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Apple announced its new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops with the latest refresh of their popular laptop line configurable with AMD Radeon Pro Vega graphics for the MBP and its flagship options.

The company is promising up to 60% additional GPU performance over the previous-gen MacBook Pro using an AMD Radeon Pro 560X in things like video editing, rendering tasks, and more. This is also not the first time Vega has been inside of an Apple product, with the hotly-debated GPU architecture finding its way into the flagship iMac Pro last year.

AMD is providing Vega 20 and Vega 16 designs to Apple for the new MacBook Pro, but if you are in need of more grunt Apple provides the option of using an external GPU on the new laptops. The external GPU solutions support Radeon RX 400/500 series graphics cards, and even up to Radeon RX Vega cards as well as other professional-grade Radeon GPUs.

The release of Old School RuneScape Mobile has gone underway and a result of the launch has caused the ancient MMORPG to reach over 100,000 players concurrent.

At the beginning of the month, I gave a detailed breakdown of RuneScape for both new and old players. The re-introduction covered how the game works, the history behind the re-rolled servers, what RuneScape is exactly, RuneScape Mobile and much more. Within that post, I mentioned that even though RuneScape is a very old, the game still manages to achieve around 60,000 - 80,000 concurrent players, now that Old School RuneScape Mobile has launched that number has risen to 100,000.

For those that don't know, Old School RuneScape Mobile is exactly what it sounds like, it is basically an app that gives players the ability to train their accounts wherever they like, as long as they are connected to the internet of course. A Moderator for RuneScape named Mod Ed, has taken to Twitter after the launch of Old School RuneScape Mobile and posted an image, the image showcased that the game has reached 100,000 concurrent players, at the time of writing this there is 135,000 players, quite an achievement for a game that is famously old. Old School RuneScape Mobile can be downloaded from the App Store here and the Google Play Store here.

We are just a little less than a month from the release of the Spyro Reignited Trilogy and Activision has confirmed that our favorite purple dragon will be arriving with a day one patch.

Back in early August, I reported on Activision revealing on their website that Spyro "games 2 and 3 require download via internet", many fans weren't happy with this decision as when purchasing a physical copy of the game the expectation is to just be able to put in the disc and play the game immediately. This sadly won't be the case, as Activision have said in a statement to IGN that the initial disc will ship with entire first game and a subset of levels from games 2 & 3.

The official statement to IGN reads as follows: "The trilogy will ship with content from each of the three games, including the entire first game and a subset of levels from games 2 and 3. In order for the full Reignited Trilogy offerings, a day one update is required." Most users that are opting for the physical purchase of the game decide to do so due to their poor internet connection speed or overall lack of internet data. Requiring players to have an update of around 2 whole games size is not a great way to make these fans happy, especially the ones that were under the impression that all three games would come loaded onto 1,2 or even 3 discs.

Now that the embargo for Diablo III hitting the Nintendo Switch has lifted, we can confirm that the Blizzard port will in fact have Amiibo support. Well, at least it will support one Amiibo.

Yesterday, I reported on a Reddit user that happened to get their hands-on the Eternal Collection early. The Reddit user datamined their Nintendo Switch with the Eternal Collection installed and managed to come across some files that suggested that the Switch version of Diablo III would be arriving with Amiibo support. The datamine revealed that the game would supposedly be supporting three separate types of Amiibo, the "Default/Generic Amiibo", "Treasure Goblin Amiibo" and a "Demon Amiibo."

With reviews for the game now live, Destructoid can confirm that at least one Amiibo figure is supported within the game, the Treasure Goblin. This suggests that Blizzard will soon officially announce something regarding Amiibo's, it will most likely be on Friday as that is when the official launch of the game is. Stay tuned for more, when Blizzard announce something I will be sure to update you.

The Diablo III: Eternal Collection for the Nintendo Switch launches in 2 days, and to get the hype ball rolling Blizzard have released a new 'Live Action Trailer.'

The trailer has been released onto the Dibalo YouTube Channel and makes us follow the claw marks and trail of destruction of what seems to be a massive demonic beast. We arrive at the end of the trail to see a women holding a Nintendo Switch about to jump into some Diablo III, then we are left with the quote "Raise Some Hell."

