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Volition, the studio behind the Saints Row franchise, has officially been shut down.

After years of major million-dollar acquisitions, The Embracer Group is finally starting to pare back its reach on the games industry. Games are getting more expensive to make and all major publishers--Take-Two, EA, Activision-Blizzard, Xbox, PlayStation, etc--are looking for ways to save money. This has led to mass layoffs in the thousands of tech workers.

Embracer is not exempt from this trend and the cracks are starting to show in the company's decentralized, entrepreneur-based structure. The parent company has made a multi-million cost-savings plan that requires cancellation of games and studio closures. One of these casualties just happens to be Volition, the studio that has been making Saints Row, Red Faction, and Descent games for the last 30 years.

How to use Starfield's Console Commands

I think this is one of the most important things that I can teach you. Console commands are technically cheating, but they allow gamers to play Bethesda games the way they want on their own terms. Of course, provided you know all the commands and values.

I could provide a huge list of console commands for you to choose from, but I found it more important to teach you how to find those commands and values on your own.

The Play Anywhere version of Starfield offers a unique advantage to players: console commands carry over to the console build of the game.

ADVISORY: Specific console commands like godmode or infinite credits will disable achievements. Others will not. We're not sure which ones, so don't use commands if you want to earn achievements. There's also unknown effects with these commands and it's possible your save could be affected in certain ways by using them. User discretion is advised.

Starfield is an interesting game, not only because of its content but because of how it's distributed. The game comes in two main flavors: the dedicated Steam version, and the native Microsoft Store version. The latter allows gamers to freely swap between consoles and PC. Starfield is a Play Anywhere game so you can buy the title once and play it on both PC and Xbox Series X/S consoles. The Game Pass version is also included here.

NASA has revealed, or at least the space agency thinks it has found, the location where Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the moon.

On August 19, Roscosmos, Russia's equivalent of NASA, announced that it had lost communications with its Luna-25 spacecraft, which was scheduled to make a landing on the moon. The Russian space agency announced that the spacecraft failed to complete a critical orbital maneuver that resulted in it being thrown into an unpredictable orbit that eventually met with the surface of the moon. Russia has since acknowledged the failure of the mission and announced that it will still be continuing with future Luna missions.

Before there is another Russian space launch, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which is used to capture periodic images of the surface of Earth's closest neighbor to document asteroid impacts, etc, was used to locate the Luna-25 crash site and NASA believes it has found it. Writing in a new blog post on NASA's official website, the space agency states the estimated impact location is close to a new impact crater, leading the LRO team to conclude that this impact crater is likely to be from the Luna-25 mission, rather than a natural impactor.

Russia's first lunar mission since 1976 ended in absolute failure when the Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the surface of the moon, ending the mission.

The catastrophic event for Roscosmos, Russia's space agency, occurred on August 19 when the Luna-25 spacecraft failed to make a critical orbital maneuver that resulted in the spacecraft being sent into an unpredictable orbit and, eventually, into the surface of Earth's closest neighbor. At the time, Roscosmos took to Telegram to issue an update on the status of the Luna-25 mission, writing that communications with the spacecraft were severed and were never able to be reestablished.

Now, per a recent Reuters article, Roscomos spokesperson Dmitry Peskov discussed the failure of the mission, downplaying the severity of it while simultaneously announcing that Russia will continue its space program despite the unfavorable climate to do so. Peskov said in a call with reporters, "This is not a reason to despair, nor to tear our hair out. This is another reason to analyse the causes (of the failure) and eliminate them next time."

Two miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a team of researchers discovered a mysterious golden orb embedded into a sea structure.

A new report from The Miami Herald discusses a recent discovery by National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA) researchers who were exploring an underwater volcano two miles below the surface off the coast of Alaska. While mapping the ocean floor with a remote-controlled vehicle, the team found a mysterious golden orb, and during the livestream, you can hear the scientists begin to speculate what it could be.

Additionally, and probably the most shocking aspect of the discovery was the observation that a hole was present in the orb, leading researchers to speculate that something tried to get in or tried to get out. After many jokes about what the orb could be, the team decided to take a DNA sample to take back to the laboratory and hopefully determine the orb's origin. As the robotic arm from the vehicle was moving closer to the orb, a scientist could be heard saying, "I just hope when we poke it, something doesn't decide to come out."

The four astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) that are scheduled to return to Earth will need to wait at least one more day before they make the trip back to our planet's surface.

Announcements from both NASA and SpaceX have revealed that the Crew Dragon capsule currently docked at the International Space Station will remain there until at least September 3, as bad weather conditions prevented its departure with the four astronauts. The delay means the scheduled splashdown of the four astronauts will be just after midnight on Monday morning instead of the original departure on Saturday.

