Black Ops 4 may not support 100 player chaos in its new battle royale mode, putting it behind competitors like Fortnite and PUBG...but it will have zombies.

Today Treyarch recently confirmed that Black Ops 4's Blackout battle royale will be capped at 80 players during the beta. "80 at the beta and we'll go from there," Treyarch design director David Vonderhaar said in a Game Informer interview. This is up from Battlefield V's 64-player Firestorm battle royale mode.

Blackout will see tons of classic Treyarch characters and content mashed together in an explosive FPS wrapper. Everything from destructive vehicles to AI-driven zombie hordes will be added to the mix for absolute chaos across the biggest Black Ops map to date. Vonderhaar revealed a bunch of new details about Blackout in the interview, showing just how much effort the studio is putting into this new engagement-driven mode.

Today DICE reveals more details about Firestorm, Battlefield V's new battle royale mode.

Battlefield V's BR mode is actually team-based rather than free-for-all and has a max of 64-players on a massive in-game map. "In Firestorm, 16 teams of four will fight it out to become the last squad standing on the largest Battlefield map ever: a sandbox filled with destructible buildings, weaponry, and vehicles. This is royale done the Battlefield way," DICE said in a new video. Interestingly enough DICE won't be making the battle royale mode.

"Multiplayer will deliver all-out warfare with unrivaled intensity and scale across eight multiplayer modes."

Superman star Henry Cavill has confirmed he will play monster-slayer Geralt of Rivia in Netflix's big new live-action Witcher TV series.

Henry Cavill, who showed interest in playing the Butcher of Blaviken shortly after beating The Witcher 3, today confirmed on Instagram that he's been cast as the gruff swordmaster in Netflix's upcoming adaptation.

Show writer Lauren S. Hissrich also confirmed Cavill's role as Geralt.

A press release from Athlon Games have revealed that the company will be partnering with Middle-Earth Enterprises to begin development on a new Middle-Earth based free-to-play MMORPG.

For those that don't know, Middle-Earth Enterprises owns all of the exclusive world-wide rights to Tolkeins Legendarium, this includes all rights to motion picture, merchandising, stage pieces and all literary works from J.R.R Tolkein. According to the announcement from Athlon Games, the developer has partnered with Middle-Earth Enterprises to bring gamers a completely free-to-play MMORPG based in the world of Middle-Earth.

The motives behind this decision are from the owners of Athlon Games, Leyou Technologies Holdings Limited ( the "Company"). The Company and "the Board believes that the development and publishing of this new title based on The Lord of the Rings will help further the Group's goal of creating top quality console and PC games that have global appeal and expand the Group's footprint in the West." Unfortunately, there is no further information on the title, hopefully as we progress throughout the rest of the year we hear more about the future Middle-Earth themed free-to-play MMORPG. If you desire to read the official announcement, the document can be viewed here.

Blue Mammoth Studios, the developers behind Brawlhalla have announced that their title will be getting a very iconic cross-over character from its publisher Ubisoft. Introducing Rayman, it appears he will be playable in Brawlhalla but could this mean we won't see him debut to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate?

During Ubisoft's PAX East stream, it was revealed that Rayman would be making his debut to Brawlhalla's fighting roster. Rayman will be apart of the games release onto the Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on November 6th. From the above video, we can see Matt Woomer, Managing Director at Blue Mammoth Games announce the good news, he not only seems quite excited to reveal the news to everyone but also proud that his company now has such an iconic character featured in one of their games.

The initial announcement though was overall quite disappointing, the build up from Woomer was the most suspense we got in terms of teasing the character. We also did not see any gameplay and was only shown a still image of Rayman. Being a fighting game enthusiast, when a new character is released regardless of how iconic they already are I want to see gameplay of them in action, I want to see the moves of the character no matter what they might be. The Rayman release is only a month away and leading into the launch I hope that both Ubisoft and Blue Mammoth Games do Rayman some justice and showcase his fighting style to players.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider releases just 10 days from now and as players gear up for the launch some new screenshots have leaked online. It appears players will be able to experience a young Lara Croft.

