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PlatinumGames is currently working on a "shapeless, formless" new IP, and the beloved Bayonetta and Viewtiful Joe developer has some ambitious plans with the new game.

Although PlatinumGames has made some of the best action-based titles around and attached their name alongside greats like Nintendo, the Japanese game dev is still independent. This day and age most devs are aligned or even wholly-owned by big publishers like Activision and EA, but there's still some outliers like PlatinumGames and Ninja Theory, who successfully developed and released Senua's Sacrifice, an excellent game that sold quite well. According to PlatinumGames head of development Atsushi Inaba, the studio wants to follow that same route.

We've known that PlatinumGames is working on its own new IP for a while now, but no new details have been released. But in a recent interview with GameInformer, Inaba opened up about the IP and the studio's plans:

KING Art Games is currently developing a new RTS that is to be based in an alternate 1920+ universe created by Polish artist Jakub Rozalski. The game itself isn't expected for a release until 2019 as the company developing it has been concentrating and trying to perfect the "basics" before moving onto more extreme development.

From the above video we can see that the destruction mechanics that KING Art Games has used will allow for full undisclosed destruction of any building or object of any size. Not only has this destruction system been implemented to the game but KING Art Works has also added a bunch of other systems as well such as, squads, pathfinding, weapons & armor, damage types, user interface, controls and more.

The next system that is in the pipeline for KING Art Works is a 1v1 multiplayer mode and it is expected for completion in the Spring of 2018. As the year progresses on we can expect more video releases from KING Art Works as they say in the description of the video that they released that they are "looking forward to show you guys real gameplay in the upcoming months."

Last year Super Mario 64 was available to play online with up to 24 players but now another mod for the classic game has surfaced and this time it's first-person mode.

Thanks to a very talented modder going by the name of 'Kaze Emanuar' fans of the classic Mario game will have the option to download and play Super Mario 64 all over again but this time in first-person mode. The mod is implemented through a romhack meaning players will need an original copy of the game and an emulator to experience Super Mario 64 on their PC.

The mod, just like every mod that massively changes the game sometimes is not perfect and this is the case for Super Mario 64 in first-person. Due to the geometry of the game going invisible when the camera is to close to the area, side flips and jumps can provide quite some difficulty but it should be noted that the camera angle can be slightly changed.

Need for Speed has taken to Twitter today to announce that their latest instalment into Need for Speed Payback will be getting an online free roaming mode sometime throughout 2018.

Both EA and Ghost Games have not revealed any additional information regarding the announcement but simply left us with "Online Free Roam coming 2018, Happy New Year from everyone at Need for Speed!"

It is expected that we will be hearing more about this new mode coming to Need for Speed in the coming months. It would not be surprising if around the time of CES 2018 that Electronic Arts or Ghost Games release a video or information regarding the new mode as most companies are holding off on announcements until that time anyway.

GameInformer has been lucky enough to get a sit down talk with Platinum Games head of development and founder, Atsushi Inaba. Throughout the discussion, Inaba discloses the strategy of which his company is going to be taking for the future and what is to be expected in terms of releases coming from Platinum Games.

Inaba told GameInformer that his company was struggling to find a balance between a Indie-level productions and big-budget projects. The company cannot afford to be spending $10 million on game production but then at the same time doesn't want to be taking the traditional indie development route of a small team.

Inaba concluded by saying that Platinum games will find a comfortable middle ground "We can't put together a AAA, $10 million-plus game, because we just don't have that sort of cash as an independent developer. However, we don't plan to go the indies route with just a few people on a team making a game, so it'll be somewhere in the middle, looking at probably about 20 people on the staff making the game, so that'll still be a healthy (size)".

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is one of the most successful games of 2017, being nominated for Game of the Year the Battle Royale shooter is not even slowing down for concurrent gamers either (3.1 million!!). Now the developer has revealed the final goal for the game, and that is to have the title available on all platforms.

Chang Han Kim, the CEO of PUBG development revealed the games final plans in a recent interview with IvenGlobal, stating that he would like to see the game available to all gamers on "every platform." He continued by saying that the goal for the title is to become a "universal media franchise" that could even extend its reach beyond games and into TV series and maybe even movies.

Currently PUBG is only available on PC and exclusively on Xbox One, but Kim cleared up the doubt of ever seeing the title on other platforms by saying that "If we have the opportunity, the final goal would be to launch the title on every platform."

