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Quake Champions will have an update in the coming weeks that will enable bots, which will be coded clever enough to perform trick jumps and strafe jumps, just like you.

The bots will have a difficulty sliding scale that you can adjust depending on how good you are, where on the easier side of things the bots will treat you like a newb and not pick up powerful weapons and pick ups like Quad Damage. When they're harder, the bots will see you picking up a powerful weapon or Quad Damage and avoid trying to go for it, impressive.

id Software has said that the bots will arrive in two phases, with Phase 1 coming "soon" according to Quake Champions' technical director, John Dean. The bots will only be featured in a few game mods, but they'll be able to use any champion and weapon, but not the champion abilities.

Intel is set to go through another battle with security holes in its CPUs with a revised version of Spectre found, with 8 new Spectre-like issues discovered.

Spectre Next Generation, or Spectre NG is what it's called, with Intel recently being notified of the security holes. 4 of them were rated high, while the remaining 4 were medium severity. The technical details behind Spectre NG haven't been announced, but we know that they will be similar or worse than the original Spectre, which was bad enough.

Intel is reportedly working on getting Spectre Next Generation problems fixed, with Microsoft and others working on OS level adjustments. There will reportedly be two new waves of updates, with the first coming soon and another reportedly in August, but these dates could vary depending on how bad Spectre NG really is.

Far Cry 5 has a vast and detailed game world that you can explore for hours on end, but you know what modders are like they will rip the game apart and building beautiful and interesting things... like the island from Lost... the TV show.

The modder behind this is 'Un-Break-Able' who says that the Lost map is an "accurate recreated map" but its not to scale over technical limitations. He explains: "Everything from as small as Sun's garden to all 9 Dharma Initiative Stations are included ... In regards to accuracy some assumptions had to be made. Such as the Hydra Station where we saw many of these rooms but how they were organised and connected in the complex was impossible to determine exactly but was made to the best of my knowledge".

The map is playable for 10 minutes as there are restrictions on the game and its editor, enough time to tease you but not to get lost in the world of Lost.

Intel has been working hard on their new GPU with industry sources telling TweakTown that they've reached the end of this first step, and are now preparing for the big launch.

The company has spent the better part of two years on this, and in the last minute poached key talent from AMD with Raja Koduri and Chris Hook. Not only that, but Intel secured Athlon and Ryzen CPU architect Jim Keller who was working at Tesla until last week, and are now pushing full steam ahead with the next generation Intel graphics core.

My sources are telling me to expect something late this year with all attention to be placed on Intel at CES 2019 in January, where Intel could unveil their new GPU. A discrete graphics card launch from Intel would be a huge deal to gamers, as NVIDIA has no competition in the high-end graphics card market from AMD whatsoever.

Activision has activated the hype train for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 by saying that it has provided "significant" resources for the PC version of the game.

In the recent Activision Blizzard earnings call, company president and COO Coddy Johnson said that they are laser-focused on the PC version of COD: Black Ops 4, saying that it "is a game that will push the envelope with innovation". Johnson added that Activision has "invested significant dedicated resources to ensure we can deliver a great PC game".

This is a strange but very welcoming move by Activision, but I'm not going to commit any hope to the game until it's out. I think they're trying to attract the tens of millions of gamers playing Battlegrounds and Fortnite on the PC to be interested in COD: Black Ops 4, but unless they deliver it'll just be a polished console port.

NZXT has just unveiled their new Limited Edition H700 PUBG case, something the company teamed with PUBG Corporation and Gamers Outreach on, in order to recreate the look of the airdrop from Battlegrounds.

There will only be 2000 of the new H700 PUBG cases made, with 10% of the sales of the cases donated to Gamers Outreach, a charity that donates equipment, technology, and more to kids going through treatment in hospital.

The crowd-funded battle royale title Crazy Justice, has been spotted showcasing its cross-play abilities on the Nintendo Switch and Xbox One.

Developers, Black Riddle Studios have released the above video displaying the progress that has been made on creating cross-play between Nintendo Switch players, Xbox One players and PC players.

Unfortunately PS4 users will not have this feature available when the game releases, Crazy Justice is planned for release on PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC sometime during Q2 this year.

The moment has finally arrived for anyone that participated in the Twitch plays Super Mario Odyssey stream, the chat has directed Mario to the end of the game and has finally completed it.

For those that are not aware, there is a entire livestream dedicated to the community beating games through entering commands in the chat, examples include: move forward, jump, roll and any other movements or abilities the game requires.

