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UPDATE: EA CEO Andrew Wilson confirms a new premium Titanfall game is coming on 2019...but it'll have a twist. We're betting it's Titanfall VR.

"Respawn also plans to launch a premium game this year that is a new twist on the Titanfall universe. More to come on that in the months ahead," Wilson said in an earnings call.

Respawn's explosively popular Apex Legends F2P battle royale game isn't the end of the Titanfall series, and publisher EA teases more "experiences" set in the sci-fi universe.

Capcom records massive earnings on the backs of strong Monster Hunter: World performance.

New financial reports show that Japanese games-maker Capcom is doing very, very well. Monster Hunter: World has now sold more than 11 million copies and is a money-making machine for the company, whose Fiscal Q3'18 and nine-month revenues spiked from the MORPG's revenues and catalog sales. First we'll take a look at the nine-month earnings and then follow up with Q3'18.

In the nine-month period from April to December 2018, Capcom's total profits are up a whopping 108% year-over-year to 9.180 billion yen, driven by consistent strong sales and recurring revenues from catalog games and Monster Hunter: World. Operating income, or revenue generated after wages, development costs, and costs of goods sold are deducted, surged by 92% YoY to 13.461 billion yen. Net sales rose nearly 30% and raked in the lion's share of Capcom's gaming segment earnings with 61.270 billion yen.

Respawn may have done with a free-to-play battle royale game what EA wanted to do with Anthem.

Respawn's new Apex Legends 60-player battle royale game is already a success. The Titanfall-based shooter has only been out a day and is being hailed as a must-play FPS by gamers all over. Engagement is high thanks to its accessibility--it had over 1 million players in just 8 hours--and strong monetization could follow. But what about Anthem, EA's big new shared-worlds shooter?

Any live service game lives or dies based on engagement. Failed online games die because the playerbase dries up and no one's spending cash. Some, like Destiny 2, go through many changes and stave off death by reinventing themselves. Some games like Fallout 76 falter out of the gate due to mismanagement. Apex Legends' rising fame could pose a threat to Anthem's engagement simply because gamers could keep playing the F2P shooter instead of diving into a $64 premium game. All games compete with each other in this way (Epic Games' Fortnite, for example, competes with all others), but seldom do we see publishers smush together two live games that could disrupt one another in such a short span.

Respawn's big new free-to-play battle royale game launched today and it's already an engagement monster.

Apex Legends, the new 60-player battle royale shooter with Overwatch-like heroes, has amassed a massive 1 million unique players in just 8 hours. Respawn studio head Vince Zampella confirmed the news on Twitter: "I'm so overwhelmed right now. Apex Legends broke a million unique players in under 8 hours. Thank you so much for showing up and being part of this with Respawn you are amazing!!"

These are huge launch numbers for any F2P game and EA is likely quite happy about all the positive buzz floating around Apex Legends. Respawn's free-to-play gambit has paid off, and is actually built on the remnants Titanfall 3, which is no longer in development. The FPS has all the trademarks of a Titanfall game: slick action, fluid combat, and explosive visuals all wrapped around iconic characters with unique abilities.

Following a massive holiday sales spike, the Nintendo Switch is dominating earnings and driving sales revenues to strong heights.

After scanning Nintendo's latest nine-month financial earnings, the numbers told me something interesting (as they're wont to do). The Switch isn't just making most of the company's quarterly revenue, but a disproportionate amount of it, eclipsing other segments by quite a bit. Switch hardware and software earned 849 trillion yen in the nine month period from April to December 2018, or 85% of Nintendo's total net sales revenues of 997 trillion yen ($3.7 billion). The handheld-console hybrid made 88% of total dedicated video game segment sales.

Nine month Switch platform earnings are up 30% year-over-year, and Switch software and hardware only made 44% of last year's nine month sales revenues.

Antec has now releases its new entry-level and budget-friendly gaming chassis into the market, with the new GX202 available from leading retailers and online merchants for $44.99.

The new Antec GX202 sports s slick mesh pattern on the front which allows for plenty of air intake, with the front panel itself detachable. On the front, we have 2 x USB 3.0 ports, power, and 3.5mm audio jacks. Antec has used mostly SPCC steel with plastic on the GX202 while there's a fully transparent side window that lets you peer into your gaming case.