For those that didn't know, Diablo III: Eternal Collection will be arriving on the Nintendo Switch with the "Reaper of Souls expansion, the Rise of the Necromancer character pack, and all additional content updates to date." Dibalo III: Eternal Collection will be launching onto the Nintendo Switch on November 2nd. In other news about the title, check out the first 15 minutes of gameplay footage released for the game here. Some players have already gotten their hands-on Diablo III for the Switch and there seems to be a possibility of the game having Amiibo support, visit that story here.

As we all expected, Nintendo has announced another Super Smash Bros. Ultimate themed Direct, the live-stream will last for about 40 minutes and jam pack us with new information.

As I mentioned last week in my article surrounding the 'completed roster' leak or the 'Grinch leak', Nintendo needed to have another Smash Ultimate Direct as there is just so much new content to go over and so little time before launch. The Direct that has been announced on Nintendo America Twitter account states that we will have about 40 minutes or so of brand new information regarding Ultimate.

The stream will be brought to us by Director Masahiro Sakurai and within this Direct we will most likely see a reveal of a few new characters heading towards a visible completion of the roster. Some of the characters that many Smash fans are expecting to

NVIDIA has utterly controlled the high-end graphics space for a few years now, with AMD getting further and further away from NVIDIA's upper echelon of cards as time went on - especially the TITAN range of cards.

This has increased in strength with the release of the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti in March 2017, and the mess that was the release of the Radeon RX Vega 56/64 cards in August 2017. Since then, NVIDIA released a new TITAN Xp graphics card, and then just a few months ago the new GeForce RTX range of cards that has the flagship GeForce RTX 2080 Ti priced at $1199.

NVIDIA has the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, TITAN Xp, RTX 2070, RTX 2080, and RTX 2080 Ti all ahead of the fastest card AMD has in the Radeon RX Vega 64. AMD has been absent from the high-end graphics card space for quite a while, but in the CPU space they've absolutely dominated against an unstoppable and unlimited resources of Intel. In the graphics card space however, AMD has been absent from the enthusiast cards.

AMD's purported Radeon RX 590 graphics card will launch on November 15 according to the latest rumors, with the refresh of a refresh (Polaris 10 = RX 480, Polaris 20 = RX 580, Polaris 30 = RX 590) to be priced at $299.

Polaris 30 will be on the new 12nm node with higher GPU clock speeds of the 14nm GPU used in Polaris 10 and 20, as well as increased power efficiency. We should expect a cheaper price than $299, but I'd say that's the ceiling of this card given the RX 580 is still priced at around $250 and can be purchased cheaper when deals are on or in second hard markets.

This isn't the first new mid-range card with NVIDIA silently launching a new GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card with the same 6GB of VRAM but uses GDDR5X instead of the older/slower GDDR5 memory technology. The refreshed Radeon RX 590 is expected to still be using 8GB of GDDR5, however.

It seems the vast majority of people that worked on Radeon GPUs is over at Intel now, or so it seems... with Intel's discrete GPU marketing department securing Darren McPhee who used to work for ATI before, and after they were acquired by AMD.

McPhee joined ATI in 2003 as their Senior Product Manager, climbing up to a Senior Marketing Role with Gaming and then onto Graphics in the end. Die hard Radeon fans will remember AMD's great marketing video in 'The Fixer' which was close to the launch of the Radeon 'Never Settle' bundle for the first GCN-based Radeon graphics cards like the Radeon HD 7970. Those were the days of AMD!

He later left AMD in 2015, and how now recently joined Intel's discrete GPU marketing team that Chris Hook (formely of the RTG marketing team) as well as GPU architect Raja Koduri and CPU lord Jim Keller. Intel is slowly growing out an amazing team of people leading into their first discrete graphics card launch, which seems more exciting than the stand still action of AMD and Radeon with gamers right now.

The launch for the Diablo III: Eternal Collection on the Nintendo Switch is just around the corner. Ahead of its debut, IGN has released the first 15 minutes of gameplay footage.

Players that are considering picking up the Eternal Collection for their handheld console and have never played Diablo III should definitely get onto watching this video provided by IGN. The video gives players a quick showcase at the gameplay players will be immersed in, a great look at combat and a solid variety of enemies as well.

