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Stunlock Studios have released a new gameplay trailer showcasing the upcoming Battlerite Royale, the gameplay video reveals many of the characters in action.

Players will be able to experience Battlerite Royale from the top-down perspective, they will be taking control over one of the several heroes in a slaughter to rein supreme over their competitors. Each of the heroes will have a unique set of abilities, these abilities will have to be correctly adapted by the player so they can executed in dangerous situations.

The classic battle royale concepts stay the same, players will pick up items that will buff each champion and these items will be dropped when the players champion is slain. There is also a progressive damaging border that will close in on the map, Stunlock Studios has decided to call this border 'Death Vortex.' If you haven't already seen the concept art for the Battlerite Royale map, definitely catch up on that here. There has also been some screenshots released that showcase the Battlerite Royale user interface, visit those here. If you are intersted in signing up to the Battlerite Royale beta, visit the official website here.

In a brand new trailer released onto the NBA 2K YouTube Channel, we see LeBron James interview star rapper Travis Scott over his role as soundtrack curator for the upcoming next installment in the 2K series, NBA 2K19.

As we move closer to the release date of NBA 2K19, publisher 2K Games are not slowing down with promoting their upcoming title. A new trailer has surfaced on their NBA 2K YouTube Channel and it showcases LeBron James interviewing rapper Travis Scott about the soundtrack that is to be featured in NBA 2K19.

From the interview and description, we learn that NBA 2K19 will be having a large variety of Hip-Hop soundtracks that has the goal of "providing high energy and a fresh listening experience for all virtual ballers" The trailer didn't reveal any select songs that are to be included within the soundtrack, but we will no doubt see songs from Scotts new album Astroworld. On a side note, the gameplay trailer that was released last week showcased Jay Rock's "Win" which could be a strong hint towards this track being included within the final copy of the game. NBA 2K19 is planned for release on September 11th, it will be available on the Xbox One, PS4, PC and Nintendo Switch.

Metro Exodus is one of the most-anticipated games of 2019, with developer 4A Games and publisher Deep Silver not only releasing a new trailer for Metro Exodus today, but they also announced pre-order bonuses and a new special limited edition version of the game.

The new bundle is called the Aurora Limited Edition, which should be released to only a few retailers. The Metro Exodus Aurora Limited Edition comes with a bunch of physical stuff, not just in-game DLC or bonuses. It'll include:

I don't know why, but Deep Silver didn't announce any pricing for the Aurora Limited Edition - which is silly IMO. We know that Metro Exodus Standard Edition costs $60 while the Gold Edition comes in at $85. There are some pre-order bonuses for all three platforms: Xbox One, PS4, and PC. Even if you order the standard release of Metro Exodus but pre-order it now, you'll receive the bonuses.

NVIDIA is expected to announce its new GeForce RTX range of graphics cards during Gamescom 2018 next week, with all signs pointing to the RTX 20 series unveil taking place on August 20 in Cologne, Germany.

VideoCardz is reporting information from a member of the Baidu forums who claims to "have a lot of information from a board partner". This source said that the Turing-based GeForce RTX 2080 would cost $649, but not only that it would beat the TITAN V... a graphics card that costs a whopping $3000. TITAN V is based on the Volta GPU architecture and packs HBM2 memory technology, compared to the RTX 2080 with its Turing GPU architecture and GDDR6 tech.

The purported GeForce RTX 2080 would feature 3072 CUDA cores from the Turing GPU architecture, 8GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit memory bus. We don't know GPU base/boost clocks and I'm sure we'll see a large change to the way it works with tweaks made to NVIDIA GPU Boost technology. We don't know what speeds the GDDR6 will be clocked at, but we do know Samsung is providing its GDDR6 at up to 14Gbps.

EA isn't sitting in a good spot with Battlefield V with the company starting off on the wrong foot with angered gamers over some of the choices they made within the setting of the game, to say the least. Now there's news of pre-order numbers being low, and that's not good at all.

The company recently lost Patrick Soderlund, who was the ex-CEO of DICE until EA acquired the company back in 2006. Soderlund had high-up roles within EA after the transition, and is now leaving the company.

