PlayStation Reportedly Focusing on ‘Console-Quality AAA Games’ For PSVR 2

Sony has reportedly expressed a desire to focus on console-quality AAA titles for PlayStation VR 2, rather than continuing the VR experience style of games seen on the original PSVR.

YouTube channel PSVR Without Parole reports that Sony recently held a private event for potential PSVR 2 developers, where the company said that it would like to move away from VR experiences and focus on console-quality AAA games. Sony reportedly plans to achieve this by creating “hybrid” games that can be played both in VR and the standard on-screen way, similar to how IO Interactive created the optional VR mode for Hitman 3. The plan would be to allow players to download either the standard or VR version of a game.

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The report notes that nothing was mentioned in regards to backwards compatibility, but that Sony confirmed that it will push for original PSVR games to be remastered for the new hardware.

Beyond Sony’s plans for games, the company also revealed a few more technical specs for its new VR hardware, which is reportedly internally known as ‘NGVR’, or Next-Generation VR. These match information that was previously leaked. The display panel inside the headset has a resolution of 4000×2080 pixels (2000×2040 per eye), and a field of view angle of 110 degrees. This puts it at 10 degrees higher than the original PSVR. The system also apparently is capable of flexible scaling resolution, and will concentrate resources on the player’s area of focus to help reduce strain on the PS5’s available power. Within the headset is also a haptic feedback system designed to both increase immersion and reduce motion sickness.

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The PSVR 2 controllers, which were revealed back in March, will be bundled with the headset. Sony also confirmed that the previously announced finger detection will be analogue, and so capable to sensing how far away your thumb, index, and middle finger are.

PSVR Without Parole claims that Sony will reveal launch details in early 2022. Previous leaks have suggested that the device will launch around Holiday 2022.

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Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Entertainment Writer.

Hitman 3’s New Free DLC Takes You To A Garden Show For More Contract Killing In The Sun

Hitman 3‘s latest free DLC has arrived, and it offers up a new twist. The Dartmoor Garden Show takes Agent 47 to the beautiful gardens of a mansion where he’ll track down and whack a series of targets, some of which are decided randomly.

The Dartmoor Garden Show, in the fiction of Hitman 3, is a showcase of the “pinnacle of horticultural excellence from around the world.” It’s also soon to be a crime scene.

The mission takes the form of a three-stage Escalation, and the client and accomplice of the mission are random on your first playthrough. The next two times you play the mission, your target could be different based on factors like who is left alive and the ratings for their gardens.

Those who complete all three stages will get the Summer Sightseeing outfit, which gives Agent 47 a sweater to wrap around his neck and dapper-looking pants and shirt. Players also get the Deterministic mode, which takes you back to stage one of the Escalation. In this variant, the random element is removed and you can choose a target.

The Dartmoor Garden Show is available permanently for people who own Hitman 3, while people playing using the free starter pack version of the game only have access until August 17.

Additionally, Contracts mode is supported in the Dartmoor Garden Show mission. This lets you make up your own challenges and set your own assassination targets.

The Dartmoor Garden Show is part of Hitman 3’s Season of Lust. Developer IO Interactive recently revealed the content roadmap for the season, and it includes more contracts and elusive targets through August.

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Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings Gets Stylish New Character Posters

New character posters for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings have been released. The latest Marvel Cinematic Universe movie hits theaters on September 3.

There are six new posters, each focusing on one of the movie’s main characters. There’s Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, Awkwafina as Katy, Tony Leung as Mandarin, Meng’er Zhang as Xialing, Michelle Yeoh as Jiang Nan, and the mysterious assassin Death Dealer. Check the posters out in the Twitter thread below:

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings also stars Fala Chen as Jiang L and Ronny Chieng as Jon Jon. It’s directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, who previously helmed Short Term 12 and Just Mercy. You can check out April’s first trailer here, plus this more recent clip.

The character of Shang-Chi was created by Steve Englehart and Jim Starlin, and first appeared in Marvel comic books in the 1970s to cash in on the popularity of Bruce Lee and the TV show Kung-Fu.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings will be followed by Eternals in November and Spider-Man: No Way Home in December. Beyond that, Marvel has lots more films lined up for 2022 and 2023, including Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Thor: Love and Thunder, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and The Marvels.