NVIDIA has just made some large changes to its GeForce EULA, where the company has now prohibited the use of their GeForce GPUs in datacenter deployment, except for blockchain processing.

This shift will force datacenters into the arms of Quadro and Tesla products from NVIDIA which are much more expensive, instead of chewing up the precious supply of gamer-oriented GeForce GPUs. An extract from the EULA explains it perfectly: "No Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted".

Now for the tricky part: NVIDIA's updates to their GeForce EULA will see anyone using GeForce GPUs for anything but gaming and "blockchain processing" breaking the law, and would open them up for potential lawsuits.

We might have seen Bitcoin become the cryptocurrency that took headlines in 2017, but Ripple (XRP) smashed an all-time high price just 48 hours ago and now it's Ethereum's time to shine.

Ethereum has just reached a record all-time high price of $870, jumping 16.5% in the last few hours, boosting its market cap to a blistering $84 billion. Over $3 billion of Ethereum has been shifted around the crypto exchanges in the last 24 hours, or a huge 233,810 BTC worth.

There are 96,714,501 ETH in circulation right now, and my 1.4GH/s ETH mining farm is still going strong with the payout amounts continuing to swell.

AMD hasn't had a good few months with the limped release of the Radeon RX Vega family of graphics card products, with RTG boss Raja Koduri jumping ship for Intel and the Radeon team virtually disbanded in the aftermath.

We're now seeing the first Intel processor with Radeon RX Vega M graphics in the wild, with a listing on Intel's official website. Intel's upcoming Core i7-8809G is a 4C/8T processor at 3.1GHz, 8MB of cache, 100W TDP, dual-channel DDR4 support, and Radeon RX Vega M GH Graphics... as well as Intel HD Graphics 630, which is... strange.

Intel's upcoming Core i7-8809G processor is the fastest of three CPUs that Intel will offer with Radeon RX Vega M graphics, with the other two chips being the Core i7-8705G and Core i7-8706G.

CES 2018 - Every year LG blows our minds by pushing the boundaries of what is possible with TV technology at the Consumer Electronics Show, and CES 2018 will be no different as the South Korean giant is teasing an incredible 88-inch OLED TV with a native 8K resolution.

8K pushes an eye-watering amount of pixels with a native 7680 x 4320 resolution, and as an 8K monitor owner myself (Dell UP3218K) as well as a 65-inch 4K OLED TV from LG, the mere tease of a massive 88-inch 8K OLED blows my mind.

LG's previous flagship TV was a 77-inch 4K unit, so this 88-inch 8K is absolutely massive (in both size and resolution) compared to the 77-inch 4K OLED. Fellow South Korean electronics rival Samsung has an 88-inch TV, but it's both just 4K and QLED technology (OLED is better).

There are many survival horror games to choose from but another has surfaced, it is called Agony and is powered by Unreal Engine 4.

The setting for this game is quite unique, located in Hell, players will begin as a tortured soul with no memories of their previous life. Stuck in a maze and accompanied by simple minded demons players will have to traverse the complex map while using abilities such as possession to control demons on the way.

Deeper into the game players get, the quicker they will realize that for them to escape Hell there is only one way and that is to meet with Hells queen, the Red Goddess. The trailer showcases what the Red Goddess looks like and also gives more a view of the demons surrounding her.

Rockstar's highly acclaimed Red Dead Redemption series has got fans hyped and ready for the next instalment in the series. So far, Rockstar has given no specific information regarding the sequels release date but a Danish retailer may have just leaked the date online.

According to Coolshop, a Danish retail site, Red Dead Redemption 2 will be launching on June 8, 2018 even though this could be a mistake for the retail website the date coincides with that of the last piece of information Rockstar gave its fans regarding the date.

For those that remember the second trailer of the game back in September, Rockstar said at the end of the video that the game was due for release sometime in the Spring of 2018, which makes the date that Coolshop has posted to be very close.

Facebook has over 2 billion users and is slowly growing as the titan company extends its reach to other countries that are not yet connected to the network. Having so many people connected to the same network provides a difficult task of regulating the information that is circling on the site, and now Facebook has now openly apologized for its poor efforts of failing to maintain their high standards of regulation.

According to ProPublica, a non-profit site, Facebook was sent 49 items which each contained hate speech and few containing acceptable expressions. From the crowd sourced pool of 900 items, Facebook has openly admitted that 22 of the cases that were sent and regulated by the companies reviewers were incorrectly monitored.

"We're sorry for the mistakes we have made, we must do better." said Facebook VP Justin Osofsky in a statement.

