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GTA V will launch on next-gen PS5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles on November 11, 2021, Rockstar today announced.

In November, Grand Theft Auto V will become the first game in the series to span three console generations with a PS5/Xbox Series X/S release. GTA V is a cash crop for Take-Two, and the game is so big that it's sold 145 million copies as of February 2021. That's 43% of Grand Theft Auto's total franchise sales. The reason for the huge sales is because the game is available on so many platforms, especially the PS4, which has crested 116.4 million shipments worldwide.

China has officially become the second country in the world to land a rover on another planet successfully.

Last week, reports indicated that China was going to attempt to land on Mars with its new Zhurong rover, and now the China National Space Administration (CNSA) Twitter account has announced that it has successfully landed on Mars.

The Zhurong rover was aboard the Tianwen-1 spacecraft and was launched from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in China on July 23, 2020. The spacecraft entered the orbit of Mars back in February, and it successfully landed on the Red Planet around 7:18 p.m. EDT this past Friday. So far, China and the United States are the only two countries in the world that have successfully landed on another planet.

A new bombshell report has come out of CBS News "60 Minutes" segment where former U.S. Military officials revealed that the U.S. government is well-aware of unidentified flying objects (UFO).

Next month the U.S. military will be presenting Congress an unclassified report regarding UFOs, and the 60 Minutes segment has certainly increased anticipation for the U.S. military's report. According to Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, who said in the interview that the report will shock people because "frankly, there are a lot more sightings than have been made public."

The 60 Minutes segment featured many jaw-dropping statements U.S. Military officials, and some of the best quotes from the segment are provided in there entirely below. According to Lue Elizondo, former U.S. Military official that led the U.S. government's effort to investigate UFO's, "Imagine a technology that can do 600-to-700 g-forces, that can fly at 13,000 miles an hour, that can evade radar and that can fly through air and water and possibly space."

Fox made a surprise announcement on Monday, telling advertisers that it will be creating a new animated TV series that is fundamentally tie-in NFT's and the Blockchain.

According to what Fox told advertisers, the new TV show is called Krapopolis and is an animated comedy show that is set in mythical ancient Greece that follows greek gods, mythical creatures, and human learning to coexist. The backbone storyline of Krapopolis sounds very similar to Solar Opposites, a Hulu animated TV series by Rick & Morty co-creator Justin Roiland that follows a family of aliens attempting to fit into human society.

So, how is the Blockchain and NFT's involved? Essentially, the NFT's for the show would act as digital collectibles for fans, as fans would be able to purchase and sell digital goods on a dedicated marketplace for the show. According to Fox, "The company will launch a dedicated marketplace for KRAPOPOLIS that will curate and sell digital goods, ranging from NFTs of one-of-a-kind character and background art and GIFs, as well as tokens that provide exclusive social experiences to engage and reward super fans."

According to a report from New York Post's Page Six, Elon Musk, Grimes, and Miley Cyrus all attended a crypto-themed party after filming Saturday Night Live (SNL).

Elon Musk attended the after-party with his musician girlfriend, Grimes, and the musician Miley Cyrus. Sources said that women at the party were dressed as aliens and served Dogecoin cupcakes. The source added that a dog handler brought out a Shibu Inu, which is the breed of dog that is seen on the front of the Dogecoin.

The source said to New York Post's Page Six that the Shibu Inu was brought in as a "like a good-luck token." As for the location of the party, according to the source, the party was held at The Public in New York City's Lower East Side, and was the first time in the 14 months that the hotel had been opened by the owner Ian Schrager. "Ian opened it just for Elon and his guests," said the source. For more information on this story, check out this link here.

If you have never seen a black hole devour a star, you are in for a treat, as what you are about to witness is a violent but super interesting process called "spaghettification".

700 million light-years away, a star began to be torn apart by a black hole that it passed too close to. The black hole was estimated to be around 5 million times the mass of the Sun, and when the star passed too close to the black hole, it got caught in its gravitation pull which led to it being torn apart into long, thin, thread-like strands of material that resemble a spaghetti noodle.

Back in April 2019, the Zwicky Transient Facility, which observes the skies for any cosmic-level events, found an event such as the one described above. The event was later named AT2019dsg, and in the above video, you will find an animation of what that event would have looked like. It turned out that AT2019dsg was unique in some ways, and if you would like to find out how and why check out this link here.

A company has announced that it will be using deepfake technology to create a synthetic voice that celebrities and other prominent figures can license out.

Veritone has said it plans to use its Marvel.au platform to monetize deepfakes of celebrities, politicians, and any other public figure. The AI-enabled synthetic voice can be licensed out by the celebrity to companies, brands, and influencers. By having a deepfake of a celebrity's voice media companies will be able to "accelerate and amplify content creation", according to Veritone.

