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Fortnite can't be stopped and I don't think anything will get in its way any time soon, with Epic Games getting into the World Cup spirit that has embraced hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Epic has also added a bunch of updates into Fortnite with the World Cup update, with a new stadium map, weekly challenges that include scoring goals on the fields across the isl;ands itself, and some World Cup themed items to buy with V-Bucks.

Fortnite now features 6 male and 6 female jerseys to choose, with personalization of your favorite player's colors and number from the World Cup. There is soccer-themed gliders and pick axes, emotes that include a red card that signals an unforgiveable offense.

Foxconn is doubling down on its US plans with the company extending past its Wisconsin-based display factory plant, with news of a US-based headquarters in Milwaukee, just 30 miles away from its upcoming factory.

The company plans to buy a 77-storey building from Northwestern Mutual where up to 500 people wi-ll work there. Foxconn's new HQ will also feature an innovation hub that will work with startups to create apps for their new display tech.

Wisconsin has been at the center of some major tech movement lately, with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee starting up a new co-op program that sees engineering students flying over to Taiwan to study at the Chung Yuan Christian University.

CD Projekt Red had its big unveil of Cyberpunk 2077 at E3 2018, but what PC was powering that gorgeous displays of visuals during the demo?

On the official Discord server for Cyberpunk 2077, CDPR community manager 'Alicja' confirmed that the E3 2018 demo system was powered by an Intel Core i7-8700K, 32GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.

We don't know if the game was running at 4K, and whether CDPR had the game running on medium, ultra or any other graphics settings.

Intel unveiled its Core i7-8086K processor during Computex 2018 a couple of weeks back now, but now Silicon Lottery is offering binned 8086K processors for serious overclockers.

The company is offering the $430 processor which runs at 5GHz out of the box in a special binned variant that rocks up to 5.3GHz, but costs double the price. The 5.3GHz guarantee with 6C/12T of CPU power will cost you $859.99.

There are four different variants on offer: stock 8086K at 5GHz but delidded, then the final three are all delidded but offering 5.1GHz for $499.99, 5.2GHz for $589.99, and finally, 5.3GHz guaranteed for $859.99.

AMD has nailed its Zen CPU architecture that has not only been keeping gamers and megataskers happy, but the company has extended it into servers where Intel dominates with Xeon.

It was only recently that AMD reached the impressive 7nm node, all before Intel is stable on 10nm (which it has been trying for years now) and now EPYC is about to make the big leap to 7nm with EPYC on 7nm silicon being tested in AMD labs right now, samples headed out in 2H 2018, and its big launch in 2019 right around the corner.

AMD's first-gen EPYC processor family was named Naples, while the second-gen EPYC is called Rome, and the third-gen EPYC will be called Milan. EPYC's names come from famous locations in Italy, with Milan arriving closer to 2020 on the improved 7nm+ node with the revamped Zen 3 architecture.

To celebrate the release of 'Tomb Raider' on home video, we have ten Blu-ray copies of the film to give away.

Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Now a young woman of 21 without any real focus or purpose, Lara navigates the chaotic streets of trendy East London as a bike courier, barely making the rent, and takes college courses, rarely making it to class. Determined to forge her own path, she refuses to take the reins of her father's global empire just as staunchly as she rejects the idea that he's truly gone. Advised to face the facts and move forward after seven years without him, even Lara can't understand what drives her to finally solve the puzzle of his mysterious death.

Going explicitly against his final wishes, she leaves everything she knows behind in search of her dad's last-known destination: a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan. But her mission will not be an easy one; just reaching the island will be extremely treacherous. Suddenly, the stakes couldn't be higher for Lara, who-against the odds and armed with only her sharp mind, blind faith and inherently stubborn spirit-must learn to push herself beyond her limits as she journeys into the unknown. If she survives this perilous adventure, it could be the making of her, earning her the name tomb raider.

AMD has been slaying it in all areas of the CPU market with its Ryzen family of processors, but the company is working on some new budget/mid-range Ryzen CPUs that will impress.

The new second-generation Ryzen 3 2300X and Ryzen 5 2500X are reportedly on their way, both being quad-core CPUs with boost clocks of up to 4GHz, but it's their price that will impress the most.

We should expect the Ryzen 3 2300X to arrive as a 4C/4T processor with 3.5/4.0GHz base and boost clocks, and 10MB of cache, 65W TDP and $129-$139 price. The mid-range Ryzen 5 2500X would be a 4C/8T chip with 3.6/4.0GHz base and boost clocks, 18MB of cache, 65W TDP and a mouth watering price of just $149-$159.

At E3 2018, IGN was lucky enough to sit down with the president and chief operating officer for Nintendo of America, Reggie Fils-Aime. During the talks Fils-Aime confirmed that the next Nintendo Virtual Console would be the Nintendo Switch Online service.

