No Man's Sky's big new Beyond update drops in less than two weeks, bringing full VR support and a new online experience.

Ever since I started working at TweakTown my profile highlighted one of my gaming dreams: to see the weird sci-fi splendor of No Man's Sky in VR. That's going to happen very, very soon. Today Hello Games announced No Man's Sky Beyond will drop August 14 as a free update on all platforms, and will support VR on PSVR and Steam VR compatible headsets.

Beyond is the biggest thing Hello Games has ever done. It'll adapt the entire No Man's Sky experience into an interactive, galactic VR exploration extravaganza, and packs in No Man's Sky Online, a new kind of seamless multiplayer where gamers can join up and take on the cosmos. I have to admire Hello Games for making No Man's Sky into a live game that's literally not monetized with microtransactions. Not only that, but the team rolled out a ton of expansion-sized content packs and didn't charge for them.

GameStop is one of the biggest video game retailers on the market at the moment, and unfortunately the retailer has suffered another blow as the company is preparing to lay off numerous workers.

A memo which was leaked onto Twitter states that more than 50 "field leaders" are in preparation of loosing their jobs. The positions that are queued up to be lost are: regional managers, district mangers, loss prevention managers and HR staff. According to the memo, GameStop is cutting their losses and are looking to "reduce our cost structure and build efficiencies into our field leadership organization so that we can reinvest in the business."

The memo continues and says "These decisions are not easy, but necessary to help us reduce costs to enable revenue-driving initiatives that will help grow the business once again." It seems GameStop are looking at re-structuring their entire business, perhaps this decision has been influenced by the gaming market prominently now purchasing games online rather than physical media. I would think that GameStop would be conceiving a business idea that coincides with both physical media purchasing as well as online purchasing.

Gearbox Software has released another brand new character trailer for the newest installment in the Borderlands franchise, Borderlands 3. Introducing Moze and her trusty best-friend mech Iron Bear.

Moze became attached to her mech suit after a deathtrap battle that she was thrown into, only Iron Bear and her were standing after the fight ended and ever since then they have become best-friends. Moze seems to have her very own D. Va suit and while it might seem that Iron Bear takes care of most of the fighting, Moze repays the favors by keeping Iron Bear running smoothly and soundly with constant repairs.

Players will be able to customize Iron Bears guns that are mounted onto the suit, so depending on your playstyle, players will be able to outfit Iron Bear with a satisfying variety of different chaos reigning weapons. Alongside the character trailer, Gearbox has released a breakdown of Moze and her abilities, visit the official Borderlands website here if you are interested in reading a more in-depth review of the character. Borderlands 3 will be released on September 13th on the Xbox One, PS4 and PC. If you happened to miss the Zane character trailer reveal, visit this link here to watch the trailer.

Nintendo has now officially revealed their Gamescom 2019 lineup, fans can expect numerous popular titles to be showcased at the event.

The announcement has been found on the official Nintendo UK website and reveals that Nintendo will be showcasing several already-announced titles. These titles include: Luigi's Mansion 3, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, ASTRAL CHAIN, DRAGON QUEST XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Editon, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and The Witcher III: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition.

The announcement also says that for anyone visiting the Nintendo booth at the event will be able to go hands-on with Luigi's Mansion 3, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Pokemon Sword & Pokemon Shield, DAEMON X MACHINA, DRAGON QUEST XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition and The Witcher III: Wild Hunt. Nintendo will also be hosting a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Gamescom 2019 Invitational on Thursday, August 22nd. Winners of this event will be flown over to the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate World Challenge Cup held at the Nintendo Live event in Kyoto. This event will be livestreamed for anyone who cannot attend it locally.

Sony really wants all PS4 gamers to join the competitive gaming scene with their recently announced PS4 Tournaments: Challenger Series.

The PS4 Tournaments: Challenger Series invites all PS4 gamers to participate in some extremely competitive online gaming, which offer not only rewards but cash prizes as well. The tournaments will revolve around select games, starting off first with Mortal Kombat 11 and it will run over the duration of a couple of weeks.

