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Microsoft last tested PC and Xbox shooter crossplay back in 2007 with Shadowrun. It was a horrendous disaster that saw PC players consistently stomp all over console players due to the increased precision of a mouse over a controller, but the company thinks it could be different with Gears of War 4, and so it's trying again.

Starting now through Monday, December 5, you can access a public Versus playlist with specific settings -- Social / TDM / Dodgeball / KOTH / All maps / Squad size 5 -- that allows you to frag it up with your gaming cousins.

Microsoft assures this is very much a test to see whether or not crossplay should be a permanent feature for the game. If the data says it's not, they'll abandon it. Either way, the company encourages as many people as possible to try it and help them find out.

It's official: Final Fantasy XV is both a commercial and critical success. Almost a decade in the making, Final Fantasy XV continues the series' long-standing popularity by moving more than five million units on day one.

Square Enix triumphantly announced that Final Fantasy XV's day one digital and physical sales have "exceeded five million units" globally, making Noctis' RPG adventure the fastest-selling game in the history of the Final Fantasy series.

The publisher went through great lengths to ensure a simultaneous global launch for Final Fantasy XV, and the game owes its massive sales numbers not only to this staggering accessibility campaign, but to the incredible hype built over nearly a decade of waiting.

Supply of 2D NAND (the traditional flash memory used in mainstream SSDs) was essentially put on the back burner as key storage manufacturers like SK Hynix, Toshiba, Micron and Intel ready their respective transitions to high-performance 3D NAND. Demand for planar 2D NAND is still quite strong, however, causing supply and demand complications that will likely lead to higher SSD prices between Q4 2016 and Q1 2017.

"Most NAND Flash suppliers (with the exception of Samsung) will still have complications in their transition to the 3D-NAND technology," said DRAMeXchange analyst Alan Chen.

"Furthermore, the consensus of leading suppliers will continue to be the maximizing of their profitability. Therefore, contract prices of mainstream SSDs are expected to keep climbing during the period."

Capcom's horrifying cannibal-laden Resident Evil 7: Biohazard will take up to 16 hours to beat,

With Resident Evil 7, Capcom is returning to their roots of pure horror. The game will be startling and ultra-creepy with unsettling atmospherics from P.T., but it will also be an "ideal image" reflection of the beloved first chapter of the landmark horror series.

Since Resident Evil 7 is one of the first games to have full PlayStation VR support, gamers were worried about its actual length. But Spanish games site HobbyConsolas reveals that Resident Evil 7 will have between 14 and 16 hours of actual gameplay--more depending on how you solve specific puzzles and unearth collectibles.

"Liberation" is coming to Worms W.M.D. in the form of a free update for PS4, Xbox One and PC. Let see what new toys we gonna get for blowing each other off.

According to the description of the video, the devs promised the following content, all free of charge:

If you want to try Worms W.M.D. out, you can buy it on steam for $29.99 but I suggest waiting on the Steam Winter Sale because there might be a better deal.

Like always, we always know if Steam has a summer sale, it will have another winter sales. It's a given as we pour our money down to Lord GabeN pockets. but, when does this winter sale start?

Thanks to NeoGAF user "Tizoc", we now know "the Winter sale runs from December 22, 2016@ 9:50pm Pacific and ends January 2, 2017@ 10:10 am Pacific". The helpful folks over at Eurogamer.net have confirmed this information on their end. so, the leak is legit.

Black Friday was only last week and now we got Steam sales? We can expect the same thing from other companies like Blizzard and EA dropping the price of their games but at what extend?

For the people who don't know, Reddit is usually a place filled with nitty discoveries and game changing tips. Today, we got three from the Battlefield 1 subreddit that can bring up your A game. Thanks to "Sidewaard", "Dioroxic" and "TheSaltyRhino" from the community over there for providing these informations.

Do you hate that airship which it have been shelling on your head and ruining your game, maybe you can let them taste some of your pain with the trench periscope. Sidewaard states: "If nobody is really paying attention to the airship, pull out the trench periscope and spot it, the massive red outline is unmissable and it's hilarious to watch the thing get absolutely battered as soon as you spot it with the trench periscope.."

For taking out the airship with your team, Dioroxic suggest these options:

Publisher Electronic Arts is bringing Titanfall 2, to gaming consoles this weekend, and yes it's free!

