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The indie hit title Firewatch will be making its way to the Nintendo Switch later this month, developer Camp Santo has confirmed the news via Twitter.

The above post is from the official Campo Santo Twitter account and confirms that Firewatch will be arriving on the Nintendo Switch on December 17th. Future players will not have to worry about their region as Firewatch will be available in the "Americas, Europe, Australia, and Japan eShops."

If you didn't know, Valve recently acquired Campo Santo after the success of Firewatch and their team of 12 have since relocated to Washington DC to continue working on their coming title In The Valley of Gods. More on that story here. If you want to know more about Firewatch or Campo Santo in general, visit their official website here.

The unboxing video comes from none other than Nintendo Minute hosts Kit and Krysta. Both hosts dive straight into every item that will be available for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

The video begins with the hosts getting their hands-on the steelbook bundle edition which contains a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate themed pro-controller and a steelbook game cover. After the hosts go through each of the details found on both the pro-controller and the steelbook they move onto the Smash Bros. Ultimate themed GameCube controller and the GameCube adapter.

According to both the hosts, the GameCube controller is quite weighty which is something I can certainly say I'm happy about. The hosts then move onto the official game guides, we get a very good look at the hard-cover edition as the middle of the book is opened revealing a detailed breakdown of Incineroar and each of his moves. We can assume that since the book has a section for Incineroar that there will be sections for each of the other fighters. For more information regarding Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, visit the official website here.

AMD has a massive year ahead of them in 2019 already with the announcements of the world's first 7nm GPU and world's first 7nm CPU, but then there's EPYC 'Rome' and its insane 64C/128T of power that will be unleashing in 2019 as well as the new Zen 2 CPU architecture and Ryzen 3000 seires processors and Ryzen Threadripper 3000 series chips. Phew. That's a lot... except, AMD isn't finished yet.

It's no surprise that PCIe 4.0 technology is right around the corner, but a new rumor is that AMD will be unleashing it on a new X570 chipset that will reportedly be launching during Computex 2019. The new info is courtesy of some leaked slides of a purported internal GIGABYTE presentation.

The new X570 chipset will reportedly be backwards compatible with all previous-gen Ryzen CPUs, while PCIe 4.0 technology doubles the bandwidth from PCIe 3.0 from 8 GT/s to 16 GT/s. This won't mean much to most people, as everyone will think 'ZOMG it'll make graphics cards twice as fast' but what it will allow is many more devices running over PCIe lanes.

In a bid to keep big-budget games on Steam, Valve ups the revenue split for top earners...and some independent developers feel cheated.

Publishers like Bethesda, EA, Ubisoft, and Activision-Blizzard have left Steam behind and opened up their own digital storefronts to sell their PC games. Major games-makers simply want to avoid Valve's 30% retainer from all game sales and want to keep all the profits for themselves, which sees major games missing the platform. Now Valve is trying to win back publishers and devs with a newly revised revenue system that favors big games...but will it work?

Steam's new revenue system basically rewards devs and publishers if their games hit it big. If your game sells well and breaks $10 million you'll get to keep 75% of all earnings instead of the previous 70%. And if your game makes over $50 million, you'll get to keep 80%. Here's Valve's official statement:

To celebrate the release of 'Westworld - Season Two: The Door' on home video, we have five Blu-ray copies of the series on Blu-ray to give away thanks to our friends at Roadshow Home Entertainment!

Welcome back to Westworld, where the puppet show is over and the newly liberated "hosts" are coming for humankind. In Season Two, Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) takes charge, Maeve (Thandie Newton) is on a mission and the Man in Black (Ed Harris) is back. Chaos takes control in this dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness, the birth of a new form of life and the evolution of sin.

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To celebrate the release of 'Mission Impossible: Fallout' on home video, we have five Blu-ray copies of the film and one major prize of the entire 'Mission Impossible' collection on Blu-ray to give away thanks to our friends at Universal Sony Home Entertainment!

Ethan Hunt and the IMF team join forces with CIA assassin August Walker to prevent a disaster of epic proportions. Arms dealer John Lark and a group of terrorists known as the Apostles plan to use three plutonium cores for a simultaneous nuclear attack on the Vatican, Jerusalem and Mecca, Saudi Arabia. When the weapons go missing, Ethan and his crew find themselves in a desperate race against time to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.

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NVIDIA already has a slew of Turing-based graphics cards on the market in the form of GeForce RTX and Quadro RTX cards, but now it seems it's nearly time for the TITAN RTX to shine.

In an "accidental" leak Linus from LinusTechTips showed off the TITAN RTX box during the recent WAN show, as well as The Slow Mo Guys showing off the card itself with "TITAN" branding on it in place of the "GeForce RTX" branding we've seen on the RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 2080 and RTX 2070 graphics cards.

We don't know anything more than this, but this means that we can expect TITAN RTX graphics cards to be seeded out to reviewers in the coming weeks, especially if cards and boxes are in the hands of influencers now.

