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Destiny, one of the most pivotal shooters of the Gen 8 console era, turns 8 years old today. How time flies when you're having fun!

While Bungie forges ahead with its ambitious live service plans under the ownership of Sony, today we'll take a look back when it was trying to forge its own Destiny. 7 years after Bungie broke away from Microsoft, the developer opened the door to a future sans Halo. That door was Destiny, an engaging shooter that merged MMO-style drop-in co-op and social features with the expert-level FPS combat Bungie was known for. It was an instant hit.

One of Destiny's biggest downfalls, though, was a massive re-write of the game's story that significantly disrupted gameplay flow. Gamers knew something was off back in 2014, and years later it was revealed that Activision was to blame for the re-write.

NetherRealm's Ed Boon just ran a poll asking gamers what they want to see next, and the winning answer is very interesting.

Since Mortal Kombat 11's release in 2019, NetherRealm has been steadily working on its next project. Many have speculated on what it will be; possibly Injustice 3? Mortal Kombat 12? Or something new? NetherRealm isn't ready to say just yet--and they did a funny MK12 leak spoof back in January--but head honcho Ed Boon isn't afraid to ask what fans are hoping to see.

The poll had four responses: Injustice 3, a Marvel game, Marvel vs DC, and the next Mortal Kombat. The most popular answer is a Marvel vs DC fighting game with 35.4% of the votes, which represents about 18,854 people's votes. This is pretty interesting and could change up the framework quite a bit. We've seen Capcom do excellent work with Marvel fighting games and NetherRealm's Injustice duo of games has made stellar work of the DC franchise.

The rumors were right: Amy Hennig's team is working on a new Marvel game starring Captain America and Black Panther.

Today Disney and Marvel gave a brief teaser on Skydance's upcoming new hero game. The project, which has yet to be officially named, will feature four playable characters including a young Steve Rogers (Captain America) and Azzuri, which was T'Challa's grandfather during the World War II era. Hydra is the enemy during the game, which is described as a "narrative-driven ensemble adventure game."

No release date or other details were announced with the project and it's likely that it's still in early phases of development. Listings on Skydance New Media's recruitment pages suggest the game will be singleplayer-only and not feature any sort of online multiplayer. Amy Hennig has said the new Marvel game will feel like other titles she's worked on, which includes Uncharted.

Activision today confirmed that Call of Duty Warzone Mobile is indeed happening, and that more information is coming during its COD Next event on September 15.

Call of Duty Warzone is the most important thing Activision has ever done. It's the purest proof-of-concept of Activision-Blizzard's costly new four-part plan, which sees more emphasis on live services, free-to-play, mobile games, and premium releases. Activision makes far and away most of its money from microtransactions and live games, and Warzone helped significantly boost its revenues since launching in 2020--in fact, Warzone helped Call of Duty make a record $3 billion in 2020.

Now after amassing over 100 million players on consoles and PC in less than a year, Warzone is coming to gaming's largest market: Mobile. Activision has formally announced Call of Duty Warzone Mobile as a rather sizable release that sees multiple studios working on the project. Four of Activision's studios are coming together to make Warzone Mobile including Beenox, Solid State Studios, Activision Shanghai and Digital Legends.

A study on the planetary heists titled "Making BEASTies: dynamical formation of planetary systems around massive stars" has been published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters.

Researchers from the University of Sheffield have provided a novel explanation for how planets discovered as part of the B-star Exoplanet Abundance STudy (BEAST) came to be. These Jupiter-sized planets are found hundreds of times the distance between the Earth and our Sun away from their massive host stars. Such large stars typically stunt the growth of planets before they reach Jupiter-like, or Jovian, size, owing to large amounts of ultraviolet radiation.

Previous work by the researchers has shown stars in densely populated stellar nurseries, where stars are born, can steal planets from other stars or capture free-floating planets without a host star. In these nurseries, they found that massive stars were more influential than Sun-like stars and could capture planets more readily, including larger planets, referring to them as BEASTies.

A study on the reactive field titled "The human oxidation field" has been published in the journal Science.

