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We have reported on the progress of Niantic's Pokemon Go app for quite some time now, and now another analytics report has come out claiming the company has reached another milestone.

A new report has come out from the analytical website Sensor Tower, the report says that just before the third anniversary date for Pokemon GO the app has reached a new revenue milestone of $2.5 billion. According to Sensor Tower Store Intelligence, Pokemon GO has raked in a staggering $2.5 billion in player spending since its creation back on the 7th of July, 2017. Sensor Tower also reports that there has been a $700 million dollar increase in revenue since the apps last anniversary.

This means that Pokemon GO has earned around $78 million per month since its last anniversary. Moving on to 2019 statistics now, since the first quarter of 2019 Pokemon GO has grossed $205 million, which averages out to an insane $2.3 million per day. When comparing to 2018's first quarter, Sensor Tower claims that there is a 40% increase in revenue year-over-year due to 2018's Q1 sales being $147 million. If you are interested in more information about Pokemon GO, check out the Sensor Tower Store website here.

Darksiders fans will be glad to know that they can pick up the Darksiders Warmastered Edition for their Nintendo Switch, digital and physical releases have been made available.

Back in late January, we heard about the Warmastered Edition having its trailer leak onto the main website. The video was the official trailer for the Warmastered Edition and revealed the edition was for the Nintendo Switch. Not surprisingly, the video was taken down shortly after it was found, but eventually was uploaded to the official Darksiders YouTube Channel and showcases to players the protagonist they will be playing.

War, who is the first Horseman of the Apocalypse is accused of inciting a war between Heaven and Hell. He is sent out to restore the balance. Buyers will be able to pick up either a detail or physical release of the Darksiders Warmastered Edition on April 2nd. For more information, or you would like to pick up the most recently released Darksiders game - Darksiders III - visit the official Darksiders website here.

In a recent interview, Mortal Kombat 11's Co-creator and Creative Director Ed Boon has spoken out about the performance of the Nintendo Switch version of Mortal Kombat 11.

GameInformer is following up on their coverage of Mortal Kombat 11 over the month of April, and a newly released rapid-fire questions interview with Ed Boon has revealed what we can expect performance wise for the Nintendo Switch version of the game. GameInformer asked Boon "is the Switch version going to run at 30FPS?", Boon replied with "No, the Switch version is going to run at 60FPS."

A follow up question was asked to Boon regarding how the Nintendo Switch version of the game is shaping up. Boon replied with "Its looking great" GameInformer then asks if the background in the fights is going to be blurry, basically asking how bad is the downscaling for the Nintendo Switch edition. Boon replies with "no, no, no - its Mortal Kombat 11". Mortal Kombat 11 is planned for release on the PS4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch on April 23rd.

Game retailers are known for their accidental leaks of unannounced games coming to certain platforms through their website listings, and now we have a few more. This time round Nintendo Switch titles have taken the spotlight.

Supposed leaks of Best Buy's internal staff-only data base has showcased three unannounced Nintendo Switch titles. According to the above images from Wario64 - a very well known leaker of game information - the Metroid Prime Trilogy, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Persona 5 are heading over to the Nintendo Switch. Here is a imgur folder of all the leaked images.

If you didn't know, Persona 5's 'Joker' is heading over to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which could be a big enough reason for Nintendo to bring his whole game over to the Switch. The listing for Zelda is quite puzzling, as Best Buy has not mistaken A Link to the Past for the announced remake of Link's Awakening, as there is a separate listing for Awakening also in the stores database. The Metroid Prime Trilogy listing could very well be true as Nintendo did delay Metroid Prime 4 for further development time, perhaps a remake of the older games will be enough to tie over Metroid fans until Metroid Prime 4 is ready?

Apple might be a little screwed this year and going into 2020 and beyond, as it won't have a 5G-capable iPhone to fight against the mountain of Android smartphones that are launching this year with 5G connectivity.

According to a new investor note from UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri, it might be supply problems that Intel is facing with making 5G chips at the scale that Apple would need it to, for a new iPhone. Apple is already tied up in court with Qualcomm over legal issues so it won't be using a Snapdragon X55 or any Snapdragon 5G chip inside of the new iPhone, so what's next?

