Feral Interactive has taken to their Twitter page as well as their YouTube Channel to announce that ROME: Total War is on its way to the iPhone. The title is scheduled for release on August 23rd.

The upcoming iteration of ROME: Total War for the iPhone will be including a very specifically redesigned user interface. According to Feral Interactive, the game is going to be taking full advantage over Apples Metal API, this will give the title further performance and overall provide a smoother experience for the user.

According to the mini-website made by Feral Interactive, ROME: Total War will be available on the following models of iPhone:

Flash Memory Summit 2018 - In 2015, Micron purchased a start-up SSD controller company called Tidal Systems, Inc. Tidal was on the verge of announcing IP and products when Micron purchased the company and all of its assets. Since then, Tidal Systems disappeared, and so did the products it was working on. At FMS 2018, Micron displayed a next-generation SSD with a Micron-branded controller. A company representative went off the record to confirm this is the long awaited Tidal NVMe controller.

Everything we could gather on the client SSD can be seen in the video. The display show two unannounced products, the first with a Marvell SATA controller paired with QLC flash. The middle product, the one with the Micron branded controller, is more interesting.

The display leads us to believe Micron will release the unnamed NVMe SSD to OEMs for high-performance systems. It supports user mode encryption and appears to be an 8-channel architecture with support for DDR4. The screen makes it difficult to see more than the broad strokes.

Flash Memory Summit 2018 - After ravaging the consumer SSD market for the last two years, Silicon Motion took the wraps off its first enterprise-focused controller.

The SM2270 will initially ship in enterprise SSDs from subsidiary Shannon Systems. SMI will likely have a number of additional design wins. Most of the companies we speak with on the consumer SSD side praise SMI for exceptional customer service and responsive field engineers that help bring products to market.

The SM2270 supports up to PCIe 3.0 x8 and started out as a design for add-in cards (AIC). Changes in market conditions pushed SMI to move the design to 2.5" products with dual-mode compatibility. We may see the SM2270 used in both AIC and 2.5" products.

Publisher for Gone Home, Annapurna Interactive and developer Fullbright Studios, have announced that their title is on its way to the Nintendo Switch.

Gone Home is a interactive exploration simulator that allows for players to experience the story of Katie Greenbriar, as she returns home at 1:15 AM after a year abroad to a completely empty house. Her family is not there, and no information is provided to their whereabouts. Players will be required to uncover this mystery themselves, and as the story begins piece itself together a bigger and more frightening picture is unveiled.

Gone Home debuting to the Nintendo Switch is in celebration of the 5th anniversary for the title, according to Annapurna Interactive the publisher is "happy to announce that this genre-defining classic will be available for Nintendo Switch on August 23rd, 2018." For more information regarding the Nintendo Switch release visit the official Gone Home website here.

Insomniac Games' Spider-Man title for the PS4 is moving closer and closer to its release date and the hype is no where near slowing down. To add to that snowball of hype, a new trailer has been released via the IGN YouTube Channel and it reveals some most notable structures from the Marvel universe.

The trailer has been titled New York City Open-World trailer and showcases Spidy flinging around his concrete jungle playground and it looks absolutely incredible. The trailer is narrated by J. Jonah Jameson and Jameson is throwing the blame for the cities crimes on Spider-Man, Peter Parker then calls into the station under the allias Peter Patterson to defend him. Jameson continues and we can see from the trailer that these 'swan dives' that are mentioned are in front of the Avengers Tower.

Not only was the Avengers Tower spotted within the trailer but so was the Dr. Strange building. That is right, the Sanctum Santorum can be seen at exactly 0.40 seconds into the video. It is unclear what kind of interaction players will be able to do with Stranges building, but at least it can be confirmed that it is in the game. Marvel's Spider-Man will be releasing exclusively on the PlayStation 4 on September 7th.

Stunlock Studios have released a new gameplay trailer showcasing the upcoming Battlerite Royale, the gameplay video reveals many of the characters in action.

