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Facebook will soon be rolling out a new feature that will allow users to transfer bulk media to another platform. This saves users having to save and re-upload content individually.

This new tool is apart of the Data Transfer Project which is a lodged agreement between Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter. This agreement between companies is to make it much easier for users on each platform to share content to other platforms.

The new feature will be first released in Ireland and then rolled out to the rest of the world within the first half of 2020. At the moment, Facebook users will only be able to export the media attached to their account to Google Photos. Eventually, Facebook and other social media platforms should allow users to export/import media to all different services, or at least that is what the goal is.

Can you believe it? Sony launched the original PlayStation console 25 years ago, first touching down in Japan on December 3, 1994. Now look at where we are, 100s of millions of PlayStation consoles launched in that time and the most hyped of them all -- the PlayStation 5, launches this time next year.

Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan wrote on the official PlayStation Blog to celebrate the occasion, reiterating that the original PS1 sold 100,000 units on its first day on sale -- the original PlayStation was the first console in history to sell over 100 million units.

It didn't take Sony long to pass that, as the PlayStation 2 came along and became the best-selling console of all time, racking up an insane 155 million sales.

Battlefront II is getting re-released just in time for Episode IX: Rise of Skywalker.

Apparently Battlefront II will get a big game of the year-style re-release on December 5, complete with tons of free cosmetic skins for heroes and troops, as well as extra content. The game will include all of Battlefront II's DLC content on-disc and grants access to new hero skins lifted right from Rise of Skywalker.

This move is fairly common for live games, especially ones that've been around for a while. No Man's Sky saw a similar re-release on Xbox One that included all content on the disc. It's a way to strategically re-engage a core audience of players who want to continue their Star Wars experiences right after seeing Episode IX, as well as fold new players into the service-based pay ecosystem and sell a new full-price game to boot.

Halo: Reach is finally coming to PC tomorrow, but it won't have a midnight launch on Steam or the Windows Store. You'll actually have to wait until the next day to play.

343 Industries confirms Halo: Reach will go live on on PC on Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 10AM PST / 1PM EST. It's also simultaneously launching on Xbox One. There's no pre-loading either, so you'll want to use Steam's remote download feature

This is disappointing news to anyone like me who's looking to jump right into the fray with a classic midnight launch on the digital platforms. We should also probably expect insane volume to knock the servers down or cause some performance hiccups, especially since Reach will be on three different platforms on PC: Game Pass, Steam, and the Windows Store.

Nintendo has had quite the swing around when it comes to console sales with its portable Switch console versus the Wii U, with stellar sales during the holiday quarter.

According to new analyst estimates by Bloomberg, it seems Nintendo will sell a huge 9.5 million Switch units in the holiday quarter -- as well as shifting an even larger 65 million games. It was the gigantic Black Friday sales that have spiked analysts' interest, with Morningstar Investment Services analyst Kazunori Ito seeing his interesting piqued.

Ito said: "This is typically where sales begin to peak out, but it looks like the Switch may have a longer life cycle. With a [living room] console and a portable player in a single machine, Nintendo has a very effective platform for selling game software".

If you were on the fence about grabbing Disney+, and need a good reason to pick up the new streaming service, it's about to go on sale.

As we move forward from Black Friday's madness sales, Cyber Monday has rolled around and to celebrate Disney have decided to discount their new streaming service's yearly package. Currently for a years worth of Disney+ its $69.99, that gives you access to some new shows such as Mandalorian, all of the Star Wars movies and Marvel's Cinematic Universe, plus much more.

The $59.99 yearly option also grants the buyer National Geographic content, 30 seasons of the Simpsons, as well as every Pixar show/movie, 4K and HDR support. Talking in totals, Disney+ offers 500 films and 7,500 episodes and right now everything previously mentioned is $10 or 16% off, bringing the cost down to $59.99. If you are interested in checking out more on Disney+, check out this link here.

Extremely cheap games are a gamer's dream, and it's even better when the proceeds of those bought games go directly to charity.

Introducing The Jingle Jam 2019 Humble Bundle, and if you aren't familiar with the Humble Bundle, gamers can purchase bundles of games for however much money they want (besides below the minimum). It might sound too good to be true, but it's not. It's real, and it also gets a lot of support, so much so that Yogscast is streaming for the entire month to support the bundle.

If a user purchases the bundle for $30 or more, they will receive new games every day until December 20th. It should be noted that bundle contains $708 worth of "awesome stuff" and that at the time of writing this 28,995 bundles have already been sold, equating to $946,152.65. Buyers of this bundle will also be able to choose which charity their money goes to, the available charities are; Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal, Stand Up to Cancer, Mental Health Foundation, Whale and Dolphin Conservation, War Child UK, Special Effect, Call of Duty Endowment and Access Sport.

The Black Friday sales just finished and just like every year a lot of people decided to pick up a new TV while they were heavily discounted. Now, the FBI has warned the public that the smart TV they just bought could possibly be hacked.