An international team of researchers has found that while indoors, people are exposed to various chemicals from the atmosphere, including reactive chemicals emitted directly from human skin and breath. These reactive chemicals, known as hydroxyl (OH) radicals, are found in high concentrations outdoors due to UV light from the sun interacting with ozone and water vapor in the atmosphere to produce them.

People spend roughly 90% of their lives indoors, constituting time at home, work, or in vehicles. The air indoors, where glass windows mostly filter out UV light, has been thought to have a much lower concentration of OH radicals, with ozone leaking in from outdoors comprising the primary source of OH radicals. These radicals then oxidize chemical pollutants that also come from outside, from indoor materials and furnishings, or from cooking and cleaning.

The cryptocurrency space is riddled with many problems, and one big issue is the amount of theft, fraud, and security breaches that occur.

In March 2022, the Ronin Network, a sidechain built for the popular play-to-earn game Axie Infinity was hacked by North Korean-linked hacking group Lazarus Group. At the time, the Ronin Network explained that the security breach resulted in 173,600 Ethereum and $25.5 million in USDC ($625 million in total) were stolen after the attacker used hacked private keys in order to forge fake withdrawals.

Chainalysis, an American blockchain analysis firm, took to its blog to explain how it assisted the US government in recovering the stolen funds and the process of how the money was laundered. The Lazarus Group gained access to five of nine private keys held by transaction validators for the Ronin Network's cross-chain bridge, and with these keys, the hackers approved two withdrawal transactions - the 173,600 Ethereum and $25.5 million in USDC.

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is celebrating the first year of the Operations Commissioning Phase (OCP) of its new Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, which they describe as the world's most powerful solar telescope.

The Inouye Solar Telescope is the largest solar telescope in the world, located on culturally and spiritually significant land in Hawaii. The has released two new images to commemorate the telescope's inauguration, which represents the final stages of an investment by the NSF starting over 25 years ago to create a cutting-edge, ground-based solar observatory.

The telescope's OCP began in February 2022, and it has since worked alongside NASA's Parker Solar Probe and ESA/NASA's Solar Orbiter to make coordinated observations of the Sun. It has already gathered data for over 20 scientific proposals and is primed to continue studying the Sun for an expected 50 years at least.

A study on the brain titled "Molecular diversity and evolution of neuron types in the amniote brain" has been published in the journal Science.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research have studied the brains of Australian bearded dragons, Pogona vitticeps, to gain insight into how the brains of vertebrates evolved. Early tetrapods, or four-limbed animals, eventually deviated into reptiles, birds, and mammals after they transitioned onto land from the water about 320 million years ago. The shared ancestry of these three clades means their brains share similar basal architecture.

When neuroscientist Paul MacLean found similarities in the mammalian brain to the reptilian brain in the 1960s, he developed the triune brain concept. The concept refers to the human brain evolving in three stages, beginning with the reptilian complex, the so-called lizard brain, followed by the limbic system, and lastly, the neocortex, each responsible for isolated functions. Since its inception, the model has received criticism and has also been described as "one of the most successful and widespread errors in all of science."

The United Nations (UN) International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has released a new report regarding Ukraine's nuclear safety, security, and safeguards.

The second summary report by the Director General of the IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi, primarily covers events between April 28th, 2022, and September 5th, 2022, following the first summary report that covered February 24th, 2022 to April 28th, 2022, with February 24th being the first day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Since the invasion began, much fighting has involved Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (NPP), the largest NPP in Europe.

The Zaporizhzhia NPP was captured by Russian forces on March 4th, nine days into their invasion, but Ukrainian workers have been allowed to continue operating the facilities since then. Battles at the site have continued since its capture, with shelling damaging its exterior and both sides accusing the other of being responsible. The report notes that continued shelling may potentially damage the plant's systems and equipment, leading to severe consequences such as the "unlimited release of radioactive materials to the environment."

Following the reveal of the iPhone 14, Apple CEO Tim Cook has responded to questions about fixing the texting problem between Android devices and iPhones.

