As I type this news from a Windows 10-powered desktop PC, news has landed that Microsoft has hit a milestone of 400 million active devices running Windows 10.

It has taken Microsoft around 14 months to hit 400 million users on Windows 10 since its launch, with 100 million users poured into the Windows 10 pool since May 5. Towards the end of March, there were 207 million active devices running Windows 10 - now remember, "active devices" is a considerable team of products.

We're talking about desktops, laptops, tablets, phones, Surface Hubs, HoloLens devices, and more. Microsoft isn't quite at its 1 billion goal yet with Windows 10, but the latest desktop OS is definitely the fastest-growing Windows platform in history.

Following the surprise success of Jon Favreau's live action/ CG feature film hybrid 'The Jungle Book' earlier this year, the company has announced that the director's next project will be a similar "reimagining" of the 1993 animated smash-hit 'The Lion King'.

According to the studio's official announcement today, Disney has agreed to fast track the production of 'The Lion King', which is expected to feature live action backgrounds alongside CG animated animals, similarly to 'The Jungle Book' . Unlike that film however, 'The Lion King' doesn't feature any human characters. Disney has also confirmed that the film will feature some of the animated films original songs, so Hakuna Matata on that.

There's no current release date for the feature, but I'd be surprised if this won't be hitting theatres sometime in 2018.

Collecting gaming merchandise is more than an art-form. Individuals who are serious about game specific figurines, art & graphic works, clothing and accessories will tell you that all of these items are crucial when it comes to collecting. With the recent game success of Nintendo's: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, in affiliation with Good Smile, has recently launched their new line The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Figures

The titled-themed collectables will be offered to the public in various stances and expressions. The Zelda and Link Figmas as seen in the image above will be available, along with Link having his own 'DX' editions that includes: Ordon Sword, Hero's Bow and Arrow, Ball and Chain, Hawkeye and the Clawshot.

This vast selection can be pre-ordered as of now until 27th October on the official Good Smile website and until 22nd October on the Play-Asia site. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Figures collectables are due to be shipped in May 2017, and will set Nintendo customers back between $50-$60 US, depending on the style and type of Figma as the DX Link editions will cost a little more to purchase.

The highly anticipated Dragon Quest Builders game brought to us by Square Enix, can now be downloaded in a free demo available to trial before the launch of the title in two weeks. In the latest news from Sony PlayStation Lifestyle, the Dragon Quest Builders demo is obtainable today for users living in North America and Europe. The game trailer: Become a Legendary Builder, provides visuals of the exclusive title and what to expect this coming October.

Direct from the source regarding the free download was this: "With the demo, you'll find the introductory chapter of the game, letting you explore a large open island, restore a town, battle hordes of monsters, and complete quests. Square Enix didn't say if progress from the demo would transfer over to the full game. The PlayStation Store description adds that the PS Vita version of the demo isn't compatible with PlayStation TV".

The game will challenge players with the rebuilding Alefgard in the wake of its destruction at the hands of the Dragonlord. Dragon Quest Builders officially releases on October 11 in North America and October 14 in Europe for PS4 and PS Vita. For those customers who pre-order the PS4 version via the site, will receive some featured DLC bonuses added into the purchase.

SpaceX CEO and Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk is dreaming big as usual: his newly unveiled long-term plan is to colonize Mars, among other planets.

The first phase: launch an upgraded, unpiloted Dragon spacecraft toward Mars in 2018, with the aim of obtaining flight experience, while developing advanced boosters, spacecraft, and subsystems necessary for what Musk calls his "Interplanetary Transport System".

A later phase: building a 400 foot tall rocket to send large crew capsules into low-Earth orbit. The capsules are to be fueled for a trip to Mars by the same rocket, which will also carry unpiloted propellant tankers. One of the principles behind the mission structure is to make the trips much more affordable: $200,000 per ticket versus the previous standing $10 billion.

