Minecraft will be staying rugged and pixelated after a new announcement on the official website detailing that the game will not be receiving its 'Super Duper Graphics Pack'.

Back at E3 in 2017, Minecraft developers Mojang announced the Super Duper Graphics Pack which was basically a massive graphics overhaul for the entirety of Minecraft. The graphics update has since been in development for the past two years and has provided extremely challenging for the developers, as numerous delays have had to go underway.

Now, an announcement has been posted via the Minecraft website, saying that the "Super Duper was an ambitious initiative that brought a new look to Minecraft but, unfortunately, the pack proved too technically demanding to implement as planned." This decision was due to the pack not performing as desired across a range of devices and "For this reason, we're stopping development on the pack, and looking into other ways for you to experience Minecraft with a new look."

Creative Assembly are rumored to be stepping onto the shores of the Trojan War as a filled trademark has been found revealing what is to be believed as the next Total War Saga game.

The filing has been found on UK's Intellectual Property Office website and showcases what is assumed to be the title of the next game "Total War Saga: Troy". Before we dive into how awesome of an era this is, I firstly must say that since no official announcement has come out of Creative Assembly regarding "Troy", that is this purely a rumor at this stage.

If Creative Assembly do choose to build a game around the Bronze Age and more specifically the Trojan War, this could be one of the best Total War Saga games ever made due to how rich this era in time is with history. For those that don't know, the Trojan War is predominantly based off two books - The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer. It is still debated how accurate Homers poems are to what actually happened in real-life, but regardless of specifics, this era in time is filled with amazing legends, characters, locations and more.

16-year-old Kyle "Bugha" Giersdorf would be riding a huge high right now after won a huge $3 million by winning the Fortnite World Cup, and last night had his home "swatted".

Kyle was live streaming Fortnite at the time and mid-match his Dad comes to his door and says that armed police were at the door, looking for him. Kyle leaves the stream leaving his team mates questioning where he went, but after 10 minutes he returns.

Once he returns, Kyle said: "They come in with guns, bro. They literally pulled up, holy shit". Kyle streams daily to his audience of over 640,000 followers, so being swatted at this level is kinda crazy.

A handful of UK-based dark web drug dealers have been busted selling cocaine (or a Class A drug) on the dark web, dealing with Bitcoin. The group sold the drugs on the dark web under the brand 'Project4'.

Thames Valley Police said that Colin McCabe, 39, Toby Woods and Robert Price, both 36 made over £1 million ($1.2 million) selling Class A drugs on the dark web. The FBI discovered the trio, who were using Bitcoin to hide from authorities and selling drugs as far away as Australia.

McCabe was the leader of the dark web gang, jailed for 12 years after he admitted conspiracy to supply drugs that included cocaine, cannabis, and ketamine. Price was jailed for 9 years and 9 months after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply drugs, while Woods was sentenced to 14 months after confessing to entering into, or being concerned in the acquisition or control of criminal property.

Gears 5 has just gone gold, with Microsoft and The Coalition announcing the news ahead of Gamescom 2019 next week, with Gears 5 to be detailed on August 19.

The developer has teased that it will show off the new Horde Mode in Gears 5, as well as a deeper glimpse into the Gears 5 campaign. The Coalition boss, Rod Fergusson, said: "From all of us at The Coalition, we couldn't be more excited to share Gears 5 with the world. I want thank the team here who has worked so hard for our fans, and we all hope you are all as excited as we are to play Gears 5".

He continued: "This is furthest we have ever taken the franchise, living our studio mantra of 'if you want to go far go together'."

SAPPHIRE launched its new Radeon RX 5700 XT PULSE OC graphics card today, one of the first custom Navi cards to be released and a kick ass offering for Radeon gamers. You can read my review on it here.

The new SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 5700 XT PULSE OC has more performance than the reference RX 5700 XT, runs significantly cooler (16C cooler in my testing), and much quieter than the reference model. It offers performance roughly 5-10% better than NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER, and all for $409.

SAPPHIRE also includes a new feature in TriXX Boost, which reduces the rendering resolution and upscales it using Radeon Image Sharpening resulting in up to 10-15% more performance in games.

Control is right around the corner with its release on August 27, with the pre-load for the game now kicking off on the Xbox One for those who pre-ordered the game.

Now that the pre-load has started we're finding out about the download size of Control, at least on the Xbox One, which is chiming in at 35GB. We don't know the download sizes for the PC or PS4 versions just yet.

I'm curious on the PC version of Control and its size since it will have loads of RTX features included with it, and how much they'll add to the download size. It shouldn't be too much bigger, but it'll be the most loaded RTX game released so far which has piqued my interest.

PUBG Mobile is dominating monthly player spending in battle royale games, with a gigantic spike that started in March and hasn't stopped rising. Fortnite is down in that same time, and doesn't even come close to the numbers from PUBG Mobile.

