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Awhile back we heard about the award-winning PSVR mouse experience called Moss, the title was only originally planned for a digital release, but the developer has decided to release a physical copy as well.

Moss has been rated the highest PlayStation VR title this year by Metacritic and according to Tam Armstrong, co-founder and CEO of Polyarc, Moss has served as a "special, unique world people could transport themselves to and really experience the magic of VR."

Armstrong continues by saying that "Launching Moss as a digital-only game was a great way to introduce Quill to players around the world. And now, with the release of the Moss disc, we're excited to share with even more players who prefer a physical copy of the game."

Last week we saw that Rockstar revealed the first batch of Red Dead Redemption 2 screenshots, as well as a trailer. Starting this week off strong already, Rockstar have released another batch of screenshots and given some details for the coming month.

Rockstar took to their announcement section on their website to give fans 13 more screenshots from Red Dead Redemption 2, this time have see "Arthur Morgan, Dutch, John and the rest of the Van der Linde gang."

The post continues by saying "Stay tuned for more Red Dead Redemption 2 info next month including first details about the game's special editions and more."Rockstar finish up by recommending that fans visit their Twitter, Instagram and Facebook pages to find more future exclusive screenshots and previews.

A speedrunner has decided to jump into Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, after some practice the difficult game has been beaten in just 2.5hrs.

Speedrunner Distortion2 juggles the sheer difficulty of Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin with all of the items, rolls, bosses and everything in-between. He completes the game in exactly 2 hours 23 minutes and 43 seconds, taking first place in the world for speedrunning Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin.

Throughout the video Distortion2 mentions that after he completes the speedrun of Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin there is nothing to drive him back to the game. This suggests that he won't be trying to beat the new record anytime soon, unless another player thinks that they can do better and knocks him down from first place.

PUBG Corp has taken to their Xbox One community forums to announce the new patch that is on its way in the near future.

The patch will be adding several different things, some include: Settings menu changes, scope field of view changes, out of game menu changes and bug fixes.

According to the post on the Xbox One PUBG forums "The test server is back! This time around we're planning to run the test for just three days. Depending on how the test goes, we may decide to extend it further. The test includes both Miramar and Erangel so we can test our matchmaking systems before bringing Miramar to live servers. That means that whenever you select a queue, the game will randomly drop you into one of the two possible maps. After we've tested our matchmaking systems, we may again adjust the map settings."

Quake Champions will have an update in the coming weeks that will enable bots, which will be coded clever enough to perform trick jumps and strafe jumps, just like you.

The bots will have a difficulty sliding scale that you can adjust depending on how good you are, where on the easier side of things the bots will treat you like a newb and not pick up powerful weapons and pick ups like Quad Damage. When they're harder, the bots will see you picking up a powerful weapon or Quad Damage and avoid trying to go for it, impressive.

id Software has said that the bots will arrive in two phases, with Phase 1 coming "soon" according to Quake Champions' technical director, John Dean. The bots will only be featured in a few game mods, but they'll be able to use any champion and weapon, but not the champion abilities.

Far Cry 5 has a vast and detailed game world that you can explore for hours on end, but you know what modders are like they will rip the game apart and building beautiful and interesting things... like the island from Lost... the TV show.

The modder behind this is 'Un-Break-Able' who says that the Lost map is an "accurate recreated map" but its not to scale over technical limitations. He explains: "Everything from as small as Sun's garden to all 9 Dharma Initiative Stations are included ... In regards to accuracy some assumptions had to be made. Such as the Hydra Station where we saw many of these rooms but how they were organised and connected in the complex was impossible to determine exactly but was made to the best of my knowledge".

The map is playable for 10 minutes as there are restrictions on the game and its editor, enough time to tease you but not to get lost in the world of Lost.

Activision has activated the hype train for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 by saying that it has provided "significant" resources for the PC version of the game.

In the recent Activision Blizzard earnings call, company president and COO Coddy Johnson said that they are laser-focused on the PC version of COD: Black Ops 4, saying that it "is a game that will push the envelope with innovation". Johnson added that Activision has "invested significant dedicated resources to ensure we can deliver a great PC game".

