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AMD was the first to kinda strike 8K video editing but couldn't quite get there, something we exposed during SIGGRAPH 2017 in the days after the Radeon RX Vega unveiling in LA. But now, NVIDIA is handling real-time 8K video editing on a single Quadro RTX 6000 graphics card with some truly impressive results.

During an event in the US recently, RED Digital Cinema announced a partnership with NVIDIA and announced NVIDIA CUDA-accelerated REDCODE RAW decode SDK that provides software developers and studios new ways to work with 8K video content. RED and NVIDIA announced the news in front of some of the largest names in the industry including Adobe, Colorfront, HP, and others.

RED Digital Cinema president Jarred Land said: "Our mission is to bring cinema-grade images and performance to content creators everywhere. RED, NVIDIA and our industry partners are leveling the playing field, making the technology for high-resolution processing and image quality accessible to everyone".

Its Nintendo's time of the month again and just like the previous month the company has added three new games to its NES collection.

Nintendo has announced via their Nintendo UK Twitter page that they have brought 3 brand new NES games to Nintendo Switch Online users. Players will be going full retro in; Adventures of Lolo, Ninja Gaiden, and Wario's Woods. To celebrate the new additions, Nintendo has comprised a short video showcasing each of the new games.

Nintendo also has given players two new SP version games to enjoy as well. Metroid and Dr. Mario join the previously released SP titles The Legend of Zelda and Gradius. For more information regarding the current NES games on the Nintendo Switch, visit the official Nintendo listings for them here.

Nintendo has already teased that the first patch to come to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will be arriving onto Nintendo Switch systems sometime throughout next week.

The news comes from a notice message sent out to every Nintendo Switch system, the message says that update 1.2.0 would be arriving sometime "next week." The majority of the contents for the update are unclear, but what we do know is that once the update is downloaded and installed into your systems all in-game replays that were saved to Ultimates game files will be removed.

To save the awesome kills that you have already done, players will have to go to their Vault in Smash UItimate and navigate to the replay data section and re-save the replays into videos to your Nintendo Switch storage. Doing this will save your replays but in turn will take up quite a lot of storage on your Nintendo Switch or microSD card. I would advise players that want to save all of their replays and have quite a few of them to make sure they have enough space on their Nintendo Switch or microSD card before attempting the transfer.

Usually when you hear about a police story most of the time bad news, its unfortunate police get that negative wrap but a recent noise complaint story ended overwhelmingly positive. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was involved so how could it not right?

Jovante M. Williams or his Twitter tag JoviJenovi was hosting a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament with himself and his friends. Just like any Smash get together, the energy would of been heightened due to the intensity of the game which would of resulted in some noise (no one blames them Smash can do that). This noise would of no doubt been heard by Williams' neighbor and then the police were called on the party.

When the police arrived something unexpected happened, originally thinking that their night was over Williams instead asked the cops "I'm like, 'Y'all wanna play Smash?!? And two of them literally raised their hand and walked up. They're like, 'How do you jump?' They were acting; one of them was playing Pikachu!" It just shows that all police stories don't have to end up being negative and that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate can bring anyone together! On a side note, one of the officers confirmed that no charges were filed and that they guys were just having a bit of fun.

Now that The Game Awards are over, host and creator of the show, Geoff Keighley has taken to Twitter to announce the statistics regarding viewership across all platforms.

According to the announcement on Keighleys Twitter account, 2018's Game Awards viewership "more than doubled over last year" totaling around "26 million live streams." Keighley talked more about the viewship in his Twitter thread, saying that viewership for the show was "up" across all platforms. Twitch for example reached a massive peak of 1.13 million concurrent viewers making The Game Awards 2018 one of the most viewed livestreams ever on the platform.

"To date, here are the livestream numbers for The Game Awards (does not include VOD viewership):"

We are almost a week exactly to the launch of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and since the titles release Smash UItimate has already taken 1st place as the Nintendo Switches best-selling title.

