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Hideo Kojima and his team will be in tow at Tokyo Game Show 2018, where his new game Death Stranding could be showcased in greater depth.

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Death Stranding will be have an on-stage showcase during Japan's annual Tokyo Game Show event, the Kojima Productions Twitter today revealed. While TGS is a more domestic event and isn't typically as big as E3 2018, it's possible we could get a bizarre new trailer (maybe more gameplay footage) and fresh details about Kojima's upcoming PS4 exclusive. "Kojima Productions is back at #TokyoGameShow2018, with a stage show on Sept 23 featuring Hideo Kojima and cast members of the Japanese version!!" reads the post.

A new Nintendo Direct showcase is planned for tomorrow and this time 3DS games will be included, Nintendo has announced.

On the heels of its recent stream of Switch Nindies reveals, Nintendo will host a new Direct tomorrow with updates on upcoming 3DS and Switch games. The new Pokemon Let's Go Eevee and Pikachu will assuredly be highlighted, along with a mix of 3DS titles. It's likely we'll get a few surprises thrown in like new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate characters. Maybe Nintendo has relented under massive fan pressure and put the nefarious ne'er-do-well Waluigi into the roster?

While it's not explicitly mentioned in the announcement, I'm expecting Nintendo to uncover more details about its new Switch Online service during the video. The online service, which costs $20 a year, is expected to launch in the "latter half of September" but exact info remains scarce. Gamers still don't know everything about the upcoming app, and there's still 10 more NES games to be announced.

Nintendo is selling lots of Switch consoles in its home land of Japan--so many that the system may soon dethrone Sony's PlayStation 4.

Famitsu reports the Nintendo Switch has now sold more than 5 million consoles in Japan (5,007,368 units to be exact) 79 weeks since its launch in March 2017, making it a strong contender against the PS4's current 7 million install base.

As of June 30, Nintendo says 19.76 million Switch consoles have been sold worldwide since release. Based on these figures we see Japan makes up over 25% of total Switch unit sales. As the Japanese games-maker intends to sell 20 million more Switch consoles by the end of Fiscal Year 2018 in March 2019, the company has to sell roughly 18.12 million more Switches to hit the goal.

MyDigitalSSD just announced the first Phison PS5012-E12 SSD, the BPX Pro. The announcement comes just weeks before we expect the new premium-class NVMe SSD to ship. MyDigitalSSD also added a preorder so we have official pricing for the BPX Pro right out of the gate.

Performance reaches up to 3,400 MB/s sequential read and up to 3,100 MB/s sequential write speeds. MyDigitalSSD only shows random performance in CrystalDiskMark but Phison specs the E12 with up to 600,000 IOPS for both random reads and writes.

We published a preview article with the Phison PS5012-E12 controller recently but the drive uses firmware from January. A new preview article will hit the front page of TweakTown in the coming days with firmware from last month. The BPX Pro will ship with mass production firmware that is even newer than our latest preview article.

Big Moon Entertainment, the developer behind the rally simulation title Dakar 18 have announced the titles release date, and also in celebration have debuted a brand new trailer.

Dakar 18 will be homed to some of the most realistic simulations for cross country rallies, players will have a multitude of vehicles to choose from, tracks and locations in a massive open world. Players will also be able to a online multiplayer experience with races, while also having the option to couch back in single player mode and simply navigate successfully around the map, thus learning terrains and locations much more.

The vehicle range in Dakar 18 will consist of the five racing categories, cars, trucks, quads, bikes and SxS. Players will be able to choose from a range of different vehicles from within their respective category. Dakar 18 is planned for release on Septemeber 25th and will be arriving on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. For further information regarding the rally simulator, visit the offical Dakar 18 website here.

A recent press release from Izneo has revealed that the online comic book publisher company will be making its way to the Nintendo Switch in the near future.

The website calls itself "The Netflix of comic books" and has decided to bring their plethora of digital comics to Nintendo Switch users. Here is what Izneo has to say about their recent announcement "European comics, mangas, graphic novels and Webtoons, is announcing today the availability of its reading app on the Nintendo Switch for this October 2018." The reading app is already available on PC, smartphones and tablets but now that it is coming to the Nintendo Switch users will have access to their "favorite content from Izneo's ever growing and hugely popular catalog on the go or on their TV."

