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Following the release of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy on the Nintendo Switch, a performance breakdown video has been released showcasing the titles Switch performance against each of the respective platforms.

According to a video released by VG Tech, we can see that Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy on the Nintendo Switch runs at 720p docked and 480p handheld, at what seems like a somewhat stable 30FPS. In comparison, the Xbox One X runs at 3840x2160 and achieves a solid 30fps while the PS4 Pro runs at 2560x1440 getting 30FPS.

When looking at the differences between the Nintendo Switch version and other platforms we can notice that there are removed "fur effects, removed reflections, uses some lower quality textures, has reduced effects during some explosions and has a shorter draw distance."If you missed out on the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy Switch launch trailer you can catch up on it here, for further information on Crash and his new trilogy title visit the official Crash Bandicoot website here.

Zelda: Ocarina of Time is one of the most iconic Zelda titles released so far, fans of the Zelda series will now be glad to know they can fight a boss of the game in Unreal Engine 4 thanks to CryZENx.

Fan programmer CryZENx has released a new video showcasing Zelda: Ocarina of Time remade in Unreal Engine 4, the video displays Link going up against the games boss Queen Gohma. Not only is the video very cool to watch but CryZENx has released this tech demo to the public, allowing for fans of the series to experience the Ocarina of Time boss fight all over again with increased graphics.

If you are interested in downloading the Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Queen Gohma boss fight, the download link can be found here. CryZENx has released numerous tech demo's, if you want to see more of his work check out the Pokemon remake here or the Unreal Interior video here.

The world of Fortnite is an ever-changing one, with Epic Games trolling players with a rocket that has sat on the map and a countdown clock that has finally reached zero. Sirens went off, and a launch happened...

Once the rocket reached its peak, something broke away from the rocket and crashed into the Earth. Early reports of this stated it was a smaller ship that flew across the sky and around the area, blasting through the sky and then leaving a "tear" in the atmosphere. Other people reported seeing two ships, but we have no idea for sure.

Epic knows how to throw an in-game event in Fortnite, with a world that is constantly under the scrutiny of its fans. Fortnite is awesome, and I'm sure the fun is only just beginning.

We know a heap about Fallout 76 and its multiplayer goodness that it'll deliver, but what about a new single-player focused Fallout?

That's something Bethesda Game Studios executive producer Todd Howard discussed after securing the Industry Legend award at this year's Gamelab. German website GameStar interviewed Howard, who talked about the issues with crossplay in Fallout 76, but also talked about the potential of Fallout 5.

Howard talked about the possibility of multiplayer being injected into future Bethesda franchises, where he said: "For those games, we want to keep them as single player. That is what our focus is going to be. If they have some social aspect we haven't designed yet, you'll see. But we treat each of them each as their own thing".

It's the best way to start the week: new rumors on AMD's latest graphics technology hitting our gaming PCs... but when will it happen? What will they be? WCCFTech is back at it again, with some serious click bait-y rumors on 'Polaris 30' and Vega 20 on 7nm for gamers.

The site is sourcing a post on Chiphell that states Polaris 30 will arrive later this year, yet another rebadged and refreshed Polaris after Polaris 10 and Polaris 20. Polaris 30 would arrive in Q4 2018 before the big push into Navi next year which will be a mid-range part that should include GDDR6 technology.

The more interesting part here is not Polaris 30 (which according to my sources will not be happening) as my source has said "AMD will have nothing new for close to a year", but it is Vega 20 on 7nm for gamers. AMD has already teased Vega 20 on 7nm at Computex 2018 as part of an upcoming refresh of Radeon Instinct, but what about gamers? We want a new high-end GPU as well, right?!

ADATA has just revealed its latest SR2000CP, a new enterprise SSD that has storage speeds that will blow your mind, and it's all coming out of a PCIe 3.0 x8 slot.

The new ADATA SR2000CP is available in 2TB, 3.5TB, 4TB, 8TB, and even 11TB capacities that all feature 3D "eTLC" NAND flash that has 3 bits per cell, with endurance cycles that are similar to MLC NAND flash. But it's the read and write speeds of the new ADATA SR2000CP that'll blow your mind.

ADATA has tested the 4TB version of the new SR2000CP which had sequential read speeds of up to 6GB/sec and writes of 3.8GB/sec. The company is also providing enterprise-friendly features like user-configurable over-provisioning, power loss protection that keeps your data safe, native 256-bit AES encryption, and 55C ambient temperature operation that is perfect for the specs Google define for their datacenters.

We knew that from the last lot of leaks from an internal AMD slide last year that the company was planning PCIe 4.0 support for its upcoming Vega 20 GPU, and now we have some more support for these claims.

AMD engineers are hard at work on Linux drivers for its fresh new Vega 20, which is being made on the smaller 7nm node. The new PCIe 4.0 standard will usher in some huge bandwidth increases, as PCIe 3.0 has been with us for close to a decade now and feels stale with its 8.0GT/s of raw bit rate and 8Gbps of link bandwidth, where PCIe 4.0 doubles those numbers to 16GT/s and 16Gbps of bandwidth.

The previous rumor pegged Vega 20 for the second half of 2018, made on the 7nm node with 4-stack HBM2 giving us 1TB/sec with 16GB or 32GB HBM to choose from, PCIe 4.0 x16 support and between 150-300W of power. Now we can expect PCIe 4.0 motherboards around the corner, perfect timing for AMD to push into the datacenter.

The Halo series has secured a big venue for its television debut.

As a big Halo fan I was both elated and concerned when Microsoft announced the Halo TV series 5 years ago. So many possibilities ran through my mind--the franchise is rich with interesting paths--but with 343 Industries at the helm things could be very different. And recent news of the Halo TV series finally grabbing a network brings back those old feelings.

Microsoft recently announced that its live-action Halo television adaptation will get a 10-episode run on Showtime. The series, which is due out by "early 2019," will have one-hour episodes and should follow the Human-Covenant war but no details on an exact timeframe have been announced. Thankfully the show isn't going to be another smaller-scale project like Forward Unto Dawn or the awful Nightfall, but a fully-fledged series backed by CBS.

To celebrate the release of 'Pacific Rim: Uprising' on home video, we have fifteen Blu-ray copies of the film to give away thanks to our friends at Universal Sony Home Entertainment!

The globe-spanning conflict between otherworldly monsters of mass destruction and the human-piloted super-machines built to vanquish them was only a prelude to the all-out assault on humanity in Pacific Rim Uprising.

John Boyega (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) stars as the rebellious Jake Pentecost, a once-promising Jaeger pilot whose legendary father gave his life to secure humanity's victory against the monstrous "Kaiju." Jake has since abandoned his training only to become caught up in a criminal underworld. But when an even more unstoppable threat is unleashed to tear through our cities and bring the world to its knees, he is given one last chance to live up to his father's legacy by his estranged sister, Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi)-who is leading a brave new generation of pilots that have grown up in the shadow of war. As they seek justice for the fallen, their only hope is to unite together in a global uprising against the forces of extinction.

State of Decay 2, the Undead Labs developed title has reached 3 million players, adding on another 1 million players since the last player count announcement on June 5th.

State of Decay 2 was released back in May and since then the zombie survival game has immersed more 3 million gamers. This figure is of course a combination of the Xbox Games Pass and Microsoft Store PC players, which means that the title has not sold exactly 3 million units.

The announcement reads as follows, "In advance of the 4th of July holiday, we are celebrating that the State of Decay 2 community now exceeds three million players." If you want to read the full announcement from Microsoft visit the official website here.

Leading into the release of Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 this August, 2 minutes of gameplay footage has surfaced on YouTube.

The footage that was released on YouTube came from 'Weedens' YouTube channel and displays Konami's continuing effort to make sure that players have the choice of choosing between several different leagues and numerous more stadiums.

According to the official description of the title "Fans will be able to experience lifelike player movement making PES 2019's famed superior gameplay even greater as Beckham, Coutinho and more have their unique playing styles brought to life." What also will be included within the new title is brand "New shooting mechanics will take into account improved ball physics, player and ball position, and player skills and shot styles. Hitting the back of the net in PES 2019 will be more satisfying than ever before with new net physics and celebrations added, teamed with new crowd animations."

The official PC requirements for Shenmue 3 have been released by Ys Net, the Kickstarter project will be requiring a massive 100GB of HDD space.

According to the requirements released onto the Kickstarter page, Shenmue 3 will be need at least a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti, Core i5-4460 at 3.40GHz and 4GB of RAM.

Hard disk space wise, Shenmue 3 is going to be requiring 100GB of HDD which is absolutely massive. It should be noted that these specifications are subject to change randomly as the title is still in development. For those that want to check out the full PC requirements, visit the official Kickstarter page.

Although Cyberpunk 2077 got an official trailer and a closed-doors demo, the game is far from finished.

It turns out that CD Projekt RED has a very good reason for not showing off that famed Cyberpunk 2077 behind-the-curtain gameplay demo: the build is actually pre-alpha. According to company president Adam Kicinski, this is just a taster sampling of what CDPR has in store and doesn't represent the final game.

In a recent interview Polish website Bankier asked if the closed-doors gameplay was an alpha build, in which Kicinski replied: "No, earlier. Therefore, we show the game behind closed doors - this is not the final quality yet. This is the most polished part of the game we have now, prepared in some sense to show it to people outside the company."

The PUBG vs Fortnite lawsuit saga has ended (for now?).

PUBG Corp, the company made specifically to wrangle the smash-hit battle royale game PUBG, has terminated its lawsuit against Epic Games, Bloomberg reports. A month ago Bluehole's subsidiary filed a lawsuit in South Korean courts alleging that Epic's Fortnite game infringed on various copyrights, including UI and other in-game features. The suit has now been withdrawn in South Korean courts.

