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The Philadelphia Fusion have had a successful offseason heading into the 2020 season of the Overwatch League. They kept a number of core players from their first two seasons while adding new faces that will not only make an immediate impact on stage but also provide much needed depth to a Fusion team that was stagnant and predictable for most of the 2019 season. The Fusion’s DPS line continues to gets stronger after they announced Hee-Su “Heesu” Jeong will be joining the team for next year....

Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed some of the accessibility features the upcoming PlayStation 5 will offer when it launches in just under two weeks’ time. In a post on the SIE blog, the company confirmed that alongside the existing accessbility settings on the PlayStation 4, the PlayStation 5 will also offer a voice dictation feature, allowing users to speak what they want to type into the controller and type without the use of an on-screen keyboard....

PlayStation is now officially the best-selling game console brand in history, according to Guinness World Records. We’ve known for a while that Sony was the best-selling home console maker, but now it’s official. With Sony CEO Jim Ryan and former CEO Ken Kutaragi accepting the award, Guinness World Records presented the pair with a certified plaque confirming PlayStation as the best-selling home console brand in history. The numbers are truly staggering: Sony has sold 450 million units across its entire lineup of consoles, from the original PlayStation up to the current PlayStation 4 Pro....

At around 3:00 AM, Eastern time, the PlayStation Network went down without notice. Anyone who was in the middle of a kill-streak was suddenly cut off from the service and redirected to the menu of the game they were playing. So far, for about nine hours (over on this side of the world, at least), the PlayStation Network has been down and out of commission. The reasons for the outage are unknown, but many are suspecting that the internet group Anonymous is responsible....

So long as you don’t count “???” as a type, there are a total of 18 different types to choose from in the Pokémon franchise. Perhaps that’s common knowledge at this point considering how absurdly powerful the series has become in such a short amount of time, but it’s still worth dwelling on. 18 is quite a lot when it comes to variety. There are over 600 Pokémon categorized into 18 sub-sections....

Earlier today, PlayStation revealed a brand new gameplay trailer for its upcoming horror game, 35MM. Set in a post-apocalyptic Russia, the game follows two travelers as they document their struggle for survival amidst a harsh wasteland via 35MM photographs. Original a PC title, Sony announced that 35MM would be getting a PS4 port back in November. For more about the game, check out the official description and its brand new gameplay trailer below:...

We heard a rumor earlier this morning about a possible remake or remaster of 2003’s Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. Today, during the second Ubisoft Forward of the summer, it was confirmed. The prince will return January 21, 2021, and we have a trailer showing off how Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake will look. Hint: not bad, but not great. Perhaps we can chalk it up to the trailer possibly consisting of alpha footage, but the remake looks… fine?...

Xbox Games Studio Ninja Theory has revealed the latest episode of its ongoing The Dreadnought Diaries video series looking behind the scenes into the studio’s mysterious Project Mara, this time focusing on the techniques the studio are using to photorealistically capture the forthcoming experimental title’s apartment setting. Tameem Antoniades talks us through how Ninja Theory intends to “capture reality obsessively” in this game, which we now know will take place entirely in one apartment that’s being maticiously recreated from its inspiration in the real world, with artists painstakingly scanning and recreating every material and using the references to generate procedural shaders....

The best games to play on a PS4 Pro are the ones that pushing the graphical limits and showcase exactly what your 4K HDR TV was made for. In this article, we’ve rounded up ten excellent games that do exactly that. Of course, you can play any PS4 game on a normal PS4 or on a PS4 Pro. But if you’ve forked out on an expensive PS4 Pro, you’ll want to be making the most of its extra processing power and output capabilities....

Ubisoft’s latest Rainbow Six game should be familiar to Siege fans as a popular game mode from a few years back. Now it’s been scaled up and released as a standalone experience that sees players battle across different locations to beat back the mysterious Archaeans. Still, it won’t be for everyone, and so naturally some will want to try before they buy. Thankfully, if you’ve bought the game and want to entice your friends to come and play with you then there’s a special trial available to give them that very opportunity....