The big difference here for PUBG Mobile is when it reached China two months ago when it was released as Game for Peace, with monthly player spending going from just over $60 million in April to over $160 million in July. Fortnite on the other hand slipped under $40 million per month.

So when people laugh at these gaming phones like the Razer Phone II and ASUS ROG Phone II... tell them just how huge mobile gaming is and how much money is involved. We're looking at over $2 billion in monthly revenue from just three battle royale games on mobile devices, in a single year. This is just three games out of the sea of mobile games, but they push the boundaries of mobile hardware.

Tim Willits, one of the original pillars of id Software, has traded in his BFG to work on smaller-scale projects at Saber Interactive.

After 24 years of ripping and tearing, Tim Willits is ready for a change. The industry vet today announced his new position as chief creative officer at Saber Interactive, which pretty much gives him free reign in guiding the World War Z developer's entire slate of games. Willits will not only help shape and form current games, but also mold new IPs for the games-maker.

"I am excited to announce that on August 1st I became the Chief Creative Officer of Saber Interactive. I will be leading the creative vision of our five studios around the world," Willits said on Twitter.

Twitch just messed up so bad that thousands of people--including streamers--are calling for change. Now streaming giant CEO Emmett Shear tries to explain what went wrong.

Twitch is embroiled in a hot fiasco right now. Here's the lowdown: Ninja, the world's most popular streamer and Fortnite guru, recently left Twitch for an exclusive deal on Microsoft's streaming platform, Mixer. Technically his channel was dead and should've been left offline. But since Ninja's channel is so huge, Twitch decided to use it as a big springboard platform to recommend other channels rather than leaving it dormant. One of these channels was for porn. Ninja and his fans exposed it and outrage against Twitch's mishandled regulation exploded on the internet, and the hashtag #TwitchOverParty started trending.

So what happened? According to Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, showing streams on Ninja's offline channel was an experiment. Shear admits fault, but doesn't explicitly underline why Ninja's channel was chosen--but it's not hard to guess. "Our community comes to Twitch looking for live content. To help ensure they find great, live channels we've been experimenting with showing recommended content across Twitch, including on streamer's pages that are offline," Shear said in a statement on Twitter.

Nintendo's new refreshed Switch has a better screen, better battery life, and better thermals, making the original model not worth buying.

If you're in the market for a Switch, make sure you get the new 2019 model. It costs the same, looks the same, and comes in a red box, but it has some pretty nifty improvements over the base 2017 model. It's display is brighter and warmer, hinting at a panel revision like The Wall Street Journal reported, and it sports a beefier battery for up to 9 hours of play in Breath of the Wild. It also handles thermals much more efficiently, which indicates the new model sports a refreshed 16nm Tegra X1 214 chip revision.

YouTuber Kevin Kenson dissected the new Switch and discovered some interesting tidbits. Insofar as thermals, the new Switch runs up to 5 degrees cooler in handheld mode, and roughly 8 degrees cooler in the more demanding docked mode that unlocks the onboard Tegra processor for maximum performance.

Ubisoft says Splinter Cell isn't dead. Company CEO Yves Guillemot promises it'll come back, but when the time is right. Ubisoft's current landscape gives key clues on what that game (or games) could be like).

Right now Ubisoft cares about two things: digital and engagement. They go hand in hand. Online-driven digital games breed engagement, which in turn generates revenue from post-release content updates and microtransactions. Ubisoft's made a tremendous digital transformation and regularly rakes in billions every year as a result. Any new game will fold right into this plan, including a new Splinter Cell. As a result, Sam Fisher's next adventure could be quite different.

Arguably, Ubisoft doesn't need to bring Splinter Cell back. The Tom Clancy brand is huge, sure, but it's raking in cash hand-over-fist with The Division 2, Ghost Recon, and Rainbow Six: Siege, live games all (the latter of which is even getting spin-offs). Sam Fisher's singleplayer-driven stealth adventures don't have a place in Ubisoft's roadmap any more, so the series has to morph and change with the times. Sure Splinter Cell had PVP multiplayer as far back as 2004's Pandora Tomorrow, but that's not enough. It needs a strong PVE element to keep gamers playing.

A new trailer has been released for Shia LeBeouf's newest addition to the film industry. The movie will concentrate on the events of a young boy aspiring to become a actor.

Firstly, the above trailer is the Redband Trailer so view at your own discretion. Honey Boy is a screenplay written by Shia LaBeouf and is based on his own experiences as a young child actor and struggling to reconcile with his father while also dealing with his mental health.

LaBeouf takes on the therapeutic challenge of his own father who is an ex-rodeo clown and a felon. We see glimpses of the relationship struggle between LaBeouf's character and his son who is played by Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place). The struggles we see in 'Honey Boy' seem to be an accurate representation of LaBeouf experienced in real-life, which could mean 'Honey Boy' might be LaBeouf's best performance yet.

Scientists are always looking for more updated and better ways to understand the universe we are currently living in and one of the best ways they can do that is through simulations.