Inxile Entertainment today announced Wasteland 3, which is coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC in just a few weeks with a brand new feature: co-op.

Wasteland 3 is happening, and it'll arrive across the triumvirate of gaming platforms on October 5. Inexile pushed out a huge press release revealing key details on what the new tactical RPG has to offer, and for the first time in the history of the franchise you'll be able to brave the post-apocalyptic world with a friend in fully-fledged story-driven synchronous co-op or asynchronous competitive-style multiplayer.

The devs promise that Wasteland 3 will be an evolution over Wasteland 2, offering new additions like vehicles, environmental hazards, a new action system and more fluid turn-based combat. The co-op is quite interesting, and you can play offline singleplayer, or even play your co-op game while your friend is offline and actively sabotage them...but Inxile warns that there's consequences to whatever actions you choose to take.

You an now buy and search all Xbox 360 backward compatible games on the Xbox One store, Microsoft has announced.

(Please excuse the photo, I had to take a picture of my screen because the Xbox One doesn't let you take screen captures of the storefront or main screen.)

In an effort to consolidate convenience with a nostalgia tax, Microsoft now makes it easier than ever to purchase and search through the Xbox One's full backward compatible Xbox 360 games library. The full listing of backward compatible Xbox 360 games are now up on the Games on Demand section on Xbox One. While this sounds like a great idea on the surface, Redmond didn't waste any time in mucking it up: the Backward Compatible games list is seven rows below all the other pre-order junk and miscellaneous crap Microsoft tries to peddle, and the games are often higher in price than they should be.

DICE is taking a different approach with Battlefield 1's singleplayer campaign in order to tell "many different war stories."

Instead of following the traditional campaign formula with the same protagonists following a linear course, Battlefield 1's six-chapter campaign is now called War Stories, and will be a kind of shifting anthology with each chapter letting players experience the Great War through the eyes of a different nation.

Some time ago EA announced that Battlefield 1's storyline would be multi-perspective and be flavored with real-life historical figures (Lawrence of Arabia, the Harlem Hellfighters, etc), so this news isn't exactly a surprise. We have evidence that Battlefield 1's War Stories singleplayer campaign might only be six chapters at launch, but we could see more chapters added via DLC packs. We're also not sure if the chapters themselves will be comprised of smaller missions, or of it's a one-off style episode.

The UK's Advertisement Standards Agency has asked Valve and Hello Games to remove No Man's Sky's misleading screenshots and trailers from the Steam marketplace.

Almost everyone already knows that the screenshots and trailers for No Man's Sky are total lies and represent a game that doesn't exist. However, the misleading advertisements are still up on Steam, the PlayStation Store, and GOG.com, and everyday casual gamers might fall prey to the trap and buy the game.

Now the UK's official Advertisement Standards Agency has stepped in, contacting both Valve and Hello Games and calling upon them to either defend the bullshots (ha!) or pull them and replace them with screenshots and video that reflect the real game.

Square Enix has just announced that their latest update for Final Fantasy XIV, is now available for gamers to access. Patch 3.4, revealed to audiences as 'Soul Surrender' is now available. The hottest patch features a vast range of playable content, state-of-the-art items/equipment, battle system tweaks, new adventure quests, side quests and loads more.

The update provides players with modernized scenery and visually enhanced environments for which new raid dungeons and high-level arenas are situated within the game. Square Enix released Final Fantasy XIV: Soul Surrender with truck-loads of features but none more exciting than the reunion of the famous sibling duo: Alphinaud and Alisaie Leveilleur. Here together players can conquer quests and explore into the story of antagonist quintet, the Warriors of Darkness.

Soul Surrender will furthermore provide Final Fantasy players with an option to battle against one another in fierce all-out duels, though the multiplayer mode is just one of two player features in the patch to have been altered. The latest 'Spectator Mode' created for those wanting to sit on the sidelines and watch, rather than participate in the game is now available. It provides gamers with the ability to spectate entire battles and view the results without have to step foot into the arena.