Izneo will be available in both offline and online mode on the Nintendo Switch, with thousands of options for readers, Nintendo Switch users can enjoy the likes of comics such as Hellboy, Aliens, Buffy or Doctor Who. Luc Bourcier, the CEO of Izneo has said "We are proud to bring the Izneo reader to Nintendo Switch and offer the best comic books reading experience to gamers. Nintendo's console is a he perfect platform for comic book reading. From gamer to reader the gap just got a little bit smaller!" Izneo will be coming to the Nintendo Switch this October.

CEO 2018 just kicked off and Nintendo has not wasted any time showcasing more footage for the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. A new video has been released onto the Nintendo YouTube Channel and it displays some professional Smash players getting hands-on with the title.

This years Community Effort Orlando 2018 or CEO 2018 is the 9th edition in the CEO tournament series, luckily enough this even featured the highly anticipated Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The above video showcases just that, as viewers are subjected to a lengthy 7 minutes of gameplay footage with each fight being professional Smash players versing eachother. After each of the fights we get to hear the professionals opinions on the title after their short experience.

The first match we see 'SuperGirlKels' face off against 'Nairo', after the first round we can hear Kels mention that her first time playing it was "so much fun" and that it is also quite "different". She continues addressing the differences in speed by saying "I'm so excited for the speed, the landing, the moving around, the pace, it feels flawless when you are running and moving." Kels finalizes her experience by saying "I think the whole world of competitive is going to change."

Ubisoft Blue Byte and NVIDIA have released brand new gameplay footage for The Settlers, the video showcases next-gen visuals that have never been seen before in a Settlers title.

The Settlers was showcased at this years GamesCom and will be using the very beautiful Snowdrop engine that was featured in Ubisofts other title The Division. The gameplay footage is displayed to us over the top of an interview with Volker Wertich, the Creative Director for The Settler. Wertich says that The Settlers isn't a fast paced real-time strategy game, and instead will have a comfortable slow click rate that will be more concentrated on thinking and acting correctly.

Players will be able to enjoy some different ways of achieving victory in this version of The Settlers. Of course you will be able to take the millitary path and completely obiliterate your opponents, but you will also be able to take the side of diplomacy to your opponents and convince them to join your side, rendering you victorious as well. The Settlers is planned for release sometime in 2019, if you want to follow the news for The Settlers, check out Ubisofts blog for the title here.

A relentless twin-stick shooter HyperParasite is on its way to the Nintendo Switch. The top-down view gives players an awesome perspective on the 80's themed run and gun title.

Troglobytes Games the developers behind HyperParasite have released a brand new trailer onto their YouTube Channel. The trailer showcases the gameplays fast-paced mechanics that feature, dodging, rolling, gun spraying, bosses and countless enemies.

HyperParasite is also coming to Steam at the same time as the Nintendo Swicth. Both releases are planned for sometime throughout Spring 2019. For further information regarding the title, visit the official HyperParasite website here.

Samsung was expected to unveil the world's first foldable smartphone sometime in early 2019, but according to the new rumors it could be unveiled very soon.

Not only are we being told to expect the foldable smartphone this year, but it will be called the Galaxy F, and not the Galaxy X like the previous rumors stated. The new Galaxy F could be released sooner rather than later as Samsung wants to beat Huawei to the punch, as the Chinese giant is preparing its own foldable smartphone.

CNBC reports that Samsung mobile boss DJ Koh said: "it's time to deliver" on a foldable smartphone, after the company teased the market with the possibilities of a foldable smartphone. Koh said during IFA 2018 in Berlin last week: "You can use most of the uses ... on foldable status. But when you need to browse or see something, then you may need to unfold it. But even unfolded, what kind of benefit does that give compared to the tablet? If the unfolded experience is the same as the tablet, why would they (consumers) buy it?".

Remedy didn't have the greatest time during the problematic launch of Quantum Break on Windows 10, with the Windows Store an absolute mess at the time. The developer is hyping up its next title Control, which is once again headed to the PC in 2019.