We also get a quick look at leveling up, the map, questing and many other aspects of the game that could spike some interest in many Nintendo Switch owners. I would imagine that the camera view is a great advantage here, the almost top down view that Diablo III is based around is perfect so some couched gaming and also wouldn't take away from the gaming experience. The Diablo III: Eternal Collection will be released on November 2nd this year. If you are wanting to go all out for the release of the Eternal Collection, you might want to pick up the Nintendo Switch Diablo III bundle, visit that story here. Diablo III for the Nintendo Switch will also come with Gannondorf transmog gear, check that story out here.

Following up from yesterday's post, we have a tonne of screenshots provided by Bandai Namco surrounding the recently announced addition to Soulcalibur VI. Introducing 2B from NieR: Automata in glistening HD.

Just a few days back we caught wind of a new addition to the Soulcalibur VI roster, Bandai Namco revealed 2B from the Platinum Games and Square Enix's title NieR: Automata. 2B debuted with a very cool character trailer where she went up against the not so warmly dressed Ivy. Now, Bandai has decided to release a tonne of screenshots for the android and when I say tonne there is truly a lot of them.

In the screenshots we can get a better idea of how players will be fighting as 2B and it appears that it won't be that much different from her organic combat back in NieR: Automata. From the screenshots we can see that 2B utilizes spacing to her advantage, with long swords and sweeping attacks 2B can pick and choose when she wants to get in close but still be able to deal damage from afar. She also has her pod support that will allow her to glide around her opponent and reach more advantageous positioning locations, which I'd imagine to be much faster than a typical fighter. In the entirety of this post you will find the screenshots.

As we loom over Halloween Steam has taken a step ahead and made live their annual Halloween sale for 2018. Many titles are now heavily discounted, prepare your wallets.

So you want to get into the Halloween spirit but aren't really into costumes, Steam has your back and you don't even have to leave your gaming chair. Players can now pick up some great Halloween themed games instead of dressing up and leaving the house. All of the games that have been discounted are either horror titles, zombie games, or have themes that are directly relatable to Halloween.

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The release of Diablo III: Eternal Collection is about to be upon us, and as Nintendo Switch users gear up for the Blizzard title's debut, one user has already datamined the game revealing possible Amiibo support.

Reddit user JustMaku got his/her hands-on the Eternal Collection before its launch and has managed to mine the game for its data. Maku has taken the data that has been collected to the Diablo subreddit, Maku then posted on the subbreddit claiming that the Diablo III: Eternal Collection will have Amiibo support in the form of three separate types of Amiibo's.

According to the Reddit post, the Diablo III: Eternal Collection will support the "Default/Generic Amiibo", "Treasure Goblin Amiibo" and a "Demon Amiibo." Maku further explains what each of these Amiibo's will do, "The first two will spawn a portal leading to some location (controlled by server so can't be datamined) while the demon amiibo will spawn a powerful demon on the map. To prevent abuse, there's currently a cooldown on each type of the summon." The Diablo III: Eternal Collection will be launching on November 2nd, for more information visit the official listing on the Nintendo eShop here.

The controversy surrounding the work weeks Rockstar developers was put under has been found as an easter egg within Red Dead Redemption 2.

Before the launch of Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar was put under the microscope a bit as Rockstar Studios' co-founder, Dan Houser made his development team work multiple 100-hour weeks throughout 2018 to complete Red Dead Redemption 2. Job J Stauffer, the co-founder of Orpheus Self-Care Entertainment even spoke out about his experience working at the company, "It's been nearly a decade since I parted from Rockstar, but I can assure you that during the GTA IV era, it was like working with a gun to your head 7 days a week." For more details on that story visit my article here.

Looking towards the above image now, we can see that "it is made by skilled laborers who work tireless hours each week and on the weekends for little pay in order to bring you the finest revolver in the field today." It seems that maybe a developer/s managed to squeeze in a little metaphor regarding their work weeks before official launch of the game. If not then this is just one mighty big coincidence, you decide.

Epic Games has just secured itself a huge $1.25 billion in a new round of funding, which makes a whole lot of sense given the mega success of Fortnite.

Don't forget the bread and butter of Epic in its Unreal Engine, which is used in countless games from small indie ones to massive AAA titles. Unreal Engine was released over 20 years ago now, and thanks to its massive success Epic have continued to make it cheaper for game developers to use Unreal Engine in their games.