NASA took to its blog on its official website to explain that unfavorable weather conditions just off the coast of Florida are a result of the delay and that the next undocking opportunity is no earlier than 7:05 a.m. EDT on Sunday, September 3, with a splashdown no earlier than 12:07 a.m. on Monday, September 4. However, the aforementioned estimates are dependent on the weather conditions at the time and may be subject to further delays. For more information on the return flight, check out NASA's official website here, or SpaceX's X account.

China has recently pieced together its new three-module space station called the Tiangong space station, and now a company has shown the public how it was constructed.

HEO Robotics, an Australian-based company that focusses on using space-based sensors to image objects of interest within Earth's orbit has pointed those sensors at China's newly constructed Tiangong space station. The firm released a collection of images that were turned into a short video that showcases how each of the individual modules came together to form the new floating laboratory.

Picking wild mushrooms can be risky, which is why it's extremely important to make sure the information you've gathered is correct, as some mushrooms can make you very sick when eaten or even be lethal.

The Guardian has reported that several wild mushroom-picking guidebooks are being sold on Amazon and were discovered following an analysis of the book by originality.ai, a US firm dedicated to detecting AI-written content. The four examples that were analyzed by the US firm came back with a 100% rating, meaning its systems are extremely confident that the content within these books was written by an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot, such as ChatGPT.

Experts in the field of mycology have weighed in on the matter, pointing out serious flaws within some of the titles that could lead to health problems. Leon Frey, a foraging guide and field mycologist at Cornwall-based Family Foraging Kitchen, told The Guardian that some of the sample books promoted "smell and taste" as a way to identify mushroom species. "This seems to encourage tasting as a method of identification. This should absolutely not be the case."

Ahead of the launch of Bethesda's most anticipated title in a long time, leaks suggested that Starfield would arrive with zero or almost zero bugs. However, that doesn't seem to be the case, and now it's been confirmed by the company's head of publishing.

A Starfield reviewer who broke embargo by discussing his gameplay experience in a Discord chat made headlines when he said there wasn't a single bug within the first 15 hours of the game, leading many fans of the title to expect a completely flawless, bug-free experience.

This sentiment was further backed up when Matt Booty, the Head of Xbox Game Studios, said that Starfield would be the least buggy title from Bethesda, a studio well-known for releasing grandiose, large-concept, open-world games that are plagued with numerous bugs.

Samsung is preparing to unveil the S24 Ultra, and as we prepare for the official announcement, rumors are starting to surface about what will be inside the next-generation phone.

Ice Universe, a known tipster, has taken to X to share some rumored information regarding the S24 Ultra's camera. According to the leaker Samsung's new phone is going to come with an insane 200MP camera sensor for the primary camera sensor, which leads speculation to suggest it will be the ISOCELL HP2SX. Additionally, the latest rumors state the S24 Ultra will feature a 3x 50MP telephoto sensor.

Despite the bump in megapixels, Ice Universe says the overall specifications for the camera will likely not change and be the same as the S23 Ultra, with a 1/1.3" sensor size and 0.6μm pixels. Notably, the rumor of 3x 50MP telephoto lens would mean its replacing the S23 Ultra's 10MP telephoto lens, an aspect of Samsung mobile devices that has really gone untouched for several generations. Furthermore, if this rumor is true we can expect a new 5x zoom option within the camera app, which would be a nice addition to the 0.6x, 1x, 2x, 3x, and 10x options.

The Pentagon has launched a website that's designed for government personnel to report UFO sightings and inform the public of the findings.

The website was unveiled on August 30 by the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), and according to the office's director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, government and military personnel will be able to use the website to lodge UFO, or unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) sightings that will then be analysed and depending on their validity, added to the overall historical record of UFO sightings.

The James Webb Space Telescope has aimed its extremely powerful instruments at Supernova 1987A, or more specifically SN 1987A.

The supernova is located 168,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and over the course of 40 years since its discovery, the supernova has been a target of intense observation. Hubble originally spotted the cosmic structure in 1987, and now, with Webb's new observations, NASA has published what it's calling the "most clear & detailed look yet".

According to a new blog post on NASA's website, the image reveals a central structure like a "keyhole", which is jam-packed with clumps of gas and dust that has been ejected by the supernova explosion. Notably, the dust at the center of the image is so dense that even Webb's infrared instruments are unable to pierce it, which is what they are designed to do.

A group of scientists from multiple countries around the world have penned a new study detailing a catastrophic event that occurred 800,000 years ago that nearly wiped out all of our human ancestors that were walking the planet.

According to a new study published in the journal Science, written a group of researchers from the United States, Italy, and China, 98.7% of population of human ancestors was wiped out between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago. This dramatic drop in population count was discovered through a fast infinitesimal time coalescent process (FitCoal), or the analysis of human genomic sequences from 3,154 people.