Control is explained by Remedy as: "After a secretive agency in New York is invaded by an otherworldly threat, you become the new Director struggling to regain Control. This supernatural third-person action-adventure game will challenge you to master a combination of supernatural abilities, modifiable loadouts and reactive environments, while fighting through a deep and unpredictable world".

The game will have NVIDIA's new RTX support on the PC with real-time ray tracing possible on the next-gen GeForce RTX 20 series of graphics cards, and now after an interview with PC Games Insider, we have more details on Control for the PC. Remedy's Communications Director, Thomas Puha, touched on some of the issues with Quantum Break on the Windows Store, and the PC version of Control.

NVIDIA is on the precipice of launching their next-gen GeForce RTX 20 series graphics cards to desktop gamers, but mobile gamers want to get in on the Turing GPU architecture and real-time ray tracing technology bundled in with RTX... right?!

The latest on the RTX 20 series is that a new mobile Turing GPU is in the works as the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q mobile family, with next-gen gaming laptops to be unveiled in the coming months and into 2019. WCCFTech is reporting that the device IDs for the Turing lineup were posted on GitHub, which included the TU104M that is also listed on DeviceHunt with a device ID of '1eab'.

Interestingly, there's no GeForce RTX 2070M in sight meaning we might get the higher-end option in next-gen gaming laptops. WCCFTech says that a "random birt wandered in from an open window" (obviously an anonymous source, so take this with an even larger grain of salt) and said: "We will put the 2080-Max Q into the current thin 15 and the 17 with NVIDIA's help. It's still unclear on when the 2070 will be out. I don't think the weight will increase significantly on this new card. Our ID/design will be pretty much the same as what you saw".

Now that the Battlefield V Open Beta is here (and here's everything you need to know about it) we know about the graphics settings that DICE will let us play with and there's a fair amount of things to tweak in the open beta. HDR right now, is forced on gamers like I reported on here.

PC gamers are in for a treat with Battlefield V as DICE has provided plenty of customization to the graphics even in the open beta. We have adjustable field of view of up to 120 degrees which is incredibly wide, perfect for 21:9 monitor owners, while motion blur is set to 50% by default (turn this off is my opinion). There's the option between DX11 and DX12 with DX11 enabled by default, while resolution scale is set to 100% by default as well.

After that, the quality settings are detailed with vertical sync, texture quality, texture filtering, lighting quality, effects quality, post process quality, mesh quality, terrain quality, undergrowth quality, anti-aliasing post-processing, and ambient occlusion.

I've already pumped a few hours into the Battlefield V open beta and while it is pretty damn awesome so far (I plan to put many more hours into it) there are some major issues that DICE need to address.

One of them is that when you have an HDR monitor or TV plugged into your PC, you are forced to use HDR. Going into the visual settings menu there is a menu you can click to tune HDR, but there's no enable/disable option. DICE is forcing HDR on gamers in the Battlefield V open beta, something that should be an option because gamers (like myself) don't want to use HDR all of the time.

HDR looks absolutely mind blowing in Battlefield V so I get what DICE are trying to do here: "hey guys HDR kicks ass in Battlefield V, so we're going to force it on you" - except, I want to disable it to take some pictures of the visual effects customization and I can't. I can't even take non-HDR pictures or video of Battlefield V, because HDR is forced on for me.

Metro Exodus was one of the RTX showcase games during NVIDIA's huge reveal of the next-gen GeForce RTX 20 series graphics cards, and while we knew that the demo 4A Games showed off during the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti ran at 1080p 40FPS, we are finding out more details on included NVIDIA technologies.

In an article by PCGamesHardware, the site talks about Metro Exodus and its technical prowess with and without NVIDIA's new RTX technologies. Metro Exodus will be an RTX-powered game, but it'll also include other NVIDIA technologies such as HairWorks and Advanced PhysX. HairWorks hasn't been used in too many games, with the latest one being Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition, and before that it was COD: Ghosts (2013), Far Cry 4 (2014) and The Witcher 3 (2015).

