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PS2 games are starting to arrive for PS Now, but the first batch is quite small.

Sony's $20 a month PlayStation Now service really isn't that popular and is ultimately getting annihilated by Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass in terms of value for dollar. But Sony has a massive wealth of beloved classic games to revitalize on the PS4, including PS2 and even PS1-era titles we know and love. Although this probably won't even the playing field against the Xbox One's native disc-based backward compatibility, it's something.

Now that PS Now is available on PC alongside the PS4, Sony is starting to flip the switch for PS2 games on the service. The first wave is a meager trickling of what the console had to offer and apparently only includes four games--Dark Cloud 2, Hot Shots: Tennis, Ape Escape 2, and Siren--but the major story here is that Pandora's box has been opened. We should see more and more PS2 games arrive on the service to incentivize subscriptions as time goes by.

Rockstar's latest trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2 paints a somber tone for the sequel-that's-actually-a-prequel, and shows off a few familiar faces.

A while back Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said Red Dead Redemption 2 would have "incredible emotional depth," and it looks like Rockstar is delivering in spades. The new RDR2 trailer is all kinds of gritty, grim, and dramatic, capturing the bloody trail left by the Van Der Linde gang as they swept across the West.

The game itself will take place in the year 1899, pre-dating the original by some 11 years and showing lots of the events and situations that led up to John Marston's adventures.

Marvel's Spider-Man is moving closer to its release date and thanks to Game Informer we now know the end-game powers players will receive after beating the game.

Insomniac Games' Creative Director, Bryan Intihar revealed some details about the titles rewards after completion. According to Intihar, players will have the power of controlling the weather after they complete the games main story. Intihar explains that this is a vital aspect to adding to the games immersive story but what not intended for a first time play-through.

Other subjects that were discussed throughout the interview were the Iron Spider Suit. Currently the suit is locked behind a pre-order wall but the director says that will not always be the case. Marvel's Spider-Man will be released on September 7th exclusively for PS4.

Fortnite is currently being updated and when the servers are back online players will be able to update their game clients and drive straight into Fortnite's Season 4.

Patch 4.0 has debuted and a disaster has happened, the rumored comet crashing onto the map has become real and many locations have been affected by its impact. This has resulted in many locations being completely demolished or changed.

Also included in the new patch is updates for smoothness for characters movements on the starting island as well as performance improvements all round and many more patches/bug fixes. If you are interested in viewing the full patch notes visit the official Epic Games v4.0 patch notes here.

One of the most fan-favorite characters from the Soulcalibur series is Taki and now we have confirmation that the female Ninja will be featured in Soulcalibur VI.

The character reveal trailer that Bandai Namco was planning on releasing has now leaked onto a Japanese video site called NicoNico. This has resulted in the video to be copied numerous times and plastered all over YouTube. The above video really isn't in the best quality but its enough to see that Taki still has all of her moves from the previous games.

From the trailer we can see that Taki seems quite the same as she always has, being featured in every Soulcalibur game besides the last one definitely has had fans age with her move-set, and the strengths that come with it. For those that are interested in more character reveal trailers for the upcoming Soulcalibur check out the Siegfried, Nightmare and Geralt trailers here.

This year hasn't been very nice to cryptocurrency prices, with Bitcoin tumbling down to some worrying lows but now it is recovering in the best way it has for 2018 alone.

Bitcoin is now sitting pretty at over $9000, representing a 33% rise from April 1's low of $6926, the largest increase in BTC's price this year. Bitcoin dropped from its massive price of $13,860 on January 1 to a much lower $10,166 on February 1, and then down to $7000 in March.

We still need to see Bitcoin rise above $10,000 before it is on the road to a proper recovery, but we need to see it at over $17,000 as it was before January before we can rest easy.

Facebook and Oculus have announced something surprising during their F8 developer conference: Oculus Venues. Oculus Venues is a new app that Oculus made in-house that will handle live sporting events, comedy shows, and concerts that are shot and broadcasted in VR.

Facebook and Oculus partnered up with multiple companies to include content from the likes of NextVR, who have been streaming sporting events with its own partnerships with companies like the NBA, NFL, NHL, and WWE.

NextVR CEO David Cole explains: "Oculus Venues is a bold move to provide profound social VR engagement and we are honored to deliver such an important part of this new product release from Oculus. NextVR has built a passionate fan base around leading VR content experiences. Venues will satisfy our fans who want to enjoy this type of content on a massively social scale".

