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The rumor mill is starting early on Samsung's next big thing with the purported Galaxy Note 10 sporting a codename of 'Da Vinci'. Samsung's just-released Galaxy Note 9 was codenamed 'Crown' and is already a feature-packed handset... but Samsung could dial things up to 10 with the new Galaxy Note.

SamMobile ponders whether Samsung will usher in a huge design change with the new Galaxy Note 10, with the site explaining the 'Da Vinci' codename "could also simply be a hint at a major design upgrade for the Galaxy Note 10 (and the Galaxy S10), given how Leonardo da Vinci's most famous work is the painting of the Mona Lisa".

Other than the new codename, we know nothing concrete on the purported Galaxy Note 10. Hell, Samsung might not even name it the Galaxy Note 10. In between now and then we are to expect Samsung to unveil the world's first foldable smartphone in the Galaxy F, which could be unveiled as soon as the next couple of months, if not we should see it unfold at CES 2019 in January.

Activision and ASUS have teamed up for the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 on the PC, with the Republic of Gamers brand under the ASUS umbrella to be the first digital PC game bundle provider that kicks off on September 10 and runs through October 12.

In order to secure a copy of COD: Black Ops 4, you'll need to buy an eligible ASUS ROG product which will be made "during the limited production period" in order to receive the Digital Standard Edition of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.

Ander Nickell, Director of Partnerships at Activision said: "We are beyond thrilled to be partnering with ASUS Republic of Gamers in an unprecedented way for Black Ops 4. Our development teams are hard at work making this the best PC Call of Duty game yet. ASUS ROG shares that commitment to the community, so it was a natural fit to bring our brands together to deliver something special to fans".

NVIDIA has unleashed a new update to its super-popular Shield TV, which is the 20th update for the Shield TV and it is jam packed full of improvements and new features that include 120Hz monitor/TV support.

The new update to the Shield TV brings GeForce NOW upgrades in the form of in-game voice chat support for huge games like Fortnite and PUBG, where you can connect your headset and mic directly to your Shield controller and its 3.5mm jack. There are now "smoother, more accurate" mouse movements and keyboard shortcuts available to GeForce NOW that improve the gaming experience for titles like Dota 2 and CS:GO.

NVIDIA has also released a new Shield TV app that is now available for Android and iOS, something that sports a virtual keyboard and mouse that will finally reduce log-in times and typing. Awesome to see. The biggest change would have to be the 120Hz support for TVs and monitors, as well as NVIDIA providing new ways of powering off, restarting, and making your Shield TV go to sleep.

A while back Bethesda's Todd Howard confirmed the studio is working on some "big and crazy projects," which we now know are the online-only Fallout 76, its new space odyssey IP Starfield, and the mysterious Elder Scrolls VI. But the latter is so far off it's not actually in full development just yet.

It's been confirmed multiple times that The Elder Scrolls VI won't release any time soon. Bethesda Games Studios has been careful to say that two other games will come out before the next RPG installment, making the slate order look like this: Fallout 76 first, Starfield next, and then The Elder Scrolls VI last. Considering Starfield is just now in the production and development phase and is somewhat playable, the next Elder Scrolls game is a far ways off (likely beyond 2020).

Now that we're all caught up, Bethesda's Pete Hines re-affirms the studio's development order. "Elder Scrolls 6 we didn't really dance around. We said, 'yes we're going to do it but there are two games to come first,'" Hines said in a recent interview with The Telegraph.

The Nintendo Switch will soon get another critically acclaimed indie title, introducing Dust: An Elysian Tail, the Nintendo Switch version. In celebration of this announcement a brand new trailer has been released.

Dust: An Elysian Tail is developed by Humble Hearts and was originally released back in May of 2013. Since then the title has gotten quite the reputation for solid reviews, looking towards the listing on Steam as an example, we can see that with the 11,000+ reviews the game has gotten an "Overwhelmingly Positive" status. Additionally, in the comment section of the Nintendo Switch trailer located above, many players that have already played the game are strongly recommending it to anyone that hasn't.

Diving into the storyline of the title now, players will be immersing themselves in a gorgeous hand-painted world that will take them on a quest for the protagonists true identity. According to the description of the game, players will be at liberty to an easy to learn but difficult to master combat system. Users will be accompanied by "the mythical Blade of Ahrah, capable of turning its wielder into an unstoppable force of nature, and the blade's diminutive guardian, Fidget" Dust: An Elysian Tail will be released on the Nintendo Switch on September 10th, if you are interested in picking up the title, visit the official Nintendo Switch listing here.

