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A recent rumor has surfaced regarding the coming Resident Evil 3 Remake, according to the rumor the remake of Resident Evil 3 will not be developed internally by Capcom.

The rumor comes from AestheticGamer, who should be noted for the correct reveal of information regarding Resident Evil VII: Biohazard before any official announcement were made. This note gives some form of credability to the source, but doesn't confirm the rumor of Capcom not internally developing Resident Evil 3 Remake.

According to AestheticGamer, Resident Evil 3 is "not what a lot of people are probably going to expect" and that the game isn't "developed by Capcom Division 1 at all". AetheticGamer continues and says that the developer for the game is "very interesting" and that the title will be arriving in gamers hands "a lot sooner than people are expecting". While these claims are quite vague, I can't really see why Capcom would hand over the Resident Evil 3 Remake to another developer when they just released the very successful Resident Evil 2 Remake.

Just last week I reported on a mod for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice that removes the framerate limiter of 60FPS, but now a new mod has been released that is much more "safe".

The mod that I reported on last week required 'Steamless' which is a tool that could possibly ban users since it alters the executable file. This new mod by 'uberhalit' doesn't require the altercation of the .exe file which means that users of the mod will not get banned and joins the other 'safe' mods for Sekiro.

The mod by 'uberhalit' removes the frame rate limiter, adds custom resolutions, 21/9 support, increases the field of view (FOV), GSYNC/FreeSync support and additional support for a borderless window mode. I have provided the full list of features that are included within the mod in the entirety of this post. If you are interested in checking out the mod and downloading it, you can visit it here.

A recent press release has revealed that porting company, Panic Button and developer Perfect World Entertainment are teaming up to bring some fan favorite games to the Nintendo Switch.

The press release showcases to players that starting today they will be able to pre-order the 'Definitive Edition' of Hob which is slated for release on April 4. Panic Button says that they have "taken everything that fans loved about the original game and developed a version exclusively for Nintendo Switch, featuring improved controls and game features". These 'improved controls and game features' include added camera controls, improvements to the game's UI, a variety of quality-of-life improvements, HD rumble and touchscreen functionality.

Yoon Im, Senior Vice President of Global Publishing at Perfect World Entertainment spoke out about the coming port, saying "Panic Button has established an incredible reputation of bringing some of the best games in the industry to new and exciting platforms. They've done a masterful job of bringing Hob to life on the Nintendo Switch, and we're excited to introduce the game to a new audience." The Technical Director at Panic Button, Andy Boggs also commented, but on the coming Tochlight II port.

If you are into gaming then you have most likely heard of Turtle Beach, one of the leading companies in gaming audio for all platforms of play.

In a recent press release, Turtle Beach is proud to announce that since February 2019 the company has managed to sell over 30 million gaming headsets in North America. This figure has been measured since 2005 and according to the Turtle Beach CEO, Juergen Stark "Crossing this 30 million milestone is a great achievement that validates our commitment to leading in innovation and delivering the largest assortment of high-quality gaming headsets, and it shows the power of the Turtle Beach brand."

Stark continues and says that "With over 12 million more headsets sold life-to-date compared to the next competitor in the space4, gamers are clearly coming back to Turtle Beach for more, and that's very reassuring given where we're looking to take the company in the future." For more information, visit the official Turtle Beach here.

Ryff is moving into its stride in 2019 with a new deal inked with Perfectomundo Tequila, with Paul Oakenfold entering into a new deal between Ryff and Perfectomundo Tequila which will see tequila brand morphed into "various forms of entertainment together starting Spring of this year".

The new deal with Ryff will see the company using its technology to integrate the Perfectomundo branded tequila into movies, TV, and streaming social media. Perfectomundo will be seamlessly integrated into content by Ryff, something that the company is quickly becoming the star of. Integrating big brands like Perfectomundo and securing deals with Grammy Award nominated DJs is a big deal for Ryff, which is made up of champions from the industry from companies like AMD, NVIDIA, Warner Bros., and DreamWorks.

Paul Oakenfold commented on the deal, saying: "Ryff's' new technology is really a game-changer for Perfectomundo. I've always thought that there was a huge opportunity for brands to utilize branded entertainment to create a unique personal relationship with our customers. And now, together we will help to prove this theory".

