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UPDATE: Ubisoft confirms Watch Dogs: Legion is real, and is set in the UK.

In previous Watch Dogs games, only the world's technology was hackable. Stoplights, cars, phones, drones, etc. could be manipulated on your command. But in Watch Dogs 3 you'll can hack people.

According to key sources, Watch Dogs 3: Legion is built around one immensely ambitious concept: being able to play as anyone you see in the game. Much like the demoniac gestalt Legion who possessed people in the New Testament and forced them to do nefarious things against their will, players can essentially take control over anyone in the city of London and make them do whatever they want. Big Brother eat your heart out.

Fallout 76 is, was, and probably forever will be a total morass of wasted potential and broken features. Now Bethesda admits it knew the game was a weird mess and shipped it anyway, planning to make it better post-launch.

There's an alarming industry-wide trend with service games: release them in a wonky, jarring state to sell units and then promise to make them better with updates months after launch. Luckily gamers are wise to the scheme. Bethesda tried this with its experimental online-only Fallout 76, and EA did the same with Anthem. Both games are critical failures as a result, in particular exposing Bethesda Game Studio's lack of understanding about service games. We know exactly why Anthem failed, and now Bethesda's Todd Howard opens up about Fallout 76's development.

In a recent interview with IGN, Todd Howard admits Bethesda wasn't completely blind to Fallout 76's litany of bugs, glitches, and weird design decisions. Adapting the beloved RPG series to an online-only setting was tremendously difficult and the studio knew it wouldn't get high review scores.

Seagate just announced three to models to the popular Guardian Series. The Exos, IronWolf, and IronWolf Pro lines now scale to 16TB with the help of Helium and a new 9-platter design.

On paper, the new 16TB variants show identical performance to the 14TB and 12TB models previously released. We expect to see some performance variation in testing . That should start as early as this week with reviews to follow soon after.

The biggest change, besides capacity, comes to the IronWolf Pro product line. With previous models, Seagate recommended the IronWolf Pro for systems with up to 16 HDDs. With the new 16TB model, Seagate now recommends the series for systems with up to 24 drives. Seagate still recommends the IronWolf for systems with up to 8 drive bays.

Already keen on upending the console market, Google is also breaking the rules with a huge pre-E3 press event for its new Stadia platform.

Google's new Stadia platform has the potential to change gaming forever. It's not a console, but an all-you-can-play service that beams games directly from the cloud to devices you already own, alleviating some of gaming's most cumbersome roadblocks: cost and accessibility. Stadia promises a whole lot and sounds too good to be true, and gamers have lots of questions. What are the bandwidth requirements? How much will it cost? When is it out, and what devices are supported?

The search titan promises to reveal all in a big new press event on Thursday. "Watch our first ever Stadia Connect June 6, 2019 at 9AM PDT/6PM CET as we reveal more Stadia news, including pricing, games, and launch details," Google announced.

Having adapted Castlevania and soon The Witcher and Devil May Cry, Netflix is taking aim at the age-old fantasy card game.

Netflix is taking Magic: The Gathering's wide-sweeping lore and transforming it into an animated TV show, the company today announced. The new series will have an original storyline set around the sprawling Planeswalkers saga, and the promo image shows the fiery Chandra Nalaar, a pivotal character of the series. This image hints the show may be portrayed in CGI instead of more traditional animation.

Avengers directors the Russo brothers are overseeing the story, which is being written by The Clone Wars writer Henry Gilroy and The Tick's Jose Molina. The Russos also serve as executive producers of the show.

Ubisoft have spoken out about the current condition of their popular tactical shooter title Rainbow Six Siege. The interview touches on why Rainbow Six Siege will never go free-to-play.

According to the Rainbow Six Siege Brand Director, Alexandre Remy, the publishers will keep "a certain pricing of the game there for different reasons." Most of the reasons include the pricing being a barrier between players who could be potentially toxic, as many free-to-play games become subject to due to their wide availability. "One of them being: a free-to-play game automatically attracts a huge influx of population, not all of them playing the game for sake of winning. Sometimes they play just because it's free and so they get in and that can lead to potential toxicity."

