Can you believe it's almost here? Rockstar Games is preparing PC gamers for the huge launch of Red Dead Redemption 2, with the game now pre-loading for gamers through the Rockstar Launcher.

The PlayStation 4 version of Red Dead Redemption 2 weighs in at close to 100GB, while the Xbox One version came in at around 110GB so the PC version scooping up 110GB isn't a big surprise. Well, it actually is a surprise given how much better the PC version looks, and that it doesn't use more HDD space.

So how the hell did the console versions of the game require 100-110GB of HDD space while the PC version requires the same HDD space as the Xbox One version and looks infinitely better than both the PS4 and Xbox One versions of Red Dead Redemption 2? It makes me want to spit my tobacco into a spittoon, or something.

Sony affirms its powerful next-gen PS5 won't be delayed, and that the console is meeting their expectations.

Sony has a lot riding on the PlayStation 5, and the company is taking the console very, very seriously. Not only is it significantly ramping up development of its games and services in prep for the mighty Zen 2 and Navi GPU-powered PS5, but it's also putting a hefty amount of time and money into the system's development. Sony has been coy about revealing official PS5 details to investors, but in its recent Q2'19 earnings report the company says the PS5 is currently on track.

"Development of the PS5 is progressing according to plan and we believe development of game titles by our software development partners is progressing smoothly. We anticipate providing the highly-engaging gameplay experiences that both current users of the PS4 and potential new users have come to expect," Sony said in the report.

Nearly six years after launch, Sony's PS4 has now sold-in more than 100 million units worldwide.

Today Sony announced its Fiscal Q2'19 financials, confirming a new total sales milestone for the PlayStation 4. As of the second quarter, PS4 shipments sit at 102.8 million, meaning the PS4 beats all other legacy consoles except for the PlayStation 2.

Sony shipped 2.8 million PS4s in Q2'19, down 28% year-over-year from Q2'18. The company expects hardware revenues to slow down throughout the rest of the fiscal year as it ramps up its next-gen PlayStation 5. The Games and Network Services segment, which includes PlayStation hardware, services, and games, only accounted for 21% of Sony's total revenues throughout Q2'19.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a huge success for Activision, raking in over $600 million in sales in its opening weekend on all platforms.

Modern Warfare is a sales juggernaut that beat Black Ops 4's and even Black Ops 3's opening weekend earnings, becoming the fastest-selling Call of Duty game on PS4 and Xbox One to date. The reboot still didn't beat Black Ops II's astronomical $500 million first-day sales, though.

Here's a quick historical breakdown of Call of Duty's opening earnings:

EA confirmed a new Battlefield game is coming by 2022 with optimizations for next-gen consoles, but until then Battlefield V will carry the franchise.

Battlefield V isn't going anywhere, and EA says the game will continue to get updates throughout 2020 and beyond as DICE prepares Battlefield 6 for next-gen systems. The publisher teases new dynamic modes and huge content to expand the experience and re-engage players. The main goal is to keep players busy, have a recurring revenue stream, and possibly even sell catalog copies while everyone waits for the insanity that is Battlefield 6 on PS5 and Project Scarlett.

"Our Battlefield franchise and its community are also a major focus for us, and we'll add new content and new ways to play Battlefield V in FY '21. Targeting new innovation that will be enabled by next-gen platforms and a growing install base on the new consoles, our next Battlefield game is set for FY '22," EA CEO Andrew Wilson said in a recent earnings call.

No wonder Disney is happy with EA's Star Wars games: They're actually massively successful insofar as sales.

EA today confirmed their two Star Wars: Battlefront games combined have sold over a 33 million copies worldwide, and asserted DICE is committed to engaging with the Star Wars audience. This is actually surprising news, especially with the huge Battlefront II lootbox controversy that marred the game's launch in 2017.

Powered by live services that continually deliver revenue over time, both Battlefront games have kept gamers busy for years now and made consistent earnings while engaging players with tons of free content. Battlefront II saw an extension of life after EA shut down Visceral Games and cancelled its Star Wars action game, leading DICE to support the shooter with a massive array of tweaks and free expansions.

Blizzard have finally announced the beta for the highly anticipated Warcraft III: Reforged, and it should be arriving sometime this week.

Gamers who are excited about the beta for Warcraft II: Reforged and want to jump into as soon as possible should note that priority invites are being sent out to those who picked up the Spoils of War Edition. Not only does the Spoils of War Edition give buyers priority with beta invites, but it also gives some cosmetic bonuses.

Cosmetic skins include: Champion of the Horde Thrall, Emerald Nightmare Cenarius, Fallen King Arthas, and Daughter of the Seas Proudmoore. For those that didn't pick up the Spoils of War Edition and just decided to grab the standard one, invitations will be rolled out to you over the coming weeks. The beta will consist of orc and human races within a 1v1 and 2v2 matches. For further information visit the official Blizzard blog post here.