Essentially, Veritone would create a deepfake, or a clone of a celebrity's voice that can then be bought by companies to do brand duties that the celebrity would get paid for. Veritone mentions that creating a voice clone for a person to perform brand deals would remove the physical need for that person to on set to shoot it, which could raise the ceiling for that celebrity's total monetized content output. For more information on this story, check out this link here.

Charles Hoskinson, the co-founder of Ethereum and founder of Cardano, has posted a step-by-step video guide on how Elon Musk can help Dogecoin developers fix Dogecoin.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently announced that he was working with Dogecoin developers to improve the currency and that it's "potentially promising". The founder of Cardona has suggested that Dogecoin needs to replace the Scrypt protocol with Prism protocol to improve its transaction efficiency. Hoskinson goes on to say that Dogecoin could reach up to 10,000 transactions per second if it implemented Prism.

Hoskinson goes on to recommend that Dogecoin adopts the HashCore algorithm, as well as the ErgoScript. The HashCore algorithm will keep Dogecoin ASIC-resistant, and the ErgoScript algorithm will usher in smart contracts for Dogecoin. As for Musk's recommendations for improving Dogecoin, the Tesla CEO has proposed increasing the Dogecoin block size by ten times. For more information on this story, check out this link here.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken quite a lot of heat over his recent tweets that impacted the price of bitcoin, which has led to the price to trend downwards.

Now, American surfing legend Kelly Slater has taken to his Instagram story to put Musk on blast, claiming that the Tesla CEO is actually "bad for crypto", and that he hopes the "SEC is taking a good look at this (and all of them who might be buying the dip today and this week in their private accounts)." The statements from Slater come after Musk suspended vehicle purchases using bitcoin, citing the impact bitcoin mining has on the environment.

Since then, Musk has hinted towards Tesla selling its bitcoin holdings in the next quarter but clarified then clarified that Tesla hasn't sold any of its holdings. Slater goes on to say, "Elon Musk and Tesla Motors proudly bought $1.5B worth of Bitcoin for around $34K in Feb. Elon comes out this week and says BTC mining is bad for the environment and they dump their bitcoin for an estimated $804M in profits (but he's still pushing dogecoin, a useless s***coin)".

The price of Bitcoin (BTC), at the time of writing this, is currently in a downwards trend after a series of tweets from Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

On May 16, Twitter user Mr. Whale posted a tweet that stated, "Bitcoiners are going to slap themselves next quarter when they find out Tesla dumped the rest of their Bitcoin holdings. With the amount of hate @elonmusk is getting, I wouldn't blame him...". Musk replied to the tweet with a simple "Indeed", and later followed up with another reply to a post where he said that Tesla hasn't sold any of its Bitcoin.

You don't need to be a genius to see some sort of connection between the price of bitcoin and Musk's Twitter posts. The question that is raised now is how do you quantify the level of impact a single tweet from Musk can cause on the market, and is this healthy for the cryptosphere as a whole? Cryptocurrency is still in its infancy, and as it continues to grow and be adopted, answers to the above questions will undoubtedly be found as governments become involved.

GIGABYTE is preparing a new refreshed range of its GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards, with new Lite Hash Rate (LHR) editions on the way.

The new GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 series Lite Hash Rate (LHR) graphics cards should be available now, and you're not going to know the difference between them for the most part. The new cards are just the second revision (Rev. 2.0) of GIGABYTE's entire stack of Ampere-powered GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards.

In the feature pages for each of the Lite Hash Rate models, GIGABYTE lists everything that the GeForce RTX 3060 has: the Ampere GPU architecture, 2nd Generation RT Cores, 3rd Generation Tensor Cores, 12GB of GDDR6 memory, and then GIGABYTE's in-house WINDFORCE 3X cooling technology.

Oculus today revealed that Infinite Office, the company's VR productivity solution, would launch with the next Oculus Quest update. Quest Platform v29 will also introduce new casting features for content creators and add multi-user and app sharing support to the original Quest.

Oculus has been rapidly updating the Quest platform giving it new software features that makes the headset an even better value. The most recent update, v28, enabled 120Hz mode for some games and the ability to pair a Logitech keyboard. The next update doesn't have any significant firmware changes that alter the hardware operation, but Oculus still has a few cool features in the pipeline for Quest owners.

Infinite Office is one of the more significant changes with v29. Soon you'll be able to use your Quest 2 headset to get work done. It gives you a web browser, access to document editing and presentation tools, and gives you a real reason to connect a keyboard to the headset.

Sharp has unveiled its new Aquos R6 smartphone, a new flagship handset that is for the Japanese market and it has a single camera on the back in a sea of multi-camera rigs on the back of flagship (and even mid-range) smartphones.

The new Sharp Aquos R6 smartphone is powered by Qualcomm's flagship Snapdragon 888 chipset, and also has the world's-first Pro IGZO OLED 6.67-inch display with a dynamic refresh rate of between 1Hz and 240Hz. This way you get the best of both worlds: great battery life (lower refresh rates) and super smooth response for the OS and gaming (high refresh rates).

As for the resolution of the 6.67-inch OLED display, Sharp's new Aquos R6 smartphone has a resolution of 2730 x 1260 -- or WUXGA+ as the kids call it these days. Next to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 we have 12GB of RAM and 128GB of storage.

We are ramping right into the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti graphics cards and their impending release, with some new information on AMD's upcoming Navi 23-based Radeon RX 6600 series of graphics cards.

AMD will be launching a couple of mid-range Navi 23-based cards in the Radeon RX 6600 XT and Radeon RX 6600 graphics cards, where thanks to new information from Igor Wallossek we know some juicy new information. We know the die size of the Navi 23 GPU is 235.76mm2 with a 35x35mm package that has the GPU die rotated on a 45-degree angle.

We should see Navi 23-based Radeon RX 6600 series graphics cards come in different TGPs ranging between 65W and 90W while notebook manufacturers will be able to choose which TGP variant they want to use in their gaming laptop design.

Apple has done something that they normally don't do: update a previous service with a higher quality feature, and didn't charge anything more for it... that's exactly what the company has done with Apple Music.

Apple Music will soon have lossless audio that will cost users no more per month, it will be included in their Apple Music subscription. Not only that, but Apple will be pumping thousands of Spatial Audio and Dolby Atmos capable tracks onto Apple Music with more dropping on the service over time.

75 million songs on Apple Music with lossless quality are now available to every Apple Music subscriber, at no additional cost... from Apple... with no additional cost (again for emphasis).

It looks like today is another one of those days, where we find out and see more about the new Battlefield game... where we've just had a bunch of images from the purported Battlefield 6 trailer which you can check out below.

But then Battlefield leaker and one-man Battlefield marketing team guy, Tom Henderson, tweet out a puzzle: "words that rhyme with Soon" he says, are "30th June" and "Boom". He adds "IMAGINE if they did that" with the hashtag for Battlefield and a "haha" emoticon.

Now, a June 30 reveal of the trailer... and then EA just dumps the new Battlefield onto Origin out of nowhere, like it did with Apex Legends and we all know how that turned out. Apex Legends to make $750 million this year alone and has racked up 100 million players in the last 2 years.

We might not have the official Battlefield trailer in front of our eyeballs just yet, but that hasn't stopped images leaking onto the internet as usual.

Tom Henderson pulled out the pencils and paper for some awesome Battlefield sketches, with some people questioning his leaks from the artwork he presented as a one-man Battlefield marketing team. Well, after those leaks we heard purported Battlefield 6 music and more details.

But now we have new leaked images that were dropped into Tom Henderson's own Discord server, with the files named "meme.png", "sad.png", "times.png", "no.png", and "bucket.png". Henderson has himself confirmed the authenticity of the leaked images, while we see a couple of frames from the robotic dog in Battlefield that you are able to control.

Tencent is currently working on a cloud gaming platform, but unlike Amazon Luna or Google Stadia, Tencent's streaming service won't have a static controller. Tencent's ideas are bigger than its competitors.

Today at its annual conference, Tencent revealed a novel concept for a games controller that can transform depending on what type of game you're playing. The controller is modular and has two parts: The shell case and the actual guts of the controller with D-pads and face buttons.

The idea is to sell different controller faces for specific types of games, whether they be mobile or console titles. One design has a six-button layout that reflects popular touchscreen mobile games (Tencent also showed off a slew of mobile titles at the event including CrossFire HD and Digimon: New Century). Tencent's cloud game streaming service will offer both mobile games as well as traditional console experiences.

Starbreeze's latest Q1 2021 financials show a dramatic shift towards eventual profitability. The Payday publisher isn't out of the red just yet, but it's doing a lot better.

Starbreeze's losses shrank by a massive 95% in Q1'21. Starbreeze Q1 losses were -4.248 million SEK ($486,396 based on 3/31 conversion rates) as compared to -97,338 million SEK in Q1'20. They aren't profitable yet due to long- and short-term liabilities (debts) and increased development investment/spending. This reduction in losses was made possible by increased earnings, and Starbreeze also paid back most of its creditors at the end of 2020.

In Q1'21, Starbreeze made pretty good net sales based on continued strong Payday 2 monetization/engagement, primarily on PC. PC made up 88% of Starbreeze Games' net sales during the quarter (Payday 2).

YouTuber Skullzi has leaked yet another Starfield image, and this one is from a later playable build.

The sun is shining on another leaked image for Bethesda's new IP Starfield. The new screenshot isn't too climactic and is quite similar to the previous leaks, but this one is actually from a 2019 build of the game. The previous leaks were reportedly from a version made in 2018.

For comparison's sake, here's what Starfield looked like in 2018: