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NBA 2K18, the basketball simulation game from 2K games, has had an announcement from the publisher. The title has reached a massive 10 million units sold with over 2 billion games played since its release.

NBA 2K18 launched on September 17th, 2017 it was released on the following platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC. Since the series' beginning back on the SEGA Dreamcast, the franchise has pushed the limits for game sales with selling over 80 million copies and counting.

This achievement has not gone unnoticed, parent company of 2k Games, Take-Two Interactive have given a statement congratulating the efforts. Strauss Zelnick, the Chief Executive officer of Take-Two Interactive has said in a press release to GamesBeat that "NBA 2K18 is our highest-selling sports title ever, and a testament to the tireless hard work and innovation of the team at Visual Concepts. The ability to improve consistently upon an annual series and grow its audience reflects the team's drive to remain on the leading-edge of pop culture and finding new and exciting ways to captivate and engage players."

A very quick teaser trailer for the sequel to Life is Strange has been released onto the titles YouTube Channel. The trailer runs for only about a minute but leaves you patiently waiting for August 20.

From the trailer we can see that the camera angle is a dash cam from a police car. Officer Matthews seems to be responding to a certain disturbance which seems like a fight that he is trying to break up, this then results in his own murder through the use of magical powers.

Unfortuntately there isn't much more known about Life is Strange 2, but developer Dontnod Entertainment and publisher Square Enix do say at the end of the trailer that "all will be revealed" on August 20th, 2018. According to the description of the video the first episode of Life is Strange 2 will be released on September 27th. For further information regarding Life is Strange 2, visit the official website here.

Just two days ago we saw publisher Square Enix, and developer Crystal Dynamics release a trailer showcasing the upcoming Shadow of the Tomb Raider environments. Now, a new trailer has been released and this time we are showcased 40 seconds of numerous 'Deadly Tombs' that Lara will be facing.

The new trailer that has been released onto the Tomb Raider YouTube Channel showcases to players the different puzzles and strategic path ways that will have to be taken to overcome certain tombs. According to the description of the video, players will be delving into "terrifying tombs" that feature "deadly traps and brutal puzzles."

From the trailer we can see quite a wide variety of different tombs that players will have available to them. We go from fully lit chasms where players will be able to see exactly where they are going, to almost completely dark caves Lara has to somehow manage her way through. We even catch a glimpse of a massive pirate ship that seems to be underground somehow. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is set for release on September 14th for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.

The latest release onto the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate blog has revealed that players will be able to enjoy the powerful Rodin as an assist trophy. The blog post also confirms the Delfino Plaza stage will be apart of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Rodin originates from the Bayonetta games, he has been titled "The Infinite One" and is the demon weapons dealer, bartender, and the owner of the Gates of Hell. Rodin also is a renowned weapon smith and for those that didn't know he responsible for creating the majority of Bayonetta's weapons.

Rodin will be available in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a new assist trophy and from the images he will be quite a powerful one as well. Rodin's description given on the Super Smash blog is as follows: "Rodin gave Bayonetta her name. He summons a giant arm and unleashes a powerful blow, and sometimes he'll even give you a powerful weapon as he leaves." Rodin seems quite the interesting addition, especially considering Bayonetta was a DLC character in Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U, could it be possible we see more characters from the Bayonetta universe?

Valve is getting closer to launching its new trading card game 'Artifact' with a release set for November 28. Digital card trading games have been doing quite well recently, but Valve will be charging real life money for Artifact.

Artifact is a Dota-based trading card game that will see Valve selling a pair of 54-card starter decks and 10 x 12-card booster packs for $20. Additional cards will cost more money, with booster packs setting gamers back $2 a pop. You can even sell unwanted cards through Valve's own Steam Marketplace. The company has expansion packs coming as well, with modes tied to card-pack types.

It sounds like Magic: The Gathering in a big way and that is meant to be, as Magic: The Gathering game designer Richard Garfield is leading Artifact for Valve. The game itself will run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. PAX West attendees can even score themselves two free keys to the starter set for Artifact, too.

We all know Samsung is about to officially announce its bigger and better Galaxy Note 9 smartphone, so it should come as no surprise to see yet another leak that brings us closer to the official announcement.

Evan "evleaks" Blass is at it again, with Samsung itself publishing a pre-order announcemnet for the Galaxy Note 9 on their own website which reads: "Say hello to super power" and that first-in-best-dressed customers can pre-order the Note 9 so they can be "one of the first to experience it".

We know that the Galaxy Note 9 will feature a USB-C charging port, keeps the 3.5mm headphone jack, dual rear-facing cameras and a fingerprint sensor on the back. The newly-styled yellow stylus looks awesome, too.

AMD is about to unleash its refreshed and uncompromising Ryzen Threadripper 2000 series CPUs, with the new packaging for the CPUs arriving with a leak by VideoCardz.

Most people thought the new Ryzen Threadripper 2000 series would use re-use the packaging from the Threadripper 1000 series CPUs, but it was wrong. The new packaging is mean, and it looks freaking awesome. We can expect the Threadripper 2000 series CPUs to be hidden behind a see-through window, as you can see in the above shot.

The CPU is surrounded by a polygon-themed mountain that is covered in fire, it's that hardcore. The front of the package opens up to reveal the CPU, with a small shelf where AMD has placed all of the tools, stickers, and manual. On the back, AMD says the new Ryzen Threadripper is "Unlocked. Unrestrained. Uncompromising".

Motorola held a press event at its HQ in Chicago, where the company announced the new Moto Z3 smartphone that has some world exclusive features and even a huge upgrade path.

The new Moto Z3 smartphone will be an exclusive to Verizon in the United States, with the smartphone itself rocking a 6-inch Super AMOLED display with dual 12-megapixel rear-facing cameras. Inside, Qualcomm takes care of the horsepower with its Snapdragon 835, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of flash storage.

Motorola has something impressive when it comes to Moto Mods with the new Moto Z3, with the company announcing the new 5G Moto Mod that will be a snap-on accessory for the Z3 that will add 5G connectivity in the future. Motorola didn't discuss price, but it's an impressive thing to see - upgradeable 5G tech on a smartphone really is a next level upgrade.

Elon Musk has taken to Twitter to tease that in the upcoming Tesla V9.0 release that is 4 weeks away, that Tesla owners will enjoy "some of the best classic" Atari games as Easter Eggs in the new Tesla update.

Jordan Golson replied to Musk on Twitter saying there should be specific classic Atari games like Ms. Pac-Man, naturally. Food Fight, Dig Dug, Pole Position, Tempest, and Missile Command in the update. Musk replied saying that he's hoping to include the "last three" in this release, which means we should expect Pole Position, Tempest and Missile Command.

Musk continued, adding that with Pole Position it'll be "linked to actual car steering" but made sure to add that this is "while stationary" so that people don't think you'll be flying down the highway in your Tesla playing Pole Position at the same time. Because that would end in a disaster.

NVIDIA seems to be launching its new GeForce GTX 1180 during its GeForce Gaming Celebration at Gamescom 2018, with the purported PCB of the new GTX 1180 with either 8GB or 16GB of GDDR6 leaking.

This is the front of the new GTX 1180 PCB where we can see an interesting new SLI finger that is much bigger, some tighter VRAM placements which should be a new home for GDDR6. We also have a 6+8-pin PCIe power connector setup, which is an additional 6-pin PCIe power connector on top of the single 8-pin PCIe power connector that was required on the GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition.

Keen-eyed readers will notice that we probably won't have a DVI output on the new GeForce GTX 1180, but we should expect the new VirtualLink connector through USB Type-C. The SLI finger upgrade could be awesome, paving the way for NVLink for gamers compared to the aging (and virtually dead) SLI technology that has sh*t multi-GPU scaling. Could we expect 90-100% scaling with multiple GTX 1180s in NVLink/next-gen SLI? We're going to need it for those 4K 144Hz HDR G-Sync monitors and 65-inch 4K 120Hz HDR G-Sync BFGD TVs.

Information has surfaced to suggest that Dark Souls Remastered could be arriving to gamers on October 1st, this information comes from an email sent out by Amazon Italy.

Dark Souls Remastered was released onto the Xbox One, PS4 and PC on May 23rd, since then Nintendo Switch fans have been patiently waiting for the release onto the hand-held console. According to a user that pre-ordered the title for the Nintendo Switch, Amazon has sent out an email regarding the release date, it has scheduled the launch for October 1st.

Unfortunately, we do not know if this is just a placeholder date since Amazon have a tendency to have placeholder dates for products that are unreleased. The publisher, Bandai Namco and the developer FromSoftware are no doubt working tirelessly to get the Nintendo Switch port for Dark Souls Remastered out as soon as possible. They have been working on it for quite some time now so this could very well be the genuine release date, but until there is an official statement made from either the developer or publisher, do take this email date with a grain of salt. For further information regarding Dark Souls Remastered check out the official website here.

The official PC requirements have been released by EA Sports for the upcoming release of Madden NFL 19. The games recommended requirements aren't as much as you could of thought.

EA has taken to their blog to release the official specifications in both the minimum category as well as the recommended. EA says that the recommended specs will allow for players to experience the game at console-level gameplay, enough for a very standard gaming experience. EA continues and says "Of course, like any other PC game, the better the hardware, the more horsepower you can use push the game to higher levels."

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A report from Sensor Tower has revealed that Fire Emblem Heroes on mobile has reached yet another milestone, coming in with a massive $400 million in revenue since it's release back in February of 2017.

Fire Emblem Heroes released on the 2nd of February last year, and when the title moved passed it's 1 year mark it had already successfully made $300 million in revenue. The recent report from Sensor Tower Store Intelligence has shown that the game has added on another $100 million to that total, which has now brought the title to the level of the most successful Nintendo game released on mobile. Fire Emblem Heroes has beaten other Nintendo mobile titles such as Super Mario Run by six times it's revenue, and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp by nine and a half times.

According to Sensor Tower, 52% of this spending comes from Google Play and the remaining 48% from Apple's App Store. On a geographical basis, Japan holds most of the games revenue with 56%, looking towards Western markets the United States comes in at only 31%. Since Fire Emblem Heroes' release, the game has made $20 million a month for Nintendo, Sensor Tower reports that players have spent $23 million worldwide in just the month of June. For Further information regarding Fire Emblem Heroes, visit the official website here.

SEGA discussed bringing the Yakuza series to PC at E3 2018, since then we have had two Steam listing for Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami. Now, the developer and publisher have released Yakuza 0 on the PC with a brand new trailer.

Yakuza 0 is the prequel to the Yakuza series, the re-master that has now come to PC features support for 4K resolution, an un-locked framerate and full controller support for those players that don't want to use the keyboard. From the launch trailer released with the game, we can see karaoke, dancing, wrestling, brawls and of course some wicked brutal combo's.

During E3 2018, SEGA also said that they would be bringing Yakuza Kiwami to the PC, unfortunately there is no current release date set for the game. Yakuza 0 is now available on the PC, for further information regarding the title head on over to the official Steam listing here. If you want to check out the Yakuza Kiwami, visit that Steam listing here.

We're getting closer and closer to the release of Intel's new 9th generation Core processors which should be led by the flagship Core i9-9900K, a new CPU which will be the first 8C/16T consumer processor released by Intel.

A new release window of October 2018 is now floating around, after the previous reports of an August 1 reveal and release have come and gone without an announcement from Chipzilla. HKEPC is now reporting from the latest purported roadmap from Intel that the company will be launching the 9th-gen Core processors in October, with the full Coffee Lake-S refresh including the 8/6-core variants.

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The Spyro Reignited Trilogy release date is moving closer and closer, ahead of the launch Activision has taken to their website to address how the three games will be arriving in players hands.

We last saw the Spyro Reignited Trilogy when 12 minutes of gorgeous gameplay was released onto PlayStation underground YouTube Channel. The video showcased the Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! and the developers Toys for Bob discussed the lengths they have gone to recreate the magical world of Spyro.

