Dragon Ball FighterZ is on the way to the Nintendo Switch at end of the year, and ahead of its launch, information has surfaced regarding an open beta for the title.

The news comes from Twitter user BlackKite, who has come across what appears to be evidence for a Dragon Ball FighterZ open beta coming to the Nintendo Switch in Japan. Japan's latest release of V-Jump has also revealed that the Dragon Ball FighterZ will also be receiving two new DLC characters around the same time, Base Vegeta and Base Goku.

Base Vegeta and Base Goku will be $5 each and will be available sometime throughout August. Base Goku will have Kaioken and Super Spirit Bomb abilities and Base Vegeta will be arriving with Galick Gun and Galaxy Breaker. According to Siliconera, the open beta coming in August will also start a new 3v3 local battle feature that players will be able to enjoy. At the moment the beta is only planned for release in Japan, hopefully we see a western release as well around the same time. Dragon Ball FighterZ is already available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. A Nintendo Switch release will be coming on September 29.

Fortnite is the largest game on the market right now, pulling in a huge $318 million in the month of May alone and now making Epic Games over $1 billion since its launch in late-2017.

Epic Games has just announced a new partnership with Funko, where the two companies will make a set of 10 product lines from Fortnite. This will include Pop figures, Pint Size Heroes, Vynl, keychains, 5 Star Figures, and Pop apparel, all of which will be arriving in the holiday season.

Funko boss Brian Mariotti said: "We are thrilled to collaborate and partner with Epic Games to create the inaugural Fortnite product collection and to bring these characters to life for the first time. This collection will be a true celebration of Fortnite's incredible popularity and cultural significance, and we believe our Funko Fortnite collectibles will strongly resonate with fans of the game".

Samsung will reportedly be unveiling its foldable smartphone sometime in early 2019, with The Wall Street Journal reporting that it will arrive in early 2019 with its 7-inch screen that will fold in half "like a wallet".

The previous rumors on Samsung's foldable smartphone teased a launch at CES 2019 so these new reports are beginning to form a solid foundation for the flexible smartphone. WSJ adds that the phone will feature a compact "display bar" on one side of the folded phone, with cameras on the back.

Samsung will reportedly aim its foldable smartphones at a niche audience, with a "broader" debut of foldable handsets in 2H 2019. Samsung's eventual goal is to have three flagship brands on offer: Galaxy S, Galaxy Note, and the Galaxy Foldable - or whatever they call it, I think Galaxy X, which will be great.

Gamescom 2018 is right around the corner so it comes as no surprise that Major Nelson teased "all-new Xbox hardware and accessories" in a blog post this morning.

The funny thing is that he edited it quickly after posting it, with Microsoft "backtracking on this statement" reports Engadget. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft showed off the next-gen Xbox at Gamescom next month, codenamed Project Scarlet. We could expect a refreshed Xbox One X with more than 1TB of storage, however.

Engadget thinks Microsoft will unveil an "even cheaper Xbox One S" console, and not an upgraded Xbox One X. Why not both? I'm sure higher-end gamers want more than 1TB of storage, so it would be nice to see a new Xbox One X with 2TB or even 4TB of storage.

Gearbox has yet to fill a writer position that's been open for almost a year--could Borderlands 3 be a longer ways off than we thought?

Borderlands 3 has been in development for quite a while. Gearbox's Randy Pitchford confirmed the sequel back in 2016. Despite its long dev cycle the game won't be released any time soon. 2K Games parent company Take-Two Interactive delayed the title to its next fiscal year, which runs from April 1, 2019 through March 31, 2020. But an unfilled job listing may indicate a longer delay for the game.

Back in October 2017 we reported that Gearbox is hiring a writer for its new "unannounced FPS/RPG hybrid" (aka Borderlands 3) to help flesh out the story arc and characters. As of now Gearbox has yet to fill the position, which could mean a few things: the game might be longer out than we expected, possibly beyond the targeted FY2020 timeline; the team didn't fill the position because they don't necessarily need the writer; or the game is still on track for its launch window and this unfilled job won't affect anything.

