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Bungie confirms it's working on another non-Destiny franchise, which should be out by 2025.

We've known for a while Bungie is working on a new IP. Following its split from Activision in 2018, the company outlined an ambitious plan to self-publish its own games and forge a new path, one that included Destiny and fresh games. To help facilitate this plan, Bungie received a big $100 million investment from Chinese titan NetEase for its "bold new vision." Bungie recently said it's "got some people in the backyard planting some seeds," hinting at the new IP. The devs even filed a trademark for something called "Matter" in the European Union Intellectual Property Office in 2018.

Now Bungie CEO Pete Parsons outright says new franchises are coming by 2025. In a recent interview with IGN, Parsons outlined a tentative roadmap for Bungie's future that includes tons of Destiny content and some new surprises. "By 2025 we have a pretty specific path to make sure we transform Destiny and that we have other franchises within the marketplace," Parsons said.

A new report coming out from Deadline has revealed some details about Sony's upcoming movie adaption of the extremely popular game franchise Uncharted.

The new movie who will star Spider-Man actor Tom Holland as Nathan Drake has recently acquired a new director. Travis Knight who is known for the recent Transformers movie, Bumblebee will replace Dan Trachtenberg who recently exited from the film. Deadline reports that the Uncharted movie will begin production early next year and it will be scripted by Art Marcum & Matt Holloway and Rafe Judkins.

For those who haven't played Uncharted and don't know the premise of the games, the story follows a young treasure hunter named Nathan Drake and his epic adventures. The game was originally developed by Jak and Daxter creator Naughty Dog and grew to be one of the most staple games to pick up on PlayStation.

To get that hype train up to full speed for the upcoming Minecon event, Mojang and Microsoft have released a brand new opening cinematic trailer for Minecraft Dungeons.

Looking at the website for Minecraft Dungeons, this standalone title from Minecraft developer Mojang is inspired by "classic dungeon crawlers", but built within the Minecraft universe. The game will feature multiplayer with up to four players, power ups, personalization options, weapon enhancements, special attacks, treasure stuffed levels and of course Dungeon Creepers.

The opening cinematic shows a mysterious orb called the 'Orb of Dominance', it seems that it is a source of evil power and that players will be fighting through each of the levels to eventually battle its owner. Minecraft Dungeons will be arriving on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and the Xbox Games Pass in Spring of 2020. If you are interested in signing up for updates on the title, click this link here.

Netflix are rolling out teasers for their upcoming Breaking Bad movie, El Camino. The newest teaser features a returning character from the original series, Old Joe.

The trailer begins at Old Joe's junkyard, if you remember back in season 3 of Breaking Bad its where Joe helps Walter White and Jesse Pinkman escape from Hank who was hot on their tail. The new teaser shows Joe sitting and watching a TV report about the events that occurred in the final season of Breaking Bad, the news reporter is talking about Jesse Pinkman and then the phone rings.

Joe picks up the phone and while it isn't directly mentioned that its Jesse on the other end of the line, the videos description certainly suggests that it is. "Old Joe takes the call for help." is what the description reads and who else needs more help than Jesse at this time? El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie will be arriving on Netflix on October 11th. If you happened to miss the official trailer for the film click this link here.

Rockstar have commented on their future plans for Red Dead Redemption 2, and it seems the developer and concentrating their full efforts into the online scene rather than a single-player DLC.

According to a recent interview with Lead Online Production Associate, Katie Pica with VF 24/7, Rockstar are "100%" focussed on online at the moment as there is "just so much to do". The main goal of the online world is to bring everything that players love from the single player experience over to the online world of Red Dead. While this doesn't completely rule out the possibility of Red Dead Redemption 2 receiving a single-player DLC in the future, it does confirm that Rockstar have thrown all their eggs into the 'online' basket for now.

