French courts order Valve to allow game reselling on Steam, and order various terms of service agreements to be amended.

A new court order could change Steam's digital business forever, turning the one-sided marketplace into a free trade platform. A ruling from the District Court of Paris says Valve should allow resale of digital, dematerialized goods on its platform. The courts ruled in favor of UFC-Que Choisir, France's federal consumer-oriented force, who's been taking aim at Valve's storefront policies as far back as 2015.

The ruling states that Valve "can no longer oppose the resale of this copy (or copy) even if the initial purchase is made by downloading," a move that could upend Valve's storefront. Predictably, Valve currently prohibits the sale of games, and there's really no tangible way to do this besides selling an entire account tied to specific games. This is a violation of Steam's terms of service.

Epic's free game selection is kicking it up this month with the entire Batman Arkham collection and Metro 2033.

When it comes to consumers, Epic has three major advantages over Steam: It gives out free games every month, Fortnite's massive numbers, and timed exclusives. The Epic Games Store has been dishing out indies and older titles for months since launch, but now it's starting to belt out some big goodies. In September, gamers can grab six Batman games including the Arkham trilogy and three LEGO games alongside Metro 2033.

Epic's gimmick is simple. The company wants to pull as many people over to the storefront as possible, and freebies are a great way to do that. The idea is to get people to download EGS for the free games and then maybe they'll stay for anti-Steam exclusives like Borderlands 3, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, or Control.

UPDATE: Rockstar has rolled out a patch that fixes the issue. GTA V and San Andreas can both now be played offline without and internet connection.

In order to Play GTAV in Offline Mode, players will need to:

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Wireless earbuds are all the craze in the audio market right now, as big companies like Apple and Samsung are pushing the takeover from wired with their flagship mobile phones.

If you don't want to go out and spend $200 on a pair of wireless earbuds and are after something more budget-friendly, then the Cleer Ally True Wireless Earbuds might just be what you pick up. These new earbuds are currently available on Amazon, and will be able to give the user a HUGE 2 weeks or even longer on a single charge if you are only listening to music for a couple hours a day.

The earbuds will last for 10 hours of battery and the case comes with an additional 20 hours of charge, adding up to 30 hours of music streaming enjoyment. At the moment the earbuds are 20% off on Amazon, head over to the product page here if you are interested in picking them up. There is dot point specifications about the Cleer Ally True Wireless Earbuds in the entirety of this article.

HBO Max will soon feature 55 episodes of the hit animated TV series 'The Boondocks', while also announces that two more new seasons will also come to air.

'The Boondocks' was created by Aaron McGruder who based the animated TV show off his comic book series. McGruder will also return to the animated series as the head showrunner, he spoken out about the opportunity to bring life back into the TV show. "There's a unique opportunity to revisit the world of The Boondocks and do it over again for today."

He continued and said "It's crazy how different the times we live in are now - both politically and culturally - more than a decade past the original series and two decades past the original newspaper comic. There's a lot to say and it should be fun." For fans of 'The Boondocks' the new season will be following the life of Robert 'Granddad' Freeman and his grandsons Huey and Riley. The characters move to the Maryland suburbs but later discover that its been taken over by uncle Ruckus. HBO Max will air 'The Boondocks' sometime in 2020.

The Gateway Foundation is certainly an ambitious company, and while you have to respect their ambition there is just some things that might just be out of reach for the foreseeable future.

The Gateway Foundation is a company who has designed and plans to build a space hotel that comes fully equipped with artificial gravity, luxurious suites, restaurants, gyms and everything else that 5 star hotels come with. The outer space hotel is titled 'Von Braun' station and is said that it will comfortably house up to 450 people.

The image above is the current design of the hotel, and as you can see the space hotel will be a massive ring. The design choice of a ring is so that it can rotate in space which would then cause gravity to be felt by passengers closer to the outer rim. Tim Alatorre, senior design architect for the company spoke to CNN Travel and said "We're going to have a number of different recreation activities and games that'll highlight the fact that you're able to do things that you can't do on Earth."

Big rockets with big boosters mean that big precautions need to be taken. That's why NASA has equipped their new space launch pad with the ability to spray 1 million gallons of water within just one minute.

The new launch pad is for the upcoming Artemis 1 mission and has been titled Pad 39B. Since NASA are planning their Moon landing mission and want to ensure as much safety for the crew aboard the shuttle, the space agency has recently tested their dousing power in-case of an emergency. The test which just lasted a mere 30 seconds showcased that the pad can spray 450,000 gallons of water onto the parts of the launch pad that would experience the most heat/noise.

