SEGA has released a new short video onto their Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube Channel, the video details the mechanics players will be expeirencing on the racing track.

From the video we can see numerous ways players will be able to catch up from lower positioned races, mechanics such as Skimboost will propel struggling teammates forward once you pass them. Slingshot will do the same thing but will only work if a player drives through another team mates slipstream, if this is done then the player that is behind the team mate will receive a substancial boost.

Rival Takedown is quite straightforward, if a player knocks out a competing racer then they can speed past them. Item Box Transfer allows for teammates to trade items to one another from anywhere on the track, if used correctly this should allow for players to strategically keep all team mates at around the same speed. Team Ultimate boost can be used by team mates once the Team Ultimate meter has been fully filled, using this mechanic will unleash a massive boost to all team members. For further information regarding Team Sonic Racing, visit the official Team Sonic Racing website here.

Capcom has performed an interview with GamesIndustry regarding the Resident Evil 2 Remake, throughout the interview it has been revealed that the developer considered releasing the game with a fixed camera view.

Capcom Europe COO, Stuart Turner sat down with GamesIndustry to reveal some details about the upcoming title. According to Turner, inner Capcom employee's had numerous discussions to whether they would be able to provide "everything for everyone" in regards to "tank controls" and "fixed cameras." Turner also does mention that the developers "did try first-person, we did try fixed camera", but after much discussion it was decided that "a third-person view works better."

This decision from Capcom had the developer on the edge of it's seat, as EMEA Marketing Director Antonie Molant says "That was probably the main worry, or question mark, that we had" leading into the E3 2018 reveal. Molant says that he was worried that the decision of making the camera angle third-person would divide the fan-base, surprisingly it has had quite the opposite effect "but, although there might have been some initial dissenting voices, the reaction was overwhelmingly positive."

A day before the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate themed Nintendo Direct, Nintendo has uploaded a video to their YouTube Channel under 'unlisted.' The video gives a massive clue to who the next new fighter to be announced is, shall we see Simon Belmont revealed tomorrow?

The leak has been picked up by the /r/Smashbros sub reddit and has blown up, according to the post "Last week's Galaga music update for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate had its title changed on the official Smash Bros. YouTube channel. The new name? Bloody Tears / Monster Dance." For those that didn't know, Blood Tears is one of Castlevania's most iconic tracks, it debuted on Castlevania II: Simon's Quest and has been redone several times over the course of the franchise.

Listening to the video that was released onto the Super Smash Bros. YouTube Channel, you can hear a clear distinction between that of the original Castlevania track the newly released one. It is especially suspicious as Nintendo are only 24 hours away from their Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct, this could suggest that all of the rumors about Simon Belmont joining Smash could be true, I suppose we will find out very soon. If you missed out on the rumors surrounding Simon Belmont, catch up on that story here. There are also rumors about King K. Rool and Paper Mario also being announced, if you missed those visit that story here.

Marvel and Insomniac's Spider-Man is very close to launch and to keep that hype ball rolling, Insomniac's Creative Director, Bryan Intihar has sat down with PlayStation Access to reveal a further 20 minutes of gameplay footage.

From the video we are introduced to a more strategic Spider-Man, players will have the choice of approaching missions through either stealth take-downs, or more hand-to-hand open combat. The video showcases that Spidy is able to calmly approach enemies and take them down from behind, above, the sides and basically any other direction as long as he isn't spotted prior to the attack.

Inithar narrates over the gameplay footage which then leads to a battle between Kingpin and Spidy, during this fight Inithar reveals (15:10) that players will be battling the Sinister Six later in the game. Inithar also says that players will be able to experience what it is like play as Peter Parker, the same goes for M.J as well. It is not detailed how players will be able to play as them or what will specifically be done, but now it has been confirmed that it is possible. Marvel's Spider-Man will be releasing exclusively on the PlayStation 4 on September 7th.

A new set of screenshots have been released from Activisions Spyro Reignited Trilogy, the images are the first set of screenshots from the third Spyro game, Spyro Year of The Dragon.

From the images we can see that the remastered version is more than a considerable increase in graphical quality when compared to the original game. We can also see Spyro on the skateboard from these images, the skateboard provided for a massive role in Spyro 3 so hopefully as we move closer to the released of the Trilogy Activision showcase some gameplay of it in action.