Although PUBG has sold over 44 million copies on console and PC, Fortnite has enjoyed a massive surge in success in recent months thanks to its free-to-play accessibility on all platforms and strong engagement strategies. PUBG Corp originally took issues with Fortnite back in January by commenting on its similarities, which drew the ire of the gaming community who saw it as a sign of jealousy.

If there's a CPU that I'm excited for this year, it would have to be AMD's impending megatasking crusher, the Ryzen Threadripper 2990X and its monstrous 32C/64T of CPU power.

But what about the price? AMD seemed very coy during Computex 2018 in public and behind closed doors about the price of the new Ryzen Threadripper 2990X, but weren't shy from saying it would be more expensive than the current Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. Now there's a European retailer that has listed it early for 1509 EUR, which works out to around $1750 USD.

This is most likely a placeholder price, and I expect it to be more expensive than that - closer to, or over $2000. Hell, AMD could charge $3000 for the Ryzen Threadripper 2990X and it would still be an amazing price. Intel doesn't have anything close to it apart from the Xeon Platinum 8180 Processor which is a 28C/56T part that costs over $10,000.

Intel's unreleased and still not named 8C/16T processor is ri ghit around the corner, a new CPU that will be unleashed next to the Z390 chipset and now we might have the new name: the Core i9-9900K. Yeah, Core i9.

The latest rumor is directly from the salt shaker itself, with WCCFTech saying it will be the Core i9-9900K with 8C/16T. Intel will also reportedly launch the Core i7-9700K as a new 6C/12T processor, and the Core i5-9600K as a 6C/6T processor with HT obviously disabled.

I find lumping the new 8C/16T chip into the Core i9 family as extreme, and it will surely cause some marketing issues, but on the other hand this is a new sector of the market for Intel to enter. Intel doesn't have an 8C/16T processor in the desktop CPU market, a slice of the market that AMD has absolutely dominated in since the release of the Ryzen 7 1800X over a year ago now.

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle players don't have to patiently wait anymore, as Nintendo has released the anticipated Donkey Kong themed DLC.

Last month we saw Ubisoft Milan and Nintendo partner up for the newly released DLC. A gameplay trailer was released showcasing the vengeful Rabbid Kong and how players will be able to use some brand new abilities to tackle obstacles and stop the takeover of mystery island.

A quick description of the game says "Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle: Donkey Kong Adventure tells a new tale, starring one of Mario's oldest frenemies in a new world! Embark in an epic battle against a vengeful Rabbid Kong who uses his new powers to take over a mysterious island. Donkey Kong, Rabbid Peach, and a moody new Rabbid hero, Rabbid Cranky, will team up on a journey across four brand-new environments. Discover a world full of reinvented tactical gameplay, new enemies, and secrets to uncover." Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle Donkey Kong Adventure has been released on the Nintendo eShop and is only available for Nintendo Switch users.

Bethesda has released footage of the Fallout 76 online multiplayer experience, showcasing that players will be able to choose whether they work together or tackle the massive world as a lone wolf.

The video was originally displayed at Bethesda's E3 Showcase and for those that missed it the video has been uploaded to the Bethesda Softworks YouTube Channel. The video displays that players will be able to "Create your character with the S.P.E.C.I.A.L system and forge your own path in a new and untamed wasteland with hundreds of locations."

Players will be able to choose whether they take on enemies as a team or take on each other in the barron wastelands. Massive enemies can also be spotted throughout the gameplay, some seem to be close to what a boss-level fight would be. It's not all blood and gore though, friendly scenes are seen as well with players performing a selection of emotes towards eachother. For further information visit the official Fallout website here.

Epic Games is taking legal action against one of their former Fortnite testers, after inside information regarding the title was leaked out onto a Subreddit forum.

Thomas Hannah, a former Fortnite tester has been accused of leaking information of the in-game Fortnite event for the fourth season. Hannah provided this information to an unnamed third party, it was then posted to a subreddit which has now been taken down. Epic Games filed the lawsuit against Hannah on May 7th, since then Hannah has also filled a defense asking for Epic Games' claims to be dismissed by the court. He says that the information that was shared was throughout a private conversation without knowledge of the other persons motives, here is what he had to say "[I was] pumped with a series of questions and guesses regarding where the meteor would hit."

Hannah has said that he is aware that he has broken the non disclosure agreement that was signed with Epic Games, and also that the information that was given was without consent from the company. Epic is demanding damages and legal fees under the state and federal trade secrets laws, as the company has said that Epic "has suffered and is continuing to suffer irreparable injury."

Back in at the end of May, Madmind Studios announced that their title Agony would not be receiving the promised 'Adult Only' patch, now the developer has announced that Agony Unrated has been canceled.

Originally, the plans was for an 'Adult Only' patch which then changed to 'Agony Unrated.' Both ideas have further gone down the toilet, as Madmind Studios have said that they are having to cancel the project due to the company "struggling with financial problems. Due to technical and legal reasons, Madmind must cancel the development of Agony Unrated."

On a positive note though, the developer has said they are going to be releasing a new patch for Agony, it will be improving the lighting system and fixing numerous other bugs. To visit the official Steam post check it out here.