Metro Exodus was enough of a hit that developer 4A Games is already into making the next one, and now the author of the Metro novels has taken to his personal Instagram to announce he's writing the story to a new Metro game.

Deep Silver and 4A Games went through some controversy with Metro Exodus and its exodus from the Steam Store over to the Epic Games Store as an exclusive, but it was successful on Epic's new platform. We should expect that the new Metro game will be an Epic Games Store exclusive, and at least 2-3 years away.

The new Metro game will most likely be the largest leap in graphics yet, as it should deploy on next-gen consoles in the Xbox Scarlett and PlayStation 5 as well as next-gen GPUs in 2021-2022 and beyond. Hell, by then Intel will be in the game and AMD will hopefully continue its momentum from the Navi GPU architecture, and whatever NVIDIA is cooking up next is going to be beast.

Respawn kicked off its new Iron Crown Collection event for Apex Legends recently, with a bunch of new in-game items and skins that are up for grabs... with one of the crown jewels being the Raven's Bite, which costs $170.

EA locks the Raven's Bite behind a huge paywall, because while the axe costs $35 on its own you can't just buy it outright. You have to have collected all 24 items in the Iron Crown Event, but once you have them all you gain access by the loot box gods to purchase the Heirloom.

In order to get all 24 cosmetic items you'll need to purchase 24 separate Iron Crown Event Packs (each of which includes an Epic or Legendary cosmetic in each pack, and you won't be hit with a duplicate -- EA isn't totally ripping you off here). If you complete the challenges that of 'Deal 25,000 Damage' and 'Complete 20 daily challenges' you're given two Iron Crown Event Packs... so even if you do that, you still need to purchase 22 packs.

We all know that you should have 100% of your concentration on the road and its surroundings when driving, and are all aware of the distractions of smartphones in the car. But I think we have a new winner for distracted driving, with a driver recently busted playing Pokemon GO on 8 separate smartphones.

A new tweet from Washington State Patrol Sergeant Kyle Smith, talking about a driver they recently caught playing Pokemon GO on 8 separate phones. The driver "agreed to put the phones in back seat and continued with commute with 8 less distractions".

I'm sure he put them in the back seat, and had them out soon enough -- this wasn't some random bust, this is a pro Pokemon GO addict. Even worse is that Washington state and its Driving Under the Influence of Electronics Act, which passed in 2017, and sees motorists that use their smartphone behind the wheel slapped with big fines. That obviously didn't scare this driver.

A new rumor has surfaced and sounds exciting for the PlayStation 5, with rumored power that will see it being a fast as NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card. Now that $1050 pre-order price on the PS5 doesn't seem so crazy.

Kimachi leaked the Oberon sample clocks, which is the APU being made for the PS5 -- where Gen2 has a 2GHz GPU clock. This would be quite the beast, pushing the GPU clock above the Navi 10-powered Radeon RX 5700 XT which sits at around 1900-1950MHz on custom cards that are now rolling in from MSI and SAPPHIRE.

Here, I have the purported PlayStation 5 with an RTX 2080-level GPU in Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 4K Ultra settings - if this is true, the world of 4K 60FPS opens up as I've been saying for a long time now. 4K 60FPS gaming is where next-gen consoles need to hit, and with RTX 2080 level graphics from a custom Navi GPU it'll happen in 2020.

Blizzard has just introduced yet another exciting hero into the Overwatch hero list, with the gravity-manipulating Sigma now available in the game versus only being playable in the PTR. Check out Sigma in the trailer below:

Included in the latest Overwatch update is also Role Queue -- a new system that will lock players into groups of three. This means there'll be two tanks, two supports, and two damage heroes in both Quick Play, and Competitive Play matches.

The way this works is that before you load into the game through matchmaking you choose which of the three classes you want to play, and then when you join the game you choose your specific hero. This works and makes sense, but the battles change so quickly in the game that you might need three DPS in one particular section, and can't switch out.

UPDATE: Subnautica dev Charlie Cleveland admits G2A isn't to blame for the stolen keys. "It does appear that G2A is right," Cleveland told Kotaku."They weren't the source of these original $30k keys. It doesn't LOOK like they were selling gray-market keys at the time we had all those chargebacks. But they've been doing it ever since."

