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AMD only just teased it would be revealing much more about its new Big Navi graphics card family, based on the RDNA 2 graphics architecture, on October 28.

But now less than 12 hours later we have a new mysterious engineering sample photo of a purported Big Navi graphics card. The leak is saying that this particular card uses 16GB of GDDR6 from Samsung (compared to the 8GB, 10GB, and 24GB of GDDR6/X that NVIDIA is using from Micron on Ampere).

Not only that but there are "only 8 video memory bits" which means we're looking at a 256-bit memory bus, which is "far less" than the GeForce RTX 3090. This might be Big Navi, but AMD needs the bigger guns with something like Bigger or even possibly Biggest Navi if it wants to compete with the beast that is the GeForce RTX 3090.

Xbox All Access can save you money in the long run, but only if you plan to buy Xbox Game Pass Ultimate anyway.

Microsoft's Xbox All Access program opens new flexible access points for consumers who don't have $499 or $299 to drop on a new Xbox. All Access allows consumers to sign a credit lease contract and pay for a next-gen Xbox Series X or Series S console over time.

Instead of paying hundreds all at once, consumers pay in monthly installments across a 24 month term.

Destiny is the penultimate service game shooter, and it's come a long, long way since 2014. The game is now six years old, and to celebrate we decided to take a quick look back at the old beta from 2014.

While scouring my PlayStation 4 captures I dug up a few Destiny beta screenshots from the very beginning of Bungie's dream game. I've seen Destiny evolve before my eyes from the scrappy ambitious FPS-RPG startup to the mega-engaging, cross-platform behemoth it is today. Before Shadowkeep and Beyond Light there was just vanilla Destiny. The story was weird, there wasn't a whole lot to do, and our floating ghost spoke of wizards from the moon. But it was a campy, memorable, and simpler time; a time where you roamed across Old Russia in search of spinmetal and secrets. Sometimes you found cool things, like a level ?? Celebrant of Oryx, or a loot cave that just kept spilling goodies.

Other times you found friends. I'll still never forget my first trip to the moon with a friend, or the first Vault of Glass raid I ever did. There was nothing like--and still is nothing like--Destiny on the market. Bungie has made good on its promise to connect players in an evolving world, and there's been lots of hiccups along the way, but ultimately the game is something special.

EA is bringing its on-demand all-you-can-play vault of first-party games to Game Pass for free. This is a carefully-designed business move that has far-reaching implications.

Today Microsoft announced a fusillade of next-gen value: First the Xbox Series S allows ray-traced next-gen 1440p gaming for $299, and the Xbox Series X was confirmed for $499, making it the most accessible point for 4K 60FPS+ gaming. But the real bombshell surrounds Xbox Game Pass.

EA Play is coming to Game Pass Ultimate on both PC and Xbox for no extra cost. Normally, EA Play is $5 a month per platform on its own, but it's now included free with the $15 a month GP Ultimate subscription. Why would EA wrap itself in a potentially competing service? It's simple, really: EA wants to use Game Pass to sell microtransactions and game sales.

The full multiplayer reveal trailer to Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is here, and it looks like an insane amount of fun. Check it out:

We can expect gamers to be dropped into the world of the Cold War and its tight grip on the world in the early 1980s, with Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War throwing you into a huge single player campaign that will see you going up against historical figures in some gorgeous locations including: East Berlin, Vietnam, Turkey, Soviet KGB headquarters, and more.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is next-gen ready, where you can purchase the 'Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Cross-Gen Bundle or Ultimate Edition digitally' on either platform and you will get -- in the Black Ops Cold War official website description:

AMD has just announced it will be revealing its next-gen RDNA 2 graphics architecture on October 28, in a new tweet that you can check out below:

AMD teases a that RDNA 2 is a "breakthrough gaming architecture" designed for both "PCs and consoles" and that "a new journey begins October 28". I guess we'll be introduced to Big Navi, which should be the new Radeon RX 6700 XT if AMD keeps the same nomenclature.

The new card will be the competitor to NVIDIA's about-to-be-released monster GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card, but recent rumors have suggested Big Navi will bring with it 16GB of VRAM -- up from the 10GB offered on the RTX 3080.

NVIDIA will be kicking off the price of its riduclous but oh-so-delicious GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card at $1499, but you knew it wasn't going to stay there long.

