News::What's on your HDTV: 'Captain America: Civil War,' 'ReCore'

The latest Marvel movie is here, as Captain America: Civil War arrives on Blu-ray and in 3D this week. It's been out for a couple of weeks on some VOD services, but now you can grab a copy for the archives, or check out Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping from the Lonely Island crew or even a remastered 30th anniversary release of The Transformers: The Movie. Meanwhile, the fall TV system is winding up, as NBC's Blindspot returns along with South Park on Comedy Central.

Gamers are getting some of the biggest releases, as Keiji Inafune's ReCore is available for PC and Xbox One and The Witness appears on XB1. Dead Rising 1 & 2 and BioShock: The Collection are remastered for new-gen consoles and Don't Starve Together's co-op action hits the PlayStation 4. On streaming, Amazon has season one of Fleabag, while Netflix splits its haul between the end-of-life documentary Extremis, and the sci-fi thriller ARQ. Look after the break to check out each day's highlights, including trailers and let us know what you think (or what we missed).

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News::The PlayStation VR demo disc has 17 games in North America

Last week Sony outlined the eight demos that will be bundled with PlayStation VR for European customers. Now, the company has revealed a bigger lineup of free games that'll be included on the VR demo disc in the US and Canada.

Source: PS Blog

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News::Razer launches its own venture fund to support VR and gaming

Razer might be best known for high end gaming hardware and lightning fast peripherals, but the company is now ready to expand from its core business into everything from the Internet of Things, to Virtual and Augmented Reality, to robotics and big data analytics. To get there, Razer has announced zVentures -- a new $30 million venture fund meant to explore new startups and technology in these arenas.

Via: TechCrunch

Source: zVentures

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News::The PS4's HDR-friendly update arrives September 13th

Sony has been talking about the PlayStation 4's big version 4 update for weeks on end, and now it's (almost) here. The company has confirmed that the new software will reach existing consoles on September 13th, and it'll have even more than first promised. You know about headliners like high dynamic range video support, home screen folders and a revamped Quick Menu. However, there are a few perks, some of which are hardware-dependent. If you snag a PS4 Pro, you'll get 1080p Remote Play and Share Play streaming, 1080p Twitch live broadcasts and 1080p YouTube broadcasts at 60 frames per second. It's also easier to transfer data to a new PS4 thanks to support for shuffling data over a local wired network -- you won't have to re-download content from the internet just to pick up where you left off.

Source: PlayStation Blog

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News::MSI says its VR backpack computer is the lightest yet

Remember the virtual reality backpack PC design MSI showed off at Computex just a few months ago? It's already obsolete. MSI has unveiled the finished product, the VR One, and it looks nothing like the prototype you saw in June. There's a good reason for that, though: the official hardware is billed as the world's "lightest and thinnest" VR backpack, weighing a more reasonable 7.9 pounds versus the 10 of before. It won't be quite so noticeable when you're spinning around the room, in other words. And that's not the only improvement -- MSI has taken concerns over performance and battery life to heart.

Source: MSI (1), (2)

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News::The RetroUSB AVS just replaced my childhood Nintendo

When I was a child, I fought with my brothers. A lot. It was part of being the youngest, and part of being a family. Most of our sibling rivalry died with our youth, but one single, never-ending quarrel outlived our childhood: the Nintendo Entertainment System. My oldest brother and I have been bickering over our original NES for decades. Who really owns it? Me, the guy who scoured garage sales to build our collection of classic games, or him, the firstborn who -- by sibling law -- is right by default? To this day, we still argue about whose house our childhood console should live in. Today, that war finally ends. I don't need our old Nintendo anymore. I have the RetroUSB AVS.

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News::Titanfall's mobile debut is a 'Hearthstone' with mechs

If I told you Titanfall was coming to smartphones, what kind of game would you envision? A side-scrolling shoot-em-up similar to Metal Slug? A Titan customization tool? Or a portable-friendly strategy game like Advance Wars? Well, I've got bad news. Titanfall: Frontline is none of those. It's a digital card game similar to Hearthstone. But wait! Before you dive back into Blizzard's tavern, hear Respawn out. The company has teamed up with Nexon, best known for the MMO Maplestory, to build out new cards and mechanics that could feel authentic to the Titanfall universe.

Source: Titanfall Frontline

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News::'The Last Guardian' is delayed until December

The long-awaited PS4 exclusive The Last Guardian has been pushed back to December 6th. The game was originally scheduled for October 25th, but apparently has more bugs than anticipated. "To ensure that The Last Guardian delivers on the experience that the game's creators have envisioned, we need to take the extra time to work on those issues," President of Sony's Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida told fans through a blog post.

Source: PlayStation Blog

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