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The dystopian retro-futuristic title, INSOMNIA: The Ark developed by Studio Mono has taken to their Twitter to announce that the title will be receiving a brand new jazzy soundtrack.

The last time we saw a soundtrack announced by Studio Mono was back in May and it featured a Russian singer Leonid Utyosov with upbeat music. This new soundtrack has been composed and produced by Petr Yakyamsev and for those that don't know INSOMNIA: The Ark actually started as a Kickstarter project and has also been listen on Steam.

At the moment the title has reached a massive $77,899 so if you are interested in checking out their page visit it here. Also the INSOMNIA: The Ark official website can be found here for further information.

Forza Horizon 4 is planned to release later this October and ahead of the games launch a pre-load option has been made available to gamers via the Microsoft Store.

The game appears to be coming in at a whopping 90GB and from this pre-load the full list of cars have been leaked. Players that expect to be able to jump behind the wheel already will be sadly disappointed as access to play the game is not available yet, just the download.

This very early pre-download could make this title subjected to pirates so I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a crack of this game within the coming weeks/months leading up to it's full release. The full-list was leaked on the /r/Forza subreddit which can be found here.

A voice actor for the upcoming Spider-Man game from Insomniac Games has leaked that Dr. Otto Octavius will be apart of the upcoming title as a villain.

The voice actor named Jai Alex who also voices Rhino in Spider-Man leaked this information in an interview with YouTuber Drift0r. Drift0r was asking Alex about his role in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 as well as the new Spider-Man, Alex accidentally revealed that "everyone's scaled very differently, Doctor Octopus is really tall, Rhino is big...,"

If Dr. Otto Octavius is the last villain to be showcased this would clear up who is the last member of the Sinister Six, as throughout the comics Octavius was the groups leader at one stage or another. Dr. Otto Octavius could also just be another secondary character as well and we could possibly see more villains revealed moving closer to the release date.

University of Michigan has reached a new technological milestone, with researchers producing a temperature sensing 'computer' that measures just 0.04 cubic millimeters, which is magnitudes smaller than a single grain of rice.

IBM was the previous record for the world's smallest computer, but U-M researchers had some tricks up their sleeves for reducing the effect of light. The researchers used switched capacitors instead of diodes, where they worked against the relative increase in electrical noise that is created from a device running on low amounts of power.

The sensor that the University of Michigan created is capable of measuring changes in super-small regions, such as groups of cells in your body. Scientists have said for a while now that tumors are ever-so-slightly hotter than healthy tissue, but it has been hard to detect that... until now. This new device could be used in cancer treatments, opening the door to very exciting developments.

I guess it would make sense: 4K panels are made most likely in orders of magnitudes greater than 1440p panels, but there are now new reports state we could be looking at 4K panels inside of our 1440p monitors.

German website Prad.de reports that it's cheaper to make a 27-inch 3840 x 2160 panel than it is for a 27-inch 2560 x 1440 panel, and because of this some companies have been using 4K panels inside of their 1440p monitors. Monitor manufacturers reportedly do this when panel supplies are low, or when monitor demand spikes.

If we're buying 1440p monitors that use 4K panels, can't we just increase the resolution and enjoy? Nope. The panel firmware will be flashed to a native 2560 x 1440 resolution. Some eagle-eyed monitor owners might notice if their 1440p monitor uses a 4K panel, where sharpness is lower, something that displays itself in on-screen text.

Until now, keyboard and mouse support on the Xbox One... well, sucks. The vastly superior controls used for PC gamers don't gel well on consoles for a variety of reasons, but that doesn't mean Microsoft isn't at least working on it.

According to Windows Central, who recently received some information that Microsoft was "at least planning to bring mouse support to the April update of the Xbox dev kit. Redmond showed off the sofa-friendly Razer Turret keyboard and mouse peripheral in partnership with Razer, who joined Microsoft for the presentation".

The presentation in question saw the companies enabling Razer Chroma RGB lighting support on Xbox games, with Microsoft using the PC versions of games like Overwatch, DOTA 2, and others to show Razer's great lighting tech in games. It's a much more immersive experience, especially when you're in an eSports game like Overwatch or DOTA 2 where your characters are cooling down from a used ability, and the keyboard and mouse react accordingly. It's awesome.

NVIDIA seems to be ramping up into its next-gen GeForce GTX 11 series graphics card launch, with teases from TSMC entering 7nm production with NVIDIA as a customer, and GDDR6 going into mass production over the next few months. During Computex 2018, we heard that NVIDIA would be announcing the GTX 1180 on July 30, while AIB partners told me they would have cards on the market in August or September.

But it was a tweet by the official NVIDIA Twitter account that celebrated Alan Turing's birthday, with a quote from Turing that's interesting: "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done". Rewinding the clock to earlier this month, where NVIDIA CEO and founder Jensen Huang said that the next-gen GeForce cards were a while away, where he said: "It's a long time from now".