Players will be able to experience Battlerite Royale from the top-down perspective, they will be taking control over one of the several heroes in a slaughter to rein supreme over their competitors. Each of the heroes will have a unique set of abilities, these abilities will have to be correctly adapted by the player so they can executed in dangerous situations.

The classic battle royale concepts stay the same, players will pick up items that will buff each champion and these items will be dropped when the players champion is slain. There is also a progressive damaging border that will close in on the map, Stunlock Studios has decided to call this border 'Death Vortex.' If you haven't already seen the concept art for the Battlerite Royale map, definitely catch up on that here. There has also been some screenshots released that showcase the Battlerite Royale user interface, visit those here. If you are intersted in signing up to the Battlerite Royale beta, visit the official website here.

In a brand new trailer released onto the NBA 2K YouTube Channel, we see LeBron James interview star rapper Travis Scott over his role as soundtrack curator for the upcoming next installment in the 2K series, NBA 2K19.

As we move closer to the release date of NBA 2K19, publisher 2K Games are not slowing down with promoting their upcoming title. A new trailer has surfaced on their NBA 2K YouTube Channel and it showcases LeBron James interviewing rapper Travis Scott about the soundtrack that is to be featured in NBA 2K19.

From the interview and description, we learn that NBA 2K19 will be having a large variety of Hip-Hop soundtracks that has the goal of "providing high energy and a fresh listening experience for all virtual ballers" The trailer didn't reveal any select songs that are to be included within the soundtrack, but we will no doubt see songs from Scotts new album Astroworld. On a side note, the gameplay trailer that was released last week showcased Jay Rock's "Win" which could be a strong hint towards this track being included within the final copy of the game. NBA 2K19 is planned for release on September 11th, it will be available on the Xbox One, PS4, PC and Nintendo Switch.

Metro Exodus is one of the most-anticipated games of 2019, with developer 4A Games and publisher Deep Silver not only releasing a new trailer for Metro Exodus today, but they also announced pre-order bonuses and a new special limited edition version of the game.

The new bundle is called the Aurora Limited Edition, which should be released to only a few retailers. The Metro Exodus Aurora Limited Edition comes with a bunch of physical stuff, not just in-game DLC or bonuses. It'll include:

I don't know why, but Deep Silver didn't announce any pricing for the Aurora Limited Edition - which is silly IMO. We know that Metro Exodus Standard Edition costs $60 while the Gold Edition comes in at $85. There are some pre-order bonuses for all three platforms: Xbox One, PS4, and PC. Even if you order the standard release of Metro Exodus but pre-order it now, you'll receive the bonuses.

NVIDIA is expected to announce its new GeForce RTX range of graphics cards during Gamescom 2018 next week, with all signs pointing to the RTX 20 series unveil taking place on August 20 in Cologne, Germany.

VideoCardz is reporting information from a member of the Baidu forums who claims to "have a lot of information from a board partner". This source said that the Turing-based GeForce RTX 2080 would cost $649, but not only that it would beat the TITAN V... a graphics card that costs a whopping $3000. TITAN V is based on the Volta GPU architecture and packs HBM2 memory technology, compared to the RTX 2080 with its Turing GPU architecture and GDDR6 tech.

The purported GeForce RTX 2080 would feature 3072 CUDA cores from the Turing GPU architecture, 8GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit memory bus. We don't know GPU base/boost clocks and I'm sure we'll see a large change to the way it works with tweaks made to NVIDIA GPU Boost technology. We don't know what speeds the GDDR6 will be clocked at, but we do know Samsung is providing its GDDR6 at up to 14Gbps.

EA isn't sitting in a good spot with Battlefield V with the company starting off on the wrong foot with angered gamers over some of the choices they made within the setting of the game, to say the least. Now there's news of pre-order numbers being low, and that's not good at all.

The company recently lost Patrick Soderlund, who was the ex-CEO of DICE until EA acquired the company back in 2006. Soderlund had high-up roles within EA after the transition, and is now leaving the company.