Get Unlimited Access To Cheat Codes For Life For Thousands Of PC Games For Less Than $50

Is there anything more exciting than unlocking a cheat code for your favorite game, or getting a secret pass to a level you’ve totally hit a total brick wall on? If the idea of unlimited cheat codes sounds like the stuff of dreams to you, you might be surprised to learn that you can actually subscribe to services that give you access to them for thousands of games.

If you’re a PC gamer, the service you need to know about is Cheat Happens – and today, we’ve found a Premium Lifetime Subscription to the latest PC cheat codes for just $49.99 – that’s 50% off the regular price of $99.  

This lifetime subscription is a literal game-changer. With it, you’ll get unlimited access to more than 27,000 cheat codes, trainers, and savegames for over 6000 PC games – for life. 

That includes codes for some of the most popular PC games, including the IGN 9/10 rated Battlefield 1, cyberpunk shooter Necromunda Hired Gun and literally thousands more. 

So, what sets Cheat Happens apart from other websites you might have seen before? Quite simply, this service takes the top-secret hacks to a whole new level. Instead of just collating cheat codes that have been posted elsewhere, Cheat Happens actually employs its own team of programmers to create custom cheats and trainers for most PC games that are released, finding new and unique ways to cheat the biggest new games, and making these trainers available exclusively to its premium members. 

That massive library of cheat codes is growing all the time, too. In fact, new ones are being made available every single day to members, with an average of 170 exclusive cheats and trainers every month. Plus, as a member, you’ll also get full access to Cheat Happens’ Trainer Manager and CosMOS Memory Scanner/Hacker software, and even be able to request from the team which games get new trainers created. 

It’s been loved by PC gamers for some time – as one recent user wrote, “It’s absolutely worth it. I joined over 9 years ago and to this date, still the best money I ever spent on gaming.” 

Get unlimited access to PC cheat codes for life with a Cheat Happens Latest PC Cheat Codes: Premium Lifetime Subscription, on sale right now with 50% off, for $49.99 (regular price $99). 

Get a Lifetime of LiveWebinar Pro for a Steal, Now 86 Percent Off

Whether entertaining in your home, emceeing an event, or launching a webinar, hosting can often be a stressful experience. But it doesn’t have to be, at least for that last example. For a limited time, you can get a lifetime subscription to LiveWebinar Pro for $100, which is a jaw-dropping 86% discount from its $719 MSRP.

For professionals looking to up their webinar game and never want to worry about audio and video performance issues, look no further than LiveWebinar Pro. This cloud-based solution to everyday and special occasion webinar needs boasts superior screen sharing, live video streaming, recording features, and customized branding. No installations or downloads are needed to run a presentation on the platform and browser of your choosing. Send messages and attachments to individual attendees, moderate discussions, or send private messages to your team while the call is live, all from a robust, intuitive, and customizable interface. There’s even a new evergreen feature that allows you to set webinars on autopilot. You know what works best.

Project managers are always looking for a leg up over the competition. The service is great for sales and marketing teams, especially those looking to generate leads and customer engagement, which is presumably every sales and marketing team ever. By sending out custom registration forms and integrating the data gathered on these with your company’s CRM, you’ll be able to generate even more leads and sales than ever before.

It’s no wonder reviews for this service are overwhelmingly positive with professionals. On GetApp.com, one customer who raved about the clean UI also noted that LiveWebinar Pro is “not hackable like Zoom.”

So smarten up and get in on this LiveWebinar Pro lifetime membership deal before the window of opportunity has closed. That way, you won’t be kicking yourself later during an inconvenient and embarrassing webinar crash while using a lesser platform.

Your Successful Runaway NFT Career Begins With Amberlight 2

As the famous quote erroneously attributed to Picasso goes, “good artists copy, great artists steal.” We’d like to suggest that while those claims may or may not be true, we think the very best artists know how to use software like Amberlight 2. If you’re hoping to be one of the best creators in the digital space, there’s never been a better time to familiarize yourself with this unique art tool. For a limited time, customers can get a lifetime subscription to this product for 55% off its usual $89 price tag. That’s unlimited access to Amberlight 2 for just one payment of $40.