Blizzard is currently working on multiple Diablo projects, and some of them should be revealed in 2019.

Instead of revealing Diablo 4 at Blizzcon 2018, the studio announced a mobile game aimed at maximum exposure and microtransactions. Diablo Immortal isn't the game anyone wanted, especially since we know Diablo 4 is in development. Gamers want to know more about Diablo 4 and these other mysterious projects and now Blizzard's community manager gives a nebulous 2019 info window.

"We continue to read feedback and our internal discussions are ongoing. We have many plans for Diablo across multiple projects which we'll be revealing over the course of the coming year," said Blizzard community manager Nevalistis.

Rocksteady squashes months and months of rumors in one fell swoop.

Batman Arkham developer Rocksteady Games is working on a new project, but it isn't based on Superman. Despite rampant rumors, studio co-founder and creative director Sefton Hill confirmed Rocksteady's next big game won't do for Superman what Arkham did for Batman.

"We're still hard at work in our development bunker so don't expect an announcement from Rocksteady Games. When it's ready to show, you'll be the first to know. Spoiler: it's not Superman," Hill wrote on Twitter.

Microsoft's newly bought AA game studios will release their games onto Game Pass, similar to AAA devs.

In a bid to fill out its flagging first-party slate, Microsoft recently bought a slew of renowned games-makers like Ninja Theory, Undead Labs Compulsion Games, Playground Games, Obsidian Entertainment, and inXile. These purchases were tactical and have a two-fold goal, though: to release new games on Xbox LIVE and in stores as well as significantly bolster its popular $10 a month Xbox Game Pass subscription service.

It's important to note that the mix of acquired studios are considered AA and AAA (Ninja Theory and Obsidian are AA, whereas Playground Games are AAA) and will games for Microsoft accordingly. This poses an interesting spectrum of content that'll soon be doled out on Game Pass: first we'll have indies, then AA experiences like Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, and then bigger projects like Playground's new RPG (probably a new Fable).

As more and more gamers jump into the battle royale craze, Fortnite's incredible wide-sweeping popularity comes at a human cost.

Epic Games makes billions from Fortnite. The game is a monstrous success in microtransaction revenues, engagement, and overall exposure, but players are paying more than money or time for the experience. Some are developing addictions that are increasingly hard to shake--and it's not just adults. According to a Bloomberg report, experts warn that Fortnite addiction is running rampant and is interrupting people's jobs, relationships, draining bank accounts, and may be setting kids up for lifelong battles with interactive-based behavioral disease.

"This game is like heroin. Once you are hooked, it's hard to get unhooked," addiction behavioral specialist Lorraine Marer told Bloomberg.

The coming PS4 port of Path of Exile has been delayed by developer Grinding Gear Games, PS4 players will now have to wait until sometime in February next year to get their hands-on the title.

The announcement comes from the games official website and details that the PS4 port has been delayed due to the certification process taking longer than expected. "We underestimated the amount of work it would take to finish the certification process during the busy Christmas period."

The post continues and says that Grinding Gear Games feel much more comfortable "promising early February as a target release window." In the middle of the certification process, Grinding Gear Games have said that during this time improvements will be made to "performance/frame rate." To finalize everything up, the developer apologizes to PS4 fans "We understand that many PlayStation users were keen to play Betrayal over Christmas and have been eagerly awaiting release date news. We promise that Path of Exile will be awesome on PlayStation 4 when it is released early next year". Path of Exile is currently available on PC and Xbox One.

Now that Gunfire Games' Darksiders III has released, we are hearing along the grapevine that the title is suffering from some pretty serious camera issues. To assist those that are struggling with this issue a mod has been created and is available to download.

Darksiders III released a few days ago and some gamers that have picked up the title have reported that they are having camera issues while trying to enjoy their newly purchased game. Unfortuantely, Gunfire Games has not provided gamers with an FOV slider, so these camera issues cannot be fixed natively inside the setting on PC. Players that want to add a custom FOV slider will have to download this mod here.

The mod has been created by susahamat and according to DSOgaming the file is completely safe to download and does not contain any viruses. DSOGaming also reports that the mod works as intended and the FOV can be changed by pressing the "]" and the "[" key. Gunfire Games are currently working on the first patch for Darksiders III, it hasn't been confirmed that the coming patch will contain camera fixes but we can only hope so. Want more news on Darksiders III? Check out the concept art and wallpaers that were released a few days ago, more on that here. There also has been trailers released featuring main character Fury, check those out here and here.

If you haven't already jumped into the Star Wars Battlefront II Obi-Wan Kenobi and Geonosis update it has already hit the live servers. To shine some light on what the update contains, EA has released an explanation video onto their YouTube Channel.

The above video features a commentator that runs us through what the update will be bringing players. The commentator explains that players will be getting the Galactic Assault map of Geonosis and will introduce Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, the 212th Attack Battalion, AT-TE, STAP and the BARC speeder. If you want to check out gameplay on what was mentioned above, visit my post here.

