NVIDIA turned the entire graphics card and PC gaming community on its head with the push of the GeForce Partner Program, or GPP. But it hasn't even been a few months yet, nor have we seen the fruits of this evil labor, and it's done, dusted, over.

NVIDIA has officially canceled the GPP with a post on their own blog where they said: "The rumors, conjecture and mistruths go far beyond its intent. Rather than battling misinformation, we have decided to cancel the program". NVIDIA continues, adding "GPP had a simple goal - ensuring that gamers know what they are buying and can make a clear choice".

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Overwatch is constantly updated with balances and fixes to the game, with Blizzard pushing out a new 1GB update for the PC, Xbox One, and PS4 versions of the game.

The latest map 'Rialto' joins the Overwatch fray, but so do balances for a bunch of the heroes in the game, including some big changes to Hanzo. Blizzard has been working on balancing Hanzo for a while now, with Hanzo losing his Scatter Arrow ability that gets replaced with Storm Arrows.

Storm Arrows let Hanzo fire 6 arrows, with each individual arrow doing less damage than a standard arrow, but they're fired at maximum power. Hanzo also secures a new ability: Lunge, where by pressing jump while in mid-air, Hanzo will leap horizontally.

Twitter has been hit in a big way today, with the social networking giant urging all of its 330 million users to change their passwords immediately after they were exposed in a bug in plain text.

The company wasn't hacked at all, with Twitter recommending people change their passwords out of an "abundance of caution". Twitter wants you to change your password on the site itself, and anywhere else that you've used that password, including third-party Twitter apps.

How did it happen? Well, Twitter says that the bug occurred through an issue in the hashing process, where it masks passwords by replacing them with a random string of characters that then get sorted on Twitter's system. An error in this process happened, so the passwords were then saved in plain text to an internal log. Twitter says they found the bug on their own, and removed the passwords and is working on it so it doesn't happen again.

At the end of April Boss Key Productions released the first patch for Radical Heights the new free-to-play Battle Royale shooter, this time round the second patch has more performance improvements and a gadget has been added.

Just like the first patch this patch comes with a massive amount of bug fixes and improvements. This time round though Boss Key Productions will be adding a new gadget called the Scanner, this item introduces more ways for players to customize their characters.

Also included in this patch is improvements to the server region selection, brand new animations, weapon balancing and more performance improvements. Steam will automatically download this update and if you are interested in delving into the full patch notes visit the official Radical Heights changelog here.

Leading up to the release of Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition this month Nintendo has released a new character highlights trailer, this time introducing some very unique characters.

Not to long ago we saw the first character highlights trailer, now up to the 4th installment of the trailer series Nintendo are showcasing Agitha, Zant, Midna, Twili Midna and Toon Zelda.

Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition is releasing on May 18th for the Nintendo Switch. Players that have already purchased the title on the Nintendo eShop have the option of downloading the 12.9GB game now so its preloaded and ready for the titles debut.

Stunlock Studios, the developers behind Battlerite have revealed that their Action MOBA/Arena Brawler will be receiving a Battle Royale mode.

The Marketing Director for Stunlock Studios has commented on the games upcoming mode, here is what he had to say: "With a top-down Battle Royale mode we've set out to bring the ultimate survival experience to Action RPG and MOBA players. We want to give players the excitement of a Diablo-esque exploration experience combined with the character variation of a MOBA and the thrill of a survival game. That said, I think anyone who's looking for a fresh and different take on the Battle Royale genre will have a blast."

This is certainly quite an interesting way to bring Battle Royale to an arena brawler, the idea of players being able to choose from 27 different characters that each have their own respective advantages will be a very unique Battle Royale experience. According to the details, the Battle Royale map mode will be 30 times larger than the standard Battlerite map, this is mostly to compensate for the 20 players being thrown onto the single map. Battlerite Royale will be available in the coming future and is planned for release closer to this years Summer.

This weekend gamers will be glad to know that Mohawk Games and publisher Stardock will be deeming their title Offworld Trading Company completely free-to-play.

Players will have to option of enjoying the titles single-player campaign or they can jump into the multiplayer features that are available. Unlike most real-time strategy games, Offworld Trading Company uses economics as the basis of weapons, where players will have to balance unique resources and make difficult decisions to see their civilization prosper.

The free-to-play weekend begins on May 6th at 1PM ET and during this weekend the title will also be discounted by 50% for anyone that wants to pick up a good deal. If you are interested in Offworld Trading Company check out the official Steam Store page here.

E3 2018 is going to be absolutely massive this year, and as usual we should expect a bunch of new and exciting stuff from Microsoft and their Xbox presentation at E3.

In a new blog post today, Microsoft's Mike Nichols said that the company has a "great briefing filled with new games" to unveil, continuing: "We're hard at work on exciting plans for E3, from what will be a great briefing filled with new games to the fan experience at the Microsoft Theater. This is our biggest E3 yet, and we look forward to a great week for gamers. Again, thank you to the amazing Xbox community".

Microsoft will kick off its E3 2018 event on Sunday, June 11 at 1PM PT / 4PM ET. Last year we expected the Xbox One X but now that's here and there's no next-gen Xbox expected this early, what will Microsoft show off? A next-gen Halo that pumps away at 4K 60FPS on the Xbox One X would be killer, but what else could steal the show?

It's not just Fortnite going through its new Season 4 update, but competing Battle Royale giant PUBG is having its Update 12 written to servers, too.

PUBG Corp is saying that Update 12 will have a bunch of new, balanced, and fixes in Battlegrounds. We can expect the new SLR, a new marksman rifle thats more powerful than the SKS, with 3x and 6x scopes, new grips, and a new muscle car that will be awesome to drive around in.

PUBG will see nearly every weapon in the game buffed or nerfed, with the developer tweaking assault rifles so that they do less damage, but then increased the damage of submachine guns. Level 3 helmets are now found exclusively in airdrops, which is going to change the game in a big way.

Intel and AMD are preparing new chipsets that are sure to confuse customers in the coming months, with AMD planning their beefed up Z490 chipset while Intel do the same with a suped up Z390 chipset.

AMD's upcoming Z490 chipset will be very similar to the just-released Z470 chipset, except the new Z490 chipset will rock new PCIe lanes when it drops in June. We should expect an 8C/16T variant of Intel's Coffee Lake CPUs, so think the Core i7-8790K, which will debut alongside the refreshed Z390 chipset.

Intel will be keeping its HEDT chipset around for a while, with X299 staying with us through 2H 2018.

Oculus has just unveiled its latest prototype VR headset, something it calls Half Dome. The new headset has an interesting twist in the world of VR HMDs by using varifocal displays.

These new displays move up and down depending on where you're looking in the VR world, with a tease of eye-tracking technology from Oculus in their new Half Dome prototype VR headset. Right now all VR headsets have trouble displaying items close to your eyes in a good way, with these new varifocal displays showing them much sharper and in more clarity.

Oculus has a wider 140-degree field of view compared to the Rift with its smaller 110-degree FOV, which lets you see more at the corners of your eyes in your peripheral vision. Even with all of the new tech on-board, Half Dome is the same physical size and weight of the current Rift headset.

Valve has such a good thing going with its Steam Hardware Survey, as it gives us a great glimpse into how the split between AMD and Intel on the CPU side of things, and AMD and NVIDIA on the GPU side of things, when it comes to PC gamers.

We now have the April 2018 data to look over, so I decided to take a closer look at mainstream graphics cards being used with NVIDIA still sitting at #1 with the GeForce GTX 1060 absolutely dominating the charts. NVIDIA holds the top 14 positions with GeForce GPUs, and then they're met with the Intel HD Graphics 4000 as their only competitor at #15.

AMD's first appearance in the charts is with their Radeon R7 Graphics in position #19, while the Radeon R5 Graphics takes #24, and then the RX 480 slides into a much lower position at #27. What about the new mainstream Radeon RX 580? Yeah well that has only appeared in the Steam Hardware Survey for the first time in March, with just 0.29% of Steam gamers using AMD's mid-range champion.

We know that NVIDIA will be launching their next-gen GeForce GTX 11 series graphics cards in the coming months, but the mobile series arriving soon after would be quite the surprise.

According to a GIGABYTE UK notebook rep that posted on the OverclockersUK forums, NVIDIA has scheduled the mobile GTX 11 series "towards the end of the year". Someone asked if there would be a higher-spec Aero 15X laptop coming out soon, as they didn't want to buy something now if a new product was around the corner.

'Atom80' replied, saying: "the range coming in now will be stable and not having any additional refreshes until the next gen of GPUs is announced. Currently scheduled more towards the end of the year".

With God of War, Sony Santa Monica now holds the mantle for the fastest-selling exclusive of all time.

In just three days time the newest God of War game sold over 3.1 million units worldwide, Sony today announced, making it the quickest-selling PlayStation 4 console exclusive. The game has been hailed as a near-perfect experience from countless critics and remains sits at a highly coveted 94 on Metacritic.

Apart from hardware sales, like most hardware-makers Sony puts strong emphasis on software sales on its PlayStation Network and in retail stores. It'd be interesting to see the digital/retail mix for God of War and I'm sure Sony is glad it's focus on singelplayer-driven games keeps paying off.

It feels like forever since we've had a super crazy fast graphics card released, with the 1-year anniversary of the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti already here, and we're inching towards the 1-year anniversary for the Radeon RX Vega, too.

But what advancements do we have to drive us into the world of 4K 120FPS on a single card? It looks like TSMC might have something upj their sleeve with the Taiwanese manufacturing giant unveiling something new: Wafer-on-Wafer (WoW) technology.

WoW technology stacks layers vertically instead of horizontally, meaning multi-GPU graphics cards could be stacked similar to HBM2 technology.This means that we can have even faster single graphics cards packing dual-stacked GPUs and one lot of VRAM, truly pushing the boundaries of what is possible without worrying about multiple graphics cards.

Hi-Rez Studios has announced that their hero based shooter Paladins, will be debuting from Steam Early Access in the very near future.

The Executive Producer for Paladins, Chris Larson has commented on the games full release, here is what he had to say "Even now, with Paladins a million times more polished than it was at the start of Early Access, we do not consider Paladins a truly "finished" product. We know there's still work to be done. We are going to keep polishing, keep refining, keep fixing bugs, and keep putting out awesome new content on a regular patch cycle."

At the moment there is over 25 million Paladins players and to keep those players happy Hi-Rez Studios has said that they will not be implementing anymore system changes to the title. Paladins will be fully releasing onto the Steam Store on May 8th.

After yesterdays leak of Taki joining the Soulcalibur VI roster Bandai Namco has followed up with a official release of the trailer as well as a bunch of screenshots.

The above video is the official character reveal for Taki returning to the Soulcalibur roster after not being in the previous game. From the released screenshots we can see that there has been some changes to Taki, the glowing symbols on her skin tight spandex is quite a nice touch as well as the color effects for her short swords seem to look very good.

Currently Soulcalibur VI is planned for release on PC sometime closer to the end of the year. For now though, if you are interested in anymore character reveal trailers check out Nightmare's big introduction and his other half Siegfried, as well as the CD Projekt RED character Geralt, as he ventures into the universe of Soulcalibur. Screenshots of Taki are located below and if you would like to view the many more that are released visit Bandai's website here.

At the beginning of April we heard about Steam Link adding support for the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, now we have official confirmation that Steam now supports the Switch controller.

Valve has come out and said on a post on their news section "We're pleased to announce that the latest Steam Client Beta adds support for the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller. We think it is a great device with a feature set that pairs nicely with your Steam catalog. The d-pad is ideal for fighting games and platformers and the gyro enhances aim in your action/FPS titles. If you'd like to test it out you will need to opt into the Steam Client Beta then follow the steps below. We hope you enjoy and, as always, we welcome your feedback."

They also have provided users with a step-by-step tutorial on how to enter into the Steam Client Beta as well as the configuration steps to get your Nintendo Switch Pro Controller to work on Steam. "First, opt into the Steam Client Beta then enable support globally by checking the 'Nintendo Switch Configuration Support' option in the Controller Settings page. In case you missed it, this is the same page to enable PS4 and Xbox Configuration support. By checking this box, you are able to create, share, and browse Switch Pro Controller configs on a per-game basis. The Controller Settings page also contains a global option to 'Use Nintendo Button Layout'. This will swap the A/B and X/Y buttons of your loaded config - something that will come in handy if you choose a Steam Controller, Xbox, or standard template config."

Not to long ago we heard about the release date for the Summerset expansion coming to the Elder Scrolls Online. Now, Bethesda has released a new trailer introducing the Psijic Order.

In the above video we get introduced to the Psijic Order, which is detailed to be a old faction that was dormant in Tamriel. Players will have the choice of joining the Psijic Order and will be able to utilize their abilities to defend against the enemies on the island of Artaeum.

The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset DLC is releasing on PC May 21st and will also be coming to both Xbox One and PS4 on June 5th. For anyone interested in picking up the expansion the link to the official website can be found here.

There has been quite a stir of whispers and rumors regarding Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, but it seems Activision is much closer to the full reveal that is said to take place on May 17.

The company has sent out invitations to its upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Community Reveal Event, something that kicks off on May 17 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. Activision hasn't said what exactly will take place on the day, but we should expect a deep dive of sorts into Black Ops 4.

Treyarch is developing the game once again, but outside of that we don't know much. We've heard that Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has been inspired by Overwatch, another property that Activision owns through Blizzard. I can see Black Ops 4 having a Battle Royale mode to get in the huge frenzy that is Fortnite and Battlegrounds, but we'll have to wait and see what we get on May 17.