Now there's Sarah Needleman of the Wall Street Journal reporting that Cowen Group analysts have that that pre-order sales for Battlefield V "have been weak". These analysts are going by things said to them by EA connections, and if we look at someone as instrumental as Soderlund leaving EA two months before the launch of Battlefield V, one of EA's largest franchises... this does look weird.

Intel has released a short video at Siggraph 2018 this week in Vancouver teasing about their upcoming discrete GPU in 2020. The newly installed Intel discrete graphics boss, Raja Koduri, has been spotted roaming around Vancouver this week as well. The Twitter post by Intel can be found here.

The image of the card in the video has been confirmed to us by Intel as a rendering and not an actual product image. Intel made no formal presentations this year at Siggraph in Vancouver about their upcoming plans, although we are expecting more information to begin appearing in 2019.

Raja Koduri joined Intel late in 2017 as we reported here. Earlier this year Chris Hook of AMD and ATI fame, as well Tom Forsyth joined the expanding Intel discrete graphics team.

NVIDIA should be announcing its next-gen GeForce RTX series of graphics cards on August 20, with more details, speculation and rumor being thrown onto the internet than ever before.

We're now seeing some detailed specifications on not just the forthcoming GeForce RTX 2070 and RTX 2080 but the higher-end RTX 2080 Ti that should truly blow the doors off of everything else on the market. The current rumors peg the RTX 2080 at beating the TITAN V, and considering that's a Volta-based HBM2-powered $3000 graphics card, those claims are beyond imagination.

We should expect NVIDIA to release a beefed up GeForce RTX 2080 Ti if the naming scheme stays the same as the GTX 10 series (GTX 1070, 1080, 1080 Ti) and from the current crop of information, it will be an utter beast. If the GeForce RTX 2080 is beating the TITAN V, then the RTX 2080 Ti would be truly insane. It should have 11GB of GDDR6 on a 352-bit memory bus (the GTX 1080 Ti has 11GB of GDDR5X on a 352-bit memory bus).

On the heels of its recent Timesplitters acquisition, THQ Nordic confirms a rather robust lineup of in-development games.

THQ Nordic currently has 51 projects in the works, the company announced in today's Q2 financial results. This fifty-strong slate is the company's "strongest pipeline to date," the filings say, the majority of which are unannounced games. The publisher says 34 of its 51 games are unannounced titles.

However all of the projects may not be top-tier games from key franchises, and instead may include partner titles, third-party-owned games, and licensed projects. Renown studios like Saints Row dev Volition Entertainment and Dambuster Studios are both developing "top secret" AAA titles, the report says, and the company recently issued new shares in a bid to raise funds for game development, acquisitions, and operations.

The fan-favorite 2000's Timesplitters series has been bought by THQ Nordic as the publisher expands its IP lineup.

THQ Nordic has been snapping up studios, companies and IPs for a while now, and the most notable acquisition was that of Saints Row and Metro publisher Koch Media back in February. Now the Swedish games-maker has snapped up rights to the Timesplitters and Second Sight sci-fi game franchises under its Koch Media subsidiary.

As Koch Media's CEO asserts, this acquisition should see a new Timesplitters in the works.

Blizzard's not-so-subtle tease was right on the money: Diablo III is coming to the Nintendo Switch later this year.

Following confirmation that its working on several new Diablo projects, Blizzard plans to release Diablo III on Nintendo's handheld-console Switch hybrid as the Diablo III Eternal Collection later this year. As you'd expect, this is a GOTY version with Reaper of Souls and the Rise of the Necromancer DLCs.

The news was prematurely posted on Forbes (now taken down) and made its rounds on the internet, including Reddit and Kotaku, both of which confirm interesting details about the ARPG port.

Never picked up Rainbow Six Siege throughout the Steam sales? Well, Ubisoft are going to give you a free shot at it regardless. Rainbow Six Siege will have a free weekend beginning on August 16th.

Ubisoft have decided to make Rainbow Six Siege completely free-to-play across all platfroms beginning August 16th, the event will run to August 20th. Throughout this time, Ubisoft have also decided to massively discount Rainbow Six Siege, according to their blog post found on the Ubisoft website, "you can pick up the Starter, Standard, Advanced, Gold, and Complete Editions of the game for a discount of up to 60% off if you purchase before August 27".

For those that already own Rainbow Six Siege, this free weekend also happens to coincide with Europe's largest Rainbow Six tournament, Six Major Paris. The tournament will be running from August 13th to August 19th and will be livestreamed on twitch.tv/Rainbow6. According to the Ubisoft blogpost, 'Operation Grim Sky' the next season for Rainbow Six Siege will also be showcased throughout livestream, and it will later be officially released on September 4th. For more information visit the Ubisoft website here.

The upcoming Norse-inspired mythological adventure Rune: Ragnarok has had it's official Steam listing made live. The developers, Human Head Studios have also released the titles official PC requirements and a new teaser trailer.

For those that don't know, Rune: Ragnarok is a sandbox adventure game that allows for players to be immersed within a Nordic world where the gods are descending on earth. Players will have to battle beasts, monsters and eachother to survive Ragnarok.

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SMITE developers Hi-Rez Studios have decided to create three brand new development teams to take care of each of the respective games, introducing Titan Forge Games, Heroic Leap Games and Evil Mojo Games.

Hi-Rez Studios has decided to split its development teams into three separate studios, each of the studios will control the development of each of Hi-Rez Studios' IP's. The first studio is called Titan Forge Games and will be taking control of the eSports success SMITE. The second is Evil Mojo Games and will be taking the helm of the 2018 hero shooter Paladins. The last is Heroic Leap Games and that team will operate Realm Royale, the new battle royale title on Steam.

Each of the first party studios will be overseen by Chris Larson who is now the general manager, his current goal is to establish each of the respective teams and make sure they "fulfil their maximum potential and stay hyper focused on serving their individual player communities," said Larson. According to the press release, Larson has said that "We view game operation as a marathon, not a sprint. Our games are built to provide near constant updates over many years. By giving each major game its own dedicated studio and identity, we empower them to control their own destiny and focus exclusively on their player communities, while still having access to our leading shared publishing services." For more information regarding Hi-Rez Studios, visit their official website here.

Team17 has taken to their website to announce some new content for Overcooked 2. Players that are master chefs and have already completed the game will be glad to know the steaks have just been amped up, introducing New Game+ mode.

According to the Team17 blog post, players that have already achieved the 3-stars on each level will now have a brand new goal. New Game+ will be available to players that have already "ventured through the Onion Kingdom for the first time", the mode will allow for ambitious cooks to replay the 45 kitchens at much harder difficulty. This increase in difficulty will cause each of kitchens to reward players with 4-stars instead of 3, thus showcasing further the players pure cooking greatness.

Team17 also mention throughout the blog post that even more content is in the pipeline for Overcooked 2, we will find out about this content in the "days, weeks and months ahead." For further information regarding Overcooked 2, visit the official website here.

After the delays of Dark Souls Remastered debuting to the Nintendo Switch, news has surfaced on the official Dark Souls Twitter account, we now have a solid release date for when the game will be released.

Dark Souls Remastered was originally planned for release alongside the other iterations of the game back in May, since then Bandai Namco has been awfully quite about the Nintendo Switch version of the game being delayed for so long. Unfortunately, there hasn't even been any details provided to explain why there has been such a hefty delay on the handheld version of the game.

The Nintendo Switch version of the game will still release with the 'Solaire of Astora' amiibo, which when used will unlock the "Praise the Sun" emote within the game. About a week a go, there was an email sent out by Amazon to some people who pre-ordered Dark Souls Remastered for the Nintendo Switch, it revealed that the release date for the title was meant to be October 1st, that rumor has now been cleared up with the official announcement by Nintendo and the Dark Souls Twitter account. Dark Souls Remastered for the Nintendo Switch is scheduled for release on October 19th, for further information visit the official Dark Souls website here.

NVIDIA unveiled its next-gen Turing GPU architecture during SIGGRAPH 2018 with the new Quadro RTX range of cards featuring GDDR6 memory from Samsung with transfer speeds of up to 14Gbps.