Additionally, EA will be bringing players some different skins for General Grievous titled "shattered armor", a quick description of the skin has been provided on the update patch notes, "With a ripped cape, shattered mask, and smoke and sparks coming from his cybernetics, this unique look truly stands out from the crowd, and embodies the hard-earned conquests of the feared Separatist Supreme Commander." Judging from the comment section in the above video, many players seem to very happy about the decision of bringing the Clone Wars to Battlefront II, hopefully DICE or EA listen to their fan base more and follow what they want, maybe then they will attract more players back to Battlefront II.

BioWare has teased that viewers that tune into the The Game Awards next week will get an exclusive sneak peak at a brand new trailer for the coming title.

The announcement comes from both the BioWare Twitter page as well as The Game Awards Twitter page. Both accounts posted a short 20 second teaser trailer that showcased a suit gearing up for combat and that a new trailer would be showcased on December 6th, live from L.A at The Game Awards.

If you are interested in checking out some gameplay footage to tie you over until the next Anthem trailer, you can check out 45 minutes of Anthem action here. Anthem will be released on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. For more information regarding BioWare's title, visit the official Anthem website here.

Masahiro Sakurai has revealed that buyers who pick up a physical release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will have to download a day 1 patch on the December 7th launch day.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai has revealed in his recent column on Famitsu, that their will be a day 1 update for physical release buyers of Smash Ultimate. Digital buyers will not have to download the update and it isn't clear how big the initial download will be.

Here is what Sakurai had to say in full "We will distribute our first update on launch day. Players who purchased the digital version don't need to worry, but players who purchased the physical version should apply this day-one patch before you play. This will also prevent your replays from going off-track. By the way, if you save your replays as videos, you can keep them forever, but note that they take up a lot of space!" Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will be launching exclusively on the Nintendo Switch on December 7th.

If you own one of NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX graphics cards there's not much you can do with it with real-time ray tracing right now apart from Battlefield V (if you can even get it to work with RTX that is), but that'll soon change with 3DMark's new ray tracing benchmark.

The new 3DMark Real-Time Ray Tracing Benchmark Port Royal will be teased ahead of its January 2019 launch at the GALAX GOC Grand Final overcloccking event in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on December 8. What makes this special is that UL Benchmarks will be the first to market with a dedicated real-time ray tracing benchmark for gamers, where they can (get this) test real-time ray tracing performance of any graphics card that supports Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing standard, DXR.

UL Benchmarks explains: "Real-time ray tracing promises to bring new levels of realism to in-game graphics. Port Royal uses DirectX Raytracing to enhance reflections, shadows, and other effects that are difficult to achieve with traditional rendering techniques. As well as benchmarking performance, 3DMark Port Royal is a realistic and practical example of what to expect from ray tracing in upcoming games-ray tracing effects running in real-time at reasonable frame rates at 2560 x 1440 resolution".

New rumors have surfaced on Rocksteady's new game which should be a new Superman game, something that could be called Superman: World's Finest.

The latest report is coming from a spotting of the game on Game System Requirements by ResetEra, but the name 'Superman: World's Finest' isn't new as it did turn up from a 4chan leak before E3 2018. This news is important as we're getting close to The Game Awards event, where it would be a huge deal to unveil a new Superman game.

Remember that Batman Arkham developer Rocksteady Games listed a bunch of jobs earlier this year for "a AAA title on the next generation platforms". The rumor at the time teased an open-world game that would let you play as Superman, Batman, Robin, and others.

Intel has started teasing its upcoming 'Intel Architecture Day' that will be hosted on December 11, with the focus of the event to be split into two sessions. The first is the morning session with the 'Intel Architecture Strategy', which should cover what the next generation of CPUs and architectures we can expect from Intel in 2019 and beyond.

The second session will be held in the afternoon and is titled 'Breakouts on Advanced Client and Data Centric Architectures and Technologies' which is then followed by a cocktail networking event in the evening. This is the usual affair for events like this, it's a full on day of having a bunch of information crammed into your brain, and a few drinks to wash it down with at night.

Intel teases in the invite it has sent out to tech press "Join us as we take a look at how Intel's innovation will bring breakthroughs in new products and experiences".

Ridley Scott's sci-fi Blade Runner series is getting an anime adaptation, and Adult Swim will broadcast it in the United States.

The new anime series, Blade Runner: Black Lotus, will simultaneously draw from and bridge both movies with a 2032 timeline setting, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Black Lotus will run for 13 episodes and be aired exclusively (outside of Asia) on on Adult Swim's Toonami content block.

Crunchyroll has teamed up with Alcon Television Group for the series, and key talent has been brought on board to work on the show including Blade Runner: 2049 writers Michael Green and Mike Johnson, alongside anime alums like Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama. Cowboy Bebop's Shinichiro Watanabe will also help shape the anime (he's also working closely on Netflix's new live-action Cowboy Bebop show).