Intel's next-gen Cascade Lake-X family of CPUs was unveiled lat week, with the new competitors to AMD's Ryzen Threadripper family of CPUs set to be a big one for Intel.

So big that the flagship Core i9-10980XE processor will reportedly rock a huge 5.1GHz all-core boost when cooled with liquid cooling. Intel's new Core i9-10980XE processor has a base CPU clock of 3GHz, Turbo Boost 2.0 clock of 4.6GHz boost, and an all-core boost of 3.8GHz boost under regular cooling.

Intel's EMEA Technical PR Manager, Mark Walton, told PCGamesN: "You can overclock the heck out of these and get some really interesting results. For example, we've had the 10980XE, the eighteen-core processor, up as high as 5.1GHz in the lab using standard liquid cooling. And that, I believe, is all cores".

Call of Duty: Mobile is now 'the largest mobile game launch in history' with over 100 million downloads since its launch on October 1.

This means Call of Duty: Mobile has outranked the huge mobile gaming juggernauts in Fortnite and PUBG, according to industry analyst outlet Sensor Tower. Randy Nelson, the head of mobile insights at Sensor Tower, told Reuters: "This is by far the largest mobile game launch in history in terms of the player base that's been built in the first week".

The 100 million downloads of Call of Duty: Mobile includes both the iOS and Android versions of the game, and accounts for worldwide numbers. If we compare the 100M downloads in the first week of Call of Duty: Mobile against PUBG and Fortnite, Call of Duty utterly dominates.

We have already heard rumors of Sony launching two next-gen PS5 consoles in 2020: the regular PlayStation 5 which will be joined by the PlayStation 5 Pro... but what would the big difference between them be?

According to the latest from LetsGoDigital and their new PlayStation 5 renders, which we covered here, the regular PS5 might not have a super-fast SSD. The higher-end PlayStation 5 Pro console would have the super-fast PCIe 4.0-based SSD while the regular PS5 will have, well, we don't know yet.

I doubt Sony would use a regular HDD so they could use a normal 2.5-inch SSD in the regular PS5 that maxes out at 500-550MB/sec, leaving the worlds of 4GB/sec+ speeds to the higher-end PS5 Pro.

The first round of 3D renders of the next-gen (and now confirmed) PlayStation 5 console by the fine folks at LetsGoDigital were amazing... but the team is back with some slick new renders that give us a closer look at what to expect from the PS5.

Sony confirmed the PlayStation 5 in the last 24 hours, so if you want to read up on that click here -- but now we're going to dive into these delicious new renders. Gizmodo broke a story last week from its sources that between June and August 2019, they talked with a game developer that is working on a next-gen game for the PS5 and Xbox Two consoles.

Let's start off at the front -- we can see the new PS5 renders show that it would have a stand-by button, and next to it a reset (or record) and eject button that will eject those huge 100GB Blu-ray BDXL discs. The three buttons are joined by two LED indicators above the Blu-ray drive.

Jedi: Fallen Order's PC spec requirements went up today, but EA erroneously listed 32GB as the game's RAM recommendation. The real recommendation is only 16GB.

EA's Star Wars team confused a lot of PC gamers today by accidentally listing the wrong system memory recommendations for Jedi: Fallen Order. The game was originally listed as recommending a huge 32GB of RAM, which of course made everything think Respawn hadn't properly optimized the game on PC. All the other PC specs are fine: minimum requirements sit at an i3-3220/FX-6100 CPU, 8GB of RAM, and an AMD Radeon HD 7750 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650. The recommended specs are also pretty mild and ask for a Ryzen 7 1700 CPU/Intel i7-6700K and a RX Vega 56 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GPU.

Now EA's Ben Walke jumps in to confirm it was an error. Jedi: Fallen Order recommends users have 16GB of on board RAM, matching up and balancing with the other specs.

