Apple's iPhone SE was announced in March of last year, and the company still hasn't released its successor. Earlier this year we heard that the company is working on a new iPhone SE device, but some analysts believe that Apple has no intention of releasing an SE edition.

However, according to the latest rumors on the matter, Apple does plan to launch a new iPhone SE. Industry sources claim that the new device should be launched in the first quarter of next year, around the same time as the original iPhone SE.

The model is expected to keep the smaller screen and affordable price. It should be powered by A10 processor, the same SoC that powers the iPhone 7.

Apple has recently posted third quarter earnings, showing consistent revenue growth in key areas such as iPhone sales and services revenue.

In the three-month period ended July 1, technology juggernaut Apple generated a whopping $42.4 billion in total revenues, up 7.2% year-over-year, continuing its landmark Fiscal Year 2017 earnings trajectory. The Cupertino-based company earned $10.768 billion in operating income, up 6.56% year-over-year, and $8.717 billion in net income, up 11.81% over fiscal Q3'16. As Apple's earnings grow, so too does expenses: the company saw a mighty 12% increase of operating expenses to $6.720 billion in the quarter.

Apple CEO Tim Cook notes that third quarter growth was driven by record earnings from the company's services segment, which saw a big 22% spike in year-over-year revenues to $7.266 billion. Apple's services branch includes revenues from the App Store, iTunes, Apple Pay, and Apple Care. In fact, the services segment accounted for about 17% of total revenues for the quarter.

Back in June, Huawei introduced the Honor 9 smartphone, and customers' feedback has been mostly positive. It seems that the company wants to make another, improved version of this device - the Honor Note 9.

The latest leak claims that the device would be powered by Huawei's Kirin 965 processor paired with 6GB of RAM, and 64GB of internal storage.

The phone will reportedly come with a dual rear camera setup (12MP + 12MP), but there's no info about the front shooter.

As we've reported, Red Dead Redemption 2 isn't currently slated to release on PC when it launches in Spring 2018. That may not change and the massively anticipated Western sequel could be exclusive to consoles.

During a quarterly earnings call, Rockstar Games parent company Take-Two Interactive discussed how important PC is for its business, and the response may give little hope for a Red Dead Redemption 2 release on the platform. During the call Take-Two President Karl Slatoff was asked how important PC is to its major titles, in which he replied:

"The answer to that really depends on the title. Some titles are heavily weighted to PC, for example Civilization an XCOM, and some titles are less weighted to PC. So it's really on a title-by-title basis. The great news is that the PC market is vibrant to us, it's a great market for us and a big market, and a core market," Mr. Slatoff said.

The global interactive media market, which includes video games software, esports, streaming monetization, and virtual reality, is expected to peak at $104.6 billion in 2017, analyst firm SuperData predicts.

In its latest Trends and Insights on Games and Interactive Media report, analyst tracking firm SuperData forecasts the video games market to breach $100 billion in 2017. The report, which only includes digital media like PC, mobile, console and VR game software sales, microtransactions, and earnings from gaming video content such as Twitch, says that the global market revenues will grow by 12% year-over-year in 2017 to $104.6 billion. Contrarily, analyst firm Newzoo predicts the global games market will rake in $108.6 billion, up 7% year-over-year.

Mobile revenue is expected to jump by a mighty $6.7 billion in 2017, and 92.25% or $96.5 billion of total games industry revenues are from digital games, SuperData reports. Digital games are up 10.28% year-over-year, and are expected to make up 73% of revenues in 2020.

Today at 9AM EST, AMD officially lifted an embargo on unboxings of their new Ryzen Threadripper CPU. We had one kit on hand and did a Facebook Live video (embedded below) detailing everything from unboxing the CPU to an overview of ASUS's new X399 Zenith motherboard.

We unboxed both the Threadripper 1950X and 1920X. The 1950X features 16 CPU cores and 32 threads, while the 1920X features 12 cores and 24 threads. The 1950X is AMD's top dog when it comes to ripping up threads, and it's a behemoth of a CPU. AMD included a novelty dud CPU in the box so that we could get hands-on with the actual processor.

From its super thick PCB to heavy weight, the CPU looks and feels high performance. We can't disclose performance numbers at this time, but you can probably imagine what double the cores and threads of a Ryzen 7 1800X could deliver in a single package.

Toshiba today revealed the world's thinnest NVMe SSD designed to power the next-generation of tablets, laptops, and mobile IoT devices.

Toshiba's new BG3 line of NVMe SSDs incorporates its high-end BiCS Flash 3D NAND memory into a miniature, sleek DRAM-less package with built-in HMB technology, combining power efficiency with the speed of PCIe Gen3 x2. Tapping the PCIe Gen3 x2 interface and NVMe architecture the new BG3 drives can deliver reads of up to 1520 MB/sec--up to 2.7 times SATA 6Gbit/sec speeds--and writes of up to 840 MB/sec, providing mighty performance in a small 1.3mm-high SSD.

The ultra-slim BG3 series of SSDs is available in 128GB, 256GB and 512GB capacities, and are all available in surface-mount BGA (M.2 1620) or removable M.2230 module form factors.

It looks like Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi is getting his hands dirty on GT Sport, with the assets for the game over-specced for the slightly faster PS4 Pro, right up to 8K.

During a studio tour through Polyphony Digital, Finder.com reports that Yamauchi said that they're creating assets for GT Sport for future releases of PlayStation consoles, our strongest hint of the PS5 yet. Remember that I had an exclusive source tell me that the PS5 will feature a discrete GPU, and not an APU - so this news makes sense.

Yamauchi told Finder.com: "It takes six months to create a single car. It's over-specced for PS4 Pro. So we are building for future versions of the console rather than the one we see today. I think it would be no problem to run it at 8K even".

After months of waiting, Arkane is finally fixing Prey's FPS issues on PS4.

Prey's new 1.05 update will address a the notable frame rate issues on PlayStation 4 and PS4 Pro platforms by introducing "fixes to address screen-tearing/stuttering". Arkane's latest patch will roll out across all platforms--Xbox One, PS4, PC--and aims to squash a number of bugs and issues, including crashes, performance hiccups, and, of course, stamping out specific unintended player exploits.

Arkane hasn't delivered an ETA on the patch, but community forum manager Jurassica affirms it'll release sometime soon. Check below for full patch notes.

Illfonic and Gun Media have confirmed that Friday The 13th: The Game has sold almost 2 million copies since its late May release.

Friday The 13th: The Game is an interesting spectacle in the games industry. Developed by an indie team of only 30 people, many thought the game would be crushed under the insurmountable weight of the movie series, which cast a wide shadow. And at first it looked like Illfonic and Gun Media were in serious trouble: the game launched on PS4, Xbox One and PC with massive server congestion, as well as glitches and bugs on all platforms.

Despite these hurdles, the game went on to sell 1.8 million units in its first two months, Gun Media head and F13 co-creator Wes Keltner told GamesIndustry.biz in a recent interview.