As we get closer to the next Olympics, Japan is searching for new ways to beef up the security of their facilities but at the same time make sure that the increase of security doesn't hinder the process of getting inside of the Olympic venues.

The Japan Times has reported that sources close to the Olympic committee have said that there is speculation of facial recognition type technology to be used as security for the expected 300,000 to 400,000 attendees. If chosen as the select approach it has been said that it will not be used on spectators but instead could reduce the wait time of attendees such as officials and coaches.

There has been no official confirmation of if this technology will be implemented, so all concerns revolving around privacy have not been addressed yet. As we move closer to the beginning of the 2020 Olympics it is assumed that we will be updated with a confirmation announcement for if facial recognition is go or not.

Amazon have been at constant battle with titan companies such as Google but now the tech giant Amazon wants to expand its online ad business by joining up with mobile ad houses.

Primordially an internet retailer, Amazon has ideas to link up promotions of their products with advertisements on TV. An example of this is if Amazon were releasing a new product a viewer would watch the ad on television first, then only to check their phone and have another related ad present there as well.

Amazon not only want to implement this new strategy of advertising but also want to expand other ways of advertising as well. Video ads are also in the pipeline for an increase in production, as well as creating what is known as "branded" videos with celebrities as hosts.

A father of two was killed by police after a disgruntled idiot made a fraudulent 911 call, which resulted in a SWAT team turning up to the doorstep of the man.

The LAPD has since arrested a 25-year-old man that made the call, sending the SWAT team to a 28-year-old man's houe that ended up with the father-of-two shot and killed. The LAPD arrested Tyler Barriss on Friday after he made the 911 call to Andrew Finch's house in Wichita, Kansas.

It gets worse, as the call made by the 25-year-old idiot was over a $1.50 wager in the game, to which Barriss got pissed off with another Call of Duty player and then gave the police Finch's address in Kansas, who wasn't involved in the COD match whatsoever.

Apple has been experiencing massive global backlash over its deliberate slowing down of older iPhones, with their $29 battery replacement program kicking off immediately instead of early 2018.

Apple confirmed the news with TechCrunch, where they said: "We expected to need more time to be ready, but we are happy to offer our customers the lower pricing right away. Initial supplies of some replacement batteries may be limited".

The company normally charges $79 to replace out-of-warranty iPhone batteries, but the company has reduced this cost by $50 down to $29 after massive controversy of lowering iPhone performance in the excuse of stopping unexpected shutdowns.

We all know about the Nigerian prince email scams that have been around for what feels like the beginning of time, and now a 67-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the scam, except he's shockingly not Nigerian royalty.

Michael Neu, a 67-year-old man in Slidell, Louisiana was arrested after an 18-month investigation in connection with Nigerian prince email scams. Neu is suspected of being a middle-man for a group in Nigeria that used the scam to make money from unsuspecting people (I still don't know how anyone could be stupid enough, but there's obviously a lot of them).

The Federal Trade Commission has a page dedicated to the Nigerian prince scam, describing the scam as a common phishing scam that cons people out of their money. FTC explains: "These messages are the butt of late night jokes, but people still respond to them. The people behind these messages claim to be officials, businesspeople, or the surviving spouses of former government honchos in Nigeria or another country whose money is tied up temporarily".

Pavel Lerner was kidnapped earlier this week, with a gang wearing ski masks taking the cryptocurrency expert near his office in the Ukraine.

Lerner was held against his will, with the kidnappers demanding he pay them $1 million in Bitcoin as ransom. Lerner is a big Bitcoin expert in his country, doubling as an executive at Exmo, a large cryptocurrency exchange.

We don't know if Lerner transferred the $1 million in BTC himself, but he was released in the end. Exmo has said that the kidnappers didn't breach their network, and that the cryptocurrency exchange and their coins are "absolutely safe.

Japanese engineers have created two humanoid robots that are designed to study the mechanics of muscle control and how the brain interacts with the body, they are named Kengoro and Kenshiro.

Kengoro and Kenshiro can perform a number of different activities that us humans take completely for granted. The robots humanoid abilities range from doing push-ups, sit-ups and other exercises to playing badminton poorly. It is believed through the robots doing these actions that a better understanding of the "human body in movement" will be achieved.

"We believe that the proposed human mimetic humanoid can be used to provide new opportunities in science, the team's research states. "For instance, to quantitatively analyse the internal data of a human body in movement."