Facebook is taking a swipe at Tinder with the announcement of its new dating feature, since so many people find their partners online, why leave Facebook to do it?

Robot overlord and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that the new dating feature was designed from the ground up with privacy and safety in mind, and I'm seriously sure he meant that, except probably not. The dating feature won't suggest any of your Facebook friends as a match, and if you do use the feature none of your FB friends will see your dating profile.

Facebook users will be able to set up a dating profile that is completely separate to their normal FB profile, with nothing connected between the two parts of Facebook showing up in your News Feed. Once you're in the new dating feature, you can slide through groups and events to see who you're compatible with.

RED might have seen better days with its failed relationship with AMD over the Radeon Pro SSG, but the camera giant has teamed with Facebook on a new "all-in-one" camera.

The new camera sounds impressive, where it offers six degrees of freedom (6DoF) for 3D and 360-degree video capture. RED will team up with Facebook's depth detection technology, while using RED's low-light performance to capture all of the 3D information in the scene, and not just the well-lit ones.

We don't know when this will happen, as RED and Facebook only announced the news without giving a proper date, but we should expect that you'll need a VR headset with 6DoF support. This means that you can't use VR headsets like the Oculus Go, and instead will need proper VR HMDs like the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive.

Atari has announced plans to launch pre-orders for its upcoming Atari VCS console, with pre-orders opening on May 30 and the first batch of consoles will ship in Spring 2019.

IndieGogo has an exclusive for the pre-orders of the Atari VCS console, with an awesome limited edition Atari VCS Collector's Edition that rocks a beautiful retro-styled wood front and it's giving me shivers. If you score yourself one of the first Atari VCS consoles, you'll be looking at $199 for a limited amount of time.

Atari COO of Connected Devices, Michael Arzt, said: "We continue moving forward on the Atari VCS project and are excited to see this pre-sale kickoff and to share more updates with our fans as we look toward the first shipments. We are building outstanding teams and forging alliances that will make this product great and truly worthy of the Atari VCS name. Expert hardware partners are helping make this project possible and we couldn't be more pleased with their contributions".

Kingdom Come: Deliverance had its fair share of hype last year and into the new year before it launched, with it being one of the biggest games on Steam earlier this year.

GitHyp tracks Steam stats, where they've seen an epic 95% loss in Kingdom Come: Deliverance's player base since the game launched back in February. Kingdom Come: Deliverance sold over 1 million copies across all platforms and then reached 96,000 concurrent players in its first two weeks.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance developer Warhorse Studios released a game that had its fair share of issues, and have been slow to fixing them which really doesn't help the situation. But remember that KCD is a single player game and unless it's absolutely massive, the player base drop off numbers aren't surprising... but then again, a 95% drop is HUGE.

Intel didn't really have a good time with their Kaby Lake-X line of processors, with Chipzilla announcing that they are discontinuing the CPUs after only 11 months on the market.

Originally, Kaby Lake-X were designed and marketed as an enthusiast HEDT platform to give quad-core CPUs on the 14nm+ architecture, but after a lack of sales and enthusiasm around them, Intel has put Kaby Lake-X into EOL (end of life).

At the time, Intel announced the X299 platform and two quad-core SKUs of KLX that were based on the enhanced 14nm+ node, but had less PCIe lanes, dual-channel DDR4 support, and next to no performance gains over the Skylake-X family of CPUs at the time on the much cheaper Z270 platform.

Infinite Sunshine Dust has just been released on the Steam Store by Kena MAKF, the developer describes the unique title as a psychedelic horror adventure.

This very unique title is obviously indie and according the description it will be putting players in a "psychedelic horror adventure game."

The full description of the newly released game goes as follows: "Infinite Sunshine Dust (LSD) is a psychedelic horror adventure game. Four prisoners wander a virtual world for insane experiment and they get involved with many, many strange things."

Blizzard has released some screenshots and details for their upcoming expansion Battle for Azeroth. The screenshots showcase the Zandalari City Zuldazar.

The below screenshots have been compiled together, from them we can see different types of wildlife as well as what seems like a jungle biome.

For those that are not aware, Zuldazar is the capital city of Zandalar which is where King Rastakhan and his golden through lay. If a player decides to choose to side with Horde they will begin in this area and will start to aid the king against the battle with the Alliance.

Nicalis, the developers behind The Binding of Isaace: Afterbirth+ have gifted the title with a massive content update. The patch has gone live today for owners of the expansion.

