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After a long, winding road of hardships, Fallout 4 mods are now available on Sony's PlayStation 4.

Bethesda today announced that Fallout 4's highly anticipated PS4 mods are now live. This is actually both good and bad news, considering Fallout 4 mods on PS4 are severely hampered compared to Xbox One: the mods cannot use new textures, meaning PS4 gamers can't enjoy new customized weapons, armors, or even user-created areas, and the mods can only take up a maximum of 1GB space.

Bethesda.net currently has almost 200 Fallout 4 PS4 mods up for gamers to sample, most of which are basic tweaks to game mechanics, items, quests and more.

When Remedy Games posted up a cryptic teaser showing Sam Lake, the entire gaming world thought that the studio was working on a new Max Payne, especially since the clip had some distinctly familiar elevator music at the end. We did too. As it turns out, we were so far from the mark it's not even funny (no really, it's not).

Instead of teasing a new game, Remedy's short clip was just a snippet from a whimsical recruitment video. The clip literally said "new teaser trailer coming soon" and Max Payne fans everywhere went nuts. But there's no new Max Payne game, or any hint of any other project from Remedy. The "new teaser trailer" is just a humorous bloopers clip that Remedy used to rile up the internet like an April Fool's Joke.

So if you were hoping for any kind of major announcement from the team, forestall your hopes. Personally I'm not too enthusiastic about a new Remedy game after the wasted potential of Quantum Break.

Back in August, Domino's Pizza began testing drove delivery in New Zealand. In partnership with delivery company Flirtey, today it made its first official delivery in the region: a peri-peri chicken pizza and a cranberry pizza to a couple in Whangaparaoa, 25km north of Auckland. The food was received at 11:19am with an impressive delivery time of under two minutes.

The drone utilizes GPS to find its way and was controlled by a team of experts, including a certified drone pilot.

Flirty is said to be planning on bringing drone delivery to the US. Assuming continued success, it seems inevitable.

A major update is now available for Civilization VI, adding DirectX 12 support (meaning potentially improved performance), new maps, a new scenario, and a metric tonne of polish to every aspect of the game.

The new maps are "Four-Leaf Clover" and "Six-Armed Snowflake." Playable offline and on, they encourage conflict by forcing you to move to the center. The new scenario meanwhile, is named Cavalary and Cannonades, so it's not hard to imagine what's in store.

As for the polish, that touches on gameplay, balance, AI, bugs, graphics, multiplayer, interface, and audio, among other things -- like I said, every aspect of the game. The list is too long to post here, so hit the source if you want all the details.

Red Dead Redemption 2 will continue the distinct gritty and dramatic over-arching storyline found in John Marston's epic saga, even pulling at the heartstrings to invoke actual emotional investment from players.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick affirms that Red Dead Redemption 2 will be chock full of "incredible emotional depth," iterating that the sequel will be a massive undertaking compared to the already huge original. "You can expect there to be great story elements and gameplay elements," Strauss said at the recent MKM Partners event.

Zelnick went on to highlight that RDR 2 will be absolutely massive--probably big enough to support both singleplayer and a GTA Online-style online component at the same time.

Nintendo Europe announced that they will be offering gamers discounts and deals on the Badge Arcade app. The news came in correlation of celebrating the app's one year anniversary as it was delivered via Twitter earlier today.

The Badge Arcade is a free download for Nintendo 3DS and gives players the ability to win badges through a simple crane game. The winnings from this game allows the user to revamp their the system's Home theme.

Currently in Europe the deal offered to customers is:

Nintendo's new Switch console-and-handheld will reportedly get its own version of Pokemon Sun and Moon, unnamed sources at Nintendo have told Eurogamer.

Eurogamer reports that the Switch Pokemon game is codenamed "Pokemon Stars," and is in actively development for a release in 2017. The Switch's port is expected to have enhanced features that aren't found on the 3DS, including enhanced 1080p HD visuals while docked for console play and 720p gaming when the Switch is taken on the go.

If this is true, it somewhat contradicts assurances from Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima that the Switch wouldn't cannibalize the 3DS. Considering the Nintendo Switch has a 6.2-inch 720p display with 10-point capacitive touch, along with a beefy new Pascal-grade Tegra processor from NVIDIA, I'd expect its Sun & Moon port to have specific features and in-game performance not available on the 3DS. This disparity between content may actually create a rift between consumers, so Nintendo has to handle this quite carefully.