According to a new announcement by researchers at the University of Arizona, the Ocelote supercomputer has managed to generate 8 million simulated universes for scientists to study and understand. These simulated universes are going to be directly compared to our actual cosmos, and through the comparison scientists hope to draw a better conclusion of the cosmic events that occurred while also filling in missing data points that are currently puzzling to theorists.

While 8 million simulated universes in just three weeks is certainly an achievement in itself, Ocelote didn't quite have the power to render these universes to every detail, as that would require an astronomical amount of computing power. Instead, Ocelote and the scientists created a system where the computer produced results that are a "sizeable chunk" of the observable universe. It should also be noted that each of the universes created were devised under a completely different set of rules, meaning that scientists have a lot of busy comparison work to do now.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is simply a masterpiece and one of the best games I have ever played. Its not only one of the best games I've played for its story and gameplay but also its music.

A new music overhaul mod has been released and instead of removing the games original soundtrack, the mod adds 16 brand new pieces of music to add to the games glory. According to the team who created the soundtracks, "We are currently working on adding more songs to the mod, the aim is to add a few songs every now and then, so the whole game gets this special, musical treatment".

Below you can find some snippet tracks for you to enjoy and if you are interested in adding this music overhaul pack to your game, check out this link here.

It looks like EA is about to announce or at least tease its new Need for Speed title, something we knew was coming but it seems EA is packing the hype train a little more in the last 24 hours.

The official Need for Speed website has been updated with a new countdown, something that ends don August 14. This is a week out from Gamescom 2019 which starts on August 20, and this year above all is a very special one for the Need for Speed franchise.

Need for Speed will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year, with the first game releasing all the way back in 1994. I remember, as I played hell out of it when it was released. It's actually crazy to think that it has been a 25-year franchise, but it has been a successful ride along the way and I'm excited to see where the franchise goes next.

Astronomers have stumbled across a brand new black hole discovery that has shocked and stunned scientists at the sheer size of what they have witnessing.

Astronomers have discovered a black hole sitting at the center of a super-giant elliptical galaxy called Holmberg 115A which is located about 700 million light years away. The black hole that is sitting at the center of this galaxy isn't the standard black hole, its actually about 40 billion times the mass of our Sun and has been observed by astronomers in Chile with the Very Large Telescope.

To put into perspective how big 40 billion times the mass of our Sun is, if this black hole was positioned where our Sun is now (at the center of our solar system) then its size would stretch out past Neptune and Pluto and into interstellar space. According to authors in the published paper, this black hole is "four to nine times larger than expected given the galaxy's bulge stellar mass and the galaxy's stellar velocity dispersion."

A new interview with a CD Projekt employee has revealed some details regarding Cyberpunk 2077's storyline and what players can expect from it.

The interview was conducted by Polskie Radio with CD Projekt RED's, Pawel Sasko. Sasko is the mission designer for Cyberpunk 2077 and while he didn't reveal any gameplay details, he did reveal some aspects of the games storyline. According to Sasko, Cyberpunk 2077 will give players a movie-like experience and tell a story that is prodominately targetted at an adult audience as it contains adult themes.

Some of these themes will be what people experience in their everyday lives, and some of them will be difficult for some players to face as they will be quite touchy. Sasko says that Cyberpunk 2077 won't shy away from difficult subjects and instead give the player a different perspective to view these subjects from. Judging by what Sasko is saying, Cyberpunk 2077 will really make players question their morals as difficult themes and scenarios require difficult decisions.

Jupiter is simply massive and due to its size and gravitational pull a meteor has collided with the planet and the explosion was so big it was viewed from Earth.

Since Jupiter is so big, it's gravitational pull captures a lot of space debris including meteors that are abundantly floating around space. Astronomer, Ethan Chappel going under the guise of Chappel Astro on Twitter viewed the impact of the meteor and said "Today has felt completely unreal to me. Hoping someone else also recorded the impact to seal the deal."

Another group of astronomers estimated the meteors size, saying that the object was 16.5 feet to 65 feet in diameter and that meteors of this calibre collide with Jupiter between one and five times a month. Above we have a gif of the collision and we can see the impact in the bottom left hand corner of the gif. If you happened to miss last weeks news regarding Jupiter, the Hubble Space Telescope took the best image we have of Jupiter now, check that out here.

You would think that the US military would be implementing the newest technology possible into their naval force, but actually the contrary is happening.

According to an article coming out of USNI, the US Navy force will be taking a step backwards technology wise and removing touchscreens from their destroyers over the next 18 - 24 months. The touchscreens will be replaced with conventional helm controls and physical throttles.

This decision has been made after the events of 2017 when the USS John S. McCain destroyer collided with container ship Alnic MC which resulted in the tragic deaths of 10 crew members. After an investigation was conducted into who the collision happened it was found that the warships complex touchscreen interface played a pivotal role in the unfortunate crash.