Remember when I exclusively reported that NVIDIA was set to launch a new GeForce GTX graphics card during GTC 2018? Well, if you wanted confirmation of this fact, it is here: NVIDIA has just placed 'out of stock' on the entire range of GTX 10 series graphics cards, as well as the TITAN Xp.

As you can see 'out of stock' dominates the official NVIDIA website, which means they will not be selling any more GTX 10 series cards effective immediately. The reason behind this would only be that NVIDIA themselves are completely sold out of GP10x GPUs and can't fulfil even their own orders for Founders Edition cards, or a next-gen release is imminent.

I also reported another exclusive earlier today that NVIDIA would release their next-gen GeForce GTX product as the GTX 11 series, and not the GTX 20 series that the world has expected. This news, along with the GTX 11 series naming and the GTC 2018 keynote that Jensen Huang kicks off tomorrow morning has every fiber in my nerd body freaking out.

Before it made Warframe, Digital Extremes made some awesome games such as The Darkness II, and if you haven't experienced it yet you can grab it online for free.

Continuing its tradition of awesomeness, the Humble Bundle Store is giving away free copies of 2K Games' brutal shooter The Darkness II...but be sure to act fast as copies are apparently limited on a first come first served basis. And what's more the game will only be free for the next 48 hours so jump on it ASAP.

I've yet to try the game myself but I've heard nothing but good things about the sequel and the series as a whole...so you better believe I grabbed my copy already.

We've been hearing rumbles of an Ethereum ASIC miner, something that seems to be right around the corner... eyeing off a release in the next couple of months at the latest.

According to Susquehanna analyst Christopher Rolland, who said in a note to investors: "Bitmain has already developed an ASIC [application-specific integrated circuit] for mining Ethereum, and is readying the supply chain for shipments in 2Q18. While Bitmain is likely to be the largest ASIC vendor (currently 70-80% of Bitcoin mining ASICs) and the first to market with this product, we have learned of at least three other companies working on Ethereum ASICs, all at various stages of development".

Rolland says that Bitmain's impending release of an Ethereum ASIC miner will hurt the demand for graphics cards, which are sold out across the world and ridiculously priced right now. The analyst expects NVIDIA and AMD to also take some hits in share prices, with AMD the worst affected by his claims.

I've only been on the ground in San Jose for less than 24 hours, but I've had some interesting conversations with people in very high places that have confirmed with TweakTown exclusively that NVIDIA's next-gen graphics cards will NOT be launched as the GTX 20 series.

This means no GeForce GTX 2080 like we, and everyone else have been reporting, but instead the GeForce GTX 11 series. My source was quick to make me ponder, but couldn't answer the question in full: they said "it [the new cards] won't necessarily end in '70' and '80' like we're used to". That's all they would say on the matter.

NVIDIA could launch new graphics cards with names like GeForce GTX 1185 and GTX 1175 instead, differentiating them against the GTX 1070 and GTX 1080. I could see this happening, as it would be an interesting move for sure, and I really like the idea of a GTX 1185 for example.

With the release of Far Cry 5 right around the corner, AMD has released their new Radeon Software 18.3.4 drivers that include support for the game, and a few fixes for other games.

AMD is even offering Far Cry 5 for free when you buy a Radeon RX 580 or Radeon RX Vega graphics card, that is, if you can find cards in this dimension because miners have purchased them all. That's for another article, but just something to scratch the chin over.

AMD has also fixes issues in Final Fantasy XV, as well as "some blockchain workloads" seeing reduced performance in the last drivers. You can download the new Radeon Software 18.3.4 drivers right here.

Bethesda's Skyrim Special Edition has recently received a slew of goregous 4K textures from Modder 'MystiriousDawn Pfuscher.'

The below images detail a selection of terrain landscapes that have replaced the vanilla textures with is titled as "HD Ground Textures - 4K."

MystiriousDawn Pfuscher is offering different variants of the mod, options include a low quality resolution of 1K, a high quality one at 2K and the ultra high quality at 4K.

The comedic value from Ubisofts upcoming Far Cry 5 release is honestly outstanding, there has been very few trailers that have made be laugh as much as this one, and its all due to the sheer amount of fun that bleeds the scenarios and lyrics seen in front of me.

The new trailer has been titled "Far Cry 5: Singalong - My Country 'Tis Of Thee" and the title really does mean what it says, starting the trailer in a subtle kind of fashion and then eventuating in to pure Far Cry chaos.

Far Cry 5 will release on PS4, Xbox One and PC on March 27th, will be downloading and providing benchmarks for this game as soon as its released, so stay tuned for some performance numbers.

Big publishers like EA and Ubisoft are exploring how new technologies like blockchain and AI will arm developers with new tools for game dev, and the French games-maker is confident this will be a boon to its worldwide studios.

Making video games is pretty much an overwhelming endeavor that takes countless hours of rote coding, animation, tweaking, fixing, and most importantly iteration. But what if devs could use, say, an advanced AI like IBM's Watson to cut development time while giving creators more control over the more vivid and interesting aspects of their games? That's Ubisoft's hope, and one of the many reasons why they're experimenting with new technology in their new Strategic Innovation Lab.

Ubisoft is looking at ways that AI can handle specific tasks such as monotonous animating and testing. According to Yves Jacquier, who heads Ubisoft's studio production services branch, using AI in this way will give developers much more time to innovative, iterate, and generally be creative and bring new ideas and content to the table. But the issue here is what's known as "feature creep," so giving every developer too much creative freedom could end up bloating the scope and pipeline of the game itself.

Last month Nightdive Studios put the ambitious System Shock reboot on hiatus, but just how long will it take the devs to ship the game? Two years give or take.

While developing the massively anticipated System Shock remake Nightdive Studios ran into an all-too-common problem in game dev: "feature creep". Essentially what happens is that as more and more people become attached to the project, everyone injects their ideas into the scope of the game, which eventually becomes so wide it barely resembles the project that gamers actually backed on Kickstarter. This is a natural issue in game dev and is likely responsible for the cancellation or outright recycling of many, many games (maybe Visceral suffered the same with their project Ragtag Star Wars game?).

As a result Nightdive says the game may not be ready to actually play until 2020 (remember games take a while to make).

Following the season 11 finale of The X-Files, showrunner Chris Carter lets slip that FOX is making a new X-Files game to keep the property going.

As a huge fan of The X-Files, I have mixed feelings about the new seasons. But whatever your opinions may be about Scully and Mulder's return to TV it appears that they'll also make another splash in the video game world. After three games--the last of which was a more interactive experience--Carter says the powers that be are ready to try again.

SPOILER WARNING: Huge spoilers for season 11 in the source article!