Online producer Tarek Hamad also commeted on single-player DLC's and the online world, saying "We've said it before, but we all love single-player games, and Red Dead Redemption 2's absolutely massive story and equally massive epilogue are hopefully evidence of that. The team's ambitions for Red Dead Redemption 2 were sky high in every way, and when we are building worlds of that scale, the single-player experience almost always leads the way. Our ambitions for our online games are just as high, and with Red Dead Online we are continuing to build and expand to match the world we created for Red Dead Redemption 2's story."

Ever since the release of Banjo-Kazooie as a DLC character for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate many fans have speculated what the next mystery fighters could be. We now have a comprehensive list based on location.

Before jumping into what specific regions want specific characters, it should be noted that these lists which have been compiled through Twitter responses do not reflect the views of the entire Smash community. These images are just a mere insight into what the most requested characters are from the three separate regions: Japan, USA and Europe.

Redditor Zelcf formed up the charts and what we see from them is a great spread of different characters, and some characters even appearing in all three regions. Sora from the Kingdom Hearts series owned by Disney falls into all three regions, while Sony's Crash Bandicoot is a want from USA and Europe, which is the same for Minecraft's Steve. Doomslayer from the Doom series is also a pick in USA and Europe, while Dante from Devil May Cry is chosen by Japan and Europe.

Firstly, rest-in-peace star ASASSN-19bt. Now that the sentiments are over, NASA has recently caught a cosmic crime in the act as a black hole some 375 million light-years away has eaten a fellow star.

The star was known as ASASSN-19bt and was observed by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS for short. The satellite provided scientists and researchers a viewing at what happens when a star is torn apart by a black holes extreme gravitational pull. This cosmic level collision is labelled as a tidal disruption event or TDE, which is when a black hole begins the process of tearing the gas from the star before it eventually forms into an accretion disk.

Astronomer Thomas Holoien said "Only a handful of TDEs have been discovered before they reached peak brightness, and this one was found just a few days after it started to brighten." He continued and said "This makes ASASSN-19bt the new poster child for TDE research. Having so much data about ASASSN-19bt will allow us to improve our understanding of the physics at work when a star is unlucky enough to meet a black hole."

A new study has claimed that there is about 1,000 water-rich or "hydrated" asteroids that are prime for harvesting, and mining them would be easier than landing back on the moons surface and harvesting the lunar poles.

Andrew Rivkin, an asteroid researcher at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Research Laboratory in Maryland and lead author on the paper said that "Most of the hydrated material in the near-Earth population is contained in the largest few hydrated objects". Rivkin also suggested that if we were to land on these asteroids, and somehow established a connection line back to Earth massive profits could be made.

It is estimated that out of the 1,000 water-rich asteroids that more than 25 of them are large enough to provide more than a significant amount of water. Space.com says that the indicated asteroids contain enough water to fill 320,000 Olympic-size swimming pools and is much more water than both the Lunar poles. If there was a way to successfully establish refueling stations on these orbiting asteroids, human space exploration could unlock a 'level-up' moment as there would be no need to send fuel from Earth anymore.

A new report out of The New York Times has connected the use of Facebook Messenger to the reports of child sex abuse online.

According to "people familiar with the reports" out of the 18.4 million worldwide reports of child sex abuse online, an immense 12 million of those source back to Facebook Messenger. Back in March, Facebook announced its new initiative to make their platform more secure, and while this effort would benefit majority of the user-base, throughout its execution nefarious users would also become more secure.

Encrypting messengers on their own platform would make it much more difficult for the company to track abusers and sexual predators, which would greatly influence the fact that Facebook is the majority holder when it comes to reports on their platform. Zuckerberg said back in March, "Encryption is a powerful tool for privacy, but that includes the privacy of people doing bad things. When billions of people use a service to connect, some of them are going to misuse it for truly terrible things like child exploitation, terrorism, and extortion."

Cuphead sure is successful for a two year-old.