Remy continues and says "Even having a small price helps create a barrier of entry where, as a player, you ask yourself the question "should I spend those five bucks?" and if you do I think it's a decision and a commitment. I think that's a valid approach." This is an extremely good point that I think many Rainbow Six Siege players would respect. Some examples of games that have an unhealthy amount of toxic players due to their free-to-play stance are; League of Legends, Paladins, and SMITE. Perhaps a pay-wall is what is needed to keep away those players that just want to see the game burn.

We are back yet again with Shenmue III news and in a not-so-surprising move by Deep Silver we have yet again another delayed release date for the title.

The news has been posted onto the official Shenmue III Kickstarter page, and according to the post Yu Suzuki and Deep Silver have given a joint announcement regarding the release date of the game. Originally, Shenmue III was meant to be released on August 27th, 2019, now the release date has been moved to November 19th, 2019.

The reason for the delay has been described down to the developers needing more time to refine the game. "Whilst almost ready, the game simply needs a little more refinement before being truly finished." The post says that this extra time "will help us deliver the true Shenmue experience players around the world deserve!" To check out the official Shenmue III page, a link can be found here.

The dino park simulator, Jurassic World Evolution will soon be getting a Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom movie-inspired DLC titled 'Claire's Sanctuary'.

This new and upcoming DLC by developer Frontier Developments will be adding a whole new line of story Evolution. Players will be tasked with saving dinosaurs from Isla Nubar right before the volcano is due to erupt and destroy everything. Luckily, players won't have to deal with those weird and somewhat out of theme comical jokes that were made in the second half of the movie, when events were back in the mansion.

The DLC will also add "all-new structures, features and three new dinosaurs to Jurassic World Evolution - the Albertosaurus, Euoplocephalus and Ouranosaurus". On top of this players will have to paleobotany features, a new greenhouse building, new research to delve into and a new off-road truck ride tour that can be used for park visitors. Claire's Sanctuary will be available to download on June 18 and will cost just $15.

Computex 2019 - FSP had what I thought were two of the best modded PCs on show at Computex 2019, in amongst a bunch of PSUs that the company is better known for.

Just look at this, it's utterly gorgeous. The modded PC is split into two: the PC below with its Dagger Pro PSU and Bitspower watercooling products, while the top layer is a place of Zen. The attention to detail is beautiful.

See what I mean? The touches on the tiles on the roof or the trees and grass and even individual steps.

Age of Empires fans can rejoice today as Microsoft have announced that there will be cross-play support between Steam and the Microsoft Store for the trilogy of Age of Empires Definitive Editions.

Age of Empires fans have been waiting for an announcement by Microsoft for quite some time now. Originally, there was meant to be an announcement at the Inside Xbox livestream, but that announcement was pulled and postponed to what now seems to be E3 2019. To tie fans over and build that hype up a little bit, Microsoft has decided to announce that the Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition and the Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition will be coming to Steam when they launch.

According to the blog post on the Age of Empires website, players will be able to "enjoy these games no matter where you play", and that "by releasing Age of Empires I, II, and III: Definitive Editions to Steam, we are letting you, our fans, decide where you want to play, explore, and create new experiences with our games." The blog post finishes up by saying that more information will soon be released on the Steam cross-play support, most likely at the E3 2019 keynote on Sunday, June 9.

Computex 2019 - Raijintek was a big surprise this year with the amount of time and effort the company has been putting into its products, with that effort being shown off at Computex 2019 with a great array of RGB-powered products and sleek, efficient cooling products.

One of the most glorious things on display at the Raijintek booth was a collaboration build with MonstarGear.

I mean, check this bad boy out. Every detail is perfect, and those RGB lights look amazing throughout.

Finally we have an official announcement out from Microsoft regarding the existence of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, and what better place for it to be playable than E3 2019?

