Month: August 2018

China’s Tencent, which already has ownership stakes and alliances with many major video game companies, has added another big name to the list. Square Enix, makers of Final Fantasy and Tomb Raider, have signed a letter of intent to enter into a “strategic alliance” with Tencent Holdings Ltd. While the details of the partnership weren’t listed, one result will be a joint venture company that will create AAA games based on new intellectual properties and licensing existing ones. “The alliance will enable us to couple our broad range of internet service capabilities to Square Enix Group’s superb creativity, and provide ... Read more

Hot on the heels of the launch of Yakuza Kiwami 2–the full remake of the series’ second entry–Sega put out a survey asking if people are interested in more. Specifically, it asks four separate questions that seemingly point to different projects that you may be aware of (see below). First, “how interested are you in remasters/remakes of existing Yakuza games?” is likely to be in relation to the remasters of Yakuza 3, 4, and 5 that are currently only slated for release in Japan. There aren’t any known plans to re-localize those games, but this may hint at them coming ... Read more

Our 2017 Game of the Year wasn’t our favorite game of 2017 because it was technically flawless. Divinity: Original Sin 2 launched with a few bugs, and there are weak spots within its mountains of dialogue. I still loved it, though, and it’d be hard for Larian to somehow make it worse, so I’m damn excited for Divinity: Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition, which launches this Friday, August 31 as a free update on PC. The 8.2 GB Definitive Edition update promises “approximately 150,000 new and rewritten words,” according to Larian, with a lot of focus on the third act. ... Read more

Earlier this month, Sony proudly announced that it had managed to shift 3 million PlayStation VR headsets since launching the kit in October 2016. Yet this figure masks an underwhelming sales for the latest generation of virtual reality sets, which have failed to gel with consumers on a significant scale. Three million units is a large number, sure. But let’s put that in context – Sony has managed to sell over 80 million PS4s since its launch in November 2013, with 30 million of those coming since the introduction of the PSVR headsets. So why the disparity between overall Playstation ... Read more

In the wake of the Jacksonville shooting, Electronic Arts is donating $1 million to those impacted by the event. The company will also set up a fund to allow others to make additional contributions, as well as hold a Jacksonville Tribute Livestream with members from the community on September 6th. On Sunday, August 26th, a gunman killed two and left 11 more wounded at a Madden tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, before committing suicide. Among those killed were Taylor Robertson and Elijah Clayton, two of the top Madden competitors. EA canceled the final three Madden Classic qualifier events in order to ... Read more

Share. Hardware sales at a seven-year high. By Matt Davidson 2018 has already been a huge year for video game sales, with US consumers reportedly spending $19.5 billion on video game-related products in the first six months of the year alone – a 40% increase on the first six months of 2017. The news comes from the NPD Group (via Gamesindustry.biz), which reports that hardware sales are also at a seven-year high, totaling $1.7 billion in the first half of 2018. That’s seemingly thanks to an increased market for the Xbox One, as well as strong support for the Nintendo NES Classic and ... Read more

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Back at CES, Samsung gave us a glimpse at the Q9S 8K TV, which notably used artificial intelligence to upscale content to 8K. That was cool, but it was just a concept. During its IFA presentation today, the company unveiled its first 8K QLED TV that’ll actually be available for purchase: The Q900R. It loses the easel-like design of the concept for a more traditional stand but it packs in many of the same features, including a real 8K resolution and AI upscaling. Samsung claims the set will also feature a 4,000 nit peak brightness, as well as support for ... Read more

The Two Point Hospital reviews have checked in, which means it’s time to check out some Two Point Hospital review scores. The spiritual successor to ’90s classic Theme Hospital is live on Steam right now, but if you prefer to try before you buy (metaphorically, of course) we’ve got a round-up of all the review scores to help you make your decision. In our very own review of Two Point Hospital, Alice found plenty to enjoy, but had a few gripes. She says “after years of waiting for a game to capture the same joy of Theme Hospital, Two Point ... Read more

Last month, Bungie accidentally disabled skill-based matchmaking for Destiny 2’s quickplay PvP mode, inadvertently creating more chaotic matches that value speed over balance. It wasn’t an intentional change, but Bungie agreed to “take no immediate action” and watch how things played out. And they played out quite well: quickplay was a mess, many agreed, but it was a fun mess. However, following yesterday’s pre-Forsaken update, the same quickplay proponents are suspicious that skill-based matchmaking has returned to ruin their fun. Several prominent Destiny 2 PvP streamers and YouTubers are reporting dramatically longer quickplay queue times, which is a textbook symptom ... Read more

Boasting a peak brightness of 600 nits, the company wants to call it the world’s brightest, but there’s some fine print to the claim – it’s the brightest “27-in QHD USB-C monitor.” Sure, 600 nits is nothing to scoff at, but it’s not unheard of on other monitors, and some of the more extravagant ones go to 1,000 nits or more.

This course is focused on the practical side of penetration testing without neglecting the theory behind each attack. Before jumping into penetration testing, you will first learn how to set up a lab and install needed software to practice penetration testing on your own machine. All the attacks explained in this course are launched against real devices in my lab. The course is structured in a way that will take you through the basics of linux, computer systems, networks and how devices communicate with each other. We will start by talking about how we can exploit these systems to carry out a number of powerful attacks. This ... Read more