First-party games like Super Mario Odyssey strongly drove software sales for the last fiscal year.

While taking a gander at Nintendo's recent yearly earnings I noticed something not too surprising: the vast majority of total software sales were from games developed in-house by the Japanese company. In Nintendo's filings for the fiscal year ended March 2018 the games-maker reveals it sold 102.31 million copies of games across Switch, Wii U and 3DS both digitally and in-store, which strongly contributed to the $3.7 billion (1.055 trillion yen) earned during the period.

In specific figures, the filings also note that first party games made up 85% of total software sales during the year, or about 82 million units. Considering IPs like Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon are huge heavy-hitting sales powerhouses, this trend towards first-party dominance should continue throughout the Switch's life cycle. Nintendo plans to continue driving its "distinctive software-driven hardware and software business" with a steady stream of new games and content to keep players actively engaged in the respective platform ecosystems.

Awhile back we heard about the award-winning PSVR mouse experience called Moss, the title was only originally planned for a digital release, but the developer has decided to release a physical copy as well.

Moss has been rated the highest PlayStation VR title this year by Metacritic and according to Tam Armstrong, co-founder and CEO of Polyarc, Moss has served as a "special, unique world people could transport themselves to and really experience the magic of VR."

Armstrong continues by saying that "Launching Moss as a digital-only game was a great way to introduce Quill to players around the world. And now, with the release of the Moss disc, we're excited to share with even more players who prefer a physical copy of the game."

Late April we saw Avengers: Infinity War break the weekend box office record, now the newest Marvel film has broken another box office record.

Infinity War was released to overseas countries on the 25th of April, then was released in the UK on the 26th, the US on the 27th and finally in Russia on May 3rd. Combing the sales of each of those countries, Avengers: Infinity War has become the fastest film in history to make $1 billion.

The numbers won't stop there though, currently Avengers: Infinity War is sitting at around $1.16 billion without second biggest movie market getting a taste of Thanos. Infinity War will be released in China on May 11th, so expect quite a considerable increase to the already massive number.

Last week we saw that Rockstar revealed the first batch of Red Dead Redemption 2 screenshots, as well as a trailer. Starting this week off strong already, Rockstar have released another batch of screenshots and given some details for the coming month.

Rockstar took to their announcement section on their website to give fans 13 more screenshots from Red Dead Redemption 2, this time have see "Arthur Morgan, Dutch, John and the rest of the Van der Linde gang."

The post continues by saying "Stay tuned for more Red Dead Redemption 2 info next month including first details about the game's special editions and more."Rockstar finish up by recommending that fans visit their Twitter, Instagram and Facebook pages to find more future exclusive screenshots and previews.

A speedrunner has decided to jump into Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, after some practice the difficult game has been beaten in just 2.5hrs.

Speedrunner Distortion2 juggles the sheer difficulty of Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin with all of the items, rolls, bosses and everything in-between. He completes the game in exactly 2 hours 23 minutes and 43 seconds, taking first place in the world for speedrunning Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin.

Throughout the video Distortion2 mentions that after he completes the speedrun of Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin there is nothing to drive him back to the game. This suggests that he won't be trying to beat the new record anytime soon, unless another player thinks that they can do better and knocks him down from first place.

PUBG Corp has taken to their Xbox One community forums to announce the new patch that is on its way in the near future.

The patch will be adding several different things, some include: Settings menu changes, scope field of view changes, out of game menu changes and bug fixes.

According to the post on the Xbox One PUBG forums "The test server is back! This time around we're planning to run the test for just three days. Depending on how the test goes, we may decide to extend it further. The test includes both Miramar and Erangel so we can test our matchmaking systems before bringing Miramar to live servers. That means that whenever you select a queue, the game will randomly drop you into one of the two possible maps. After we've tested our matchmaking systems, we may again adjust the map settings."

Quake Champions will have an update in the coming weeks that will enable bots, which will be coded clever enough to perform trick jumps and strafe jumps, just like you.

The bots will have a difficulty sliding scale that you can adjust depending on how good you are, where on the easier side of things the bots will treat you like a newb and not pick up powerful weapons and pick ups like Quad Damage. When they're harder, the bots will see you picking up a powerful weapon or Quad Damage and avoid trying to go for it, impressive.

id Software has said that the bots will arrive in two phases, with Phase 1 coming "soon" according to Quake Champions' technical director, John Dean. The bots will only be featured in a few game mods, but they'll be able to use any champion and weapon, but not the champion abilities.

Intel is set to go through another battle with security holes in its CPUs with a revised version of Spectre found, with 8 new Spectre-like issues discovered.

Spectre Next Generation, or Spectre NG is what it's called, with Intel recently being notified of the security holes. 4 of them were rated high, while the remaining 4 were medium severity. The technical details behind Spectre NG haven't been announced, but we know that they will be similar or worse than the original Spectre, which was bad enough.

Intel is reportedly working on getting Spectre Next Generation problems fixed, with Microsoft and others working on OS level adjustments. There will reportedly be two new waves of updates, with the first coming soon and another reportedly in August, but these dates could vary depending on how bad Spectre NG really is.

Far Cry 5 has a vast and detailed game world that you can explore for hours on end, but you know what modders are like they will rip the game apart and building beautiful and interesting things... like the island from Lost... the TV show.

The modder behind this is 'Un-Break-Able' who says that the Lost map is an "accurate recreated map" but its not to scale over technical limitations. He explains: "Everything from as small as Sun's garden to all 9 Dharma Initiative Stations are included ... In regards to accuracy some assumptions had to be made. Such as the Hydra Station where we saw many of these rooms but how they were organised and connected in the complex was impossible to determine exactly but was made to the best of my knowledge".

The map is playable for 10 minutes as there are restrictions on the game and its editor, enough time to tease you but not to get lost in the world of Lost.

Intel has been working hard on their new GPU with industry sources telling TweakTown that they've reached the end of this first step, and are now preparing for the big launch.

The company has spent the better part of two years on this, and in the last minute poached key talent from AMD with Raja Koduri and Chris Hook. Not only that, but Intel secured Athlon and Ryzen CPU architect Jim Keller who was working at Tesla until last week, and are now pushing full steam ahead with the next generation Intel graphics core.

My sources are telling me to expect something late this year with all attention to be placed on Intel at CES 2019 in January, where Intel could unveil their new GPU. A discrete graphics card launch from Intel would be a huge deal to gamers, as NVIDIA has no competition in the high-end graphics card market from AMD whatsoever.

Activision has activated the hype train for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 by saying that it has provided "significant" resources for the PC version of the game.

In the recent Activision Blizzard earnings call, company president and COO Coddy Johnson said that they are laser-focused on the PC version of COD: Black Ops 4, saying that it "is a game that will push the envelope with innovation". Johnson added that Activision has "invested significant dedicated resources to ensure we can deliver a great PC game".

This is a strange but very welcoming move by Activision, but I'm not going to commit any hope to the game until it's out. I think they're trying to attract the tens of millions of gamers playing Battlegrounds and Fortnite on the PC to be interested in COD: Black Ops 4, but unless they deliver it'll just be a polished console port.

NZXT has just unveiled their new Limited Edition H700 PUBG case, something the company teamed with PUBG Corporation and Gamers Outreach on, in order to recreate the look of the airdrop from Battlegrounds.

There will only be 2000 of the new H700 PUBG cases made, with 10% of the sales of the cases donated to Gamers Outreach, a charity that donates equipment, technology, and more to kids going through treatment in hospital.

The crowd-funded battle royale title Crazy Justice, has been spotted showcasing its cross-play abilities on the Nintendo Switch and Xbox One.

Developers, Black Riddle Studios have released the above video displaying the progress that has been made on creating cross-play between Nintendo Switch players, Xbox One players and PC players.

Unfortunately PS4 users will not have this feature available when the game releases, Crazy Justice is planned for release on PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC sometime during Q2 this year.

The moment has finally arrived for anyone that participated in the Twitch plays Super Mario Odyssey stream, the chat has directed Mario to the end of the game and has finally completed it.

For those that are not aware, there is a entire livestream dedicated to the community beating games through entering commands in the chat, examples include: move forward, jump, roll and any other movements or abilities the game requires.

The communities latest challenge has been Super Mario Odyssey and just recently the chat has managed to beat Bowser and save Peach, completing the game just through chat commands that anyone can enter. The teamwork is very impressive here and the moment of joy has been saved via a short video. Since Super Mario Odyssey has been beaten the chat has decided to move onto The Legend of Zelda: Breathe of the Wild, check out the livestream here.

A while back we heard about Star Citizen breaking a new milestone of crowdfunding, reaching a massive $181m+. Now the space adventure title has been showcased in 6 minutes of smooth gameplay footage.

Above is the gameplay footage and what we can see from it is that the mission probably couldn't be more dull and boring. All that was done was the player retrieved a box and nothing more than that, throughout the extraction though we can visually see the Star Citizen world and what is claimed to be running at 1080p 60FPS.

According to some players in the comment section below the video, IGN actually would of joined a private server to record this game footage, as the players claim that there is no way for the title in its current state to be this optimized. Some comments even stress that it is hard to maintain even a solid 30FPS while in a 50 man server. This is not confirmed though so do take the footage with a grain of salt.

A new trailer has been released for Quake Champions by Bethesda and id Software, the trailer showcases the new Gore system that is on the way.

The trailer shows that players will be able to completely dismember their opponents when they kill them, removing limbs such as the head, arms, torso, legs etc etc.

For those that are unsure of what Quake Champions is here is quick description on the title: "Quake Champions delivers the dark mythos of the first Quake combined with the groundbreaking multiplayer mayhem of Quake III Arena with a major modern twist - Champions. These fierce warriors each wield unique attributes and abilities, enabling players to compete in their own distinctive style, while adding an additional layer of strategy to the game." Check out the below trailer to enjoy the 'Gore' that is on its way to Quake Champions.

Middle-earth: Shadow of War's Desolation of Mordor has received a new trailer from Warner Bros. Interactive, the trailer reveals the opening cinematic for the DLC.

This new DLC will be giving players the opportunity to jump into the shoes of Baranor who is the Captain of Minas Ithil. During the DLC players will be paired up with his now reunited brother Serka to form an army to combat the Orc threat.

Middle-earth: Shadow of War's Desolation of Mordor DLC will be releasing on May 18th and will cost $19.99. In other news about Middle-earth: Shadow of War, Monolith Productions has announced that they will be removing micro-transactions from their title.

Intel is expected to launch its refreshed Z390 chipset in the next couple of months, where I'm sure Chipzilla will show off the Z390 during Computex 2018 next week.

We're now being exposed to some of the secrets behind the Z390 chipset, with SuperMicro's upcoming and always confusingly named C9Z390-CG-IW. The board packed a Core i7-8700T processor, a low-power 6C/12T chip that is already available, as well as the Core i7-8700K which is an 8C/16T chip.

This means that the new Z390 chipset will support all current-gen Coffee Lake S (CFS) parts, as it uses the same LGA1151 socket found in current-gen 300-series motherboards. We should expect Intel to show off more about the Z390 next month at Computex, and we'll be there bringing you the news as it happens.

Yesterday we saw the official Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer released by Rockstar and today we have been gifted yet again, this time with a batch of official screenshots.

From the below screenshots we can see the main protagonist Arthur Morgan, the iconic John Marston from the first Red Dead Redemption, animals and other environments.

Red Dead Redemption 2 will be bringing players a story about Arthur Morgan during 1899 and his adventure across the plains of developing America. Red Dead Redemption 2 will be released on the 26th of October for the Xbox One and PS4.

ASRock only just entered the graphics card market for the first time ever, and now it seems that AMD is blocking them from selling Radeon graphics cards in Europe, because reasons.

Tom's Hardware has the story, with an ASRock sales manager explaining that "The problem is that AMD has not agreed to sell (ASRock graphics cards) in EU, that is really a pity". This isn't a surprise as regional blocks on specific products from certain countries isn't something new, as there truly are a plethora of brands to choose from in Europe.

ASRock recently launched their new Radeon RX 580 Phantom Gaming graphics card, but you won't be buying it in Europe, soz.