Microsoft has taken to both their official Twitter page for Age of Empires, and the official website to announce that the Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition will be playable at this years E3. To accompany the announcement, Microsoft has said that on Sunday, June 9th they will be holding their own keynote at E3 where they will be "on the floor with Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition!".

Looking more closely at the announcement on the website, Kevin VanderMeer mentions that "Attendees will be able to experience stunning 4K Ultra HD graphics, a new, fully remastered soundtrack, and 4 new civilizations during an on-hands demo of the game." Now will these be 4 additional new civilizations? or will these just be the ones that are in the HD version of the game right now? If I was to take a guess, I would say that these are 4 new additional civilizations as this will give fans more of a reason to pick up the game.

Apple launched its new Mac Pro and inside the machine that will cost up to $50,000 was the surprise release of the new Radeon Pro Vega II and Radeon Pro Vega II Duo graphics cards from AMD. Both of these new cards are based on the Vega GPU on the new 7nm node.

The new Radeon Pro Vega II and Radeon Pro Vega II Duo graphics cards are not for gamers in any shape, way or form -- they are pure workhorses that are perfect for professionals that need crazy amounts of GPU horsepower. Tasks like video editing native 8K resolution content, rendering, and other compute-intensive tasks the Vega 20 GPU on 7nm with 32GB of HBM2 per GPU is up to the task.

Each of the Radeon VII Pro Vega II graphics cards are quad-slot cards, because they're passively cooled with a unique cooling system deployed by Apple into the new Mac Pro. The new Radeon Pro Vega II has 14.2 TFLOPs of FP32 performance and 28.4 TFLOPs of FP16 performance while the Radeon Pro Vega II Duo dual-GPU card has 28.4 TFLOPs and 56.8 TFLOPs, respectively. The single card solution has 32GB of HBM2 while the dual-GPU solution rocks 64GB.

Computex 2019 - Another visit in the Grand Hyatt this year was Kingston who alongside its HyperX brand were both showing off some great new products, and some much more bling than others.

First we'll start with the the DC1000M, a new PCIe NVMe Gen 3x4 2.5-inch SSD that comes in a U.2 interface and capacities between 960GB and 7.68TB. Kingston is also offering hardware-based power fail protection on the DC1000M series SSDs, too.

Kingston was also showing off its A2000 series, which is a PCIe NVMe Gen 3x4 M.2 SSD that arrives with up to 1TB of flash, and is powered by Intel's 3D TLC 64-layer NAND flash. Kingston is promising up to 1500MB/sec write and 2000MB/sec read speeds.

Computex 2019 - Antec had a heap to show off at Computex 2019 this year, so without further ado lets dive right into some of the highlights and then I'll leave you to it to check out the photos. Some of the systems and modded PCs that Antec had on display looked out of this world in person.

First up we'll take a look at the Antec STRIKER case which is a new Mini Tower for ITX gaming PCs, with support for up to a 240mm radiator and a rather large graphics card at up to 330mm. The ITX case has an open-air design for maximum cooling, supports both ATX and SFX PSUs, includes a PCIe riser cable, and has USB Type-C 3.1 ports.

Next up is the interesting new Antec GTR case, which looks like a sports car engine and is fully open-air. It rocks an aluminum-based red color themed look with space for up to 5 fans. It takes GPUs of up to 330mm and comes in both micro-ATX and ITX for motherboard support.

AMD has just inked a new deal with Samsung where the two companies are entering a new multi-year strategic partnership with the smartphone giant gaining access to AMD's large range of patents and IP in video and graphics accelerators.

Samsung's own LSI division, the part of the company that handles chip design and fabrication is contracting with AMD to use its new Navi-based RDNA architecture to build its future mobile GPUs for next-gen smartphones and other mobile devices. The companies didn't go into depth about what this relationship will entail when it comes to the future of mobile GPUs, but this is seriously exciting news.

