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Destiny 2’s future is stronger than ever.

What you need to know

Destiny 2 is a first-person shooter from Bungie.
It’s getting a new season today that focuses on The Darkness.
Three new expansions were also revealed up until 2022.
The game will run at 4K 60 FPS on Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5.

Today, Bungie released the “Season of Arrivals” for Destiny 2. During the livestream, the team also discussed upcoming content like future expansions until 2022 and how the game will just be called Destiny going forward. We’ve broken down all the major announcements here.

The next expansion is called Beyond Light and focuses on another black The Darkness pyramid on Europa. It’s the birthplace of the Exo class and you meet a new character called Hermes. The content allows you to equip The Darkness as a weapon and discover the true nature of the black pyramids and The Traveler. Beyond Light launches on September 22, and you’ll be able to preorder it today.

It’s unclear where this st…

Let’s hope it’s available at launch.

What you need to know

Destiny 2 is a popular first-person shooter from Bungie.
The game was upgraded for PlayStation 5.
Destiny 2 is also being upgraded for Xbox Series X.
Both consoles support 4K resolution and 60 FPS.

Updated June 9, 2020: Bungie confirmed that Destiny 2 will run at 4K resolution and 60 FPS on Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5. The game will also get cross-play sometime in 2021.

Destiny 2 is an incredibly popular first-person shooter and it looks stunning on Xbox One X. However, despite the fact that it runs at native 4K resolution, it still renders at 30 frames per second (FPS). However, it seems like that’s about to change when the next-generation machines roll out.

Today, Bungie confirmed that Destiny 2 would be upgraded for next-generation machines. Hopefully, this means that the title will render at 60 frames per second, or higher, on Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5. However, only time will tell. It’s unclear how…

Soon you won’t need a controller.

What you need to know

Google Stadia is a cloud game streaming service.
Google keeps on adding new features to the platform.
On-screen controls are coming soon.
You can purchase a Stadia bundle for $130 through the Google Store.

Google Stadia is a cloud game streaming service that launched in November 2019 to a lot of excitement. While there is still an issue when it comes to having an expansive game catalog, there are a lot of promising titles on the horizon.

However, the technical front of Stadia is even more exciting. Recently, 9to5Google said that Stadia was getting on-screen controls after doing some digging. This would be great for those who want to play a less-intense game without hooking up a controller. Hopefully, Google will announce this feature soon because it seems like it’s already been datamined.

Would you use on-screen controls or do you think they’re too finicky? Let us know.

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Stadia: Premiere Editio…

Hand tracking is finally here.

The Oculus Quest is a standalone virtual reality (VR) headset that doesn’t require any cables to be connected to your PC. The device has received a number of new features in recent months, but hand tracking may be the most significant. With firmware version 17, the Oculus Quest will automatically detect the presence of controllers and switch to hand tracking when no controllers are detected.

No longer an experiment

Once an experimental feature that needed to be separately enabled, hand tracking on the Oculus Quest now simply “just works” whenever the headset doesn’t detect any controllers in use. To begin using your Oculus Quest with only your hands (and without controllers), simply put the Oculus Quest on your head and power it on. Your hands will be automatically detected and you can navigate through the entire Oculus Home screen with just your fingers.

What’s more, whenever you’d like to switch from controllers to hand tracking at any t…

Hand tracking is finally making a name as a solid feature unto itself.

The Oculus Quest is a standalone virtual reality (VR) headset that doesn’t require any cables to be connected to your PC. The device has received a number of new features in recent months, but hand tracking may be the most significant. With firmware version 17, when controllers are not detected, the Quest will display a digital version of your hands as it detects them, allowing players to interact with menus and games as if their hands were in the virtual world. Oculus has deemed the feature to be good enough for retail games and is now allowing paid games to be released on the Oculus Store.

Menu navigation

You can interact with the Oculus Quest menu from the Library to the Store. Just point at and pinch whatever you want to select. The same applies to fast-forwarding or rewinding trailers in the Oculus Store.

Oculus services

Select apps like the Oculus Browser, Oculus TV, photo library, and more wo…

Check out these great games!

What you need to know

NVIDIA GeForce Now is a cloud gaming service along the lines of Google Stadia.
It features a lower subscription cost each month than Google’s service.
You gain access to existing PC games, with more being added each week.
Aven Colony, Goat Simulator, and more are the latest additions.

NVIDIA GeForce Now is a cloud game streaming platform along the lines of Google Stadia and Microsoft’s Project Cloud. The service allows you to play many of your existing PC games, even though many big publishers have pulled their titles from the service.

In a press release Windows Central received, the company reiterated its commitment to adding more games to the service on Thursday. You can take a look at the list below.

ATOM RPG Trudograd
Super Mega Baseball 3
Aven Colony
Battlestar Galactica Deadlock
Bomber Crew
Children of Morta
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in …

Give it a go!

What you need to know

Arizona Sunshine is a critically-acclaimed virtual reality game.
It just got its final expansion called The Damned on Oculus Quest.
The expansion is cross-buy, so you own it on the Oculus Rift, too.
You can purchase Arizona Sunshine for $40 on the Oculus Store.

Arizona Sunshine is an incredibly popular virtual reality (VR) shooter that puts you dead center of a zombie apocalypse. A day ago, the game got its final expansion called The Damned. According to the team, The Damned precedes the events of the main story, sending you and a team of American Special Forces to reactivate the generators of a massive hydroelectric dam to restore power to the military’s nuclear missile systems.

As expected, events don’t go according to plan and you have to slaughter legions of zombies to do what you have to do. The Damned is just as good as the Dead Man content that hit Oculus Quest a few weeks ago. Both offer desperate struggles and are a nice change o…