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Microsoft's popular Xbox Game Pass subscription plan is meant to synergize with its core business, not become it.

With publishers like EA, Ubisoft, and even Microsoft asserting game streaming is the future, many think this new accessible avenue will replace traditional full game sales. Microsoft has made strides with its $10 Xbox Game Pass subscription plan, which includes access to over 100 games for a monthly fee, but this initiative isn't about to replace the company's main revenue: selling games. It's true Microsoft makes consistent earnings from subscriptions and engagement-driven services (Mixer, Xbox LIVE, Xbox Game Pass, microtransactions, etc) but all of these are supplementary parts that work in tandem and won't ever be the whole pie. Full game and hardware sales will always be part of the equation, says Microsoft.

"We don't have a goal of being the subscription where you get all your content. This is meant to be additive to the ecosystem. We don't see a future where subscriptions are dominant," Microsoft's head of gaming services Ben Decker told GamesIndustry.biz in a recent interview.

NVIDIA officially announced the GeForce RTX 20 series graphics cards during their GeForce Gaming Celeberation event in Cologne, Germany last week and while a bunch of AIB partners showed off their custom RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 cards, KFA2 wasn't there.

KFA2 has just unveiled their new RTX 20 series graphics cards with GPU Boost clocks that are yet unknown, with both cards coming in as a sleek dual-slot card with a dual-fan cooler.

They're very similar to the Founders Edition cards from NVIDIA, but with different styling and some 'What's Your Game?' branding on the top of the card next to the GeForce RTX branding.

LG just unveiled their huge 88-inch 8K OLED TV at IFA 2018 but AUO has trumped the South Korean giant with its own larger-than-life TV, with a huge 85-inch 8K 120Hz HDR TV. Yes you read that right... an 8K TV with a super-fast 120Hz refresh rate.

AU Optronics' new 85-inch 8K 120Hz HDR panel uses Quantum Dot technology which will provide a beautifully wide color gamut, 1200 nits peak luminance for a super-bright image (with HDR10 in tow) and a borderless panel that would be perfect for a triple 8K 120Hz HDR rig, right? Even two of NVIDIA's new Turing-based GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards in NVLink wouldn't handle 8K 120Hz.

Even now I'm benchmarking GTX 1080 Ti and TITAN Xp in SLI at 8K and can't hit 60FPS most of the time on medium detail, let alone ultra detail or with some form of AA (maybe NVIDIA's new DLSS technology), let alone at 120 freaking frames per second. AUO, you've just become my new hero of the TV market, I need this 85-inch 8K 120Hz HDR TV in my life, stat.

Acer has been pushing its Predator gaming brand for a couple of years now with mixed success in the gaming PC market, but now it is entering a totally new market with its new Predator X brand which is destined to most likely not even make a scratch on the dual-CPU workstation market.

The new Predator X series was just unveiled at IFA 2018 and comes as a 2 x Intel Xeon 8180 system (these processors cost over $10,000 each), 192GB of ECC RDIMM, 2 x NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 (these also cost $10,000 each), then a mix of storage, PSU and other bits and pieces for what will most likely cost over $50,000. The system is being built for the next-gen CPUs from Intel that will arrive in the form of the Cascade Lake-SP family.

The system seems totally out of control when it comes to insane specs and equally questionable price of $50,000+ on components alone, whether Acer can sustain itself with these systems. If they're made-to-order then the company might be okay, but if they're ready on shelves and don't fly off them... Acer could have millions of dollars of unsold systems with components that are highly sought after, especially the new Quadro RTX 8000 cards.

As someone who personally owns an 8K monitor (the Dell UP3218K) I can see the constant strive towards more and more pixels, with a huge difference in quality and sharpness between 4K and 8K (400% more pixels).

Now LG has teased the world's first 8K OLED TV at IFA 2018, rocking a native resolution of 7680x4320 and boasting over 33 million pixels. Brian Kwon, the president of LG Home Entertainment Company explains: "LG's first 8K OLED TV is the result of technological achievement and the next evolutionary step in display technology. 4K OLED has played a role in reshaping the TV industry and LG is confident that 8K OLED will do the same".

The 8K display and TV market are miniscule compared to 1080p and 4K, but LG is expecting the 8K TV market to pass 5 million units by 2022. The company said: "While the 8K TV market is still in its infancy, it is expected to grow to more than 5 million units by 2022 and LG is committed to leading the ultra-premium market with its 8K OLED TV technology". In regards to OLED technology, LG explains: "with OLED TV shipments in the market expected to double in 2018 and reach over nine million units by 2022, LG will continue to increase the OLED share in its premium TV portfolio and drive large scale consumer adoption of OLED TVs".