According to Famitsu's early sales report for Japan, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has already reached 1,220,535 physical units sold in a range of only about 5 days. To put into comparison, Smash Ultimate has already beaten Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! as those titles have collectively sold 1,012,247 units.

To give an even better comparison, Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Breathe of Wild was released back in March of last year and has totaled 1,182,281 units. Smash Ultimate has already surpassed that, solidifying it as Nintendo's best-selling Switch title. There is more statistics on Smash UItimate sales from the UK sales charts, check that out here.

In my morning scour for news to write today I came across a story about Fortnite being the 15th most searched for term on Pornhub, which led me into Pornhub's own '2018 Year In Review' insights which were actually really interesting.

Pornhub has an absolutely astonishing 33.5 billion visits to the site in 2018 (and it's not even over yet) which equates to 92 million daily average visits, which the site points out is the population of Australia, Canada and Poland visiting Pornhub each and everyday. They have had over 30 billion searches in 2018 so far, which works out to 962 searches per second.

There were over 4.79 million videos uploaded this year so far, which works out to 1 million hours of video or 115 years of video. Pornhub breaks it down so well, stating that "if you started watching 2018's videos after the Wright brother's first flight, you would still be watching today. Remember that the Wright brothers first flight was back in 1903, 115 years ago.

Samsung will have one of the biggest years in its history in 2019, with the flagship Galaxy S10 smartphone set to dominate the market with three different variants of its next-gen flagship handset arriving next year.

The latest news on the Galaxy S10 comes from notorious leaker Evan '@evleaks' Blass, where he said that it will feature an Infinity O display with a 'punch hole' style selfie cam cutout, an Ultrasonic in-display fingerprint scanner, three rear cameras (standard, wide, and telephoto) as well as Samsung's new One UI that will be splashed over Android 9.0 Pie.

There will reportedly be three different models unveiled with the Galaxy S10 Lite, Galaxy S10, and Galaxy S10+ with the S10 Lite featuring a 5.8-inch display, S10 with a 6.1-inch display and the S10+ with a larger 6.4-inch display. All models of the Samsung Galaxy S10 will reportedly have 3.5mm headphone jacks, but this hasn't been confirmed just yet. The in-display fingerprint sensor will reportedly use ultrasonic waves to read the ridges of your fingerprint in 3D, which will be impressive to see from Samsung.

CRYENGINE has always been one of the best looking graphics engines on the market, something that continues to shine with developers squeezing more and more out of it... but this latest scene and screenshots from a new project are simply mind blowing.

The official CRYENGINE page on Facebook shared some photos from Matthias Lindemann's new project using Crytek's versatile engine where he used photogrammetry with some absolutely out-of-this-world results.

This wouldn't be a full game by any means and more of a 'scene' within CRYENGINE for the purposes of showing what it can do when it's pushed to its limits.

AMD announced the world's first 7nm GPU just last month during its Next Horizon event in San Francisco, where it also unveiled the next-gen EPYC 'Rome' CPU with 64C/128T which will also be made on 7nm. But now... a new trademark for Radeon Vega II has been filed by AMD, something you can scope out below.

VideoCardz has noticed that AMD registered the Radeon Vega II trademark two weeks ago now, which should see the company using this slick new logo for the upcoming 7nm Vega 20 GPU that will power the next-gen Radeon Instinct graphics cards.

The new Radeon Instinct MI60 is coming soon, built on the 7nm node and rocking a huge 32GB of HBM2 with built-in ECC and 1TB/sec of memory bandwidth. The new Radeon Instinct MI60 will also be the first to be on PCIe 4.0, offering 64GB/sec of bi-direction CPU-to-GPU bandwidth.

Fortnite has been a success in more ways than one, with the game swelling out to 8.3 million concurrent players everyday... but there is a huge market for game-related porn, and thanks to Pornhub's insights for 2018 we know that Fortnite was one of the most-searched terms for 2018.

