PlayStation President and CEO Jim Ryan took the stage at CES 2020 today to finally unveil the long-awaited PlayStation 5…logo.

During the Sony CES keynote event, Ryan shared some notable milestones for the PlayStation 4 before talking up the company’s next-gen consoles. Other than confirming the previously known holiday 2020 release window, Ryan shared the logo for the PlayStation 5.

If you’re not familiar with it already, the PlayStation 5 logo is similar to that of the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. Except with the five numeral in place of the three and four. Much like the name of the console, the logo is a natural progression of Sony’s console evolution.

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An important figure has returned to Retro Studios, the developer behind the Metroid Prime series and both Donkey Kong Country Returns and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. VGC is reporting that Stephen Dupree, the lead designer of Tropical Freeze, has returned to Retro Studios after leaving for two years to work on Super Lucky’s Tale at Playful Corp.

Dupree, who also worked on DKC Returns and Mario Kart 7, could be working on Metroid Prime 4, the studio’s only current confirmed game. The game was restarted in early 2019 and handed over to Retro Studios (it was previously being worked on by an unconfirmed developer.) About half the core team behind Metroid Prime 3 is still at Retro Studios.

It’s also possible that Dupree has returned to work on another project, though. Tropical Freeze sold well over a million copies on the Switch, and it’s possible that Retro Studios will be put to work on a follow-up. The studio is currently hiring for multiple positions.

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze received a 9/10 in our review of the Switch version. Reviewer Peter Brown called it “a fantastic platformer that’s bursting with creativity and expertly designed challenges.”

A few years ago, GameSpot spoke with Escape From Tarkov‘s project lead Nikita Buyanov about the then-unreleased shooter’s ambitions, including its blend of action, survival, and role-playing, its high-risk looting system, and more. You can read the full interview from 2016 here.

Now, with Escape From Tarkov a few years into its closed beta and recently enjoying a popularity spike on Twitch thanks to some popular streamers, we’ve decided to revisit a few major questions newcomers may have about the upcoming MMOFPS. Namely: will Escape From Tarkov have microtransactions?

New players can rest easy. According to Buyanov, Escape From Tarkov will be “a traditional, full purchase,” free of microtransactions and other free-to-play trappings. That means you pay once and you get the full content of the game.

There are currently a few editions of Escape From Tarkov available for pre-order on its official website. Its Standard Edition is $44.99 and comes with instant access to the closed beta, plus a few items to get you started. The more advanced, pricier editions come with more items and a bigger stash, which is where you store in-game loot after you’ve completed a raid. Some players have questioned whether Tarkov’s pre-order model is “pay to win” based on the additional items and stash sizes that more expensive editions afford buyers, but others argue it makes no difference given Tarkov’s high-stakes perma-loss system.

Currently, you can only buy Escape From Tarkov on its official website and play it using developer Battlestate Games’ client, the Battlestate Games Launcher–which has many new players and potential new players asking if Escape From Tarkov will have a Steam release.

Escape from Tarkov has been available in early access since 2016, but as of right now you can only get it directly from the game’s official site. The survival shooter has exploded in popularity recently, having received a major update in October 2019 which introduced Hideouts as well as several new items and bug fixes, and briefly became the most viewed game on Twitch thanks, in part, to some prominent streamers getting into it. This has many players wondering if a Steam release is planned. It’s been a while since Russian developer Battlestate Games has commented on this, but all signs suggest that Escape From Tarkov will come to Steam…eventually.

The clearest evidence is from a 2016 interview with WCCFTech, in which developer Pavel Dyatlov says that the game will come to Steam once it reaches 1.0. “We will first release the game on our platform and then we will launch on Steam, that’s the plan,” Dyatlov said, also mentioning that the game could come to consoles after its PC release.

Escape From Tarkov has remained in early access much longer than originally planned, however, and a year ago players on Reddit speculated that the game has not released on Steam because the developers would receive a lot of refund requests over the state the game was in. More recently, however, consensus among players has been that while the game is in better shape, the developers will still likely only release to Steam once the game is complete.

The FAQ on the Escape from Tarkov page suggests that the game will receive a testing phase on Steam, but it has not been updated since 2015. With all of this in mind, we believe that the game will eventually release on Steam, when it’s complete…but that might be a while away yet.

When most people think of thin-and-powerful gaming laptops, things like the MSI GS65 Stealth and Razer Blade come to mind. Asus also has had a new models rocking the boat too, but now the company wants to truly win the crown with the ROG Zephyrus G14.

Measuring in at 17.9mm thin and weighing a scant 3.53 pounds, the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is one seriously thin and light laptop. This 14-inch laptop’s extreme weight savings comes courtesy of its magnesium-aluminum alloy chassis, which feels like its actually made of metal unlike other notebooks made of this metal mixture.

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Pokemon Sword and Shield features Fossil Pokemon that can only be obtained by finding and combining fossils. Here are the fossil locations and fossil combination results you need to know to get all four Fossil Pokemon. And don’t worry about which version of the game you have, none of these Fossil Pokemon are version exclusives.

Watch the video below for how to get and combine all the fossils or keep scrolling for the written steps.

How to Get Fossils

The easiest and 100% guaranteed way to get your first few fossils is to talk to the NPC inside the Pokemon Center in Stow-on-Side. They’re standing by the table on the left. The first time you talk to them you’ll get two fossils. After that, they’ll only provide a tip related to Fossil Pokemon.

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AMD repaved the computing landscape last year when it introduced its 7nm Ryzen 3rd Generation processors and Navi graphics cards, but we were sorely disappointed when it didn’t bring this breakthrough to its mobile platforms. Thankfully AMD is finally correcting that mistake by introducing 7nm Ryzen 4 processors for laptops.

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AMD announced the new Radeon RX 5600 XT GPU that fits neatly between its more affordable 5500 Series and the more high-end 5700 Series graphic cards. The 5600 line is meant to run games at the highest levels of 1080p, so while it’s not meant to push 4K graphics, it will be a suitable replacement for older 1080p cards.

AMD took the stage at CES 2020 to reveal the specs for its newest 5000-series GPU, the RX 5600 XT. Here are the numbers at a glance:

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