The launch for Marvel's Spider-Man is just around the corner and as web heads around the globe gear up for one of the most anticipated PS4 exclusives of the year, developer Insomniac Games has revealed the post-content launch dates planned for the title.

In a recent blog post by Insomniac Games' Community Director, James Stevenson, Marvel's Spider-Man will be receiving a DLC titled "The City That Never Sleeps." This DLC will feature three separate chapters, Marvel's Spider-Man: The Heist, Marvel's Spider-Man: Turf Wars and Marvel's Spider-Man: Silver Lining. The blog post doesn't detail to latter two DLC's which are planned to release later in the year, but does detail "The Heist" DLC.

According to the blog post, "The Heist" DLC will put players on the path of the Felicia Hardy, or better known as Black Cat. "As you play the base game, you'll realize that Felicia Hardy, aka Black Cat, is back in town and she's leaving clues around town to toy with Spider-Man." The blog post reveals that playing through the DLC will introduce three brand new suits to players, as well a new faction of enemies, challenges, missions and more. Marvel's Spider-Man: The Heist is planned for release on October 23rd, the initial Spider-Man release is planned for September 7th and is exclusively on PS4.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has just unveiled the new Definitive Edition for their title, Middle-Earth: Shadow of War. This is the one package for players if they choose to rule over all content.

In celebration of the release of this new package, Warner Bros. has released a brand new trailer showcasing the contents of the Definitive Edition. According to the description of the video, the Definitive Edition will feature the base game as well as "The Blade of Galadriel and Desolation of Mordor story DLCs, the Slaughter and Outlaw tribes, plus every game improvement made to date."

For those that are unaware, Middle-Earth: Shadow of War places gamers in the shoes of Talion and Celebrimbor, who are destined to go behind enemies lines and fight against the Dark Lord Sauron. Middle-earth: Shadow of War is currently available on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. If you are interested in picking up the Definitive Edition, a price point has been set at $59.99. For further information regarding Shadow of War, visit the official Shadow of War website here.

After the confirmation that Undertale was coming to the Nintendo Switch back in early March, Toby Fox, the developer for the title has announced the official Nintendo Switch release date.

Undertale has been scheduled for release in Japan on September 15th, North American players will be glad to know that after the initial release the title will be arriving on Western markets as well. During the lastest Nindies Showcase, it was revealed that Undertale would be made available in the North American region three days after the Japan release, on September 18th.

For those unfamiliar with Undertale, I have provided a quick description of the title which has been sourced from the Nintendo website: "Fall into the underworld and explore a hilarious and heartwarming world full of dangerous monsters. Date a skeleton, dance with a robot, cook with a fishwoman...or destroy everyone where they stand. The future is yours to determine!" Undertale is already available on the PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. For further information regarding the title, visit the official website here.

If you are a Shovel Knight fan, there is no doubt you were disappointed when you saw Shovel Knight as an assist trophy in the new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Now with zero chance for Shovel Knight to be a playable character in Smash Ultimate, Yacht Club Games have instead decided to bring Smash to Shovel Knight.

Yacht Club Games have announced the final addition to Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, introducing Shovel Knight Showdown. Showdown will pit up to 4 local players together, as they can choose their favorite villain or hero from the Shovel Knight series in a race for who can acquire the most gems. "All the classic Shovel Knight characters you know and love are playable, many for the first time ever! Gather your pals for endless multiplayer clashes, or take control of your favorite character and dig into Story Mode."

According to the post made by Yacht Club Games on their official blog,"Shovel Knight Showdown features local only multiplayer, and arrives as a free update to all existing versions of Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove on consoles and PC." In addition to it arriving free to anyone who already owns Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, Showdown will also be made available as a standalone game. For more information about Shovel Knight Showdown, visit the official blog post here.

Ubisoft has debuted their final DLC for Far Cry 5, this time round though we are being taken to 7 different cinematic scenarios in Far Cry 5: Dead Living Zombies.

Far Cry 5: Dead Living Zombies will be taking players through Guy Marvel's 7 different cinematic movie scenarios that have been spliced with zombies. Each of the maps have been made in the Far Cry 5's Arcade Editor and players will be fighting waves of zombies in hopes of destroying each of the mutation stations and preventing a global zombie outbreak. After each of the scenarios are beaten, players will receive a new mode titled "Score Attack" and if players receive a 3-star rating in the scenario their weapons can be used in the main story mode.

