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The release of Anthem is almost here and BioWare and Electronic Arts are celebrating early with a new trailer that showcases four javelins in action. Prepare your exo-suits as you will be bringing the fight to your enemies.

The hype for the release of Anthem is being pushed heavily by EA, and what better way then to keep the hype train moving forward then for a new action packed trailer. The above launch trailer has been released onto the official Anthem YouTube Channel and showcases four javelins working in unison to take down a variety of enemies. We also see individual gameplay for each of the javelins that showcases their respective strengths and abilities.

Anthem will launch with many features that the demo did not have, the demo started players off in the "middle" of the game and is very different balancing wise across the whole game. In the fully released game players should expect much less bugs, tutorials and more efficiency when it comes to balancing. Anthem is planned for release on the February 22nd and will launch on the Xbox One, PS4 and PC. In other news about Anthem, check out the gameplay series that delves into the titles story, progression and customizing, more on that here. There has also been some other gameplay videos released that dive into the pros and cons of specific javelins, there is videos for the Storm Javelin and Interceptor Javelin.

The release for FromSoftware's Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is just around the corner, and now the developers have released the official PC requirements showcasing what will be needed to run the upcoming title.

The requirements have been made available on the official Steam listing for the title and judging from both the minimum and recommended specifications most PC gamers won't have an issues running Sekiro. Just like every game released onto Steam, Valve has provided 'minimum' and 'recommended' specs for gamers and it seems that players will only have to have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon HD 7950 to run the game. CPU wise players will be required to have at least a Intel Core i3-2100 or an AMD FX-6300, all of which are quite old components when comparing to todays standards.

Moving onto the recommended specifications, to run Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice optimally players will be required to have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or an AMD Radeon RX 570. The recommended CPU is an Intel Core i5-2500K or a AMD Ryzen 5 1400. It seems that both the recommended or minimum specs for FromSoftware's upcoming title aren't that much at all when compared to some other AAA titles, to check out the full specifications visit the official Steam listing here. I have also provided a copy of the minimum and recommended within the entirety of this article. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice will be launching on the Xbox One, PS4 and PC on March 22nd.

If you are a Nintendo Switch user that is a member of the Nintendo Switch Online service you will be glad to know that Nintendo recognize that improvements can be made and will be working overtime to make fixes.

IN a recent Q&A held by Nintendo, the Nintendo president, Shuntaro Furukawa has shined some light on Nintendo's Switch Online service. The president recognizes that the online service can be improved and that there are many fixes that can be made. Furukawa also mentions that keeping these now 1 million+ online members is integral to Nintendo, "it is critical that these members continue using the service for a long time rather than letting it expire."

Unfortunately, Nintendo did not detail how they are exactly going to be improving the service nor the changes that they are going to be making. The company gave a vague statement saying, "currently planning ways to boost the appeal of the service on a yearly basis. Announce more details as soon as [they] are ready. Hopefully we can see improvements to the Online Switch service in better connectivity between players, instant messaging, better stability and many more features as the service does feel quite bare bones at the moment. For more information regarding the Nintendo Switch Online service, visit the official Nintendo website here.

AMD just launched its new Radeon VII graphics card, but that'll be it for GPU releases for the company until the new Navi GPU architecture and its unveiling that should take place at Computex 2019.

According to the latest rumors, Navi will be unveiled in June at Computex, but won't be in gamers hands until October. This makes sense as the unveiling will have to take place after Sony and Microsoft announce and detail their respective next-gen consoles that will feature custom Zen 2 processors and custom Navi GPUs.

An October retail launch allows AMD to build larger numbers of Navi graphics cards especially considering they'll be on 7nm and most fab time for 7nm is being chewed up incredibly quick. AMD will be using GDDR6 memory which will see AMD having many more Navi cards than Radeon VII, which are according to our exclusive story, less than 5000 units in total.

Despite crashing sales, Nintendo isn't ready to shut down its 3DS handheld.

Nintendo's Fiscal Q3'18 earnings outlined some worrying trends for the 3DS. After an 8-year lifecycle the handheld is slowing down and may be ready to retire soon. Both 3DS hardware and software sales are down over 60% year-over-year in Q3, whereas the Nintendo Switch made up 85% of the company's nine-month net sales revenue. The 3DS is getting pushed out of its own turf by its tougher older brother, the Switch.

