On Aug. 26, gamers booted up their consoles and killed a whole lot of bugs. While that may not sound newsworthy on the surface, Sony and Microsoft were actually making history.

That's because PlayStation gamers were getting their first taste of Marcus Fenix's classic Locust-blasting adventure in Gears of War: Reloaded , a remaster of a gritty third-person shooter classic -- and a former Xbox exclusive game.

And at the very same time, Xbox players were pumping lead into man-sized democracy-hating Terminid bugs as they got their hands on Helldivers 2 , a visceral sci-fi shooter that was immediately popular, but restricted to PS5 and PC players until now. It was also one of the few successes from PlayStation's live service push , in which the brand attempted to heavily invest in g

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