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The Death Stranding director has cleared up what kind of genre Death Stranding is, saying the title has created a "totally brand genre".

Death Stranding director and legendary video game developer Hideo Kojima has taken to his Twitter page to clear up some questions that have been posed to him as of late. Kojima has answered the question regarding the genre his new upcoming title Death Stranding will be falling into. Many fans have speculated that the game is a stealth action experience, but from the gameplay we have seen a definitive genre categorization hasn't been yet done. Here is where Kojima comes in.

Kojima clears up that despite what fans may have speculated, "DS [Death Stranding] is not a stealth game." In fact Death Stranding "Could move subjectively but not a FPS shooting game either". So what is it then? Kojima says that development of the title incorporates the concept of "connection(strand)". Through doing this, Kojima believes that he has created a "totally brand new genre called action game/strand game(social strand system)."

Dying Light 2 has got to be one of the games I'm most excited to hear about from next weeks E3 presentation, and to build up hype even more we have a new concept art to dive into.

The art comes from the official Dying Light Twitter page, where we can assume that developer and publisher Techland has taken to tease fans. From the image we can see multiple different buildings and each are equipped with what seems to be human living conditions and infrastructure. Assuming that this concept art is a reasonable representation of what players will experience within the game, we can say that players will be traversing these rooftops and interacting with a variety of different NPC's survivors, while also using the provided infrastructure to their advantage.

Creative Director at Techland, Adrian Ciszewski spoke out about the rooftops, saying "The path to achieving your goal will at times take unexpected turns, but you can always get back on track, at a certain cost. The thriving rooftops are visible proof of a path once taken by the protagonist--the more he helps the survivors, putting his own needs aside, the more life and hope can spread throughout the city. Players will have their own cities that entirely reflect them in Dying Light 2."

90's kids would remember back in the early 2000's SpongBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, well, THQ Nordic is breathing life back into the title as a new teaser has been released.

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom was originally released back in 2003 for the Gamecube, Xbox, PlayStation 2, Gameboy Advance and PC. The title was quite popular, and has been renowned as one of the best SpongBob Squarepants games ever released. THQ Nordic has decided to revive the game, or better yet 'Rehydrate' the game as it seems that a re-release for the title is currently in the works.

The above teaser has been released onto the THQ Nordic YouTube Channel and gives us a quick tease of what is to come. The official description for the title is as follows; "The cult classic is back, faithfully remade in spongetastic splendor! Play as SpongeBob, Patrick and Sandy and show the evil Plankton that crime pays even less than Mr. Krabs. Want to save Bikini Bottom from lots of rampant robots? Of course you do! Want to underpants bungee jump? Why wouldn't you! Want to join forces in a brand new multiplayer mode? The battle is on!"

Destiny 2 is coming to Google's new Stadia cloud streaming service, sources tell Kotaku.

Google's new game streaming platform could change gaming forever. Stadia will break down hardware barriers by beaming games to phones, laptops, TVs, and desktops for a monthly fee. But it has to prove itself in two major ways before it can take off: latency and content. Luckily Google has some of the most potent and widespread cloud servers in the world, and now it's signing on major games-makers to fill out Stadia's content offerings.

According to industry sources, Bungie's shooter Destiny 2 will be among the top games offered Google Stadia. PC-to-Xbox cross-saves are also coming to Destiny 2 and Stadia will support this feature, allowing players to switch between platforms and pick up where they left off. With Stadia, gamers will be able to access Destiny 2 natively on TVs via Chromecasts and PCs via Google Chrome without downloading the full game or any patches.

Among the chorus of Destiny complaints and requests, one question remains consistent among all players: when are we going back to the moon? Quite soon.

Dataminers have leaked Destiny 2's new major expansion and it's a doozy. It's called Shadowkeep, and it'll transport players back to the moon for some low-gravity shoot-em-up chaos. The info has been corroborated by Kotaku's Jason Schreier as authentic. The enemies will predictably be the Darkness-coveting Hive swarm, who have been slightly morphed and should have some interesting backstory changes this time around.