Fans of the series that were hoping to receive three separate discs of their favorite Spyro games will now be disappointed, Activision has taken to their website to say "Games 2 and 3 require download via internet." This means that the Trilogy will be arriving on 1 disc with three quarters of all three titles within the disc and just a quick patch to clean everything up. Another possibility is that the one disc could just be containing the first game, and then the other two will come in the form of game codes.

NVIDIA has just released their latest Game Ready 398.82 drivers, which are Game Ready for GeForce graphics card owners for World of Warcraft: Battle of Azeroth which launches on August 14, and Monster World Hunter on August 9.

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is right around the corner, with NVIDIA recommending the GeForce GTX 1060 for 1080p 60FPS, the GTX 1070 for 1440p 60FPS and the GTX 1080 for 4K 60FPS. NVIDIA has benchmarks the game, where they've said: "If you like World of Warcraft, you like stats, so here's some: at 1920×1080, our benchmarking concluded with an average framerate of 65.4 on the GeForce GTX 1060, when paired with an i5-6600K. A minimum framerate of 53 was the lowest we saw, and the frametime plot was near-perfect, indicating performance was smooth and stable".

NVIDIA continues: "At 2560×1440, the GeForce GTX 1070 gave us a 65.6 FPS average, with a minimum of 52, and equally-smooth frametimes And at 4K, it's recommended that players step up to an i7 for a perfect 60 frames per second on a GeForce GTX 1080, with the occasional dip to 51 FPS".

Fortnite has received another update that includes some more goodies to keep players entertained, with Fortnite 5.10 content update including Guided Missles once again, a new jetpack, and the new Fly Explosives Limited Time Mode.

There's a bunch more included in the update, with a new Spyglass Sniper Rifle added into the original Save the World version of Fortnite, you know, the version of Fortnite that isn't battle royale. Epic has tweaked Fortnite plenty with the new update, with some major editions in not just the battle royale version of the game, but the Save the World, Fly Explosives and Playground modes.

Fortnite has influenced EA into opening up their flagship franchises with cross-play options, while Samsung is reporting going to offer Fortnite as a 30-day exclusive to their impending Galaxy Note 9 smartphone. Fortnite is making $2 million per day on mobile, right after it celebrated its first birthday with developer Epic Games announcing Fortnite has made over $1.2 billion since its release, with an astounding 125 million players loving the game so far.

Logitech has announced it will be acquiring Blue Microphones for a cool $117 million in an all-cash deal, which will see the microphone maker behind Snowball and Yeti joining the ranks of Logitech.

The company took a blog post and said: "For Logitech, this is a new space. But, at the same time, it's not at all. Gamers are already using our Logitech G webcams to stream. People are video calling with friends and family thanks to Logitech every day. And in business, our audio and video know-how is apparent every time a video meeting takes place at the office. Joining up with Blue and their microphone lines is a logical adjacent opportunity with great synergies".

Blue Microphones was founded in 1995 and make microphones starting from $60 right up to studio-grade microphones worth a huge $4000. Blue is infamous with musicians, podcasters, streamers, and everyone in-between who want high-quality microphones that blow their built-in microphones away. Logitech secures one of the best in this acquisition, so it'll be interesting to see what they do from here.

Monster Hunter World is a smash success that's dramatically spiked Capcom's earnings.

Thanks to games like Monster Hunter World, Capcom started off its new fiscal year with a monumental 647% profit increase. In its financials, Capcom confirmed that the online monster-slaying game has now sold more than 8.3 million copies worldwide. In the three-month period ended June 30, Capcom sold 4.35 million copies of its new and catalog games, representing a sizable jump of 74% year-over-year.

But raw sales aren't everything. Every online game needs a way to continually engage its playerbase with new content, promos, events, and other community-driven strategies. And, of course, ways of making long-term revenues via in-game purchases. Capcom seems to be handling things quite well and likely has a strong internal roadmap, and asserts that Monster Hunter World is "gaining further popularity through the expansion of its user base."