CyGames is initially a mobile games developer but now has announced a brand new PS4 exclusive game titled Project Awakening. A new trailer has been released and from a prominently a mobile games developer we could have quite a promising title on our hands.

Diving straight into the trailer, we are introduced to a world that seems much like Monster Hunter and even has some resemblance to Shadow of Colossus enemy wise. Narration wise, we seem to be beginning our story off at the end of the "era of never-ending peace" and that "It's time for we wolves of war to awaken..." As there really isn't any context for what the RPG is going to be like, my personal synopsis from the trailer is that "the wolves" are a group of what seems to be knights that are trained to take down these massive colossal beasts.

Looking towards the crescent on the shield, we can see a sword going through a dragon, which I think that would suggest that this would be the symbol of beast slaying. I think that this would reinforce my theory towards the character we see in the trailer being apart of the group of "wolves." Combat wise, we see fast paced, dodge, roll, kiting boss like fighting. When the beast connects with our hero the substantial knock back from the sheer power can be seen while he blocks, but when he doesn't he is hurdled through the air, quite a interesting mechanic. The trailer ends with our hero seeing the silhouettes of much larger enemies in the distance, these enemies are so big that it can be assumed that we are going to need much more than just a sword to bring them down.

Blizzard have honored the sad passing of John "TotalBiscuit" Bain with a brand new cosmetic pack for StarCraft II, the company has also decided that all proceeds from this cosmetic pack will go straight to the Bain family.

Blizzard has taken to their StarCraft website to announce the new cosmetic pack titled "John's Announcer Pack", the pack comes at a very good time for the Bain family as the tragic passing of John has not only hit hard towards the family emotionally, but also financially. Genna Bain, John Bain's wife recently posted to Twitter the costs of the bills for John's tragic passing, the numbers were honestly quite shocking.

Since TotalBiscuit was quite a predominate figure in the StarCraft II community, Blizzard has decided that "100% of the funds received from the sale of these items will go directly to Genna and their son, Orion. In the wake of a tragic loss, it is our way of saying thank you to the Bain family for all they've done for StarCraft II." This commemorative bundle is a limited-time offer and will be available until December 31st or once it sells out. For more information, visit the StarCraft II website here.

A brand new trailer released onto the Kingdom Hearts YouTube Channel has revealed Sora, Goofy and Donald fighting alongside Big Hero 6, everyone welcome the friendly, caring, and yet extremely strong Baymax to the fight!

The newly released trailer from publisher Square Enix is unfortunately in Japanese, so it would be advised to watch it with closed captions. Moving onto what is actually shown in the trailer, we can see Baymax and Hiro flying down to meet Sora, Goofy, and Donald. The kind robot introduces himself as everyones "personal healthcare companion" and it can also be seen that Baymax gives Sora a Keyblade upgrade, transforming it into what is called Nano Arms.

In the description of the trailer, it is mentioned that this trailer was "originally aired before Tokyo Game Show 2018" and that the location of the Big Hero 6 trailer in Kingdom Hearts III is taking place "San Fransokyo." Kingdom Hearts III is planned for release on the Xbox One and PS4, the current date for its debut is scheduled on January 29, for further information visit the official Kingdom Hearts III website here.

Nintendo has announced that they will be bringing a Pokemon Go themed Nintendo Switch and dock to fans, the Pikachu and Eevee themed Switch bundle will be available on November 16.

The launch of Pokemon Let's Go on November 16 will be blessed with some specifically themed Nintendo Switch bundles. Nintendo has announced that they will be bringing two limited edition hardware bundles to players. Looking towards the images now, we can see that the Nintendo Switch will be decorated in silhouettes of Pikachu and Eevee, the Joy-Con controllers will also be respectively themed with Eevee and Pikachu's colors, as well as the Nintendo Switch dock will have some images of Pikachu and Eevee looking up at the user.

The other contents of this bundle consist of a digital pre-installed version of either Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu! or Pokemon: Let's Go, Eevee! and also a Poke Ball Plus controller. If you are interested in picking up one of these limited edition bundles, you can visit Nintendo's official website store here. Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokemon: Let's Go, Eevee! will launch on November 16th exclusively to the Nintendo Switch.

PUBG Corp is about to make the end of 2018 a big one for PUBG, with the introduction of a new snow map dubbed Dihor Otok. A new image of the snow map has dropped on Reddit, with multiple images of Dihor Otok to ogle over.