The expansion marks the first major paid release after Bungie split up with Activision and acquired full publishing rights for Destiny. The leaked splash screen confirms Shadowkeep will have a physical collector's edition, indicating it could be a The Taken King-sized affair or even rival Destiny 2's Forsaken content.

People Can Fly, the devs behind Bullestorm and Gears of War: Judgement, might be crafting a new original IP for Square Enix.

Starting in May, Square Enix started posting fictional in-game logs on a mysterious Twitter account. For a whole month no one really noticed...that was until a mention of E3 was tossed in. The project is called Outriders, it's sci-fi based, and is set around humanity's desperate escape from a dying Earth. The scant Twitter info depicts it as a rather grim and survival-based affair that could be a perfect backdrop for a new original shooter IP--and the devs who brought us Bullestorm could be behind it.

Back in 2017, Square Enix announced a strategic partnership with People Can Fly for a "new high-end original title for console and PC." Years went by without any info on the project. Now over two years later, Outriders pops up. Coincidence? Maybe. Maybe not.

Rocksteady Games' new project will remain shrouded in mystery for a while longer.

Arkham developer Rocksteady is working on something big for WB Games, but no one actually knows what it is. Reports suggested a Superman game but that was quickly shot down. Other sources say it's an online-based service game centered around the Justice League menagerie of heroes. Whatever Rocksteady is crafting behind the scenes, we won't get official word at gaming's biggest trade show next week.

"Hi all! A number of you have asked so we wanted to let you all know up front that Rocksteady Games won't be showing at E3 this year. We'll be watching as fans but remaining in London, hard at work on our next big project. Enjoy the show!" Rocksteady co-founder Sefton Hill said on Twitter.

Computex 2019 - MSI came out strong as it always does at Computex, with its reveal this year including the hyped GeForce RTX 2080 Ti LIGHTNING Z 10th anniversary edition graphics card. But there were triple-monitor rigs, awesome case mods, new gaming displays and so much more at the MSI booth.

MSI had quite the crown jewel in its behemoth spot in Nangang, with a huge triple-monitor 1440p 144Hz Optix rig. It looked pretty damn good in person, especially with the RGB lighting. I'd love to see 3 of these in my office under some testing, gave me the multi-monitor gaming vibes again.

Not that anyone would buy it, but MSI also had the world's first curved gaming case on show in the halls of Nangang, and man did it look slick.

Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled's release is just around the corner and has we prepare to jump into the karts and go on the tracks the games release date has appeared online.

A week ago, the opening cinematic trailer was released for Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, the video showcased the adventure mode that will be included within the game. Players who pick up Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled will be able to enjoy from a selection of characters; Crash, Coco, Cortex, Polar, Pura, Tiny and many others.

Activision will be releasing the game at the end of this month, specifically on June 21. If you are interesting in checking out more information regarding Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, visit the official Nintendo eShop listing for the title here.

Do you think you have what it takes to roll the dice in Jumanji? Soon you will be able to give it a shot as Jumanji: The Video Game will be arriving on PC this November.

Bandai Namco, Outright Games, Funsolve and Sony Pictures will be bringing out an officially licensed game created within the ever-changing, dangerous and throughly interesting universe of Jumanji. The game will be based off the box office movie, Jumanji: The Fallen Kingdom who stars Kevin Hart, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Jack Black and Karen Gillan - who seem to have official character models in game, which could mean official voice acting.

Players will engage in some teams of four, either in online split-screen action or local play. Teams will be established to overcome some of the more natural obstacles within the realm of Jumanji. Funsolve Founder and Director, Richard Tawn spoke out about the recent announcement, saying "This is a dream come true for our studio. Adapting the exotic, dangerous and hilarious world of Jumanji into a video game has pushed us to create something truly special. We've got some incredibly exciting features and reveals coming soon, but for now let's just say the game is coming this November, and puts you in the shoes of iconic Jumanji heroes."

Nintendo have officially announced their E3 date for their annual Nintendo Direct live stream and presentation. How long will the presentation go? Rumors have speculated that it would be along the lines of 45 minutes.

