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This is the new Porsche Cayenne GTS, and it has a V8 again - Top Gear

Sony just revealed its PS5 console: Here's what we know - CNET

Posted: 12 Jun 2020 07:03 AM PDT

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At its Future of Gaming event Thursday, Sony gave viewers a look at the new PlayStation 5 console. The company showed off the upcoming PS5 at the end of the event next to the new DualSense controller that we debuted back in April. Sony also displayed a suite of gear like an HD camera, controller charging station media remote and Pulse 3D wireless headset. It's unclear at this time if the gear is bundled or optional to add.

The new PS5, which was also pictured laying on its side, is a futuristic white with black finish and blue highlights.

The next-gen console will have two versions: a standard model with a Blu-ray drive and a slimmer Digital Edition machine that's discless -- it relies entirely on downloads and streaming. CNET's sister site GameSpot reported that the PS5 uses a solid-state drive, as opposed to a hard drive like previous PlayStations, and that game discs will support a capacity of up to 100GB.

Though prices and release dates weren't yet given, Sony CEO Jim Ryan said the company planned to launch later this year. You can watch the reveal below:

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The company discussed new games for the new console, teasing titles like a sequel to Spider-Man, Resident Evil 8 and Horizon Forbidden West. You can watch the trailers for these new games below:

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See all the trailers from the PS5 event here.

Sony had delayed the event after global protests erupted in response to the killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, while in police custody. Sony had initially planned to hold its event on June 4 despite the coronavirus pandemic, which shut down the annual E3 video game show this year.

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Spider-Man Miles Morales is an ‘expansion and enhancement to the original’, Sony clarifies - Video Games Chronicle

Posted: 12 Jun 2020 01:37 AM PDT

This article was updated at 11am BST with additional clarification.

Sony has clarified that Insomniac's PS5 Spider-Man game announced on Thursday is an "enhancement" of the PS4 original with a "substantial" expansion.

Announced during Sony's PS5 reveal event on Thursday, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales was described as "a new adventure from Insomniac Games," with little further detail offered.

However, in a new interview, The Telegraph describes Morales as "more akin to an expansion bolted on to an upgraded version of the original title."

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Sony Interactive Entertainment's EVP head of European Business, Simon Rutter told the publication that Miles Morales would include "major enhancements" to the 2018 PS4 game.

"I guess you could call it an expansion and an enhancement to the previous game," he said.

"There's a substantial Miles Morales component – which is the expansion element – but also within the game as well there's been major enhancements to the game and the game engine, obviously deploying some of the major PlayStation 5 technology and features."

Asked whether such familiarity was an important part of transitioning an installed user base from old machines to the new, Rutter said:

"I think what is very interesting for everyone to see is how familiar games might be to some degree changed through the workings of PlayStation 5."

Released in September 2018, PS4 exclusive Spider-Man was widely praised by critics and has now sold 13 million units worldwide, according to publisher Sony.

Sony says Spider-Man PS5 is an expansion.

The huge success of the title contributed to Sony Interactive Entertainment acquiring California-based Insomniac Games, the developer also known for Resistance and Ratchet and Clank.

Significantly, SIE has been using Spider-Man to demonstrate PlayStation 5's new SSD tech.

During its corporate strategy meeting in May 2019, CEO Kenichiro Yoshida showed a video comparing load times in Marvel's Spider-Man running on both PS4 Pro and its next-generation PlayStation hardware.

As described in the first PlayStation 5 details article, the next-gen PlayStation demonstrates dramatically reduced load times compared to PS4 Pro, with the camera able to fast travel near-instantaneously and speed through the city without pausing for asset loading.

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales will release for PS5 at the end of this year.

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This is the new Porsche Cayenne GTS, and it has a V8 again - Top Gear

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 03:01 PM PDT

This is the new Porsche Cayenne GTS, and it is a 2.2-tonne middle finger to downsizing. Yes folks, it's 2020, and the goldilocks of Porsche's sports SUV range now returns with a big V8.

Not as big a V8 as when the first-gen Cayenne GTS launched (that was a 4.8-litre naturally-aspirated thing), but a sizeable one nonetheless. For this third-generation GTS Porsche has ditched the old 3.6-litre turbo V6, and slotted in a detuned version of the V8 you get in the range-topping Turbo. Cap 'T', remember.

This one of course has a turbo, but with a small 't'. Two of them, in fact, bolted onto that V8 to produce 454bhp – up 20bhp over the old V6 – and 457lb ft of torque, which is also a smidge more than the old car.

As such, both the Cayenne GTS and Cayenne Coupe GTS (the first time the Coupe gets such a nomenclature) record 0-62mph times of 4.5s – over half a second quicker – and top speeds of 173mph. Both of those stats are possible via Porsche's Sport Chrono pack. Which you want.

Porsche reckons changes to the V8's engine cylinder control, direct injection and thermal management system – and a retuned eight-speed tiptronic auto – mean economy figures of 20-21.2mpg are possible. We shall see.

The V8 is matched to a new sports exhaust system – a pair of twin pipes on the SUV, just the two pipes on the Coupe – said to deliver "a highly emotive aural experience". Because V8.

And because this V8 is the sweet spot between entry-level Cayenne and mad-dog Cayenne Turbo S E-Hybrid (which you can read our review of here), it features 20mm lower suspension on standard steel-springs, adaptive dampers (PASM), torque vectoring, and 21in RS Spyder wheels hiding 390mm discs up front and 358mm on the back. Beefy.

There are options of course. Better brakes. Three-chamber air suspension. Rear-axle steering. Dynamic chassis control. Not listed on this particular sheet is the option to not buy a big 2.2-tonne SUV and get a V8 estate instead…

In any case, the Cayenne has always been a good thing to drive, and while the exterior of this third-gen car hasn't differed much from the second-generation, GTS models get tinted LED head- and tail-lights, and black air intakes/window trims/exhaust pipes. Inside there's lots of Alcantara, aluminium, and eight-way adjustable sports seats with deeper side bolsters. Perhaps salad should become your new best friend.

How much for this V8 tank, you cry? In the UK prices start at £85,930 for the Cayenne GTS SUV, and £88,750 for the Cayenne GTS Coupe.

Read Top Gear's 2020 Porsche Cayenne review here

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