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NVIDIA is preparing their GeForce GTX 1180 for June 15 in Founders Edition form according to the latest rumor from Tom's Hardware, a new card that would beat out their current flagship graphics card, the TITAN Xp.

I exclusively reported that NVIDIA will name the new cards the GeForce GTX 1180 and that it will be the Turing architecture (after all the kerfuffle over Ampere, but that GPU architecture comes after Turing). We can expect the June 15 release to be a hotly-talked about subject, especially as it's the week after Computex which is quite odd indeed.

NVIDIA will push out the GTX 1180 Founders Edition first, then AIB partners like ZOTAC, MSI, ASUS, GIGABYTE and others will have their custom cards to show off sometime in August-September.

After years of service, Best Buy may be shuttering its Gamer's Club Unlocked initiative, pushing consumers to other retailers like Amazon for savings.

Reports broke out yesterday that big box retailer Best Buy is canning its penny-saving Gamer's Club Unlocked program for "a variety of reasons." An internal memo obtained by Twitter user Wario64 states that effective immediately GCU cannot be renewed by existing members or purchased by non-members. Current members will still have discount benefits until their subscription expires. The service offered perks like 20% off all new games, 10% off used games, and bonus trade-in credit for the low cost of $30 for 2 years.

"For a variety of reasons, we have decided that our Gamers Club programs will not be accepting new members. This includes both the free Gamers Club membership and Gamers Club Unlocked (GCU). Current members will continue to receive their benefits and we encourage everyone else to use our 'My Best Buy' membership to receive perks, including receiving a $10 reward certificate when pre-ordering hot games," the memo states.

Ubisoft will unveil and release new IP this fiscal year. What could it be?

We've known for a while that Ubisoft is making a new IP to release this fiscal year. The company's Fiscal Year 2019 slate, which is from March 2018 through April 2019, will include three major AAA releases: The Division 2, The Crew 2, and something brand new...something that's been in the works for quite some time.

"This fiscal year we are looking to launch very strong titles that will benefit from extended development time that should support their overall performance. The release slate will be made of The Division 2, The Crew 2, and one unannounced franchise that we can't wait to reveal at E3," the company said in its earnings call. "These three games are the result of a huge amount of work and passion of our teams over many years."

If all goes to plan, Fortnite's massively popular and lucrative mobile version will come to Android this year.

In a recent blog post Epic Games confirmed that Fortnite on Android should drop in summer 2018, which could mean the battle royale flavor is just months away. "Fortnite is coming to Android. We are targeting this summer for the release. We know many of you are excited for this release, and we promise that when we have more information to share, you'll hear it from us first," the post reads.

Apart from absolutely smashing sales revenue marks on both PC and consoles, and attracting millions of viewers via eSports tournaments and streams, Fortnite's mobile port has done tremendously well. The iOS version managed to rake in $1 million in-game purchases in just three days, lending strong credence to Newzoo's projections that mobile gaming will pull in 51% of the global games market with $70.3 billion.

Black Ops 4 will ship without a traditional campaign mode, but this could just be temporary.

As we reported yesterday this year's big new Call of Duty game will be missing a big piece of the content pie: a fully-fledged story-driven campaign mode. I posited that this move was tactical on Activision's part as it allowed the publisher to cater to the strong multiplayer market with a huge engagement strategy. In lieu of campaign, Activision and Treyarch are infusing key narrative elements into the online modes like zombies and Blackout, the battle royale gametype. At the same time, however, it appears Treyarch might release Black Ops 4's campaign later down the road.

Since the rumors surrounding battle royale and the lack of a campaign mode have been true, perhaps the further rumors that Black Ops 4's troubled singleplayer are also true. A recent interview with Treyarch's senior producer Yale Miller strongly suggests this is the case, and that Black Ops 4 could get singleplayer campaign content after the game ships.

It was recently announced that the 4 million players playing Battlerite would be receiving their very own battle royale gamemode, now the concept artwork for the map has been revealed by Stunlock Studios.