The GeForce RTX 3090 isn't even out yet and we're seeing custom RTX 3090 pricing that is passing $2000, with German retailer Caseking.de listing custom GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards priced at €1,719 which converts to just over $2000 USD without taxes.

It looks like the cheapest custom GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card is going to cost around $1855, while the cheapest custom GeForce RTX 3080 will cost around $900. This is without taxes in the US so those prices might be a little higher depending on where you live.

The powerful next-gen Xbox Series X console will cost $499 and release November 10, 2020, Microsoft today confirmed. Pre-orders will go live on September 22.

The Xbox Series X will offer higher-end 4K 60-120FPS gaming in an accessible, all-in-one package for $499. This price point is great news for consumers; The Series X has the same MSRP as the Xbox One X in 2017 but offers tremendous power gains for the same cost.

The Series X is twice as powerful with a 12TFLOP Navi 2 GPU for hardware-accelerated ray-tracing and gaming perf at native 4K 60FPS, complemented with a 3.8GHz 8-core Zen 2 CPU for fast, efficient processing and a revolutionary PCIe 4.0 SSD with 2.4GB/sec data transfer speeds. RAM is also upped to 16GB of GDDR6 memory over the One X's 12GB of GDDR5.

TechPowerUp has released it's latest version GPU-Z which now has built-in support for NVIDIA's new Ampere-based GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards.

The new GPU-Z v2.34.0 supports all of the new Ampere graphics cards, including the GeForce RTX 3090 with its huge 24GB of GDDR6X, and monster star $699 GeForce RTX 3080 and the new GeForce RTX 3070 are all supported.

Not just that, but support for Intel Tiger Lake, Comet Lake (Xeon W-1290P, Celeron 5205U, Core i3-8140U), Ice Lake (Core i5-1038NG7), Whiskey Lake (Core i5-8265U) is included, as too is support for DirectX 12 FL 12_2 and Micron's new GDDR6X memory which is featured on the GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards.

Update: VideoCardz tweeted that these images are in fact not from crypto miners, but from Chinese retailers.

Well, it looks like GeForce RTX 3080 stock is going to be non-existent thanks to crypto miners -- as the new Ampere-based GeForce RTX 3080 is an Ethereum mining beast.

According to photos surfacing on China's Baidu forums, crypto miners are buying the new GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards in major bulk -- to fill their ETH crypto mines. You can see in the above images there are boxes of custom GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards.

Microsoft looks to be charging a pretty big chunk of cash for 1TB of ultra-fast SSD expansion goodness for its next-gen Xbox Series X console according to a new leak.

A new tweet from Idle Sloth on Twitter spotted the 1TB SSD expansion for the Xbox Series X, with the drive itself made by Seagate, to cost $219.99. It's not too expensive, considering a 1TB PCIe 4.0-capable NVMe SSD costs $190-$200 for the PC -- a $20 premium isn't bad.

Alternatively, you could use an external storage expansion through the USB 3.2 connection on the Xbox Series X, too.

NVIDIA revealed its trio of Ampere-based GeForce RTX 30 series cards last week, but now we have a family photo of all three of them side-by-side.

From left to right we have the GeForce RTX 3090 in all its girth and glory, next to it we have the GeForce RTX 3080 and on the far right the GeForce RTX 3070. It's funny, the GeForce RTX 3090 is so absurdly large that it makes the still-chunky GeForce RTX 3080 look small, and the RTX 3070 puny in comparison.

NVIDIA has a huge triple-slot design for the GeForce RTX 3090, which houses 24GB of GDDR6X memory while the GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 are both dual-slot graphics cards. The GeForce RTX 3070 has its dual fans on the front, with no rear fan (unlike the other two cards).

Microsoft's HoloLens 2 is now available to anyone, not just enterprise companies. You can order the mixed reality headset from the Microsoft Store in quantities as low as one.

Microsoft is finally making the HoloLens 2 headset available to anyone with the means to pay for it. Until now, the device was only available to select customers, and those customers were limited to the largest companies in the world.

HoloLens 2 may be available to consumers now, but we don't expect many people actually to buy one. Microsoft's Mixed Reality technology is awe-inspiring, but it's also quite costly. One of these devices will set you back a staggering $3500.