The other players in the 5G chip making game are Huawei, which would be a no for Apple, MediaTek which won't have a viable option for a 5G-capable iPhone for a quite a while, leaving the last option as Apple's main competitor: Samsung. Cowen recently told its clients that Apple could "source a 5G modem from chief competitor Samsung" but that would only happen on "tough commercial terms". The use of a 5G chip from Huawei according to Cowen is "off the table as an option" while "MediaTek's stack is too far behind in terms of timeline".

The latest version of HWiNFO has preliminary support for AMD's next-gen Navi GPU architecture, but also a new mysterious CPU architecture from Intel teased as Emmitsburg.

HWiNFO v6.04 also features added support for Intel's new Cooper Lake and Snow Ridge, as well as full monitoring support for AMD's still-kinda-new Radeon VII graphics card. There is also 'improved' Zen 2 support with the latest version of HWiNFO and a bunch of other things tweaked, added, and now supported. You can grab HWiNFO v6.04 right here.

A few people replied to the original tweet, including Ashraf Eassa who is a Senior Technology Specialist with The Motley Fool, where he said Emmitsburg is "probably CPL/ICX PCH", meaning that Emmitsburg will be the chipset codename for the upcoming Cooper Lake/Ice Lake-X platform on LGA4189. He added that he feels like this "will be the last PCH before SPR. Then I/O will just be another chiplet on the package".

If you wanted some confirmation that next-gen consoles will be good for AMD, look no further than Gearbox Software's new announcement that it will have optimized performance on AMD Ryzen and Radeon products.

Borderlands 3 has been "developed from the ground up with AMD" announced publisher 2K and developer Gearbox Software, the press release continued: "Developed from the ground up with AMD, Borderlands 3 will take full advantage of the most powerful PC hardware available and is optimized for top performance and incredible gaming experiences on AMD Radeon graphics cards and Ryzen CPUs".

The game is powered by Unreal Engine 4 with the team at Gearbox using Unreal Engine 3 for the first two Borderlands game, with studio boss Randy Pitchford saying at GDC 2017 that UE4 was helping Gearbox "evolve" the Borderlands series.

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD PROJEKT RED has announced that it is opening up a merchandise store for gamers in the next couple oif weeks, and wanted to wait until April 2 to announce the news as it didn't want to have fans thinking it was an April Fools prank.

The developer has said its new merch store will be opening "in the following weeks" and tells its Twitter followers to "keep your eyes open for updates". We should expect merchandise for the entire Witcher series of games, as well as some sweet new merch for the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077, which still doesn't have a firm release date.

Cyberpunk 2077 is the latest game in development by CDPR and teased as a first-person shooter RPG that is set in a futuristic noir-like city that the studio is deep in development of. CD PROJEKT RED has said they will be showing Cyberpunk 2077 off in much more detail at E3 2019 which is only a couple of months away.

After decades of making Mortal Kombat games, Ed Boon wants to expand outside of the ultra-violent, face-smashing fighter. His dream? An online IP that's always active.

In a recent interview with GameInformer, Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon discussed his ideas for a brand new kind of Netherealm game. Work on Mortal Kombat 11 is going smoothly, but Boon would like to explore a bit more. The new IP would be a kind of online-based experience that puts gamers' hard-earned loot in danger when they're not actually playing.

"On a scale of 1-10, how badly do you want to make a new IP?"

Today Gearbox announced a bunch of new Borderlands 3 info, including the dreaded Epic Store exclusivity, confirmation of a season pass with 4 DLC packs, and an introduction to the game's four vault hunters.

The leaks were 100% accurate on this one. Borderlands 3 will have four classes like its predecessors, one of which is actually familiar. Gamers can customize skills in unique ways, the devs promise, adding more flavor to the experience: each class has "unique abilities, playstyles, deep skill trees, and tons of personalization options" (side note: Borderlands 3 will have over 1 billion guns).

The new stars of Gearbox's chaotic shooter include FL4K, a beastmaster who can charm monsters to his side, Moze, the leaked "botjock" who can instantly call in an explosively powerful mech named Bear to wreak havoc on enemies, Amara, a siren who smashes enemies with her fiery blue fists, and Zane, a soldier operative that uses gadgets and other creative self-made creations to annihilate foes.