Studio MDHR's indie darling Cuphead is now two years old, and in that time the game has managed to sell over 5 million copies on Xbox, Switch, and PC. Last we checked the game was at 4 million copies, meaning Cuphead managed to move 1 million units in two months' time, a feat accomplished thanks to the Nintendo Switch port.

To celebrate the milestone, the devs have planned five days of festivities including giveaways, a 20% discount on the game, and more goodies.

Naughty Dog assures their upcoming post-apocalyptic sequel will play great even on older PS4 consoles.

Now that consoles are family ecosystems rather than generations, it's imperative every game runs great on each respective system--especially first-party games like The Last of Us Part II. This cross-system optimization becomes more challenging as games become more ambitious, GPU- and CPU-intensive, and bigger in size. Games today typically have performance trade-offs with older hardware like the base PS4 and Xbox One systems thanks to the marked hardware disparity. Although The Last of Us Part II is the biggest game Naughty Dog has ever made, and will obviously look best on a PS4 Pro, the team still plans to make it run smoothly on the 2013 launch PS4s.

"Our target platform is the PS4, the base. You want to have that balance, but there's still a lot of optimization now to get done. What you saw here isn't quite our final frame rate and final screen resolution, stuff like that," NaughtyDog lead game designer Emilia Schatz told USgamer.

Netflix will say goodbye to BoJack Horseman in 2020, ending an era of feels, amazing puns, and originality.

BoJack Horseman will end in 2020 with its sixth season, Netflix recently confirmed. The last season will be split up in two parts, Netflix says: "It's safe to say Horsin' Around won't be BoJack Horseman's only lasting legacy. The final two-part season airs October 25 and January 31."

The move is somewhat surprising given the show's critical acclaim. BoJack Horseman enjoyed a strong five-year run that saw showrunner Raphael Bob-Waksberg tackled deep, existential issues like depression, anxiety, mid-life crises, and impostor syndrome, all wrapped in an anthropomorphic world that's all-too-relateable.

Medal of Honor is getting resurrected as a VR shooter, and it'll have an online multiplayer mode.

Respawn's new Oculus-exclusive VR project is actually a WWII-based Medal of Honor FPS, not Titanfall 3. The game is focusing strongly on immersion and interactivity with a historically-accurate singleplayer campaign, complete with multiple theaters of war across Europe. It's also quite funky and hilarious, too, letting gamers embrace the jank of VR by doing wacky things like catching grenades, climbing walls and shooting enemies, and other creative experimental combos.

EA's penchant for online engagement will drive its way into the new Medal of Honor VR game, too. We'll see a multiplayer mode tacked on, likely with some sort of monetization or maybe expansion content. From what we've seen of the gameplay, multiplayer actually sounds like tons of fun. There should be opportunities for crazy action across the board.

YouTuber My Name is Byf condenses years of lore into a four-hour video to prime gamers for Shadowkeep.

Bungie's lore mastery sets them apart in the industry. Whether it be Halo's wide heroic scope to Destiny's more macabre and bizarre sci-fi overtones, the studio is well-known for their universe-building. Destiny's lore in particular is extremely deep and rich, oozing with flavor at every turn and captivating players. There's a mystique to Bungie lore and matched with some of the best art design in gaming, this sense of mystery propels gamers forward even amidst turbulent grinds.

But Destiny's grown into a leviathan. It's a hydra that keeps sprouting heads. With every expansion it gets bigger and harder to understand. There's floating black pyramids, worm gods, archaic constructs powered by milk, terrifying hive monstrosities, and so much more that make the classic Light vs Dark story quite complex. How will new players ever understand what's going on?

Elon Musk must be sipping champagne by now, with SpaceX hitting a new milestone in its Starship and Super Heavy rockets with the first fully-assembled Starship MK1 shown off.

This is the Starship MK1 in all of its engineering glory, the first prototype that has been shown off by SpaceX as part of its continued foray into interplanetary transportation systems. Starship MK1 uses SpaceX's own Super Heavy rocket system that will see payloads delivered to both the Moon, and in future missions, to Mars.