You wanted more Ramy? You got ’em. Hulu officially picked up Ramy season 2 back in May. Ramy Season 2 will contain 10 episodes. The renewal marks the third comedy re-up for Hulu for the 2020 season; Second seasons for Pen15 and Shrill are forthcoming. Ramy season 1 premiered on April 19, 2019. The series won the audience award at SXSW for episodic premieres and earned glowing reviews (including our own)....

Besides the starters, Pokemon’s biggest and best-known creatures are easily its Legionaries. They’re the box stars, the movie headliners, the things you use your precious, single master ball on. They’ve also been a mixed bag with over 60 introduced across the series’ eight generations. Some are incredible, while others are just… they’re just Heatran. What is Heatran? Here is the objectively correct, scientifically proven ranking of every Legendary Pokemon released, up to and including Pokemon Legends: Arceus....

The original PlayStation was one of the best consoles ever released, with a wide array of fantastic games that many players still remember fondly today. The PS5 may be a modern-day marvel but kids growing up in the 90s were floored by how “advanced” the original console was. Needless to say, it has a lot of fans, even today. So it’s no surprise that some people are still trying to get their hands on the original games ported to the console....

Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City’s first trailer is here, and call us optimistic, but it actually looks like the upcoming live action Resident Evil movie might be pretty good? That’s mainly helped by the fact they’ve packed in loads of nods to the first two games that this movie is said to follow. Claire Redfield (Kaya Scodelario) and Leon Kennedy (Avan Jogia) look very much like their game counterparts. There’s mentions of Umbrella and of course, the iconic Raccoon City Police Department building and the Spencer Mansion....

In its 23-year existence, the Resident Evil franchise has undergone several major changes in direction. When the series began in 1996, Resident Evil was known for pioneering the survival-horror genre and challenging its players with mind-boggling puzzles and fixed camera angles. However, with the introduction of Resident Evil 4 in 2004, the franchise had a major shift in direction and ditched fixed camera with a third-person over the shoulder perspective, and began to lean on Hollywood-style action....

Respawn Entertainment CEO Vince Zampella has issued an apology for the shocking comments made by two Apex Legends developers on Reddit over the weekend. Things got pretty heated in the game’s Reddit community after executive producer Drew McCoy went on a mini-rant, claiming that he remembers the good old days when players weren’t “complete ass-hats to developers.” And a player would ask him if he also remembers when devs weren’t “money grabbing f**ks that scammed their players....

Riot Games Music, the music division of Riot Games, is going full throttle with the upcoming Pentakill event. After announcing the return of Pentakill with all new member Viego, the company announced a virtual heavy metal concert starring the edgy band. Pentakill has been at the forefront of Riot Games news recently, with tons of Pentakill-related content coming up. The band is getting a new full-length album titled III: Lost Chapter, which will drop alongside the concert....

Overwatch’s open beta is now live on PS4, Xbox One and PC, Blizzard has announced. The beta offers full, unrestricted access to all content included at launch, including the game’s complete roster of heroes, maps and “launch-day features”, and will be available to play until next Monday, May 9. To download it you’ll need around 11GB on PS4 and Xbox One, and 6.5GB on PC. You’ll also need an Xbox Live Gold account to play on Xbox One, but do not need a PS Plus subscription to play on PS4....

Key Points Path tracing is a computer-based method of adding realistic illumination to three-dimensional digital images.The computer-generated images or render are processed as scene files.Path tracing is key to transforming computer graphics into realistic photo-quality images. If you’re interested in the technical aspects of great gaming or graphics experience, or are looking for a GPU that can handle the most advanced graphical techniques, you’ll need to know about path tracing....

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, a remastering of the first three games in the popular courtroom drama series, is coming to PlayStation 4, PC, Switch, and Xbox One, Capcom has announced. The bundle will launch at some point in early 2019, although there’s no word on a concrete release date or pricing at the moment. In case you need a refresh, the trilogy will include Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for All, and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations....