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Remember Amnesia? (see what I did there), puns now truly aside for the moment as Frictional Games, the developers of the survival horror game want to bring their titles to the Nintendo Switch.

Creative Director for Frictional Games, Thomas Grip has said to GameSpot that the development studio is really "hoping" to debut the series to Nintendo's hand-held console. The developers are currently "looking into it" and that Grip himself "would love to do Switch content. I grew up with Nintendo being the big platform, so it's like, 'Wow, we're actually doing video games for real now if we can get it on Nintendo!'

Grip believes that Nintendo Switch is absolutely perfect for Amnesia, "it would just be cool to get it on a handheld as well, because I think that should work for Amnesia and other games as well. We're looking into it and seeing what can be done. We're hoping--if everything goes as we hope--we hope we'll have it [on Switch]." Amnesia: The Dark Descent was first released on PC in 2010, the sequel top the title, A Machine for Pigs was later released in 2016. I will be sure to update you with any information regarding the release of Amnesia on the Nintendo Switch.

Activision has just released the most heartfelt zombies trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, we see all our childhood characters sad, broken and on the verge of giving up. Will you be giving up?

The trailer iteself lasts for over 5 minutes and showcases Richtofen, Dempsey, Takeo and Nikolai's tackle their enemies on the island of Alcatraz. The trailer shows each of the characters dealing with loss and depicts them in quite personalized tragic situations that certainly tug on your heart strings if you have been following the progression of the zombies storyline.

From the trailer we can see that if players complete puzzles correctly they will unlock stronger weapons and other abilities. As soon as players figure out how to complete these puzzles and devise strategies to acquire the rewards behind them, guides will be scattered throughout the internets mediums, so either figure they way to do them yourself or wait for the guides. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is planned for release on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on October 12th. For further information regarding the title, please visit the official Call of Duty website here.

Probably two of the most important characters in The Witcher series have got to be Yennefer and Ciri. As Witcher fans prepare themselves for Netflix's rendition of The Witcher universe through a TV show, writer Lauren S. Hissrich has revealed the actors casted for both roles.

We have been hearing about The Witcher TV show for quite some time now, to give a little bit of a road map from where we started; I reported on the pilot script being finished back at the end of February. Then the first 8 episodes were completed and announced via Twitter from head writer Hissrich. Then Superman himself, Henry Cavill announced he wanted to play the role as Geralt in the new show, the following month he was signed in to be taking the role as The White Wolf.

Moving onto current events now, Freya Allan who starred in The War of the Worlds and Into the Badlands will be taking the pivotal role as Ciri. Anya Chalotra from The ABC Murders and Wanderlust will be putting on her soccers robe as she will be playing Yennefer. For those that don't know, Ciri is the princess of Cintra and a daughter in both Yennefer's and Geralt's eyes. To complete the rest of the roles, we have Jodhi May from Game of Thrones as Queen Calanthe and Bjorn Hlynur Haraldsson from Fortitude as her husband. For further information regarding The Witcher TV show, refer to the full interview with lead writer Hissrich here.

Razer has just made its next-gen Razer Phone 2 smartphone official, a new phone that has a bunch of tweaks and adjustments made to it in the pursuit of making the best gaming smartphone ever.

The new Razer Phone 2 features the same 5.7-inch 2560x1440 120Hz IGZO-based LCD, a beefed up Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, 8GB of RAM, and it starts with 64GB of storage. Razer Phone 2 also has expandable storage, so you can throw in a large microSD card - or you could wait for the 128GB version which is coming at a later date.

A big change to the new Razer Phone 2 is that the company redesigned the entire camera system from the ground up, using Sony sensors compared to the Samsung sensors in the first-gen Razer Phone. The new 12-megapixel dual-lens camera on the back are massively improved over the first-gen Razer Phone, with optical image stabilization included.

Just two months out now from the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch and the "leaks" are still coming. This Ken "leak" may be a little different though... It may actually be real.

Most Smash fans that are following the hype of Ultimate have been subjected to a plastering of fake leaks for the unreleased game. Many fans of the series have comprised different forms of fake media masked as "leaks" for unreleased characters, purely to create stir amongst the community. As I have said before in my Super Smash Bros. Ultimate "leaks" articles, there has only been a few sources from which these "leaks" has been accurate or at least around the mark, you can catch up on those ones here and here.