UPDATE: Atari sent us word that the Atari VCS is still happening and on schedule, despite the departure of the lead hardware designer.

"The Atari VCS is proceeding according to its previously announced schedule. We remain confident in the Atari VCS as the entire team works diligently to bring forth its vision according to plan, and we will continue to communicate accordingly over the coming weeks and months, including hands-on presentations to key media and partners planned for later this fall."

Atari just lost the chief architect of its new VCS console after allegedly not paying the designer for six months.

Noctua, known for its excellent performance and quiet cooling solutions, today announced that the Chromax series will now be joined by blacked-out coolers as well. The models receiving the blacked-out treatment are the ever-popular NH-D15, the NH-U12S, and the NH-L9i.

Enthusiasts have long lambasted Noctua for having amazing coolers with a color choice they simply could not get behind. We ourselves have tested several Noctua coolers, and they regularly find themselves at the top of many charts, but styling, it's simply hard to justify brown and tan or whatever they want to call the original color scheme when very few if any components outside of Noctuas ecosystem are even offered in that color scheme.

I think I can speak for many enthusiasts when I say this is a welcome change and a sign that Noctua as a brand is genuinely listening to their customer base. Evidence of this can be found in the quote from the CEO Roland Mossig:

HP, the acclaimed purveyor of PC systems, printers, and other consumer and enterprise-level tech, announced it would move forward with plans to restructure and 'simplify operations.' The term 'simplify operations' is a cute way to say they want to lower headcount to match their business needs.

Needless to say, HP has seen a downturn in its formerly popular printing business as the world has become far more digital with less reliance on printers and printing technologies. HP has just made the planning announcements last week that they will be restructuring over the next three years and reducing overall headcount by 7000 - 9000 (up to 16%) employees.

This on the surface is not that uncommon as business units falter, companies will try to relocate or reposition employees to avoid the culling. But in this case, it appears between now and 2022, HP's goal is to make the necessary cuts. The strange part in all of this has to do with the fact that the board for HP just approved an extra budget of $5 billion for opportunistic repurchases of HP common stock.

The internet has been ablaze with the recent update from AMD in regards to both the 3950X and the upcoming third-gen Threadripper, or Threadripper 3000. We know that the top end AM4 CPU consisting of 16 cores and 32 threads, along with the HEDT platform of Ryzen 3000 Threadripper reaching an unknown, but potentially 64 cores on a single package will see the official light of day coming in November which is a mere month away.

The eagle-eyed among enthusiasts such as the team from Videocardz noticed an update from MSI on their promotional review program page. It has been recently updated to list a new model in the register for eligible products for the promotion, the Creator TRX40.

One takeaway from this listing is that the "Creation" moniker which was applied to Z390, X570, X399, and X299 seems to be going away. It looks like the "Creation" label will be pitched aside as the new Creator X299 and TRX40 show that they may be trying to clear up the marketing and targeting message to ensure users understand these boards are made for content creators.

The launch of AMD's Ryzen 3000 and the new X570 chipset has come with new memory speed capabilities for Ryzen. Also, supported is PCIe Gen 4, which is all but useless for GPUs, but one area definitely makes good use of it, storage! Storage supporting PCIe Gen 4 launched with GIGABYTE and Corsair leading the charge, but we knew it would not be long until others entered the ring. Enter TEAMGROUP and their well-established prowess in both memory and storage.

T-Force Dark Z DDR4

TEAMGROUP today announced its first entrants into official Ryzen 3000 and X570 targeted memory and SSD products. The memory labeled T-Force Dark Z is offered in several capacities and frequencies. The baseline for the Dark Z is 3200MHz, with kits reaching up to 3600MHz and 4000MHz. Most enthusiasts know that the proposed sweet spot for Ryzen 3000 is 3600 for a smooth plugin and go performance option as the FCLK and UCLK can all be synchronized across the platform for optimal performance.

