OPPO's upcoming Reno Ace flagship smartphone is shaping up to be one of the most exciting releases of the tail end of 2019, powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 855+ processor and having a huge 65W fast charging ability.

The new Reno Ace has been teased again in a new post on Weibo, with a waterdrop-shaped cutout at the top of the display versus the shark fin pop-up camera OPPO used in the Reno 10x Zoom and Reno 2 smartphones. OPPO will be using a quad-camera rig on the Reno Ace, with a 48-megapixel primary sensor.

Inside, the Reno Ace will pack the Snapdragon 855+ from Qualcomm, a huge 12GB of RAM and 256GB of on-board storage. The key part of OPPO's new Reno Ace will be the 6.5-inch Full HD+ display with a super-slick 90Hz refresh rate.

Xiaomi has made its new Xiaomi Mi 9 Pro 5G smartphone official in China today, with some pretty tasty specs to go over. The new handset is 5G-capable and rolls out with Qualcomm's super-slick Snapdragon 855+ chip.

The company has teamed with three of China's biggest telecom operators on the 5G side of the Xiaomi Mi 9 Pro 5G, with their own tests showing the phone hits peak download speeds of a dizzying 1.78Gbps. Xiaomi includes its own MIUI 11 software, has up to 24 hours of standby time when the Xiaomi Mi 9 Pro 5G is down to its last 5% of battery.

Xiaomi is including super fast-charging with the new Mi 9 Pro 5G smartphone, with a 40W charger getting the phone from 0-100% in just 48 minutes. If you want to go wireless Xiaomi is offering up 30W wireless charging, with the charging stand fan-cooled for all that power hitting the phone wirelessly.

A new mineral has been found inside of a diamond at a volcanic site in South Africa, with Ph.D. student Nicole Meyer and a team of researchers from the University of Alberta making the discovery.

The new material is known as Goldschmidtite after the legendary geochemist Victor Moritz Goldschmidt, and was found atop the Koffiefontein mine in a volcanic dig site, inside of a diamond. Goldschmidtite is an interesting new mineral, and finding it must've felt like ten Christmas mornings at once for the team.

Meyer explained: "Goldschmidtite has high concentrations of niobium, potassium, and the rare earth elements lanthanum and cerium, whereas the rest of the mantle is dominated by other elements, such as magnesium and iron".

UPDATE: GameStop and Chronicle LLC, the manufacturer, only sold 32 Fallout Nuka-Cola helmets out of the 20,000 were made. All buyers have been contacted.

Fallout helmets sold by GameStop are being recalled due to potential mold risks.

A while back GameStop sold roughly 32 T51-b Nuka-Cola power armor helmets for $150 a pop to capitalize on Fallout 76's presence at E3 2019. Now these helmets are being recalled for safety risks, more specifically due to mold exposure.

Activision clarifies that only one part of Modern Warfare's Spec Ops mode is timed-exclusive to PS4, not the entire thing.

Sony's latest State of Play stream caused ripples in the Call of Duty community thanks to PS4-exclusive content. Some of Modern Warfare's content is only available to PS4 users, including a new Spec Ops gametype. Gamers originally thought the entire Spec Ops mode was exclusive to PS4 until October 2020, but it's only Spec Ops Survival, a new sub-mode, that's timed exclusive on the platform.

Activision affirms the Spec Ops mode and all included missions will be available on PS4, Xbox One and PC at launch, complete with cross-play functionality.

Borderlands 3's big sales figures actually caused Take-Two's stock to drop by nearly 5% as the game failed to beat analyst projections.

Yesterday Take-Two announced some impressive metrics behind Borderlands 3. Gearbox's sequel has shipped 5 million copies worldwide in five days, and sold 50% more copies that Borderlands 2 in the same period. Borderlands 3 is also the fastest-selling 2K title of all time, bumping the franchise to $1 billion in total earnings. It also did well on PC, becoming the fast-selling 2K game on PC in a five-day period, and outperforming expectations. But investors and analysts weren't tremendously impressed by these figures.

Since the announcement, Take-Two's stock has dropped from yesterday's $131.11 high down to $124.91 low during the time of writing, representing a 4.72% dip. The 5 million shipments (sell-in, not sell-through as in actual sales) aligns with predictions made by analysts like Wedbush Securities Michael Pachter and Suntrust's Matthew Thornton, meaning Take-Two failed to beat Wall Street guidance.

The rumors were right: the Last of Us Part II will launch on February 21, 2020 exclusively on PlayStation 4.

During today's State of Play showcase, Sony confirmed The Last of Us Part II will indeed release early next year. The game chronicle's Ellie's harrowing story of hate and revenge as she cuts a bloody swath across a brutal post-apocalyptic landscape, exacting vengeance for her slain lover.

Naughty Dog will bring new enemy factions, a next-gen games engine for potent immersion, lighting, and effects, and a dramatic storyline that punctuates their survival horror magnum opus. Joel returns to help fuel Ellie's murderous rampage--we knew he was coming back, but now he'll be helping her out in the field. It'll be a nice role-reversal of the first game.

The last bit of content in Black Ops 4's season pass is coming up, and it's superhero-based.

Today Activision announced Operation Dark Divide, a new villains vs heroes operation that serves as the last bit of seasonal content for Black Ops 4. With Modern Warfare coming up, it's important the big new Call of Duty doesn't get overshadowed by last year's game, even if it was a huge success. Black Ops 4's roadmap has predictably petered out to make way for Modern Warfare's release next month.

Operation Dark Divide's content offering hints Treyarch is busily working on Black Ops 5, which is rumored as a Cold War-focused title. Dark Divide doesn't bring any new operators, but it rolls out two new multiplayer maps (Lair and Launch), three new weapons, a bunch of new skins to buy and earn, new Blackout characters, new zombies elixirs and a new perk. There's no new Blackout maps, sadly. The zombies mode also gets its last major storyline expansion, Tag Der Toten.

Microsoft has greenlit environmental initiatives to significantly cut down on its carbon footprint, especially when it comes to console hardware manufacturing.

Xbox is one of the many games industry forces who joined the United Nations' new Playing for the Planet Alliance, which pledges to reduce environmental waste and climate change by altering manufacturing processes.

Microsoft is doing its part by making 850,000 Xbox consoles completely carbon neutral, but only in a test program. We could see all mainstream Xbox consoles eliminate carbon waste while operating and during manufacturing in a few years time, and Microsoft aims to reduce its carbon footprint by 30% by 2030. The next-gen Project Scarlett system may even be carbon neutral when it launches in Holiday 2020, complete with lower energy consumption.

For fighting game fanatics, Street Fighter II is up there with some of the greatest and most iconic fighting games ever. But what about the games its difficulty?

First, this isn't the first time players considered the thought that perhaps the Street Fighter II CPU was a little bit too much to deal with. Players suspected that the CPU had moments of invincibility and doesn't play by the same rules as what players do. In the above video, we can see numerous examples of how the Street Fighter II CPU had a clear advantage over players.

The video was released by Desk and it shows that the CPU consistently recovers from stuns 1/5 of the time it takes players to recover. Not to mention that the CPU also doesn't have to charge up for special moves like Guile's Somersault Kick, while also being able to mash buttons faster than players could even imagine. This video is for all those Street Fight II players who thought the CPU was a little too much to deal with, yes, your suspicion was correct.

Simply put, Facebook wants to read your mind and actually has admitted to it as well. According to a new announcement, Facebook wants to build a wristband that "captures your intention".

Firstly, "capturing your intention" means that the wristband will have the technological power to be able to read your electrical signals sent to your brain, and determine your intention before you even carry out the action. Meaning Facebook would essentially know what you are about to do before you even do it. Scary? Yes.

According to Andrew Bosworth, Facebook's Vice President of VR and AR, announced on Monday the acquisition of "neural interface platform" CTRL-labs. The way that Facebook is marketing this wristband is "empowering you with control over your digital life", which seems quite the farce considering how much Facebook has been put under the coals for privacy violations.

NASA has announced that they want to build a brand new space telescope to become the observer of the planet, this telescope would serve as a planetary defense instrument.

NASA has said that they have put away $150 million dollars of their budget to build this new telescope, and that if they did proceed to develop it that it would be able to track asteroids in Earths immediate neighborhood. Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen said during the Planetary Science Advisory Committee meeting today that "The goal is not to do everything for eternity. The goal is to do the right things as they pop up."

For the space telescope to be a ultility to the planet, it would need to be able to track the positioning of a multitude of different asteroids as well as take into account their size and projected routes. This new proposed NASA telescope would be able to do this and it could reach the skies as early as 2025. If the telescope does get approved and is launched, its believed that it would be able to find 65% of the undiscovered space objects currently floating around out in the ether.

There has not been a whimper of evidence out of Rockstar for Red Dead Redemption 2 coming over to the PC, but just recently a filling from the company has been spotted on the Australian Classification website.

If you head over to the Australian Classification website, you can see that Rockstar Games has filled a new classification with the board for "Red Dead Redemption 2" under the category "Computer Games". The title was given a 'MA15+', and it should definitely be noted that Red Dead Redemption 2 was already classified for PS4 and Xbox One back in 2018.

Since there is already classification for RDR2 on Xbox One and PS4, it leaves one platform with the most likely chance to receive RDR2, PC. This also ties directly into the fact that Rockstar released their very own PC launcher which would no doubt be the way they would give PC fans RDR2 if it were to eventually make it to PC.

