Sony delivers another strong holiday quarter thanks in no small part to the PlayStation brand.

Sony Corp's Games and Network Services segment, which includes games and movies sold on the PlayStation Network, PS4 hardware and physical software, as well as subscription services, has pushed the company's quarterly earnings once again. As far as Fiscal Q3'17 numbers the G&NS segment raked in 718 billion yen ($6.35 billion) in sales, up 100 billion yen and 16.3% year-over-year. Operating income sits at 85 billion yen ($752.21 billion), up 35 billion yen and 70% year-over-year.

But what's most impressive is that Sony's Network segment (digital game sales, subscriptions, streaming, etc) broke 300 billion yen in a single quarter for the first time ever.

Hot off the heels of Call of Duty WWII's monumental success, Activision is keen on keeping the staggering earnings going with a new entry in the series' most popular sequels: Black Ops.

Earlier we reported on a rumor from industry insider Marcus Sellars who said that Black Ops 4 is not only happening, but will be this year's annual Call of Duty game. Now sources close to the matter have confirmed to Eurogamer that Black Ops 4 is indeed 2018's CoD title, and that Treyarch will develop the shooter. This underlines the veracity of the original claims.

No exact details were given on the new Black Ops game, but it's worth mentioning that Eurogamer has been spot-on with source reports such as these, whether with last year's Call of Duty WWII or the Nintendo Switch's specs and feature set. Given the tremendous sales momentum of CoD: WWII due to the game's triumphant return to boots on the ground action, it's very likely that Activision will push Treyarch away from sci-fi and more towards visceral, old-school Call of Duty action.

Synology have launched the RackStation RS2818RP+, a 16-bay NAS that is able to provide up to 192TB of capacity that can be expanded to 336TB with a RX1217(RP). Basically, the RS2818RP+ is designed for large storage applications for expanding businesses that want to future-proof their technology.

"One of the common challenges for modern small and medium-sized businesses is finding a storage solution that can store large amounts of data while having the flexibility to scale when business grows," said Jason Fan, Product Manager at Synology Inc. "RS2818RP+ offers large storage capacity with affordable TCO. It is ideal to serve as a centralized backup target, a file server or a hub-and-spoke backup target for distributed businesses."

Synology's RS2818RP+ is the first 3U RackStation NAS to appear in the Plus Series range and features an Intel Atom C3538 quad-core CPU with 4GB DDR4 non-ECC UDIMM RAM, which can also be expanded up to 64GB with four 16GB ECC UDIMMs for heavy applications. The RS2818RP+ also is equipped with four 1GbE ports Ethernet LAN ports with the option to upgrade to four 10GbE NICs, providing an impressive 1,400 MBps sequential read throughput and 26,000 random write IOPS.

Qualcomm is close to the full push of its next-gen 5G mobile connectivity, and the launch of their next-gen Snapdragon 845 processor, a new SoC the company detailed during their Snapdragon Technology Summit in Hawaii in December.

PCMag is now pondering what Qualcomm's successor to the Snapdragon 845 will be, with a purported Snapdragon 850 "probably coming this year, not next year, and that it'll probably appear first in Qualcomm's Windows always-connected PCs". PCMag's Sascha Segan is making a "bold guess" that the '50' in Snapdragon 850 will be something to do with Qualcomm's super-fast X50 modem, the first consumer 5G modem in the world.

Qualcomm recently teamed with Sprint to prepare US smartphone customers for 5G in the first half of 2019, which means we'll need to see X50-powered smartphones in the second half of 2018 or very early 2019 at the latest. Qualcomm is utterly leading the 5G race here, and I don't see this slowing down into the new year.

Samsung hasn't even confirmed their new Galaxy S9 smartphone and the rumors on the next-gen Galaxy S10 are already appearing, with something that should really steal the show: 5G connectivity.

Inside, we should expect Samsung's new-new-flagship will rock a high-performance SoC with a built-in Neural Processing Unit, or NPU. Samsung will also reportedly use LPDDR5, 5G connectivity, UFS 3.0 storage, 3D + AI tech, and over 93% of the front of the Galaxy S10 will be display goodness.

Samsung would also use a next generation OLED display, something that should ensure the Galaxy S10 has the best smartphone display, ever. We should expect to hear and see more on the Galaxy S10 later this year, with a launch in Q1 2019 at this rate.

Red Dead Redemption 2 could be one of the biggest games of all time, and now the latest rumor on RDR2 teases what could be an amazing feature: first-person view mode.

Not only would a first-person perspective be on offer, but Rockstar Games would be throwing in a big change to the multiplayer of RDR2 offering a Battle Royale mode. The rumors are coming directly from Trusted Reviews who received some "development documents" that tease that the Battle Royale game mode would be joined by 'Revive and Survive' and 'Money Grab' modes.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is said to drive the immersion factor much higher, with Trusted Reviews saying that "NPCs will decorate storefronts with amenities and pack things away once night comes". They continued that the towns in RDR2 are "populated with various NPCs including general store owners, gunsmiths and undertakers. You can also partake in gambling if you're hoping to risk it all for financial gain".

Shadow of Colossus will release tomorrow, we recently saw the trailer but now in celebration Sony has announced that there will be a livestream showcasing some of the gameplay.

In about 30 minutes or so Sony will be taking Shadow of Colossus live, showing off some gameplay of the new game and also a discussion reflecting on the first title.

The Shadow of Colossus livestream can be found here and while also what Sony said on Twitter "We're only a few hours away from the launch of Shadow of the Colossus on PS4! Watch live starting at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET for gameplay, reflections on the original, and much more"

It's not just the cryptocurrency market that is suffering with a huge $500 billion wiped away from the cryptocurrency market cap, but it's the entire stock market, including the largest technology companies in the world losing billions in the last few days.

We're talking about industry giants like NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm, Google, Intel, Samsung, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and everyone in between.

Google is down to $1062, after skimming close to $1200 per share last week.

Starbreeze Studios has posted on their blog, announcing that they have picked up the new Soren Johnson strategy game title 10 Crowns.

Johnson is best known for his work on the classic turn-based strategy title Civilization 3 and Civilization 4 which was developed by Firaxis Studios.

On Starbreeze's blog post they describe 10 Crowns to be "an epic-scale turn-based strategy game that lets players create the greatest dynasty in world history." The upcoming title has also had its development described by Johnson, saying that his team are "going back to our game development roots to make a classic historical 4X strategy game with some important and radical innovations to the genre."

Nintendo's Deputy General Manager of Nintendo EPD, Yoshiaki Koizumi, has taken to the Nintendo YouTube channel to answer some fan questions regarding Super Mario Odyssey.

Koizumi began by addressing the confusion surrounding if Toad is wearing a hat or if what is on his head is just his head, "So that, as it turns out, is actually Toad's head I'm going to have to leave it to all of you to figure out exactly how that works out. Maybe there's something inside..." answered Koizumi.

While Super Mario Odyssey was arguably an incredible game, fans were still confused at why Mario seemed to have nipples but didn't feature a belly button of any sort, Koizumi slightly touches on the subject, "I didn't really expect that to be a topic among fans. Once I heard that people were talking so much about Mario's belly button, it made me start to think about whether we should revisit the topic on the design side."