A post found on the Binding of Isaac subreddit has collated all of the changes that will be introduced, the changes will include: 5 new enemies, 1 new boss, 64 new achievements (28 new, the rest from the Switch version), 817 new rooms and many more fixes.

If you are interested in viewing the full list of patch notes you can visit the subreddit here or visit the official Binding of Isaac website here.

Five years of waiting, snippets and scraps of info from CDPR, and interesting patents have all sent Cyberpunk 2077 hype soaring to new heights...and it could skyrocket even higher after E3 2018.

Thanks to the official E3 exhibitor website we've been able to glean a bunch of clues about what's in store for the show. The latest shows that CD Projekt RED will showcase a RPG at the venue, corroborating recent rumors of a Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay reveal.

Despite not knowing exact details, the last half-decade has exposed a nice helping of info about Cyberpunk 2077. We know the game should feature living, breathing cities with next-generation AI, that it's the biggest and most ambitious game CD Projekt RED has ever tackled, that development on the project is going smoothly, and that it may have an online, connected multiplayer component of some kind--but don't worry, it'll stay narrative-driven with a dynamic story arc. CDPR even opened a brand new studio to help it craft the game's sprawling sci-fi world.

Atari releases new pre-order and shipment info on its new Atari VCS gaming/entertainment platform.

The Atari VCS seems like an iffy bet. Essentially the system aims to do what the Xbox One was supposed to back in 2013, while also entering a market completely dominated by Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo: the Atari VCS is not only a games console that will come pre-loaded with Atari classics and play Linux-based games, but it's also a PC that can web browse, load apps, and stream music and videos. It's described as a 'connected device' and should pair well with other hardware like phones and even PCs in some capacity. Powered by unspecified AMD Radeon tech the Atari VCS may be as powerful as a higher-end laptop, and aims to do it all while being affordable whilst helping the company enter a new age of digital content with a fully-fledged online storefront ecosystem and dev partnership deals.

As promised Atari has announced VCS pre-orders will go live on May 30 of this year with a planned shipping window of Spring 2019. Pre-orders will be exclusively available on Indiegogo, and the classic retro 70s-style wood console will be part of a special collector's edition. Here's what Atari said about the early pre-order promos:

Capcom should showcase a new action-adventure game at E3, but what could it be? A new IP, or a classic return to form?

E3 is a prime venue to reveal and/or tease new titles and stir up serious hype, and Japanese games-maker Capcom might have something very interesting in store at this year's expo. Right now the E3 website is unearthing lots of little tidbits and pre-show gems to feed speculation--the latest of which surrounds Capcom. According to the site Capcom may show off an action-adventure game for Switch, Xbox One and PC...but oddly enough PS4 is left out.

Sadly there's no other information. Considering PS4 isn't highlighted I'd say the chances of Devil May Cry 5 are slim...but there's always a chance the site's info is incomplete. Capcom will undoubtedly deliver clues on the project during its fiscal year earnings presentation on May 8-9.

Remedy's brand new action game codenamed "P7" should be officially announced at E3 2018.

While Remedy Entertainment's "P7" has yet to be formally unveiled we actually know quite a bit about the game itself: it'll be a third-person action game and is meant to be a "long-lasting" experience that strongly hints at live service-powered multiplayer integration. A recent job listing strongly hints P7 should have online service elements, and Remedy even said its proprietary Northlight engine is being optimized for new things such as multiplayer.

To get P7 made and distributed, Remedy has teamed up with publisher 505 games in a multi-year contract for the new IP. The game is being made for all platforms (PS4, Xbox One and PC) and the project should get a name and new details at E3 2018. Since it's due out in 2019 it behooves both Remedy and 505 Games to show something off at the expo in June.

Rockstar Games will drop the third trailer for its massively anticipated Western shooter Red Dead Redemption 2 this week.

The latest RDR2 trailer is set to release this Wednesday, May 2 at 11AM EST, Rockstar today announced. In predictable Rockstar fashion the devs didn't release any real new teasers or snippets of info--just the basic "new trailer on X date".

Based on everything we know and have seen so far, Red Dead Redemption 2 is Rockstar's most ambitious game yet and aims to push current generation consoles (4K and otherwise) to their limit. The studio has been crafting this game for years on end and actually built RDR2 from the ground up for PS4 and Xbox One and should eke out the Xbox One X's higher-end console power to boot.