The Walking Dead is getting adapted into a big new survival-horror VR game complete with exploration, brutal combat, and crafting.

Today Skydance Interactive announced The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners, a new VR game set in Robert Kirkman's terrifying zombie-infested world. Set for release in January 2020 on Oculus and Steam's VR platforms, Saints and Sinners sounds like an intuitive mix between Dying Light and Dead Island with a whole new layer of immersion and thrilling tension: gamers can grab zombies and decapitate them, slice and dice hordes of walkers, and interact with an explorable world.

The game will also have a surprising amount of reactivity and depth with a 15 hour+ campaign, showing Skydance is keen on reversing the downward trend with Walking Dead games. You'll get to wield all sorts of guns and shotguns (as well as bows) as you fight for survival in an undead-littered New Orleans, mowing down both humans and walkers alike. There's opportunities to help various NPCs littered throughout the game and every decision you make will not only shape the world, but it'll determine who you can team up with.

Current Blizzard Entertainment president J. Allen Brack asserts PC comes first, but that won't stop console ports and mobile-specific releases.

In a recent interview with GameSpot, Blizzard president J. Allen Brack says PC is the highest on the totem pole. "We are a PC developer first," Brack said, then quickly followed up by saying ports of its biggest games won't stop--the Overwatches and Diablos should continue being ported to consoles too.

"And then we look for other platforms that we think can support the types of gameplay experiences that resonate with the type of games and values that we want to put forth into the world. And the example of that is Diablo 3 on console."

SEGA's original hard-as-nails lightgun classics are getting remade for current-gen systems.

It's official: The House of the Dead 1 & 2 are getting remakes, bringing that old-school arcade thrill to your living room. Developer Forever Entertainment today confirmed the news, but left out some important details like launch date or platform availability.

It's likely the House of the Dead remakes will skip Xbox One now that the Kinect is dead and there's no real official lightguns for the platform. Sony, on the other hand, has PS Move controllers and an official lightgun mold, not to mention a PlayStation Camera sensor for tracking. We could even see the House of the Dead remakes come to VR hardware like the Oculus Rift, Valve Index, or PlayStation VR.

Death Stranding's latest trailer underlines its core mechanisms: becoming a high-tech delivery man.

Hideo Kojima's new game Death Stranding is all about making connections. But it doesn't do this in a direct way. Instead you're connecting a fractured, ghost-haunted world by delivering important parcels and precious resources throughout the world, thereby binding societies together. You're basically a futuristic postman that accepts delivery jobs, and everything you do brings the world closer together.

A new Death Stranding trailer shows this point in action. As Sam Porter Bridges, players will collect, deliver, and share tons of packages in the game, all while being chased by strange otherworldly phantoms. The parcels can contain everything from first aid and food to ammo, weapons, and gear. It's kind of metaphorical to how delivery and shipping is basically the heart of any society; being able to transport, share, and sell goods and services is the backbone to our world.

EA wants you to have to more security on your Origin account, but they don't want you to not be rewarded for enabling it either.

During the month of October, Origin users will be able to enable the new two-factor authentication service which EA calls "Login Verification", and receive 1 month of free Origin Access Basic. If you are wondering what Origin Access Basic is, its a free ticket to be able to try out hundreds of different EA titles as well as 10-hour-long early access to upcoming titles.

Origin Access Basic is priced at $6.45 a month and this is a fantastic reason to give the service a shot if you didn't want to fork out your own money. For users that are already paying for Origin Access Basic and enable the new two-factor authentication, EA will simply not charge them for the month of November. Head on over to the Origin website here if you want to give it a try.

A team behind an open source Nintendo Switch emulator has announced that due to their recent updates they have managed to get Super Mario Odyssey to run at a stable 60FPS on the PC.

The emulator is called Yuzu, and from the above video that has been released onto the BSoD Gaming YouTube Channel, we learn that this new update has introduced a brand new version of asynchronous GPU emulation. This the biggest update to come to the emulator since its release, and from the video we can definitely see Super Mario Odyssey running at stable 60FPS minimum.

Unfortunately this emulator isn't perfect though, at the moment Bayonetta 2 and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild are still unplayable. But what Yuzu can play is Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu!, Super Mario Maker 2 and ONE PIECE: Unlimited World Red Deluxe Edition all at 60FPS. It should also be noted that the player in the above video is running Super Mario Odyssey at 60FPS on an i7 8700k with an NVIDIA GTX 1080Ti.

The release of the highly anticipated Death Stranding isn't that far away, and while fans are shaking in their boots with excitement, the director has given them yet another reason to look forward the launch.

In a recent Tweet on Hideo Kojima's personal Twitter account, who is the director of Death Stranding, he says that he is currently editing the launch trailer for the title. Kojima also states that this will be the final trailer that will go online before the game launches, and that usually these trailers are "handled by outsourcing CGI studio" that comes with a "movie director".