TSMC enters 7nm production, GDDR6 is being spun up into mass production and AMD has nothing at all for Radeon gamers until this time next year. NVIDIA is already ahead of the best AMD offers with the Radeon RX Vega 64 being absolutely dominated by the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti let alone TITAN Xp, so the launch of a new GPU would put them an entire generation and a half ahead, minimum.

TSMC has announced that its exciting 7nm node has entered production, with the company also announcing that it will be investing $25 billion into 5nm node technology.

The company has been talking about and developing 5nm node technology since early 2016, with its eyes on a launch in 2020, and now it is putting its money where its mouth is. Reuters reports: "Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd, a supplier to Apple Inc, said on Thursday it expects to invest $25 billion in 5-nanometer node technology".

Apple should be interested in TSMC's focus on 5nm as they've been using TSMC for chip production for years now. TSMC is also forward-looking to 2022, when we should expect 3nm to pop its head out of the super-small chip production.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, otherwise known as TSMC, has announced that commercial production of 7nm chip has started. TSMC also teased that the newer 5nm node will enter mass production by the end of 2019, or early-2020.

The news comes directly from TSMC boss CC Wei, with DigiTimes reporting: "The ramp-up of 7nm chip output will boost TSMC's overall production capacity to 12 million 12-inch equivalent wafers in 2018, up 9% from 10.5 million units in 2017, Wei indicated, without elaborating on specific orders and customers".

DigiTimes continued: "TSMC will tape out more than 50 chip designs with its 7nm process technology by the end of 2018, Wei said. AI, GPU and cryptocurrency applications take up the majority of the tape-outs, followed by 5G and application processors. TSMC will also start taping out chips built using an enhanced 7nm node with EUV in the second half of 2018, Wei noted. The foundry expects to move the node to risk production in the third quarter".

Intel is expected to launch its new Z390 chipset in the near future, but according to the latest rumors the 'new' Z390 chipset won't be so new after all... and will reportedly be a rebadged Z370 chipset.

Right now, all of Intel's current 300-series chipsets are made on the 14nm node, except for the Z370. It was expected that the refreshed Z390 chipset would be made on 14nm, but with Intel having a million troubles right now - 10nm node is busted, their CEO resigned just a few days ago - things are changing.

Z390 will reportedly not be made on the 14nm node but will be on the same 22nm node as the current Z370 chipset. This means we won't see native support for USB 3.1 Gen 2 and other technologies that would've made it into the 14nm-based Z390, so there will be third-party controllers used by motherboard makers instead.

Qualcomm continues to make leaps and bounds with its Snapdragon platform, with one of the highlights of 2018 being their new Always Connected PCs running Windows 10. But in the CPU department, Qualcomm can't beat Intel right now in brute performance, but what about Snapdragon 1000?

Snapdragon 1000 is the purported name of Qualcomm's next-gen Snapdragon flagship chip, and should have a radical TDP, performance, and feature set that will blow other SoCs out of the water. According to WinFuture, Snapdragon 1000 will have a die size that is much bigger than traditional smartphone and tablet SoCs.

This means the Snapdragon 1000 could be as big as Intel's processors, which would be an interesting change for Qualcomm. Snapdragon 1000 is currently being tested, with support for up to 16GB of LPDDR4X memory, 2 x 128GB UFS 2.1 memory modules which will provide up to 256GB of internal storage. There's even purported support for Gigabit WLAN, meaning the next wave of Always Connected PCs could lead Qualcomm down an entirely new, and very exciting path.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has become available to pre-order on the Nintendo UK website, also available to pre-order is the official Super Smash Bros. Ultimate GameCube Controller.

The Super Smash Bros. Ultimate listing on the Nintendo UK Store has revealed the price for the title, if you want to already secure a copy of the newest Smash game its gonna set you back £59.99. The listing has also revealed the price-tag for the GameCube controller, only coming in at £24.99 players that wish to use this controller will also have to grab a GameCube Controller Adapter for £17.99.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will be released on the 7th of December 2018, for further information regarding the upcoming release visit the official Super Smash Bros. website here.

Team Cherry have taken to Reddit to perform an AMA with the Nintendo Switch community, the AMA has revealed additional details to when we can expect the following free DLC Gods & Glory.

Team Cherry have taken to the Nintendo Switch subreddit to answer questions from the community. Questions ranged from fans asking how about lore for certain characters, when we can expect the next DLC and if Hollow Knight could be implemented into the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a DLC character.

According to the Reddit post, Team Cherry is now back in their home town of Adelaide Australia and is "working hard on Hollow Knight's final content pack, Gods & Glory" it is expected that this free DLC pack will be released in the "coming months on all platforms and will be free for everyone who owns the game." If you are interested in anymore information regarding Team Cherry's Hollow Knight please visit their website here.

