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Marvel plan on rolling out some character profile mini-trailer for each of the characters in their upcoming Marvel's Avengers game, first off we have Captain America.

While I believe that this Marvel's Avengers title certainly has some potential to be great, the above character trailer really doesn't get me that excited for it. This is mainly due to its length and what we see in the trailer. Basically all we are shown is Captain America's suit (which everyone has seen before), and some basic combat of him kicking and punching enemies.

It says in the description that its "time to get to know our heroes!" so I can assume that there will be more of these trailers introducing each of the other Avengers. Hopefully we given some more detail, in combat, character design etc, so gamers know what they are in for when picking up the title. Marvel's Avengers will be coming to the Xbox One, PS4 and PC on May 15th.

CD Projekt has looked back on the first half of 2019 and has commented on their sales and revenue makers, The Witcher 3 is still a main means of income for them.

CD Projekt RED has released a press release detailing their revenue for the first half of 2019 and it reveals that The Witcher 3 sales still "remain strong". The email excerpt which has been provided by Dom on his personal Twitter page quotes Piotr Nielubowicz: "In the first half of 2019 gamers actually purchased more copies of The Witcher 3 than during the first of the previous year!"

If I was to give a guess as to why The Witcher 3 sales are still going strong and are actually improving, I would say it would have something to do with Netflix's Witcher TV show that is expected to launch by the end of the year. Perhaps fans of Henry Cavill (actor who is playing Geralt in the TV show), enticed some new gamers to give The Witcher 3 a shot before both the show releases.

HackerOne has announced that they have now rewarded six individuals with over one million dollars each for their bounty bug finding efforts.

The announcement has come via the official HackerOne Twitter account where they say that the ranks of 7-figure-earning hackers has now reached six people. First off, we have Santiago Lopez who is only 19-years old and was the first to cross the $1 million dollar mark.

Mark Litchfield from the UK was next, followed by Frans Rosen from Sweden, then Nathaniel Wakelam from Australia, Ron Chan from Hong Kong and finally Tommy DeVoss from the US. Each of these individuals have reached the 1 million dollar mark or above.

You remember that obnoxiously funny prehistoric squirrel from the Ice Age movies? Well, he is getting his very own game and its heading to every platform.

Above we have the teaser trailer for game which is called Ice Age Scrat's Nutty Adventure. Bandai Namco and Outright Games have announced the title, and it seems that players will be struggling just as much as Scrat does in the movies to get that beloved acorn.

From the quick trailer we can see that players will be faced with some puzzles to solve and some cool locations to solve them in. It can also be noticed that Scrat's two front teeth will be used to latch onto ledges to pull himself up. There will also be some enemies to face and some cool gems to collect. Ice Age Scrat's Nutty Adventure will be heading to the Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC on October 18th.

Ubisoft Blue Byte, the German arm of Ubisoft who is known for creating games such as Anno and The Settlers has released a new gameplay trailer for an upcoming title.

Before we jump into the above video, I would advise you turn on English subtitles unless you are fluent in German. Firstly, The Settlers uses the incredible Snowdrop Engine and we can see it in all its glory throughout the entirety of this 16 minute gameplay reveal. The reveal was done at Gamescom 2019, and we can see numerous different aspects of the upcoming game.

The gameplay trailer gives us a great look at the building and construction system players will be enjoying, as well as resource gathering, exploration, building upgrades, civilisation progression, unit management and more.

The Witcher TV is one of the most anticipated TV shows to come to the streaming platform, and now recent rumors are now pointing towards a solid release date that isn't even that far away.

According to Redanian Intelligence, Netflix's Giovanni Eugene Altamarquez, who is an executive producer for the show recently discussed possible release dates and when fans could expect the release to be.

During the discussions, Altamarquez said that fans could expect the show arriving on the streaming platform around late October, he than further clarified that November first would be a more "likely" release date. We cannot say if this is a solidified release date as it's not an official announcement by Netflix themselves, but either way we will be getting The Witcher TV show before the end of the year.

A full list of the upcoming TV shows and movies heading over to Netflix next month has been released, what will you be watching?

Netflix will be adding a plethora of new content for subscribers to enjoy next month, as numerous different types of TV shows and movies will taking charge on the streaming platform. What is coming? Almost every type of movie/TV show for every type of subscriber.

Just to cherry pick some of the additions that we will see throughout September, we have: Matt Groening's Disenchantment part 2, American Horror Story: Apocalypse, 300, Superbad, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Igor and many, many more. The full list has been provided with the individual release dates in the entirety of this article.

You would expect that a Microsoft exclusive title wouldn't be able to amass a impressive player purely because its platform restricted. Well, Forza Horizon 4 is the outlier with over 12 million players and counting.

