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We have been sifting through many rumors and leaks on AMD's next graphics cards, something that needs to be cleared up. The latest rumor of the Vega 10 has me wondering if we're being thrown off track, and whether that's a good, or a bad thing.

Our friends over at VideoCardz have posted up what they are reporting as a new Device ID (687F:C1) alongside a benchmark of Ashes of the Singularity (which I hate using to judge performance, but that's just me). VideoCardz reports: "Judging from how AOTS benchmark recognizes dual-GPU graphics cards, the new card is most likely equipped with one processor. This device ID was not shown anywhere yet, so it's definitely something unreleased".

They added: "Whether that's a mobile prototype being tested in desktop platform, or full-fledged Vega 10 device, we don't know. If the rumors are true, this could be much awaited Radeon RX 490".

The 'Guardians of the Galaxy' are back (and with Baby Groot in tow) and if you press the button, the universe will end. But check it out anyway!

Reuniting stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista and the voices of Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper, the sequel finds the guardians travelling throughout the galaxy in order to help Peter Quill discover more about his true parentage.

'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2' is scheduled to be released on May 5 2017, in 3D, 2D and IMAX cinemas worldwide.

Naughty Dog reveals new story details about The Last of Us Part II, discussing how the sequel will be a polar opposite from the first PlayStation exclusive.

The Last of Us Part II is a direct counter to the original game--the first game was about love and bonding, the sequel is about dark malice. The long-awaited sequel will star a 19 year-old Ellie who's driven by malicious burning hate. While the game will follow Joel and Ellie, players will see through the eyes of Ellie as she turns the world red with blood in her hate-filled quest for revenge.

Ellie has changed a lot since we saw her last: she's grizzled, tough, deadly. The trailer opens up with her singing an eerie tune among the bloody corpses of her foes, and as Joel walks in with a familiar "Hey Kiddo," her eyes are smoldering orbs of raw rage.

Zotac's new $1,999 VR Go backpack brings self-contained, untethered and desktop-free virtual reality gaming to the market.

The Zotac VR Go backpack has higher-end hardware that enables "full desktop VR" including an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 video card, a 2.8GHz Intel i7 6700T CPU (can be overclocked to 3.6GHz), 16GB of DDR4 RAM at 2133MHz (supports up to 64GB RAM), and a single 240 GB M.2 SATA SSD with a clear 2.5-inch drive bay for storage. The wearable PC backpack weighs about 11lbs, and has a unified cooling solution made up of both passive and active fan cooling, with the GeForce GTX 1070's 16nm Pascal-based architecture sporting optimum heat and power efficiency under load.

One of the major selling points of the Zotac's VR-ready PC-in-a-backpack is its hot swapping batteries. The backpack can run for two hours on a charge, and comes with two 6600mAh Li-ion batteries that can be hot-swapped back and forth and charged independently of one another.

Kojima Productions has dropped its second Death Stranding trailer, giving us a ton more questions than answers. The footage is a monument to the weird, a shrine to the bizarre, but it also has quite a few clues and possible symbolic references, especially if you've been following our coverage of the game. So without further adieu, let's jump right in those inky depths, shall we?

Note: Kotaku recently wrote an article saying that "something wild happens when you watch the Death Stranding trailers side-by-side," directly correlating the disappearance of the baby in the first trailer to the appearance of the baby in the second trailer.

They say that the transition is instantaneous, but it's not: there's a 30 second+ disparity between the moments in these trailers. I'm not saying the theory is wrong, but the whole thing about the child being instantly transported is.

After announcing a brand new entry in the flagship fighter, Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite, Sony followed up with a surprise: Marvel vs Capcom 3: Ultimate will be available on PlayStation 4 later today.

Both Marvel vs Capcom 2 and 3 were pulled from digital storefronts due to clashes with Capcom and Disney's ownership of the Marvel brand. Now Capcom and Disney are playing nice, the juggernaut decided to let up and allow Sony to put MvC3: Ultimate back on digital store shelves.

The only potential drawback of Capcom and Disney's partnership is that Marvel vs Capcom: Ultimate will only have characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So that means no X-Men or similar mutants--unless they have their own MCU-owned movie series. The reveal trailer only showed Captain Marvel and Iron Man battling Capcom's Ryu and Mega Man, and that should be a huge indicator on what to expect from MvC: Infinite's character roster.

