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We started hearing concrete details on Intel's new 10th-gen Comet Lake family of CPUs in July 2019, with the flagship Core i9-10900KF rocking 10C/20T @ 5.2GHz, but now we have more information and a new 400-series chipset and LGA 1200 socket teased.

Intel will reportedly be using a refined 14nm+++ node for the new 10th gen Comet Lake CPUs, with the initial launch consisting of 9 different SKUs with many others dropping post-launch. We should expect everything from the low-end Celeron and Pentium CPUs through to Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Core i9, and Xeon W variants of Comet Lake.

Intel is expecting somewhere around 18% performance improvements in multi-threaded compute workloads, and an 8% generational improvement in normal Windows tasks over the 9th gen parts on the market.

Google has acquired Fitbit in a deal worth $2.1 billion, with Google SVP of devices and services Rick Osterloh explaining in a blog post that acquiring Fitbit is "an opportunity to invest even more in Wear OS as well as introduce Made by Google wearable devices into the market".

Fitbit will be joining Google itself just like when the company acquired Nest, versus breaking it up or sending it to join Alphabet and be used in a different fashion. Fitbit also had something to say in their own press release, standing by its privacy for health and fitness data (especially now that it's joined the do-no-evil Google). Fitbit said: "Fitbit health and wellness data will not be used for Google ads".

This is a good fit for Google as it transitions into 2020 it'll need to better fight Apple and its Watch family of wearables, and Google can bring some of its smarts into Fitbit's smartwatches and future wearables. Google has its own fitness tracking software and apps, and could see Fitbit blend works with Google Fit.

LG promised NVIDIA G-Sync support to its line of OLED TVs not too long ago, and the time has finally come. LG will begin pushing out firmware updates to certain TVs in its range, starting with this year's E9, C9, and B9 models, enabling G-Sync goodness.

If you're an LG OLED TV owner of the E9 range (55/65 inches), the C9 range (55/65/77 inches) or the B9 models (55/65 inches) then you will get your firmware updates starting in the coming days. You'll need to be in the US for the first wave of firmware updates, but then the full roll out begins in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East before 2019 wraps up.

LG has also promised that the new firmware will also reduce flicker, tearing, and stuttering when gaming on your OLED TV with your PC. LG's new G-Sync firmware for its OLED TVs is limited to just the GeForce RTX and GTX 16 series graphics cards.

Hideo Kojima must now finally be able to sleep with Death Stranding finished and being pressed into Blu-ray discs for the PS4 as we speak, with our Death Stranding Review roundup right here. But what about his next game?

Well, that's something Kojima talked about in a recent BAFTA panel that featured the man himself and film director Nicolas Winding Refn (who also plays Heartman in Death Stranding). Towards the end of the panel, Kojima began to talk about being excited for what he and his team are working on post-Death Stranding.

Kojima said: "Well, I'm kind of not just anxious about it, but also I'm really facing towards the future already. Nicolas is the same, I think. When you finish a project, and your body's resting and you take a break with your family, your brain is always constantly thinking. So you finish something, and - well, Death Stranding will be released next week, but I'm already thinking about the next project, and the next, next project, and I'm trying to prepare things. But it's a natural thing for me. It's like having breakfast, lunch, or dinner. It's nothing special to me, it's as simple as that. But the next project that I could work on, just to think about that, I'm happy to think that I could work on it; I'm still physically fit to do it".

Death Stranding is here and along with it major websites and gaming havens have Death Stranding reviews, with mostly positive words to say about Hideo Kojima's latest and greatest post-Konami masterpiece.

Hideo Kojima has built one of the most interesting games in gaming history with Death Stranding, which seems to have caused a slight divide amongst reviewers. I'll be more keen to see how the game goes in actual gamers' hands when it launches on November 8 for the PS4 and 2020 for the PC.

Death Stranding launches exclusively for Sony's PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro consoles, while the PC will get Death Stranding sometime in 2020.

WB really did a number on Snyder when it came to Justice League... which is a story for a different time, but if you didn't know... there is a Snyder Cut that is over 3 hours long, with finished visual effects, score, a totally different storyline, new characters and actors, and so much more. Aquaman himself has confirmed this not once, but now twice. Check out the interview below:

I've got the video at 12:40 which is when the discussion about the Snyder Cut of Justice League begins, but the entire video covers a bunch of stuff. It starts off about the meaning of guitars on Momoa's life, growing up in Hawaii, working on Baywatch, Game of Thrones, his new show See, who he would play in Star Wars, Aquaman (of course), and then the big one -- the Snyder Cut of Justice League.

A year ago, MTV News's Josh Horowitz interviewed Jason Momoa for Aquaman -- throwing in a Snyder Cut of Justice League question. Momoa answered: "I'm obsessed with (the idea of the Snyder cut) too, yeah. I mean, that's one thing that sucks in our business where you can't speak your mind. Yeah! Fuck yeah, I want to see it".

Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC is the definitive version of the game, complete with high-end graphics and uncapped frame rates for powerful systems. And naturally Rockstar wants you to show off their amazing Western with a new photo mode.