I didn't believe it myself, so I double checked and yep... there's plenty of Fortnite-related porn on Pornhub. It's not just Epic Games' mega hit that saw an explosive amount of searches on Pornhub, but massive games like Overwatch are searched for thanks to having multiple female characters in the game. Plenty of Nintendo-related franchises are also searched for in droves on Pornhub.

Fortnite wasn't the only thing that people were searching for in times of need, with Stormy Daniels being a big hit for Pornhub. 4K porn is becoming more common place, thus searched for more over 1080p. The most-searched for video game character was Nintendo's Bowsette, blowing away established characters like Lara Croft from the Tomb Raider franchise, Mercy from Overwatch, and Zelda.

Razer's new revenue scheme gives you premium currency if you let it use your GPU for blockchain mining.

Today Razer announced SoftMiner, a new way to indirectly monetize gamers while rewarding them with digital goods. Essentially Razer is asking to use your GPU to slowly mine crypto with a new program, and in exchange it'll give you Z Silver based on how many blocks you let it mine per day. Z Silver can be used to buy apparel, gift cards, and Razer peripherals like keyboards. The tech is powered by Gamma's technology that rewards you for tapping idle GPU power.

"When your computer is idle, the Razer SoftMiner desktop application utilizes your idle GPU processing power to supplement distributed network needs for the mining process. You will be rewarded with Razer Silver, which varies depending on the amount of idle time and strength of your hardware or graphics card," Razer wrote on the announcement page.

According to the latest figures from VG Chartz, Microsoft's Xbox One family of consoles has surpassed 40 million sales globally to date.

Ever since Microsoft stopped revealing Xbox One console sales figures we've been in the dark about exact numbers. Right now all we have are estimates from sites like VG Chartz and analyst firms, the former of which pinpoints Xbox One, Xbox One S, and Xbox One X combined sales at 40,020,713 units. We're not sure if these numbers are sell-in (shipments to retailers) or sell-through (sales directly to consumers).

Right now Sony leads the charge with a whopping 82.2 million PlayStation 4's shipped to date, and Nintendo has managed to move a very respectable 22.86 million Switch consoles as of September 30, or more than half of the Xbox family's total install base.

In lieu of new retro consoles, Nintendo could use Switch Online as a new subscription-based Virtual Console that offers NES, SNES, and eventually even Nintendo 64 games.

Nintendo's latest Switch handheld-console hybrid has no Virtual Console presence, a digital shop that sells older retro games on the Wii, Wii U, and 3DS for anywhere from $5 to $10. The Switch does have classic games like NeoGeo and SEGA games for $7.99 a pop, but beloved old-school Nintendo games are missing in piecemeal sales. Rather than take the traditional VC path, Nintendo's retro gaming trajectory is forked: on one half it sells the NES and SNES Classic Editions that come with pre-loaded games, and on the other is the paid Switch Online subscription service that offers access to a growing pool of NES games.

Eventually Switch Online will be the only avenue for retro gaming on the hybrid system. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime confirms the NES and SNES mini-consoles are being retired after 2018, and Switch Online will be the main portal for Switch classic gaming.

Not every game should come to Nintendo's Switch platform, especially Rockstar's biggest game yet.

In a recent interview with Forbes, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime talked about the possibility of RDR2 on the Switch. Fils-Aime said he'd love to see Red Dead Redemption 2 on the Switch, and one of the main reasons it's not on the system is because it was in dev before the Switch itself. This prompted lots of articles divulging somewhat misleading info that RDR2 could've come to the Switch in the first place. But it's very likely the game was never planned for a Switch release. Bringing the Western to the limited handheld-console would be quite an undertaking, so much that it really just doesn't fit the system (both technically and literally).

There's many reasons why big games like Red Dead Redemption 2 shouldn't come to the Switch, but for clarification's sake we'll be talking about why Rockstar likely won't adapt their cowboy adventure to the platform. Let me preface this by saying this is an opinion-style article based around what I know about Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive's business model, and I'm not knocking the Nintendo Switch. Many games have come to the system--and many more will follow--but not every AAA title has a place on the handheld combo.