If you missed out on the recent news about the Spyro Reignited Trilogy shipping on one disc and then requiring a further update to acquire both of the other Spyro titles, visit that story here. If you also happened to miss the 12 gorgeous minutes of Spyro gameplay footage showcasing Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage, check that out here.

AMD has released new Radeon drivers that are optimized for new games like Monster Hunter World, We Happy View, Madden NFL 19, and World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth. You can download them right here.

The new Radeon Adrenalin 18.8.1 drivers offer up to 5% more performance on the Radeon RX Vega 64 for Monster Hunter World, and for Radeon RX 580 owners you can expect up to 6% additional performance. There are some bug fixes included with Fortnite crashing upon launch in Windows 7 solved, as well as some issues with multi-GPU systems crashing when changing resolutions in-game fixed.

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Activision and Treyarch are only days away from unleashing the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 PC beta, and now we know what we'll need to run it - and the answer is: not much.

The COD: Black Ops 4 beta kicks off on the PC on August 10 for those who pre-ordered the game, and on August 11 for those who didn't. It's exclusive to Blizzard Battle.net, so you'll need to jump on there to get into it.

At a minimum, you'll require:

It's official: AMD is kicking ass and taking names once again with the release of their second-gen Ryzen Threadripper CPUs with the flagship Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX coming in as a 32C/64T beast that has taken the Cinebench performance crown from Intel.

Until now, Intel's fastest Core i9-7980XE (18C/36T) at 4.2GHz scored 4136 in the multi-core test of Cinebench R15, while their prototype 28C/56T processor teased at Computex 2018 not even able to beat the Threadripper 2990WX when overclocked. The prototype 28C/56T chip when under a massive cooling system was pushed to 5GHz and scored 7344, but when the 2990WX is overclocked to 5.1GHz on LN2 it pushes a huge 7618.

AMD's new Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX is the flagship second-gen Threadripper CPU with 32C/64T of CPU performance, 250W TDP, 16MB of L2 cache, and 64MB of L3 cache. AMD is tapping quad-channel DDR4 on the second-gen Threadripper, with base CPU clocks of 3GHz and boost of 4GHz with Precision Boost Overdrive taking things up to 4.2GHz in single-core optimized workloads.

Digital continues to drive quarterly earnings for Rockstar Games parent company Take-Two Interactive, in no small part thanks to GTA Online's continued success.

Every year Take-Two leverages its popular slate of IPs to rake in considerable earnings, but it's not all about raw game sales. Popularity is now typically measured in ARPU and MAUs, especially when premium games like GTA V have live service modes attached to them. The industry is pivoting more towards digital revenues and Take-Two is a major player in this regard.

In Q1 of its Fiscal Year 2019 timeline, Take-Two Interactive continued its long-running trend of digitally-focused revenues. Digital made $315 million in Q1, up 17.4% year-over-year, and accounting for a whopping 81% of the $388 million earned from total net revenues. What's even more indicative of Take-Two's strong engagement performance is how much of its digital revenues are made up of recurrent consumer spending (ie microtransactions, DLC, etc) hooks that are attached to most of its key games.

We might finally get to see Blue Team's legendary exploits in action thanks to Showtime's upcoming Halo TV series.

I love Halo. It's something that's always been near and dear to my heart, and I really love the idea of humanity being locked in a hopeless war with a indomitable, alien foe. What makes Halo so great to me isn't just the FPS action, or the story rooted in sheer desperation, but how humanity kept its hope alive even against impossible odds. The Spartans kept this flame alive--primarily the "demon" Spartan 117--and raised spirits as world after world fell to the Covenant. This deeply personal and dramatic story is something I've always wanted to see displayed in a Halo movie or TV show (Halo Legends definitely counts!) and it appears Showtime might be making my dream come true.

Not so long ago I gave Microsoft a bunch of ideas for the Halo TV show. Some ideas include chronicling the Innies vs UNSC war that led to the creation of Spartan-II's like Master Chief and even showing Kelly, Fred, and John wreak total havoc as Blue Team. Those ideas might actually manifest in some way in Showtime's new show.

All Witcher fans are excited about the upcoming Netflix series being on the way, many people have tried to pick the actor to play the complicated Geralt but at the moment there has been no castings made. Henry Cavill, Superman himself has spoken out about the role, saying he would love to play the character.