Moving onto the above image, lets take a look at what we got. It appears that we can see Ken standing next to Pac-Man, Pichu and Ivysaur on the Splatoon stage. Is this image real? Well, it looks pretty damn good if you ask me. Details wise, we can see that each of the characters are taunting and while rather Ken is giving us a solid thumbs up I can't help but to notice his foot. Half of it is missing. If this leak was fake then the creator that built Ken's model from the ground up wouldn't leave out this detail. In the image you can also spot each of the characters shadows and they are very accurate to how each of the characters are standing.

Just Cause 4 is right around the corner, a release that is overcrowded in a way from the huge behemoth releases of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Battlefield V, and countless other games released in the coming weeks leading into Christmas.

A new trailer for Just Cause 4 has dropped, with the 'Story Trailer' showing just that - a glimpse into the single player side of the game which includes a ridiculous amount of mayhem. Just Cause 4 continues the story of Rico Rodriguez, who has since gone rogue against the Agency. Rodriguez begins looking into his past, and his father's mysterious death and who killed him.

Rodriguez drops into the Island of Solis, a fictitious island based on South America. The country itself is in a bad state and totally unstable, with war about to break out. You're dropped into the middle of it, with Rico having to balance between local politics, the Black Hand militia, and everyone - and everything, in between.

Star Citizen is still on its way and during the CitizenCon 2948 event the developer has shown off a brand new trailer for Squadron 42, which is filled with some huge acting talent from Hollywood. Check out the trailer below.

The trailer looks pretty damn incredible on its own, but 2 minutes 26 seconds into the trailer I noticed something instantly: holy sh*t that's Henry Cavill. Cavill plays Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman in Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League. He's an avid gamer and if you didn't know, was in a World of Warcraft raid when his agent called to let him know he won leading role in Man of Steel.

Squadron 42 includes some massive actors that includes:

NVIDIA is expected to unveil the GeForce RTX Max-Q series of mobile graphics cards sometime in Q1 2019 according to the latest rumors from WCCFTech. As always, this requires a bucket of salt as nothing here is confirmed whatsoever.

The sources of WCCFTech said they expected availability of the new Turing-based Max-Q designs in Q1 2019 and not later this year, I don't think anyone thought NVIDIA was close to capable of making Max-Q designs this year since they have their hands full getting Turing GPUs and mass amounts of GDDR6 right now. The first to be unveiled will reportedly be the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q, and will find its way into next-gen 15-inch and 17-inch gaming notebooks.

Apart from the RTX 2080 Max-Q there will be the RTX 2070 Max-Q while the rest of the GeForce RTX graphics cards will fill out a yet-announced GeForce RTX Mobility line of offerings. This will include:

Blizzard is preparing a new update for World of Warcraft that will be included with Battle for Azeroth patch 8.1, something that will provide new DX12 multithreading options that will improve FPS by up to 25%, and that's a big deal.

DX12 support was introduced into World of Warcraft with the Battle for Azeroth 8.0 pre-patch, but high-end PCs aren't seeing any performance improvements, and sometimes it even reduces performance. But the new 8.1 patch will fix that as it has been tuned for multithreading that will see the optimal CPU usage across as many cores as it can.

Wowhead has benchmarked the new 8.1 Tides of Vengeance patch on the PTR after Deadly Boss Mods creator MysticalOS discovered the DX12 multithreading options. Wowhead explains: "As we can see in the benchmark results, currently in Patch 8.0, DirectX 12 doesn't give high-end computers any kind of improvement, and even reduces frames sometimes. With the new multithreading options enabled, however, this changes. Compared to the normal DirectX 12 results, the multithread settings provide an average 25% improvement to frames per second and 23% improvement over DirectX 11 results. These results are an amazing increase and should help players with 120Hz or 144Hz refresh frequency monitors reach much higher frame rates".

The Legend of Zelda, one of the more intimidating old-school NES games, gets a new special noob-friendly version on Switch Online.

NES games aren't like games of today. They're a different kind of animal, an animal that required lots of patience, experimentation, and Nintendo Power magazines. A lot of these older titles are relics of a strange age of frustration, anger, and nostalgia, and gamers today will find themselves often lost in their 8-bit depths. In a bid to make old games like The Legend of Zelda more accessible to today's new age of gamers, Nintendo has essentially hacked the ROM file with a special cheat save.