This is a strange but very welcoming move by Activision, but I'm not going to commit any hope to the game until it's out. I think they're trying to attract the tens of millions of gamers playing Battlegrounds and Fortnite on the PC to be interested in COD: Black Ops 4, but unless they deliver it'll just be a polished console port.

The crowd-funded battle royale title Crazy Justice, has been spotted showcasing its cross-play abilities on the Nintendo Switch and Xbox One.

Developers, Black Riddle Studios have released the above video displaying the progress that has been made on creating cross-play between Nintendo Switch players, Xbox One players and PC players.

Unfortunately PS4 users will not have this feature available when the game releases, Crazy Justice is planned for release on PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC sometime during Q2 this year.

The moment has finally arrived for anyone that participated in the Twitch plays Super Mario Odyssey stream, the chat has directed Mario to the end of the game and has finally completed it.

For those that are not aware, there is a entire livestream dedicated to the community beating games through entering commands in the chat, examples include: move forward, jump, roll and any other movements or abilities the game requires.

The communities latest challenge has been Super Mario Odyssey and just recently the chat has managed to beat Bowser and save Peach, completing the game just through chat commands that anyone can enter. The teamwork is very impressive here and the moment of joy has been saved via a short video. Since Super Mario Odyssey has been beaten the chat has decided to move onto The Legend of Zelda: Breathe of the Wild, check out the livestream here.

A while back we heard about Star Citizen breaking a new milestone of crowdfunding, reaching a massive $181m+. Now the space adventure title has been showcased in 6 minutes of smooth gameplay footage.

Above is the gameplay footage and what we can see from it is that the mission probably couldn't be more dull and boring. All that was done was the player retrieved a box and nothing more than that, throughout the extraction though we can visually see the Star Citizen world and what is claimed to be running at 1080p 60FPS.

According to some players in the comment section below the video, IGN actually would of joined a private server to record this game footage, as the players claim that there is no way for the title in its current state to be this optimized. Some comments even stress that it is hard to maintain even a solid 30FPS while in a 50 man server. This is not confirmed though so do take the footage with a grain of salt.

A new trailer has been released for Quake Champions by Bethesda and id Software, the trailer showcases the new Gore system that is on the way.

The trailer shows that players will be able to completely dismember their opponents when they kill them, removing limbs such as the head, arms, torso, legs etc etc.

For those that are unsure of what Quake Champions is here is quick description on the title: "Quake Champions delivers the dark mythos of the first Quake combined with the groundbreaking multiplayer mayhem of Quake III Arena with a major modern twist - Champions. These fierce warriors each wield unique attributes and abilities, enabling players to compete in their own distinctive style, while adding an additional layer of strategy to the game." Check out the below trailer to enjoy the 'Gore' that is on its way to Quake Champions.

Middle-earth: Shadow of War's Desolation of Mordor has received a new trailer from Warner Bros. Interactive, the trailer reveals the opening cinematic for the DLC.

This new DLC will be giving players the opportunity to jump into the shoes of Baranor who is the Captain of Minas Ithil. During the DLC players will be paired up with his now reunited brother Serka to form an army to combat the Orc threat.

Middle-earth: Shadow of War's Desolation of Mordor DLC will be releasing on May 18th and will cost $19.99. In other news about Middle-earth: Shadow of War, Monolith Productions has announced that they will be removing micro-transactions from their title.

Yesterday we saw the official Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer released by Rockstar and today we have been gifted yet again, this time with a batch of official screenshots.

From the below screenshots we can see the main protagonist Arthur Morgan, the iconic John Marston from the first Red Dead Redemption, animals and other environments.

Red Dead Redemption 2 will be bringing players a story about Arthur Morgan during 1899 and his adventure across the plains of developing America. Red Dead Redemption 2 will be released on the 26th of October for the Xbox One and PS4.

Overwatch is constantly updated with balances and fixes to the game, with Blizzard pushing out a new 1GB update for the PC, Xbox One, and PS4 versions of the game.

The latest map 'Rialto' joins the Overwatch fray, but so do balances for a bunch of the heroes in the game, including some big changes to Hanzo. Blizzard has been working on balancing Hanzo for a while now, with Hanzo losing his Scatter Arrow ability that gets replaced with Storm Arrows.