It seems AMD is going to drop some big Big Navi news right in the middle of every tech reviewer in the world testing their new GeForce RTX 3080.

AMD's Chief Gaming Architect and Marketing Frank Azor tweeted something very cryptic on Twitter just before, which is from "Tomorrow" which is a show tune from the musical Annie. The song itself pushes out an optimistic view of life -- so I guess AMD is telling us to continue being happy and optimistic for Radeon.

Even though NVIDIA just came out and dropped a $699 total freaking beast of a graphics card that out performs its previous-gen flagship $1199 card, a card that AMD couldn't match with RDNA (Radeon RX 5700 XT) and was meant to equal, or beat with Big Navi.

Mojang just announced that PSVR support is coming to Minecraft, and you won't have to wait for long for the update. It's supposed to be out before the end of the month.

The upcoming Minecraft PSVR patch is a free update for all PlayStation 4 Minecraft owners. Of course, you will need a PSVR headset to enjoy the new way to play the game.

Mojang said that the update would convert the entire game into a VR experience. It's is not just a limited demo like some PSVR titles. As Mojang put it, this is the "100% wholesome full-fat Minecraft" you've known for years.

ASRock Industrial today introduced a new series of mini PCs that packs a lot more power than you would expect for a business computer. The new 4x4 BOX-4000 series offers Ryzen 4000 APUs with built-in Vega graphics.

ASRock's new line of workplace mini PCs are a lot more powerful that the average office computer. These compact systems feature AMD's mobile Ryzen 4000 CPUs, which you can get in Ryzen 3 4300U, Ryzen 5 4500U, or Ryzen 7 4800U flavours.

Each option includes a 7 CUs of Vega 7 graphics to handle all your display needs, including support for up to four displays with one DisplayPort 1.2a, one HDMI 2.0a, and two USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C ports that support DP1.2a. Each output can drive a 4K panel at 60Hz, which would give you a tremendous amount of desktop space to work with.

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards are nearly here, but the new DLSS 2.1 upgrades that are coming through are going to be huge.

DLSS 2.1 is an enhancement to the already AI-enhanced DLSS 2.0 technology, with NVIDIA going into more detail during an Q&A session on Reddit recently. We already know there are going to be major VR improvements with DLSS 2.1, which will be good for future games in VR on Ampere.

I'm sure you know someone in your life, or maybe you've even done it -- where you've wiped data on your phone or done a factory reset and forgot to back something up. Well, that's where Dr Fone comes in. Check out the introduction video:

Dr Fone started out as a normal iOS repair and recovery kit of software, but it quickly began to grow into a much larger toolkit. Dr Fone is available on both iOS and Android (as well as PC and Mac) but offers different features and functions between the operating systems -- the iOS version seems to be the better one. It has quickly become one of the best free iPhone data recovery software packages on the market.

The Dr Fone Toolkit is the perfect iPhone recovery software, it will show you how to recover data after factory reset iPhone, and even recover iPhone data lost after restoring to factory settings. It's like the perfect vaccine for your phone, from Dr Fone -- get it? The perfect software to recover iPhone data after restore.

It looks like we might be close to a Battlefield 6 announcement, with YouTuber jackfrags teasing... well... something in this new video:

At the 10:00 mark or so the video cuts to a watch with both hands of the watch at the 12 o'clock position -- right on the '6'. Six... get it? Battlefield 6. The tease was then amplified by DICE Senior Designer Niklas Astrand, who tweeted a reply teasing 'Tick tick tick...'.

We already know that Battlefield 6 should roll out with a modern setting, it has been designed for over 128 players and will have 32 v 32 players as standard.

Phison has truly delivered the speedy SSD goods with its new E18 controller, with the new PS5018-E18 NVMe SSD controller that is now making its way into high-end SSDs from the likes of Sabrent.

The company has been teasing a new 2TB engineering sample that crushes Samsung's new 980 PRO, with a huge 7GB/sec reads and 6.9GB/sec writes... on top of that we have 74,217 IOPs which beats out the Samsung drive that can't even hit 60K.

Sabrent is using the Phison E18 SSD controller inside of its amazing new Rocket 4 Plus SSD, which you can read all about here. Sabrent is the only one offering a new 7GB/sec capable NVMe SSD in 2TB capacities too -- remember that, Samsung is only offering 250GB/500GB/1TB.