Dihor Otok looks to be an 8x8km map with landmass that should measure 6x6km which will make it bigger than Sanhok (which is 4x4km) but smaller than the two previous maps in Erangel and Miramar. The new map wasn't the only thing that surfaced on Reddit, with a big tease of a night mode coming to PUBG that will really change the gameplay of the OG battle royale champion.

A new game mode for PUBG also made the rumor pile, with PUBG Corp. taking a leaf from DICE's book with the mode teased as Conquest. The original post on Reddit from 'allthenewsisgoodnews' explains that Conquest is "domination game mode in call of duty where you need to capture a certain area". C4 is also coming to PUBG according to these rumors, while there will be the introduction of a Beetle that you can drive around in.

The Overwatch League has just added an additional 6 teams to their roster, bringing the total number of teams to 20, right before the exciting new 2019 championship kicks off.

A post on the official Overwatch League website explains the change, with Blizzard announcing that the 6 new teams come from all across the world: Chengdu, Hangzhou, Paris, Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington, D.C. and all will be fighting against each other for the win in the 2019 Overwatch League championship.

CEO of Activision Blizzard Esports Leagues, Pete Vlastelica, explains: "We just capped an amazing inaugural Overwatch League season, crowning our first-ever champion in front of a sold-out crowd of dedicated and passionate fans. Now, as we look forward to the 2019 season and beyond, we're adding eight new teams that will help us grow our league in important regions around the globe. We know that the difference between a good league and a great league is its owners, and we set a high bar for our first season with the caliber of ownership groups. Every one of these expansion franchises cleared that bar and will make our league even better".

NVIDIA has just released its fresh new GeForce Game Ready 399.24 WHQL drivers, which weigh in at just under 500MB (this is getting ridiculous) and they include optimizations for some of the latest games that are about to hit.

The new GeForce 399.24 drivers have optimizations for Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Blackout open beta, and Assetto Corsa Competizione early access. Some of these games are out (COD: Black Ops 4 Blackout open beta) while Shadow of the Tomb Raider is out on September 14 (if you pre-ordered the game) and Assetto Corsa Competizione that slides into Steam Early Access on September 12.

You can download the new NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 399.24 WHQL drivers here.

Spider-Man is already breaking records for both Marvel and Sony, with the new PS4 exclusive becoming the fastest-selling game of 2018 in the UK, and the fastest-selling Marvel-branded game in history.

The previous record holder for the fastest-selling Marvel-branded game was LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, but Spider-Man has demolished that. Spider-Man is also the fastest-selling individual format game since the PS4 version of Call of Duty: WWII, which was released in November 2017. Spider-Man has had mostly positive reviews since its release a few days ago, with some great differences between the PS4 Pro and normal PS4 version.

If you're going to pick up Spider-Man and a PS4 at the same time, I'd urge you to check out Digital Foundry's break down comparison between the PS4 and PS4 Pro versions of Spider-Man. The PS4 Pro version of Spider-Man is something truly special, with a big upgrade in graphical fidelity and smoothness compared to the not-so-beefy normal PS4.

DICE is in a very weird spot right now regarding the Battlefield V open beta, with Reddit users noticing that the developer has censored a bunch of words from the game and you'll be surprised at what words EA and DICE have put on the chopping block.

There are certain words and numbers banned from the in-game chat of Battlefield V, with the worst of them being 'DLC' and '9900K'. People are tweeting David Sirland, the Multiplayer Producer on Battlefield V that "It's a game series for adults, full of swearing in vo and you can't even write "crap, they are attacking B". It's silly, the entire filter, especially if you can't turn it off". This is very true, you should be able to disable the filter as it's ridiculous.

While there might be censorship on words/phrases/numbers like 'DLC' and 'crap', other words get thrown into the mix including 'jew', 'jewish', 'doofus', 'huge bowl', and 'he is hit'. Hell, you can't even write 'so does' or 'pleb'. The censoring system is broken, but it's not like it's an algorithm... these words would've been chosen and added to a profanity filter by EA DICE.

HyperX today announced its new speed-focused Alloy FPS RGB mechanical keyboard, which joins its fleet of performance gaming peripherals.

