is closed. https://t.co/WU2Duccw6h October 13, 2026
The storefront for jailbroken PS5 models was released on GitHub on October 9, with reception being relatively tame. It was only after Edigax, a popular jailbreak installation tutorial account, posted their video on X for Overdrive’s installation on October 12 that it went viral, receiving over 7.9 million views with over 600 comments, many commenting on how Sony deserves this over their controversial effort to produce no physical copies of games: “Only digital, as Sony wanted,” one commenter says.
This is Unbelievable: Play Has No Limits https://t.co/dfh9grLyxZ October 11, 2026
A day after the project went viral, Sony reportedly sent the developer a cease-and-desist letter and had it shut down. There are no concrete sources for this cease-and-desist, but it likely doesn’t matter because just a day later, like a single-headed hydra getting its head cut, two more popped up in its place; one is a fork of the original, while the other is a clone of the original under a different account.
PS5 hack delivers native PS2 disc support and 4K upscaling where Sony refused to
Modder brings original Xbox emulation to jailbroken PS5
Key considerations
- Investor positioning can change fast
- Volatility remains possible near catalysts
- Macro rates and liquidity can dominate flows
Reference reading
- https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/ps5-homebrew-storefront-with-over-1-600-free-ps5-and-ps4-games-taken-down-by-sony-company-plays-piracy-whack-a-mole-as-two-further-repos-spring-up#main
- https://www.tomshardware.com/membership
- TSMC confirms it is considering Terafab chipmaking expansion with Elon Musk
- The internet isn’t the best place to find upgrades for your computer — brick-and-mortar stores still reign supreme thanks to bundled deals
- Get an RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop for just $1,449
- We tested the RTX Spark Superchip in Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra
- Formlabs Form Studio 1 Review: Professional status, consumer price tag
Informational only. No financial advice. Do your own research.