Doom Eternal has been delayed from its original November launch to March 2020, id Software today announced.

id confirms Doom Eternal has been delayed to March 20, 2020 on PS4, Xbox One and PC. The Switch version doesn't yet have a targeted release date, but it'll launch after other systems. The studio says the four-month delay will ensure higher quality and polish for the game on all platforms. id is offering Doom 64 free as a consolation, but only if you pre-order Doom Eternal.

"Throughout the development of DOOM Eternal, our goal has been to deliver a game that exceeds your greatest expectations across the board," id said in a statement.

PlayStation 5 games could end up spanning multiple BD-XL discs and pack serious content, as Sony today confirmed PS5 games will ship on 100GB Blu-ray discs.

As we predicted, PlayStation games will ship on two separate SKUs once the PS5 rolls out in holiday 2020: the dual-layer 50GB Blu-rays for the PS4, and 100GB capacity BDXL discs on the PS5. Although the generations will overlap, Sony plans to support the PS4 well into 2022. Since the PS5 is backward compatible with all PS4 games we'll likely see two variants of every PS game out on the market.

According to a new info blowout at Wired, PlayStation 5 games will be packed onto bigger BDXL Blu-ray discs to give developers more room for their titles. The PS5 will still require users to install games via an optical 4K UHD drive, but this process will be speedier thanks to the SSD.

Sony's new ultra-powerful next-gen PlayStation 5 console is coming in holiday 2020, Sony today confirmed.

"Today I'm proud to share that our next-generation console will be called PlayStation 5, and we'll be launching in time for Holiday 2020," Sony Interactive President Jim Ryan today announced. Microsoft's next-generation Xbox console, codenamed Project Scarlett, will likewise release holiday 2020. The console wars are far from over.

According to inside sources, the PS5 is a true generational leap ahead of current console tech. The system leverages AMD's new potent Zen 2 CPU and Navi GPU tech to deliver up to 120FPS, 8K graphics, dedicated ray-tracing lighting,and is outfitted with a potent PCIe 4.0 SSD to massively accelerate gameplay. Rumor has it the PS5's GPU is nearly as fast as an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2080 GPU to deliver high-end 4K gaming and 1080p with higher FPS.

New job listings from Avalanche Studios have indicated that the development studio behind the RAGE and Just Cause franchise are gearing up for a mega-sized title.

According to the listings on their website, Avalanche Studios are looking for a "Build Engineer" for the the studios New York based team. The position requires knowledge in "building and managing a large and complex code base for diverse platforms as well as enormous amounts of data." The listing also mentions that applicants need to have "in depth knowledge of game engine architectures and next generation console architectures and future architectural trends."

It seems that Avalanche Studios are planning on taking full advantage of the coming next-gen consoles and the massive hardware upgrade that will arrive with him. By doing this, the studio plans on building what seems to be a massive game and to back up this claim GamesRadar managed to find two more listing that specifically ask for applicants who have knowledge on next-gen engines.

The official Red Band trailer has been released for the upcoming sequel to Zombieland, Zombieland: DOUBLE TAP. Somehow Bill Murray is alive?

Zombieland: DOUBLE TAP will bring artistic value back into dismembering zombies in the most glorious ways possible. Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, and Emma Stone will be returning as Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita and Little Rock, respectively. The new movie will pit the characters against new and improved zombies while also picking up some new survivors along the way.

In the above trailer we get a little cameo part from Bill Murray, who should be noted, died to a accidental gun shot wound in the chest. Since Murray is died in the first movie, we can assume that this cameo role takes place before the events of the first movie which could mean that this sequel could show off a bit more about how the zombies came about before taking over everything the characters know and love. Zombieland: DOUBLE TAP will be arriving in cinemas October 18th. If you want to check out the original trailer, visit this link here.

This week Instagram users will say goodbye to the 'following' tab feature that allows you to keep tabs on your followers activity.