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, BioWare's next Dragon Age game will be reborn from the dust and bones of Anthem's failing infrastructure. But is this a blessing or a curse?

Making games is never a straightforward process. Devs typically draw inspiration from previous games and iterate on everything they've done before to make new titles, including animations, engine tech modifications, lighting, textures, and effects. Like the games that came before it, Dragon Age 4 will too iterate on and share key similarities with its predecessor (in this case the troubled Anthem). But with Anthem's laundry list of mistakes and hiccups, this could be somewhat alarming.

To understand how this could affect future games, we need to inspect the present.Anthem actually broke the iteration formula BioWare had used for years, making things quite difficult for its team.

Today Gearbox revealed new details about Borderlands 3, including the hotly contested Epic Store exclusivity on PC. But they also hinted at what's to come after the game releases.

Post-launch DLC is par for the course with big AAA games like Borderlands, and the third chapter will be no different. Gearbox's new chaotic shoot-and-loot FPS Borderlands 3 will have four different expansions that release seasonally over the course of a year. The DLC packs are wrapped in a $29.99 season pass and will include new story missions and campaign content among some extras like weapon skins, trinkets, and mods (which may hint at microtransactions).

"Continue your Borderlands 3 adventure with the Season Pass, featuring exclusive cosmetic items and four story campaign add-ons with new missions and challenges!" reads the listing.

Borderlands 3 is yet another timed-exclusivity casualty of the PC Game Store Wars, and won't be arriving on Steam until April 2020.

Today Gearbox Software confirmed two bits of bad Borderlands 3 news: it's exclusive to the Epic Store on PC, and that the game is coming out on September 13, 2019 on all platforms. The first is obviously frustrating for Steam's massive 100 million-strong PC gaming community, and ultimately aligns with Take-Two Interactive's goal to maximize potential profits (the Epic Store lets devs keep 85% of all sales revenues). Epic's exclusivity with Borderlands 3 lasts six months, and the game isn't even up for pre-order on Steam.

Borderlands 3's release timing is wonky, though. Gearbox's huge new sequel will release in a congested window.

Bandai Namco is back again to take the Humble Store by storm with a brand new bundle containing many discounts on some awesome titles.

The above announcement has come from the official Humble Store, it regards the third Bandai themed bundle that is currently available. At the price point of just $1, buyers of this bundle will receive; Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, PAC-Man Championship Edition DX, and Impact Winter. Moving onto the $9 margin, buyers of this bundle will get; Little Nightmares, 11-11 Memories Retold, Get Even and Project Cars.

Moving up in price, the $15 bundle will give you all of the previously mentioned titles as well as GOD EATER 2: Rage Burst and SWORD ART ONLINE: Fatal Bullet. Finally, if you thrown $25 you will additionally receive Tekken 7. If you are interested in picking up any of these great Bandai titles for very low prices, head on over to the Humble Store here.

One of the biggest fighting game tournaments is Evolution Championship Series or EVO. The registration numbers for EVO 2019 and as no surprise, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is sitting at first place.

The news comes from the President of EVO, Joey Cuellar who posted the above tweet onto his personal Twitter account. The tweet showcases the registration scoreboard for each of the respective games and what position they have fallen in from 1st - 9th. At this years EVO, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is sitting at 1st place, with Tekken 7 at 2nd, Street Fighter V at 3rd, the soon to be released Mortal Kombat 11 at 4th and Under the Night In Birth at 5th.

Surprisingly, Bandai Namco's Dragon Ball FighterZ didn't make it into the top 5 despite it having the highest registration rate for EVO 2018. It should also be noted that Super Smash Bros for Wii U or Smash 4 has been retired for this years EVO, alongside Smash Bros. Melee. The registration will be available for EVO 2019 up until July 14th, the actual event for EVO 2019 will be held on August 2nd until August 4th at the Mandalay Bay.

An announcement has shined a light on a new strategy game IP that is in the works with a partnership with Paradox Interactive and Romero Games.

