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Hideo Kojima attended San Diego Comic-Con 2019 over the last few days where he talked a little about Death Stranding, showing off the slick new box art for the game, as well as the Steelbook that comes with the Special Edition and Collectors Edition.

Kojima said there was a time when now Cyberpunk 2077 star, The Matrix and John Wick star Keanu Reeves was considered for Death Stranding. Kojima said: "I originally was recommended Keanu Reeves but I wanted Mads". Kojima chose Mads Mikkelsen for Death Stranding instead.

The creator of Metal Gear Solid also explained why his new game is so different to other games, with Kojima saying: "There's no reason to create something that's already there. I want to create something that gives more inspiration to the world. Like Hollywood movies where some don't live with you, people just digest and consume. What I do is make something that's difficult to chow down when you digest my work. What happens when I release my game or when Nicolas releases a movie, we get criticism or praise. But you think about it ten years later, same as Bladerunner or 2001: Space Odyssey".

Origin PC celebrates its 10th anniversary by doing what it does best: making insane mind-blowing builds.

While at Intel's IEM event in Chicago I met Bryan Ore from Origin, who showed me a video of something I didn't believe was possible: a custom build that rocked every gaming platform. Origin PC's new Big O 2.0 is something out of science fiction: it fuses a PS4 Pro, Xbox One X, Switch, and a high-end NVIDIA RTX Titan-powered PC seamlessly into the case--all with water cooling, custom color-coding, and an intricately-designed layout. It even has a custom slot to dock the Switch.

The all-in-one Big O 2.0 is basically a gamer's dream and offers the best of all worlds. You can experience PS4 exclusives, Switch games like Smash Ultimate, play with your Xbox buddies, and blast out insane FPS in Overwatch all in the same place. But Ore was careful to say it'll never go on sale. Of course it won't--Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo would never allow it...but it's still fun to dream right?

To celebrate the home entertainment release of 'Alita Battle Angel', we have five Blu-ray copies of the film to give away thanks to our friends at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment!

Set in the 26th century, Alita (Rosa Salazar) is a female cyborg that is discovered in a scrapyard by a scientist. With no memory of her previous life except her deadly martial-arts training, Alita becomes a bounty hunter, tracking down criminals.

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A memorable game not only captures a player by its gameplay but also its soundtrack. Bloodborne is one of these titles and will soon be getting its own physical vinyl soundtrack release.

FromSoftware's soundtrack for Bloodborne was composed by Ryan Amon, Tsukasa Saitoh, Michael Wandmacher, Yuka Kitamura, Cris Velasco and Nobuyoshi Suzuki. Just like movie soundtracks, game soundtrracks create the atmosphere the player is immersed in. The Bloodborne soundtrack does this exceptionally well, as it increases tempo when the player is facing off against a boss which heightens the overall tension.

Bloodborne's soundtrack was already available to listen to through streaming, but now a recent announcement reveals that in September two double-disc soundtracks will become available to purchase. The standard retail copy will be on black vinyl and the limited-edition will be "grim green" with a double gatefold sleeve. Each of the discs include 21 tracks and cost $35.

Eddie Murphy is renowned as one of the best comedians that has ever lived, and what better way to get him back into the stand-up scene than Netflix dangling $70 million in front of him.

While Murphy is currently known for his big screen appearances, the actor and comedian has previously had extreme success for his stand-up specials. Some of these specials such as Delirious and Raw are known as some of the greatest comedy specials of all time, and now the comedian might be stepping back into the stand-up field.

According to TMZ, Netflix is currently in talks with Murphy about producing an undisclosed number of comedy specials. TMZ says that Netflix has offered Murphy a staggering $70 million contract, now that's a laughable amount of money.

At this years Comic-Con we were introduced to the teaser trailer for Netflix's highly anticipated Witcher TV show. After the trailer was revealed, showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich talked about what to expect in the series' first season.

According to Hissrich, the first season will be based on 'The Last Wish' which is a collection of short stories that is considered to be the first book in the international best-selling book series by Andrzej Sapkowski.

"The Last Wish was the first book I read, so--you know how, with anything, the first time you experience a world, you fall in love with it in a totally different way. I love all of the books, but that was really my entrance into the world. So yeah, I drew a lot from it" said Hissrich.

A recent discovery has come out from the Faulty of Physics, University of Warsaw and University of Oxford regarding Quantum Computation and how it is much faster then standard methods we are using today.

According to the scientists from the mentioned Universities, the discovery has been deemed the 'Holy Grail' of computer science and will unlock more faster and more accurate data processing. The studies suggests that with this now new found knowledge, quantum technologies could boost applications such as medical diagnostics, robotics, artificial intelligence and much more.

Since the the 1970's, we have been using the Fast Fourier Transform algorithm (FFT). This algorithm makes it possible to efficiently compress and transmit data, store pictures, broadcast digital TV and talk over our phones. While this algorithm is widely used, it still has limited capabilities. The answer to these limitations has now be found in the power of Quantum Mechanics with what has been called the Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT).