Stunlock Studios took to their developers blog to announced their progress. The title of the island has been deemed Talon Island and many screenshots and images have been provided to shine some light on the islands features for players.

According to the blog post the "map is 30 times larger than the standard arena mode map" and will also be divided into several different areas "the town of Anvilfall, the Glimmering Woods, the Starlight Oasis, and the Ancient Tomb." Not only is Stunlock Studios concentrating on providing players with a unqiue map experience but they are also taking some time to make sure the lore of the title is very relative as well. "The lore has always been important to the team when creating new champions and creating the world of Battlerite and we are now working with talented lore writer Christopher Harrow to improve our universe building."

Rare has released a new short video on their YouTube channel, the video teases Sea of Thieves fans about the coming Hungering Deep content update.

The video begins with the scaly-wag Merrick hinting at what is to come for players, he does this in the form of a short story. Merrick begins by saying that ancient tribes used to worship "great terrors from the deep" and to sail the seas undisturbed they would "offer a sacrifice."

The video also showcases what seems to be a Megladon (prehistoric Great White shark) that topples the size of a normal shark. This clue is also reinforced by that tattoo that is seen on Merricks chest, it appears that the jaw tattoo we can see is very similar to that of a fossil found of the Megladon. The Hungering Deep content update is planned for release on May 29th.

No Man's Sky initially sold itself out with false promises before its release back in 2016, since then the developers Hello Games have been trying to implement what they advertised to fans and now the title will finally be receiving multiplayer support.

According to Sean Murray, the founder of Hello Games, No Man's Sky will be gifted with fully fledged PVP support that include dogfights, shared base building, races, team-based multiplayer and random encounters with other players.

Murray announced this news throughout a 'Inside Xbox' stream, he also announced that No Man's Sky will be debuting to the Xbox One at the exact same time as this update goes live. No Man's Sky will be arriving on the Xbox One on July 24 and the multiplayer content update titled 'Next' will be also debut on this date.

THQ Nordic recently held there financial presentation and during their conference Shenmue 3 had its in-engine trailer showcased, teasing the games updated graphics engine.

Shenmue 3 is being developed by Yu Suzuki's independent company, Ys Net which is located in Tokyo, Japan. The team developing the third installment into the franchise is comprised of many original Shenmue team members from the early games.

The trailer is featured at about 2 minutes and displays the current updated graphics engine, keep in mind that this trailer is also pre-alpha footage which leads to suggest that the title will be much better looking when it is fully released. Shenmue 3 was recently delayed until 2019, this decision was made my THQ Nordic and Deep Silver as they both believed that the developers should have some more time to polish the game that so many fans are dying to get their hands-on.

The arcade basketball game NBA Playgrounds 2 was originally announced for release on May 22nd, but according to the developers Saber Interactive the title will not be arriving then.

We saw the first NBA Playgrounds 2 gameplay trailer about a week ago now and since then the title has been creeping towards its release date. Now the developer, Saber Interactive has taken to their Facebook page to release the bad news for fans, the post reads as follows "We've got some news to share, but we want to start by saying 'good things come to those who wait.' There are exciting things brewing with the NBA Playgrounds franchise that we think will take arcade basketball to new levels."

The post continues by saying that players need to be patient with development process as the plans that are in the pipeline for NBA Playgrounds 2 are striving to make the game better than ever."We can't tell you everything now, but we can tell you that this means our launch date of May 22nd will be moved out. Please be patient with us, we promise that NBA Playgrounds 2 will be better than ever. We'll have more details to share soon."

Samsung is going to dominate the monitor market once again this year, with a brief tease of a new 49-inch 5120x1440 display with a refresh rate of 120Hz... but what about 4K?

We're already expecting both ASUS and Acer to release 4K 120Hz gaming displays in the coming months, but from what we've seen and heard so far they'll be relatively small at just 27 inches. Samsung's purported 4K 120Hz gaming display is a much larger 31.5-inch panel, which is suited to 3840x2160 much better than can-you-even-see-it 27 inches at 4K.