But Nintendo isn't ready to give up on the 3DS just yet. The handheld still has a massive 74 million install base that can be squeezed a little more, and Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa says the 3DS will continue living alongside the Switch. But the question remains...for how long? "Our basic policy is to proceed with both Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS in our dedicated video game platform business," Mr. Furukawa said in a recent Nintendo FYQ3'18 Q&A.

Fallout creators Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky share new details about Obsidian's new RPG, The Outer Worlds.

In a sea of online-driven live games, Obsidian's singleplayer-only RPG The Outer Worlds is a breath of fresh air. The game, which combines FPS action with sci-fi humor and deeper RPG sentiments, will channel key elements from original Fallout cRPGs without actually being an isometric point-and-click adventure. Back in 2017, sources told TweakTown that The Outer Worlds (then a mysterious IP) would be Obsidian's own unique answer to the Fallout series.

Details have been light since the game's TGA2018 reveal but now Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky reveal new tidbits in a GameInformer interview. Take-Two Interactive says its Private Division label, who's publishing The Outer Worlds, will showcase new content and reveal new updates later in 2019.

Square Enix might be working on the Final Fantasy VII remake but that doesn't mean the developer is only working on that game, as we know that Final Fantasy XVI is coming in the near future but what will it arrive as?

According to Naoki Yoshida, the director of Final Fantasy XIV, we could see something different. Yoshida said at the recent Final Fantasy XIV Paris Fan Festival: "First, if you're asking whether the Final Fantasy series will get another MMO soon, I think the chances are unlikely so long as Final Fantasy XIV is doing well. On that note, personally speaking, I'd like to see a Final Fantasy that is straightforward fantasy, one that doesn't have much machinery, and with no mecha in it. After all, we're having trouble with the Garlean Empire being too powerful. Ah, okay, that was a bad joke".

What do you think we'll see Final Fantasy XVI arrive as?

Following the cancellation of two major Star Wars games--Visceral's ambitious Project Ragtag and, more recently, EA Vancouver's open-world Project Orca--, gamers demanded Disney yank the exclusive ten-year Star Wars license from EA. But Disney says their relationship with the publisher is healthy, and licensing opportunities like these will continue.

In its Q1'19 earnings report, Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company has no plans to resurrect studios like LucasArts to make its own games. The only way to play games based on IPs like Star Wars will be through licensing deals with publishers like EA.

"We're obviously mindful of the size of that business. But over the years, as you know, we've tried our hand in self-publishing. We've bought companies. We've sold companies. We've bought developers. We've closed developers," Iger said in Disney's Q1 earnings call. "And we found over the years that we haven't been particularly good at the self-publishing side, but we've been great at the licensing side, which obviously doesn't require that much allocation of capital. And since we're allocating capital in other directions, even though we certainly have the ability to allocate more capital, we've just decided that the best place for us to be in that space is licensing and not publishing."

Apex Legends is a roaring success that shows no signs of slowing down and EA is very, very happy.

It's not often that free-to-play shooter gains millions of players out of the gate. Respawn's new 60-player battle royale shooter has done just that, and EA confirms Apex Legends just passed 10 million players in just three days time. Just two days ago Apex Legends broke 1 million players, so powerful word-of-mouth and advertising campaigns helped spike playercount.

The BR juggernaut is also retaining players and passed 1 million concurrent users across all platforms. EA has to be very happy about this success, especially since the more people playing service games raises the chance for recurring monetization (Apex Legends is monetized with optional cosmetics and a Battle Pass system).

BioWare reveals the first three seasons of post-release content for its big new online-only game Anthem.

Any service game lives or dies by how well it engages players, and the best way to keep everyone playing is with new content. BioWare and EA have a strong post-release roadmap for their big new mech shooter Anthem devised for this particular purpose. The content is separated into three different Acts, which seem to be mini-expansions with lots of extras, that should stretch throughout 2019. All of these content drops are part of a campaign called Elder Content and will be free for all users. These post-launch additions funded by optional in-game cosmetic microtransactions.