People that are awaiting news about the next Nintendo Virtual Console will be glad to know that wait is finally over. Fils-Aime has addressed the upcoming Nintendo Switch Online service and considers it to be the next Virtual Console, here is what he had to say: "The Virtual Console successor is Nintendo Switch Online, right? With the mentality that says we're going to be offering a slate of games, and it's a slate that's going to increase over time. For many of these games, there's going to be additional online capability provided in those games. That's the vision we have for how to best bring our legacy content to Nintendo Switch"

Fils-Aime continues and mentions the cloud storage and how Nintendo are thinking about applying this new paid service. "We do [believe people will subscribe], and I say that because what we've laid out is a proposition where, yes you get the competitive play accessibility, you also get the cloud save, and you get access to the legacy content. That's a fantastic proposition for $20 a year. We believe that it's not going to be any type of issue for us. In fact, it's going to enable us to continue offering a varied slate of opportunities from an online experience standpoint."

In a recent interview with American board game designer, Mike Pondsmith it has been revealed that CD Projekt Red's title Cyberpunk 2077 could be released in "a few more years."

During E3 2018, YongYea came across Mike Pondsmith who is currently working on the highly anticipated Cyberpunk 2077. Yong got to talk to Pondsmith for around 30 mins and was able to ask the video game designer if he "has a message to people anticipating Cyberpunk 2077."

Pondsmith replied very quickly with "I've waited 30 years to get to this and it was worth it. You guys can wait a few more years, it will be worth it." This could be a direct hint towards the titles release date, or Pondsmith could simply be over-exaggerating and instead just meaning that fans should be patient regardless of when the title is planned to come out.

Adam Creighton, the director of the development studio Panic Button, has discussed how long the developers have been working with the Nintendo Switch hardware and hinted towards an announcement next month.

According to Creighton in a recent interview with Variety, Panic Button has been working with the Nintendo Switch hardware for " almost six years" which is "more than almost any third party."

Panic Button is the studio that brought AAA titles such as Rocket League, Doom and Wolfenstein II to the Switch. The developers have clearly proven that they are more than capable to tackle large games so what is next on the menu? According to Variety, Creighton said that the company is currently working on another project that will be announced next month, until then there has been no official reveal. We will be sure to follow up on whatever Panic Button has in store for us.

E3 2018 - Those awaiting the new Starlink: Battle for Atlas on the Nintendo Switch will be glad to know that players will be able to use Fox McCloud for the entirety of their play-through.

Starlink: Battle for Atlas will be coming to Nintendo Switch owners this October with an exclusive character, introducing Fox McCloud and his famous Arwing. Questions have been raised about how much of Fox players will be able to enjoy, luckily the suspense has already been subsided with a confirmation that players will be able to enjoy Fox for the entirety of their play-through.

During the Nintendo Treehouse stream at this years E3 it was confirmed that not only will players get Fox for the whole campaign but there will also be exclusive Fox missions as well. If you are interested in more information regarding Starlink: Battle for Atlas visit the official Ubisoft website here.

It has been announced that after one day of being available to download, Fortnite for the Nintendo Switch has already been downloaded over 2 million times.

This announcement comes from Reggie Fils-Aime, the president of Nintendo of America, which he said to Bloomberg in an interview that Nintendo focuses on "surprising the fans" with content. An example of this would be Epic Games' Fortnite coming to the Nintendo Switch, according to Fils-Aime "Fortnite already has 2 million downloads specifically on the Nintendo Switch."

During this interview, Fils-Aime also revealed some information regarding Nintendo's stance on the loot box system that seems to be plaguing games. Fils-Aime said "What we believe, for example, at Nintendo is that a gameplay mechanic that offers to consumer something to buy that they're not sure what's inside can be interesting, as long as that's not the only way you can get those items."

The disappearance from Rocksteady Studios at this years E3 caused quite a bit of a ruckus for players that were patiently awaiting more information regarding the upcoming Superman game. The developer has issued a statement comforting their fans disappointment.

The statement says that the developer is working very hard on their next project and will be revealing details as soon as its ready for the limelight.

The statement comes from Game Director and Co-founder of Rocksteady Studios, Sefton Hill, has posted the following "We know some of you were disappointed that we were not at E3 this year. The whole team has been reading your comments, and all of us here at Rocksteady really appreciate your passion for our next project. Knowing how much it means to you keep us inspired and energized to deliver a game that you will be proud of. We'll share it with you as soon as it's ready. "

After the release of Fortnite on the Nintendo Switch, both Sony's and Nintendo's share prices have dipped. Sony has allowed Fortnite players to share progress from their PS4 account to their Nintendo Switch.

After the Nintendo presentation at this years E3, both of Sony's and Nintendo's share prices took a small hit. This was a direct result of Sony not allowing PS4 owners that happen to own a Switch as well to transfer their account to the Nintendo Switch. Sony has blocked players from doing this as they believe they are protecting their players from potential security risks.

Sony issued a statement in reply to the share value drop of 2%, here is what they had to say "We're always open to hearing what the PlayStation community is interested in to enhance their gaming experience. Fortnite is already a huge hit with PS4 fans, offering a true free-to-play experience so gamers can jump in and play online. With 79 million PS4s sold around the world and more than 80 million monthly active users on PlayStation Network, we've built a huge community of gamers who can play together on Fortnite and all online titles. We also offer Fortnite cross-play support with PC, Mac, iOS, and Android devices, expanding the opportunity for Fortnite fans on PS4 to play with even more gamers on other platforms."

CD Projekt RED fans are going to be astounded to know this juicy detail. Throughout The Witcher 3 Ciri describes to Geralt what seems like the world of Cyberpunk 2077, as if it is a place she as has been before throughout her travels to distant worlds.

YouTuber Tolkfan remembered this detail and did everyone else the courtesy of overlapping the conversation Ciri has with Geralt about her travels with the newly released E3 trailer. The trailer almost matches perfectly with the voice over and everything that Ciri describes such as "houses of glass" or "flying ships" seems to be featured throughout Cyberpunk 2077.

It is good to note that Cyberpunk 2077 was announced back in 2012 and The Witcher 3 was released in 2015 so this theory could entirely be 100% possible. CD Projekt RED is yet to confirm anything as of yet but fans seem to think this is not just a developing coincidence.

AMD's latest and greatest graphics card looks to be the new Radeon PRO V340, which is a multi-user computing solution for virtualized environments... you know, so not for gaming.

What makes AMD's new Radeon PRO V340 so special is that it features dual Vega 10 GPUs on 7nm, with a huge 32GB of HBM2 on-board. This seems to be the card that was teased at Computex 2018, and now it is becoming a reality.

The new Radeon PRO V340 features shared hardware encoding for H.265 and H.264 codecs, with something that AMD teases as a "built-in security processor" that we have no idea about just yet. This card is made for design and manufacturing, oil and gas research as well as the media and entertainment industry.

ARK: Survival Evolved was a mega success on the PC through Steam Early Access, and now it will spread its wings into iOS and Android... completely free.

ARK sees you dropped onto an island where you're tasked with surviving the elements, other players, and dinosaurs. You'll need to hunt down materials, craft items, and survive. You'll level up, learn new skills, and explore the world of ARK as a full free-to-play game on iOS and Android, compared to the PC and consoles where the game costs money.

A single ARK server hosts 60 players, with more than 80 dinosaurs across the lands that you can either fight, or tame and use yourself. If you want an ad-free experience, you can buy the Primal Pass subscription which includes free gifts, and a reserved server slot.

AMD has announced a new partnership with both Capcom and Ubisoft, with Scott Herkelman, the VP and GM of Radeon Gaming announcing the news during the E3 2018 Coliseum.

The new partnership sees AMD teaming with Ubisoft for The Division 2 in 2019, and Capcom for the Resident Evil 2 Remake. Remember that the original The Division was optimized for NVIDIA, but its sequel will be optimized for Radeon which is similar to Far Cry 5 (also an Ubisoft game) that was optimized for AMD.

AMD has also teamed with Rebellion Developments for Strange Brigade, with the company teaming with the developer previously on Sniper Elite 3 in the last. One of the surprises from this news is that Capcom producer Peter Fabiano announced on-stage that the Resident Evil 2 remake will support both DX12 and FreeSync 2.

The story of AMD collaborating with Sony on the Navi GPU architeceture for the next-gen PS5 console has really spread throughout the internet like wildfire, but one of the saving graces of AMD's future with Radeon against GeForce was MCM, or multi-chip modules.

But according to a new interview between PCGamesN and RTG's new SVP of Engineering, David Wang, we could be waiting a while. Wang said AMD is "looking at the MCM type of approach, but we've yet to conclude that this is something that can be used for traditional gaming graphics type of application". So no MCM for Navi, makes sense.

This is not surprising at all, as Navi has seen two-thirds of RTG engineers working with Sony, while AMD plans its next-gen GCN architecture for post-Navi. No MCM for Navi, at least in its first-gen iteration, makes total sense. It's a departure to ex-RTG boss Raja Koduri, who wanted to take full advantage of the Infinity Fabric interconnect to throw copious amounts of GPUs onto a single ASIC design.

GIGABYTE teased all with their huge motherboard capable of overclocking Intel's 28-core monster CPU to 5GHz, let's see what was hiding under the heat sinks and find out more about the CPU and motherboard.

There has been a lot of chatter about Intel's debut of their 5GHz 28-core beast, and while that CPU is probably a modified Xeon Platinum 8180, Intel nor the vendors would give us any information on the CPU or even motherboard. However, we can learn a lot from the motherboard used to demo the chip to the world. For starters, let's get this out of the way; yes, that chip was without a doubt overclocked. The VRM on the motherboard is a monster, and designed to support much more than Intel's "300W" TDP number (the Platinum 8180 is rated for 205W TDP).

For reference, Intel's 18-core 7980XE can easily pull 500W when overclocked to 4.5GHz. So add the increased leakage from taking more than 50% more cores all 500MHz higher, and add to that the decrease in VRM efficiency due to increased phase count, and we think the VRM could be pulling 1.2-1.8 KW. We heard rumors of the 7980XE pulling up to 1000W under LN2, so we don't think our numbers are too far off. We also heard that Intel was hitting the limits of physics, and we aren't just talking about upgrading their circuit breakers.