Samsung won't be the first with a 4K 120Hz monitor, as that will go to Wasabi Mango and the UHD430 which is a gloriously huge 43-inch 4K 120Hz monitor that currently sells on eBay for $1399. I'd expect Samsung's 31.5-inch 4K 120Hz monitor to be more expensive, but we won't know exact pricing until next month where I'm sure the company will show it off during Computex 2018 with an expected July 2018 release.

Samsung is making what could be one of the beastiest gaming displays ever made, with TFT Central reporting that the company is doubling down on UltraWide monitors, powering them with their own Quantum Dot technology.

We should expect Samsung to unveil a new 49-inch 1800R-curved 32:9 display with a resolution that will massage your retinas at 5120x1440, with a 120Hz refresh rate to match. Samsung already dominates the super-ultra-wide market with their 49-inch CHG90 (which I'm using right this very moment) but the native 3840x1080 is a let down, especially when compared to the 5120x1440 which has 77% more pixels.

Samsung is reportedly also working on a 43.4-inch panel with a native 3840x1200 resolution and 144Hz refresh rate, while 3440x1440 displays will be bumped up to 144Hz in the very near future.

I'm still waiting for the Halo 6 announcement with a full 4K 60FPS experience on the Xbox One X, but in the meantime news has broken about a totally new Halo game, something no one expected.

Halo: Fireteam Raven is a new arcade-exclusive light-gun shooter that will hit Dave & Busters arcades across the US and Canada "this summer" while other arcades will have to wait until "later this year" for HFR. The game was announced during the Inside Xbox video presentation on Thursday night, and is a team up between Raw Thrills (one of the last arcade game producers in the US), Play Mechanix who were both "in close collaboration with 343 Industries". The game has taken "years" to develop according to Raw Thrills boss and arcade design legend Eugene Jarvis.

As for the cabinet itself, it rocks a huge 130-inch ultra-wide 4K monitor and four seated-turret controllers. You can play Halo: Fireteam Raven with four people in total as you fight alongside Master Chief during the events of Halo: Combat Evolved. You will have Needlers, Magnums, and Wathog-mounted turrets to kill your enemies with, which sounds freaking awesome.

Death Stranding is one of the most mysterious and hyped games of all time, from legendary Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima, who has teased a new trailer that could be unveiled during E3 2018 next month.

The trailer might show off more about the world of Death Stranding, or not, we truly have no idea what to expect. A gameplay trailer feels like I'd be asking for too much, but it would also blow so many gamers' minds that I think it could be the best way to debut Death Stranding... with a brand new gameplay trailer at E3.

Kojima teased on his personal Twitter account that he was "trying to edit by installing 4K materials, my PC couldn't operate smoothly enough due to horsepower shortage. No change for linear editing. I shall edit with 2K for a while". We now also know Hideo runs a potato PC and needs an upgrade. If the creator of Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding is unable to edit in 4K in real-time, things need to change... right?

Gran Turismo has cemented itself in history with the franchise selling over 80 million copies over the last 20 years, something that includes the 7 main releases, as well as the "Prologue" and "Online" versions, the 2006 HD remake, and the 2009 release on the Sony PSP.

Gran Turismo series creator Kazunori Yamauchi said: "It's hard to imagine that 80.4 million copies of Gran Turismo have been played during the 20-year history of the franchise. It makes me really happy to think of the immense amount of time that has been poured into playing our games! We would like to continue our efforts in achieving the best possible expression and creation of cars and scenery, as well as bringing the highest level of excitement and fun through racing in the years to come".

The only other racing franchise that has beaten Gran Turismo is Mario Kart, which has been cranking out game after game since 1992. This is the same year that Yamauchi began his work on the infamous GT series, too.

If you want to play Black Ops 4 digitally on PC you'll have to buy it right from Activision.

Following the big Black Ops 4 reveal, Activision today confirmed the new shooter will be exclusive to Blizzard's Battle.net platform on PC. "Black Ops 4 for the PC delivers a fully-optimized experience, which for the first time in Call of Duty's history will be available exclusively on Battle.net, Blizzard Entertainment's online gaming service," the publisher said in a press release.