With Amberlight 2, even the limits of your imagination aren’t the limits of what you’ll be able to produce. Create stunning computer-generated designs for images or animations that look as if they’ve been pulled directly from a psychedelic trip or the third eye of a mathematics genius. The tool’s innovative and intuitive features allow the magic to just flow out onto the screen in the form of otherworldly swirls, light trails and glows, mind-melting fractal designs, and so many more special effects. The secret sauce is Amberlight’s proprietary procedural rendered and algorithmic pattern generators.

Working with either Mac or Windows systems and with support for 4K compressed or lossless video, Amberlight 2 has quickly become a toolkit standard across the 3D industry and has earned tons of praise. Image FX Magazine applauded the service’s “genuinely unique sci-fi style effects” in their review.

If you’d like to elevate your artistry and generate some unique effects of your own, or just kick off your millionaire NFT creator career, then there’s no time to wait. Get on this amazing deal now so you can spend the rest of your life generating all manner of trippy, geometric, or generally awe-inspiring effects with your unlimited subscription to Amberlight 2.

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Get This Top-Rated Cloud Storage On Sale Now For 1/4 The Price Of Apple’s iCloud 

We all have a serious amount of data to store, and it’s only growing all the time. In fact, in the last two years alone, we have created 90% of all the data in the world. For you, whether that includes all your family photos, videos, work documents or anything else, it all has to go somewhere. Not only will you quickly run out of space if you’re still saving files to your device, but your precious files aren’t backed up and protected as they should be. 

That’s why everyone needs secure cloud storage they can rely on, and we’ve found the perfect option. For a limited time, you can get a one-year subscription to the top-rated pCloud Premium Plus Cloud Storage for just $29.99 — that’s a 68% discount off the regular price and the best price on the web. That also works out to less than $2.50 a month, a far more affordable option than Apple’s iCloud, which costs $9.99 a month for the same 2TB size of storage. 

With this pCloud Premium subscription, you’ll get access to a massive 2TB of cloud storage, 2TB of download link traffic, unlimited remote upload traffic and no file size limit, making it ideal for storing and sharing large video and photo files. Then, your cloud storage is not only super secure but also incredibly easy to use to store, backup and manage photos, videos, music, documents and more on all your devices. Everything is easily accessible from one place and doesn’t take up any space on your devices. 

In fact, it’s so easy to use that pCloud has amassed over 10 million daily users who enjoy all the benefits of its secure cloud storage. It’s also scored rave reviews from tech experts, with an extremely high 4.3 out of 5-star score from Cloudwards, while TechRepublic summed it up as, “The pCloud service is the best cloud sync you’ve never heard of.”

Never run out of storage again with a pCloud Premium Plus Cloud Storage: 1-Yr Subscription, on sale with 68% off for $29.99 right now (regular price $95). 

Earn A Passive Income While You Sleep By Creating Your Own Online Course On Udemy

Did you know that you can create a lucrative passive income using the skills you already have? You can do exactly that by creating your own online courses, in which you impart your specialist knowledge – and then earn money from them while you sleep. 

Online courses are booming, thanks to people across the world realizing the value in being able to learn new skills, boost their resume and their career, from anywhere. It’s totally achievable, even if you don’t already know how to record and produce courses, with The Complete Udemy Instructor Mastermind Bundle: an elearning masterclass which will teach you everything you need to know to become a successful online instructor. Excitingly, today we’ve found this bundle of seven different courses on sale for just $29.99 (reg. $1393) – that works out to less than $4.50 a course. 

This complete bootcamp will show you exactly how to create your own online course on Udemy, with more than 32 hours of training on Video Content Creation, Infopreneur, SEO and more. 

The beauty of becoming an instructor is that you create the course once, and then continue to earn an income from it forever. You’ll learn all the insider knowledge on how to do this in the 4.7/5 star rated course, ‘The Complete Udemy Instructor Mastermind’, which will walk you through exactly how to create and optimize your courses on Udemy for long-term passive income. 

Then, in the 4.6/5 rated course Creating Valuable Video Content that Sells, you’ll learn how to create your own high-quality, engaging videos, podcasts and tutorials on any budget – giving you a professional product to sell, without any of the time-consuming frustration of having to figure things out by yourself. 