Now there's Sarah Needleman of the Wall Street Journal reporting that Cowen Group analysts have that that pre-order sales for Battlefield V "have been weak". These analysts are going by things said to them by EA connections, and if we look at someone as instrumental as Soderlund leaving EA two months before the launch of Battlefield V, one of EA's largest franchises... this does look weird.

Intel has released a short video at Siggraph 2018 this week in Vancouver teasing about their upcoming discrete GPU in 2020. The newly installed Intel discrete graphics boss, Raja Koduri, has been spotted roaming around Vancouver this week as well. The Twitter post by Intel can be found here.

The image of the card in the video has been confirmed to us by Intel as a rendering and not an actual product image. Intel made no formal presentations this year at Siggraph in Vancouver about their upcoming plans, although we are expecting more information to begin appearing in 2019.

Raja Koduri joined Intel late in 2017 as we reported here. Earlier this year Chris Hook of AMD and ATI fame, as well Tom Forsyth joined the expanding Intel discrete graphics team.

NVIDIA should be announcing its next-gen GeForce RTX series of graphics cards on August 20, with more details, speculation and rumor being thrown onto the internet than ever before.

We're now seeing some detailed specifications on not just the forthcoming GeForce RTX 2070 and RTX 2080 but the higher-end RTX 2080 Ti that should truly blow the doors off of everything else on the market. The current rumors peg the RTX 2080 at beating the TITAN V, and considering that's a Volta-based HBM2-powered $3000 graphics card, those claims are beyond imagination.

We should expect NVIDIA to release a beefed up GeForce RTX 2080 Ti if the naming scheme stays the same as the GTX 10 series (GTX 1070, 1080, 1080 Ti) and from the current crop of information, it will be an utter beast. If the GeForce RTX 2080 is beating the TITAN V, then the RTX 2080 Ti would be truly insane. It should have 11GB of GDDR6 on a 352-bit memory bus (the GTX 1080 Ti has 11GB of GDDR5X on a 352-bit memory bus).

On the heels of its recent Timesplitters acquisition, THQ Nordic confirms a rather robust lineup of in-development games.

THQ Nordic currently has 51 projects in the works, the company announced in today's Q2 financial results. This fifty-strong slate is the company's "strongest pipeline to date," the filings say, the majority of which are unannounced games. The publisher says 34 of its 51 games are unannounced titles.

However all of the projects may not be top-tier games from key franchises, and instead may include partner titles, third-party-owned games, and licensed projects. Renown studios like Saints Row dev Volition Entertainment and Dambuster Studios are both developing "top secret" AAA titles, the report says, and the company recently issued new shares in a bid to raise funds for game development, acquisitions, and operations.

The fan-favorite 2000's Timesplitters series has been bought by THQ Nordic as the publisher expands its IP lineup.

THQ Nordic has been snapping up studios, companies and IPs for a while now, and the most notable acquisition was that of Saints Row and Metro publisher Koch Media back in February. Now the Swedish games-maker has snapped up rights to the Timesplitters and Second Sight sci-fi game franchises under its Koch Media subsidiary.

As Koch Media's CEO asserts, this acquisition should see a new Timesplitters in the works.

Blizzard's not-so-subtle tease was right on the money: Diablo III is coming to the Nintendo Switch later this year.

Following confirmation that its working on several new Diablo projects, Blizzard plans to release Diablo III on Nintendo's handheld-console Switch hybrid as the Diablo III Eternal Collection later this year. As you'd expect, this is a GOTY version with Reaper of Souls and the Rise of the Necromancer DLCs.

The news was prematurely posted on Forbes (now taken down) and made its rounds on the internet, including Reddit and Kotaku, both of which confirm interesting details about the ARPG port.

Never picked up Rainbow Six Siege throughout the Steam sales? Well, Ubisoft are going to give you a free shot at it regardless. Rainbow Six Siege will have a free weekend beginning on August 16th.