Where the new Starship takes things to the next level is that it uses an in-space re-filling by propellant -- with the Starship docking with tanker Starship vessels to re-fuel before taking off for their larger destination -- Mars, and other planets in and around our solar system. The additional fuel is required for the large amount of supplies and passengers, of which we're talking supplies to build bases on other planets (like Mars) and up to 100 passengers.

As it stands, the Tesla EVs of today have power cells with lifespans somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 miles -- but now we could be looking at upwards of 1 million miles thanks to new research.

This is what Elon Musk and Jeff Dahn are talking about in a new paper in the Journey of The Electrochemical Society (JES) which teases we might be living in a world with Tesla EVs that have 1 million mile batteries.

Tesla's battery research arm is partnered with Dahn and his research team, with Dahn explaining: "Cells of this type should be able to power an electric vehicle for over one million miles and last at least two decades in grid energy storage".

Razer has just upped the ante on the streaming microphone game, with the gaming giant revealing its new Seiren Emote -- a new streaming microphone that features an 8x8 pixel grid into the camera-facing side of the new microphone.

What the new Razer Seiren Emote microphone does uniquely is that it uses the RGB LED display to show Emotes in real-time, based on what you (the streamer) is saying. This is why the display is camera-facing, so that it is picked up by the streamers camera and displayed to the audience. Because you know, if someone is angry you can't already tell -- you need an array of RGB LEDs displaying an animated Emoticon in order to know.

Sarcasm aside, the streaming world will love this -- and it's not like Razer is making some cheap knock off, the Seiren Emote will be a high quality gaming microphone for streamers. Better yet, you can tweak software to display emotes from chats, have it synced with your Philips Hue lighting, and more.

8Bitdo has made a funky Switch controller without any joysticks...and it looks surprisingly intuitive.

The adept controller-makers at 8bitdo have outdone themselves this time. Introducing the new compact Switch Lite pocket controller, a new peripheral that's as portable as Nintendo's new $199 handheld-only system. Not only does the controller slide right into your pocket for easy carrying, but it sports two d-pads to prevent the dreaded JoyCon drift (and it also won't snag when dropped in a pocket or a bag).

The controllers look pretty cheap-but-durable, and quickly allows gamers to swap into Tabletop Mode on the Switch Lite for easy multiplayer. The peripherals sport built-in turbo buttons, a split d-pad to simulate an actual D-pad on a regular JoyCon controller, and the RT and LT triggers are at the top like old-school SNES bumpers.

Bethesda is still trying to pump life into Fallout 76, with the developer announcing it plans to test software updates in a newly-announced Public Test Server.

Fallout 76's new PTR will open up its doors sometime in 2020 and will allow the company to play around with updates before they go live, so we don't see more incidents of the entire game breaking when it's updated -- like the recent patch to Fallout 76.

Bethesda hasn't provided any details of what to expect just yet, and will share more details on Fallout 76's new PTR when it has "figured out" some of the issues. Bethesda explained: "A Public Test Server (PTS) is currently in the works with the hope to get it up and running in 2020. Once we've figured out all (or most of) the kinks, we will be able to provide more details on our PTS and how you can participate".

System Shock 3 is currently in development and my eyes are peeled for every single drip of information we can find on the game, with the latest news directly from System Shock creator himself, Warren Spector.

Spector spoke with GameSpot where he revealed System Shock 3 will not have any classes at all, with Spector highlighting something he has talked about for decades now: "playstyle matters". He talks about this extensively in GameSpot's piece if you want to read it in more detail, but it's about immersing the player in a world where every action matters -- and not just because it's marketing speak.

In effect, you are playing you in the game -- and not the avatar inside of the game. System Shock 3 on this principal alone has just dialed up the hype meter a little bit more, as I trust the words of Spector over tens of millions of advertising spend on marketing buzz words.