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Halfway through this month, the developers behind Hollow Knight sat down with Nintendolife and said that Hollow Knight for the Nintendo Switch is coming soon, now the developers have updated their statement with an email sent out to backers of the project.

According to a post found on the /r/NintendoSwitch subreddit, Redditor 'Rekkore' has said that he/she has received a survey email from Team Cherry Red asking for confirmation on region location and also saying "We're close to being done with the Nintendo Switch version, but first! We need to find out what region you're in, so we can organise the correct region key for you to download your copy."

Judging from the email that has been sent out we can assume that Hollow Knight could roughly be arriving on the Nintendo Switch in about a month or so. Rekkore has said that for anyone that is backing the project to check their emails so if you have backed Hollow Knight for the Switch definitely don't let that email slip into your 'junk' inbox.

Sea of Thieves has rolled out a new free content update and after the teasing of The Hungering Deep patch the developer has debuted patch 1.1.0 to the live servers.

Rare has rolled out the new update which will give players an opportunity to discover the mysteries of the Megalodon, a new AI enemy that players will have to work together to tackle and beat.

Rare has given players some more tools so they have a chance against the new enemy, flags and speaking trumpets have been added so pirates alike can "signal your intent to attack or ally with other crews." Players that are interested in viewing the full patch notes for the newly released update can view them on the Sea of Thieves website here.

Capcom has announced through a post on their website and Twitter account that the next Mega Man title, Mega Man 11, will be coming to players late this year.

Capcom has detailed this announcement on their website, saying that players will have the opportunity to step into the shoes of Mega Man once again and explore the "beautiful hand-drawn environments and take down eight brand-new Robot Masters in Mega Man's latest fight for everlasting peace."

This time round, Dr. Wily has stolen eight of Dr. Lights robots to use for his nefarious plans. The plans include what is called the Double Gear system which is designed to push "robots beyond their normal capabilities." Since Dr. Wily already has a Double Gear system our hero Mega Man requests Dr. Light to install one in him as well, giving our hero new abilities and a fighting chance.

Last week Big Ben Interactive announced that the release dates for Tennis World Tour would be moved back slightly for the Nintendo Switch and PC, now the developer has released a new launch trailer for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 version.

Tennis World Tour is developed by Breakpoint and is published by Bigben Interactive, the tennis simulator gives players the opportunity to experience up to 30 different professional tennis players on all the different court terrains.

The PC version of the title is currently planned for release on June 12th but for now if you desire anymore further information visit the official Tennis World Tour website here.

E3 2018 is right around the corner, so the tease of Wolfenstein III should not come as a surprise, with developer MachineGames themselves the ones behind the rumor this time.

MachineGames designer Andreas Ojerfors was recently interviewed by Eurogamer, where he talked about the developers plans on playing with the character of BJ Blazkowicz, where Ojerfors said that he couldn't talk about it, without "talking about what we're doing". He did however say that if MachineGames were working on Wolfenstein III, it would be revealed for "E3 two years into the future", or whatever that means.

During the interview, Ojerfors said: "[Wolfenstein III would] play with the format a bit. Not because it's necessary but because we would like to do something different. [The New Colossus] is now our third Wolfenstein game [following The New Order and the Old Blood expansion]. If we would continue down that route [Wolfenstein 3] we would play with the format a bit, do something that would interest us".

If you're a hardcore fan of Chris Roberts, Wing Commander, and his new game that has been in the works for over 5 years now; Star Citizen, you will have saved up $27,000 for the new ship pack, right?!

Cloud Imperium Games has introduced a new Legatus Pack that features 117 ships and 163 extras, something that comes in at a huge $27,000. Got your credit card ready? Yeah, well you're going to have to have already spent $1000 on in-game content before you're a VIP to access the product page to buy the $27,000 Legatus Pack.

Spending the life changing $27,000 on a game doesn't provide you with future ships, in-game currency, or anything else in particular. You could get into a dogfight with someone in one of the expensive ships and lose, with your ship gone forever.

Tonight at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Qualcomm has debuted their brand new Snapdragon XR1 Platform. This is the world's first dedicated extended reality (XR) platform.

Qualcomm's latest offering gives mainstream users high-quality extended reality experiences while enabling OEMs to develop mainstream devices. Special optimizations for Augmented Reality (AR) experiences as well as integrating artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities will provide devices with better interactivity, power consumption and thermal efficiency.

The focuses of the new platform are to provide improvements in audio and visual technologies, as well as user interaction. Ultra high-definition 4K video resolution at a rate of up to 60 frames per second for high-quality VR HMDs will enable consumers to be immersed in their favorite movies, programs and sports.

Battlefield V is surely going to be one of the biggest games of 2018, but what type of PC will you need to play in that gloriously WWII-set battlefield? Not much, at least with the preliminary PC system requirements.

EA requires that you have an Intel Core i5-6600K or AMD FX-6350 processor, with 8GB of RAM and 50GB of HDD space. As for graphics cards, you won't need the latest and greatest to run it - only if you want those high frame rates and resolutions, especially 4K 144Hz G-Sync gaming monitors and 4K 120Hz G-Sync TVs coming soon from NVIDIA with their Big Format Gaming Displays (BFGDs).

