Month: March 2022

Enlarge / Why spend time or money earning in-game currency when a PC script can do it for free? (credit: Sony)

In our review of Gran Turismo 7, we warned that players should "be prepared to grind" for the in-game credits needed to buy some expensive in-game cars. We also said the game "will try to tempt you to open your real wallet to buy in-game credits a little more frequently than you might like." Now, some enterprising players have found a way to avoid that grind for Gran Turismo 7 credits: They've automated a credit-earning method that doesn't require actually playing the game.

The method—publicized Monday by PSNProfiles user Septomor and noted by VGC—takes advantage of some PC scripting tools and PlayStation's Remote Play tool. By sending preset inputs to a local PS4 or PS5 via Remote Play, the PC script runs through a single race automatically and ceaselessly, earning what some users are reporting is millions of in-game credits in a day (and/or avoiding hundreds of dollars in microtransaction costs that could buy those credits).

The automation follows the release of GT7's controversial version 1.07 patch, which greatly depressed the number of credits players can earn per race. The patch increased the in-game time required to earn GT7's most expensive cars by about 63 percent, according to a GT Planet analysis, making an already grind-heavy game even grind-heavier (and likely encouraging more players to spend real money to skip that grind).

Enlarge / The Sonos Arc soundbar. (credit: Sonos)

Sonos has ambitions not just to be the platform of choice for home audio but for home theater, too, according to several new job postings first discovered and reported on by Protocol. The job listings strongly suggest several new areas of expansion for Sonos, and they paint a picture of a much broader home theater strategy than the sound bar-driven one the company focuses on now.

Relevant job titles listed include "Principal Platform Product Manager," "Head of Partnerships, Home Theatre," and "UX Lead—Next Generation Home Theater Experience."

The partnerships role was shared by Sonos Chief Innovation Officer Nick Millington on LinkedIn with the note that he is "working on a new home theater project." According to the listings, one of the roles would work on a "OS & Media Platform roadmap" for home theater, and another would work across "mobile, television, tablet, and HW remote" on a "next generation content delivery experience." The partnerships role refers to a "Next Generation Sonos Home Theater OS."