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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds for PlayStation 4 has been spotted on the Korean ratings board website, signalling a future announcment.
Almost a year after Bluehole was “in talks with Sony” about the possibility of a PUBG PS4 release, Twitter user Nibellion has spied the title listed over on the Korean ratings board, suggesting that the game will finally be launching on Sony’s console.
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Like clockwork, Nvidia has announced a new architecture for its GPUs, and it’s debuting it in a range of Founder’s Edition graphics cards that feature an all-new design befitting a new direction for the company. While the RTX 2080 could be considered the standard card in the 20XX-series lineup, the RTX 2080 Ti is the top dog in terms of raw performance (and its unusually high $1,200 price tag). All of the new GPUs from Nvidia feature specialized “Turing” hardware that will allow them to eventually offer features like real-time ray tracing and artificial intelligence-powered super sampling, so there’s more to this GPU than just sheer horsepower. I’ve spent the past week putting it through its paces, so let’s dive in.
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Nvidia’s all-new 20-series GPUs have finally arrived, with the company announcing three models so far: the RTX 2080, the beefier RTX 2080 Ti, and the more affordable RTX 2070 (which is coming further down the road). Today I’m looking at the RTX 2080 Founder’s Edition, which is the successor to Nvidia’s popular GTX 1080 card. Built on Nvidia’s new Turing architecture, this graphics card promises increased performance over Pascal along with all-new hardware that enables real-time ray tracing and an all-new version of AI-assisted super sampling (in the future). I spent the last few days with this GPU putting it through its paces, and here’s my full report, including benchmarks in a variety of today’s popular PC games.
The new trailer for Captain Marvel gives a brief look at the film’s shape-shifting villains known as the Skrulls, but if you look closely, a single shot pays homage to the aliens’ most iconic comic book story, Secret Invasion. The tale saw the Avengers learn that the Skrulls had not only infiltrated their ranks but had replaced key individuals across the entire planet, and then they were forced to fight the invaders in an epic struggle to reclaim the earth.
The whole story kicked off when Elektra was killed in battle and, to everyone’s shock, her body morphed into that of a green Skrull. The surprising moment made the remaining heroes ask themselves an unnerving question: If Elektra was replaced without anyone knowing, then who else could be a Skrull? This difficult conversation began when the Avengers’ greatest scientific minds were inspecting the Skrull corpse:
2K Sports has announced the soundtrack for WWE 2K19, and it includes some very big names from across a number of different genres. Some of the artists featured on the soundtrack include Eminem, Fall Out Boy, Metallica, Slipknot, Rancid, and Post Malone.
The songs were chosen by WWE athletes like The Miz, Elias, Triple H, and Daniel Bryan, among others. The songs are apparently some of their favourite songs to listen to when getting ready for a match or chilling at home (and they’re also the songs that 2K was able to get the licenses for). You can se the full soundtrack below.
While WWE 2K19 is coming to PS4 and Xbox One in early October. It is skipping out on a Switch edition this year. The regular edition launches on October 9, but the more expensive Deluxe “Woo” Edition lets you play four days early.
For more on WWE 2K19, check out GameSpot’s roundup of all the confirmed wrestlers and superstars.
On the latest episode of GameSpot’s weekly PC-focused show, Steam Punks, hosts Jess McDonell and Edmond Tran discuss the ever-controversial topic of microtransactions and loot boxes in video games.
Microtransactions are commonplace in games big and small–in fact, it is oftentimes more surprising and newsworthy today when a game does not feature a microtransaction or loot box system. Why do such systems exist and how do they impact a game’s perception and value? Jess and Ed discuss these topics and more in the new episode, which you can watch above.
The topic of loot boxes in video games made international headlines in 2017 when EA’s Star Wars: Battlefront II allowed players to pay for loot boxes, which contained items that impact gameplay. Many saw this as a form of gambling, and EA removed the game-affecting loot boxes on the eve of the game’s public release. EA reinstated microtransactions in early 2018, but there was a big change: only cosmetic items would be included with loot boxes. Belgium enacted a law recently that classified loot boxes as a form of gambling, and while Activision removed Overwatch’s loot boxes in Belgium, EA is staying the course and might go to court over it.
Jess and Ed discuss this news story and the related particulars about what makes loot boxes so compelling and just how lucrative they are to video game companies. Different games handle loot boxes differently, and they don’t always get such a bad rap. For example, Fortnite and Overwatch’s loot boxes only contain cosmetic items, and those games largely avoid negative publicity as a result.
Jess and Ed also answer your questions about last week’s episode about where to buy multiplatform games when you have so many different options.
Steam Punks airs every Monday on GameSpot.
ZeniMax, the parent company of video game developer and publisher Bethesda, has filed a trademark application for “Redfall.” The trademark application covers a number of things, including PC and console video games.
The trademark application, which was filed on September 10 in the United States and spotted by Newsweek, does not include any further clues about what Redfall might be.
Bethesda released a game called The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard back in 1998, and some people are speculating that Redfall could be the name of The Elder Scrolls VI. However, Bethesda has not commented.
Trademark applications do not necessarily become products. For example, Activision trademarked a number of Call of Duty games like Space Warfare and Future Warfare.
Bethesda does have a history of trademarking new games very, very long before they are announced. The company trademarked Starfield back in 2013, about five years before the game was announced at E3 2018.
What do you think or hope Redfall is? Let us know in the comments below!
The new Darksiders III due out this November brings back composer Cris Velasco, who worked on the first game. Today, GameSpot can premiere an all-new track from the game.
The song “Wrath” is a ripper. A pounding, intense track, “Wrath” features a number of percussion, string, and horn instruments, along with a few choir sections. You can listen to it in the embed below.
Velasco is a veteran and accomplished video game composer. He also worked on Bloodborne, Resident Evil 7, Overwatch, and the God of War series.
Darksiders 3 is being developed by Gunfire Games, a studio formed by some of the developers of Darksiders and Darksiders 2. The first two games in the series launched in 2010 and 2012 and were re-released in 2015 and 2016 respectively. Nordic Games acquired the rights to the Darksiders series following the collapse of THQ in 2013.