Switch Online subscribers now have access to a new Zelda NES game with a modified save file. Back in the day when you rented games from Blockbuster they might have someone else's old save files, which allowed you to skip certain levels. This is kind of like that. The new special Zelda gives you a bunch of stuff right off the bat and cuts out a lot of the adventuring and exploration.

Fallout 76 could eventually get cross-play support allowing gamers to play with friends on other platforms, but it's not a priority right now for Bethesda.

Sony just reversed its stance on PS4 cross-play but it's too late to implement this into Fallout 76. Bethesda's big new online-only Fallout releases next month, and the studio is currently preparing to host the game's upcoming beta. Things are going to get very, very busy for BGS during the beta: not only will it have to constantly parse data and ensure servers are up and running, but it'll have digest tons of feedback, metrics, and other player info to determine its next plan. Live service upkeep is immensely demanding and requires finesse and adaptability--and that means lots of work.

Fallout 76 cross-play could happen at some point, Bethesda says, but there's more important things right now: the beta, future content roadmaps, and general tweaks and balances to the online game. Cross-play is on the back burner behind monumental tasks like private servers and mod support. In short, Fallout 76 cross-play won't happen any time soon.

Sony today announced that PSN name changes are on the way, but it won't be an entirely smooth transition process.

PlayStation gamers stuck with an unfortunate username will soon get the opportunity to change it. The first PSN name change will be free, but every change after that will cost $10 for regular gamers and $5 for PS Plus subscribers. The name change doesn't work for every game, though, and can actually cause some problems and glitches that require a revert to your previous PSN name to fix. Name rollbacks will be free.

"This feature is compatible with PS4 games originally published after April 1, 2018, and a large majority of the most-played PS4 games that were released before this date," Sony said on the PlayStation Blog.

We're not very far in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, but we've picked up a thing or two on our adventures across ancient Greece. Here are a few tips and tricks that you can use to help you in your mythical trek across the Aegean.

When I first started Assassin's Creed: Odyssey I was very worried it'd turn into a grind-fest with rote RNG gear-hunting, questing, and other menial tasks. I'm happy to report I was quite wrong. Odyssey is perhaps the best Assassin's Creed I've played to date (I like it a smidge more than Origins, which has a close place in my heart) for a number of reasons. But one of the strongest examples of Ubisoft's excellence comes down to the little things Odyssey offers--small things you learn by experimenting and making mistakes.

Here are a few things we've learned in Odyssey:

So you enjoy the peacefulness of farming in Stardew Valley, what if I told you that you that you can soon take your farm with you on your phone? Stardew Valley will be launching onto the iOS App Store on October 24th, an Android version is currently in development.

The announcement comes from the Stardew Valley website and reveals that the mobile port of the game is in the save hands of the London-based development studio, The Secret Police. The Secret Police have been working with the Stardew Valley developer for about a year now, while Chucklefish has been "handling the business and marketing side of things."

At the moment there is only plans for the game to be released onto the iOS App Store, currently The Secret Police are "working on finishing up the Android version" and will a release date will soon be announced once its finalized. Below you will find dot points with the features that Stardew Valley will be coming to iOS App Store with. For more information visit the official Stardew Valley website here. If you want to pre-order Stardew Valley a link to the official App Store listing can be found here.

There is no doubt about Sony having the majority of amazing game titles for their PS4 platform, but contrary to popular belief that may not be the case in the future years to come. Behind the scenes Microsoft is picking up some quite formidable game development studios to battle the goliath of Sony.

According to Kotaku, three people that have been "briefed on the negotiations" have said that Microsoft is currently finalizing the deal between the two companies. One of the people that are near the negotiations said that the deal was at the "90 per cent" completion margin, and that "it's a matter of when, not if." As there has been no official confirmation from either studio, do take these rumors as just 'rumors' for now, even though it does look like an acquisition from Microsoft is happening an official confirmation is always needed.

Jumping into a bit of history of Obsidian Entertainment for those that don't know, the independent development studio is best-known for their RPG titles such as Knights of the Old Republic 2 and Fallout: New Vegas. As mentioned above, Sony clearly is on the winning side when it comes to better titles on their platform, but what if Microsoft can swing the market with some strong RPG releases? Obsidian is a great developer of choice and a great addition to the already growing developer list under Microsofts umbrella. The Xbox One creator has already acquired Ninja Theory, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice developer, Playground Games, Forza Horizon developer and Mojang, Minecraft creator.