In a recent interview with IGN for Cavill's Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Cavill was asked what video games he has been playing lately, the actor replied with "The Witcher 3. I just replayed all the way through. Love that game. Really good game." When asked a the follow up question regarding if he was interested in picking up the role as Geralt in the upcoming Netflix adaptation of The Witcher, he responded with: "Absolutely. Yeah, that would be an amazing role."

For those that didn't know, Netflix are putting together a Witcher T.V show. The first season will have 8 episodes and the script will be sourced from the original series of fantasy novels by Andrzej Sapkowski's, as well as the video games by CD Projekt RED. Currently the script for the pilot has been written by Lauren S. Hissrich but no actors have been casted for the main role as Geralt. Could it be possible that we see Superman hang up the symbol of hope and take the Trail of Grasses?

As EVO 2018 comes to a close, we now learn from viewing statistics that the Dragon Ball FighterZ finale was the most watched part of the event. The live viewing pushed the EVO records to new heights through Twitch.

Over the course of EVO 2018, titles such as Street Fighter V, Super Smash Bros. 4 and Dragon Ball FighterZ were played. Dragon Ball FighterZ took the cake for the most watched game, during its Sunday night finals the livestream on Twitch hit an all time high of 257,000 concurrent viewers. This broke the record for the highest viewer count ever recorded for EVO.

During the peak of the livestream EVO actually managed to sneak the top position on Twitch, beating other juggernaut titles such as Fortnite, League of Legends and PUBG. In other news about Dragon Ball FighterZ, Bandai Namco just revealed a new fighter throughout their EVO 2018 trailer, some would even say he is quite "cool." If you missed that news you can catch up on it here.

Motion Twin, the developers and publisher behind the roguelite-metroidvania action-platformer have finally brought their title to the Nintendo Switch.

Dead Cells has finally launhced and to celebrate the debuting of their title Motion Twin have released the above animated short film. The video gives new players an idea of what they will be jumping into if they decide to pick up the title. From the video we can see the main protagonist being created and then thrown out into the world to get from point A to point B, what lays in between those points is another story entirely.

The animated film displays that players will be dying a whole bunch from the numerous enemies attempting to stop them. What I find very amusing is that even the description for the video doesn't beat around the bush, it is honest and straight to the point "Kill. Die. Learn. Repeat. Dead Cells, the indie smash hit, crawls out to take over your Nintendo Switch, and a good three days straight of your life." Regardless of the difficulty the game may harbor, this title is absolutely perfect for your Nintendo Switch. So if you are interested in a title similar to that of Castlevania, and are up for a massive challenge and don't mind your spirits being crushed numerous times due to the amount of death you will experience, check out Dead Cells.

The publisher and developer for the upcoming Shadow of The Tomb Raider have been giving fans all different kinds of footage ahead of the launch in September. Now, the first 15 minutes of gameplay have been released onto the IGN YouTube Channel.

The footage that has been released showcases Lara and her partner Johna crashing landing into a jungle, the video then retraces its steps backwards to 2 days earlier where we see Lara stuck in a chasm. Lara climbs out of the chasm and begins to photograph the tomb she is in, she eventually triggers a trap which then causes the entire temple to collapse around them.

After leaving the tomb, Lara and her partner seem to be trying to locate a specific location based on star alignments. It should also be noted that the footage we are seeing is uploaded in 4K, allowing us to experience how good Shadow of The Tomb Raider will look once its released. In other news about Shadow of The Tomb Raider, if you missed the 40 seconds of 'Deadly Tombs' released check that out here. There was also a environmental trailer released so if you missed that, check it out here. Shadow of The Tomb Raider also just hit the final stage of development, the title has gone 'gold', visit that story here.

Ever wondered what it would be like to play The Lord of The Rings inside of Age of Empires II HD? Well, now you can as the Tales of Middle Earth mod brings to life all 18 realms of Middle-Earth.

The mod comes from the ToME-Team and allows for players to experience the full 18 realms of Middle-earth, this includes the following factions: Elves, Men of the West, the Rohirrim, Southrons, Easterlings and of course the evil forces of both Mordor and Angmar. The description of the mod adds "hundreds of new units, with over a hundred new building graphics and wonders from the Middle-earth."