The latest episode of Forza Monthly, it was revealed that Forza Horizon 4 has racked up a staggering 12 million players. This is the total number of players when combining both the PC and Xbox community.

Just like our friends over at DualShockers said, it would be extremely interesting to see how many of those 12 million gave Forza Horizon 4 a shot through the Xbox Games Pass, which then resulted in them eventually purchasing the game. If we had those statistics we would be able to see just how effective Microsoft's Game Pass is, and how many players are using the game pass to try new games.

Respawn has been going through a tough time with the Apex Legends community, something you cna read up on here, but moving on we have an ew character and new goodies coming into the game soon.

First off, the new legend coming into the world of Apex Legends will be Crypto, something that has leaked out of a GameStop leadership conference being held in Nashville, Tennessee. A new shot of Crypto shocking a slick coat and some cybernetic gear hooked up, and into him, has emerged.

There's also a new "Charge Rifle" that is coming to the game, with no details on it exactly -- but it could be a BFG-style heavy hitting weapon. We might see it only drop into the game through a Supply Drop, like other guns in the game like the L-Star, Mastiff, and Kraber.

President Trump and Vice President Pence have announced that US Space Command is back and operational, after a lengthy 17-year hiatus the Cold War-era division of the Air Force is back.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that the US Space Command will "ensure the protection of America's interests in space", but the new Space Command isn't the same, and shouldn't be confused with Space Force. Space Force is the 6th branch of military that President Trump is hoping to build, which will focus on Air Force operations where no one can hear you scream.

Trump said at the event itself: "The dangers to our country constantly evolve. Now, those who wish to harm the United States, who seek to challenge us in the ultimate high ground of space, it's going to be a whole different ballgame".

Control is the best looking game of the year (with Derek's review here), and one of the best-looking games of all time with all of its RTX real-time ray tracing effects enabled on GeForce RTX graphics cards -- but what about consoles?

Yeah, I know -- I'm not surprised either, with consoles not capable of running Control smoothly. The base Xbox One and PS4 consoles run Control like crap, with the game dropping into 15FPS without a problem, and down to an even more unplayable 10FPS at times. Digital Foundry's video (above) does a great job (as always) of breaking down Control on the Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X, PS4, and PS4 Pro consoles.

Even the 'higher-end' Xbox One X and PS4 Pro consoles drop into the 20FPS region, which is ridiculously low for games not just in 2019, but forever. Digital Foundry notes that the stock Xbox One and PS4 performance of Control was so bad, he thought something was wrong with his consoles and rebooted them. It didn't fix the issue, obviously.

ADATA has just unveiled the world's first 4D gaming mouse at IFA Berlin 2019, the new XPG Headshot Gaming Mouse.

The new ADATA XPG Headshot Gaming Mouse hits some big buzz words in AI and 4D printing, with ADATA teasing its new XPG HEADSHOT gaming mouse combines intelligence, ultra-light form factor, and "versatile lattice structure" that forms to make the "ultimate gaming mouse".

ADATA XPG Director of Products and R&D, Luca Di Fiore explains: "The XPG HEADSHOT is the embodiment of our commitment to achieving a relentlessly fine-tuned and insanely ergonomic experience. From day one, we have sought out ways to accommodate both Esports professionals' needs with tech enthusiasts wants to create a mouse that is an extension and reflection of who they are".

Google is "aggressively" moving the production of its Pixel smartphones out of China, and into Vietnam, according to new reports from Nikkei.

The move by Google to get its Pixel production out of China seems to be over Trump's moves of slapping tariffs on the country, so Google is moving production out of the country for long-term benefits. Vietnam is also a new hot spot for cheap wages, since China can't offer the same slave labor rates it used to.

Google is looking to cut costs (from labor) the drama and risk associated with the tariffs, by moving Pixel production to Vietnam. More specifically, it looks like Google is eyeing off an old Nokia factory in the Vietnamese province of Bac Ninh. Google is reconditioning the plant, so it can crank up manufacturing there for future generation Pixel smartphones, I'm guessing beyond the about-to-be-released Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL smartphones.

I still remember getting my first 3dfx graphics card, the Orchid Righteous 3D -- a 3Dfx (capital D) Voodoo 1 with 4MB of RAM. I later had Voodoo 2 in SLI, and then a Voodoo 3 3000, but the Voodoo 5 was always a dream for me. But recently, TPU forum member 'SWZSSR' acquired a Voodoo 5 6000 Revision 3700A and it looks absolutely glorious.

3dfx announced and teased the Voodoo 5 6000 but it was never released, a halo product that rocked an insane 4 x VSA-100 processors each closed at 166MHz and each packing its own 32MB of 166MHz SDRAM. The Voodoo 5 6000 would've been the world's first graphics card with 128MB of RAM, but just 1000 test cards were made at the time.