There's room for up to 8 storage drives which is split between 1 x 5.25-inch (people still use these?), 4 x 2.5-inch SSD drive cages and 3 x 2.5-inch SSD/3.5-inch HDD drive cages. Antec's new GX202 will support long graphics cards up to 375mm in length, while large CPU coolers up to 160mm will be fine alongside 200mm long PSUs. There's plenty of room for water cooling with a 240mm radiator supported at the front of the GX202.

Netflix are following up with the currently extremely hot serial killer content that has been recently released onto their platform. The streaming service has now been reported to of purchased the upcoming Ted Bundy movie 'Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile'.

The Hollywood Reporter has come out and said that Netflix have purchased 'Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile', a Ted Bundy movie starring actor Zac Efron for $9 million dollars. If you are unaware of who Ted Bundy is he was American's most notorious serial killer, he kidnapped, raped and murdered 30+ women and was known for his charming persona and psychological intellect. Zac Efron will be starring Ted Bundy and Lily Collins will be taking the role of Bundy's girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer.

The movie who is directed by Jeff Berlinger will be concentrating on the perspective of Bundy's girlfriend. This deal from Netflix certainly does make sense considering the streaming service recently added "Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes". That four-part documentary series which is also directed by Jeff Berlinger recently received some controversy surrounding Bundy's acclaimed 'hotness' despite his disgusting history. Check that story out here.

Disney debuted the newest installation into the Kingdom Hearts franchise last week, the long-awaited Kingdom Hearts III has knocked off Capcom's Resident Evil 2 Remake in the UK sales charts.

The release of Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts III and Resident Evil 2 are both undoubtedly a success. Both of these titles take first and second place for the biggest titles to release in 2019 so far. Now, GFK Chart-Track has released updated sales statistics for the UK digital sales, the charts are measured in for the 'Top 40 Entertainment Software' for the 'Week Ending 2nd of February 2019'.

According to the sales data, Kingdom Hearts III has knocked off the previously leading Resident Evil 2 Remake. The title has also topped the likes of Rockstar's Resident Evil 2, FIFA 19, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Grand Theft Auto V. It should be noted that these sales statistics only represent in-store sales. In other news about Resident Evil 2, check out the coming Netflix T.V show that has been planned here. There is also a new gameplay video for Kingdom Hearts III, check that out here.

Gerald Cotten, the founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX died from complications with Crohn's disease on December 9, 2018 while travelling in India. In his passing, a huge $190 million in various cryptocurrencies is locked away as Cotten was the only one with the passwords.

Cotten was the "sole officer and director" of QuadrigaCX, and has the $190 million stuck behind his encrypted laptop without anyone knowing the password. The news comes from a debt filing from QuadrigaCX to which his widow Jennifer Robertson said in an affidavit that "Gerry died due to complications with Crohn's disease on December 9, 2018 while travelling in India, where he was opening an orphanage to provide a home and safe refuge for children in need".

QuadrigaCX has since experienced major issues of pumping out customers' funds to their accounts, with the crypto exchange saying it is going through "significant financial issues". The company added that it has "very significant cryptocurrency reserves", but it couldn't locate or secure said servers. So effectively, QuadrigaCX's CEO died with the customers' money on his encrypted laptop. All of those cold wallet private keys are lost.

Konami has taken to the website to announce that the Nintendo Switch will soon be getting its first Yu-Gi-Oh! game.

In the announcement from Konami it is detailed that Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution will allow for players to duel against the classic characters from the Yu-Gi-Oh! series. Players will also be able to duel each other "nationwide with "New Master Rule" which is the latest rule of "OCG".

While this Yu-Gi-Oh game is already available on the Xbox One, PS4 and PC, it is still good to see the Nintendo Switch getting some love from Konami. At the moment there is no known release date for 'Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution' arriving on the Nintendo Switch, but more information is expected to be released in the next edition of V-Jump which is due to debut on February 21st.

The Steam Lunar New Year Sale has officially begun and Valve are bringing major discounts to over 1000 titles across the Steam Store. Gamers that pick up some of these heavily discounted titles will be rewarded with tokens that can used in Steam's new 'Rewards Booth'.