You'll need an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon HD 7850, which isn't too bad at all. I'm sure there's going to be lots of graphical bells and whistles that we'll be able to tweak and max out, for next-gen GeForce GTX 1180 and GTX 1170, as well as all current-gen GTX 10 series graphics card owners.

On the heels of Nintendo's NES and SNES mini-consoles as well as Atari's upcoming new Atari VCS system, is eager to cash in on nostalgia by bringing back the old-school Intellivision.

Intellivision Entertainment today announced that it's making a new console that merges both retro and modern gaming and interactivity--which sounds very similar to the Atari VCS. The next-gen Intellivision will have a "new concept, design and approach to gaming" which is built on principles like "affordable, simple family fun." No exact specifications or hardware details were announced, but we do know that 30-year industry veteran Tommy Tallarico is spear-heading the Intellivision re-branding.

According to Mr. Tallarico, the new system will share a few things in common with the Atari VCS: the console will come pre-loaded with classic Intellivision games (likely the Intellivision Lives! compilation) and it will support HDMI for modern TVs. Games will be digital-only which means a games marketplace ecosystem will pop up, but the console will be "much less than $200" so don't expect much hardware power.

Bethesda might be re-mastering Fallout 3 for modern consoles which could mean a direct avenue towards its optional monetized mods marketplace.

On the heels of Skyrim: Special Edition's release, I saw a new business model for Bethesda: re-releasing older BGS games and adding console mods and a gateway to its Creation Club storefront. This model would essentially attempt to combine microtransaction monetization via piecemeal purchases in an attempt to pull in recurring revenues while also expanding the life of the game itself. It's likely that today's Fallout tease will fold into this plan as well.

The new Fallout tease is probably Fallout 3 remastered. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Fallout 3, and what better way to celebrate the game than with a full-on remaster with enhanced graphics, boosted frame rates and effects, and full console mod support? Sure Fallout 3 is older but there are still some great mods on the platform and Bethesda likely hopes for a resurgence in both interest and engagement (singleplayer engagement, that is, via mods) and some purchases made on its Creation Club platform.

Madmind Studios has announced that PC players will not be receiving an "Adult Only" patch, but instead a small amount of seconds have been shaven off some of the games possible endings.

The developers have revealed this news through a Steam Community post that details the efforts the developer has gone through to even get the game to pass ratings companies. According to the post "The censorship now affects only several seconds from two endings (out of seven) and some scenes that may be unlocked only after the end of the game. We will be able to show them to you in a video that we are planning to release soon."

Another side note is that Madmind Studios has said that all of the scenes that have been displayed in the titles promotional videos such as trailers or screenshots will not be censored at all. Here is what the developer has said when addressing the "Adult Only" patch: "Secondly, due to legal issues, we are not going to be able to release the Adult Only patch. However, that content does not affect the game in any significant way because the deleted material that was supposed to be added in the latest version of the patch is from two endings (out of seven) and some scenes that may be unlocked only after the end of the game. We are going to publish a comparison video on May 30th, 2018 so you will not miss out anything."

After almost nine months of the title being released, developer Team Ninja has announced that their title Nioh has reached two million copies sold.

Team Ninja released Nioh on the PlayStation 4 back in February last year, the PC version debuted later that same year in November. When the title released onto the PC it unfortunately came with numerous issues, some of which included: no mouse support, no key binding support and a lowering of textures in some of the titles cut-scenes. All of these issues were later fixed by Team Ninja through patch releases which then resulted in game being mostly accepted by the Steam PC community.

Team Ninja is celebrating their journey with Nioh by thanking their fans for their support and announcing the achivement of 2 million copies sold worldwide. The developers finish off by asking "were you able to find all the Kodama during your journey?"

You would think after a game being released in 2013 that the player-base would be dead or on its way out, well no one can say that for Grand Theft Auto V as the developer has just teased some more possible content being on the way for the titles popular online multiplayer.

The news has come from Rockstar's official Twitter page and as you can see from the above image, the tweet is a cryptic message for possible upcoming content. The message appears to be reading four electronic music artists: Solomun, Tale of Us, Dixon and The Black Madonna. This immediately suggests that Rockstar is adding a whole new radio station to GTA Online and that these are some of the artists that will be featured on the new station.

Another theory has suggested that instead of a new radio station, Rockstar will be adding a "Nightclub" update that allows players to own and maintain their own nightclub as a source of income. Nothing is confirmed as of yet, the only date we have to go off of is "Summer 2018" so as the months roll in closer we hope to hear a more clear message from Rockstar.

As brawlers alike gear up for the new upcoming Super Smash Bros. title coming to the Nintendo Switch, many fans of the series are wondering what stages are most likely going to be included in the upcoming game.

A recent Reddit post on the /r/NintendoSwitch has gotten quite attention, the question that was posed by the Reddit user KungPowChicken23 was "What new stages are you hoping to see in Smash for Switch?". In response to the threads question, the community has given quite a few responses based on some of the most popular releases that are on the Nintendo Switch.