EA is talking about the future of gaming, bringing up 8K gaming, VR gaming, and how Frostbite is going to power it all. During an interview with The Verge, EA boss Andrew Wilson said that the company is preparing for a future where games will be played across many different devices.

Wilson said: "What we're trying to do is prepare the company for a world where truly there are more devices capable of playing games, and players are refreshing them more often and likely refreshing them asynchronously. You might refresh your mobile device at a different time than I do. You might buy the 8K, I might stick with a 4K. You might go down the Oculus VR route, I might go down the PSVR route. What I've got to do as a creator is try and keep you together with your friends inside experiences that you love, and the only way we can do that is at a core engine level".

He continued, saying that the single engine that is Frostbite "will scale up graphics on a bigger device and scale them down on a smaller device, so that we can build once and publish to many devices". Wilson added: "It's a world where we're no longer having to make a decision like, "Do we build for the Xbox or the PlayStation or both?" There's literally 30 or 40 or 50 different devices, and we have to be able to build for all devices that are meaningful for players".

Amazon has kicked off its massive Black Friday sales, claiming that it will have the lowest price on TVs from Samsung, LG, and Sony during their Black Friday promotions.

The big sales will kick off during Turkey 5, which starts on Thanksgiving, and runs through to Cyber Monday. Amazon has announced it started its Black Friday sales earlier this year, and will also extend them far beyond the Thanksgiving weekend - running the Amazon Black Friday 2016 promotions until December 22. Amazon is offering "new deals as often as every five minutes", and some of those deals are awesome.

If you have an Amazon Prime membership (which costs $99 for 12 months), then you'll get early access to Lightning Deals. As for the deals Amazon is running, check out some of these products:

Apple could bring back the manufacturing of its iPhone to the US, a big deal for the country - and according to unnamed sources of Nikkei, Apple asked both of its manufacturing partners in Pegatron and Foxconn on ways of bringing iPhone production back to the USA.

Nikkei's sources said: "Apple asked both Foxconn and Pegatron, the two iPhone assemblers, in June to look into making iPhones in the U.S. Foxconn complied, while Pegatron declined to formulate such a plan due to cost concerns". Another source said that Foxconn boss Terry Gou "had been less enthusiastic due to an inevitable rise in production costs", adding: "Making iPhones in the U.S. means the cost will more than double".

Where did this all come from? Well, considering President-elect Trump has placed Apple front and center during his rallies about hoarding cash overseas and throwing all of its manufacturing out of the United States, he pledged he would make the tech giants manufacture their products in the US - which will significantly boost employment numbers. In January, Trump said: "We're going to get Apple to build their damn computers and things in this country instead of in other countries".

AMD has released their new Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.11.4 drivers, a new set of drivers that add support for Civilization VI, and fix some problems with graphical corruption on the R9 Fury graphics cards in Titanfall 2. Grab them here.

Here's a full list of what the RSCE 16.11.4 includes and fixes:

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Remedy: I'm going to be very clear here... don't play with my feelings, okay? News has broken that Remedy teased a video on Twitter about a game announcement, and it looks like it could be a new Max Payne game.

Firstly, Rockstar own the IP rights to Max Payne, but Remedy have said that they're working on "a brand new Remedy game with a new partner", and that partner isn't Microsoft - who worked with Remedy on the mess that was Quantum Break. It won't be a sequel to Max Payne, but a totally new game - which I'm hoping is a reboot of Max Payne (with VR support, please).

Considering Sam Lake was the face of Max Payne, and that it sounds like the elevator music from Max Payne is playing towards the end, I'm leaning towards a Max Payne reboot. Except, I'm trying not to get too excited.

Expedition 50 launched today on a two-day trip to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The Soyuz spacecraft carrying Peggy Whitson of NASA, Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency), is scheduled to dock with the Space Station's Rassvet module on Saturday, November 19th.

The crew will be welcomed by astronaut Shane Kimbrough and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko, who arrived at the Station a month ago.