Storm Arrows let Hanzo fire 6 arrows, with each individual arrow doing less damage than a standard arrow, but they're fired at maximum power. Hanzo also secures a new ability: Lunge, where by pressing jump while in mid-air, Hanzo will leap horizontally.

At the end of April Boss Key Productions released the first patch for Radical Heights the new free-to-play Battle Royale shooter, this time round the second patch has more performance improvements and a gadget has been added.

Just like the first patch this patch comes with a massive amount of bug fixes and improvements. This time round though Boss Key Productions will be adding a new gadget called the Scanner, this item introduces more ways for players to customize their characters.

Also included in this patch is improvements to the server region selection, brand new animations, weapon balancing and more performance improvements. Steam will automatically download this update and if you are interested in delving into the full patch notes visit the official Radical Heights changelog here.

Leading up to the release of Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition this month Nintendo has released a new character highlights trailer, this time introducing some very unique characters.

Not to long ago we saw the first character highlights trailer, now up to the 4th installment of the trailer series Nintendo are showcasing Agitha, Zant, Midna, Twili Midna and Toon Zelda.

Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition is releasing on May 18th for the Nintendo Switch. Players that have already purchased the title on the Nintendo eShop have the option of downloading the 12.9GB game now so its preloaded and ready for the titles debut.

Stunlock Studios, the developers behind Battlerite have revealed that their Action MOBA/Arena Brawler will be receiving a Battle Royale mode.

The Marketing Director for Stunlock Studios has commented on the games upcoming mode, here is what he had to say: "With a top-down Battle Royale mode we've set out to bring the ultimate survival experience to Action RPG and MOBA players. We want to give players the excitement of a Diablo-esque exploration experience combined with the character variation of a MOBA and the thrill of a survival game. That said, I think anyone who's looking for a fresh and different take on the Battle Royale genre will have a blast."

This is certainly quite an interesting way to bring Battle Royale to an arena brawler, the idea of players being able to choose from 27 different characters that each have their own respective advantages will be a very unique Battle Royale experience. According to the details, the Battle Royale map mode will be 30 times larger than the standard Battlerite map, this is mostly to compensate for the 20 players being thrown onto the single map. Battlerite Royale will be available in the coming future and is planned for release closer to this years Summer.

This weekend gamers will be glad to know that Mohawk Games and publisher Stardock will be deeming their title Offworld Trading Company completely free-to-play.

Players will have to option of enjoying the titles single-player campaign or they can jump into the multiplayer features that are available. Unlike most real-time strategy games, Offworld Trading Company uses economics as the basis of weapons, where players will have to balance unique resources and make difficult decisions to see their civilization prosper.

The free-to-play weekend begins on May 6th at 1PM ET and during this weekend the title will also be discounted by 50% for anyone that wants to pick up a good deal. If you are interested in Offworld Trading Company check out the official Steam Store page here.

E3 2018 is going to be absolutely massive this year, and as usual we should expect a bunch of new and exciting stuff from Microsoft and their Xbox presentation at E3.

In a new blog post today, Microsoft's Mike Nichols said that the company has a "great briefing filled with new games" to unveil, continuing: "We're hard at work on exciting plans for E3, from what will be a great briefing filled with new games to the fan experience at the Microsoft Theater. This is our biggest E3 yet, and we look forward to a great week for gamers. Again, thank you to the amazing Xbox community".

Microsoft will kick off its E3 2018 event on Sunday, June 11 at 1PM PT / 4PM ET. Last year we expected the Xbox One X but now that's here and there's no next-gen Xbox expected this early, what will Microsoft show off? A next-gen Halo that pumps away at 4K 60FPS on the Xbox One X would be killer, but what else could steal the show?

It's not just Fortnite going through its new Season 4 update, but competing Battle Royale giant PUBG is having its Update 12 written to servers, too.

PUBG Corp is saying that Update 12 will have a bunch of new, balanced, and fixes in Battlegrounds. We can expect the new SLR, a new marksman rifle thats more powerful than the SKS, with 3x and 6x scopes, new grips, and a new muscle car that will be awesome to drive around in.

PUBG will see nearly every weapon in the game buffed or nerfed, with the developer tweaking assault rifles so that they do less damage, but then increased the damage of submachine guns. Level 3 helmets are now found exclusively in airdrops, which is going to change the game in a big way.