PC specs for the newly announced Resident Evil 2 remake (REmake) have popped up on Steam, and they're not demanding at all.

One of the best tidbits of this year's E3 2018 was the official Resident Evil 2 remake showcase during Sony's briefing. Powered by Capcom's new higher-end REngine technology used in Resident Evil 7, the remake should look and play great on consoles and PC alike with fluid FPS, although the latter gets a break with hardware requirements.

The PC specs for RE2 Remake are actually quite feasible: minimum requirements include an Intel i5-4460, 8GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 whereas the recommended specs are bumped up to an Intel i7-3770, 8GB of RAM, and an GeForce GTX 1060.

The Coalition is making the next Gears of War something special not just for Xbox gamers, where the developer has said it's aiming for 4K 60FPS on the beefed-up Xbox One X, but it'll be magical on the PC, too.

The developer has said that the PC version of Gears of War 5 was "built from the ground up for PC" and that it'll scale incredibly well. The Coalition boss Rod Fergusson explained: "You'll be able to max it to quite high. It's still reasonably early, but we can usually get to 120fps. It's obviously going to matter what hardware you're using to get that-but it'll be able to scale up that high, (if) the hardware can push it".

Gears of War 5 is expected in 2019 for Xbox consoles, and the PC.

Red Dead Redemption 2 may actually come to PC after all...but not at launch.

We've known for a while now that Red Dead Redemption 2 will release first on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles--after all the game was built from scratch for the current generation and aims to squeeze power from the Xbox One X and PS4 Pro--but now a bit of evidence suggests the sequel-that's-a-prequel will come to PC too.

According to a Rockstar employee's LinkedIn bio, who shall remain anonymous in our coverage, mentions they worked on three flavors of Red Dead Redemption 2: "Xbox 1, PS4, and PC". Both Rockstar Games and its parent company Take-Two Interactive have been mum about a PC release date, and the general consensus is that RDR2 will jump to PC a year or two after consoles (similar to GTA V). Nothing has been confirmed thus far, however.

Rare has taken the opportunity of E3 to reveal details about upcoming content for players, while also discussing the future of Sea of Thieves.

Joe Neate, the Executive Producer and Senior producer Adam Park sat down for 26 minutes to discuss their title, mentioning the Cursed Sails, more development teams and addressing the boredom of being out at sea. Here is what Neate had to say about the Cursed Sails skeleton crews "We're gonna run a kind of time-limited campaign to introduce them with a bit of story, a bit of lore, a bit of reasons to go and engage with them and get rewards and everything. From that point onwards, [skeleton ships] stay in the world as a kind of emergent threat and we do want to get to a place where we can add them into quests."

Sea of Thieves will soon have much bigger development teams according to Neate, "Currently we've got three teams internally but we're actually splitting up a fourth team at the moment so by the start of July there'll be a fourth team working on content updates. So they'll be working on the kind of like end-of-year December [update]."

Valve has started their annual Steam Summer Sale bringing insanely low prices to gamers on numerous popular titles. Let the madness begin!

The two weeks of gamers wallets screaming out for help has begun. Valve has given us crazy discounts on up to 20,000 different games, so obviously all of them cannot be listed but a selection of titles has been provided below.

For the first time PUBG is on sale, other titles on sale include: The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, Dying Light and many more. If you are interested in checking out the sales visit the official Steam Sale page here.

A new trailer for F1 2018 has been released by Codemasters, it reveals the return of the French Grand Prix through talking to drivers playing on their home tracks.

The selection of drivers that are interviewed are Romain Grosjean, Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly and Carlos Sainz. Here is what Ocon had to say about the new title "I have been playing games since I was a kid... and I haven't stopped. The games have evolved massively and are getting more and more realistic. It is still my routine to go training during the day and I play for one or two hours in the evening... and I find it very useful. When we don't have a race weekend I keep racing on my own."

F1 2018 will be releasing on August 24th on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. For further information about the title visit the official Codemasters blog website here

Samsung has just announced its latest 8TB NVMe SSD, something the company has pushed into the next-generation NF1 form factor that will be sold in datacenters, and enterprise servers.

The new Samsung 8TB NF1 SSDs are both NVMe 1.3 and PCIe 4.0 compliant making them, if I want to say them out loud, future-proof. There, I did it. The new drives are using the latest in flash technology that Samsung makes itself, with a single NF1 stick sporting 16 V-NAND dies to drive the capacity up to 8TB.

Get this: the new NF1 form factor packs twice the density of an M.2 drive, blowing away current-gen NVMe M.2 drives in capacity. This is all thanks to the next-gen NG1, or NGSFF (Next-Generation Small Form Factor). Samsung's new high-performance SSD controller sees speeds reaching up to 3100MB/sec reads, and 2000MB/sec writes with up to 500,000 IOPs and 50,000 IOPs read/write. Hell, there's even 12GB of LPDDR4 as cache on the new NG1 drive.