HairWorks puts a large strain on any graphics card, so it'll be interesting to see how the new Turing-based GeForce RTX 20 series graphics cards handle it. Maybe the new RT cores and deep learning technology can help out with performance and not bring it down so much when HairWorks is enabled. Because if gamers are turning on RTX, HairWorks and Advanced PhysX... it could bring the frames down below 30FPS, and that wouldn't be good at all, not on a new $1199 graphics card.

Bungie today revealed its new Bungie Rewards program, an initiative which gifts you content and goods for completing specific tasks in Destiny 2.

The program actually sounds like a great idea for both players and Bungie: players can net some extra stuff and the developer incentivizes more users to not only keep playing but to do targeted tasks, thus upping engagement and data collection. The rewards system is linked to your Bungie.net account and apparently only works with the new Forsaken expansion so base Destiny 2 may not be eligible for specific tasks. At least the first reward is Forsaken-exclusive: you can unlock a free copy of the expansion's soundtrack when you beat the storyline.

Taking a look at this from a business perspective we see that Bungie Rewards is a direct result of Activision's huge push for engagement. Destiny 2 in of itself is a live game driven strongly by engagement, which is basically defined as the constant quest to keep users playing, grinding, and eventually paying for more content. Activision is the king of this business model and makes billions a year from microtransactions, DLC, and additive post-launch content. In 2017, Activision-Blizzard made $4.9 billion from in-game purchases, or about 69% of total net revenues for the entire year.

Black Ops 4 may not support 100 player chaos in its new battle royale mode, putting it behind competitors like Fortnite and PUBG...but it will have zombies.

Today Treyarch recently confirmed that Black Ops 4's Blackout battle royale will be capped at 80 players during the beta. "80 at the beta and we'll go from there," Treyarch design director David Vonderhaar said in a Game Informer interview. This is up from Battlefield V's 64-player Firestorm battle royale mode.

Blackout will see tons of classic Treyarch characters and content mashed together in an explosive FPS wrapper. Everything from destructive vehicles to AI-driven zombie hordes will be added to the mix for absolute chaos across the biggest Black Ops map to date. Vonderhaar revealed a bunch of new details about Blackout in the interview, showing just how much effort the studio is putting into this new engagement-driven mode.

Today DICE reveals more details about Firestorm, Battlefield V's new battle royale mode.

Battlefield V's BR mode is actually team-based rather than free-for-all and has a max of 64-players on a massive in-game map. "In Firestorm, 16 teams of four will fight it out to become the last squad standing on the largest Battlefield map ever: a sandbox filled with destructible buildings, weaponry, and vehicles. This is royale done the Battlefield way," DICE said in a new video. Interestingly enough DICE won't be making the battle royale mode.

"Multiplayer will deliver all-out warfare with unrivaled intensity and scale across eight multiplayer modes."

Superman star Henry Cavill has confirmed he will play monster-slayer Geralt of Rivia in Netflix's big new live-action Witcher TV series.

Henry Cavill, who showed interest in playing the Butcher of Blaviken shortly after beating The Witcher 3, today confirmed on Instagram that he's been cast as the gruff swordmaster in Netflix's upcoming adaptation.

Show writer Lauren S. Hissrich also confirmed Cavill's role as Geralt.

A press release from Athlon Games have revealed that the company will be partnering with Middle-Earth Enterprises to begin development on a new Middle-Earth based free-to-play MMORPG.

For those that don't know, Middle-Earth Enterprises owns all of the exclusive world-wide rights to Tolkeins Legendarium, this includes all rights to motion picture, merchandising, stage pieces and all literary works from J.R.R Tolkein. According to the announcement from Athlon Games, the developer has partnered with Middle-Earth Enterprises to bring gamers a completely free-to-play MMORPG based in the world of Middle-Earth.

The motives behind this decision are from the owners of Athlon Games, Leyou Technologies Holdings Limited ( the "Company"). The Company and "the Board believes that the development and publishing of this new title based on The Lord of the Rings will help further the Group's goal of creating top quality console and PC games that have global appeal and expand the Group's footprint in the West." Unfortunately, there is no further information on the title, hopefully as we progress throughout the rest of the year we hear more about the future Middle-Earth themed free-to-play MMORPG. If you desire to read the official announcement, the document can be viewed here.