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Monster Hunter World's latest cross-over sees Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield crashing an Iceborne monster mash.

Soon the world of Resident Evil 2 will invade Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, complete with resurrected zombies and featuring Claire and Leon as playable characters. The new cross-over transforms every player into an undead ghoul that shambles about Hoarfrost Reach, with the added bonus of being able to use Claire and Leon in battle. There's even a dungeon stylized around the Resident Evil franchise with lots of little throwbacks.

That's not the best part of the cross-over, though. Iceborne's Handler character has been transformed into Mr. X, making all of her cute mannerisms and emotes so out of place and hilarious. Anyone who's played the Resident Evil 2 Remake knows just how terrifying Mr. X can be, and seeing him like this is just ridiculous.

Rockstar offers tremendous bonus incentives for pre-ordering Red Dead Redemption 2 directly from their new storefront.

Today Rockstar confirmed Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming to PC, complete with high-end graphical and technical optimizations and a handful of new singleplayer goodies. It's coming first to the Epic Store and the new Rockstar Launcher storefront on November 5, and Steam a month later in December. But Rockstar really wants you to buy the game from them so they can keep 100% of all revenues. And to do that they're offering some pretty good pre-order bonuses.

Red Dead Redemption 2 PC pre-orders are coming first to the Rockstar Launcher on October 9. Pre-orders on other stores are delayed 2 weeks. Pre-ordering from the launcher gets you two free games from a pool of Rockstar classics, including older GTA games and L.A. Noire. These free games are exclusive to R* Launcher pre-purchases and include some extra bonuses too.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming to PC across all the biggest storefronts, Rockstar Games today announced.

Red Dead Redemption 2's highly-anticipated PC version will be available on PC starting November 5, but only through the Epic Games Store and the new Rockstar Launcher. The Steam version will arrive a month later in December.

The PC version will include a number of visual upgrades and optimizations--4K resolution support and uncapped FPS are likely included, but no confirmations have been made yet.

A new announcement out of XSEED Games has revealed that Nintendo Switch users will soon be able to play Corpse Party: Blood Drive on their handheld console.

Corpse Party: Blood Drive is developed by MAGES.inc and 5pb, its developed by XSEED Games and will soon be making its way over to the Nintendo eShop. If you don't know what Corpse Party: Blood Drive is, its definitive conclusion to the long-running Heavenly Host story arc. The game features dynamic lighting, 3D sound, detailed environments, brand new gameplay mechanics and of course many elements of a classical Japanese horror game.

Corpse Party: Blood Drive will be coming to the Nintendo eShop on October 11th for $19.99. For further information head on over to either the Steam Store listing here, or check out the key features for the title listed in the entirety of this article. Some screenshots have also been provided.

While you might think Avengers: Endgame is done with all of its awards, Disney does not. The company behind Marvel are pushing for the highest grossing movie of all time to slapped with some more awards.

Disney has launched its "For Your Consideration" campaign to bring awarness to what they consider the parts of Avengers: Endgame that are award worthy. This campaign is for February's Academy Awards ceremony, and Disney aren't just stopping at 'Best Picture' they want to get awarded for everything in-between.

Here is a list of the categories that Disney are hoping to get awarded for: Best Picture - Kevin Feige, Best Director - Anthony and Joe Russo, Best Adapted Screenplay -Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, Best Cinematography - Trent Opaloch, Best Film Editing - Jeffrey Ford, Matthew Schmidt, Best Production Design - Charles Wood (Production Designer), Tonja Schurmann (Set Decorator), Best Costume Design - Judianna Makovsky, Best Makeup & Hairstyling - John Blake, Janine Thompson, Brian Sipe, Best Sound Mixing - Tom Johnson, Juan Peralta, John Pritchett, Best Sound Editing - Shannon Mills, Daniel Laurie, Best Visual Editing - Dan Deleeuw, Matt Aitken, Russell Earl, Dan Sudick, Best Original Score - Alan Silvestri.