All of these courses are taught by some of the world’s leading instructors, including Jonathan Levi, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, author and one of the top-performing instructors on Udemy, who has taught more than 60,000 students and earned a super high 4.5/5 instructor rating along the way, and the equally high 4.5/5 rated Joeel and Natalie Rivera, who have been teaching for more than a decade, and run the online education company Transformation Academy.

Learn how to create your own successful online courses today with The Complete Udemy Instructor Mastermind Bundle, on sale right now with 97% off for $29.99 (regular price $1393).

The Suicide Squad Hits HBO Max Thursday Night, Earlier Than Expected

If you’re still anxious about going to movie theaters to catch the latest blockbuster, with the deal Warner Bros. has with HBO Max, you can watch movies like The Suicide Squad earlier than you might think. Starting Thursday night at 4 PM PT / 7 PM ET, James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad will be available to stream on HBO Max, so you can watch your favorite contract killers let loose and possibly ease your anxieties about public safety.

Much like WB’s other recent releases, including Space Jam: A New Legacy and Wonder Woman 84, The Suicide Squad is seeing a dual theatrical/streaming debut. However, to stream it, you’ll need to be subscribed to the ad-free version of the service, and you’ll only have 31 days to access it.

Gunn’s reboot of the franchise has received mostly positive reviews, with our own The Suicide Squad review giving it a 9/10 despite early review bombing. Rotten Tomatoes, meanwhile, had 151 reviews netting it a much more impressive 95% fresh with the audience score left out for now.

This is Warners’ second film featuring Task Force X with only Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, Margot Robbie, and Joel Kinnaman returning from the original film. Taking the reins from David Ayer, James Gunn introduces a new Suicide Squad with new characters to the DC Universe such as King Shark voiced by Sylvester Stallone, Bloodsport (Idris Elba), Ratcatcher II (Daniela Melchior), Polka-Dot-Man (David Dastmalchian), and Peacemaker (John Cena).

Huge South Park Deal Includes 14 Movies, a New Game, and More

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have signed a deal that calls for the pair to develop 14 movies, together with a new game and more seasons at Comedy Central.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the new deal with ViacomCBS’ MTV Entertainment Studios covers the development of 14 original South Park movies that will debut exclusively on Paramount+, beginning with two this year, as well as a multi-season renewal of the flagship series through to its 30th season in 2027, coinciding with the show’s 30th anniversary year.

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“Franchising marquee content like South Park and developing new IP with tremendous talent like Matt and Trey, is at the heart of our strategy to continue growing Paramount+,” said Chris McCarthy, President/CEO of MTV Entertainment and CCO of Adult Animation at Paramount+, revealing that Parker and Stone will be working on new original content outside of South Park.

The entire South Park library is currently streaming on HBO Max, except for five of the show’s most controversial episodes. The 23rd season of South Park aired in 2019 but has been on hiatus ever since due to the COVID-19 pandemic, apart from two hourlong specials — last October’s Pandemic Special and March’s South ParQ Vaccination Special.

“Comedy Central has been our home for 25 years and we’re really happy that they’ve made a commitment to us for the next 75 years,” said Parker and Stone in a statement. “When we came to ViacomCBS with a different way to produce the show during the pandemic, [they] were immediately supportive and enabled us to try something new.

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“We can’t wait to get back to doing traditional South Park episodes but now we can also try out new formats,” the pair added, speaking about the evolution of the franchise and their upcoming creative endeavours, which includes a new 3D video game set in the world of South Park, per Bloomberg.

Jason Schreier mentioned on Twitter that it’s currently unclear who is publishing the new South Park game, nor who is developing the new adventure, though he noted that the last two games (2014’s South Park: The Stick of Truth and 2017’s South Park: The Fractured but Whole) were both published by Ubisoft.

Alongside their expansive new deal, Parker and Stone are also looking to buy Casa Bonita, the iconic restaurant that famously featured on their hit show. The company that owns the Colorado eatery, Summit Family Restaurants, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in April, having been shuttered for more than a year due to the pandemic.

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Adele Ankers is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.