A bit ago G2A promised to pay devs 10x the money they lost from fraudulent keys. Now they're being called out, and G2A is dodging culpability.

Under its own promise to compensate developers for lost cash due to fraudulent chargebacks, G2A apparently owes indie studio Unknown Worlds a whopping $300,000. According to studio director Charlie Cleveland, Unknown Worlds had to pay $30,000 out of pocket for thousands of Natural Selection 2 game keys that were purchased with stolen credit cards from G2A (thieves use stolen credit cards to buy keys, sell them on key resellers like G2A, and devs are held liable and have to reimburse those affected for the fraudulent purchases).

Going strong after 7 years, Blizzard hints Diablo III could have a long life ahead of it and possibly live alongside Diablo IV.

Right now the bulk of Blizzard's Diablo team is knee-deep in Diablo IV's development, but a core live team is still crafting tweaks and rotating seasonal content for Diablo III. A new blog post shows the studio isn't ready to give up on Diablo III just yet--nor should they be given the game's tremendous engagement levels--and we should see the game supported with maintenance-style content up to and possibly past Diablo IV's release.

Although Diablo III's seasons should continue well into 2020, we shouldn't expect any premium paid content. That ship has sailed. No more expansions or characters should come to Diablo III, and the game is essentially winding down for its mainline successor. Here's what Blizzard says: "Our crew is hard at work crafting additional Themed Seasons, a new set for each class, dozens of Legendary powers, and some class balance changes. Quality of life and the occasional gameplay system updates are also within scope, as we evaluate how we can keep bringing new magic to the world of Sanctuary. These updates won't arrive all at once, so if you don't see something for your class right away, don't worry; there's something coming for everyone."

THQ Nordic's parent company will soon be called...get ready...The Embracer Group.

THQ Nordic today announced it's changing its name to avoid conflict issues with its publishing arm. Right now there's two THQ Nordics--the publisher THQ Nordic GmbH and the parent company THQ Nordic AB--and it wants to avoid confusion.

It's new name will be The Embracer Group, and it pretty much reflects what the company does. I mean, the huge multi-faceted games-maker is known for embracing games, and it's constantly buying up developers (it just acquired three new ones today), whole branches like Koch Media (Deep Silver), and countless IPs. The company currently has a whopping 81 projects in development, of which only 34 have been revealed, including a new Saints Row game. It's legitimately one of the most interesting industry players right now simply because of its wide content portfolio.

According to THQ Nordic's new financials, Dead Island 2 could be out by 2021 on next-gen consoles.

After years of radio silence, THQ Nordic finally revealed new details about Dead Island 2. The game has been in development hell for the last five years, and has changed hands. First it went from Yager Interactive to Sumo Digital in 2017, and now the project's been handed off to Homefront: The Revolution developer Dambuster Studios. We have evidence Dambuster has been working on Dead Island since at least 2018, where THQ Nordic confirmed it was working on a "top-secret AAA project."

Not only that, but we have a potential release timeframe. In its latest earnings report, THQ Nordic says it'll release two major AAA games in its next fiscal year from April 1, 2020 through March 31, 2021. One of these games will be the next Saints Row game. The other is likely Dead Island 2. In fact, we had reason to believe Dead Island could release as soon as 2019.

Volition is officially working on a new mainline Saints Row game, and it should release by 2021, THQ Nordic confirms.

We've long-suspected Saints Row V was in development. Volition Entertainment has been pretty quiet since its Agents of Mayhem game failed, and a bit ago THQ Nordic said the studio was working on a "top-secret AAA project." Now the publisher outright says that yes, Volition's new game is a Saints Row sequel. "Volition is deep in development of a brand-new Saints Row game, the first full entry in this much loved series since Saints Row IV was released in 2013," THQ Nordic's Lars Wingefors said in a recent earnings report.

