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NVIDIA will be putting its Drive Pegasus self-driving AI platform to good use with a new announcement from Daimler and Bosch that teamed up for self-driving taxis that will be powered by NVIDIA's technology.

Remember that Daimler is the parent company of Mercedez-Benz, so we're not messing around here. NVIDIA's impressive self-driving technology is capable of a huge 320 trillion operations per second, with the self-driving AI technology to be used to power level 4 and 5 vehicles that will be used as self-driving taxis.

The companies will be putting the self-driving taxis onto the roads of Silicon Valley for testing in 2019, with NVIDIA set to work with Daimler and Bosch to build the system required for the self-driving ride-hailing service... think next-gen Uber, where there's no human driver in your vehicle... but do you leave a 5-star rating? Heh.

AMD will be launching their new Ryzen Threadripper 2 processors on August 13 according to the latest information provided by WCCFTech, with the Ryzen Threadripper 2990X and 2950X chips to be launched alongside the new X399 chipset.

The second that AMD launches the new Ryzen Threadripper 2990X, it will have totally left Intel in its dust. Intel's flagship CPU has reached just 28C/56T, which will be dwarfed by AMD on August 13 with the Threadripper 2990X. We're to expect a base CPU clock of 3.4GHz and boost of 4GHz, while overclocking should get us to around 4.2GHz for single-threaded workloads.

Inside, the Ryzen Threadripper 2990X includes 16MB of L2 cache, 64MB of L3 cache for a total of 80MB of cache which is incredible. AMD is expected to keep the TDP of the 32C/64T behemoth at 250W, with a bunch of fancy coolers teased during Computex 2018. But what about price?

In a story that is beyond sad, PayPal issued a letter to a woman who had died of cancer to tell her that her death was a breach of their rules, and that the company would look at legal action against her.

PayPal has since said that the letter was "insensitive", apologised to her husband, and is now working out how it was sent. Lindsay Durdle died on May 31 at just 37 years old, after an 18-month battle with breast cancer that had eventually spread to her lungs and brain.

After receiving the heartless letter, her husband contacted the BBC about the story. PayPal was informed of Lindsay's death three weeks ago now, sending the company copies of her death certificate, her will, and his ID. PayPal then sent him a letter in return that was headlined with "Important: You should read this notice carefully".

EA showed its next big thing during E3 2018, but we've had no idea what was powering Anthem inside of the PCs during the show... until now.

Anthem was powered by not just one, but two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics cards in SLI in order to hit 4K 60FPS. Until now, EA and NVIDIA said that a single GTX 1080 Ti was used, but Anthem's executive producer Mark Darrah has come to the rescue on his Twitter with the real deal.

Darrah said that the Anthem team will be optimizing game code right up until they ship it, but if EA were hitting 4K 60FPS on dual GTX 1080 Ti cards in SLI, then I expect out-of-the-box SLI support no questions asked. Alright, EA? Anything less is now a slap in the face.

Avalanche Studios is pushing the sandbox-style chaos to the max with Just Cause 4.

Just Cause 4 looks to be the definitive game in the series for many reasons, and the newly minted E3 footage shows how far Avalanche has come with its proprietary Apex engine. The game will once again chronicle Rico's explosive escapades across a veritable sandbox playground, and according to game director Francesco Antolini this one should be the best yet.

"[With Just Cause 4] we wanted to make the best open-world sandbox ever, to give the sandbox the biggest possibility of expression. We wanted to push our physics to their boundaries, and we wanted to get back to a feeling of variety and discovery that I feel we had lost a little bit in Just Cause 3," Just Cause 4 game director Francesco Antolini told Game Reactor.

In order to build up anticipation for the next Battlefield game, EA and DICE have launched an interesting promo that's specifically aimed at the publisher's cash crop: engagement.

Like the top publishers in the games industry, EA is all about engagement-driven revenues. Propelled by successful engagement strategies in its lineup of online games, EA's live services segment raked in a massive $2.96 billion last fiscal year, proving the company is quite adept at cashing in on its games' millions-strong playerbases. But like developers who are constantly iterating their games, EA is keen on finding new unique ways to not only build but retain engagement monetization...and it might've just found a new stride.

EA's new Road to Battlefield V promo seems to be a new method. The promotion has two main goals: to hype up Battlefield V and to keep gamers playing both Battlefield 1 and Battlefield 4 up until the WW2 shooter's big launch and potentially spending money. By giving out every single BF1 and BF4 expansion for free EA and DICE are strongly incentivizing users to not only return to each game, but also keep playing with rotating playlists and other rewards.

Update: 7/10/18, 16:00 EST

HP returned our message with new information not yet available on Amazon. The warranty remains at 5-years but the endurance extended even more than we first reported.

EX920 1TB - 650 TBW

Monster Hunter: World will be playable on PC next month, Capcom today announced.

After months of careful development and tweaking, Capcom is keeping its promise to release Monster Hunter: World's PC port this year. The massively popular online game will be available on Steam on August 9, 2018--just six months after the console version's launch--but will have a somewhat staggered content rollout. The game's PC flavor won't have immediate access to extra content such as the Deviljho monster hunt but Capcom affirms the two versions will eventually be on equal footing.