Today Rockstar confirmed Red Dead Redemption 2's incoming PC release will have a photo mode, complete with tons of options and effects. The photo mode can freeze frame any scene in the singleplayer campaign and let you zoom around to capture those epic and hilarious moments.

This game was pretty much built for a photo mode. Everything in RDR2 is already amazing, from the lighting effects to the ultra-realistic textures and living, breathing world, and now gamers can basically immortalize their experiences with an in-depth snapshot mode, complete with resolution support up to 8K and lots more.

Blizzard confirms major features coming to Diablo IV, including runewords, new skills and abilities, co-op player count, and trading.

Diablo III was a big mess at launch, and was a huge departure for the series. Blizzard wants to rectify that with Diablo IV. A lot of the series classic features are returning for Diablo IV, including player-to-player trading, which is 100% necessary to create an engaging online world, and one of my favorite item mechanics of all time: Runewords.

Diablo II Lord of Destruction's runewords opened up a new dimension to gameplay. Runewords like Enigma let any character teleport around in the game, and Call to Arms also gave any character the barbarian's battle order warcries. The result opened up gameplay like never before and created some insane builds. I can only imagine what kinds of crazy combinations Blizzard is cooking up with Diablo IV.

UPDATE: It's been confirmed the barbarian has four weapon slots, not three.

After years of waiting, Diablo is back. Not only did we get a mesmerizing cinematic reveal trailer, but Blizzard also dropped first gameplay footage of Diablo IV, and it looks pretty good.

Blizzard's not messing around with Diablo IV. It's a brutal, gruesome, and supremely horrifying game that embraces Diablo II's old-school visual style and mechnical character builds while building Diablo III's more streamlined combat and graphics engine.

Diablo IV was finally confirmed today with a visually macabre trailer.

Diablo IV is what Diablo III should've always been. It's a warped mixture of Hellraiser with classic demonic Diablo overtones, but modernized with splendidly haunting and bizarre style that's straight out of Bryan Fuller's imagination. The new trailer confirms Lilith, the Daughter of Hatred and the Mother of Nephalem, as the principal demonic antagonist, and she looks absolutely nightmarish.

The footage shows four miscreant pirates walking into a demonic temple in search of gold. Little do they know they've stumbled upon the summoning grounds for Lilith...and her eldritch revival is so striking that it rivals most horror films.

Ubisoft plans to release up to 9 AAA games in the next two fiscal years, including Watch Dogs 3, a new Assassin's Creed game, and possibly even Far Cry 6. All of them should be optimized to push the PlayStation 5 and Project Scarlett next-gen consoles to their limits.

Like Electronic Arts and Capcom, Ubisoft is betting big on next-gen consoles with a huge slate of new games.

In its recent Q2'19 earnings call, Ubisoft confirmed an ambitious new line of titles. The company wants to launch as many as 9 big games throughout the next few years. This new slate will be broken up across two fiscal year timelines: 5 new AAA games in FY2021 (April 1, 2020 - March 31, 2021) and 3-4 AAA games in FY2022 (April 2021 - March 31, 2022).

As apart of Nintendo's quarterly earning financial results, the company shined a light on the sales for their flagship franchise, Super Smash Bros.

Nintendo revealed that the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate franchise has proudly hit a new milestone with over 15,710,000 units sold, making it the best-selling game in the Super Smash Bros. series. Before Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Super Smash Bros. For Wii U & 3DS held the title with 14,910,000.

Before Super Smash Bros. For Wii U & 3DS, Super Smash Bros. Brawl held the title with 13,270,000, then Melee followed with 7,410,000 and finally the original Super Smash Bros. with 5,550,000. Judging on the sales of the Super Smash Bros. series, it seems to ever-growing in popularity. Now all Nintendo need to do is officially recognize and push the competitive seen to get more players enticed into participating in some ultimate action.

Ubisoft clarifies mixed signals on The Division 2, saying the game is still a success that simply didn't break the bar set by the company.

The Division 2 sold tremendously well on all platforms and markets. The sequel was the best-selling game in the first six months of 2019. But in today's landscape game sales aren't everything. Ubisoft cares a lot more about what it calls PRI or Player Recurring Investment, or cosmetic microtransactions and season/battle passes. Game sales are just the beginning, and the aim is to keep monetizing gamers over time and offering free content in return.

If The Division 2 was a huge sales success, it's not too hard to see why the game missed Ubisoft's expectations. It apparently just didn't monetize as strongly as the company had hoped. A game moving massive units isn't enough for a digital-first developer like Ubisoft. The real money comes in with recurring live service microtransactions, and Ubisoft was counting on much more than what the game delivered.

Start saving your money folks for that GeForce RTX 2080 Ti for Halo Reach at 4K 60FPS... I mean, wait -- 343 industries has just released the official PC specs for Halo Reach and they are recommending just a GeForce GTX 770 for 4K 60FPS.

343 Industries official PC requirements for Halo Reach see you needing a mix of low-end CPUs in the 1080p 60FPS range with an AMD FX-4100 or Intel i7-870 processor, 8GB of RAM and either an AMD Radeon R7 360 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti graphics card. Yeah, that's not a typo -- an AMD Radeon R7 360 or GeForce GTX 560 Ti.