We are now in full Witcher hype mode as Netflix has released their official teaser trailer for their highly anticipated Witcher TV show.

The above video has been released onto the official Netflix YouTube Channel and introduces us to a world where the worst monsters are the ones we create. We can see characters such as Geralt of Rivia played by Superman actor, Henry Cavil. Yennefer, who is played by Anya Cholatra and Ciri who is played by Freya Allan.

From the trailer we can also see that Geralt is MASSIVE. Henry Cavill really did hit the gym for this role and it definitely shows. We also get some quick glimpses of some action and also a tease at an unknown monster. The show is based on the international best-selling book series and not on the CD Projekt RED masterpiece game franchise. If you are after some official screenshots, check out this link here. There is no known release date for the show as of yet.

As the world gears up to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon all the way back in 1969, NVIDIA has updated its Apollo 11 ray tracing demo showcase.

The new update enhances the work NVIDIA did with the original Apollo 11 moon landing demo with improved RTX real-time ray tracing technology. The work that NVIDIA has put into this is quite incredible, with the video above showing off the best that RTX has to offer.

It's a pretty crazy achievement to have these types of graphics with realistic lighting thanks to ray tracing, imagine going back in time to 1969 and showing these graphics running on a PC to someone back in 1969? Their mind would be blown completely wide open.

Endgame Gear is gearing up for the big release of its new XM1 gaming mouse, which is being labeled as the world's fastest gaming mouse with a response time of less than 1ms, the perfect mouse for FPS gamers.

The company has teamed up with one of Germany's biggest Counter-Strike gamers with Johnny R stepping up to help, as he offered his talent to give Endgame Gear the best springboard possible with the XM1. The new XM1 packs a patented switch contact algorithm with pre-sorted mechanical OMROM 50M switches.

The new Endgame Gear XM1 rolls out with a response time of under 1ms which is insane, and then it is teamed with the Pixar PMW 3389 optical sensor which offers the best you can get right now for FPS gaming mice.

MSI is gearing up for the release of its custom Navi graphics cards with its upcoming Radeon RX 5700 XT MECH and Radeon RX 5700 MECH graphics cards.

The company has confirmed they will be launching in August, with the MECH series just one of 8 custom models that MSI is reportedly preparing for release. This list includes the kick ass GAMING series, as well as the MECH, AIR, Boost, and a new EVOKE series card. A total of 8 different graphics cards will be released, 4 of them RX 5700 XT and 4 of them RX 5700 XT.

MSI's custom Radeon RX 5700 GAMING won't be available until September according to VideoCardz, which notes that the rest of the custom Navi cards from MSI will launch in late August.

So... Hollywood did a thing. The Broadway musical is now a new CGI-heavy movie with the first trailer to Cats released wiht some top-shelf names in the mix including Taylor Swift, James Corden, Ian McKellen, and Judi Dench. Just... check out the trailer:

It looks so beyond horrible it's not funny, mainly from the "cats" looking like weird cat-like humans because it is not fur, the actors aren't wearing suits. The eats, whiskers, fur, and tail are all added digitally. The cats are not proportioned to real cats or small humans, where in some scenes of the trailer the cat is unnaturally small on the bed, and even more so on a plate.

The CGI looks horrendous and makes the botch job the VFX team did on Superman's lip in Justice League look amazing, and that's saying something. Hell, it makes the movie version of Sonic the Hedgehog look incredible, something the team quickly understood from the reaction of the internet, and are now fixing.

ASRock has just unveiled its first custom Radeon RX 5700 series graphics cards, with the new factory overclocked Challenger series that comes in both flagship Radeon RX 5700 XT and Radeon RX 5700.

The new Radeon RX 5700 Challenger series takes ASRock's graphics cards business 'into full swing' with factory overclocked Radeon RX 5700 XT Challenger seeing a 1650/1905/1795MHz base, boost, and game clocks on the GPU respectively. This is up 45MHz on the base and 40MHz on the game clocks, but there's more to it than just pure GPU clocks.

ASRock's big win here will be with the cooling, since we see the RX 5700 Challenger models including a dual-fan cooler which should be much better than the blower-style cooling on the Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 reference models.

The more that CD PROJEKT RED talks about the world of Cyberpunk 2077, the more I want to be dunked into it -- especially the latest about its dynamic weather system.

Cyberpunk 2077 will have a dynamic weather system similar to The Witcher 3, with CDPR to surely build on it and make it even more immersive than ever. In an interview with WCCFTech, CD PROJEKT RED's Alvin Liu said: "Yeah, we've got acid rain as well. Night City is a very polluted city and we're also exploring that kind of stuff, pollution and global warming and everything".