GoFundMe inception is happening in San Francisco, with the company donating $5000 towards a GoFundMe campaign that is acting as both a counter, and troll against a separate GoFundMe campaign.

The legal battle ensuing is over the construction of a Navigation Center, which will act as a higher-end homeless shelter that doesn't just provide a safe place to lay your head at night, but it will offer other services and counselling in San Francisco. Some residents took to GoFundMe in a campaign called "Safe Embarcadero for All" attempting to raise $100,000 that would be used "exclusively for legal and related costs to oppose the proposed Navigation Center at Seawall Lot 330".

This particular GoFundMe has an interesting person at its center with lawyer Andrew Zacks involved in the fundraising through the Safe Embarcadero for All which retains the lawfirm he's a partner at; Zacks, Freedman & Patterson that call themselves "the voice of Bay Area property owners". SF Weekly reports that "very wealthy residents of the eastern edge of the city has raised more than $44,000 in 11 days. The recipient: a lawyer, Andrew Zacks, who is representing the residents in their fight against a homeless shelter that's been proposed for a parking lot on Embarcadero between Beale and Bryant streets".

Sony chairman and former CEO Kaz Hirai has announced his retirement from the company, first taking the CEO and president role of Sony in 2012, stepping down as CEO in 2017, and now announcing his retirement in 2019.

Hirai said in a statement: "Since passing the baton of CEO to Yoshida-san last April, as Chairman of Sony, I have had the opportunity to both ensure a smooth transition and provide support to Sony's management. I am confident that everyone at Sony is fully aligned under Yoshida-san's strong leadership, and are ready to build an even brighter future for Sony. As such, I have decided to depart from Sony, which has been a part of my life for the past 35 years. I would like to extend my warmest gratitude to all our employees and stakeholders who have supported me throughout this journey".

The Sony legend officially steps down as chairman on June 18, but will continue on in spirit through a senior advisor role when needed. Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida added: "Hirai-san and I have been working on management reforms together since December 2013. While he will be retiring from both chairman and our board of directors, we look forward to his continuing high-level support to Sony's management that encompasses a breadth of diverse businesses".

Risk of Rain 2 looks like tons of fun, even if it's hard as nails.

Gearbox today announced Risk of Rain 2 during its PAX East presentation, a new evolution on the indie platformer roguelike. Risk of Rain 2 sees the original sidescrolling platformer reborn with 3D graphics and visuals, ultimately transforming it into a rather appealing indie survival shooter. Up to three other players can join you for co-op chaos as you blast all sorts of randomized robots, aliens, lizard-people and other marauding baddies in a madcap run for freedom and loot.

The sequel, which has been in development for 3 years now, keeps true to the original's premise and form: get as far as you can and collect as much loot as you can before you die. Then rinse and repeat. The graphics are extremely appealing and remind me of a modern day Atari game, complete with that old-school 80s do-or-die kind of feel.

The Epic Store isn't really a value-oriented marketplace right now, but that should change as more developers and publishers enjoy strong revenue splits.

With major marketing and exclusivity deals stealing headlines, cheap deals are the last thing gamers associate the Epic Store with. But this should change over time, at least according to Epic boss Tim Sweeney. The storefront, which houses a number of games that hopped away from Valve's gargantuan Steam platform, could eventually become a place to buy cheap PC games. This is quite a bold affirmation given the smorgasbord of deals found on stores like Green Man Gaming, Humble, and even Steam itself.

Sweeney's argument is basically this: as devs make more money from the Epic Store, they'll charge consumers less money so they can sell more games. The idea is that potential revenue hits from discounts will be minimized due to the store's 85-15 earnings split.

Twitch is including some nifty Nintendo loot with its new monthly freebie drop.

With a new promo, Amazon Prime members can snag up to 12 months of Nintendo's premium Switch Online service for free. But unlike Twitch Prime's other free drops, this one doesn't unlock all at once. The promo starts by giving everyone 3 months of Switch Online for free, and then the remaining 9 months can be manually unlocked if you stay a Prime member for the next 60 days.

First you'll have to link your Twitch Prime and Nintendo Accounts together, and then put a credit card or PayPal payment method down for recurring billing.

On the heels of its big Borderlands 3 confirmation, Gearbox also announced a full remaster for the original Borderlands game.

Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition is getting remastered for PS4, Xbox One and PC with a host of new features. The game's visuals are re-vamped for 4K displays and will leverage the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X's higher horsepower for various in-game performance upgrades. But it's not all cosmetic: Borderlands remastered has a ton more loot than usual, and on-screen mini-map, and it'll support skins and new heads via SHIFT codes. The definitive bundle also comes with all DLC.

The most exciting upgrade is co-op, which now supports up to 4 players on a single console. "Borderlands 1 remastered will go from 2 players to 4 players. That's 4 players, split-screen, on one console," Gearbox's Randy Pitchford said at a recent PAX East presentation.

Today Gearbox finally announced Borderlands 3, a massive sequel to the explosively hilarious FPS franchise.

Borderlands 3 is bigger and better than any other game in the series. The sequel not only features practically every living character in the in-game universe--greats like Brick, Tiny Tina, Mordecai, Hammerlock and so many more are back--but takes us off-world to multiple unique locales, complete with their own biomes, enemies, and styles.

Guns are arguably the best part of any Borderlands game, and Gearbox is going way above and beyond here. Borderlands 3 will feature over 1 billion varieties of explosive loot and guns, some baddie-blasters even have legs.

A new co-op action title has been released by Avalanche Studios, its titled 'Generation Zero' and throws players back to the Swedish 1980's, but this time with machine guns and will to survive a world that has been taken over by dangerous machines.

Players that decide to pick up Generation Zero will be taken back to the 1980's but in survival mode. Working in small groups, players will have to scavange for supplies in a world that has been taken over by a variety of machines. These machines will be extremely dangerous to players and will range in difficulty, strength, size, intelligence and variety. If players flee from fights with machines, the scars that are left on the machine will remain as the machine itself will remain roaming in the world, ready for its next encounter.

WCCFtech managed to get ahold of Avalance Studios and asked them a few questions about the game developement wise and if cross-platform play would be available to players. When asked about the games specifications, they responded with "The PlayStation 4 Pro runs at 1440p resolution and the Xbox One X runs at 1800p resolution, it means that the Xbox One X offers a slightly better experience than the PlayStation 4 Pro. All of our console platforms run at 30 fps.".

Ever wondered what it would be like to livestream The Division 2 from all 4 perspectives in the one screen? Well that will soon be possible as Twitch.tv will soon be adding 'Squad Stream' and it is exactly how it sounds.

Twitch.tv will be rolling out a new update to their streaming platform that will allow for content creators to team-up with each for epic 4-person live streams. The new 'Squad Stream' will allow for Twitch.tv partners to stream-up with eachother and all play the desired games within the same window for the viewer. This will mean that viewers will be able to enjoy watching their favorite streamers play together within the same window and cycle between which specific player they want to watch in the primary slot.

Twitch.tv has throughoutly explained what 'Squad Stream' is in their new blog post. For those wondering about how view counts will work, Twitch answer this in the FAQ they provide at the bottom of their post. They say "Any viewership you receive when your video player is in the primary slot will count towards your channel stats and be reflected in your channel analytics and stream summary." Twitch.tv also provides a list of streamers that will feature the four-person streams over the next couple of weeks.

If you remember back to 2011 we saw an awesome release from Yacht Club Games, 'Shovel Knight' hit the scene and was more than very well received the platformer community. Now, Yacht Club Games has unveiled a new title, 'Cyber Shadow' has taken the spotlight.

The announcement has come in the form of a brand new trailer and a post onto the Yacht Club Games' website. 'Cyber Shadow' is a 2D side-scrolling platformer that captures classic NES-style games, it also is inspired by Mario level design, the skills of Ninja Gaiden, the enemy designs of Contra and the atmosphere of Batman.

From the trailer, we can see that Cyber Shadow is a very fast-paced reactionary platformer that comes with what has been described as a gripping story and a Pulse-pounding soundtrack by Enrique Martin and produced by Jake Kaufman. According to the post on the website, Yacht Club Games "reached out to Aarne two years ago about being involved with Cyber Shadow. He'd been developing it on his own for years with no intention of going with a publisher - but YCG was the only team he'd ever consider to help him hone his creation." The relationship that formed resulted in "a bit of a codevelopment. YCG is handling the marketing, porting, business side, and typical roles of a publisher so Aarne can focus on the core game development."

Microsoft have updated what free games Xbox LIVE Gold users will be getting over the course of April. Here is what will be completely free!