According to a new report out of Buzzfeed News, Instagram is removing their "Following" tab that is found behind the heart icon at the bottom right of the user-interface. If you are unaware of what the "Following" tab is, don't be alarmed as its definitely one of Instagram's lesser-known features. The "Following" tab allows for users to see the activity of the users they are following; e.g what photos they are liking and what other Instagram accounts they have decided to follow.

Instagram's Vishal Shah spoke out about the decision and said "People didn't always know that their activity is surfacing. So you have a case where it's not serving the use case you built if for, but it's also causing people to be surprised when their activity is showing up." In conclusion, Shah said that "Simplicity was the driving factor."

Back in January, China launched their Chang'e-4 spacecraft to the dark side of the moon. Now that spacecraft, and the potential life it contains has sprouted leaves.

China's Chang'e-4 spacecraft housed six life forms on the lunar surface: potato seeds, cotton seeds, rapeseeds, yeast, fruit fly eggs and Arabidopsis thaliana, a common weed. Also aboard the spacecraft was a mini-biosphere called the Lunar Micro Ecosystem (LME). This biosphere re-created Earth-like conditions excluding factors such as micro-gravity and cosmic radiation.

All of the other seeds died besides the cotton, and according to a new 3D reconstruction, the cotton planet grew not one but two leaves before it also died due to cold temperatures. The cotton leaves lasted about two weeks before falling into their cold fate, and from these findings China plans to continue studying how various life forms might be able to survive on the moon.

A new research team who was observing Saturn has found 20 more moons orbiting the planet, bringing the total number of moons circling Saturn to 82, surpassing Jupiters 79.

The research team led by Carnegie's Scott S. Sheppard observed 20 new moons, each of them are about five kilometers in diameter. 17 of the moons obit the planet backwards, meaning that their obital rotation is backwards when compared to the way the planet is spinning. The remaining three moons orbit with Saturn in the same direction.

The new moons were discovered using the Sabaru telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Scott Sheppard said that "Using some of the largest telescopes in the world, we are now completing the inventory of small moons around the giant planets. They play a crucial role in helping us determine how our Solar System's planets formed and evolved." Last year when Sheppard and his team discovered 12 new moons orbiting Jupiter they hosted and online naming contest for 5 of them, they will be doing the same thing for Saturn's newly found moons.

Soon Tesla owners will be able to customize their horn sound, with the possibility of also being able to upload their own audio file and use that for a horn.

Tesla Motors owner, Elon Musk took to Twitter yesterday to announce that "Customized horn & movement sounds" are soon to be "coming to Teslas". One of the sounds that Musk teased was "coconuts being one, of course" which seems to be reference to the Monty Python and Arthur's entrance on his imaginary horse. (video located below).

Musk also said that he "will consider" allowing Tesla owners to upload their own audio files to use as horn sounds. While that sounds like a great idea at first, Tesla could have potential trouble with some countries horn standard laws and how that falls under road-safety guidelines. There is also always the potential of Tesla owners changing their horn sounds to blast vulgar language, and while that would certainly be amusing to hear walking down the street, it wouldn't provide necessary road utility.

California has passed a new law that will see the banning of creating and distributing deepfake pornography videos of persons who have not consented to the video being made.

According to a study, 96% of deepfake videos found online come under the pornographic category and with more and more deepfake pornographic videos being released, California has decided to put in place some new laws to protect people. This new law will see statutory damages ranging between $1,500 and $30,000, and if malice is demonstrated throughout the video creation, damages can rise to $150,000.

With laws now in place, apps such as Fake App which allowed users to create their own deepfake porn video and post it onto Twitter, Facebook and Reddit will be stopped in their tracks. Fake App was so simple to use that fake porn videos of high profile people such as Daisy Ridley, Gal Gadot, Emma Watson, Jessica Alba circled the internet. Back in July, the House of Representatives considered federal measures to ban the distribution of deepfake videos to protect the legitimacy of the upcoming election.