Ubisoft have decided to make Rainbow Six Siege completely free-to-play across all platfroms beginning August 16th, the event will run to August 20th. Throughout this time, Ubisoft have also decided to massively discount Rainbow Six Siege, according to their blog post found on the Ubisoft website, "you can pick up the Starter, Standard, Advanced, Gold, and Complete Editions of the game for a discount of up to 60% off if you purchase before August 27".

For those that already own Rainbow Six Siege, this free weekend also happens to coincide with Europe's largest Rainbow Six tournament, Six Major Paris. The tournament will be running from August 13th to August 19th and will be livestreamed on twitch.tv/Rainbow6. According to the Ubisoft blogpost, 'Operation Grim Sky' the next season for Rainbow Six Siege will also be showcased throughout livestream, and it will later be officially released on September 4th. For more information visit the Ubisoft website here.

The upcoming Norse-inspired mythological adventure Rune: Ragnarok has had it's official Steam listing made live. The developers, Human Head Studios have also released the titles official PC requirements and a new teaser trailer.

For those that don't know, Rune: Ragnarok is a sandbox adventure game that allows for players to be immersed within a Nordic world where the gods are descending on earth. Players will have to battle beasts, monsters and eachother to survive Ragnarok.

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SMITE developers Hi-Rez Studios have decided to create three brand new development teams to take care of each of the respective games, introducing Titan Forge Games, Heroic Leap Games and Evil Mojo Games.

Hi-Rez Studios has decided to split its development teams into three separate studios, each of the studios will control the development of each of Hi-Rez Studios' IP's. The first studio is called Titan Forge Games and will be taking control of the eSports success SMITE. The second is Evil Mojo Games and will be taking the helm of the 2018 hero shooter Paladins. The last is Heroic Leap Games and that team will operate Realm Royale, the new battle royale title on Steam.

Each of the first party studios will be overseen by Chris Larson who is now the general manager, his current goal is to establish each of the respective teams and make sure they "fulfil their maximum potential and stay hyper focused on serving their individual player communities," said Larson. According to the press release, Larson has said that "We view game operation as a marathon, not a sprint. Our games are built to provide near constant updates over many years. By giving each major game its own dedicated studio and identity, we empower them to control their own destiny and focus exclusively on their player communities, while still having access to our leading shared publishing services." For more information regarding Hi-Rez Studios, visit their official website here.

Team17 has taken to their website to announce some new content for Overcooked 2. Players that are master chefs and have already completed the game will be glad to know the steaks have just been amped up, introducing New Game+ mode.

According to the Team17 blog post, players that have already achieved the 3-stars on each level will now have a brand new goal. New Game+ will be available to players that have already "ventured through the Onion Kingdom for the first time", the mode will allow for ambitious cooks to replay the 45 kitchens at much harder difficulty. This increase in difficulty will cause each of kitchens to reward players with 4-stars instead of 3, thus showcasing further the players pure cooking greatness.

Team17 also mention throughout the blog post that even more content is in the pipeline for Overcooked 2, we will find out about this content in the "days, weeks and months ahead." For further information regarding Overcooked 2, visit the official website here.

After the delays of Dark Souls Remastered debuting to the Nintendo Switch, news has surfaced on the official Dark Souls Twitter account, we now have a solid release date for when the game will be released.

Dark Souls Remastered was originally planned for release alongside the other iterations of the game back in May, since then Bandai Namco has been awfully quite about the Nintendo Switch version of the game being delayed for so long. Unfortunately, there hasn't even been any details provided to explain why there has been such a hefty delay on the handheld version of the game.

The Nintendo Switch version of the game will still release with the 'Solaire of Astora' amiibo, which when used will unlock the "Praise the Sun" emote within the game. About a week a go, there was an email sent out by Amazon to some people who pre-ordered Dark Souls Remastered for the Nintendo Switch, it revealed that the release date for the title was meant to be October 1st, that rumor has now been cleared up with the official announcement by Nintendo and the Dark Souls Twitter account. Dark Souls Remastered for the Nintendo Switch is scheduled for release on October 19th, for further information visit the official Dark Souls website here.