The news has come from PeekyBird, an industry insider who has previously predicted other Nintendo Switch related news has said that the "Nintendo Direct E3 2019 runtime is expected to be around 45 minutes." This prediction seems more than logical, as it doesn't take a genius to piece together that Nintendo will most likely follow their approximate run time of anywhere between 30 - 45 minutes, like many of the previous years.

A simple YouTube search of "Nintendo Direct: E3 2018", and changing the yearly number will bring up results of the Nintendo's official events. The 30 and 45 minutes video rune time length ranges back until 2010, before then Nintendo were pumping out massive 1 hour + conferences. Nintendo will be hosting their Nintendo Direct on June 11th at 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET.

While a portion of us don't enjoy the pursuit of diving into rumors or speculation of certain possibilities of Smash characters. A considerable amount of us still do, and a theory has been developed and supported to suggest Banjoa-Kazooie for the next DLC fighter.

With E3 just around the corner, Nintendo are bound to show of some form of tease for the next DLC character to enter into Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Who will this character be? Rumors have suggested sourced from a ResetEra admin who said "Been a while since we saw Banjo in anything. Hope we're in for a smashing good time." To correlate this information, during the March 2018 reveal of Smash the same "smashing good time" phrase was used - is this a wink towards a reveal happening?

Evidence for Banjo-Kazooie has also been sourced from Beanstalk who is a brand extension agency that will be at E3 to discuss licensing brands. Beanstalk has a subsidiary company called Tinderbox who has been known to represent Microsoft since 2016. What is most interesting about this is that Banjo-Kazooie has been listed along with some other Microsoft IP's.

Just ahead of the E3 showcase next week, Capcom have released a chilling story trailer for the upcoming DLC for Monster Hunter World 'Iceborne'.

Earlier in May we saw the release of the teaser trailer for Monster Hunter Worlds 'Iceborne' DLC, that trailer introduced us to the climate of the new region, this one throws the magnifying glass over the regions content. 'Iceborne' will take players to Hoarfrost Reach which is a completely new region that is almost the same size as the original game.

The story trailer also gives us a good showcase of the new monsters, and honestly they look fantastic and quite difficult to overcome. If you are after a quick official description, "Monster Hunter World: Iceborne picks up from the end of the original game, with players joining forces with the Research Commission once again to explore the undiscovered new land of Hoarfrost Reach, which will be the largest map in the game. Following an unusual sighting of Legiana from the Ancient Forest, the team journeys across the waters to the new locale. As pioneers, the group soon sets up a new base camp in Hoarfrost Reach called Seliana, which serves as a warm haven with resources to prepare them for the challenging quests that await."

Sony has revealed more details of its next-gen PlayStation 5 console during an interview between CNET and Jim Ryan, the president of Sony Interactive Entertainment. Ryan pushed the big message of "cross-generational play" which would see gamers on both the PS4 and PS5 playing games together.

But it was the bit about the PS5 supporting 4K 120Hz TVs that piqued my interest, which is an interesting fact. It doesn't mean we'll see games running at 4K at 120FPS on the PS5, but it definitely opens the possibilities of that. There are some more basic games that could roll out with 4K 120Hz support, the PS5 is more than powerful enough to play certain titles at the full 120FPS even at 4K.

So it's not only insanely-fast storage we can expect from the PlayStation 5 and its less-than-one second loading Spider-Man. But the backwards compatibility and cross-generation play mixed with much higher fidelity graphics and audio are truly going to create one of the most insane leaps in next-gen consoles, EVER.

Computex 2019 - Where do I even begin with ADATA, as it really felt like 'alright this has to be it' when I'm being walked around their gigantic booth in the halls of Nangang... but it kept going. Quality product to quality product, most blinged out with RGBs and an amazing gaming pod that I need want to take home.

Gaming on a super-ultra-wide gaming monitor, in a game that ADATA reached out to the developer for to get their pod into the game so it felt more lifelike. The gaming desk is adjustable once you get into the pod, and pushes up closer to the screen when not needed. If that pod had been moving with the pod in the game, I would not have gotten any other work done as I would've planted myself there for the entire day.