During Intel's Architecture Day briefing they teased a new interconnect technology, which aims to replace EMIB as their go to for linking and even stacking devices on a package.

The new technology allows Intel to put an IO hub, power management, and say cache on a bottom layer, then put of 10nm x86 CPU with iGPU on top of that layer, and then put some DRAM on top of that, and take all those stacks and put them on a package.

Intel has made great improvement since EMIB. They reduced bump pitch to 36um from 45um, increased density from 560/mm2 to 828/mm, and cut power consumption in half. FOVEROS is awesome in that it allows for 3D face-to-face stacking for integration of many different types of devices on an active TSV interposer, which then sits on the package.

Intel has just peeled back the veil of its future generation CPU architecture and plans for the next couple of years, but one of the areas the company touched on during its Architecture Day was its new scalable graphics architecture known as Xe.

Between now and then we've got Gen 9 graphics, Gen 11 is around the corner and then in 2020 we'll begin to see Xe. The new Xe scalable graphics architecture will be split into four markets: integrated/entry-level markets, mid-range, enthusiast and datacenter/AI. The one I'm most interested in here would have to be the mid-range and enthusiast Xe products, as they'll be the ones that will compete with NVIDIA and AMD in 2020 and beyond.

Kicking things off we have Gen 11 graphics detailed, with Intel teasing continued efficiency and improved performance. There's also advanced 3D, media, and display capabilities with Gen 11, as well as better gaming experiences. I need this in my hands before I sign off on better gaming experiences, but Intel has been continuing to make improvements in gaming performance over the years and things are really kicking into another gear now that most of RTG's best talents work for Intel now.

Intel recently detailed their vision for the future of their Core strategy during their 2018 Architecture day.

They are looking forward and looking at three points to really put them ahead; they are going to go deeper, wider, and smarter, and we will explain what those mean in a second. For now, Intel is aiming at their advantages including single core performance, their ISA, and software improvements.

Intel also wanted us to know how they define performance. IPC times frequency divided by the number of instructions seems like a good equation for us. Now, to improve IPC, which would be the first large increase since Skylake launch, Intel is going to do a few things. For starters they will go deeper; meaning they will increases parallelism. Then they will go wider, which means they will try and execute more instructions in parallel, to provide more unit capabilities (increase ports). The last thing is to go smarter, which means reducing latency and improving things such as branch prediction.

In the lastest 'Left Alive' trailer released by Square Enix, players are posed a multitude of questions regarding the choices they will be forced to make to ultimately make way for their own survival.

From the above trailer, Left Alive players will have some very hard decisions to make. These decisions will range in the form of advancing on enemies strategically or forcefully, to standing in the way of civilian life to protect them. Each vital decision made has a plethora of potential outcomes that will cause a butterfly effect throughout the rest of the game.

Left Alive will feature three main protagonists, each of these characters will come with their own story, missions and routes of survival techniques. This means that when playing as character A and moving forward through a specifically forced 'choice point', when coming across the same point and playing as character B, you may not have the same option as you previously choose. Left Alive is planned for release on March 5th and will be arriving on the PS4 and PC. For more information regarding the title, visit the official Left Alive website here.

Capcom has a new trailer for their upcoming title Devil May Cry 5. The new trailer showcases some awesome combat through the three playable characters.

Capcom have been rampant with the Devil May Cry 5 trailer hype, last week we saw a trailer released at The Game Awards that revealed the Xbox One demo and now we have a brand new one titled 'HYDE Collaboration.' The new trailer located above showcases to players all three main playable characters, Nero, V and of course Dante.

As you would expect from a Devil May Cry trailer, we are subjected to a slaughtering of demons at the hands of all three characters. The trailer actually showcases some awesome actions sequences throughout quite a large variety of demons, some large, others small and some that can only be assumed take 'boss' status. Devil May Cry 5 will release for the PS4, Xbox One, and PC on March 8, 2019.