About a week ago, I reported on Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm making its way over to consoles, and while this is great news for console fans it has been confirmed there will be no cross-platform play.

Civilization VI: Gathering Storm will be arriving on consoles next month, and while some console gamers might of expected to be able to take on opposing gamers from their counter-console, this unfortunately won't be the case. In the above Tweet from the official Civilization VI: Gathering Storm Twitter account, a fan asked if the game would be arriving with cross-play support between console and PC, the Twitter page replied with "There is no cross-play multiplayer between platforms".

The Tweet continues on to say that the PS4 version of the game won't support cloud saves either, but all other versions of the game will. Both of these pieces of information are quite saddening to learn, especially with a game like Civ where cloud saves are such a fundamental convenience. Civilization VI will be out on PS4 and Xbox One on November 22. Surprisingly, Civilization VI came to the Nintendo Switch first and has already been out for a year now.

There is multiple awards to earn when developing video games, and one of the most prestigious awards you can obtain is for the games written story.

The Writers Guild for America (WGA) has now said that they won't be recognizing the 'Gaming' category that they have been handing out awards in since 2008. The 2020 WGA awards ceremony won't feature this category, and according to a statement to Gamasutra, "[the awards will] be reinstated when there is a critical mass of video games covered by the WGA in order to provide a meaningful award selection process."

In the entirety of this article you will find WGA's script submission requirements which seems to be where the problem has originated from. The WGA believe that there isn't enough good competition go around to warrant and award being handed out to a game script writer. This decision by the WGA will certainly come as heavy news to the writers who have worked on Death Stranding or other upcoming highly anticipated games. God of War will be last title to receive an award of outstanding writing.

Bandai Namco's Dark Souls inspired title CODE VEIN has got its first batch of raunchy nude mods, I bet you probably want to change your outfit in-game now.

CODE VEIN is an anime style RPG that features some quite revealing female and male characters, and while their standard outfits might be good enough for some players, they clearly weren't revealing enough for others. The male nude mode replaces clothing 1-6, while the female nude mod replaces outfit #5.

For players wanting to change their outfits, you must head over to the CODE VEIN NexusMods page and login, enable Adult Content and download them. To get the mod in-game, players must create a new directory in their CODE VEIN folder and extract the files to that folder. Once that is done, players can head over to the mirror next to the bath tub in their home base and change their outfit.

Back in March, Facebook announced plans to bring more privacy to not only their main platform but all their other services as well. This new privacy would come in the form of encryption for messages.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is now set to make an announcement regarding Facebook's encryption plans, and according to a signed draft that BuzzFeed News and the New York Times obtained before publication, the DOJ will be halting the encryption process. Attorney General William Barr is said to make the request in an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday. The draft also shows signatures from Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel and Australian Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton.

The main concern by the DOJ and others who have signed the letter is that if Facebook roll out its end-to-end encryption across all of its messaging platforms (WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger), that law enforcement will be hindered in tracking illegal activity on the platforms. Which directly connects into this recent report about child sex abuse being rampant on Facebook Messenger. The DOJ letter argues that Facebook should be providing law enforcement agencies "lawful access to content in a readable and usable format". In other words, law enforcement agencies want back-door access to the messaging apps content even if the messages are 'encrypted'.

Just like in most video games that get seasonal theme updates, Halloween is always a big one. It seems that Respawn Entertainment are jumping in on the fun with an Apex Legends Halloween event.

According to a Twitter user who has data mined the recent update, Respawn will be bringing out a Halloween event called 'Fight or Fright'. Shrugtal details that 'Fight or Fright' will take place on a new map called Shadowfall, this map is a re-skinned kings cannon and will be covered in darkness. The large Leviathans in the center will have glowing green eyes and according to the hidden information "for a limited time, a warped version of Apex games will be hosted at night in an abandoned Kings Canyon by a mysterious figure known only as Revenant."