The researchers discovered what is called a "severe bottleneck" in human diversity, which indicates a drop in population reproduction. According to the study, the massive population drop is due to a variety of different factors, but mostly from severe changes in climate. Global temperatures were changing drastically during this period, with widespread droughts killing not only human ancestors but many other species as well, such as mammoths, mastodons and giant sloths.

A blockchain and cryptocurrency YouTuber was livestreaming when he accidentally revealed vital information for several of his crypto wallets.

That YouTuber is Ivan Bianco, who runs the channel Fraternidade Crypto, a cryptocurrency-gaming focussed channel based out of Brazil. Bianco was livestreaming when he accidentally revealed some of his seed phrases for his wallets. If you aren't familiar with the crypto nomenclature, seed phrases are basically complex passwords that grant access to wallets containing coins.

Bianco opened a document during his livestream that revealed several seed phrases, which viewers then recorded down and then later accessed, stealing $60,000 worth of coins and NFTs. The theft reportedly occurred within minutes of the seed phrases being revealed, and the YouTuber was seen during a later livestream crying and explaining to his viewers what had happened.

Starfield is now out - well, not the full release, but the early access for those who bought a premium copy - and already Bethesda's space RPG has support for NVIDIA DLSS (and Intel XeSS).

As you're doubtless aware, there's been some controversy about Starfield being FSR only at launch (with AMD partnering with Bethesda here), although in theory there's no reason DLSS shouldn't come to the game eventually with an official release (as AMD itself has clarified).

However, for those who don't want to wait for a helping hand in terms of a non-FSR frame rate boost for the demanding Bethesda game, a modder has introduced DLSS (and XeSS) support right now - just as they promised.

Yes, you've read that right. TweakTown has its own show and podcast called The TT Show with me (Kosta Andreadis) and Jak Connor, where we talk about all the latest happening in the tech and science space over the past week. And for the first episode, it's a big one!

With Gamescom wrapping up, we cover some of the biggest announcements from the show, including NVIDIA's brand-new DLSS 3.5, the Half-Life 2 RTX announcement, all of the crazy new ultrawide monitors coming from Samsung (Jak went hands-on with the 57-inch Samsung Odyssey Neo G95NC), and the brand-new GPU announcements from AMD with the Radeon RX 7700 XT and 7800 XT - including the company's answer to DLSS 3.

Plus, we give our thoughts on the whole Linus Tech Tips saga. Strap in and check out the full video (or listen to your favorite podcast service).

Real-time ray-tracing in PC games is associated with NVIDIA because it spearheads the technology with the GeForce RTX series and the creation of dedicated RT and AI hardware to assist with the intense hardware power required to go 'RTX On.'

With its RDNA 2-based Radeon RX 6000 Series, AMD entered the RT space with hardware-accelerated ray-tracing, but the results were - at best - a generation behind NVIDIA. With the arrival of the RDNA 3-powered Radeon RX 7000 Series, AMD has made some welcome improvements to its hardware-accelerated ray-tracing performance - which makes the upcoming launch of the Radeon RX 7700 XT and 7800 XT super interesting.

Though, based on AMD's Radeon chief Scott Herkelman, there's still a lot of room for improvement. To the point where AMD factors in its second-class ray-tracing performance when pricing new GPUs like the 7700 XT and 7800 XT.

ZOTAC has just introduced its next-generation all-in-one gaming PC backpack combo designed for VR gaming - with two models, the VR GO 4.0 A2000 and VR GO 4.0 A4500. Interestingly, these backpack PCs feature mobile CPUs and GPUs, with the latter coming from NVIDIA's professional series.

It's what gives each version of the ZOTAC VR Go 4.0 its name, with one featuring an NVIDIA RTX A2000 8GB GDDR6 based on the GA106 GPU (found in the GeForce RTX 3060) and the other featuring the beefier NVIDIA RTX A4500 16GB GDDR6 GPU based on GA104 GPU (found in the GeForce RTX 4070).

Both backpacks feature 16GB of DDR4 Memory, a 512GB M.2 SSD, and Windows 11 Pro pre-installed - with 50 minutes to an hour of playtime support. Which can be extended via the hot-swappable 6000mAh Li-ion batteries.

When AMD launched the Radeon RX 7900 XT and XTX last year, it made a special note to state that it didn't require a special adapter for power - a nod to NVIDIA using the new 12VHPWR connector for its GeForce RTX 40 Series and the subsequent controversy surrounding cases of melting cables.

In a new interview over at Club 386 covering the release of the new AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT and Radeon RX 7800 XT, AMD's Radeon chief Scott Herkelman reveals that the company originally planned for these mid-rance and enthusiast models to use the new 12VHPWR connectors but ultimately decided against the idea due to the issues surrounding potential failure.

In fact, Scott Herkelman throws quite a bit of shade NVIDIA's way with his response, comparing it to his and AMD's response to the vapor-chamber cooling issue with Radeon RX 7900 XTX cards last year.