It means that Radeon technology, and possibly even the Navi GPU architecture, is scalable enough to go right down into mobile with this new RDNA architecture. As well as up into Radeon RX 5700 series and hopefully even higher with next-gen Navi in 2020 and beyond.

Computex 2019 - Corsair, I know you're listening -- you killed it at Computex. If there was a 'favorite' cooling company, you are it. Every show you blow my mind and this year more than ever. There is a lot to go through, but we'll cover the basics of what they unveiled at the show and some nice pics in between.

Corsair unveiled its new Hydro X initiative makes building a watercooled PC easier than ever before, with it holding your hand and walking you through the entire process in a super-slick interface. Corsair walked us through it in their suite, where even for me -- an enthusiast who isn't into watercooling, want to actually build a watercooled rig because this takes so much of the work out of it.

The new Corsair Hydro X custom cooling configurator will let you tell it your PC specs (things like your CPU, GPU, the case you have) and then work out the measurements for you and start preparing what it will recommend. Not every one of their cases or their competitors' cases are supported, with Corsair saying that around 85% of their own cases, and around 40% of their competitors cases are supported.

Apple has just unveiled its new Mac Pro and holy balls it is a beast when fully-specced. The bare minimum Mac Pro will begin at an already high price of $6000, but the company was mum on the highest-end specs of its new PC.

The base model Mac Pro includes up to a 28-core Intel CPU and support for up to a huge 1.5TB of RAM (12 x 128GB DIMMs) as well as the world's most powerful graphics card courtesy of AMD in the new Radeon Pro Vega II. It is one of the most amazing PCs ever built, and that is coming from someone like me who is quite anti-Mac and super-enthusiast. Holy balls this PC is amazing though, there's no doubt about it.

Let's break it down into its specs:

AMD barely announced its next-gen Ryzen 3000 series and new X570 boards touting the first PCIe 4.0 specification, so PCI-SIG decided to announce the next-generation PCIe 5.0 specification doubling the bandwidth from the already next-gen PCIe 4.0 standard.

PCIe 4.0 arrives with X570 boards and will be capable of 64GB/sec on a x16 slot, while PCIe 5.0 will come through and double that up to 128GB on a new PCIe 5.0 x16 slot -- all the while PCIe 3.0 delivers 32GB/sec on a full x16 slot. We won't see massive advancements in the graphics card side of things for gamers from this massive increase in bandwidth, but NVMe/Optane SSDs will get a HUGE kick in the ass in terms of bandwidth.

We are already seeing up to 4GB/sec on a PCIe 3.0-based M.2 SSD at x4, so imagine this doubling to up to 8GB/sec on PCIe 4.0 and a huge 16GB/sec on PCIe 5.0 x4. Yeah, 16GB/sec from your SSD. If you thought the PCIe 4.0-based NVMe SSD inside of the PS5 (that's what I started hearing from sources at Computex) then the PC is going to take things to the next level in the coming years with PCIe 4.0 and then PCIe 5.0.

Now that it's merged PC and console gaming together, Microsoft is distancing itself from platform exclusivity and teaming up with its competitors.

Microsoft doesn't care about exclusivity any more. Its plans are much more ambitious. Xbox is now a service that bridges consoles, PCs, and soon via Project xCloud, mobile devices, delivering a billion-dollar revenue stream thanks to strong engagement. Although the Windows Store and UWP platform were made to tap the PC gaming market, Microsoft is relenting in the zero-sum approach and plans to launch its games on competing platforms. More and more AAA Xbox games will show up on Steam, Microsoft confirmed in a recent update.

This move sees Microsoft trading exclusivity for accessibility, which should be a huge boon for the games-maker. Not only are all of Microsoft's biggest Xbox games coming to PC via Game Pass and as actual buyable releases, but some of them will also cross over to Steam. The Master Chief Collection, Gears of War 5 and a smattering of Age of Empires games will all come to Steam. We're betting Halo: Infinite and most of the games announced at Microsoft's E3 2019 will come to Steam as well.