Nic Moss, Deputy Project Manager for the launchpad said that when the SLS rocket takes off it will be extremely loud, which is where the water comes in. "SLS will create about 176 decibels at liftoff, which is significantly louder than a jetliner", "the sheets of water created by the flow will curb that sound by knocking it down a few decibels."

The weird quantum world has puzzled researchers for quite some time now, but a team out of the Stevens Institute of Technology could be on the brink of getting a much better handle on it.

The team of researchers led by Yuping Huang, who is an associate professor of physics and director of the Center of Quantum Science and Engineering has brought the human race closer to unlocking quantum computing. The team has done this through implementing a nano-scale chip that facilitates quantum interactions with photons. This new method has been reported to work at very low energy levels which has suggested that it could be optimized for use in room-temperature quantum computing and secure quantum communication.

Huang's team fired a laser beam into a race-track-shaped microcavity carved into a sliver of crystal. As the light bounced around the confined race-track the photons interacted with each other, but uncontrollably. What changed everything was when the team introduced a chip made from lithium niobate on insulator, which is a material that interacts with light uniquely. The team then applied high voltage to the race-track and the chip and was able to tailor the way the photons moved around it.

Respawn are doing an absolutely fantastic job with teasing their new champions in Apex Legends, and now thanks to some players we have found another one.

Heading over to the Apex Legends subreddit, FrozenFroh has posted a video of him finding an entrance to a secret room in the Singh Labs. Players who want to also find Crypto in-game will have to go to the Singh Labs and pry open one of the half-opened doors and enter the room.

You will find Crypto manically inputting hacking code software into one of his computers, but once you spot him he spots you and bolts off, grabbing his trusty hard drive on the way out. FrozenFroh was also responsible for locating Crypto's laptop that was secretly hidden on the Kings Canyon map. If you notice, before Crypto shuts down what he is working on you can see that he is attempting to redirect the void portal to a place called 'World's Edge.'

It was awhile back that we caught wind of the next Total War game to be taking the Trojan War setting, and while that was a mere rumor back then the news has now been confirmed.

The news has come from both Creative Assembly via a teaser announcement and also a Redditor who spotted a PCGamer magazine with the games official announcement on the cover. Starting off with the Redditor, in the entirety of this article you will find the image which shows a world exclusive for "Troy A Total War Saga".

Players will be battling in a "world of gods and monsters" which can only been that the Olympians and their plethora of mythological monsters and beasts will be present within the title. We can expect that likes of Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, as well as monsters such as minotaur, centaur and medusa. Creative Assembly took to their official Total War Twitter page to post the above teaser, tune into their livestream where they will no doubt officially announce the title.

Samsung has just unveiled its new PCIe 4.0-based SSDs with some truly insane brute speed, where they are close to invicible and will never die.

First off, the new Samsung SSDs won't be finding their way into your gaming PC at home and rather enterprise/server markets. The new PM1733 and PM1735 (at least for now) are going to be a family of new SSDs with 19 new models on the way.

Samsung will offer them in various form factors and capacities, with PCIe add-in cards and 2.5-inch U.2 drives with capacities between 800GB and 30.72TB. The new SSDs tap PCIe 4.0 for some crazy speeds, offering sequential writes of up to 3.8GB/sec -- but the reads can top 6.4GB/sec and for its add-in card model it'll reach the dizzying heights of 8GB/sec.

Oppo has some totally mind-blowing new smartphone charging technology with its new 65W SuperVOOC Fast Charge 2.0 unveiled, as well as its new 30W Wireless VOOC Flash Charge and VOOC Flash Charge 4.0 tech unveiled at the same time.

As you can see in the above video, Oppo shows off its new 65W SuperVOOC Fast Charge 2.0 technology by charging a large 4000mAh battery in just 27 minutes. The new 65W SuperVOOC Fast Charge 2.0 charging tech can also charge up to 27% in just 5 minutes... which is just insane.

Oppo is able to get to these speeds by using Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductors, and is keeping things safe with 5 different safety measures built into the wire, adapter, and the smartphone.

Activision and Infinity Ward have unleashed the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare open beta for the PC, with pre-loads now beginning through the Blizzard app.

Anyone who has pre-ordered the game will be able to play the game in the following hours, while the open beta officially kicks off on September 21. Activision has also announced the official PC requirements for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, which has some modest requirements (at least for the non-RTX version of the game).

At a minimum, you'll need 8GB of RAM and 45GB of HDD -- joined by an Intel Core i5-2500K or "AMD equivalent" processor. Activision is recommending a higher-end Core i7-4770K (or AMD equivalent processor).