In early tests the Voodoo 5 6000 was beating NVIDIA's at-the-time beast of a GeForce 2 Ultra, but it was just too expensive to make and in the end it didn't make it to market and 3dfx went out of business.

AMD has had a phenomenal past couple of years with it culminating better than anyone could've planned it to celebrate their 50th anniversary this year, with the company releasing their new 7nm CPUs and GPUs in the Zen 2 and Navi products.

The hype has become very real with AMD's new Radeon RX 5700 series graphics cards, which has propelled the company into the headlines once again. According to Jon Peddie Research's new Q2 2019 GPU market reports, AMD shipped more graphics cards than NVIDIA for the first time in five years.

JPR's numbers includes all types of graphics processors, so we're not looking at just discrete graphics cards as this includes CPUs with integrated graphics. AMD has a boat load of those as well, but the new Radeon RX 5700 and Radeon RX 5700 XT have been immensely popular, even in a world where its competitor clearly has the superior product in terms of performance, technology, and feature set.

The Order 1886 devs move to a new studio in Irvine, California, presumably to work on their brand new AAA project.

Ready At Dawn just revealed its new studio on Facebook, showing off a nice complex with open workspaces, leisure areas (there's even an arcade section), and a stylish design. The devs are currently hard at work on their next game and this move could be indicative of the studio ramping up development for a next-gen console launch. Several pictures of office screens were blurred out, presumably showing evidence of RAD's next title.

The team is definitely on a hiring spree to bolster the new project. Right now the studio has 11 positions open for new hires, including senior-level design, engine programming, and QA testing.

Yakuza 7 trades the series' well-known action combat for a more turn-based RPG system straight out of Final Fantasy.

With its next big Yakuza game, SEGA's Ryu ga Gotoku team is trying something new. Yakuza 7 not only stars a new protagonist ( Ichiban Kasuga instead of Kiryu) but it'll sport turn-based JRPG fighting instead of the real-time chaos of the previous games, but the system should still bring a kind of hybrid action bent. Toshihiro Nagoshi says the team is trying something new with Yakuza 7 and that it'll be a "watershed moment" for the series.

The new RPG focus should bring more replayability and add even more gameplay mechanics to the Yakuza games. We've seen previous titles like Assassin's Creed merge into RPG hybrids for this express purpose (as well as monetization) but I expect Yakuza 7's new combat won't entirely break the themes, flow, and style of the series. It's definitely an experiment and SEGA will change things back if fans don't like the new turn-based fighting.

CD Projekt RED's new games will only be in one of two major franchises: Cyberpunk and The Witcher.

In its latest 1H 2019 earnings report, CDPR reiterates its current lineup of games and IPs. The company still plans to release another AAA RPG after Cyberpunk 2077 ships in April 2020, and previous reports indicated the new unannounced RPG is another Cyberpunk project. We originally thought CDPR would move from Cyberpunk onto another Witcher title, but the studio invested heavily into the next-gen Red Engine powering Cyberpunk 2077 and we could see some more assets and content from the FPS RPG recycled into the new game.

CD Projekt RED has multiple teams working on different projects including Gwent, Cyberpunk, and the unannounced project. The company is still a dual-franchise developer and each IP is separate from one another.

Capcom will debut its new Resident Evil game at Tokyo Game Show 2019 this September, but it may be an online live service game instead of a mainline sequel.

Capcom is no doubt working on the next big singleplayer Resident Evil game, but it probably won't drop before next-gen consoles. In the meantime the publisher will release Project REsistance, a new title that hints at a multiplayer focus. Although no details were confirmed we've spotted some thumbnail grabs that strongly hint at a four-player L4D-style gameplay mechanic.

The pictures show four distinct survivors (possibly from Raccoon City) huddled together, hinting at a co-operative PVE focus. Nothing's been confirmed by Capcom, but don't be surprised if the game is a kind of multiplayer version of RE2 REmake's Survivors mode. REsistance should feature online-driven engagement with repeatable levels, challenges, and more, and will likely use the REmake's established third-person views, RE Engine graphics and physics, and assets.

LCG Entertainment has just announced that they have acquired multiple trademarks, assets, technology and some select IP's from Telltale Games.

LCG Entertainment has said that Telltale Games will remain under the same name and that this acquisition was made possible thanks to the contributions of various investors and buyers. Athlon Games was one of the main factors in making this acquisition possible and will be Telltale Games' main marketing and publishing arm.

According to Jamie Ottilie, the new CEO of Telltale, "All of us were big fans of the games Telltale created, as we strongly believe in games as a storytelling medium and nobody did it better...We believe there is still so much life to the brand and its franchises, and we look forward to building upon the company's storytelling legacy."