Act 1: Echoes of Reality will kick off in March, and includes a whopping array of content like a level cap raise, a new stronghold (kind of like strikes from Destiny), addition of guilds and persistent online leaderboards to track your progress, fresh loot and gear drops, new missions that expand the story, and Anthem's most exciting addition of all: sky-breaking cataclysmic storms that alter the game world and summon huge bosses.

Ubisoft will be bringing the nostalgia back to players in the upcoming Assassin's Creed III remastered which is planned for release on March 29th.

A recent press release from Ubisoft has revealed the official release date for Assassin's Creed III remastered and the new upgraded features that will come with it. According to the press release, Assassin's Creed III remastered will come with 4K and HDR support on the PS4, Xbox One X and PC. There will also be upgrades to the games textures, an overhaul of the graphics engine, lighting, gameplay mechanics and numerous other graphical improvements.

Assassin's Creed III remastered will feature the full game alongside the single-player missions Benedict Arnold and Hidden Secrets. In the entirety of this post I have provided some dot points for what the game will feature. In other news about Assassin's Creed, Ubisoft have been rumored to bring Assassin's Creed III to the Nintendo Switch. Listings found on several European websites have shown the cover-art for the game, but no official announcement has come from Ubisoft as of yet, more on that story here.

90's kids would understand that The Simpson's was more than a formidable force on T.V during dinner time, and despite the show running for more 20 years now the classic T.V series is not done just yet.

The Simpson's are about to move into its 31st season and while it may be popular opinion that the more recent episodes in the later seasons may not stand up to the ones from the earlier seasons, the viewership is still quite high. According to GameSpot, each of the newer episodes that were released managed to pull in an audience of 7.5 million viewers across all platforms.

The announcement of The Simpson's being renewed for season 31 and 32 comes from the official Simpson's Twitter account. The post says "We've got some eeeeeexcellllent news... #TheSimpsons has been renewed for Seasons 31 and 32!". Deadline has reported that Fox secured the deal with the cast members of The Simpson's as they were more than happy to keep the show running and laughs coming. Side note - is that a Mr. Burns pun I spot in the Twitter post?

Many fans of Marvel, Fox and Disney have had their eyebrows raised to whether we are going to see any more R-rated movies coming out of Disney's movie conveyor belt. Recent news has suggested that Disney has no problems with future R-rated movies.

In a recent earnings call with Disney's chief, Bob Iger, questions were posed to their chairman regarding the ratings for future Disney movies and if we will be seeing new movies within the same R-rated calibre as Deadpool. Iger replied with "We do believe there is room for the Fox properties to exist without significant Disney influence over the nature of the content, meaning that we see that there is certainly popularity amongst Marvel fans for the R-rated Deadpool films, as a for instance. We're going to continue in that business, and there might be room for more of that."

Iger further explains the relationship between Marvel, Fox and Disney. He says that when a future movie is decided upon and the ratings are set that the companies will be "very carefully branding them and making sure that we're not in any way confusing the consumer with product that would be sort of either Disney product or the more traditional Marvel product." At the moment there is no known R-rated Disney produced movies in the pipeline, but with this now acceptance of a strong market for these types of films we will most likely see some in the near future.

The success of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate seems to just be getting more and more attention, now news has come out that the title managed to sell 300,000 units in just 1 month in Japan.

Nintendo's cross-over fighter bonanza is unparalleled to the previous instalments in the Smash Bros. franchise. The release of Smash Ultimate back in December of last year saw the franchise raised to new sales heights and even hitting the milestone of the best-selling/fastest-selling Super Smash Bros. game to date.

Recent news has come from this weeks latest installment of Famitsu, revealing the sales numbers between November 26th and December 30th for Japan. Within this time frame it has been reported that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate sold, 309,229 digital units, beating the likes of PUBG on PS4 (144,113 units), Super Mario Party PS4 (45,387) and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (29,219). Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is exclusively on the Nintendo Switch an is available right now.

NetherRealm Studios, the developers behind Mortal Kombat 11 have come out and shot down fans' petition to bring Scooby-Doo's 'Shaggy' to Mortal Kombat 11.

On the latest Kombat Kast video, Community Manager, Tyler Lansdown addressed the rumor that was floating around the Mortal Kombat community. Fans took to a petition to show their support for the one and only Norville Rogers, or more famously known as 'Shaggy'. Shaggy is from the classic cartoon show and movies 'Scooby-Doo' and it seems fans were more than excited for the possibility of the character being added to Mortal Kombat 11.