I still have the fondest memories of Goldeneye 007 on the Nintendo 64, so seeing it in an Unreal Engine 4-powered fan remake is bringing a tear to my eye.

The new Goldeneye 25 remake is wanting to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Goldeneye 007 and its release back in 1997 on the Nintendo 64 of a release window of 2022, with some fans using Epic Games' versatile (and good-looking) Unreal Engine 4 to do it.

Nintendo hasn't gone after the team and stopped their development, which partly comes from them using their own custom assets and using nothing from the N64 release. We don't know if it'll ever even materialize, but for now you can check out a bunch of screenshots from the remake-in-progress.

Ubisoft held a private beta earlier this month for those who pre-ordered Ghost Recon Breakpoint, or are subscribed to Uplay+ but now the developer has announced a new open beta for the game with some special guests.

Normally I despise celebrity-filled gaming trailers but this is such an incredibly funny one, featuring Lil Wayne and even Snoop Dogg at the end ramping up the hype of Ghost Recon Breakpoint for the open beta that kicks off on September 24.

Ubisoft will include its Ghost War PvP mode, 3 new missions, and 2 additional regions to the previous closed beta of Ghost Recon Breakpoint. The beta itself begins on September 24 at 11AM BST / 3AM PT on Uplay, while it'll st art at 4PM BST / 8AM PT on the Epic Games Store.

Blizzard has kicked off its new Bastion Brick Challenge event, with some LEGO-infused fun for both gamers and Twitch streamers -- with a bunch of themed goodies to win in your Overwatch matches. Check out the video:

Overwatch's new Bastion Brick Challenge event has already kicked off and runs through until September 30, where you can win a bunch of themed gear in quick play, arcade, and competitive modes.

Activision-Blizzard have teamed with The Lego Group on some other cosmetics for the event, including Lego versions of Genji, Hanzo, Pharah, and Tracer. There will be a bunch of icons, sprays and a legendary skin up for grabs -- and bonus sprays if you watch streamers playing Overwatch on Twitch.

Facebook was slammed for its sloppiness in handling the Christchurch mass shooting, with the social network reacting with news that it will use police body cam footage to train its AI to recognize gun attack videos.

The UK's Metropolitan Police will supply its body cam footage to Facebook for its firearms training exercises, with the social networking giant using the video to train its content moderation programs to "rapidly identify real-life first person shooter incidents and remove them from our platform".

Facebook is also talking to US police departments about acquiring their police body cam footage for similar use with AI.

Death Stranding's multiplayer features shared worlds and lets players leave gear, pinpoint areas of interest, and even build fortifications in the world.

Death Stranding is built around one singular concept: to bring people together by building connections. Now we have a better understanding on how this will happen. The game features a different kind multiplayer, one that doesn't actually let you play with other people. But you still work together in other indirect co-operative and communal ways.

In the game's so-called Social Strand System, players can leave behind gear, boxes, and even motorcyles for others throughout the world, as well as build areas like bridges and fortify safe houses for the benefit of strangers. It's kind of like Minecraft in that way, but more thoughtful and beneficial to everyone involved.

Apple's new Apple Arcade all-you-can-play games subscription service won't have microtransaction-riddled games.

Apple Arcade, Apple's new games service for mobile, Mac, and Apple TV, is a breath of fresh air in the games industry. Practically every mobile game these days have strong monetization methods, especially if they're free to play. Hell, even full-priced AAA games have them. But Apple Arcade is different. All of the planned 100+ games on the $4.99 a month service are full experiences that can be played across a myriad of devices, all without microtransactions.

Apple's new service could disrupt the billion-dollar mobile gaming market. The trade-off is not actually owning the games themselves and trading off microtransactions and full game purchases for a recurring $5 a month, $60 a year subscription. The real disruption comes in how the games are made, though, especially if they're not built around microtransactions. And there's cross-saves too.

Call of Duty's mobile game will release on October 1, 2019 on Android and iOS, Activision today announced.

Call of Duty mobile could be absolutely huge for partners Activision and Tencent. The game is a fully-fledged first-person shooter complete with a variety of multiplayer modes like Domination, Search & Destroy, and Frontline, and fan-favorite maps like Nuketown. It's a mashup of both Black Ops and Modern Warfare, featuring guns, maps, and characters straight out of both games, and also features a chaotic 100-player battle royale gametype complete with land, sea, and air vehicles.

Developed by Tencent's Timi Studio, Call of Duty mobile aims to bring the full FPS thrill on-the-go. There's multiple operators to choose from, each of which can support five loadouts with primary and secondary weapons, specific roles, a skill, extra tactical gear, and three perks.