The PS5's new Game Help feature is a nifty addition that gives you real-time hints and tips as you play, and it's supported in these next-gen games.

Game Help is part of the PS5's new functionally-layered UI and aims to replace walkthroughs.

As you play a PS5 game, you can summon on-screen tips and tricks by pressing the PS Button and selecting an on-screen pane. Game Help gives you a screenshot, a full video, and written info to guide you across specific challenges like levels, bosses, and more.

PS5 owners can't back up next-gen game saves without PS Plus. This effectively means PS5 game save backups are locked behind a paygate.

Unlike the PS4, the PS5 doesn't let gamers manually copy their next-gen saves onto a USB drive. The only way to safely back up saves for next-gen PS5 exclusives like Demon's Souls is to upload them to PS Plus. Users can't export their PS5 saves to an external USB stick or USB drive.

To be clear, you can still manually export (and import) PS4 saves on the PS5. This is true for any backward compatible game you play on the PS4. So if you have, let's say, the PS4 version of Assassin's Creed Valhalla installed on the PS5's SSD, you can still back up those saves on a USB device.

Gamers can install two versions of the same game on the PlayStation 5's SSDGamers can install two versions of the same game on the PlayStation 5's SSD: A next-gen version, and a current-gen version.

Today we learned how PS4-to-PS5 game upgrades are handled on Sony's new next-gen PlayStation. In the case of Assassin's Creed Valhalla, you can install both a PS4 and PS5 version of the game on the PS5's SSD. The two games live side-by-side to each other and can be launched independently. It's actually pretty interesting.

Simply select the game on the PS5's home screen, hit Options, and go to Game Version. There you can select whether to launch the PS4 version of the game, or the PS5 version. The PS4 flavor will be unoptimized and won't hit the full perf like 4K 60FPS or utilize the blistering fast load times (the game loads in 8 seconds from a save on PS5, for instance). The PS5 version is enhanced in so many ways and plays tremendously better.

The 4th annual International VR Awards took place on November 12, and 12 games were competing for the prestigious VR Game of the Year title. That's a full dozen games that you need to try if you haven't already.

For a long time, the biggest critique about the VR industry's state was the lack of top-tier titles. Since the early days of VR, there have always been experiences that would blow you away. But they used to come few and far between, and more often than not, they were too short to get excited about.

The consumer VR market is now four years old, and the tired excuse of a lack of content just doesn't hold up anymore. There are some fantastic experiences available, and these 12 are some of the best that came out in the last year.

Wonder Woman 1984 was meant to open up on June 5, 2020 -- but the COVID-19 pandemic put a stop to that. It was pushed to August 14, and then again to October 2 -- and then another delay to December 25... but we might not be finished yet.

Warner Bros. executives are now reportedly talking about delaying Wonder Woman 1984 into the summer of 2021, or alternatively, release it on December 25 and throw it on their new streaming service HBO Max in January 2021. The latter, is how I think it should go down.

Wonder Woman and Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins is a big fan of cinema, making WW84 for the big screen, meanwhile a Warner Bros. representative wasn't clear on what was happening with WW84, but did say: "'WW84' will be in theaters".

If you have an Oculus Quest, you're probably getting regular exercise without even realizing it. Starting next week, your Quest headset will be able to keep track of that for you.

In September, during the Facebook Connect conference, Facebook announced that it would soon launch a fitness tracking solution for the Oculus Quest platform. The software, dubbed Oculus Move, is an upcoming system-level feature for Quest that will give you a rundown of just how active you are in VR.

Oculus Move works in the background, keeping track of your activity while you play your favorite games, and gives you an estimated breakdown of how much energy you're burning. The software provides you with a dashboard to report your fitness stats, including an estimated tally of your calorie burn, how many moves you make per minute, and a breakdown of how many calories you burned per active hour.

It wasn't even a month ago that PayPal announced that it would let its customers use cryptocurrencies and hold them in their wallets, but it has just delivered crypto support to all US accounts.

At first, PayPal made crypto-capable payments and holdings in a small batch of users but it has now opened the crypto floodgates to all US users of PayPal to now buy, sell, and and hold bitcoin, etherum, litecoin, and bitcoin cash.

Not just that, but PayPal said that in "select international markets in the first half of 2021" the company will have cryptocurrency into Venmo, which will see users paying merchants with their cryptocurrencies in their wallet. The way this will work is the transaction will take place between cryptocurrencies, with the digital currency converted to fiat.