Capcom has enjoyed incredible success with the online monster hunting game, and the company understands that optimizing the PC port is integral for the live title's long-term profitability.

Hand of Fate 2, the dungeon crawler/card game has been announced for the Nintendo Switch, the developer Defiant Development released a brand new gameplay trailer on their YouTube Channel.

Players will be able to enjoy having a living board-game wherever they choose now, as Hand of Fate 2 allows for players to create their own adventures through unlocking cards and building their own decks. The deck will include cards such as items, enemies, encounters and loot. Each scenario will be dictated by the card that the player draws, this then will result in the user being thrown into a real-time combat scenario with the respective disadvantages/advantages based on the card.

Above we have the official Nintendo Switch trailer which showcases the first gameplay footage for the dungeon crawler running on the Nintendo Switch. Morgan Jeffit, the Director at Defiant Development has spoken out about the port, here is what he had to say: "We've been careful not to tip our hand about this news until now, but our team is thrilled to finally announce Hand of Fate 2 is coming to Nintendo Switch. We are very much looking forward to seeing fans having the opportunity to take the game on the go with this exciting new platform." Hand of Fate 2 is already out on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The Nintendo Switch version is planned for release on July 17 this year, currently there is no set price.

From the demo's that we have seen of Insomniac Games' upcoming Spider-Man, there are some clear aspects included within the game that is a wink towards Marvel's Cinematic Universe. But what about what Insomniac Games decided to not include?

Passing over the E3 2018 coverage of the title, fans dissected the games hidden easter eggs found throughout the concrete jungle of New York City. Gamers were excited to see that the Avengers Tower is apart of the cities skyline, but couldn't help to notice that the Baxter Building, the home of The Fantastic Four was not included.

A fan posed this question to Bryan Intihar, the Creative Director at Insomniac Games, saying that "Brian I please beg you to put the Baxter Building in the game! The Fox ban is over and they're getting their comic relaunched soon! Marvel's First family needs some attention! If It wasnt for them Spider-Man would never be a success!" This is a very good point but Intihar decided shut down this possibility quite bluntly, saying "Sorry but it's not in the game."

THQ Nordic has taken to Sony's PlayStation blog to give details on the upcoming Darksiders III release. The blog showcases Fury, the third of the Four Horseman and also addressed the pre-order variants.

Reinhard Pollice, the Executive Producer for THQ Nordic posted onto the PlayStation blog explaining world design and some new details about Fury. Pollice mentions that Fury will be providing fans with a different combat experience, she will be able to transform herself throughout combat and that will allow her to possess new weapons, attacks and traversal abilities. Pollice says that "We think Fury in her Flame form and her flails will take players who thought they knew Fury a bit by surprise."

The PlayStation blog also address pre-orders and what players will be receiving when purchasing each of the respective options. There are four options, the standard edition is $59.99 and will give players a unique and exclusive Darksiders III theme for their PS4. The Deluxe Edition will be $71.99 and will include two downloadable content packs that will be released after the game is launched, THQ Nordic is also keeping these content packs a secret. The third is titled Blades & Whip and will give players the Darksiders Warmastered Edition that will include the Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition with PS4 enhancements and of course, Darksiders III. It should be noted that all of the pre-orders will be coming with a "unique, hand-crafted armor skin that can be worn at all times, if the player chooses."

The Nintendo Switch will soon be receiving yet another great third-party title with Nintendo America revealing Wasteland 2 for the Switch with a trailer on their YouTube Channel.

One of the original Fallout producers, Brain Fargo, is bringing his title Wasteland 2 to the Nintendo Switch through his development studio inXile Entertainment. Wasteland 2 on the Nintendo Switch will be coming in the form of the 'directors cut' which will feature a graphics overhaul and 8,000 lines of new voice-over dialog to enjoy.

Nintendo Switch players will be able to check out the new systems that have been included, an example is 'precision strikes' that allows for specific squares on the map to be targeted throughout combat. The option to humanize your squad further has also been provided, with new character quirks and perks. The game is planned for release sometime this Fall with Fargo saying on his Twitter page that "We are in final QA and will announce a specific day soon!"

Toei Animation, the animation studio behind the Dragon Ball series/Dragon Ball movies is bringing fans the 20th movie installment. This time our favorite super saiyans will be taking on the legendary Broly again, he will be much stronger this time round though.

During the movie we will be delving into the origins and history of the saiyans, while also encountering the Freiza Force. This then eventually leads to Goku and Vegeta running into the legendary super saiyan Broly as fate would suggest. On the Dragon Ball Super: Broly website, series creator Akira Toriyama gave some details on the upcoming movie, here is what he had to say: "Naturally you'll get to see fierce combat, but also, the paths of destiny that lead to an encounter between Goku, Vegeta, and Broly. It also involves the Frieza Force and the history of the Saiyans, which end up having a major connection to everything. The story content turns out to be very large-scale and dramatic."

