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PS5 homebrew storefront with over 1,600 free PS5 and PS4 games taken down by Sony

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PS5 homebrew storefront with over 1,600 free PS5 and PS4 games taken down by Sony

Overdrive, a homebrew games library offering over 1,600 PS4 and PS5 games, went viral after a video of its demonstration on X by Edigax caught online attention. Shortly after the influx of attention the Overdrive project received, it was shut down, reportedly after the developer received a cease-and-desist letter in an X post by Oliver Darko. However, two GitHub repositories have taken its place, reviving the project after one day of downtime.

🚨 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/WU2Duccw6hOctober 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.

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.


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