Each of the tournaments will be broken up into stages, and players will have to win three out of four matches to advance to the next stage. Mortal Kombat 11 will be first title to get a free-to-join tournament, after that FIFA 20 will take its place and then Battlefield V and Warface. More titles will be follow after these tournaments have been played out. It should be noted that PS Plus will be required for most tournaments, as well as the prizes for winners of these tournaments haven't been disclosed as of yet.

Researchers have announced that they have formed a brand new 3D model of our Milky Way galaxy, giving us a much better understanding of the surrounding stars.

Researchers Dorota M. Skowron, Jan Skowron, Przemek Mroz and more published an article in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, revealing a new large-scale model of our Milky Way galaxy and the thousands of Cepheid stars. Cepheid stars are a type of star that pulsates radially and are found scattered across galaxies.

The new scale that has been devised by the researchers enables us to gain a better understanding of the S-like structure inside the Milky Way's warped stellar disc. Co-author, Przemek Mroz said "Our map shows the Milky Way disk is not flat. It is warped and twisted. This is the first time we can use individual objects to show this in three dimensions." Traditional maps of the Milky Way are built upon indirect measurements to celestial landmarks and interference's of other galaxies in the universe.

Legendary director Martin Scorsese has struck up a deal with video streaming goliath Netflix for his first Netflix film 'The Irishman'.

The above trailer has been released onto the official Netflix UK & Ireland YouTube Channel, revealing the brand new project by Martin Scorsese. From the trailer, we can see that Robert De Niro and Al Pacino will be taking to the big screen to shine a light on an epic saga of organized crime in post-war America. Robert De Niro will be playing the role of Frank Sheeran who is a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the 20th Century.

The movie will concentrate on the the point of view of Frank Sheeran and the disappearance of legendary union boss Jimmy Hoffa. According to the description in the video, the movie will offer "a monumental journey through the hidden corridors of organized crime: its inner workings, rivalries and connections to mainstream politics." Other actors included in the movie are: Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale, Anna Paquin, and Stephen Graham. The Irishman will be be arriving in select cinema's and Netflix this fall.

Scientists and astronomers led by Cornell's Lisa Kaltenegger have announced that they have discovered a 'super-Earth' planet in a nearby solar system.

The planet was found using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite or TESS for short. Kaltenegger, associate professor of astronomy, director of Cornell's Carl Sagan Institute and a member of the TESS science team spoke out about the discovery, saying "This is exciting, as this is humanity's first nearby super-Earth that could harbor life-uncovered with help from TESS, our small, mighty mission with a huge reach."

Astronomers from the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands and the University of La Laguna, both in Spain, said that this planet is located in the Gj 357 system to the journal of Astronomy & Astrophysics. The solar system GJ 357 contains a sun that is about one-third the size of our own, and only has three other planets in the entire system. GJ 357 d, the Earth-like planet is located in what seems to be habitable zone in comparison to its position with the star.

EVGA has just launched its new Precision X1 overclocking software, with v0.4.8.0 including something of interest: Boost Lock. Grab EVGA Precision X1 0.4.8.0 here.

Boost Lock is something you can toggle in Precision X1 that locks the maximum GPU boost state at all times, meaning you get maximum performance, all the time. Boost Lock would override the normal dips in GPU clocks when your GPU load is reduced, keeping clocks at their set-high amount.

This new feature seems perfect for enthusiasts, overclockers, and reviewers ras you can lock a specific GPU clock that, something further than the reaches of what the GPU would normally boost up to. I think it is a great addition to Precision X1 by EVGA, hell one of the best new features in a while.

A recent report has come out of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) revealing that about 10,000 College students have had their personal information disclosed in a data breach.