This isn't the first time we have seen Broly in a movie, he has been featured in a previous three other movies titled Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan, Broly - Second Coming, and Bio-Broly which then was all tied into Broly Triple Threat. Keep your hopes up though, as the last two Dragon Ball movies (Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the Gods and Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F) released first in Japan in 2013, but were then brought over to Western theaters a year later in 2014.

Blizzard recently announced it was supporting the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) by releasing a new Mercy skin during the charity campaign. Gamers could buy it for $15, or a t-shirt for $30 with Blizzard donating all of the funds to the BCRF.

BCRF reports that the $12.7 raised through the Mercy skin and t-shirt were the single-largest donation by a corporate partner in their 25-year history. BCRF chief strategic alliances officer Stephanie Kauffman said in a statement: "Blizzard Entertainment's record-breaking commitment to activate change for women's health by mobilizing the gaming community worldwide will have a lasting impact".

The foundation will use the funds raised from the Mercy skin and t-shirt to help with "prevention strategies, improved treatments, survivorship, and quality of life for breast cancer patients worldwide".

Fortnite could soon be changing in a big way, with developer Epic Games teasing on Twitter that it's preparing for Season 5 in a big, big way.

Season 5 of the game begins in the next 72 hours, so Epic took to Twitter to tease a kabuki kitsune mask, and then infused it with the crack in the sky from the recent event during S4. There's nothing else here to dissect, but we know this is a huge S5 tease and it looks like either time travel or an expansion of the current superhero theme.

Both of which, would be awesome. Destructoid reports that it could be a "sort of spiritual tie-in to Japanese folklore", which would be great as well.

Microsoft has just turned the heat up on the mid-range tablet market with the announcement of their new Surface Go, a successor to the Surface 3 that costs just $399.

Surface Go is the smallest and cheapest 10-inch tablet on offer from Microsoft, weighing in at just 1.15 pounds - 0.25 pounds lighter than the Surface 3, and a smidgen heavier than the 1.03-pound iPad. The new Surface Go is super-thin as well, at just 8.9mm thick you can put it anywhere. Microsoft is wanting to offer the Surface Go to people who use it all the time, so it has to be thin and portable enough to throw into your bag.

The new Surface Go has the same 3:2 aspect ratio of other Surface slates, with Microsoft's iconic kickstand that lets the tablet open up to a huge 165 degrees. Perfect for the plane, or your lap while on the bus or train. Microsoft has kept the rather large bezels, but a Microsoft representative said this was a design choice as it makes it easier to hold the Surface Go without your fingers getting in the way of the screen.

Samsung began mass production of 5th generation V-NAND flash memory with 96-layers.

Samsung must not like paying second place to Micron's new 64-layer flash memory found in products like the MX500 and SX8200. The company just announced mass production of 5th generation V-NAND memory with a new high-speed memory interface, lower power, and another massive reduction in write latency.

This is Samsung's first 96-layer memory but the current production version will not increase SSD sizes. Samsung chose to build 256Gbit die (32GB) first, the same size used on most Samsung consumer SSDs today. The press release went on to mention a future 1Tbit (128GB) size to follow soon in both TLC and QLC flavors.

AMD has lost a few people to Intel in the last year, and now they're fighting back by securing an ex-Intel executive who served as the Vice President, Core and Visual Computing Group, Chief Engineer, VTT and Director of Hardware and Co-Director of Architecture, VPG at Intel. Martin Ashton had a huge title at AMD.

Ashton was with Intel for just 21 months, and before joining Chipzilla hs worked in the UK with Imagination Technologies. Imagination Technologies, in case you didn't know, made the PowerVR GPUs that went over to Apple, with Ashton moving to Intel before that happened. And now as Intel is slipping in more ways than one, Ashton has jumped ship to AMD.

AMD reached out to me to let me know that Martin will be joining the Radeon Technologies Group and will "drive architecture and execution of Radeon graphics IP that will extend across our discrete graphics, integrated graphics, and semi-custom products".

Update: Intel reached out to me overnight and said: "There is no change to the branding of the Intel Core Extreme Edition processor and Intel Core X-series processor family"". Looks like Intel won't be moving away or retiring from the Extreme Edition brand.

Intel has held the highest post with enthusiast CPUs in the HEDT market with its Extreme Edition brand of processors, a range of chips that had no compromises and represented the best of Intel in the enthusiast market.

According to Francois Piednoel, ex-Principal Engineer, Performance Architect / System Architect at Intel, the company is about to retire its Extreme Edition brand of processors. Piednoel posted on his personal Twitter account saying: "The #ExtremeEdition Brand is about to get killed. What a big mistake", and I totally agree with that last bit... what a huge mistake Intel would be making if they are indeed killing off the Extreme Edition brand.

A leak has surfaced through a Chinese gaming platform called WeGame, the company held a listing of Monster Hunter: World revealing the PC requirements for the title.

WeGame is one of Tencent's gaming platforms and while the product page has now been removed off WeGame some people managed to copy down the PC requirements. The requirements revealed both the minimum and recommended specifications players will need to run Monster Hunter: World.

Minimum PC specifications: