TORONTO — Right-hander Luis Castillo pitched 7 1/3 innings, Cal Raleigh homered and the visiting Seattle Mariners defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 4-0 Friday in the opener of an American League wild-card series.
Digital collectibles are also on their way to the PS5 via the Stars program. Collectibles could be figurines of iconic characters — think Solid Snake or Ratchet & Clank — or they could be representations of famous Sony devices throughout history.
Sony on Thursday introduced its PlayStation Stars loyalty program for PS5 and PS4 gamers. It’ll be free to join, and players will be able to earn loyalty points by completing a variety of campaigns and activities. Players can choose from a catalog of options to redeem points, Pkv poker including PlayStation Network wallet funds and select PlayStation Store products.
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Campaigns will include PlayStation’s «Monthly Check-In» campaign, where you can earn points just for playing any game on your console. Other activities will require you to win tournaments or unlock trophies to earn points — or even be the first player in your local time zone to make it to platinum for a blockbuster title (which indicates that a player has achieved 100% completion in that game).
Jose Ramirez belted a two-run homer and Shane Bieber pitched into the eighth inning as the Cleveland Guardians opened the best-of-three American League wild-card series against the visiting Tampa Bay Rays with a 2-1 victory on Friday.
The PlayStation Stars program will launch later this year, though an exact time frame hasn’t been provided yet. CNET reached out to PlayStation, but the gaming giant didn’t immediately respond for comment.
The lawsuit, led by consumer champion Alex Neill, claims Sony charged a 30 per cent commission on every digital game and in-game purchase made through the Playstation store — an online shop for consoles selling games and extra content to users.
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Meanwhile more than 90 per cent of ten to 16-year-olds play online games regularly. Campaign group ParentZone has claimed children feel under pressure to make ingame purchases and almost half believe games are only fun when spending money.
Potential beneficiaries of the claim do not have to take action to be included.The case is funded by Woodsford, a team of litigation experts investing in large commercial claims, so those affected will not have to pay any of the costs of the action themselves. Sony was asked to comment.
Neill said: ‘The drive towards in-game purchases allows companies like Sony to profiteer and abuse their power because they have a captive audience. Sony knows its customers are hooked once they are part of the PlayStation world and it exploits them with exorbitant charges on every digital purchase.’
Neill, who runs consumer complaints website Resolver, said ‘the game is up’ for Sony.She said the case is particularly important as gaming is the biggest part of the UK’s entertainment industry — ahead of TV, video and music.
Many popular games are free and make the majority of their money from paid addons, with figures showing £46bn was spent on in-game purchases in 2020.Figures also show more than 60 per cent of adults in the UK regularly play a game on a console or mobile phone.
Milberg partner Natasha Pearman, who is leading the case, said: ‘It [Sony] has deployed an anti-competitive strategy which has resulted in excessive prices to customers that are out of all proportion to the costs of Sony providing its services.’
The payout for each person in the claim is estimated to be between £67 and £562. Playstation, You Owe Us said the Japanese tech giant abused its dominant position in the gaming market and UK customers were ‘unfairly’ charged over the odds.Neill said: ‘With this legal action I am standing up for the millions of UK people who have been unwittingly overcharged.