The information continues and says "Solo Legends fight to the death but with a dark twist - when Legends die, they are reborn on the Shadow Squad, an ever-growing faction of dark LEgends who return from the dead to haunt their living counterparts with increased mobility and brutal melee attacks. The last 10 Living Legends will join forces to try to escape while the Shadow Squad attempts to stop them at all costs." First off, if this is the case for what Respawn have planned for Halloween, I'm sure I'm not the only one in saying this, but I'm more than excited to try it out.

ArenaNet's Mike O'Brien might've laid the seeds for Guild Wars 3 before he left the studio, sources tell Kotaku.

After 19 long years, co-founder Mike O'Brien said goodbye to ArenaNet today. But he might've left the blueprints for another big Guild Wars project, possibly even the next sequel. As head of product development, O'Brien spent the last two years working on something new alongside a small team within ArenaNet.

Sources close to ArenaNet's going-ons tell Kotaku that this work could've manifested as Guild Wars 3, but whether or not the ideas were scrapped remains unknown. Apparently O'Brien isn't the only one leaving, either: The entire eight-person team working on the unannounced project is departing. O'Brien plans to open a new games studio to focus on smaller-scale titles.

The Walking Dead is getting adapted into a big new survival-horror VR game complete with exploration, brutal combat, and crafting.

Today Skydance Interactive announced The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners, a new VR game set in Robert Kirkman's terrifying zombie-infested world. Set for release in January 2020 on Oculus and Steam's VR platforms, Saints and Sinners sounds like an intuitive mix between Dying Light and Dead Island with a whole new layer of immersion and thrilling tension: gamers can grab zombies and decapitate them, slice and dice hordes of walkers, and interact with an explorable world.

The game will also have a surprising amount of reactivity and depth with a 15 hour+ campaign, showing Skydance is keen on reversing the downward trend with Walking Dead games. You'll get to wield all sorts of guns and shotguns (as well as bows) as you fight for survival in an undead-littered New Orleans, mowing down both humans and walkers alike. There's opportunities to help various NPCs littered throughout the game and every decision you make will not only shape the world, but it'll determine who you can team up with.

Current Blizzard Entertainment president J. Allen Brack asserts PC comes first, but that won't stop console ports and mobile-specific releases.

In a recent interview with GameSpot, Blizzard president J. Allen Brack says PC is the highest on the totem pole. "We are a PC developer first," Brack said, then quickly followed up by saying ports of its biggest games won't stop--the Overwatches and Diablos should continue being ported to consoles too.

"And then we look for other platforms that we think can support the types of gameplay experiences that resonate with the type of games and values that we want to put forth into the world. And the example of that is Diablo 3 on console."

SEGA's original hard-as-nails lightgun classics are getting remade for current-gen systems.

It's official: The House of the Dead 1 & 2 are getting remakes, bringing that old-school arcade thrill to your living room. Developer Forever Entertainment today confirmed the news, but left out some important details like launch date or platform availability.

It's likely the House of the Dead remakes will skip Xbox One now that the Kinect is dead and there's no real official lightguns for the platform. Sony, on the other hand, has PS Move controllers and an official lightgun mold, not to mention a PlayStation Camera sensor for tracking. We could even see the House of the Dead remakes come to VR hardware like the Oculus Rift, Valve Index, or PlayStation VR.

Death Stranding's latest trailer underlines its core mechanisms: becoming a high-tech delivery man.

Hideo Kojima's new game Death Stranding is all about making connections. But it doesn't do this in a direct way. Instead you're connecting a fractured, ghost-haunted world by delivering important parcels and precious resources throughout the world, thereby binding societies together. You're basically a futuristic postman that accepts delivery jobs, and everything you do brings the world closer together.

A new Death Stranding trailer shows this point in action. As Sam Porter Bridges, players will collect, deliver, and share tons of packages in the game, all while being chased by strange otherworldly phantoms. The parcels can contain everything from first aid and food to ammo, weapons, and gear. It's kind of metaphorical to how delivery and shipping is basically the heart of any society; being able to transport, share, and sell goods and services is the backbone to our world.