As you can see a gaming RIG is secured at the back of the gaming pod, blinged out with some ADATA RGB-infused cooling and DDR4 RAM.

NVIDIA is reportedly launching three new GeForce RTX series cards next week according to our sources at Computex 2019, and it looks like things are beginning to take shape with rumors of a purported GeForce RTX 2070 Ti graphics card.

The new purported RTX 2070 Ti would be 10-15% faster than the stock RTX 2070, with its 2560 CUDA cores (vs 2304 in RTX 2070) while the RTX 2080 has 2944 CUDA cores. So it is much closer to an RTX 2070 than an RTX 2080, and also packs 8GB of GDDR6 at 14Gbps, with its GPU boost at 1770MHz, while the boost clock on the RTX 2070 is at 1710MHz.

Previous rumors stated that the new cards would include faster GDDR6 memory that would be up from 14Gbps to 16Gbps, so we need to wait a little while to see what rumors pan out and what don't. For now, this is the latest on the RTX 2070 Ti.

Computex 2019 - ASUS is another company that hyper-focuses on Computex 2019 and for good reason: their roots are in Taiwan, and they also have a bunch of products that ALWAYS impress. So let's start with what ASUS had to show off new in the world of ROG at Computex this year.

This is the ROG Swift XG438Q, a mammoth 43-inch 4K HDR screen with 120Hz refresh rate and AMD's FreeSync 2 HDR technology.

This is known as a Large Size Gaming Display or I guess, LSGD compared to the Big Format Gaming Displays (BFGDs) from NVIDIA that ASUS will be launching later this month... I'm really hoping to get one of each.

Team Green may unveil three big new IPs alongside a host of surprises and gameplay footage, sources tell Thurrot.com's Brad Sams.

Microsoft is done being criticized for its lack of games. The company has been ramping up game development for months now, buying up talented studios like Obsidian, Ninja Theory, and inXile to help bolster its AAA games offering. E3 2019 will be a big proving moment for Xbox and these studios will get to show off the fruits of their labors and expand the dreadfully thin first-party Xbox lineup.

The company already confirmed its E3 presence will be absolutely massive, and the show will last a huge 2 hours. We'll see new game reveals, gameplay trailers of in-development titles like Halo: Infinite and Gears of War 5, official details on Game Pass for PC, and an info blowout on Project xCloud, Microsoft's own cloud game streaming service.

THQ Nordic is one of the few publishers working on a metric ton of new projects. There's so many games in the pipeline that THQ has to reveal them ahead of E3 2019.

Right now THQ Nordic is developing over 80 games across its varied stable of developers and subsidiaries, which includes Deep Silver, 4A Games, and Volition. Most of these new titles haven't been announced yet--48 of them are still under wraps. Now the company plans to unveil three of these new games ahead of E3 as part of a new "3 on 3" promo.

So what can we expect to see? Probably a few remasters or re-releases on multiple platforms. I'm betting THQ Nordic will save its huge new game announcements for E3 proper. Volition is working on a top-secret new AAA game (probably Saints Row 5), and other devs like Warhorse Studios, Coffee Stain, and 4A Games are likewise doing the same.

Square Enix biggest games probably won't launch in 2019, including Final Fantasy VII: Remake and Crystal Dynamics' big new Avengers game.

In a recent earnings results briefing, Square Enix strongly reiterates that its upcoming slate of AAA games won't be ready by year's end. We recently predicted that marquee games like Final Fantasy VII: Remake wouldn't release until 2020 at the earliest. The publisher's earnings forecasts for the current fiscal year just don't represent a huge spike in game sales that accompany huge games like FF7R, and now the company lends credence to this prediction.

The briefing divulges some key info about Square Enix's upcoming plans. Square Enix will unveil key details about its major new games, including features, platforms, and probably release dates. But showing what's to come should be the extent of the show. Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda outlines plans for E3 and confirms big games like Crystal Dynamic's new all-original Avengers game and Final Fantasy VII: Remake won't launch until mid-year of the current fiscal period.