The mod delves straight into the lore of The Lord of The Rings, players will be able to experience massive redesigning of structures such as temples, wonders, and other buildings which have then been converted into landmarks from J.R.R Tolkiens Legendarium. If you are interested in picking up the Tales of Middle-Earth mod, visit the official download link here.

The release of Fortnite on Android is going to be huge as the game has been mega successful on iOS already, but it looks like Samsung is going to be getting an exclusive, one way or another.

Previous rumors about the release of Fortnite on Android saw it being a timed exclusive to Samsung's impending Galaxy Note 9 smartphone, but fresh rumors suggest that Fortnite could be exclusive to Samsung's app store, locking it to Galaxy smartphones and tablets like the just-released Galaxy Tab S4, and upcoming Galaxy Note 9.

Just because Fortnite could be dropped exclusively on Samsung devices it doesn't mean other Android devices can't get it, as you could download the app from the Samsung app store and then sideloaded onto Android devices. But, I'm sure there will be something software-wise that will stop this from happening to keep Fortnite exclusive to the Galaxy Note 9 and Galaxy Tab S4.

Niantic exploded onto the scene with Pokemon GO but like everything these days, a couple of months passes and it disappears from everyday life - but that doesn't mean the playerbase disappears overnight. Pokemon GO is still played by millions, and it's getting a big update later this year.

Niantic EMEA producting marketing boss Anne Beuttenmuller says the developer is working on PvP for Pokemon GO, and the team hopes to have it available before the end of the year. The developer teased PvP in Pokemon GO during its announcement trailer, as well as various comments by members of the development team over the time the game has been released. Niantic even told IGN that PvP was "still on the roadmap" some 9 months ago now.

TweakTown was one of the first in the world to host an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 giveaway, before it launched back in May 2016, and here we are doing it again. It might not be called the GeForce GTX 1180, but we are giving away TWO of whatever next-gen flagship graphics card NVIDIA releases, whenever they comes out. We're celebrating the fact it has been so long between exciting GPU releases that we're not giving away one, but TWO of their next-gen cards! SLI giveaway, baby!

All of the rumors are pointing towards a release sometime this month so we're starting ours now building up to its release, and then hosting livestreams and giveaways on top of this GTX 1180 giveaway once the card has been made official by NVIDIA. We don't know if the flagship new card will be a Turing-based GeForce GTX 1180 or something else such as a GTX 1185/1190/1195 or something, but whatever it is unveiled as TweakTown will give away the best card NVIDIA announces in this world-first competition.

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Fallout 76 on PC will be exclusive to Bethesda's own storefront and won't be sold or launched via Steam.

As soon as Bethesda.net was announced back in 2016, I pretty much saw what the publisher was trying to do: launch its own proprietary game launcher/storefront so it could not only control its own games via a unified framework, but keep all the revenue from game sales by locking key games behind its store. To be fair lots of publishers are doing this. Look at EA with Origin, Ubisoft with uPlay, and Activision-Blizzard with Battle.net (which is starting to peddle games like Call of Duty and Destiny). For the most part, Bethesda.net has done quite well. It's served as a host for Skyrim's and Fallout 4's console mods while laying the groundwork for the Creation Club...but on the PC side, both of these have wreaked havoc on mods by breaking scripts like FOSE and massively aggravating longtime fans.

Fast-forwarding to the present and we see Bethesda doing exactly what I predicted it would do. The company has confirmed that Fallout 76, its big new online-only live service Fallout multiplayer game, will be exclusively sold and made available digitally on PC via the Bethesda.net store.

Multiple outlets are reporting that the Final Fantasy VII Remake is "switching genres" from RPG to action, but this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. It's actually old news.

Readers who have paid attention to our dearth of Final Fantasy VII Remake articles will know that the massively anticipated project isn't an HD remaster, but a revamping of the classic 1997 RPG. And that means changes--lots of changes. Big changes include swapping out turn-based combat for a more open action-oriented system akin to Final Fantasy XV (more on that later).

Right from the start key players at Square Enix were clear that FFVII Remake will have heavy emphasis on action elements, and early footage from 2015 clearly showed as much (see above). "Battles are not command-based, they're action-based," game director Tetsuya Nomura said three years ago. Nomura and his team are focusing more on "flashy battles" and enthralling combat versus the kind of tactical, turn-based strategy found in Final Fantasy VII's original Active Time Battle system.