Valve has taken to their Steam Blog to explain what Steam users will be enjoying throughout these festive celebrations. To start off, Valve explains that "players will receive a one-time automatic $5 (or equivalent currency) discount on qualifying purchases over $30 -- this is limited to one cart purchase per account." Valve will not only be giving out a discount to players but they will also be rewarding players with tokens equivalent to their purchases.

These tokens can then be exchanged at the new 'Rewards Booth' for "shiny profile page, emotes, badges, and more instant discount coupons!" It should be noted that these token will expire once the Lunar New Year Sales are finished. Some of the titles that are discounted throughout the Lunar New Year Sale are; SCUM - 25%, Dark Souls III - 75%, XCOM 2 - 75%, Batman Arkham Knight - 75%, Far Cry 5 - 75% and The Talos Principle - 85%. I have provided screenshots of each of the discounted games below, if you would like to visit the official Steam Lunar New Year Sale website, a link can be found here.

Capcom just recently launched their remake of one of the most famous titles in the horror gaming genre, Resident Evil 2. The title has seen quite a high level of success, but how much exactly?

Capcom, the developer and publisher for the title have revealed the sales statistics for the remastered game and according to their announcement Resident Evil 2 Remake managed to sell 1 million copies each day for three days. The official statement from Capcom reads as follows; "Resident Evil 2 released on January 25th, 2019 - Achieved more than 3 million units sold in first week (as of January 298th, 2019)".

While the Resident Evil 2 Remake may not equate the immense popularity and sales of Capcom's other big name titles such as 'Monster Hunter: World', the horror classic still has managed to make for a success in Capcom's books. Especially considering that Resident Evil 2 is a remake of an older game, a horror title, and was released just after the Christmas period. All of these reasons I just mentioned would usually defer gamers from picking up a copy, but it seems that Resident Evil 2 is an exception. Resident Evil 2 is currently available on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.

Many Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fans are quite upset with Nintendo's efforts regarding the recent v2.0.0 update to come to Smash Ultimate. Many players are reporting issues with the now live update and despite this, Nintendo has said they cannot find any issues.

At the beginning of February, Nintendo released an update to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. As expected, the update contained numerous gameplay changes, tweaks to characters in the forms of buffs, nerfs and balancing. The update also contained the new fighter 'Piranha Plant' and was free to those players who pre-ordered the title. Unfortunately after the release of this update many users have said there save files have been corrupted after the use of Piranha Plant in Smash's 'All-Star' mode.

The Super Smash Bros. Ultimate community was loud enough to get the Big N's attention, and now has issued a statement to Newsweek in response to the claims surrounding the update. Nintendo has said they cannot find any issues, but will continue looking; "We are aware that some users are posting about possible issues with the latest Super Smash Bros. Ultimate update. After extensive testing, Nintendo has not been able to confirm that there is an issue, although we will continue to investigate and monitor the situation." It is very unfortunate that this update has caused many players to lose hours of gameplay footage, so hopefully Nintendo can issue out a hotfix once the problem has been located.

BioWare made Jade Empire as an Xbox exclusive back in 2007 and then later ported to the PC and published by Microsoft Game Studios, after that it was ported to both Android and iOS in 2016.

EA has just filed a trademark for Jade Empire, but we don't know why. We could expect Jade Empire Remastered in the near future, especially given how well remasters of gamers' favorite titles, when remastered well, sell. Look at Resident Evil 2 and its 3 million copies sold so far, a remaster and tweak of Jade Empire could spell success for EA.

We could expect BioWare to be working on Jade Empire 2 and if that's the case, there are going to be millions of gamers that are excited about that. For those who don't know about Jade Empire, you control a character dubbed a "Spirit Monk" who like Neo in The Matrix, learns a bunch of martial arts styles and techniques that helps you battle enemies in hand-to-hand combat, or using weapons from Chinese culture, as well as magic.

Respawn Entertainment made the surprise announcement and release of Apex Legends that shocked the gaming world this week, securing a bunch of influencers and game streamers like Dr Disrespect to hype the battle royale game.

Apex Legends is like an infusion of Overwatch, PUBG, and Fortnite with it set in the world of Titanfall and looking very much like Titanfall, without the Titans. Respawn has now detailed the Battle Pass that will launch in March, with the Battle Pass rocking some limited-time cosmetic items while each Apex Battle Pass will include 100 different awards, you can unlock them by playing through the game.