The Dead Living DLC has been set at a price point of $7 but will be free to those who have already purchased the Far Cry 5 Season Pass. For more information regarding the DLC visit the official Far Cry 5: Dead Living Zombies website page here.

Sony is hard at work with AMD on the next-gen PlayStation 5 which will be powered by the Navi GPU architecture, something AMD gave up a considerable number of its RTG engineers for, but Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot thinks the future isn't hardware... and that it's all about game streaming.

During an interview with IGN at Gamescom 2018, Guillemot said he sees the future of home gaming will be through streaming. He explains: "Technology is actually going in that direction. The machines will be more powerful and the system to transfer data will be more efficient, so at one point, we will have a better experience streaming something than having to buy a machine and change the machine regularly".

Guillemot continued: "I think it's difficult to say today, but what we see is there's a trend," he explained. "Before, it was not necessary to be connected. Today, as games [evolve] over time, 95 percent or even 98 percent of the people that play our games are constantly taking the free maps or the new events, the updates we do on a regular basis".

The release of Battlefield V is right around the corner and as we get closer, we're finding out more information on DICE's next first-person shooter. We know that multiple modes won't be making the launch and another one of those will be Combined Arms, the co-op mode for Battlefield V.

Battlefield Bulletin took to their Twitter account to announce the news that Combined Arms won't be launching with Battlefield V, with the four-player co-op experience sounding like one of the more exciting portions of Battlefield V. Lars Gustavsson, the Creative Director on Battlefield V explains Combined Arms: "Every now and then we do hear that, for new players, this can be an extremely daunting experience - almost overwhelming. To get in there, into that creative, all-out war sandbox can be challenging. Isn't there something more focused, a bit more intimate, almost, yet social, that I can do within Battlefield that fits me and my friends?"

Gustavsson continues: "This experience is really what we want friends to have together, and in that, we have a new system called the mission generator. It creates dynamic objectives and narratives in order to constantly keep that cooperative experience feeling fresh and challenging".

If there was a game that would be utterly mind blowing with real-time ray tracing it would have to be Cyberpunk 2077, which was recently hyped up again with its first gameplay video which you can check out below.

But according to a new leaked image of Cyberpunk 2077 and its settings window, we can see that other than the retro feel of its UI, there's optins for both NVIDIA ray tracing and HairWorks technologies. This would imply that Cyberpunk 2077 has support for RTX, and will be an even more special game for GeForce RTX 20 series graphics card owners.

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt RED is no stranger to working with NVIDIA technologies, with the company using NVIDIA HairWorks and HBAO+ technology in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Back on August 21, someone asked via a tweet to the official Cyberpunk 2077 account on Twitter the developers thoughts on NVIDIA RTX to which the developer tweeted: "Beautiful!"

It looks like Forza Horizon 4 is going to be quite special on the PC, with developers Playground Games teasing that not only are the minimum PC requirements lower than Forza Horizon 3 (an achievement in itself) but you can push the game "beyond Ultra" if you've got the right PC grunt.

All you'll need to play Forza Horizon 4 is a modest PC with a minimum of an Intel Core i3-4170 at 3.7GHz, 8GB of RAM and either an NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 or AMD Radeon R7 250X. Playground Games art director Benjamin Penrose he teased that the team is aiming the recommended spec at 60FPS and not 30FPS, a big change from Forza Horizon 3.

During an interview with PC Gamer, Penrose said: "We're now basing our recommended spec on 60 frames per second and not 30, which is a change from Forza Horizon 3. We're really happy with the stability and performance from launch this time round. And we've also got a whole bunch of new options you can push [your PC] to the extreme beyond Ultra, if you've got a very powerful PC. And of course we've got a load of other options in there, so you can build a view for your cameras, you also have access to the HDR option - the first time on PC for Forza".

Ubisoft, like other major game publishers, is keen on investing and iterating on future technologies like AI, game streaming, VR, and even blockchain. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot's feelings on new tech could pave the way for the company's immediate and long-term focus.

Like EA with its SEED division, Ubisoft currently has its Strategic Innovation Labs experimenting with new ways to architect its games. Now Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot outlines some of his ideas for the future of gaming, from streaming titles across all platforms to face-tracking tech bringing more emotion and interaction to in-game experiences.

In a recent interview with IGN, Mr. Guillemot discussed a wide variety of topics. Perhaps the most interesting was his comments on a total-immersion experience that tracks a player's senses and facial expressions, from eye movements to emotional impact registration.

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios, the development team behind SEGA's massively popular Yakuza series, will reveal its new IP next month at Tokyo Game Show 2018.

According to SEGA chief creative officer Toshihiro Nagoshi, the company's internal Yakuza studio will announce its big new IP series in September during Japan's big gaming event. The studio's new IP was confirmed back in April 2018, and has been in development and planning stages for three years alongside various Yakuza remasters and new iterations, Mr. Nagoshi said in a recent SEGA broadcast.

Official details about the new IP are light, but Mr. Nagoshi affirms it will be "very different" from what fans expect. This new game follows SEGA's long-term strategy to push out remasters and new wholly-owned IPs to bolster its overall games-selling business. The company says it wants to resurrect classic IPs and series for new games platforms--hence the re-releases and remasters--alongside creating fresh intellectual properties that carry sales for years go come.

On the heels of a recent tease, Yacht Club Games announces a new game for its Shovel Knight Treasure Trove collection.

Shovel Knight Showdown is a new multiplayer-focused add-on that closely resembles a 16-bit Super Smash Bros. Showdown allows 4 players to battle it out in local multiplayer SSB-style, but instead of classic Nintendo characters we have a roster straight from Yacht Club's beloved sidescroller. The game's multiplayer is offline only and features both co-op style action as well as straight free-for-all combat, and also has a fully-fledged campaign mode to boot.

Showdown will be free for all Treasure Trove owners and will be sold standalone for $9.99. The new game/add-on will release on a myriad of platforms excluding PS Vita and 3DS (Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, Sony PS4, Sony PS3, Xbox One, PC, Mac, Linux, & Amazon FireTV) but a launch date has yet to be announced.

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Today Intel launches their new Y and U-series mobile 8th generation processors, with more cores than previous generation Y and U-series processors. These new processors chime in at 15W and 5W TDPs, which is why they are targeted towards ultra-portable devices such as ultra-thin notebooks. In the U-series, we find three SKUs, the i7-8565U and i5-8265U both with four cores and eight threads, as well as a i3-8145U with two cores and four threads. Cache sizes go up by 2MB starting at 4MB for the i3 SKU up to 8MB for the i7. The crazy thing here is that the i7 turbos to 4.6GHz while the i5 and i3 go up to 3.9GHz. The Y-series SKUs include the i7-8500Y, the i5-8200Y, and the m3-8100Y and they are all two core four thread processors. The i7 turbos to 4.2GHz while the i5 goes up to 3.9GHz and the m3 goes to 3.4GHz. The U-series processors support 2133MHz LPDDR3 and 2400MHz DDR, while the Y-series clock in at 1866MHz LPDDR3.

There are new additions to the architecture, most notably very fast integrated WIFI support, USB 3.1 gen 2, and support for Optane memory. The new WIFI and USB 3.1 gen 2 (10Gbps) are the same as the desktop counterparts, with the WIFI going up to 1.73Gbps on the 160MHz band. The new Whiskey Lake-U CPUs are connected to the PCH through the OPI (on package DMI), and they are on the same package. There is also an updated quad-core digital signal processor which acts as the audio processor, so voice recognition and such are supported and improved. We are excited to see what vendors will do with these new processors, and with the higher core counts things should get interesting!

A reliable source has leaked some information regarding the Blackout mode for Activisions Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. The leak suggests that the mode will have up to 100 players and numerous other features.

According to Wew Labs, the Blackout mode for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will feature zombies, 100 player testing slots which suggests up to 100 players will be able to join and doors that will be able to open and close. The leak also suggests that there will be a new training mode titled Outboarding, Specialist Stories, new weapons, events and much more.

As this is just a leak, do take the information with a grain of salt, even though Wew Labs correctly leaked the information regarding the contents of the fourth DLC for Call of Duty WWII it could still be wrong. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will be launched on October 12th for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC. For more information regarding the title, visit the official website here.

Heaps of Devil May Cry 5 gameplay footage came out of the woodwork over the course of GameCom 2018, most of which was running on either the Xbox One X or PS4 Pro. Now some gameplay has been released for Devil May Cry 5 running on the base PS4, lets see how it checks out.

In a video released by Frame Advantage, we can see Capcom's Devil May Cry 5 running on the base PS4 at what seems to be stable 60FPS. This is quite an achievmenet for Capcom and judging by the video comment section fans of the series seem quite happy with the efforts the developer has made to achieve this stable experience.

According to the video's description, a member of Frame Advantage was allowed to capture this footage at GamesCom 2018 thanks to Capcom UK. It's not clear exactly how this footage was captured, but it seems to be quite legitimate. Devil May Cry 5 is planned for release on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC on March 8th next year. For more information regarding the upcoming title, visit the official Devil May Cry 5 website here.