The WSJ has said that the FBI notified education software company Pearson that there servers were recently hijacked, revealing college students' dates of birth and email addresses. The report also says that one Nevada school district told the WSJ that around 114,000 students that attend schools in that area between 2001 and 2016 have been effected.

According to the notes in WSJ, the leaked information doesn't contain sensitive information like "social Security numbers, credit-card data or other financial information." A spokesperson from Pearson told Mashable via email that the "Pearson Clinical Assessments notified affected customers of unauthorized access to approximately 13,000 school and university AIMSweb 1.0 accounts. The exposed data was isolated to first name, last name, and in some instances may include date of birth and/or email address. Protecting our customers' information is of critical importance to us. We have strict data protections in place and have reviewed this incident, found and fixed the vulnerability."

ASUS has already sold out of the first batch of its new ROG Phone II gaming smartphone, selling its first run of 10,000 units during its first 73 seconds on sale in China.

JD.com received 2.5 million reservations for the ASUS ROG Phone II, so with just 10,000 sold it means ASUS has hundeds of thousands of potential customers just in China that want the phone, and couldn't get it. ASUS has even gone as far as apologizing for the lack of units, and that production staff are working around the clock to get more made.

ASUS promised that new ROG Phone II batches will drop on August 4, 7, and 12 -- at least in China. ASUS is using a large 6.6-inch FHD+ AMOLED display with a native 2340x1080 resolution and 120Hz refresh rate. Inside, we have the new cherry-picked Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ chip at up to 2.96GHz, 12GB of LPDDR4X RAM, and 512GB of storage.

I'm going to say something out aloud that I didn't think I'd be saying in 2019: the new Call of Duty game looks really kick ass, you guys. Activision and Infinity Ward have released the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's multiplayer trailer, check it out:

The developer teased its exciting new Ground War multiplayer mode, which will see 100 players duking it out for the win. There are new mechanics here at play, with the most-hyped part for me definitely being that you can play most maps at night time. I seriously can't wait for that.

There will also be 2v2, 6v6, 10v10, and 20v20 battles that will be in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, alongside the new 50v50 mode 'Ground War'. There was also a new COD: Modern Warfare multiplayer livestream premiere, check that out below:

The largest streamer in the world has just changed platforms, with Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins leaving Twitch and streaming exclusively with Microsoft Mixer, effective immediately.

There's not much known on the move by Ninja in terms of how much Microsoft paid him, whether there will be a timed exclusive to Mixer for Ninja, but the streamer himself has said "It's the same me, just a different platform". Ninja exploded onto the scene alongside Fortnite, with Microsoft securing Ninja it shows the Xbox creator is getting much more serious about streaming, much quicker.

Ninja will be used in different ways by Microsoft, as he won't just be streaming on Mixer as he will be going to game events throughout 2019 and into 2020 to support Mixer. So in a way, Ninja just became (one of) the face(s) of Mixer, and Microsoft just slammed its foot firmly onto the ground of the streaming world leading into the launch of its next-gen Xbox Scarlett console in 2020.

ADATA has just released the world's first durable external HDD with RGB lighting with its new HD770G, offering up IP68 waterproof and dustproof goodness, as well as a shock-resistant triple-layer construction.

While it'll look great on the outside keeping all of your games nice and safely stored, on both the PC and consoles I might add. The HD770G can be submerged in 2 meters of water for up to 120 minutes thanks to its IP68 protection. ADATA provides the ultimate in protection with its HD770G external HDD, with patented port covers that provide the crazy protection from water.

ADATA uses a triple-layer construction on the HD770G with a shock-absorbing silicone casing, sturdy buffer, and a cushioned mounting for the hard drive. This means the ADATA HD770G can take a hit or two, or even a decent fall from your desk, or bag. There's even 256-bit AES encryption to boot.

Remedy has really unleashed the hype train for its upcoming g ame Control, first with a slick story trailer that feels so influenced by shows like Fringe and The X-Files, but now we have a new gameplay trailer:

The 8-minute gameplay trailer is courtesy of IGN, and is shown in 4K 60FPS. It definitely irks me that it's played on a console controller, and I can't help but feel like that the entire game is like this. There are some annnoying gameplay traits here (reloading takes ages, the main character grunts every time she uses her powers which I can see both of which annoying me after a while).