There will be multiple items you can grind away and get while playing Apex Legends but if you want everything you'll need to buy the Battle Pass, with everything you unlock in the game is yours to keep throughout future seasons. Each of the Battle Passes will feature exclusive, season-specific cosmetic items and random Apex Packs which will feature their own weapons and Legends skins, some of which are rare.

The Division 2 isn't far away with Ubisoft beginning to hype the game up a little bit more before its debut next month, with Ubisoft set to host a beta of The Division 2 that will attempt to squash the hype EA is building for its luke warm release of Anthem on February 22.

During an interview with EDGE magazine and Ubisoft Massive lead designer Keith Evans, we are finding out that the developer learned a lot of lessions from the original The Division, which will be implemented into its sequel. Evans said that they wanted to make the world of The Division 2 much more replayable, and over the course of three years this has been a main goal of Ubisoft Massive.

Evans explained: "It's definitely been a journey. I joined the team a little bit before the launch of the first game, so I was involved in leading the design on contributions to endgame over all three years. And the main lesson we've learned is that players kind of devour content. So the biggest thing that we've done design wise on The Division 2 is to start with that mindset. It's not just about that level 1-30 journey, it's not just about reclaiming this beautiful 1:1 version of a city. It's about making sure there's a ton of interesting things to discover, and that the world is much more replayable once you hit endgame".

AMD has released a new set of Radeon 19.2.1 drivers that are optimized for the newly-released battle royale game Apex Legends that Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment just dropped on the world.

The new Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.2.1 drivers are not only optimized for Apex Legends but they have support for the upcoming private beta of The Division 2. There's also up to 5% additional performance in Assassin's Creed Odyssey on the Radeon RX Vega 64, with AMD making some optimizations in the new 19.2.1 drivers.

These changes also fix some problems with Battlefield V, issues with Anthem, and various other issues that are fixed in the Radeon 19.2.1 drivers.

Now that we are aware of what Apex Legends is, developer Respawn Entertainment has come out and confirmed that the team is not working on a new Titanfall game, as much as some gamers want it to happen.

Apex Legends producer Drew McCoy talked with Eurogamer about the new battle royale title that Respawn is working on, confirming: "The world thinks we're making Titanfall 3 and we're not - [Apex Legends] is what we're making. We were just like, 'Let the game speak for itself.' It's the most powerful antidote to potential problems. We're doing a free to play game, with essentially loot boxes, after we were bought by EA, and it's not Titanfall 3. It's the perfect recipe for a marketing plan to go awry, so why have that - let's just ship the game and let players play".

So there we have it: Titanfall 3 is not in development at all. There's the defense that EA said in 2017 that it was working on more Titanfall with Respawn, but since Apex Legends is a game that exists in the world of Titanfall, EA didn't really lie. Kotaku has an insider that says Titanfall 3 was definitely in development, and has theories that Apex Legends is a game being released in-between the next-gen Titanfall 3 which could drop on next-gen Xbox and PlayStation consoles.

NVIDIA has released a new GeForce 418.81 WHQL set of drivers that sport both support for 3DMark's new DLSS update for Port Royal, as well as supporting the upcoming slew of GeForce RTX powered gaming notebooks.

The company has baked in a bunch of other things into the new GeForce 418.81 drivers like added or tuned SLI profiles, as well as features and issues that have either been tweaked or fixed. Starting with the updated or added SLI profiles:

NVIDIA has just announced that DLSS support has hit 3DMark's first real-time ray tracing benchmark Port Royal, with UL releasing a new update to 3DMark Port Royal that enables DLSS benchmarking.

There's now a DLSS feature test in Port Royal that will run and compare performance and image quality with and without NVIDIA's new DLSS feature enabled. Port Royal benchmarks with TAA (Temporal Anti-Aliasing) which looks great but can sometimes look blurry, while NVIDIA's DLSS technology harnesses the power of deep learning and AI to provide a cleaner-looking image with up to 50% more performance which is simply incredible.

The first pass of the DLSS feature test will render Port Royal with DLSS disabled to get baseline performance before it moves onto rendering Port Royal at a reduced resolution, but with DLSS enabled that creates frames at the target output resolution.