The Verge has reported that Cook was asked about the current situation between Android and iPhone when it comes to text messages coming through in lower quality. The question is in regards to Apple refusing to adopt Rich Communication Services (RCS), which is essentially an upgraded SMS communication protocol that enables high-quality multimedia files to be sent/received, read receipts, typing indicators as well as texting over Wi-Fi between Android and Apple devices.

There has been a long-standing debate between Apple and Android over its decision to avoid RCS, largely stemming from the blue versus green text bubble war. Apple adopting RCS would end the war of the blue and green bubbles, and make texting between both services much more seamless for all users. For these reasons and more individuals have expressed that Apple is intentionally making texting non-iPhone mobile phones difficult to retain users in its own messaging service, iMessage.

The daughter of famed Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has taken to Instagram to share her thoughts on Apple's newest iPhone.

24-year-old Eve Jobs posted a meme on her Instagram story that showcases a man holding two of the same t-shirts up, with the caption reading, "me upgrading from iPhone 13 to iPhone 14 after Apple's announcement today." The meme pokes fun at Apple's design choices for the iPhone 14, as overall, it looks extremely similar to the iPhone 13. However, under the hood, Apple has made several improvements, including better battery life, new software features, a brighter screen, and more.

Regardless of the new features, Apple has to offer in the iPhone 14, the tech company's newest mobile phone largely looks the same as the previous model with minimal design changes. Eve Jobs' meme raises an important discussion topic that analysts have been debating for quite some time, and that is ever since Tim Cook took over from Steve Jobs as Apple's CEO in 2011, the company shifted its focus to making money, and lost its ability to produce products that revolutionize the consumer market.

Elon Musk is currently engaged in a legal battle with Twitter over backing out of his deal to purchase the company for $44 billion, citing an unknown number of spam/bot accounts.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is currently engaged in a legal battle with the world's second-largest social media platform Twitter over the Tesla founder backing out of his deal to purchase the platform for $44 billion. Musk backed out of the deal, citing Twitter's failure to provide him and what his legal team considered to be the correct information regarding the number of bot/spam accounts on the platform.

Last month a new spanner was thrown into the mix with the surfacing of Twitter's former head of security Peiter Zatko's whistleblower complaint that claimed Twitter was failing at upholding appropriate cyber security standards and that the company was willingly committing fraud. A hearing was recently held with both team's attendance to determine if the whistleblower complaint from Zatko was included in the case. According to The Wall Street Journal, Zatko's complaint will be included and will be an instrumental part of Musk's legal battle against Twitter.

AMD is updating the model numbering system for its Ryzen CPUs starting in 2023 and beyond, where the new numbering system makes it easier -- their goal -- for consumers to see where Ryzen CPUs stack up against each other moving forward.

The new numbering system starts with the "Portfolio Model Year" and 7 which indicates the year (2023) while an 8 would mean 2024, 9 would be 2025, and well 10... I guess we might see a new numbering system by then or AMD could go super-powered and go over 10,000. The next one is the "Market Segment" where you'll know how powerful the CPU is: the x9xx CPU being a Ryzen 9 part, an x3xx CPU being a Ryzen 3 chip, and so on.

Next up you've got the "Architecture" where which is the new part for users, where "4" will start off thanks to the newly-announced and soon-to-be-released Zen 4 architecture, with the final number being the "Feature Isolation" which AMD splits into 0 and above being a lower model within the segment while 5 and over is the upper model within the segment.

Intel's new 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" CPUs haven't even been released yet, but they're being used to break some OC world records at the dizzying heights of 8GHz... yeah 8000MHz+.

The new Intel Core i9-13900K processor was used, chilled with LN2 cooling on an "unreleased Z790 motherboard" where the CPU went up to a flat 8GHz (8000MHz). The folks over at Wccftech managed to get their hands-on a screenshot from an overclocker who has an Intel Core i9-13900K engineering sample (ES) processor, in the "unreleased Z790 motherboard" and the aforementioned LN2 cooling.

The overclocker also teased that 8GHz is the "baseline" for the Core i9-13900K... wowzers.