Control is definitely shaping up to be a great showcase of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX graphics cards thanks to its full array of real-time ray tracing effects. I definitely need to get the game into my hands to see if the story -- and especially the Fringe/X-Files style conspiracy story is worth it.

EA's live services just won't stop growing despite a stale annualized release cadence.

EA loves live services and it's something the company does best. The publisher routinely earns billions every year from online games with heavy engagement and microtransactions.

In its recent FY Q1'2020 earnings report, EA earned $504 million from live services, up 12% from last year. It's the third straight year where Q1 live services have risen and utterly dominated digital earnings. Live services, which include subscriptions, microtransactions, and DLC, made up 67.8% of the quarter's total $743 in net bookings. Apex Legends and FIFA 19 were the main breadwinners, and EA plans to support Apex for the next 10 years.

Intel has just announced a slew of new 10th-gen CPUs and will pack the most powerful integrated graphics in any thin-and-light notebook PC, which is a bold claim considering the power that Qualcomm throws around with Snapdragon 8cx.

We have 11 processors in total with most of the spread of CPUs packing 4C/8T, with TDPs of 9W, 15W, and 28W. We're looking at CPU clocks between 700MHz and 2.3GHz, while 4.1GHz is the peak single-core turbo frequency.

Intel will be including an improved GPU with either 32, 48, and 64 EUs with up to 1GHz GPU clocks, as well as Wi-Fi 6 (which is great to see), up to 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports.

EA has teased that Need For Speed fans will have to tune into Gamescome 2019 to get the reveal of their brand new Need For Speed title.

According to an announcement by EA CEO, Andrew Wilson at the most recent earnings call for the company, EA are ready to unveil the next installment in the Need For Speed franchise. While a name is currently unknown at the moment, Wilson says that the studio is ready to "take the wraps off our new Need for Speed game heading into Gamescom in a few weeks."

A specific time has not been set by EA so the new Need For Speed title could be revealed at the Gamescom: Opening Night Live event on August 19th, or if EA holds their own press conference. At the moment we don't know, but regardless its great to hear that EA has not given up on the Need For Speed series and is ready to unveil something that is hopefully a game-changer in the racing game market.

EA has confirmed that there is a new in-game event heading over to Apex Legends that will release before the game reaches its Season 3 mark.

The news comes from Electronic Arts' latest earnings call where the company revealed that Apex Legends: Season 2 has performed much better than expected and that developers Respawn will soon be shaking things up a bit in a new in-game event. According EA CEO Andrew Wilson, Respawn will "bring new content and deliver one of the most fan-requested features."

The details of the event were not disclosed, but we do have a time frame to expect it to go live. Wilson said that Apex players can expect the in-game event to hit the servers "in the next few weeks". EA also talked about Season 3 for Apex Legends, saying that Season 3 is "shaping up to be even bigger" than Season 2. Since the Season 2 battle pass ends this September, we can assume that is when Season 3 will begin and the flurry of content updates will be dropped. Apex Legends is currently available for Xbox One, PS4 and PC.

Today Gearbox Software, the developers behind the Borderlands franchise, have announced that their newest title Borderlands 3 has officially gone gold.

Going 'gold' development wise means that the title is near ready for launch, meaning that all development for Borderlands 3 is almost complete. The news has come from the official Gearbox Twitter account, where they announced that today marks the day that Borderlands 3 "has gone GOLD!"

The developers behind the title would be just smoothing out all of Borderlands 3's rough edges, fixing bugs, small glitches and everything that would impede a players experience. All main development for the title has now been finished. If you happened to miss the character introduction of 'Zane' check that out here. Borderlands 3 will be released on September 13th on the Xbox One, PS4 and PC.