But not this trailer. Nope. Kojima is doing this one all by himself, and even says that he is treating this trailer as if its apart of the games title. So this would mean the games launch trailer is a 'Hideo Kojima trailer' right? If so, I must say that is pretty damn awesome, and really does show much care has been put into Death Stranding on Kojima's behalf. Death Stranding will be releasing on November 8th.

An actress who played a small part in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy has spoken out about her beliefs towards wanting Gandalf to be played by a women in Amazon's upcoming Lord of the Rings TV show.

Robyn Malcolm, who played Morwen in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers spoke to Stuff.nz about how she believes that its time that women are brought to the front of the big screen. Here is what she had to say, "Those old legends, those old mystical stories, they're so based within a patriarchal landscape. Why not look at the magic of a matrilineal world where the magical powerhouses are women?"

For those that don't know, Ian McKellen played the role of Gandalf in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy and did an impeccable job, earning numerous nominations for best supporting actor. Malcolm continued to express her beliefs that women should be able to assume the roles of initially male characters regardless of Tolkien's extremely detailed source material says. Malcolm said "We've had female Hamlets." "Why not?"

Researchers and scientists around the world have stumbled upon a brand new discovery that could change how energy efficient energy transportation is.

The new paper which was puplished in the journal of Science Advances indicated that graphene, which is a material composed of a single layer of carbon atoms, is more of a superconductor of electricity than once speculated. The researchers from The Ohio State University have said they have found a "magic angle" that changes graphene from being a normal conductor of energy into a superconductor.

Before continuing, any metal is a normal 'conductor' of energy, but a 'superconductor' is metal that can conduct electricity without there being any resistance, meaning no loss of energy. Graphene was originally thought to be just a normal conductor, but the researchers added second layer of carbon atoms to the already present single layer. They also twisted these atoms to what they are calling the "magic angle", which is measured at 1 degree and 1.2 degrees.

A new announcement has revealed that in 2021, the Nova-C lander will be hitching a ride aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket that's headed to the Moon.

SpaceX will be using their Falcon 9 rocket for a planned Moon landing in 2021, and the NASA-sponsored flight will also have on board the Nova-C lunar lander that was built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines. According to Intuitive Machines representatives, the Nova-C has the ability of carrying 100 kilograms, or 220lbs of cargo anywhere on the lunar surface.

For the 2021 mission in particular, the Nova-C will have payloads from NASA as well as some other customers to fill out the rest of the available room. SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said in a statement, "We're honored that Intuitive Machines selected Falcon 9, SpaceX's tried-and-true workhorse, for this pioneering mission to the moon. Our partnership with Intuitive Machines is a great example of two private companies working together with NASA to advance space exploration."

A new report has shown that Tom Holland is the real-life Spider-Man, saving the fouled up deal between Sony and Disney for future Spider-Man movies.

A new report out of The Hollywood Reporter has shined a light on the newly formed deal between Disney and Sony for future Spider-Man movies. According to the report, Disney will get 25% of the box office net gross for the third Spider-Man film scheduled to release in July 2021. Disney will also be paying for 25% of the movie's budget.

Originally, Disney offered Sony 50/50 split and Sony didn't come back with a counter offer for nearly six months. So who saved the day and brought both companies back to the negotiating table? The Hollywood reporter says it was Spider-Man himself, Tom Holland. Holland contacted Disney CEO Bob Iger and Sony film boss Tom Rothman encouraging them both to come back to the table to form a deal.

The director of Overwatch, Jeff Kaplan has selected one specific hero out of his 31 to chose from. This hero will be offered to the Nintendo gods to be deemed worthy enough to enter into the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate roster.

In an interview with IGN, Jeff Kaplan, the director of Overwatch spoke out about the recent speculation that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate would soon be adopting an Overwatch representative since Overwatch is now coming to the Nintendo Switch.

In response to the question, it's described that Kaplan got excited about the idea and said "To the Smash Brothers team, whatever character you want, we love them all. They're all our babies, you can have any single one of them. We have 31 to choose from." Kaplan did eventually say that if he was going to chose one hero from the Overwatch roster, he would choose Tracer.

Call of Duty: Mobile is off to a good start so far, with 20 million downloads clocked since its release across iOS and Android devices.

Sensor Tower is behind the 20M number, with the statistical firm tracking mobile downloads, reporting 20 million downloads of Call of Duty: Mobile so far. Interestingly, gamers have already spent $2 million on microtransactions in that time.

India is a hotspot for Call of Duty: Mobile, with 14% of all installs of the game taking place in the country while US gamers account for 9% in comparison.

Microsoft and Sony will both have ray tracing in their next-gen consoles, with news breaking that the next-gen Xbox Scarlett and PlayStation 5 each doing ray tracing differently.

Gizmodo is behind the latest rumor, saying that a leaker told them that the PS5 and Xbox Scarlett will be using different techniques for ray tracing and that both Microsoft and Sony will be using different approaches in their respective ray tracing abilities

The leak included the fact that both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Scarlett consoles feature 4K cameras, but Microsoft will be amping it up with their Xbox camera. The Xbox Scarlett development kit has a 4K-capable camera with 2ms lag, Snapchat-style abilities with lighting changes, and more.