The petition which is still live at the time of writing this accumulated over 350,000 votes for the character to be added to the upcoming game. Despite fans support for the addition, Lansdown shot down the idea immediately saying; "Shaggy will not be in the game at all, ever. Sorry. Dead meme. No Shaggy in Mortal Kombat. That is your official first de-confirmation." It is a real shame to see that Shaggy isn't going to be coming to Mortal Kombat 11, but I can certainly see why.

We've all read the rumors of NVIDIA's purported GeForce GTX 1660 and GTX 1660 Ti graphics card coming, a new Turing-based card that won't have real-time ray tracing abilities.

We have seen teases of both an MSI and GIGABYTE family of GTX 1660 Ti graphics cards, but after speaking with an AIB source of mine, it's confirmed: the GTX 1660 Ti is coming, and it isn't far away. I would dare say that NVIDIA will launch the new cards in the not too distant future, as it'll have to better compete with AMD's upcoming Navi-based graphics cards that should fall between $299-$599 in various SKUs.

To add to this news, VideoCardz is reporting that new listings have turned up for GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics cards on Russian retail websites with MSI and Palit custom GTX 1660 Ti cards teased. We are to expect the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti to be launched on February 15 (which is right around the corner) and then the GTX 1660 in 'early March' for prices of $279, and $229 respectively.

With the release of Crackdown 3 around the corner, Microsoft has launched two new videos: a launch trailer, and the opening cinematic.

But that's not all - the company has made the original Crackdown FREE on the Xbox One, which is a huge deal for anyone wanting to get into Crackdown 3 and get a feel for the first, and loads-of-fun original Crackdown.

Crackdown originally launched on the Xbox 360 back in 2010, and while it might not feel like a great game by today's standards, you can't complain for something that doesn't cost you money. This is also not the first time Microsoft has offered Crackdown for free, with its XO18 fan festival in November 2018 where it also announced backwards compatibility support for the game on current-gen Xbox consoles.

Microsoft has just released the launch trailer for Crackdown 3, which sets the hype bar pretty high but then there's also the multiplayer technical test that the company kicks off tomorrow on the Xbox for the Xbox Insider Program.

If you want to participate in the technical test, all you;'ll need to do is download the Xbox Insider Hub, sign up for it, and then download the 'Wrecking Zone: Technical Test' from the Insider Content section. The technical test will begin downloading on February 7 at 9AM PST, with the first matches starting at 12PM PST. Microsoft hasn't said when it'll end, but I'm sure it won't be that long since the game launches the week after.

Another surprise video is the opening cinematic for Crackdown 3, which sets the tone for what to expect from its star, and fellow gamer Terry Crews.

EA has been providing a bunch of new details about its various games in development, riding off of the uber-success of its just-released Apex Legends. The company has also provided some sales estimates of BioWare's upcoming game; Anthem.

EA CFO Blake Jorgensen said that EA is aiming for 5-6 million units to be sold by the end of March, and given that Anthem launches on February 15 this gives the company just 6 weeks to hit that lofty goal. Jorgensen said that the recent success of the Anthem demo gives them confidence that the game will be a success (to the tune of 5-6 million units) during its important few weeks post-launch.

Anthem will also make even more money for EA from microtransactions, something the company refers to as "live services". We will see how Anthem sales go when it launches in just over a week from now, and through to the end of March.

In a world exclusive article I wrote back in mid-January, I said that there would be less than 5000 units of AMD's new Radeon VII graphics card available. Well, it could end up being even less than that according to new reports.

OverclockersUK have said they've received just 76 units, with OCUK's allocation reportedly half of the entire stock that the UK will receive, but other countries are much worse off. Cowcotland reports that Spain and France will have just 20 each to sell, which is not a good position to be in at all. All of this underlines the fact that my source said there would be up to 5000 max and that "AMD is losing money on each card sold as they are, as I said before, just Radeon Instinct MI50 cards that are being re-purposed into 'new' Radeon VII cards".

In my report, I added that there would be "NO custom Radeon VII graphics cards made". We have yet to have seen a custom Radeon VII, as they are all reference models with some 'new' stickers added to the fans like ASRock's upcoming Radeon VII graphics card.