Since Black Friday has just finished, many participants in the sales would have grabbed a new snazzy TV for their family living room. While that is certainly a most-welcomed upgrade, it does come with a considerable potential downside. Since recently purchased TVs are smart TVs, they are designed to be connected to the internet for a means of accessing streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime etc. Since they connected to the internet, that means they can be hacked.

A lot of the smart TVs being sold also have microphone and camera support, so if a hacker were somehow able to access your TV, they would be able to activate the TV's microphone and camera to listen in and watch you. FBI's Portland field office has warned of this very thing, saying that "Beyond the risk that your TV manufacturer and app developers may be listening and watching you, that television can also be a gateway for hackers to come into your home."

Black Friday has just rolled around, and while some specific sales might be over, a lot of people used Friday to purchase many amounts of goodies for not only themselves but others. So, how much money was spent in total?

According to Adobe shopping data, 39% of Black Friday purchases were made using smartphones, which is a huge increase when compared to last years, 33%. Adobe says that about $2.9 billion dollars were spent from people's phones, which is an $800 million dollar increase from last year's $2.1 billion.

Looking to Black Friday as a whole now, Adobe says that about $7.4 billion was spent on internet-based sales, which is $1.2 billion more than last year's $6.2 billion. The average spending order also increased; with people being a little bit more lenient on their wallets, the average 'spending' per person was around $168. If you happened to miss the Black Friday sales, don't worry, Cyber Monday is about to be here, and we already have some sales for you to check out, more on that here.

If you do a quick Google search of what cars the Dubai police force has available to them, you will find a selection of supercars. While the practicality of these cars might not necessarily be there for every car, Tesla's Cybertruck might actually fit the bill.

According to the official Twitter account of the Dubai Police, Tesla's recently announced Cybertruck is going to be joining their fleet of vehicles. The Cybertruck will be parked alongside Dubai's supercar line, which contains the Aston Martin One-77, Audi R8, Bentley Continental GT, Bentley Bentayga, Bugatti Veyron and more. In the past, residents and outsiders have criticized Dubai's police force for their choice of vehicles, saying that they are more for show rather than practicality.

While that might be the case for the already present supercar line, Tesla's Cybertruck could actually be very practical. The Cybertruck has an extremely thick steel shell, combining that armor with its speed it could make for a great pursuit vehicle that would almost feel like Batman's Batmobile tumbler. The Dubai Police force say that the Cybertruck will be coming in 2020, I find that hard to believe since the Cybertruck isn't going to begin production until late 2021. Unless they are getting an early order?

The development team behind the Project CARS series has been acquired by Codemasters, forming one giant racing game studio.

Codemasters is known for its publishing efforts with the following racing franchises; F1, GRID, DiRT, and other arcade racers such as OnRush and Micro Machines. Now Codemasters has decided to acquire their fellow local counter-part developer Slightly Mad Studios, who are known for their development on the successful Project CARS series.

According to Codemasters CEO, Frank Sagnier, who spoke to GamingIndustry.biz, the acquisition of Slightly Mad Studios "will create a global leader in the racing genre. Their focus on AAA quality and the passion that they put into everything they create mirrors our own. Both companies have a number of world-renowned, successful franchises along with exciting product development pipelines, supported by leading IP and some of the best talent in the gaming industry."

Real-time strategy games aren't nearly as popular as what they used to be, so what will Age of Empires IV have that will pull in new gamers and keep them there?

During an interview with Adam Isgreen, the creative director of the Age of Empires franchise, the question was brought up about how Age 4 will attract new players and keep them there. Isgreen says, that a lot of what Relic is doing is concentrating around the campaigns, and what they are specifically working on has "never been done in an Age game before".

Isgreen also continues on and says that due to having more compute power available for development, they are able to implement what has been called as a "analytic-based tutorialising, and all kinds of things where we can see how players are playing and be like, 'Hey! Did you know you can do this? Or hey, this cool thing that you're not doing?'. Isgreen hopes that these new systems will bring new players in, and keep them there. If you are interested in checking out the full interview, click this link here.

AMD has reached an all-time record high CPU market share with Germany's largest retailer, Mindfactory.de which has seen 82% of all CPUs sold in November being AMD Ryzen CPUs.

Even in October AMD saw a huge 78% CPU market share with Mindfactory.de sales, but November was an even better month with 82% -- most of the success is thanks to AMD's new Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 5 3600X processors which offer unbeatable value for money.

Intel's most popular CPU at Mindfactory.de is the Core i7-9700K, with the new Core i9-9900K and even newer Core i9-9900KF not really even making a scratch into AMD's total and utter dominance. Once again, the Ryzen 7 3700X is a massively popular CPU that you can see by the super-strong red bars that dominate that chart.

Star Citizen continues to break records before the game is even fully realized, with over $251 million in crowdfunding so far.

Chris Roberts' brainchild continues to get more backers and funding, with 2,448,963 backers at the time of writing and a huge $251,132,094 in funding so far. The last week saw a gigantic spike in funding, with gamers pouring a huge $8 million into the game this week alone.