The PC flavor is being co-developed by Beenox and will feature a number of optimizations that gamers expect including dedicated servers, uncapped frame rate, 4K support, HDR, ultra-wide monitor support and a "great scalability options" on PC. Battle.net integration means players can interact with existing friends on the platform, and will provide Activision a boon of wholly-recouped sales as well as stronger social engagement via the platform. Given publishers have to pay Valve a cut for every game sold on Steam, major games-makers are pushing towards their own storefronts a la Ubisoft with uPlay or EA with Origin (and of course Activision-Blizzard with Battle.net). This will likely be the norm for key Activision games moving forward.

This year's Call of Duty game will exclusively be a live service game without any sort of campaign mode, but it'll have a huge array of multiplayer content.

Although Black Ops 4 technically won't have a singleplayer campaign mode, Treyarch still asserts the game will tell a story. These stories will be told through multiple game modes such as Blops 4's zombies gametype, which sees campaign and co-op merged together as a "narrative-driven" experience. And zombies actually has interdimensional travel for some reason--the "IX" gametype even has you playing as gladiators against the undead in an ancient Roman colosseum (now I'm not joking). "Black Ops 4 marks the beginning of a brand new storyline. Separate and distinct, a new world with new characters and enemies. Drawing from history both real and mythical," the dev said on stage during the game's reveal.

The real crux of Black Ops 4 is Activision's most lucrative billion-dollar strategy: engagement. The game has been built from the ground up to keep players gaming online with their friends for months and months thanks to its smattering of modes, which of course taps the industry's massively popular battle royale. In very many ways Black Ops 4 looks like a mish-mash circus of online gametypes and experimental live-driven content and less like the more rigid and serious experiences the series can deliver.

Bigben Interactive has taken to their Facebook page to announce to fans that Tennis World Tour will have its release dates moved for both the Nintendo Switch and PC.

Breakpoint Studio, the developers for Tennis World Tour have also mentioned that the title will be receiving a day-one patch, here is what the side note said "Note that the game will come with a day one patch, so make sure to check for updates before you claim the court for yourself. "

Tennis World Tour is planned for release on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on May 22nd, the Nintendo Switch and PC version of the game has sadly had its release date pushed back to the 12th of June. For further information regarding the release of Tennis World Tour visit the official Tennis World Tour website here.

The Lord of The Rings TV show by Amazon has recently come back into the news, the spotlight is featured on a new rumor for the shows setting in the Tolkien timeline. It is possible we could see the TV show focusing on a Young Aragorn and the origins of the Dunedain.

The rumors have surfaced from a fansite called The One Ring, the site has claimed that they have confirmed from multiple sources that Amazons highly anticipated show will be "centered on a young Aragorn." This may not be 100% true as there has been no official confirmation from Amazon as of yet, but for the sake of the rumor and to indulge in the possibility of this being true it would not be a bad choice at all.

If the TV show did center itself around Young Aragorn that would mean the origins of the character would be revealed, allowing for a connection to the Numenoreans and the Dunedain to be established, this would also include the founding of Gondor and the northern kingdom of Arnor. More interesting though, if the Dunedain path is taken we could see the villain for the first couple of seasons being the Witch-king of Angmar. From the perspective of the shows audience, Amazon would also be bringing forth a very familiar character to take the main stage, making it easier for fans that are not so die hard to begin the new story off on a character they have already seen before.

Milestone has taken to their YouTube Channel to announce their next installment into the Ride series. Ride 3 has received an announcement trailer and five new screenshots.

From the above announcement trailer we can see a bunch of different bikes, terrains, environments, weather effects and amazing scenery. According to the description in the announcement video we are told that players should "Prepare to ride the most beautiful and powerful bikes ever crafted. Explore breath-taking scenery all around the world with your two wheels companion. Feel the adrenaline of true competition. Ride everything. Feel everything."

The announcement trailer also reveals the titles release date, currently Ride 3 is coming to players on November 8. For fans that want more information on the upcoming title check out the official Ride website here.