The new Batman movie has got some fans quite perplexed at who will be taking on the legendary characters, and one of these characters is Batman's good friend in the Gotham City Police Department, Commissioner Jim Gordon.

We now have some news out of THR that has said that Westworld actor Jeffery Wright is currently in talks with Warner about taking on the role of the Commissioner. Who has already played Jim Gordon? Well, if Wright is to take on the role of the Commissioner his performance would be going up against Gary Oldman's portrayal in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy and J.K Simmons in Zack Snyder's Justice League.

This new Batman movie will be focusing much more on the detective side of Batman that hasn't been shown on the big screen as of yet. Judging from this angle, I think it would be safe to assume that since we will be seeing a more detective orientated Batman that Gordon's role would become much more important, therefore giving more screen time etc. For those that didn't know, Robert Pattinson will be taking on the role as the Caped Crusader and the film is expected to hit theaters on June 25, 2021.

Robert Pattinson was announced as the new Caped Crusader not to long ago, but who will be his villain counter-part? According to some news outlets, Jonah Hill is currently in talks about being casted as the movies villain.

Its not just one or two media outlets who have reported the news either, The Hollywood Reporter, Collider and Deadline have all reported that Jonah Hill is currently in talks with the film to take on the role as The Riddler. This hasn't been confirmed though as some of the media outlets have said that the villain hasn't been penciled in just yet, and that The Riddler was just an idea that was thrown around.

Alongside The Riddler, THR says that The Penguin is also a possibility and that negotiations are currently at their very early stages. It was also mentioned that Hill and Warner are still quite unsure of what role he would eventually take. It should also be noted that the film is set to showcase a multitude of Batman villains, and not just the ones that are mentioned above. Robert Pattinson's Batman movie is set to hit theaters on June 25, 2021.

130 years ago today Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo Koppai in Kyoto, Japan. From there, the Japanese company would warm the hearts of millions upon millions of gamers, changing the gaming world as we know it.

Nintendo started out in the gaming world with hanafuda playing cards, but then the founder's great-grandson changed the company throughout the mid-1900s into things like love hotels, taxis, and other businesses -- but then Nintendo went into the electronic toy market and the rest is history.

My earliest gaming memory is waking up at 6am one morning to see my Dad and my uncle sitting on the lounge, NES controllers in-hand, playing the original Super Mario Bros. and clocking it overnight.

Google will be launching its new Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL smartphones at its upcoming event in October, where we will also reportedly be introduced to the new Pixelbook Go.

Pixelbook Go is Google's rumored new laptop that will have fans of the Chomebook happy, as it seems like the Pixelbook Go is aiming at Microsoft's popular Surface Go, and that is a good thing.

Right now it is just a single image as a tease, with the Pixelbook Go reportedly featuring a 13.3-inch 4K display with a 360-degree hinge. Google is reportedly keeping the "Molecular Disney" branding that was on the Pixel Slate.

Epic Games is introducting new AI bots into Fortnite and its online matchmaking, with Epic explaining the AI bots "will behave similarly to normal players and will help provide a better path for players to grow in skill".

Fortnite bots will not be in the competitive matches, but as you get better at the game the AI bots won't be spun into the matchmaking and you'll be playing against real people -- or so you'll think, I guess. Epic is wanting to go for the participation model of Fortnite, where "anyone can win" because you don't need kids screeching and throwing their Xbox controller at the TV when they inevitably lose in a Fortnite match.

Epic is also making some tweaks to the matchmaking process, where Fortnite players will be better matched with players in their skill level. The new v10.40 update will be rolled out into Fortnite in the next few days, including the new AI bots while the tweaked matchmaking system will roll out over the coming weeks so the developer can see how players react.

Disney+ isn't far away with the industry-changing streaming service going live on November 12, but if you want to get in early you can pre-order now.

The service will start at $7 per month or $70 per year, but you'll get a 7-day free trial on November 12 to help sway you over. Disney+ allows you stream ad-free content to 4 devices at once, with no limits to downloads.

If you want access to Hulu and ESPN+ then you'll be spending another $6 per month bumping up the monthly cost of Disney+ to $13 per month. All Disney+ subscription packages automatically review, but the company will be offering cancellations before each renewal date just in case.

The fight for quantum supremacy might have just been tipped into Google's favor, with the search giant saying it has reached a major milestone towards the development of quantum computing.

A recent paper was published and then quickly pulled on NASA's website, which read that "this experiment marks the first computation that can only be performed on a quantum processor". The research paper was titled "Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor".

Google's in-house quantum computer smashed through a calculation of a random number generator in just 3 minutes and 20 seconds, versus the world's fastest supercomputer -- Summit, which would take around 10,000 years. The authors of the paper wrote: "To our knowledge, this experiment marks the first computation that can only be performed on a quantum processor". Impressive stuff.