Samsung is providing its new GDDR6 technology for NVIDIA's latest cards, with the company using the 10nm node for its GDDR6. Jim Ellott, Corporate Senior Vice President at Samsung Semiconductor explained: "It's a tremendous privilege to have been selected by NVIDIA to launch Samsung's 16Gb GDDR6, and to have enjoyed the full confidence of their design team in making our key contribution to the NVIDIA Quadro RTX GPUs".

NVIDIA's new Quadro RTX 8000 has an astounding 48GB of GDDR6 and when used in two-way NVLink mode that VRAM framebuffer doubles to a huge 96GB of super-fast GDDR6 memory. Samsung's new 10nm-built GDDR6 tech will eventually run at up to 18Gbps (up from 14Gbps) and that each die can transfer data at 72Gbps, which is a two-fold increase over the same GDDR5 chips with 8Gbps bandwidth.

Capcom has just revealed an insane new collector's edition version of its upcoming remake of Resident Evil 2, with the upcoming Biohazard RE: 2 Z Version Premium Edition packing everything including the kitchen sink.

Biohazard RE: 2 Z Version Premium Edition will cost 99,800 yen (or around $900) and it will include the normal collector's edition goodies, which includes a huge 12-inch statue of Leon, the enhanced RE2 soundtrack, and an art book. This will total for around $225 if you get it on its own without the Z Version Premium Edition package, something that packs a damn Qwerkywriter Bluetooth mechanical keyboard that has high-end Cherry blue key switches and even a mount for your smartphone.

If you buy a modified Qwerkywriter S model, you'll be shelling out $249.99 on its own. It might sound like a bit much, but in the original Resident Evil games (weren't those the days?!) you could only save your game by finding a typewriter and ink ribbons that were scattered through the world. While the $250 keyboard doesn't look much like the in-game typewriters, it's a cool thing to own for Resident Evil fans.

AMD has officially launched its next-gen Ryzen Threadripper 2900 series processors, with overclockers showing off some hands-on OC results that will blow most people away. The new flagship Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX has been overclocked to a whopping 6GHz on all-cores with LN2 cooling taking the #1 spot on HWBOT for the 2990WX world record overclock.

Ivan Cupa, an Indonesian overclocker hit the magical 5955.4MHz on all 32C/64T that Threadripper 2990WX packs, with Cupa using the MSI MEG X399 Creation motherboard, the Corsair AX1500i PSU, and some G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 RAM. LN2 cooling was used to get the CPU cool enough to pump 6GHz into it, with the Ryzen Master OC Utility reporting CPU voltages of 1.45V (but this could be a mis-reading).

Another overclocker hit 5.367GHz on all 32 cores, with Sampson scoring 8532 points in Cinebench R15 which is a mind blowing result, and the new world record. Other records have been broken, with wPrime 32m hitting 1sec 950ms by Littleboy, and the wPrime 1024m now sitting with a record 18sec 420ms.

Arkane's popular Dishonored series probably won't make a comeback in the near future, a key developer said.

Games like Dishonored and Prey prove the devs at Arkane are masters at their craft. Whether it be superlative world-building or intriguing story-telling, the team always makes something special. But what are they working on next? Arkane isn't ready to spill the beans, but they did say Dishonored is pretty much asleep right now.

"I can't say definitively what might happen down the road, anything could happen, but Dishonored is resting for now. As far as pure immersive sims go, I don't know if we're going to continue to make like a carbon copy--this qualifies as an immersive sim and it's the only thing we're ever going to make," Arkane Studios lead designer Ricardo Bare told VG247's Kick McKeand in a recent interview.

Bandai Namco is mostly known for games like Tekken, Dragon Ball Z, and Naruto, but the publisher may be jumping into Capcom's backyard with a horror game.

The Japanese games-maker recently launched a site with the tab text of summer horror project, indicating the company is developing their own thriller/horror game. The website is cryptic and only gives a few clues. We see what appears to be a defunct apartment home being recorded by a lower-res camera, illuminated with a strange orange sun glow cast upon it. I personally get a very outdoors-y P.T. vibe from the image.

Apart from "domas," which could refer to the game's name or something else, we have a small teaser via the Twitter button: "Appears a mysterious site? Something happens this summer..." The footage's timestamp reads 8/30/2018 so it's possible we could get a reveal on August 30.