CitizenCon 2019 was held in the last few weeks, with major updates to Star Citizen taking place in Alpha 3.7 and a tease of the new icy microTech planet, too. This is where the developers were able to tease the upcoming dynamic weather system (coming in 2020) as well as Planet Tech 4.0 (which is coming with Alpha 3.8).

So, you are looking to upgrade your CPU to something a bit beefier? Don't worry, we have your back with a full list of the best deals on offer for Cyber Monday.

Amazon has slashed prices across basically the entire line of AMD CPUs, and what's most surprising is that Intel hasn't discounted a single one. So, if you were considering picking up a new CPU for your rig and you were thinking about making the jump from an old Intel CPU to a more updated Ryzen CPU, now would be the time.

These discounts aren't small, either. Some select Ryzen models are packing massive savings of up to 42% and higher. For example, the AMD Ryzen 5 2600 with the Wraith Stealth cooler is originally priced at $199.99, and Amazon is now listing it for just $114.99, saving buyers $84.01. This is only just one CPU as well, so if you are interested in checking out what else is on offer, a full list has been provided below.

Now that Black Friday is over, Amazon is already moving into a full swing of Cyber Monday deals. What better place to start than console and PC gaming, am I right?

Amazon has already begun early discounts on a large range of products and brands. Jumping straight into the action, we have discounts for select EA titles that could save buyers up to 37%, discounts for Nintendo Switch accessories, gaming mouse mats from Razer, and more.

Amazon has also waved the discount wand over some critical PC gaming peripherals. Buyers can save up to 43% on HyperX gaming headsets, 40% on select Razer products such as keyboards, mice, headsets, and other accessories. Discounts have also arrived for Xbox One games and PlayStation 4 games, and buyers can save up to a whopping 58% on 1st party Xbox One titles. I have listed the specific products, and the amount buyers can save by purchasing them on Cyber Monday below.

Intel has been having some seriously troubling times lately, and it seems these issues are now extending through to Intel's partners including one of their biggest -- Dell.

Dell has lowered its 2019 revenue forecast over issues with Intel's CPU shortages, seeing Dell stock drop by 5%. Dell COO Jeffrey Clarke explained: "Intel CPU shortages have worsened quarter-over-quarter the shortages are now impacting our commercial PC and premium consumer PC Q4 forecasted shipments".

Even in the middle of massive Intel CPU shortages, Dell managed to see its PC business revenue increase in Q3 by 5% year-over-year to $11.4 billion. Commercial PC sales increased 9% to $8.3 billion, while shipments of consumer computers hit $3.1 billion -- an increase of 6%.

Right now Google Stadia controllers are only wireless when paired with a Chromecast, but that'll change in 2020.

In a rather strange move, Stadia, a platform built around accessibility and convenience, launched without one of the most convenient features on its own proprietary controller: Wireless gaming. To use the Stadia controller with a Pixel 3 phone you have to hook it up via USB, and likewise for PC gaming on a Chrome browser. The Stadia controller actually has built-in Bluetooth radios, but they don't actually connect to other devices--yet at least. Instead, the controller bypasses other devices and connects right to Stadia servers via the internet.

That'll change in 2020. Google confirms that the controller will soon support wireless Bluetooth pairing with PCs, tablets, and phones next year: "Stadia Controller wireless support for laptops, desktops, and select tablets and phones is coming in 2020."

Are you thinking about jumping into the streaming game and want to grab some quality components? Elgato has your back, and they might also have your wallet because their Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales at Amazon are quite convincing.

Elgato is known for its high-quality stream equipment, and they deliver on that front really strongly. But with every good thing that is high-quality, there's a proportionate price tag to come along with it. Since Black Friday is here and Cyber Monday is near, that price tag has been reduced to an eyebrow-raising amount.

Elgato has basically discounted their entire range of products from their game capture card to their green screens, stream deck variants, cam link, lights, and thunderbolt docks. I have provided a full list of each of the products as well as the discounted price versus the old price.

All games are built on compromise. Coders, designers, and programmers constantly make new systems and bring them to game directors, who then whittle things down to what's important. If it makes it into the game, it's often a result of direct compromising. Jedi: Fallen Order had an extra layer of compromise because of Lucasfilm.

Lucasfilm are the gatekeepers to the Star Wars brand. When anyone makes anything based around Star Wars, whether it be a game or a TV show, Lucasfilm has to approve and give the greenlight. Nothing gets made without Lucasfilm's approval. This has always complicated Star Wars game development, as far back as the troubled fiascoes with Star Wars 1313, which saw George Lucas coming in and frequently ordering big changes, to Visceral's now-cancelled Project Ragtag, and of course Respawn's mega-popular Jedi: Fallen Order.

While watching the big Jedi: Fallen Order dev documentary, I noticed one big trend: compromise. The devs had to constantly look for approval from Stig Asmussen, the game director on Jedi: Fallen Order, but the decisions also had to sift through Lucasfilm. Compromise is needed for iteration, aka the life's blood of video games development. Tons of repetitive Iteration is how developers constantly build off of one another to make a finished product. Games are the result of thousands of hours of experimentation to see what works and what doesn't.