PlayStation 4's cross-play functionality is now available to all developers, Wired reports.

After years of hesitation, Sony has finally embraced cross-play. Starting with bigger free-to-play games like Rocket League, PUBG, and Fortnite, Sony eventually opened PS4 cross-play to more games. The biggest is Modern Warfare, which launches this month with full cross-play functionality on PS4, Xbox One and PC. Now Sony is lifting the floodgates completely and making PS4 fully compatible with cross-play on other platforms. Now it's up to developers to make use of it.

The news comes from a recent Wired interview with Jim Ryan discussing the future of the PlayStation platform. PS4's cross-platform support is now active across its near-100 million strong install base. Not much was said about the PS5 other than Sony working hard not to rest on its laurels--the content was mostly about services like PlayStation Now and cross-play. Both have an important role for Sony's immediate and long-term future.

Destiny 2 is currently the third most popular game on Steam right now, behind DOTA 2 and Counter-Strike Global Offensive.

Bungie's migration to Steam is a huge success. Destiny 2's new free-to-play mode has attracted nearly 2% of current active Steam users, and has amassed a huge 226,651 peak players today. Right now it currently sits at over 119K players, beating out PUBG by over 70,000 users. We're not sure how many Destiny 2 players are on the free New Light mode or bought into Shadowkeep, but we're betting the F2P option is most popular.

Whether or not these numbers will stay this inflated remains to be seen. Gamers are much more willing to try something that's free and give it a go for a few days, but a portion of them could drop out and move on. Destiny 2 has the added bonus of cross-saves, which lets PS4 players jump in on PC to play with Steam friends and then jump right back to their main platform. This potent tool could lead to lots of retention and platform-switching over time.

The rumors were true: Microsoft is making a Surface phone, and it has two screens. This new Surface Duo could be its answer to handheld gaming.

Microsoft has always been woefully behind when it comes to handheld gaming. But all of that could change with today's Surface Duo announcement, a new Android-powered device with hinging dual-screens. Microsoft showed off various use cases for the Surface Duo at its recent event, and gaming in particular has tons of potential.

The Surface Duo is transformable, making it somewhat like the Nintendo Switch. It doesn't dock, but you can use it like a 3DS, like a full display, or a half-display, mirroring the Switch's Tabletop Mode and Handheld Mode. Users can either hook up an Xbox One controller wirelessly via Bluetooth and use the dual screens as a portable gaming display, or flip it and hold like a 3DS and use the bottom half as a touch-screen controller while the top is used as a display.

At about 2:45PM yesterday, Intel's price slashing was leaked. We were actually at the briefing when it happened, so we will clarify some of the new details with Intel's official slides. For starters, prices are being slashed by up to 50%, which is huge news. However, if you have had experience with Intel's top of the line CPUs over the past decade, their Extreme Edition flagships have always been priced around $1000. It's refreshing to see Intel react to market demand and bring the price down to more normal levels.

The 10th Generation 14-nm i9-10980XE will be their flagship CPU with 18 cores, and all the new CPUs are Cascade Lake-X series. All the CPUs get considerable boosts to their maximum Turbo frequencies, with the 18, 14, and 12 core variants going up to 4.8GHz and the 10-core CPU going to 4.7GHz. When we inquired to the turbo tables Intel told us they would have to get back with us.

We did notice that Intel has dropped their 16-core variant, and we believe this was done due to low demand. Total platform PCI-E lanes have been increased to 72, which is due to the addition of four PCI-E lanes, so the CPUs all have 48 PCI-E lanes instead of 44.

Amazon Germany spills the beans on a new Fallout compilation that bundles the biggest games together in single SKU.

Bethesda is finally wrapping up every singleplayer-driven Fallout game together in one package on PC. Introducing the Fallout Legacy Collection, a new set that combines Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and Fallout 4 in the same set, complete with all expansions and released DLC for every game. The leaked listing has a 39.99 Euro price tag, which puts it at roughly $40 in USD.

The games in the retail version will be included on discs rather than digital, and we should see the collection arrive on Bethesda.net too. There's no word on a potential console or Switch version, but don't expect the original Fallout 1 & 2 to arrive anywhere but PC. Bethesda has yet to announce the news just yet, and listing says the Fallout Legacy Collection is due out on October 25, 2019.

Respawn Entertainment has released the newest season for Apex Legends, and accompanied with all the new skins and map, we have a brand new character.

Above we have the introduction video released on the official Apex Legends YouTube account, it gives us a very brief lore overview of why Crypto has joined the Apex Legends. The video then goes into what players can expect ability wise, and since Crypto is one of the most elite hackers in the Outlands he has the pleasure of being able to use his drone to locate enemies.

When the drone is used the camera is changed from Crypto's point-of-view to what the drone is looking at. Players can fly the drone around the map and locate enemies, once the drone has spotted some enemies it will mark them for the entire team to see. This feature is his passive called 'Neurolink' which grants teammates and Crypto vision of marked enemies through walls up to 30 meters.