The free multiplayer demo will be starting on November 30 for all EA and Origin Access subscribers on Microsoft Xbox One, Windows PC and Friday December 2, for everyone else. Gamers will be able to download the Titanfall 2 trial direct from the PlayStation Store.

To make the deal even sweeter any progress that players gain during the free period will transfer to the original base game.

Battlefield 1 blog have posted today a thank you note for the Battlefest that occurred during the weekend. In this very same note, the developers revealed that a new custom game mode named "Line of Sight" will be coming later this week, a new map in December and plans for next year.

"Line of Sight" is a twist on the fan-favorite rush mode where only scout and medic will be available. However, scouts will have double bullet damage. Medics will need to balance out their loadout and bring the very best in them to help their teams win.

Players will be delighted to learn that they will receive a free map called "Giant's Shadow" in December. According to the devs, " you'll take part in the Battle of the Selle in the cold autumn of 1918, where a massive crashed airship casts its shadow onto the battlefield."

Leaked benchmark numbers on the purported Radeon Pro 490 have arrived, with keen eyed readers noting that I said Radeon Pro 490, and not Radeon RX 490. Here's what to expect with the next-gen Vega GPU architecture.

AMD's new Radeon Pro 490 is expected to be their 4K/VR focused graphics card, with rumors stating it'll arrive with 2 x Polaris 10 GPUs, or a new Vega 10 GPU. I doubt we'll see a Vega GPU powering the new Radeon Pro 490 graphics card, but a dual-GPU based on P10 GPUs would make sense, with 16GB of GDDR5 in total.

We should expect the Radeon RX/Pro 490 to arrive with 4608 stream processors (double the 2304 SPs on the Radeon RX 480) and reduced GPU clocks to around 1200MHz, down from 1266MHz on the RX 480. Since the TDP of the RX 480 was 150W, we should see AMD hitting 300W on the dual-GPU card.

The Division's player base has dive bombed since launch, with a massive 97% drop in players since the peak launch of around 100,000 players - and now, Ubisoft has been caught red handed fluffing The Division's player base numbers.

In a recent interview with GameSpot, Ubisoft's VP of Live Operations, Anne Blondel, said: "Since the release of patch 1.4, we went back to the daily active users we had at launch, because people were [so impressed]". GitHyp on the other hand, adds: "while the numbers have in fact gone up after the latest Survival content update and 50% off sale on Steam, Ubisoft's latest claim doesn't hold up when taking a look at the actual player counts on Steam - which GitHyp has been tracking every hour since The Division's launch".

It's easy to see that The Division's player base numbers are nowhere near the peak numbers during launch, where it was hovering at nearly 100,000 players - there's a definite spike in players, but it's still under 25,000 - a large cry from the launch numbers.

BioWare saved the best for last at The Game Awards 2016 by showcasing its new Mass Effect: Andromeda gameplay footage in glorious 4K, introducing us to the next generation of the Mass Effect franchise.

While BioWare still hasn't revealed an official release date for Mass Effect: Andromeda, the studio almost did something better by showing off 5-minutes of absolutely incredible gameplay. While the footage was filled with eye-candy, it was also jam-packed with information: we saw the jetpack in action, the new flamethrower hand ability, we saw some Tech Combos in action (yes, combos are still in!), the new environment scanning ability, and got an in-depth look at the fluid combat.

We also saw the new and improved dynamic Galaxy Map, and the extremely minimalist non-combat HUD, which only has a slim compass at the top with on-screen quest indicators.

The Game Awards 2016 showcase saw Nintendo reveal two major gameplay trailers for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, showing off the expansive world of Hyrule and dropping some flavor-filled lore.

The first trailer was just a 1-minute brief teaser, but the second clip was an entire hands-on gameplay demo of the Wii U version. Of course, Nintendo isn't about to show off the version on its new handheld-hybrid Switch console. Nintendo Treehouse alums Bill Trennen and Nate Bihldorff played through a quick section of the game, showing off some combat, exploration, inventory management, and much more.

While Breath of the Wild looks great, I have to say I'm not impressed by the overall graphics: the grass, for instance, is very jaggy while in motion, even with the distinct trade-offs that Nintendo has made with the cel-shaded graphics.

Yacht Club Games today announced Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment, a prequel adventure set in the beloved 16-bit world of the platformer franchise.

Specter of Torment isn't an expansion: it's a standalone game that will be "built from the ground up so that it can be a completely unique experience," and features a new character called Specter Knight, who wields an awesome scythe for some reaper-style platformer combat. Specter Knight has all kinds of new unique abilities and attacks, as showcased in the trailer, with all kinds of new bosses and areas to explore.

Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment will be released Spring 2017, likely for PC first, but we're not sure what platforms will get the game first.

AMD CEO Lisa Su was asked at the recent 20th Credit Suisse Annual Technology, Media & Telecom conference about the keys to growing and expanding their market share in the discrete GPU market.

Credit Suisse's semiconductor analyst John Pitzer asked: "How should we think about your share aspirations with Polaris now ramping, Vega next year? What do you think you can get your share back to within that market?" to which Su replied: "We have made very good progress I would say in the first couple of quarters this year in terms of graphics".

Su continued: "I think it's nice, when you look at graphics it's both in the consumer side on the channel as well as in the OEM business and on the professional graphics market. There's a large opportunity. I think we've gained a good amount of share over the last few quarters, we're going to continue and consistently drive [share growth]. We believe that there's no reason we can't be at 50/50 share overtime, but it will certainly take some time to get there. The key thing is enhancing our relationships with customers, because we believe that it's also important to have a very sticky business going forward."

Arkane is rebooting Prey, and from what we've seen so far, the game looks pretty damn good: it has creepy psyhological horror, futuristic sci-fi concepts, and surprisingly chaotic FPS action. Now the studio has dropped yet another gameplay trailer for the game, showing off the kind of eerie content that awaits gamers in 2017.

In fact, Prey isn't actually a reboot or a remake--it's a re-imagining of the series. "Prey is not a sequel, it's not a remake, it has no tie with the original. You have to look at it as a re-imagining of the IP," says Raphael Colantonio, president of Arkane Studios and creative director of Prey.

"Prey isn't just about shooting aliens. It's more of a hybrid game where narratives mix with action and a little bit of an RPG layer. So you have some weapons, but you have lots of other things too, including powers you can learn from the aliens themselves."

Telltale Games confirmed that its next project will be a series based on Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.

Telltale's Guardians of the Galaxy game will be a five-part series and will be available on all gaming platforms, including consoles, PC and mobile devices. No official gameplay was shown off, nor did we get any kind of pictures of in-game screenshots. The studio is expected to open up a webpage for their Guardians of the Galaxy game, but it's not available just yet.

The Guardians of the Galaxy series is "coming soon" to PS4, Xbox One, PC and mobile devices, likely Android and iOS phones and tablets.

Hideo Kojima finally accepted his Industry Icon award at The Game Awards tonight, and the renowned Japanese dev took the opportunity to show off an amazing new Death Stranding teaser.

The new Death Stranding teaser trailer clearly showed that Guillermo Del Toro, one of Kojima's most beloved friends and leading horror director, will be feature in the game as a character. We also got our first look at what appears to be the game's sinister antagonist, who is played by the iconic Mads Mikkelsen. So that gives us three major stars joining the cast of Death Stranding: Guillermo Del Toro, Mads Mikkelsen, and Norman Reedus, who plays the principal protagonist.

The footage itself gave us a good look at what to expect from the game, as the black ink appears to be a kind of malefic infection that resurrects the undead. Mikkelsen is apparently a general who leads a platoon of horrible zombie skeletons, and Mikkelsen actually had these weird sparking black tentacles that wriggled everywhere. Keighley affirms that the Death Stranding reveal was running at full 4K on a PlayStation 4 Pro.

AMD has been working on its next-gen Zen architecture for years now, and the more we hear about it - the more excited we become. It looks like the 'SR7' chip will be priced at $499 and provide performance levels of Intel's $999 chip in the Core i7-5960X.

But, we still don't know what AMD will call their new CPUs... until now. After digging around on Reddit, I stumbled across something very revealing: AMD has trademarked a bunch of new product names, starting with Ryzen. There are other names as well, with ThreadRipper sounding pretty awesome - and I'm sure it'll arrive as a freshly-powered HyperThreading competitor on the 16-threaded Zen CPU that's priced at $499.

AMD has trademarked the following names:

UPDATE: Duke Nukem isn't getting his own new game: the announcement is much more meager than we thought. Gearbox actually is remastering Bullestorm in a "Full Clip Edition," and if you pre-order the remaster you can play through the entire game as Duke Nukem himself. Check the reveal trailer below.

Original story is as follows.

The Game Awards showcase is about to kick off at 9PM EST with more than a few surprises, including what looks like a new Duke Nukem game from Gearbox.