No exact details were revealed, but we did get a nebulous timeframe. THQ Nordic expects to ship two major AAA games in the fiscal year from April 1, 2020 through March 31, 2021, and Saints Row V is assuredly one of them. So that puts Saints Row V firmly in next-gen console territory and we should see a reveal at E3 2020 or thereabouts, probably on Microsoft's press conference (since Sony has dipped out of the show).

GTA 6 should harness the raw power of next-gen console hardware to push insane visuals and graphics, Take-Two Interactive teases.

Speaking with Mad Money's Jim Cramer, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick says next-gen consoles have explosive potential to deliver amazing new gameplay experiences--especially with huge marquee blockbusters like Grand Theft Auto. Immersion will be a huge part of this, and GTA 6 could look so photorealistic that gamers can't distinguish it from reality.

"We have a new console generation coming, and that's going to allow us to do some things we haven't been able to do creatively. That's exciting," Mr. Zelnick said during the show. "But as I've said before, we're going to reach a point where you won't be able to tell the difference between what's created in the computer and what's real. That doesn't mean we'll do it for all our games. Borderlands, for example, is an animated universe--it's always going to be an animated universe. But this promise of taking certain titles, like basketball, and making it truly look like live-action--it's pretty close now, squint a little bit, it looks like live-action--that's really exciting. That gives our creative folks a new canvas on which to paint."

Twitter is currently in the midst of testing a bunch of new features for users to enjoy, one of these features is a search option for direct-messages.

According to Engadget, Twitter is currently right in the middle of testing new features that will allow for a more utility across the app. One of these features is a search option for users' direct-messages, which will allow for Twitter users to simply search their direct-messages instead of tediously scrolling.

Other things that Twitter are reportedly working on are Live Photo support which is extremely similar to that of GIF's, and the ability to reorder photos from inside the app. According to Mashable's Karissa Bell, "Twitter says it is "re-energizing" investment in DMs". It is unclear when these features will roll out to widespread users, but when they do I'm sure that Twitter will have a full list of the newly added features and changes. If you didn't know, Twitter is also working on a snooze notification option, more on that here.

NASA has said that they will discussing their agency's plans for how astronauts will be landing on the Moon by 2024 on August 16th.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine accompanied by U.S. Representatives Mo Brooks, Robert Aderholt, Scott DesJarlais and Brian Babin will be revealing the agency's plans for getting humans back on the Moon by 2024 through their Artemis program. The discussion will revolve around how NASA plans to safely land on the lunar surface, and questions and answers will be provided after the initial announcements.

NASA plan on getting the first women and the next man on the Moon in just five years time, this will be done through the Artemis program which is detailed here. Tune into the discussion on Friday, August 16th for more space information. If you didn't know, NASA just completed the final and most complex part of their Orion spacecraft, check that out here.

Scientists have observed a recent neutron star phenomenon and have deemed it a 'glitch'. It seems that computers and technology aren't the only things that can freak out for no apparent reason.

Researchers who published a paper in the Nature Astronomy journal observed a neutron star called Vela glitching out for a short period of time. For those that don't know, neutron stars a fast-spinning corpses of once giant stars, they harbor about 1.5 times the mass of the sun and are much smaller in diameter. These stars are known to "glitch" out every now and again, this 'glitching' causes the star to slow down its rotation speed, then speed it up and then return back to normal speed.

According to the paper, Vela's normal spin speed is 11 times per second but in 2016 it was caught speeding up. Researchers discovered that Vela's spin has three phases, the first being the slowing down of the spin speed, then the speeding up phase and then a return to its normal speed. Researchers have also tried to determine the components that cause these three phases to occur and ultimately the "glitch" to happen. The components are: a crust of ions connected in a lattice pattern, a roiling "soup" of neutrons inside the stars inner crust and a extremely dense core consisting of protons, neutrons and more particles.

For those that don't know, at the center of our Milky Way galaxy lies a black hole which we have named Sagittarius A. That black hole just had a strange anomaly that caused its brightness to spike 75 times more than normal.

The infrared flaring seen by astronomers is nothing like they have seen before, and astronomers have been observing Sagittarius A for about 20 years now. Astronomers used the Keck Telescope to observe the flaring and according to the scientists this flaring occurred for about 2.5 hours. At first, astronomers thought the flaring was caused by the neighboring star SO-2 which has an elliptical orbit close to the black hole, but that hasn't been confirmed.