Naughty Dog has officially announced The Last of Us Part II at PlayStation Experience 2016, with fans roaring like crazy at the reveal.

The Last of Us Part II is coming, and Ellie and Joel are set on a bloody revenge mission. "What're you doin, Kiddo? Are you really gonna go through with this?" Joel asks, leaning on the door. "I'm gonna find...and I'm gonna kill...every...last...one of them," a grown-up Ellie proclaims in the footage, after singing a rather eerie acoustic melody. There's a trail of dead bodies, blood and total carnage in her path, so I'd say she means it.

Read Also: The Last of Us 2 is Ellie's harrowing story of hate

In a not so surprising move, Sony and Capcom have revealed a brand new Marvel vs Capcom game that might be powered by the same engine as Street Fighter V.

The brief Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite reveal introduced a cutscene with Capcom characters like Mega Man and Ryu going up against Iron Man and Captain Marvel. Now we have an awesome fast-paced gameplay trailer tho showcase, causing tons of hype within the fighting community. As we originally reported, Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite will borrow its heroes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so we likely won't see any X-Men show up this time around.

MvC: Infinite is launching 2017 on PlayStation 4, with official gameplay footage coming at the Capcom Cup. We'll be sure to keep you updated when the trailer drops, so keep a look out for it later today.

Sony announced a brand new standalone adventure in the Uncharted franchise called The Lost Legacy at the PSX 2016 event in Anaheim.

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy won't feature Nathan Drake. In fact, the story chapter features beloved characters Chloe Frazer and Nadine Ross taking on despotic militant overlords in India. The brief intro showed a distinct and colorful style, complete with Chloe and Nadine's in-your-face femme fatale carnage and a wartorn backdrop.

Actually we thought this was the new Tomb Raider game--it had all the trimmings: the covert stealth ops, the bad-ass martial arts, the daredevil scaling of heights, and, of course, a dynamic and strife-ridden environment.

Update: Hideo Kojima has just confirmed that Death Stranding will run on Guerrilla Games' Decima engine. This engine was specifically built from the ground up to harness the full capacity of Sony's new PS4 Pro console, and is the same engine that powers Horizon: Zero Dawn.

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Considering Konami still owns the Fox Engine that powered Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid V games, Kojima had to borrow an engine from Sony Interactive Entertainment to make his bizarre new Death Stranding game. But which engine does it use?

Sony's annual PlayStation Experience event is back, and we've got your direct access to all the live coverage, reveals, panels and more.

Sony's PSX 2016 showcase is just mere hours away, with the keynote kicking off at 1PM EST, but we've got your back with a live feed so you don't miss any of the updates.

After three and a half months, SpaceX could launch a new rocket this December. SpaceX grounded its rockets for more than three months after September's Falcon 9 explosion. The company struggled to determine the cause of the accident with Elon Musk stating that the explosion was caused by a "really surprising problem that's never been encountered before in the history of rocketry."

Musk later said that the cause of the accident was "a combination of liquid helium, advanced carbon fiber composites, and solid oxygen." He also expressed his hope that SpaceX will launch their next Falcon 9 rocket in December.

It seems that might happen on December 16th when SpaceX should launch satellites for Iridium Communications, a company that provides communications services through a constellation of more than 60 satellites.

Final Fantasy XV is great, but it's also quite...weird, and makes a big transition from the traditional fantasy-based experiences that fans are used to. There is fantasy and magic in the game, but it mostly has a distinct modern feeling, but even this modernity is stylish and unique in its own way.

FFXV is homely but also fantastically entertaining, with a story about male bonding but also an all-out world war that threatens to tear the world asunder. There's normal NPCs walking around, but there's also insane Magitek creations and monstrosities that can reap the entire world itself. It's a strange mash-up, but Square Enix somehow makes it feel normal--but the facade can break away at times.

When you fire the game up, it assures that the adventure is a "Final Fantasy for beginners and fans," making it out to be a great stepping point for new players. But it's really not...at least not in my opinion. I wouldn't tell anyone to start with Final Fantasy XV: not because it's a bad game, but because it's very confusing at the start.

Watch Dogs 2 has been updated on the PC, with Ubisoft bringing the game up to v1.06.135.3 - fixing some of the biggest known issues that have plagued the game since launch.

