A new report out of The New York Times has connected the use of Facebook Messenger to the reports of child sex abuse online.

According to "people familiar with the reports" out of the 18.4 million worldwide reports of child sex abuse online, an immense 12 million of those source back to Facebook Messenger. Back in March, Facebook announced its new initiative to make their platform more secure, and while this effort would benefit majority of the user-base, throughout its execution nefarious users would also become more secure.

Encrypting messengers on their own platform would make it much more difficult for the company to track abusers and sexual predators, which would greatly influence the fact that Facebook is the majority holder when it comes to reports on their platform. Zuckerberg said back in March, "Encryption is a powerful tool for privacy, but that includes the privacy of people doing bad things. When billions of people use a service to connect, some of them are going to misuse it for truly terrible things like child exploitation, terrorism, and extortion."

Cuphead sure is successful for a two year-old.

Studio MDHR's indie darling Cuphead is now two years old, and in that time the game has managed to sell over 5 million copies on Xbox, Switch, and PC. Last we checked the game was at 4 million copies, meaning Cuphead managed to move 1 million units in two months' time, a feat accomplished thanks to the Nintendo Switch port.

To celebrate the milestone, the devs have planned five days of festivities including giveaways, a 20% discount on the game, and more goodies.

Naughty Dog assures their upcoming post-apocalyptic sequel will play great even on older PS4 consoles.

Now that consoles are family ecosystems rather than generations, it's imperative every game runs great on each respective system--especially first-party games like The Last of Us Part II. This cross-system optimization becomes more challenging as games become more ambitious, GPU- and CPU-intensive, and bigger in size. Games today typically have performance trade-offs with older hardware like the base PS4 and Xbox One systems thanks to the marked hardware disparity. Although The Last of Us Part II is the biggest game Naughty Dog has ever made, and will obviously look best on a PS4 Pro, the team still plans to make it run smoothly on the 2013 launch PS4s.

"Our target platform is the PS4, the base. You want to have that balance, but there's still a lot of optimization now to get done. What you saw here isn't quite our final frame rate and final screen resolution, stuff like that," NaughtyDog lead game designer Emilia Schatz told USgamer.

Netflix will say goodbye to BoJack Horseman in 2020, ending an era of feels, amazing puns, and originality.

BoJack Horseman will end in 2020 with its sixth season, Netflix recently confirmed. The last season will be split up in two parts, Netflix says: "It's safe to say Horsin' Around won't be BoJack Horseman's only lasting legacy. The final two-part season airs October 25 and January 31."

The move is somewhat surprising given the show's critical acclaim. BoJack Horseman enjoyed a strong five-year run that saw showrunner Raphael Bob-Waksberg tackled deep, existential issues like depression, anxiety, mid-life crises, and impostor syndrome, all wrapped in an anthropomorphic world that's all-too-relateable.

Medal of Honor is getting resurrected as a VR shooter, and it'll have an online multiplayer mode.

Respawn's new Oculus-exclusive VR project is actually a WWII-based Medal of Honor FPS, not Titanfall 3. The game is focusing strongly on immersion and interactivity with a historically-accurate singleplayer campaign, complete with multiple theaters of war across Europe. It's also quite funky and hilarious, too, letting gamers embrace the jank of VR by doing wacky things like catching grenades, climbing walls and shooting enemies, and other creative experimental combos.

EA's penchant for online engagement will drive its way into the new Medal of Honor VR game, too. We'll see a multiplayer mode tacked on, likely with some sort of monetization or maybe expansion content. From what we've seen of the gameplay, multiplayer actually sounds like tons of fun. There should be opportunities for crazy action across the board.

YouTuber My Name is Byf condenses years of lore into a four-hour video to prime gamers for Shadowkeep.

Bungie's lore mastery sets them apart in the industry. Whether it be Halo's wide heroic scope to Destiny's more macabre and bizarre sci-fi overtones, the studio is well-known for their universe-building. Destiny's lore in particular is extremely deep and rich, oozing with flavor at every turn and captivating players. There's a mystique to Bungie lore and matched with some of the best art design in gaming, this sense of mystery propels gamers forward even amidst turbulent grinds.

But Destiny's grown into a leviathan. It's a hydra that keeps sprouting heads. With every expansion it gets bigger and harder to understand. There's floating black pyramids, worm gods, archaic constructs powered by milk, terrifying hive monstrosities, and so much more that make the classic Light vs Dark story quite complex. How will new players ever understand what's going on?

Elon Musk must be sipping champagne by now, with SpaceX hitting a new milestone in its Starship and Super Heavy rockets with the first fully-assembled Starship MK1 shown off.

This is the Starship MK1 in all of its engineering glory, the first prototype that has been shown off by SpaceX as part of its continued foray into interplanetary transportation systems. Starship MK1 uses SpaceX's own Super Heavy rocket system that will see payloads delivered to both the Moon, and in future missions, to Mars.

Where the new Starship takes things to the next level is that it uses an in-space re-filling by propellant -- with the Starship docking with tanker Starship vessels to re-fuel before taking off for their larger destination -- Mars, and other planets in and around our solar system. The additional fuel is required for the large amount of supplies and passengers, of which we're talking supplies to build bases on other planets (like Mars) and up to 100 passengers.

As it stands, the Tesla EVs of today have power cells with lifespans somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 miles -- but now we could be looking at upwards of 1 million miles thanks to new research.

This is what Elon Musk and Jeff Dahn are talking about in a new paper in the Journey of The Electrochemical Society (JES) which teases we might be living in a world with Tesla EVs that have 1 million mile batteries.

Tesla's battery research arm is partnered with Dahn and his research team, with Dahn explaining: "Cells of this type should be able to power an electric vehicle for over one million miles and last at least two decades in grid energy storage".

Razer has just upped the ante on the streaming microphone game, with the gaming giant revealing its new Seiren Emote -- a new streaming microphone that features an 8x8 pixel grid into the camera-facing side of the new microphone.

What the new Razer Seiren Emote microphone does uniquely is that it uses the RGB LED display to show Emotes in real-time, based on what you (the streamer) is saying. This is why the display is camera-facing, so that it is picked up by the streamers camera and displayed to the audience. Because you know, if someone is angry you can't already tell -- you need an array of RGB LEDs displaying an animated Emoticon in order to know.

Sarcasm aside, the streaming world will love this -- and it's not like Razer is making some cheap knock off, the Seiren Emote will be a high quality gaming microphone for streamers. Better yet, you can tweak software to display emotes from chats, have it synced with your Philips Hue lighting, and more.

8Bitdo has made a funky Switch controller without any joysticks...and it looks surprisingly intuitive.

The adept controller-makers at 8bitdo have outdone themselves this time. Introducing the new compact Switch Lite pocket controller, a new peripheral that's as portable as Nintendo's new $199 handheld-only system. Not only does the controller slide right into your pocket for easy carrying, but it sports two d-pads to prevent the dreaded JoyCon drift (and it also won't snag when dropped in a pocket or a bag).

The controllers look pretty cheap-but-durable, and quickly allows gamers to swap into Tabletop Mode on the Switch Lite for easy multiplayer. The peripherals sport built-in turbo buttons, a split d-pad to simulate an actual D-pad on a regular JoyCon controller, and the RT and LT triggers are at the top like old-school SNES bumpers.