Here's a list of everything we learned from the Q&A:

Despite Bethesda promising otherwise, Fallout 76's microtransactions aren't completely cosmetic and haven't been for some time. Now the studio has added a second convenience item that allows gamers to pay for in-game shortcuts.

Fallout 76's microtransactions were never totally cosmetic--you could buy generators in the Atomic Shop to power your bases' turrets for use in PVP and PVE--but most gamers didn't notice until Bethesda rolled out convenience items. These new items are called utilities and have an actual tangible effect on gameplay (mostly reducing the intense stress and tedium Fallout 76 brings).

First there were repair kits, which instantly repairs an item to full 100% condition, and now there's scrap kits, new items that cut frustration quite a bit. Scrapping is a big part of Fallout 76, and you're constantly picking up junk to break down at workbenches. It gets old very, very fast. But now Bethesda is selling you a shortcut that removes that tedium and lets you scrap everything at once! All for the low cost of $0.50 a pop!

After 24 years of ripping, tearing, and smashing FPS boundaries, Tim Willits is departing id Software.

Tim Willits is ready to hang up his BFG 9000 and today announced he plans to leave id Software: "After 24 years, I've decided to leave id Software after QuakeCon. I've been extremely lucky to work with the best people in the industry on truly amazing games," Willits said on Twitter.

Willits has had a transformative impact on id Software, Doom, Quake, and the games industry as a whole. His legacy runs deep in demon's blood: since 1995 he helped design levels in various games like Doom 3, Quakes II-4, Doom 2016, RAGE, RAGE 2, and this year's monstrous Doom Eternal. Willits got his start making levels for the original Doom on MS-DOS, and impressed id so much they actually hired him.

Google likens its premium Stadia Pro subscription to PlayStation Plus or Xbox LIVE Gold, and plans to give out free games every month.

Google's new cloud-streaming Stadia service could change gaming forever, but only if it's done right. Now we have more clarification on what it offers. The service, which beams games wirelessly over the internet directly to Chrome browsers, Chromecasts, and Pixel smartphones, has two options: a free version which requires gamers pay full price for games and buy them separately, and Stadia Pro, a $10 a month option that gives you free games, discounts, and access to Google's high-powered servers for 4K 60FPS gaming.

But Stadia isn't like Xbox Game Pass or PlayStation Now. You don't get access to a buffet of games all at once. No, it's more like a premium add-on than a dedicated all-you-can-play subscription.Stadia Pro will give users a free game every month starting with Destiny 2. The pool of games will grow over time similar to PS Plus or Xbox LIVE Gold, but Pro subscribers still have to buy other games one-by-one.

Ubisoft kicks off its first quarter with massive digital sales and microtransaction revenues, proving its shift towards online gaming is working extremely well.

Today Ubisoft announced its first quarter earnings for Fiscal Year 2020, and the results are stellar. The figures firmly cement digital as the publisher's leading breadwinner and Ubisoft couldn't be happier (digital means avoiding retail costs, shipping, etc.).

Thanks to its lucrative engagement-driven live service games like The Division 2, Rainbow Six: Siege, Ghost Recon: Wildlands and even Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, the company managed to pull in 363.4 million Euros ($412.82 million) in total sales revenues the three-month period ending June 30, 2019. This is actually a decrease; both net sales and net bookings are down, but high microtransaction earnings and engagement offset these drops.

Thanks to games like Anno 1800, The Division 2, and Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, the PC platform now leads as Ubisoft's top-seller.

Thanks to a wider install base and a more closed-off ecosystem with comparatively more expensive games, consoles typically lead the sales charts for major publishers. But in Ubisoft's latest financials, PC gaming usurped PS4 and Xbox One to earn the lion's share of revenues. For Fiscal Year Q1'2020's three-month period from April 1 through June 30, PC made 34% of Ubisoft's total quarterly net bookings, or about 106.82 million Euros ($121.34 million). This represents a 10% increase from last year.

Ubisoft attributes this rise to Anno 1800, a PC-only game exclusive to the Epic Games Store and uPlay, and other games like Rainbow Six: Siege and The Division 2 helped generate revenues. In fact, Ubisoft says The Division 2 is the best-selling game of 2019 so far on all platforms. What's more interesting is that sales are not only up, but microtransaction revenues are climbing too; Ubi made $170.85 million from player recurring investment in the quarter.

The Division 2 might be the best-selling game of 2019 so far, at least according to Ubisoft's compiled figures.

Ubisoft is making quite a bit from The Division 2. In its latest Q1'20 earnings report, the company boasts the Division 2 is "the industry's biggest hit since the beginning of the year" insofar as worldwide digital and physical unit sales. This figures were based on info gleaned from analyst and stat-tracking firms like Famitsu, NPD Group, GSD, GfK and Ubisoft's own internal estimates.

"The Division 2 is the best selling game worldwide for the first six months of the year," Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said during the quarterly earnings call.