An interview was held with ScienceAlert with astronomer Tuan Do, he said "The black hole was so bright I at first mistook it for the star S0-2, because I had never seen Sgr A* that bright. Over the next few frames, though, it was clear the source was variable and had to be the black hole. I knew almost right away there was probably something interesting going on with the black hole." At the moment scientists cannot pinpoint what has caused Sagittarius A to flare like this, further research will have to be conducted before a definitive answer can be provided. For more information and theories as to why the flaring occurred, visit this article here.

If you are a fan of open-world action-RPG games, then keep your eyes peeled on Experiment 101's Biomutant title. If you like what you see, you might want to check out the games Collector Editions.

Firstly, we have the most expensive edition the 'Atomic Edition' which includes the following: a mid-battle diorama that measures 23″ by 10″ by 12″, SteelBook case, oversize mousepad, t-shirt in L/XL, official game, artwork on fabric and a premium box. The Collectors Edition is the cheaper version, coming it at $109 and including: 7.8″ stature of the main character, the previously mentioned artwork, official game soundtrack, the game and a smaller premium box.

Biomutant is truly shaping up to be quite the adventure for open-world action-RPG fans, but if this is the first time you have heard of the title check out some kick ass gameplay here. While there is some great action scenes seen in that trailer, check out some awesome environments in this one here. At the moment neither THQ Nordic or Experiment 101 has revealed the release date for Biomutant, but the title is still expected to arrive in gamers hands sometime in 2019.

One of the best society-simulator and city-builder games is now planned to release on consoles, but will consoles gamers be able to survive the cold?

Developers of Frostpunk, 11 Bit Studios have announced that their critically acclaimed title will now be heading over to consoles this October. Players will assume the role of a ruler that is governing the last city on Earth, as the rest of the planets cities have been frozen over. Players will have to make difficult and well thought out decisions to ensure the survival of the remaining citizens, these decisions range in the forms of laws, health, work routines and your cities overall approval of your efforts.

Above is a trailer for the title and its just a mere taste of what Frostpunk can offer players. Frostpunk will be heading over to consoles on October 11th, for more information about the title check out the official website here.

Respawn Entertainment has just blessed Apex Legends players with a brand new update that adds some things that we didn't ask for, but are more than happy to have.

Respawn Entertainment has officially kicked off their Iron Crown Collection event where players will be able to jump into a limited-time solos mode, enjoy the Octane Town Takeover that has a skate park, double XP for top 5 and wins over the weekend and numerous cosmetic additions.

This update dropped out of nowhere and judging by players' reactions in the comment section of the above video, it has been more than welcomed. There is so many new skins for both weapons and legends, and they honestly look fantastic so props to Respawn for their efforts. Moving into the map change, Octane has "taken over part of Kings Canyon and done a bit of remodeling to better suit his adrenaline-seeking tendencies".

PC Building Simulator has made its way over to consoles, so now console gamers can enjoy building their balls to the wall PC with no costs whatsoever.

Consoles gamers can now run their own PC workshop and have fun building all different kind of PC's. Users can customize their PC to their hearts desire, you can change case, GPU, CPU, cooling, RAM, storage, monitors and even overclock your whole rig if you want.

PC Building Simulator isn't just a program to mess around in either, users can legitimately use this program to build the PC they are looking at buying and acquire a great visualization of how it will look and run. PC Building Simulator is now available on the Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch.

Secretlab has just secured a huge injection of funding from Temasek subsidiary Heliconia Capital Management, with the gaming chair company saying this is the first external investor for Secretlab.

Heliconia has invested in other tech companies including Razer, with its new stake in Secretlab described as a "small minority stake" that sees Secretlab valued at between S$200-$300 million, which works out to $144-$216 million -- not a small sum at all, for a gaming chair company that is very significant.

It goes to show that all of the hard work Secretlab has put into its gaming c hairs over the years is paying off, not just from its consumers and fans, but from investment firms seeing the future being bright for Secretlab.