The latest round of funding hit $1.25 billion in a round that included KKR, Iconiq Capital, Smash Ventures,Vulcan Capital, Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed Venture Partners. These new investors are joining a pool of massive companies that have invested into Epic Games, with names like Tencent and Disney just to name a few. This means that Epic is now valued at nearly $15 billion. That's a lot of zeroes.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is now in gamers hands with reviewers calling it one of the best games ever made, but how does it run on both the Xbox and PlayStation consoles? Well, if you want the best you'll buy the Xbox One X, that's for sure.

The best console to play RDR 2 on is the beefed up Xbox One X which runs the game at native 4K at a "near-locked" 30FPS. Sony's best PS4 Pro renders Red Dead Redemption at 1920x2160 and with the PS4 Pro's internal image reconstruction techniques is scaled up to 4K. The normal PS4 runs the game at 1080p, while the Xbox One renders at 864p.

Rockstar has put in some serious work into the engine for Red Dead Redemption 2 where all four consoles don't dynamically change the resolution during gameplay, so they're all locked resolutions. Digital Foundry add that the additional eye candy on the Xbox One X version of the game doesn't reduce performance at all, where it's at a near-locked 30FPS in virtually all parts of the game.

Battlefield V's cosmetic microtransactions won't be available at launch and will instead roll out post-release.

As is the case with most big EA games, Battlefield V was built from the ground up with an online monetization system in mind. EA makes billions from monetizing its strong the engagement strategy across its games, which typically sees optional microtransactions that pay for free content updates. While EA has changed tact with Battlefield V by offering cosmetic-only microtransactions instead of randomized lootboxes or pay-to-win schemes, the game's Company system offers lots of opportunities for customization and should ensure a long tail for engagement.

Battlefield V will eventually have two kinds of currency: one you pay for and one you earn by playing. Sweat currency, aka Company Coin, is earned by completing objectives, daily missions, challenges, etc. Battlefield Currency will be sold for real money and represents the premium option that allows gamers to outright buy customizations and cosmetic gear. Players won't actually be able to spend cash on microtransactions at launch, DICE confirms, which is surprising given EA typically likes to monetize right out of the gate.

Bethesda just released a new live-action trailer for Fallout 76 to get gamers hyped for irradiated Appalachia.

Although Fallout 76 looks like a mixture between tension and tedium, I have no doubts the game will continually evolve into something great. As an online game it's imperative that multiplayer interactivity is a focus, but it's not the sole focus: Fallout 76 can be played solo the entire time if you so choose. The real magic is how you play with other people though, and that could mean lots of things.

The new live-action trailer shows gamers questing with their friends in humorous fashion, and while it's entirely fake and dramatized like Sony's Greatness Awaits trailers, there's that air of camaraderie that binds players to social online games. There's a lot to do in nuked West Virginia after all--it's only the largest playable landmass Bethesda Game Studios has ever made--including hunting, scavenging, PVP action, building, and questing...so why not bring a friend or two along for the ride?

No Man's Sky channels Subnautica with its big new undersea-themed content update.

Hello Games today announced No Man's Sky Abyss, a massive new content drop that takes the space sim to the sunken depths of alien planets. The update adds stylish submarines and scuba-craft straight out of a John Berkey illustration, blending that 1970s sci-futurism with classic aquanaut visuals. Abyss brings a host of new things to do in No Man's Sky, including traversing the deep in search of ancient alien treasures across sunken cities, collecting new materials for crafting, building undersea bases.

Abyss will also have "abyssal horrors" that scour the dark waters (feeling some serious R'lyeh vibes here) along with a ton of fish and aquatic creatures to uncover and take on. A new string of story missions will take us into these weird aquatic realms in search of secrets and strange new relics. At it's core, though, Abyss is basically a more dynamic underwater version of No Man's Sky's planet exploration.

Sony's new $100 PlayStation Classic will ship with 20 old-school PS1 games, but the list could be a lot better.

Today Sony announced the full list of games that will come pre-loaded on its new PlayStation Classic micro-console. Honestly the list isn't all that impressive. While it does include greats like Metal Gear Solid, Tekken 3, Wild Arms, and Final Fantasy VII, there's a lot of key PS1 titles missing (a slew of Final Fantasy games, for instance).

I'd personally like to see games like Diablo and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night on the list, but the 20-strong lineup won't change before or after the console ships on December 3. Remember the PS Classic can't connect to the internet to download any new games--it's just a micro-console not unlike the SNES Classic Edition.