If you want to crank things up to 4K 60FPS then 343i recommends only modest PC specs as well, with an older and very much previous-gen AMD FX-6350 or Intel Core i5-3450 processor, the same 8GB of RAM, and either an AMD Radeon RX 480 or GeForce GTX 770. Once again, that's not a typo -- you need only a Radeon RX 480 or GeForce GTX 770 to run Halo Reach at 4K 60FPS.

Remember when the Motorola RAZR was first announced back in July of 2004, and then hit the market closer to the end of the same year? I do, and so do 50 million other customers.

At the time of release, the Motorola RAZR V3 had the thinnest profile of any clamshell handset, it even went onto to be the best selling clamshell phone to date at 130 million units sales during its lifespan. It now seems the RAZR V3 model will be returning but this time as foldable device that has multiple screens.

According to a leak by evleak, Motorola's foldable V3 will have two displays; a main 6.2-inch OLED display, and an 800 x 600 secondary display. The rumored specifications are: Snapdragon 710, 4/6GB RAM, 128GB ROM and a 2730mAh battery. Other rumors put this phone at an extremely hefty price point of $1500. Motorola will be holding a media event on November 13th, which is probably when we will hear if this phone will become a reality or not.

An artificial intelligence developed by Google's AI firm DeepMind has managed to achieve the highest level of ranking in Starcraft II.

According to the results which were published in Nature, DeepMind's AI was released onto the European Starcraft II servers and placed within the top 0.15% of the regions 90,000 players. Jon Dodge, an AI researcher at Oregon State University in Corvallis was shocked at the progress the AI made, saying "I did not expect AI to essentially be superhuman in this domain so quickly, maybe not for another couple of years."

The AI is called AlphaStar and before it was released onto the European servers its speed was reduced to make a fairer contests. The researchers wanted players to also not know they were versing an AI, David Silver, who co-leads the AlphaStar project said "We wanted this to be like a blind experiment. We really wanted to play under those conditions and really get a sense of, 'how well does this pool of humans perform against us?'"

Battery technology has always been one of the main things that hold back technology advancement, but now a new breakthrough has happened from scientists out of Pennsylvania State University.

The scientists have claimed that they have developed a new battery design that is said to have the capabilities of being able to take in 400 kilowatts of energy. The scientists reported that it takes 10 minutes of charging to add 200 miles of driving range. It should be noted that current generation electric vehicles are definitely not capable of this amount of energy being pushed into the battery, as it risks the integrity of the battery and the lifetime of it. This

Scientists out of The Pennsylvania State University raised their test battery temperature to 60 degrees and then slowly lowered it while it was being used, this ensures that battery isn't going to be cooked by the amount of energy put into it. Senior author Chao-Yang Wang, a mechanical engineer touched on that, saying "limit the battery's exposure to the elevated charge temperature, thus generating a very long cycle life."

Netflix has finally released the full main trailer for their highly anticipated Witcher TV series. The full trailer shows a reference to bath tub Geralt from CD Projekt Red's Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

Netflix have released the above trailer onto the official Netflix YouTube Channel and what we can see from it really gets your blood pumping for December. From the trailer we finally get to see some action as in the previous trailers we saw nothing of the such. We get some sword fight combat, spells and even an Aard from Geralt.

Henry Cavill playing Geralt looks great, and even from the small bits of action we see in the trailer it seems combat in the show isn't going to boring in the slightest. Most importantly though, Cavill seems to have managed to slide right into Geralts fighting style which is a massive deal for Witcher fans. The trailer finishes off with a final release date, you can expect Witcher TV show to release on December 20th, 2019.

It was only a few months ago that Crytek unveiled their CRYENGINE 5.6 Tech Trailer video which I've got embedded below. Check it out to refresh your memory before we dive into what could actually be very, very exciting.

At the end of the CRYENGINE 5.6 Tech Trailer video there are a bunch of shots from an island very similar to the one you first drop into in Crysis. It even featured parts of the original Crysis soundtrack, stirring rumors of a remake... well... about that. EA is now talking about remaking a bunch of its classic games.

During EA's recent earnings call, the company announced it has plans to launch "exciting remasters of fan favorites" in their 2021 fiscal year. EA's build up of remasters will include Command & Conquer and others, but surely... just surely... this has to include Crysis. Crysis is a fan favorite, right?!

It looks like we only have a few more hours to wait until the reviews of Death Stranding are unleashed, with the review embargo for Hideo Kojima's new masterpiece lifting November 1 at 12:01AM PT / 3:01 AM ET / 7:01 AM GMT / 6 PM AET. Check out the recently-launched, and freaking amazing 8-minute launch trailer to Death Stranding here.

There are reviewers who have already sunken untold hours into Death Stranding, with the author of Mecha Samurai Empire & Cyber Shogun Revolution, Peter Tieryas tweeting (too early) his thoughts on the game. He couldn't say too much about the game because of the impending embargo, but what he has to say is pretty damn good.

Tieryas said Death Stranding is "breathtaking, easily one of the most unique and stunning experiences I've had in all my years of gaming".