Netflix's Stranger Things is the services most anticipated show as the series is about to move into its fourth season, but when will it release?

Stranger Things Season 3 released back on July 4th, 2016 and in just four days, 40.7 million Netflix accounts viewed it. This number continued to grow as 64 million households watched it within its first month, making it Netflix's most successful piece of original content.

TVLine has now confirmed that the new season will begin shooting its first episode sin January, 2020. Filming is expected to continue until sometime in August and the if we are lucky the new season will be released in the Summer of 2020. TVLine also caught wind of how many episodes would be in the new season, and according to them it will have a full eight episodes, much like the first and third season.

The common representation of what an 'alien' would look like if we ever found one is large oval shaped heads, black eyes, small mouths and an overbearing intellect. NASA's Hubble Telescope has found something out in deep space that seems extremely similar to that.

Hubble was doing what it does best, tracking galaxies and giving us amazing pictures of the cosmos. Recently, the space telescope released the above image, and from what we think we know about aliens the image resembles something close to what a Grey is supposed to look like.

While the image is most certainly not an alien of any kind, but instead, and more accurately put - the galaxy system Arp-Madore 2026-424. This system is located about 704 million light-years from Earth and if you look closely at the two galaxies spinning near the center of the image they can be made into eyes.

Remember when Game of Thrones ended and we caught wind of HBO making a prequel series that would explore the events before Westeros' seven kingdoms? Well, apparently that idea has been abandoned.

According to a new report coming out of Deadline, the prequel series is now dead in the water. Jane Goldman the writer and showrunner for the prequel series has reportedly been sending emails out to cast and crew about the project, telling them that the pilot not going to happen.

At the moment HBO hasn't commented on whether or not the prequel will go ahead, but for the time being it doesn't seem very likely. According to Game of Thrones writer, George R.R Martin, the Game of Thrones prequel show would concentrate on Westeros in the era when it had 100 petty kingdoms, more on that here.

There is nothing quite like a good selfie after a hard days work, or at least that's what NASA's Curiosity Rover thinks.

On September 24th, NASA's Curiosity Rover which is currently station on Mars performed some rare science work called "wet chemistry". This is the second time the rover has performed this experiement since it landed on the Red Planet seven years ago. The experiment consists of the rover dropping a drilled sample into a special solvent which could allow for scientists to identify carbon-containing molecules.

The reason the rover has decided to conduct the experiment now is because the its currently exploring an area that is rich in clay materials, and clay materials are great at preserving many chemical compounds. According to Paul Mahaffy, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, "We've been eager to find an area that would be compelling enough to do wet chemistry, now that we're in the clay-bearing unit, we've finally got it."

Researchers have showcased a brand new 3D animated character being brought to life, the catch? It moves exactly like humans do.

Computer scientists from the University of Edinburgh and Adobe Research have developed a data driven technique that uses a deep neural network to accurately guide 3D animated characters. The precision of the neural network showcases characters in a variety of different motions such as sitting in chairs, picking up objects, running, side-stepping, climbing through obstacles and more.

Komura, coauthor and chair of computer graphics at the University of Edinburgh spoke out about the achievement, saying "The technique essentially mimics how a human intuitively moves through a scene or environment and how it interacts with objects, realistically and precisely." If you are interested in checking out the video of the animated character for yourself, click this link right here.

EA made the surprise announcement in the last 24 hours that Apex Legends would be coming to Steam, as well as the game hitting 70 million players, and some even bigger news -- it's coming to mobile platforms and most likely even next-gen consoles in the Sony PlayStation 5 and Microsoft Xbox Scarlett consoles in late-2020.

But the cherry on top of all of this is that Apex Legends will work with Steam and not require Origin running, unlike other EA games that will require Origin to be running in order to work on Steam.

We know this because Respawn Entertainment staffer 'thezilch' commented on this Reddit post about Apex Legends will be coming to Steam in 2020!, they replied saying: "Not true. Apex will launch directly with Steam without running Origin".

HBO Max was announced in full today with a release window of May 2020 and monthly cost of $14.99, it'll rock the entire series of mega-hits Friends and The Big Bang Theory, as well as every single Joker, Batman, and Superman movie ever made.

This means you'll get the classic (and my childhood favorite movies) in Superman: The Movie, Superman II, Superman III, and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. Not only that, but you'll even get the recent R-rated success in Todd Phillips' Joker, as well as every theatrical release of the Batman franchise including The Dark Knight Trilogy.

