00:00What's up, everybody? Damon here, and in today's gaming news, PlayStation adds cloud streaming to the portal and seems to be readying some kind of a cross-buy function for games, and bad news for Terminator fans. This is your Daily Fix.
00:10Hot on the heels of Nintendo's handheld success with Switch 2, Sony is ramping up the capabilities of its own PlayStation Portal device with the ability to stream thousands of games without being connected to a PS5 console.
00:31Starting today, PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers can stream a long, long list of games, including big hitters such as Grand Theft Auto 5, Borderlands 4, and the recently launched Ghost of Yote.
00:40Hundreds of games from the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog and Classics Catalog will also be streamable, including existing titles such as Hogwarts Legacy, Cyberpunk 2077, and God of War Ragnarok.
00:50Sony has a long list of every title supported, which stretches to more than 2,800 games.
00:56Cloud streaming leaves beta with a handful of all new features attached. 3D audio support, a passcode lock, a network status screen, game invites, accessibility options, and the ability to make in-game purchases while cloud streaming.
01:08PlayStation Portal is priced at $200, and a year of PS Plus Premium is $160. So this is an option to get into the PlayStation ecosystem for $360, but you'd have to keep paying $160 a year going forward.
01:20Moving on, a cross-buy graphic spotted on the PlayStation Store has sparked speculation that Sony is set to announce cross-platform purchasing for its games across consoles and PCs.
01:29References to a cross-buy tag seen via the PlayStation Store and a PS5 console store graphic featuring the word cross-buy were recently spotted by social media user Amethyst and investigated by DealLabs.
01:40Now, DealLabs has verified both the PlayStation Store code and Image are legitimate, confirming, if nothing else, that Sony is indeed thinking about some kind of cross-buy offering.
01:49How exactly this offering may work remains to be seen. Would cross-buy only be available for first-party games currently released on PC?
01:56Would access be granted free for future PC launches? And what about third-party titles?
02:00Cross-buy is, of course, offered on Xbox, where owning a game on console also allows you to play the same title without further charge on PC, or via streaming on your phone, or Ally X handheld, or wherever else you're playing that's on Xbox.
02:12By comparison, Sony has been more protective over its first-party games. Sony ported Horizon Zero Dawn over to PC in 2020, three years after it was released on the PS4, and has sporadically launched a handful of other first-party titles on PC since.
02:24There's no formal confirmation this cross-buy feature relates to PC at all. Amid reports of a future PlayStation handheld being in development, perhaps the scheme will simply be offered for games that work across the PS5 and a new PS5 portable.
02:36And finally today, Terminator 2D No Fate, the new retro game that blends scenes from Terminator 2 Judgment Day with original scenarios and multiple endings, has been delayed for a third time, this time to December 12th.
02:46Terminator 2D sees you play as Sarah Connor and the T-800 as you try to put a stop to Skynet's plans before the human race is annihilated.
02:53It was initially slated to release on September 5th, before being delayed to the end of October, then November 26th. Now it's been delayed again.
03:00Last time, publisher Reef Entertainment said the release had been pushed back from October 31st due to ongoing global trade and tariff changes that delayed shipment of the components for our Day 1 and Collector's Editions.
03:10And while the physical components necessary for all editions have now finally arrived, the company needs some time.
03:15And even though this only impacts the physical editions of the game, Reef has confirmed this delay also applies to digital editions.
03:21December 12th makes Terminator 2D currently the last big game release of the year.
03:25It arrives after Metroid Prime 4 and Octopath Traveler Zero on December 4th.
03:30And that's your daily fix for Wednesday, November 5th.
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04:00I'm Damon Hatfield, and for all your video game news, stay tuned to IGN.
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