NASCAR is getting into the hybrid and electric vehicle movement (they can't ignore it anymore, I guess) with NASCAR senior VP of Racing Development John Probst announcing during an interview with TechCrunch that they're preparing for hybrid vehicles entering NASCAR races as soon as 2022.

Probst says it will start with hybrid vehicles and eventually extend to electric vehicles, but it won't be an instant overnight switch being flicked. NASCAR says it will be waiting for "Next-Gen gas race car" guidelines that will arrive in 2021, after which we can expect the full push into the world of hybrid and EVs entering NASCAR races.

NASCAR says that hybrids and electric vehicles aren't a perfect match for its current tracks, so the organization will have to investigate the possibility of making shorter tracks for hybrids and EVs. In these modified, shorter tracks drivers can take advantage of regenerative braking on hybrids and EVs in order to battle other racers.

The release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is right around the corner and while it will require an insane 175GB of HDD space, the game has even loftier requirements if you want to turn on those gorgeous ray tracing effects.

NVIDIA has detailed the PC requirements to enable ray tracing in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, with 1080p 60FPS (no ray tracing enabled) requiring a GeForce GTX 970 or GeForce GTX 1660, while ray tracing at 1080p 60FPS is going to need a GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER at a bare minimum.

If you want to bump things up to 120-144FPS on those high refresh rate gaming displays, NVIDIA recommends a GeForce GTX 1080 or newer GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER -- but if you want to step into the Big Boys Club and enabled 4K 60FPS with ray tracing enabled, NVIDIA recommends its new GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER graphics card.

IO Interactive finds a publisher and distributor for its new unannounced franchise.

Warner Bros. has teamed up with IO Interactive to publish a new console and PC game, the company today announced. The duo previously worked together to publish Hitman 2 on all platforms so this move is a no-brainer. No details were revealed on the new AAA game, but based on the studios involved and IO's past development structure, we're betting its a new IP and not another Hitman game.

The Hitman dev has actually been working on a new IP for a while now. It's new studio in Malmo, Sweden was opened specifically to help its Denmark branch develop the fresh IP.

A new listing has been spotted on a gaming retailer website that indicates that Metro Redux is coming to the Nintendo Switch.

For those that don't know, Metro Redux is a definitive edition collection of two Metro titles and was originally released back in 2014 for the PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. The two Metro titles are Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light, the collection also came with all the attached DLC content as well as some graphical improvements.

The website that has listed the title is GamingReplay, and according to their listing Metro Redux will be coming to the Nintendo Switch for 44.99 pounds, or $55. There has been no official announcement for Metro coming over to the handheld console, but the listing contains the box art for the title which suggests that it could certainly happen.

A character from all the back from 1991 will be making his way to Nintendo's legendary representative fighter, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Originally launched for the Neo Geo System back in 1991, Terry Bogard from Fatal Fury will be making his way to the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate roster as a paid DLC fighter. Nintendo confirmed that Terry Bogard would be coming to Ultimate through their last Nintendo Direct presentation.

The official Nintendo Versus Twitter account has posted a tweet to remind fans his release is on-track for November. Once Terry Bogard is released, this will be the fourth DLC fighter to come to the Fighters Pass, meaning there is still one more character to follow to complete the set. Nintendo also teased that after the set is complete that they will continue to add an undisclosed amount of characters.

This week has been huge for mobile users who have been wanting to get dark mode on the rest of their most-used apps. Instagram has already made the jump and now Google has teased that some other big apps will be soon joining the dark side.

On the official Android Instagram account, Google posted a quick two-frame animated gif that shows off a slew of apps and system settings going from their original white color to dark. We see the likes of Google Maps which is prominently centered in the middle of the image, blackened out message notifications, Digital Wellbeing, Google Photos, Google Search and Drive.

It seems from this image that when Google decide to roll out Dark Mode for all of their apps that they aren't going to be doing it one app at a time, instead they will release the new mode for all apps at once. The gif also suggests that users will be able to enable and disable dark mode across all apps with a single press of a button, or perhaps even be able to choose what apps are using dark mode and which aren't.

Instagram has been all over the news as of late, mostly due to the app being updated with a bunch of new features (dark mode) and some features even removed. Now the PC version is getting some love, not a lot of love, just a little bit.

Obviously Instagram is predominately aimed towards mobile and its extremely popular app, meaning that the PC version falls behind in features and updates. Most Instagram users are on mobile, but there is still a small portion of users who enjoy browsing the website version. Today is PC users' lucky day as it has been discovered that Instagrams Direct messaging, or DM's for short, is working on PC.

Jane Manchun Wong, who also found out that Instagram is testing a new 'Group Story' feature, managed to get Instagram Direct for desktop to show up through digging around in the source code.

EA and DICE are looking to get some more Battlefield V (BF5) players by letting any PC gamer jump onto BFV completely free of charge for the next three weekends.

Each of the free weekends will feature different multiplayer game modes for a variety of different gamers. Also, throughout the trial periods Squad Contest mode, War Stories and the untold and single-player stories inspired by real WW2 events are available. If you decide to participate in any of the free weekends, all progression throughout the trail periods will be carried over to your account if you decide to purchase the game.

EA has planned for players to try out the Rush game mode for the first week on the trial, second week will be legendary Conquest mode and finally the third week will be the Grand Operations mode. If you are interested in jumping into the action, you can pre-load the game through the Origin Store, a link to that can be found here.

Rocket League have kicked off the teaser trailer for this years upcoming Halloween event, and this time round drivers will be pitted against Stranger Things' Upside Down.

Above we have the official teaser trailer for what Psyonix has titled as the Haunted Hallows. According to the blog post found on the Rocket League website, all roads will lead to Farmstead where Stranger Things' Mind Flayer has invaded and is looking down on the matches occurring below. Its unclear if the Mind Flayer will be able to influence the matches below, but Psyonix does say "make sure to look after your teammates."

Of course cosmetics will also be added to support the Halloween event and according to the post players will earn "Candy-Corn" after matches that can be used in the Hallows Event Store. Some of the wares in the Hallows Event Store are developed by the Hawkins National Laboratory and sneak peaks for them have been provided in the entirety of this article. Haunted Hallows featuring Stranger Things will be going live on through the October Update scheduled to release on October 14th. The event will run until November 11th. Good-luck in the Upside Down drivers!

NASA are moving along quite nicely with their Mars 2020 rover mission as the space exploration company has announced a new milestone achievement.

NASA has recently completed testing the Mars 2020 spacecraft separation test at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. In the above image, we see can see engineers and technicians working on the assembly of the rover and according to Ryan van Schilifgaarde, a support engineer for Mars 2020 assembly at JPL, "Firing the pyrotechnic devices that held the rover and descent stage together and then doing the post-test inspection of the two vehicles was an all-day affair".

He continued and said "With this test behind us, the rover and descent stage go their separate ways for a while. Next time they are attached will be at the Cape next spring during final assembly." Since this test has been a success, the descent stage and the rover will be moved off to Cape Canaveral, Florida, this winter. Before both parts are shipped, engineers and technicians will also test the batteries for the rover, while also evaluating the computer and mechanical systems in simulated Mars-like conditions.