A recent press release has revealed that publisher 505 Games will be bringing Ninja Theory title Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice to retail stores worldwide.

According to a recent press release, publisher of indie titles, 505 games will be bringing the critically acclaimed Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice to retail stores across the planet. The press release reveals that 505 Games and Ninja Theory have reached an agreement to bring Hellblade to store shelves before the holidays arrive for gamers.

Since Hellblade's popularity has reached over a million fans already, 505 Games and Ninja Theory have decided that Hellblade will be available in retails stores by December 4th. The title will be coming in at just $32 and will be arriving on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It should be noted that the Xbox One release by will be published by Microsoft and not 505 Games. For more information regarding Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, visit the official website for the title here.

This week we have been hearing quite a bit about Capcom's Resident Evil 2 Remake, fans of the Resident Evil series are preparing to be stunned by the graphical improvements that Capcom has made. The recent batch of screenshots released by the developer should give us a better idea for what they have in store for us.

Following up on the recent 30 minutes of gameplay footage released by Capcom, we have a new set of screenshots based around Claire Redfield, Leon Kennedy and some environments. From the screenshots we can see the famous 'licker' enemy and the massive graphical improvements that have been made when compared to the original Resident Evil 2.

At the moment Resident Evil 2 Remake is planned for released on January 25th for the Xbox One, PS4 and PC. At the moment there is no plans for the title to debut to the Nintendo Switch as the developer is concentrating on the release of the other platforms first, check that story out here. According to Digital Foundary's John Linneman, Resident Evil 2 Remake will feature RTX technology from NVIDIA, no official confirmation has been said by Capcom or NVIDIA but we will be sure to update you if any new information is released.

Intel unveiled its next-gen 9th generation CPUs barely over 24 hours ago, in a release that includes the new Core i9-9900K and Core i9-9980XE processors as well as the new 28C/56T beast in the Xeon W-3175W processor.

But... the company contracted out the benchmarks of its new CPUs to a company called Principled Technologies, which created a white paper comparing the performance of the Core i9-9900K, Core i7-8700K, and a bunch of AMD processors including the high-end Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX, 2950X, and Ryzen 7 2700X processors.

The bad thing here is that Intel is showing the AMD processors in a really bad light, where it is downright playing consumers and the world for a fool. There are multiple issues with what Intel is trying to hustle here, where it has run the Ryzen systems without XMP enabled for starters... but it gets worse from there:

Recent rumors have surfaced and according to a source Square Enix is currently in talks with Nintendo about bringing Kingdom Hearts 3 over to the Nintendo Switch. Does this mean we could see Sora as a DLC character for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate?

According to DreamcastGuy, "an exclusive leak from a friend close to Square-Enix" has revealed to him that the company is currently in talks about bringing over the Kingdom Hearts series and the HD collections to the Nintendo Switch. DreamCastGuy says that the companies 'talks' are mostly consistent of if the decision will be profitable or not, and if the hand-held console has the capabilities of moving massive amounts of units.

Of course as there is has been no announcement or any official information of these "talks" ever happening, these are just rumors at this stage. Square Enix and Nintendo are famous for keeping the leaks as title as they possibly can, even going to the extent to give out false information throughout their company to see where the leaks are coming from. Now that you have that in mind, lets entertain the thought of what COULD happen if Kingdom Hearts 3 makes it to the Nintendo Switch.

Google has just unveiled its next-gen Pixel 3 and Pixel XL 3 smartphones, as well as their new Chrome OS-based Pixel Slate tablet. The new Pixel Slate competes with the iPad Pro and Surface Pro, with some neat tricks underneath the hood.

The new Pixel Slate can be configured with five different combinations of CPUs, RAM, and storage. Google is making all models of the Pixel Slate with 8th gen Intel CPUs in Celeron, Core m3, Core i5, and Core i7 models.

Pixel Slate rocks 8-megapixels on both the front and back with the front-facing 12MP camera sporting a wide angle lens for video chat/conferences. There's front-firing stereo speakers, and a large 12.3-inch display with a native resolution of 3000x2000.