The latest rumor for Intel is that the company is preparing to launch its new 9th generation CPUs with a new Coffee Lake refresh that would be led by the flagship Core i9-9900K.

Intel is expected to launch the new Coffee Lake refresh on August 1 with the actual launch taking place in the weeks and months after, with multiple new Coffee Lake refresh CPUs filling out the 9th-gen family. The Coffee Lake refresh will see Intel fighting hard against AMD with its Ryzen 7 2700X, which is an 8C/16T design. Intel has no consumer 8C/16T processor on the market, so this would be a first for the company with the purported Core i9-9900K.

According to the new rumors, we should expect:

In a recent Twitter post by Ubisoft, the developer has unveiled the release date for South Park: The Fractured But Whole's coming DLC titled 'Bring the Crunch.'

'Bring the Crunch' will adding a brand new story campaign that will be based around your character saving the Lake Tardicaca summer camp, as the counselors have mysteriously gone missing. A new class will also be added in this expansion, it's called 'Final Girl' but sadly there is no information regarding the powers or abilities it harbours. Players will also be introduced to a brand new character called Mint-Berry Crunch who will be tagging along with you on the way.

South Park Fractured But Whole 'Bring the Crunch' DLC has been scheduled for release on July 31st, it will be coming in at just $11.99 but will be completely free to those who have already purchased the season pass. South Park: The Fractured But Whole is available on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC. For further information regarding the title, visit the official South Park: The Fractured But Whole website here.

As we move closer to the release of Forza Horizon 4, the developers of the title, Turn 10 Studios and Playground Games have released some gameplay footage showcasing the Autumn season.

The video goes for around an hour and Ralph Fulton the Creative Director of Playground Games, and Benjamin Penrose the Art Director give all the details on what players should be expecting from Autumn. Forza Horizon 4 will feature dynamic day and night cycles and seasonal changes, the developers have said that these changes will provide a predominant factor to how a car handles. This feature will force players into an adaptive gameplay style that will change based on what conditions the car is in, and what car is being driven.

Forza Horizon 4 also features a shared open world, this means that any drivers that you see around the world will infact be other players. Drivers that don't want to be bothered with interacting with other players will have the luxury of disabling/enabling this feature seamlessly, a simple one-click menu choice has been provided. Forza Horizon 4 will be launching with over 450 cars and will also be supporting cross-platofrm play between Windows 10 and Xbox One. The title is planned for release on October 2nd, for further information please visit the official Forza Horizon website here.

The VR market just got a whole lot more interesting over the last 24 hours, with a new consortium that involves NVIDIA, AMD, Valve, Oculus, and Microsoft introducing the new VirtualLink specification.

VirtualLink is a new open standard for the next generation of VR headsets that will see the entire VR experience powered by a single USB Type-C connector, removing the current need of HDMI and multiple USB 3.0 and 2.0 ports for the HMD, cameras, sensors, and power.

VirtualLink uses a single USB Type-C connector that provide four high-speed HBR3 DisplayPort lanes, something that is future-proof for next-gen VR headsets. There's USB 3.1 data for high-res cameras and sensors, and a huge 27W of power on tap with the new VirtualLink specification.

Blizzard have decided to modernize the granddaddy of MMO-RPG's, players will now be glad to know that they will have the entirety of World of Warcraft at their fingertips for just a $15 subscription.

Before this decision by Blizzard, players would have to pay for the base game of World of Warcraft, then again for the expansions, and finally another reoccurring subscription payment per month. Blizzard have now abolished this payment system and have introduced a simple subscription fee of $15, which will grant players access to all of the previous expansions besides the coming one, Battle for Azeroth.

Battle for Azeroth will still be costing players a pretty penny, coming in at $50 the Horde vs Alliance focussed expansion will be giving players the end game they have been dreaming of, completely manic battles against rivalling forces. Battle for Azeroth is planned for release on August 14th, for further information about the coming expansion or World of Warcraft in general, check out the official World of Warcraft website here.