EA wants you to have to more security on your Origin account, but they don't want you to not be rewarded for enabling it either.

During the month of October, Origin users will be able to enable the new two-factor authentication service which EA calls "Login Verification", and receive 1 month of free Origin Access Basic. If you are wondering what Origin Access Basic is, its a free ticket to be able to try out hundreds of different EA titles as well as 10-hour-long early access to upcoming titles.

Origin Access Basic is priced at $6.45 a month and this is a fantastic reason to give the service a shot if you didn't want to fork out your own money. For users that are already paying for Origin Access Basic and enable the new two-factor authentication, EA will simply not charge them for the month of November. Head on over to the Origin website here if you want to give it a try.

A team behind an open source Nintendo Switch emulator has announced that due to their recent updates they have managed to get Super Mario Odyssey to run at a stable 60FPS on the PC.

The emulator is called Yuzu, and from the above video that has been released onto the BSoD Gaming YouTube Channel, we learn that this new update has introduced a brand new version of asynchronous GPU emulation. This the biggest update to come to the emulator since its release, and from the video we can definitely see Super Mario Odyssey running at stable 60FPS minimum.

Unfortunately this emulator isn't perfect though, at the moment Bayonetta 2 and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild are still unplayable. But what Yuzu can play is Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu!, Super Mario Maker 2 and ONE PIECE: Unlimited World Red Deluxe Edition all at 60FPS. It should also be noted that the player in the above video is running Super Mario Odyssey at 60FPS on an i7 8700k with an NVIDIA GTX 1080Ti.

The release of the highly anticipated Death Stranding isn't that far away, and while fans are shaking in their boots with excitement, the director has given them yet another reason to look forward the launch.

In a recent Tweet on Hideo Kojima's personal Twitter account, who is the director of Death Stranding, he says that he is currently editing the launch trailer for the title. Kojima also states that this will be the final trailer that will go online before the game launches, and that usually these trailers are "handled by outsourcing CGI studio" that comes with a "movie director".

But not this trailer. Nope. Kojima is doing this one all by himself, and even says that he is treating this trailer as if its apart of the games title. So this would mean the games launch trailer is a 'Hideo Kojima trailer' right? If so, I must say that is pretty damn awesome, and really does show much care has been put into Death Stranding on Kojima's behalf. Death Stranding will be releasing on November 8th.

An actress who played a small part in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy has spoken out about her beliefs towards wanting Gandalf to be played by a women in Amazon's upcoming Lord of the Rings TV show.

Robyn Malcolm, who played Morwen in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers spoke to Stuff.nz about how she believes that its time that women are brought to the front of the big screen. Here is what she had to say, "Those old legends, those old mystical stories, they're so based within a patriarchal landscape. Why not look at the magic of a matrilineal world where the magical powerhouses are women?"

For those that don't know, Ian McKellen played the role of Gandalf in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy and did an impeccable job, earning numerous nominations for best supporting actor. Malcolm continued to express her beliefs that women should be able to assume the roles of initially male characters regardless of Tolkien's extremely detailed source material says. Malcolm said "We've had female Hamlets." "Why not?"

Researchers and scientists around the world have stumbled upon a brand new discovery that could change how energy efficient energy transportation is.

The new paper which was puplished in the journal of Science Advances indicated that graphene, which is a material composed of a single layer of carbon atoms, is more of a superconductor of electricity than once speculated. The researchers from The Ohio State University have said they have found a "magic angle" that changes graphene from being a normal conductor of energy into a superconductor.

Before continuing, any metal is a normal 'conductor' of energy, but a 'superconductor' is metal that can conduct electricity without there being any resistance, meaning no loss of energy. Graphene was originally thought to be just a normal conductor, but the researchers added second layer of carbon atoms to the already present single layer. They also twisted these atoms to what they are calling the "magic angle", which is measured at 1 degree and 1.2 degrees.