From the screenshots we can see that players will be able to step into the shoes of young Lara Croft through what seems to be memory scenes. Maybe players delve into the mind of Croft at early stages of the game, maybe players use the area's we see in these screenshots as training areas. It would make sense for players to learn the controls of the game as Lara herself practices her skills.

We have seen the extent of Lara's training in the recent short video releases by Square Enix. As we gear up for the launch of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Square Enix has released videos on Lara's Intelligence, knowing your enemies before you fight them, making weaponry and of course, knowing your environment. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is planned for release on September 14th and will be arriving on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.

A brand new teaser trailer has been released for Marvel's upcoming Spider-Man release, the trailer teases the games coming DLC titled "The Heist."

Last week details for the "The Heist" DLC were released by insomniac games, we learned that this DLC will be taking players on the path of Felicia Hardy, or better known as Black Cat. For those that don't know Black Cat is a expert of martial arts and acrobatics, she is also a known lover of Spider-Man and throughout some of the comic books Black Cat and Spider-Man were known to mutually love one another.

It is unclear whether a relationship between our webheaded friend and Black Cat will develop in Insomniac's game, but what we do know is that she is "leaving mysterious clues around Marvel's New York to toy with Spider-Man." It could also be speculated from the trailer that Spider-Man could have some sort of feelings for Black Cat, as we can see early in the teaser trailer that they are literally standing face to face with only a plane of glass in-between them. This makes me raise the question, why didn't Spidy just catch her then if that is his motive? Why did he hesitate and let her run when she was standing right in front of him? I could be reading to much into this, but in my opinion Insomniac has included some form of romantic chemistry between these two characters. That doesn't automatically make it a bad thing, infact I'm quite excited to see how the developers have played out this relationship between Spider-Man and Black Cat.

A great image has surfaced on the /r/Smashbros subreddit, it showcases to players the first 8 newcomers from each of Nintendo's Smash games.

After the massive reveals of Simon Belmont and King K. Rool for the new upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, many new players that love both of these characters from their respective games could be joining the Smash scene. After seeing their favorite villain/hero debut to the new game, perhaps some people are wondering where the game first began with these crossovers? and who were the first characters to make the jump?

Thanks to Reddit user DustENation, we have displayed to us the first 8 characters that were newcomers to each of the respective games. We can see from the image, that in the first Super Smash Bros. game Nintendo decided to nail their staple franchise characters before venturing outside of their own line of games.

If you are in need of a large injection of funds, you can always put your white coat on and work something out for NASA in their newly-announced CO2 Conversion Challenge.

NASA's new CO2 Conversion Challenge will see a team of scientists and inventors discover a way to convert CO2 into molecules that can be used to produce many other things... if this discovery happens, there will be a winner who secures a huge $750,000.

The initial focus NASA has on the CO2 Conversion Challenge is for teams to convert CO2 to Glucose, in any way they can. NASA explains: "Help us discover ways to develop novel synthesis technologies that use carbon dioxide (CO2) as the sole carbon source to generate molecules that can be used to manufacture a variety of products, including "substrates" for use in microbial bioreactors".

Intel will soon enough be unleashing its next-gen-but-kind-of-not Z390 chipset, with GIGABYTE's upcoming Z390 Gaming SLI motherboard teased courtesy of VideoCardz.

As you can see, the Z390 Gaming SLI motherboard has one of its PCIe x1 slots upgraded to a x16 port allowing for two NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards to be installed in SLI. We're not looking at GIGABYTE's highest-end motherboard, as there are some models above this before we even enter the AORUS brand.

There's a pre-installed backplate which looks slick, and less connections on the I/O which is a shame - but expected on a more mid-range motherboard. Still, it will support two of NVIDIA's next-gen GeForce RTX 2080s or RTX 2080 Ti in SLI and not break the bank (at least on the motherboard, the GPUs are an entirely new argument on price, ha).