Gamers with AMD CrossFire setups will be happy, as Watch Dogs 2's new patch "fixes instability" on dual-GPU systems, while there are updates to the seamless online and matchmaking through the Multiplayer App. The full changelog is available below, and be sure to check out our official Watch Dogs 2 review to see what we thought about the game.

Watch_Dogs 2 - Update 1.06.135.3 Changelog:

Renowned movie director and Kojima's longtime friend Guillermo Del Toro tells Konami off once and for all, exclaiming "F*ck Konami" on his Twitter feed.

Last night at The Game Awards, Hideo Kojima, finally free of Konami's yoke, accepted the award on stage that Konami denied him a year ago. This inspired all kinds of feelings from Kojima, his friend Guillermo del Toro, and gamers everywhere, but most chiefly was ire at Konami for their treatment of Kojima.

In fact, Guillermo Del Toro, who was originally working alongside Hideo Kojima to make the cancelled Silent Hills, voiced what everyone was thinking: "F*ck Konami," he wrote on Twitter. "Konami cancelling SH after PT is one of the most moronic things I've ever witnessed."

NBA fans might want to tune into the first 4K broadcast on Saturday night, but you'll require DirecTV and the proper package - and of course, the right equipment: Genie HR54 DVR, as AT&T is working with NBA TV on the 4K broadcast, reports Engadget.

Last year, the NBA did some preliminary 4K broadcasts (of a Knicks game), and then experimented with the high-res broadcasts on UK and Canadian TV. More 4K broadcasts are planned, but this is one of the first after the testing - be sure to check it out if you're a DirecTV customer and have the right hardware to do the job.

Ubisoft has had some good things to say about the Nintendo Switch console, but they've also come out praising the PS4 Pro and upcoming Xbox Scorpio.

During a recent interview with Polygon, Ubisoft French Studios boss Xavier Poix said that the quicker development cycle of these consoles is a sign that Microsoft and Sony have moved into something Poix defines as evolutionary cycles, versus revolutionary cycles - something we've been doing until now. Well, except the Xbox One and PS4 were not that much better than the Xbox 360 and PS3 - whatever.

Poix said: "I think the way the home console industry is evolving is quite interesting.The main difference I'm seeing from the last generation to this new one is that the architecture has turned more into a PC architecture. No more of the PlayStation 3 being really, very specifically designed and quite hard to develop on from the start".

I still remember Prey from the 90s, where the developers wanted to make - what sounded at the time, one of the scariest, and realistic shooters of all time. But, it was washed away and watered down and released a few years ago - and now, it has been rebooted again for release in 2017.

Well, during The Game Awards 2016, Bethesda showed off a new 8-minute gameplay trailer to Prey, along with a new super creepy cerebral trailer with some 2 minutes of footage.

Bethesda also released the official world premiere Prey trailer, which we posted about - and I'll embed above for your viewing pleasure. The trailer has Creative Director Raphael Colantonio and Lead Designer Ricardo Bare's narration.

With the arrival of the first Titanfall 2 DLC, Respawn posted even more information about the history behind the map Angel City, the Elite Wingman Pistol and of course, what they will be selling in the in-game store.

Angel City is an old fan favorite from the first Titanfall but do you know its history? According to the post : "When the IMC instituted martial law in Angel City, massive walls were built and a system of security checkpoints was created to divide the city into many smaller districts. "

"The unfortunate residents of the Harbor District, now unable to move freely throughout the city, are only able to view the glittering skyline from afar", added the post. The little lore bite finished with how pilots were able to use this as an advantage, which you can do the same too: "Pilots fighting in the city gravitate to the highly accessible rooftops, using them to cross entire city districts without ever touching the ground."

The remastered version of Darksiders, known as Darksiders Warmastered, was released free to owners of the original PC game this week. AMD users were not able to enjoy it properly however due to performance problems, but those are said to be no more thanks to a new patch.

A couple of other recent patches have also fixed up save importing, aspect ratio, FOV, and the mouse wheel, and the FPS cap has been increased from 100 to 330. In short, the game should be solid now.

If you haven't checked out Darksiders Warmastered yet, it features 4K support, doubled texture resolution, re-rendered cutscenes, rendering improvements, added post-processing effects, improved framerate, tons of new graphics options, and more.