Nintendo has revealed the opening cinematic for the upcoming Smash Bros. Wii U. Its suitable epic, showing off the companies mascots duking it out in some pretty epic  battles. Give it a watch below! Smash Bros for Wii U comes out on November 21, 2014.

For the month of November, Xbox Live Gold members can look forward to three new free games on Xbox One and Xbox 360.

Volgarr the Viking, the newest ID@Xbox game, will debut on Xbox One as a free download. For Xbox One gamers, this is a journey back to the days of yore, when times were tougher, and you really only needed a couple buttons to play a game.

On Xbox 360, starting Saturday, November 1st, Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise ($14.99 ERP) will be free for Xbox Live Gold members through November 15th.

Then on November 16th, Xbox Live Gold Members can download Red Faction: Guerrilla ($19.99 ERP) for free through November 30th

*Titles are available as free downloads for qualifying Xbox Live Gold members in all markets where Xbox Live is available. Some regions may offer different titles depending on market availability.

Earlier in the year, Youtube announced plans to update the site to support 60FPS in videos, which would make a difference to videos of gameplay especially, even if you think that 60FPS is unnecessary.

Today they’ve begun the rollout of the new system. Currently it’s only supported by Google’s own browser, Chrome, which mean if you use a different browser you unfortunately lose out for now. It should hopefully come to other browsers eventually though, so if you’re able to wait we should all be able to see 60FPS videos eventually. You also need to watch the videos in HD if you want the bigger framerate.

Are you excited for the new bigger framerates for videos?

Whether you think the Oculus Rift is the next big thing or not, you can’t deny that it’s done stuff with VR that has pushed the entire idea forward quite a bit in the last few years. It still has a way to go to be wildly successful though, and the creator of Facebook (who now own Oculus) thinks that its going to have to shift in fairly large numbers to do so.

He thinks it needs to sell “50 million to 100 million units before it will really be a very meaningful thing as a computing platform. So I do think it’s going to take a bunch of years to get there.” adding that it’ll probably take a few cycles of the device to get it to the point where it is selling in large enough numbers.

He considers the acquisition of Oculus as a long-term investment in the future of technology and computing as well. “Every 10 to 15 years, a new major computing platform arrives and we think that virtual and augmented reality are important parts of this upcoming next platform. This quarter, Oculus continued to make progress towards this vision.”

The consumer beta for Oculus’ second Rift device could be available as soon as April of next year. Already the DK2 development kit has proven popular enough that Oculus has had to stop unscrupulous buyers bulk-buying just to sell them on with a markup.

Do you think Oculus is a good long-term investment? Tell us below.

Blizzard do not like people who use bots to play Hearthstone. they ruin the game for players they say. And now they’ve banned several thousand accounts that were using third party software in order to play the game for them, despite them having not done anything about it previously other than condemn it.

In August this year Hearthstone community manager Daxxarri made Blizzard’s stance on the third party software bots clear. “Making use of third party programs that automate gameplay (also known as ‘bots’ or ‘botting’) is a violation of our Terms of Use. Accounts that are found to be making use of ‘bots’ are subject to penalties, up to and including permanent suspension.”

The bans though aren’t too harsh in the scheme of everything though, they will last just until the year is over so if you’ve been caught botting you should be able to start playing again in 2015. Which is fair enough if you’ve learned your lesson about it. However, if you get caught doing it again, Blizzard won’t be so lenient.

“We will continue to closely monitor activities within Hearthstone and take appropriate action against cheating in any form, as outlined in our Terms of Use. From this point on, accounts found to be cheating will be permanently closed without warning.”