Oculus is now rolling out v23 of the Oculus Quest software platform, which finally introduces 90Hz support for Quest 2. The new update also coincides with Oculus Link, the USB tethering system that enables Quest on your PC, leaving beta status.

When Oculus revealed the Quest 2 VR headset in September, the company said the new headset would operate at 72Hz or 90Hz, depending on the software you run. At launch, Quest 2 didn't have full support for the 90Hz mode. You could enable it, but the faster refresh only worked in platform environments such as Home, but not in games.

With the v23 software update, 90Hz now works with all features, including the Guardian and camera passthrough. Oculus is also now extending the option to support 90Hz to game developers.

Update: It appears that the emergency response by authorities was a "hoax", with police sources talking to local media confirming it was a hoax.

Ubisoft Montreal is involved in a hostage situation right now, starting at around 1:30 EST -- forcing staffers to flee to the roof for over two hours.

A group of suspects held a large group of Ubisoft Montreal staffers hostage, with Montreal police reporting that there was an "ongoing police situation" and they ask people to "avoid the area". The Montreal Police Department tweeted: "The SPVM is currently validating information and more details will follow".

The Xbox Series X/S debut is the biggest in Xbox history, and underlines a big turnaround for Microsoft's console division.

While Microsoft cares mostly about Xbox services, software, and digital earnings, the company is still eager to tout hardware milestones. The new Xbox Series X/S generation is a defining moment for the Xbox brand, and Microsoft today confirmed the next-gen duo has outsold any previous Xbox hardware launch in history. Given the Xbox 360's massive demand at launch, this is quite the feat. Apparently the Xbox Series S was the best-seller, which isn't surprising given its $299 cost.

Sadly Microsoft didn't reveal any actual hardware sales figures. Current Xbox One lifetime sales are estimated to be around 49 million as of June 2020.

The PS5 segregates saves across generations, and supports two different banks of save files: Those made on PS5, and those made on PS4. Things get confusing when moving PS4 games over to PS5.

I've already had issues with the PS5 recognizing my PS4 saves when playing backward compatible PS4 games. I'm not alone, either. I managed to solve this by re-uploading the PS4 saves to PS Plus, and then downloading them to the PS5's internal storage. This method works for PS4 games that don't have PS5 upgrades.

But what about games like Assassin's Creed Valhalla that offer free PS4-to-PS5 upgrades? That's where things get a little dicey.

The PS5 can record and capture up to 1 hour of 4K footage...but you'll want to use it sparingly.

Like the PS4, the next-gen PS5 can record up to 1 hour of your most recent gameplay footage. The console can automatically capture in-game footage and format it as a replayable/sharable video. The PS5 has seven different length formats: 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 3 minutes, 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, and 60 minutes. Unlike the PS4, which caps out at 1080p, the PS5 can record footage in up to 4K resolution.

The 30m and 60m lengths should be avoided unless you're capturing in 1080p. 12 minutes of 3840 x 2160 resolution footage in Assassin's Creed Valhalla took up 3.12GB. The PS5's SSD only clocks in at 667GB so your storage space is at a premium. If you capture 4K or even 1080p footage, definitely be sure to export the video to an external USB stick or drive for use later.

Atari recently confirmed the games included in the Atari Vault, a free bundle of classic arcade titles that come with the new Atari VCS system.

Atari is baking in lots of extra nostalgic value in its new VCS console, and will include a huge library of old-school arcade classics for free. Anyone who buys the VCS can relive those old late 70s and early 80s glory days of arcade and console gaming with titles like Asteroids, Centipede, Lunar Lander, Missile Command, and Pong. Even the Sword Quest games show up.

The idea here is to capture those old memories and faithfully recreate them on a new modern console with an upgraded joystick--complete with rumble feedback, LEDs, and more.

The NiOh franchise has a history with high FPS--right from the start the game had a 1080p 60FPS priority mode on the PS4. Now Koei Tecmo is pushing this new heights for the PS5.

NiOh and NiOh 2 are getting remastered for the PS5, complete with insane high-end perf targets of 4K 120FPS. Of course you'll need a UHDTV or 4K monitor that supports 120Hz to play the slice-and-dice duo at this blistering-fast frame rate. NiOh at 60FPS was enough...but hitting 120FPS will bring a whole new dimension of excitement and chaos to gameplay.

The studio is actually re-releasing five separate versions of the NiOh franchise in February 2021:

Just like the PS4, Sony's next-gen PS5 lets you watch and listen to custom videos and music from a USB drive. Here's a quick primer on how to do it.

The PS5 can easily play back custom media saved on a USB stick. The PS5 doesn't support all file formats, but it does play back the most common ones like MP4, MP3, and MKV. It's worth noting the PS5 supports all of the same formats as the PS4 family. The PS5 supports video in max resolutions of 3840 x 2160 so don't try to watch 8K videos just yet (the PS5 doesn't support 8K video output right now).

First things first: Make sure all your videos and music are in folders. The PS5 will automatically make a playlist out of the files a specific folder, so you'll have to do some manual sorting if you want to listen to/watch tracks in a specific group.

ASRock is preparing its custom Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card should should be the new Radeon RX 6800 XT Taichi, which will succeed the ASRock Radeon RX 5700 XT Taichi OC+ that I reviewed last year.

It looks like ASRock has made some nice design tweaks to the purported Radeon RX 6800 XT Taichi graphics card, which would feature a dual-BIOS switch with P and Q settings (which should be performance and quiet profiles for the card).

There's also another switch that lets you totally disable the RGB lighting, which is a nice touch if you don't want the RGB lighting glowing up your case. It rocks a hefty 3 x 8-pin PCIe power connector setup, which is a considerable jump on the dual 8-pin PCIe power connectors of AMD's own reference Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card.

It looks like that Oculus Quest 2 jailbreak that everyone got excited about last month isn't happening. It turns out the "successful" bootloader might actually be fake.

The day after Oculus started shipping the Quest 2 VR headset, Robert Long, a developer at Mozilla who's not a fan of Facebook's policies, put up a $5,000 bounty for a proven jailbreak for the headset. Palmer Luckey, the ousted founder of Oculus, matched that offer, bringing the prize to $10,000 for a verified root access jailbreak.

Less than a week later, someone laid claim to the prize, and the VR community has been waiting with bated breath ever since. Within days of the bounty announcement, the XR Safety Initiative (XRSI), which offered to help Long verify the claims, announced that someone had stepped forward with root access to the Quest 2 and the ability to bypass the Facebook login requirement and that their researchers had "validated this jailbreak."

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone is one of, if not the biggest game on the PC -- but now developer Infinity Ward has shrunken the storage used by the game -- which was really getting out of control.

Infinity Ward's new update for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone weighs in at 33GB, and introduces the beta version of Private Warzone matches. But the PC version of the game now packs texture streaming that will download high-resolution textures to your PC while streaming through On-Demand Textures Streaming.

The developers did this to reduce the overall size of the game, as it removes textures that you either don't use or get closed to in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare or Warzone. In the game, if you see or use an operator or weapon that has a high-res texture, it will be streamed to your PC when required.

Valve released an update for Half-Life: Alyx, but this one's probably not for everyone. If you're interested in game development, you're probably in for a treat, though. Valve added 3-hours of developer commentary as a narration for the game.

The developer commentary update for Half-Life: Alyx is long overdue. Valve said that it intended to complete this content before shipping the game; the Covid-19 pandemic forced the team to put the commentary aside to focus on shipping the game on time.

The Half-Life: Alyx development team spent the summer and recent months reflecting on the development process, and they recorded over 3-hours of discussion covering "147 points of interest" and "every aspect of development." The developers talk about the design, art, animation, rendering and sound production for the game.

Highpoint has just unveiled the industry's first 8-port PCIe 4.0 x16 M.2 NVMe RAID controller, with the introduction of the Highpoint SSD7540.

The new SSD7540 can take any PCIe 3.0 or PCIe 4.0 SSD at up to 8TB capacities, and up to 8 of them, to provide a simply insane 28,000MB/sec (28GB/sec) transfer speeds. You could install 8 x 8TB drives for 64TB in a single PCIe 4.0 x16 slot pumping away 28GB/sec. I don't even have words.

You can buy one of these new Highpoint SSD7540 8-Port PCIe 4.0 x16 M.2 NVMe RAID Controller right now, buy a bunch of the biggest PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs, and enjoy up to 28GB/sec of read speeds in a PCIe 4.0-capable AMD motherboard.