Farming Simulator 22 received its new 1.7.1 patch that includes the very latest version of FSR, with FSR 2.1 debuting and being compared, in Farming Simulator 22. Check it out:

AMD themselves released a cropped screenshot as well as a video uploaded to YouTube below, which shows Farming Simulator 22 running with AMD FSR 2.1 comparing FSR 2.0 up against FSR 2.1 in an ultimate FidelityFX Super Resolution battle.

AMD also reminds gamers that FSR 2.0 delivers up to 1.4x more performance in Farming Simulator 22 in 4K on the "Very High" preset, and FSR 2.1 set to "Performance" mode. AMD was using a mid-range Radeon RX 6750 XT graphics card, where the GPU was running Farming Simulator 22 at 4K and a very impressive 150FPS average with FSR 2.1 enabled, and 105FPS average with FSR 2.0 disabled.

NVIDIA is giving away a free copy of Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered with any purchase of a new GeForce RTX 30 series graphics card, desktop, or laptop.

The new promotion will apply to NVIDIA's fleet of high-end Ampere-based GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs as we've been reporting from leaks that NVIDIA is working with AIB partners and other companies (like game developers, publishers, etc) on incentivizing the sales of their RTX 30 series GPU stock.

We're looking at a free copy of Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, GeForce RTX 3090, GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, and GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards. Not only that but any gaming PC or a gaming laptop with an RTX 3080 Ti or RTX 3080 Laptop GPU gets to swing around in New York City for free, too.

Intel has officially revealed its desktop Arc GPUs with the Arc A770 and Arc A750 being detailed, with the Arc A770 and Arc A750 Limited Edition graphics cards the first out of the Arc A-Series desktop GPU gate.

The new Intel Arc A7 graphics cards will arrive in two versions: A770 (which comes in two different SKUs) followed by the A750. Intel is making things easier with product numbering with its Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, and Core i9 processors and now has its upcoming Arc 3, Arc 5, and Arc 7 graphics cards.

Intel's higher-end Arc A770 graphics card has 32 Xe-Cores, 32 Ray Tracing Units, and 512 XMX Engines. Intel says the ACM-G10 GPU inside of the Arc A770 Limited Edition graphics card will be good for up to 2100MHz, while there's 8GB and 16GB GDDR6 models with up to 560GB/sec of memory bandwidth. The Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition graphics card has a 225W TDP.

Roar... yeah, you heard it... Intel's new 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" CPUs are now getting ready for launch with details on the flagship Core i9-13900K unleashed.

The new Intel Core i9-13900K will feature 24 cores and 32 threads of Raptor Lake CPU power, with CPU clocks of up to a huge 5.8GHz, and 253W of "Maximum Turbo Power". The 5.8GHz clock speeds are coming to gamers and enthusiasts thanks to Intel's in-house Thermal Velocity Boost technology, while Turbo Boost Max 3.0 clocks will push the Core i9-13900K to 5.7GHz.

Igor's Lab posted the news on Intel's upcoming 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" CPUs, with the flagship Core i9-13900K listed with support for DDR5-5600 and DDR4-3200 memory depending on the motherboard you buy. There's up to 128GB of RAM supported, a base 125W TDP that will blow right up to 253W under Maximum Turbo Power.

The world of professional chess is experiencing what appears to be the biggest scandal in the history of professional chess, with one of the best chess players of all time -- Magnus Carlsen -- withdrawing from a major $350,000 tournament and Elon Musk says it's all about anal beads.

Yeah, I wish I wasn't being serious but Elon Musk has pulled millions upon millions of eyes onto this situation -- myself included, which made me do a bit of research into what exactly appears to be going on. The Sinquefield Cup is one of the biggest chess tournaments in the world, getting the attention of the world's best chess players.

The tweet (Ed: now deleted) from Musk is pretty simple, as usual: he quotes German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer "Talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one can see (cause it's in ur butt)". This is in reference to the claims that the 19-year-old used anal beads during the chess tournament, following it up with a tweet that the "most entertainment outcome is most likely".