Founders of Romero Games are the legendary John Romero and Brenda Romero who worked on DOOM, Daikatana, Quake, Deus Ex, Jagged Alliance and many more great titles. With such a great repertoire of games behind these developers and now a partnership with Paradox Interactive, who is known for the development of Crusader Kings II, Cities: Skylines and Stellaris. We can expect that the new strategy IP that is in the works will be well directed.

Ebba Ljungerud, the CEO of Paradox Interactive has commented on the announcement, saying; "We are thrilled to work with industry legends, Brenda and John Romero, whose games we've grown up playing ourselves and long admired. At Paradox Interactive, we've built a reputation for top-tier strategy games and we're employing that expertise to help build something really special with the team at Romero Games." Brenda Romero, the Co-Founder of Romero Games also added; "This has been a project we've been wanting to work on for a long time, so it's especially exciting that we'll be partnering with Paradox Interactive to fully realize that dream. We can't wait to tell everyone more, so make sure you watch this space!"

Nintendo are rolling out the next update for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, bringing the version of the game up to 2.0.2 and making some changes to the game.

The new update hasn't been officially released yet, but a disclaimer has been released that says that "details" will be available on April 3, 2019 11:30 AM ACDT. On April 3rd, there will also be a pop-up that is available on the title screen, that pop-up when clicked will download the newest version of the game and also give you an option of viewing the changes made in the new version.

This new update could be the last patch we get before the big Version 3.0.0 update that should contain the first new DLC fighter 'Joker' from Persona 5. Nintendo has said that 'Joker' would be arriving "before the end of April", which means that we should see the version 3 closer to the end of April. If there are major changes within this version 2.0.2 update, I will follow up with what these changes are when the patch goes live. The update goes live on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 11:30 AM ACDT.

NetherRealm Studios and Warner Bros. have decided to tease the reveal of a brand new character to join the Mortal Kombat 11 roster. Introducing Cetrion, a goddess that manages elemental powers.

The news comes from an exclusive piece by GameInformer, the above video showcases to viewers that GameInformer will be using the entire month of April to cover Mortal Kombat 11. The coverage will range from new features the game has, interviews with the NetherRealm Studio developers and even a deep dive on the new character Cetrion.

The video gives us a very quick sneak peak at what Cetrion is going to be like. Starting at around 16 seconds in, we get to see some very quick combo's from Cetrion on Noob Saibot. From the video we can say that Cetrion uses a variety of elemental attacks and abilities as she is a "Elder God" of nature powers. At the moment that is all that we have to go on for the new character, as soon as more information is released, I will be sure to update you. Mortal Kombat 11 is planned for release the Xbox One, PS4, PC and Nintendo Switch on April 23rd.

The entire battle royale phenomenon started with PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and then into Fortnite and now Apex Legends, but behind PUBG there was avid gamer Brendan 'PlayerUnknown' Greene who announced just last month he'll be running a new studio in Amsterdam.

Greene's new studio will be called PUBG Special Projects, and is a dedicated space for all things R&D into game development. But during GDC 2019 a couple of weeks ago, Greene had some words about the stress of creating his next game, and the comparisons that it'll have against PUBG since it has been so damn popular.

GamesIndustry chatted with Greene at GDC 2019, where he said: "We're not doing this for profit. Eventually someday, we may do, but right now it's just about having time to explore. There is no deadline here, this is us with a few years to play. Gaming and the industry has become so hard, this is a very lucky thing to have. We can genuinely explore and be curious for some time".

I'm expecting Microsoft to announce its next-gen Xbox at E3 2019 and Sony to unveil its next-gen PlayStation 5 at its own event later in the year, and now we have GameStop all but confirming the news.

During a recent earnings call, GameStop CFO Rob Lloyd said: "With respect to new hardware, as we get closer to the end of the current console cycle for Xbox and PlayStation, we expect demand to decline as some customers choose to wait on the sidelines in anticipation of acquiring the next generation of innovative consoles".

GameStop recently posted a huge $673 million full-year loss for 2018, with the company acknowledging "the challenges facing our pre-owned video game business" and the dire need to change its business model. We should expect less second hand game sales from next-gen consoles as we move to many more digital sales (just like the PC has done over the last 10 years, I haven't purchased a physical disc in way over 10 years).