For Xbox One owners that have Xbox LIVE Gold, The Technomancer will be available to download throughout April. The Technomancer is developed by Spider Studios and published by Focus Home Interactive. It is a game based on Mars that takes players to the War of Water, 200 years after humans decided to colonized Mars. Outcast: Second Contact will also be available to Xbox One owners from April 16th until May 15th.

Moving onto Xbox 360 owners, Star Wars Battlefront II - 2005 edition will become available in April, as well as Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2. Star Wars Battlefront II will be available from April 1st until April 15th, and Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 will begin availability on April 16th until April 30th. For more information, visit the official Xbox Games Pass website here.

Insomniac Games has just come off of the PS4 exclusive Spider-Man (which was a huge hit) directly into making a new open-world VR game that Oculus just announced called Stormland, an exclusive for the Oculus Rift on the PC.

Insomniac is no stranger to making VR games or Rift exclusive content, with the developer releasing Edge of Nowhere, The Unspoken, and Feral Rites all for the Oculus Rift. Stormland on the other hand looks to be the culmination of everything the studio has learned from its previous VR games, with what seems like an intuitive, fun, super-hectic VR exclusive.

The new trailer for Stormland shows the story you'll be experiencing, living through a once thriving robot civilization that was terminated by something called The Tempest. The enemies in the game look great with an awesome use of shielding and shooting mechanics, with enemies themselves rolling out with mobile shields that you will have to dive around and go all crazy in the real-world since you'll have the freedom of the Rift controllers versus a traditional controller or mouse/keyboard.

NVIDIA didn't unveil a new GPU ar chitecture during its GPU Technology Conference last week, where I had some ponderings on whether we'd see the next-gen Ampere GPU architecture on 7nm unveiled, ultimately we didn't.

Jensen Huang, CEO and founder of NVIDIA, addressed this during GTC 2019 where he sad the company isn't in any rush to get mass produced 7nm GPUs because of the confidence he has in Turing. Turing is on the 12nm node and is more efficienct than AMD on 14nm (Vega 10 = Radeon RX Vega 64) and 7nm (Vega 20 = Radeon VII). He said: "What makes us special is we can create the most energy-efficient GPU in the world at anytime, and we should use the most affordable technology. Look at Turing. The energy-efficiency is so good even compared to somebody else's 7nm".

AMD was the first to reach the 7nm node with its new Vega 20 GPU powering the Radeon VII, but even on the exciting new node the Vega architecture can't begin to touch the efficiency and raw power of NVIDIA's Turing GPU architecture. Hell, even the previous-gen Pascal GPUs on 14nm are more power efficient than the 7nm Vega 20. NVIDIA has been absolutely nailing power efficiency on the last few generations of GPUs, learning and making huge leaps and bounds from the Fermi GPU fiasco.

If there's one area that I'm loving the advancement of technology in for smartphones, it has to be the world of fast charging. Xiaomi has just sped past the competition with its latest 100W charger.

Xiaomi's new 100W charger has been teased, fully charging a 4000mAh battery from 0-100% in just 17 minutes. If we compare this against Oppo's best 50W Super VOOC charging technology, that throws power at 50W to charge a 3700mAh battery in the same 17-minute period. Xiaomi is onto a winner here, especially if it can get 100W of charging working over USB-C (which supports 100W charging) without too much heat and inefficiency.

It's not an official thing from Xiaomi yet, and simply a test of its 100W Super Charge Turbo technology. I hope we see something like this on the market soon with next-gen smartphones throughout 2019 and into 2020 and beyond.

If you haven't been playing The Division 2 you really ought to, as it is an absolute blast to play and looks gorgeous too (check it out here in our extensive The Division 2 Benchmarked: 20 Graphics Cards Tested article).

The Division 2 developer Massive Entertainment has announced that the Tidal Basin update drops on April 5, with the first post-release content providing the Tidal Basin stronghold mission and World Tier 5. Tier 5 is The Division 2's hardest difficulty, and also packs the highest level gear. The new stronghold is held by the Black Tusk faction, which you would've battled in the game already.

You can also repeat strongholds you've already captured so that you get new loot, and fight your way up to the harder Heroic difficulty mode with gear that goes up to 500. Battling Black Tusk enemies will see them dropping new gear sets including True Patriot, Ongoing Directive, and Hard Wired.