We can also expect other movies in both characters' history with Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice starring Henry Cavill as Clark Kent/Kal-El/Superman and Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne/Batman. We'll also see Justice League, Suicide Squad, Aquaman, and many others. This will be a huge win for HBO Max as it has Warner Bros. behind it, and will be the big battler against Disney+ that now owns Marvel and the entire MCU.

The Outer Worlds has only just come out and there's already someone who has speedrun through the game, finishing it in just over 30 minutes flat.

Obsidian Entertainment's latest game has been beaten in just 30 minutes and 54 seconds, with speedrunner 'Jabo' absolutely smashing through The Outer Worlds. Considering The Outer Worlds is an RPG, these speedruns make it even more impressive.

You can't just run-and-gun your way through RPGs but if you're fast enough and skilled enough at speedrunning, Jabo proves you can. He does all of this using The Outer World's built-in stun mechanics, bringing the major boss robot at the end to its knees. It's all done with the standard revolver in the game called The Vermin.

We've been waiting, and the day is finally here -- HBO Max has been announced in full, with the new streaming platform coming in at $14.99 per month when it launches in May 2020.

If you're an existing HBO subscriber on AT&T or a HBO Now direct billing subscriber, you will receive HBO Mac for free. If you're with AT&T and subscribe to AT&T's premium video, mobile and broadband packages you'll also get HBO Max for free. In 2021, there will reportedly be an ad-supported version of HBO Max.

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson was on-hand at the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California where he explained that HBO Max is "very different from anything else that you've seen in the market so far," adding that, "This is not Netflix. This is not Disney. This is HBO Max".

EA had quite a lot to share regarding Apex Legends during its recent financial earnings call, with CFO Blake Jorgensen saying that Apex Legends will launch on new platforms.

Right now, Apex Legends is available on the PC, Xbox One, and PS4 -- but now Apex Legends will be coming to mobile for both iOS and Android, but there is no ETA on when it will arrive. We should also expect Apex Legends to launch on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Scarlett consoles when they launch late 2020.

EA also announced that Apex Legends has reached up to 70 million registered players, with EA also adding that Apex Legends will become one of their vital online games moving into the future. This explains the push into mobile which could see Apex Legends adding 10s of millions of new users, just like Fortnite which is on consoles and mobile.

I exclusively reported not too long ago that Sony will be launching its next-gen PlayStation 5 console in December 2020, and then news broke about Sony trademarking the PS6 through to the PS10. Well, I've cracked the code and know when Sony will release them.

Using my magic code-breaking-thingamajig I have worked out that Sony will launch the PlayStation 6 in 2026, while going through to the PlayStation 10 we'll see it in 2050. Sony have around 6 years between each console, so at that rate of 6 years between next-gen PlayStation releases we should see the PS10 in around 2050, or so.

I'll be 67 years old that year. Having owned each of the PlayStation consoles, it seems the PS5 is going to be quite the beast upgrade over previous-gen units. But what the hell would a PS10 be like from here? 16K at 240FPS? I think we'll be beyond resolutions by then, beyond normal 'pixels.

EA has been enjoying a great time this year, with the surprise launch of Apex Legends earlier this year -- but when you join it with FIFA Ultimate Team, Madden Ultimate Team, and The Sims 4 seeing Electronic Arts have "an excellent second quarter".

Electronic Arts announced Apex Legends passed 70 million players since its launch earlier this year, and then the news that Apex Legends will be coming over to Steam thanks to the new partnership between EA and Valve. This will open up the game to millions of other gamers who might not want to use or install Origin, and makes things much easier for people (like me) who only uses Origin for Apex Legends.

Apex Legends is a free-to-play title which drives its userbase through the roof, but developer Respawn Entertainment have been doing a great job keeping the game flowing well. The new third season throws in a new map into Apex Legends, which really does change the game completely.

NVIDIA launched its new GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER graphics card in the first few hours of October 29, and as I awake the first thing I see is a juicy new rumor post about NVIDIA's next-gen Ampere GPU architecture (something I revealed back in April 2018) and details on the purported GeForce RTX 3000 series graphics cards.

The news is coming from the purported fact that NVIDIA has been discussing Ampere and the next-gen GeForce RTX 3000 series cards with AIB partners, and Wccftech has posted up these rumors. We don't know any concrete details on the Ampere GPU itself, which is something NVIDIA will deep dive into once it's announced -- but there are a few very juicy tidbits here that if true, would be great to see.

First off, NVIDIA's new Ampere-based cards should arrive to consumers in the GeForce RTX 3070, GeForce RTX 3080, and GeForce RTX 3080 Ti if NVIDIA follow the same release plans as the GeForce RTX 2070, RTX 2080, and RTX 2080 Ti launch. These cards are going to be faster, offer more VRAM, and hell they're even reportedly going to be cheaper.