It looks like the upcoming patch to Dishonored 2 will fix the performance-related issues, where a GeForce GTX 1070 is required to barely hit 40-60FPS at 1080p on VERY LOW details. Yeah, I know. The developer has said that the crappy performance is totally on them, which is refreshing to see so early on.

Dishonored 2 Game Director Harvey Smith has said that he is distressed with the performance of the PC version of the game, but PC Gamer is reporting that they've got their hands-on a beta version of the upcoming patch for Dishonored 2, and that the technical issues will be sorted out very soon.

PC Gamer writes: "However, when Dishonored 2 is running smoothly, it is excellent. In the eyes of everyone on our team that's played it, it's one of the best games of the year. Knowing that a patch is imminent, and having now tested a beta version of that patch ourselves with encouraging results, we're uncomfortable with scoring Dishonored 2 as it currently exists in the knowledge that these technical issues are likely to be resolved shortly".

While fans have been excited about the prospect of the 'Stargate' franchise hitting the big screen once again, co-creator Dean Devlin has some pretty bad news to report.

Speaking with Empire, Devlin delivers the death blow for the project. "It looked good for a couple of months, but now it's not looking so good. There are just a lot of things that have to fire at the same time, and there was a moment where I thought it was all firing at the same time, and then it all kind of fell apart." While the Producer is certainly aware that there's still strong interest in the project, he's also keen to deliver something that will be liked - and that's the problem. Devlin continued "Listen, I think if we did Stargate right, the fans would like it and we could do something really good. But if we screw it up, they'll reject it. As they should. But I kind of don't want to do it if I think that we'll screw it up, and that's one of the things that's holding us back."

Director Roland Emmerich last spoke about the reboot earlier this year, ahead of the release of the disappointing 'Independence Day: Resurgence', when things were looking a lot rosier. The last spin-off series; 'Stargate Universe', ended its TV run over five years ago.

With so many developers delivering broken PC ports and optimizing console titles instead, some EA games like Battlefield 1 run quite smoothly across the board. EA says that it develops its games to favor the highest-possible hardware out there, which just so happens to be enthusiast-grade PCs.

"We build all of our games to the highest possible spec, which is typically a high-powered PC," Electronic Arts' CFO Blake Jorgensen said at the UBS Global Technology Conference.

"As the consoles come in, [which] may not be the highest spec, we may actually dummy down the console product to meet the spec of the console. In a world where the console looks more and more like a PC, that's good for us."

The Microsoft Xbox One has once again for the fourth month in a row, outsold the Sony PlayStation 4. Originally when the two consoles became available for public purchase three years ago, the Xbox One fell behind as the PS4 triumphed in sales.

Though July 2016 saw that triumph turn around and favor Microsoft. The Xbox One was slashed in price, for the up and coming Xbox One S console. With that price drop, the Xbox One was able to overturn sales and outsell the PS4 right through to November 2016.

No doubt the two powerhouse companies are well-known rivals on console sales, with the release of the Xbox One S and PS4 Pro, it's uncertain to say who whether or not Microsoft will remain on top with their console sales?

Nintendo have recently announced three more colour adaptations for the new 3DS XL console.

With the Nintendo platform now available in Europe, pink, white, orange and black systems have been unveiled to sources online. Subject to colour availability will depend on what region gamers are located in.

Customers wishing to purchase the Nintendo 3DS XL can visit the Amazon UK Store, or GAME website.

Sony today announced via Twitter, the latest edition to their controller collection. A green camo style DualShock 4 controller will now be avaliable this coming December.

As most PlayStation 4 gamers would have realized, this is not the first camo colored DualShock 4 to launch. It's just an addition to the already established line. The Tweet from Sony dropped just before the PlayStation 4 Pro console goes on sale, marketing strategy maybe?

Regardless, the controller will be a nice extra to any gamer's collection and will be available at most retail stores and the official PlayStation Store website. A store on Ebay is listing the controller for sale.

Blowfish Studios have announced that they will be launching their action strategy game "Siegecraft Commander" early next year. The game will be compatible for Microsoft Xbox One, Sony PlayStation 4 and PC, with added support for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

It will also contain cross-platform multiplayer between:

Throughout the game, players will build fortresses/ kingdoms, lead their army into battle and eliminate their opponents during the process. The game will offer PvP and story modes for both experiences.