Some of the suggestions that were featured are from titles such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, Kirby: Star Allies, Splatoon 2 and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. The Nintendo Switch community also gave their suggestions and some of the most popular suggestions included Elysmium from Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Burning Jungle from Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze and the Splatoon 2 lobby.

One of the most anticipated titles to be revealed at this years E3 is Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding, the title at the moment has very little confirmed knowledge about it. Hardcore Kojima fans have dissected the recent Twitter posts and have agreed that the setting is most likely going to be in Iceland.

Last week we saw that Hideo Kojima posted a picture of some moss, fans mobilized quickly to begin to look for hidden messages amongst the greenery but it seems that perhaps they were reading to much into the simple picture. Twitter user Rafael Andrade has posted a side by side comparison between rocks found in Iceland and those that Hideo Kojima posted to his Twitter.

Kojima actually came across Andrade's comparison tweet and re-tweeted it which could suggest that fans are on the right track assuming the location is somewhat close to Iceland. This is not the only piece of evidence that points towards Iceland, from the latest trailer we can see in the background of a certain scene that there is some moss in the setting. Kojima posted a very similar image to his Twitter 4 years prior, stating "Only moss lives here???"

Fortnite has been making strides against fellow Battle Royale game PUBG, but not to the amusement of PUBG Corp. which is now suing Fortnite developer Epic Games over "copyright infringement" and "plagiarism" in Fortnite.

Fortnite debuted in July 2017 with a single 'Save the World' mode, where gamers would build walls and use them to defend themselves from the enemy. A few months later in September, Epic added the new free-to-play 'Battle Royale' mode into the game, something that PUBG Corp. says is plagiarism and copyright infringement of Battlegrounds items, and the UI.

Bluehole said in September (before changing their name to PUBG Corp.) that the recent Battle Royale mode introduced to Fortnite had core elements and UI that seemed very similar to Battlegrounds. PUBG Corp. also noted that it was regrettable that Epic had released a game so similar to Battlegrounds, as the Fortnite developer was a partner of Bluehole.

AMD debuted the Radeon RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56 some 11 months ago now in LA, but there was nothing concrete about Vega-powered gaming notebooks... until now.

Acer revealed its new Predator Helios 500 gaming laptops that can be configured with an enthusiast level Intel/NVIDIA combo in the Core i9-8950HK and GeForce GTX 1070, but what about AMD? Acer has also offered up the first enthusiast AMD only gaming notebook, powered by the Ryzen 7 2700 and the Radeon RX Vega 56.

The 1080p variant of the Predator Helios 500 gaming laptops all rock 144Hz refresh rates, with the Radeon-powered option switching out G-Sync for FreeSync.

Battlegrounds was the PC phenomenon of 2017 but late last year and for all of 2018, all eyes have been on Epic Games' smash hit Fortnite which has also been dominating iOS, too.

PlayerUnknown himself Brendan Greene was recently interviewed by EDGE magazine, and was asked about his next game, something that Greene downplayed and said wouldn't be as good as PUBG. Greene started off with: "Yeah, I am dreading my next game, because it's PlayerUnknown's Next Game. And there's going to be eyes on it".

He continued: "No matter what I do, there's going to be a lot of critics going, "Well, it's no PUBG." And I've accepted that - I am not going to make a game that's going to get like, three million concurrent users, and tens of millions of players every month. But I'm not aiming to make that. I want to make a game I want to play, and if other people want to play it, that's fantastic - but ultimately, if they don't, I'll still have a game that I can play. So that's my outlook: I'm probably going to get shit on, but that's okay".

Samsung will unveil their next big flagship later this year, with the Galaxy Note 9 to surely rock the latest processor from Qualcomm, but I'm more geared for the possibilities of 5G.

The latest rumor is from leaker 'Ice universe' on Twitter, who said if we are lucky we will see 8GB of RAM and 512GB storage on the Galaxy Note 9. Samsung has 6GB of RAM in the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy Note 8, with up to 256GB of internal storage but the leap to 8GB of RAM and 512GB of storage will be a big one.

Samsung wouldn't be the only one on the market with a smartphone with 8GB of RAM, as the OnePlus 6 is powered by 8GB of RAM while OnePlus was already the first with the OnePlus 5T seeing an 8GB SKU released last year.

Bitcoin Gold was hit with a 51% attack in the last few days, with the attacker hitting BTG with a double spend attack that allowed the hacker/s to steal up to $18 million.

The BTG development team confirmed the attack took place, with the attacker controlling over 51% of the network's hashrate, using that to reorganize the blockchain and reverse transactions. The hackers "made deposits at cryptocurrency exchanges, traded the coins for BTC or another coin, and then withdrew the funds. Next, the attacker used their dominant computing power to force the rest of the network to accept falsified blocks that reversed their initial deposits and caused these funds to vanish from exchange-controlled wallets", reports CCN.

Up to $18 million could've been stolen as the attacker sent themselves over 380,000 BTG but there's no word on how many of these transactions were successful. If they were, up to $18 million is gone. The blame? Equihash, the mining algorithm behind BTG. BTG developers blamed, at least in part, Equihash; which is used with numerous cryptocurrencies.