HyperX's new Alloy FPS RGB keyboard rocks Kailh silver speed switches that are specifically designed for fast key presses thanks to their 1.1mm operating levels and 40g actuation force. The keys are rated for 70 million key presses and come with RGB-enabled LEDs that offer customization with five different brightness levels. Users can also tailor-make their keyboard's color schemes via HyperX's NGenuity software, and the Alloy FPS RGB can store up to three profiles on its built-in memory.

Other features include 100% anti-ghosting, full N-key rollover, 1000Hz polling rate, and USB pass-through to charge mobile devices.

From Software's new hack-and-slash survival game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice gets fresh gameplay footage at Tokyo Game Show 2018.

In many ways Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice uses the familiar Dark Souls formula: it has hulking bosses, dodge mechanics, and strong emphasis on timing and reaction skills. But it's also quite new and sets it apart from From Software's magnum opus trilogy, especially with its combat. This time around combat is much more fluid, and the one-armed Wolf has a more feline and adept grace not typically found in other Soulsborne games. The latest TGS 2018 trailer is another pure example of this refinement.

The game, which actually started off as Tenchu and morphed into something bigger, is faster and more stylish than its predecessors. The Wolf is nimble and agile in everything he does, from swinging up to rooftops with a grappling hook to slicing foes with devastating combos. The game honestly reminds me of a hybrid of Nioh's suave combat with Dark Souls-style imagery and Bloodborne's eeriness.

Fortnite is a monster that shows no signs of slowing down any time soon, and it's new beta release on Android is only beefing up total engagement figures.

For big service games like Fortnite, metrics like player downloads and total active users are incredibly important. Epic Games hasn't had to worry about numbers dropping, though: in a recent blog post it revealed Fortnite on Android has been downloaded 15 million times on Android in just three weeks time.

Bear in mind this is just the beta test. Once the full game rolls out to everyone we should see huge downloads likely followed by even bigger monetization. The game's massive accessibility coupled with its exclusive invite-only phase pretty much means anyone who plays on console will play on mobile.

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios fulfilled its promise to reveal a new IP at Tokyo Game Show 2018: introducing Judge Eyes (aka Project Judge), a new "courtroom thriller" that sports fast-paced combat.

In Project Judge (known Judge Eyes: Shinigami no Yuigon in Japan) you play as private detective Takayuki Yagami in his widening investigation to catch a serial killer across Tokyo. The game features blitz-style combat that seems a bit faster than Yakuza games, but the major departure is the game's new sleuthing mechanics. As Yagami players can tail targets, pick locks, put on disguises to infiltrate areas, and collect evidence or clues with photos, unlocking computers, and a ton of other gumshoe activities. Some of the chase scenes are done through QTEs.

"Enhancing the game's position as a courtroom thriller and embodying the feeling of playing a detective, players will need to utilize key investigative skills in conjunction with unique gameplay features to unveil the truths hidden at the core of Project JUDGE's plot," reads a description of the game, as translated by DualShockers.

We've known for a while that Rocksteady is currently making a new AAA game, but new job listings show the studio's upcoming superhero title should tap the PlayStation 5 and the new Xbox Scarlett family.

Multiple job listings say Rocksteady is working on a new "highly anticipated upcoming AAA title," and rumors suggest this could either be a Superman game or a Batman game centered around Damien Wayne. About a year ago Rocksteady said the project will make gamers "lose their minds". Some listings also say the game aims at harnessing next-gen platforms, which likely means Sony's upcoming PlayStation 5 and Microsoft's new Xbox Scarlett family of systems.

"We are looking for an exceptionally talented Senior Producer who is ready for the challenge of producing a AAA title on the next generation platforms," reads a Senior Producer listing.

Nintendo Switch fans can't wait to get hands-on with Fox in Star Link: Battle for Atlas, luckily to subside some anticipation the opening cut scene has been released for the title and it introduces the rest of Fox's crew.

The new trailer showcases to players some great cinematic footage of the astrophysicist Victor St. Grand as he takes his secretly recruited team of pilots to explore the galaxies. The beginning of the video address the team and titles them the Star Link Initiative and also names the friendly alien aboard the ship Judge.

GameXplain has uploaded footage which is "exclusive to the Nintendo Switch version of the game" and from the video we can see Fox McCloud, Falco Lombardi, Slippy Toad and Peppy Hare from the classic Star Fox series. The characters look better than ever, and judging from the comment section of the video fans seem more than happy with the inclusion of Fox and his crew. Star Link: Battle for Atlas will be released on October 16th for the PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. For more information regarding the title, visit the official Ubisoft website here.