The communities latest challenge has been Super Mario Odyssey and just recently the chat has managed to beat Bowser and save Peach, completing the game just through chat commands that anyone can enter. The teamwork is very impressive here and the moment of joy has been saved via a short video. Since Super Mario Odyssey has been beaten the chat has decided to move onto The Legend of Zelda: Breathe of the Wild, check out the livestream here.

A while back we heard about Star Citizen breaking a new milestone of crowdfunding, reaching a massive $181m+. Now the space adventure title has been showcased in 6 minutes of smooth gameplay footage.

Above is the gameplay footage and what we can see from it is that the mission probably couldn't be more dull and boring. All that was done was the player retrieved a box and nothing more than that, throughout the extraction though we can visually see the Star Citizen world and what is claimed to be running at 1080p 60FPS.

According to some players in the comment section below the video, IGN actually would of joined a private server to record this game footage, as the players claim that there is no way for the title in its current state to be this optimized. Some comments even stress that it is hard to maintain even a solid 30FPS while in a 50 man server. This is not confirmed though so do take the footage with a grain of salt.

A new trailer has been released for Quake Champions by Bethesda and id Software, the trailer showcases the new Gore system that is on the way.

The trailer shows that players will be able to completely dismember their opponents when they kill them, removing limbs such as the head, arms, torso, legs etc etc.

For those that are unsure of what Quake Champions is here is quick description on the title: "Quake Champions delivers the dark mythos of the first Quake combined with the groundbreaking multiplayer mayhem of Quake III Arena with a major modern twist - Champions. These fierce warriors each wield unique attributes and abilities, enabling players to compete in their own distinctive style, while adding an additional layer of strategy to the game." Check out the below trailer to enjoy the 'Gore' that is on its way to Quake Champions.

Middle-earth: Shadow of War's Desolation of Mordor has received a new trailer from Warner Bros. Interactive, the trailer reveals the opening cinematic for the DLC.

This new DLC will be giving players the opportunity to jump into the shoes of Baranor who is the Captain of Minas Ithil. During the DLC players will be paired up with his now reunited brother Serka to form an army to combat the Orc threat.

Middle-earth: Shadow of War's Desolation of Mordor DLC will be releasing on May 18th and will cost $19.99. In other news about Middle-earth: Shadow of War, Monolith Productions has announced that they will be removing micro-transactions from their title.

Intel is expected to launch its refreshed Z390 chipset in the next couple of months, where I'm sure Chipzilla will show off the Z390 during Computex 2018 next week.

We're now being exposed to some of the secrets behind the Z390 chipset, with SuperMicro's upcoming and always confusingly named C9Z390-CG-IW. The board packed a Core i7-8700T processor, a low-power 6C/12T chip that is already available, as well as the Core i7-8700K which is an 8C/16T chip.

This means that the new Z390 chipset will support all current-gen Coffee Lake S (CFS) parts, as it uses the same LGA1151 socket found in current-gen 300-series motherboards. We should expect Intel to show off more about the Z390 next month at Computex, and we'll be there bringing you the news as it happens.

Yesterday we saw the official Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer released by Rockstar and today we have been gifted yet again, this time with a batch of official screenshots.

From the below screenshots we can see the main protagonist Arthur Morgan, the iconic John Marston from the first Red Dead Redemption, animals and other environments.

Red Dead Redemption 2 will be bringing players a story about Arthur Morgan during 1899 and his adventure across the plains of developing America. Red Dead Redemption 2 will be released on the 26th of October for the Xbox One and PS4.

ASRock only just entered the graphics card market for the first time ever, and now it seems that AMD is blocking them from selling Radeon graphics cards in Europe, because reasons.

Tom's Hardware has the story, with an ASRock sales manager explaining that "The problem is that AMD has not agreed to sell (ASRock graphics cards) in EU, that is really a pity". This isn't a surprise as regional blocks on specific products from certain countries isn't something new, as there truly are a plethora of brands to choose from in Europe.

ASRock recently launched their new Radeon RX 580 Phantom Gaming graphics card, but you won't be buying it in Europe, soz.

NVIDIA turned the entire graphics card and PC gaming community on its head with the push of the GeForce Partner Program, or GPP. But it hasn't even been a few months yet, nor have we seen the fruits of this evil labor, and it's done, dusted, over.

NVIDIA has officially canceled the GPP with a post on their own blog where they said: "The rumors, conjecture and mistruths go far beyond its intent. Rather than battling misinformation, we have decided to cancel the program". NVIDIA continues, adding "GPP had a simple goal - ensuring that gamers know what they are buying and can make a clear choice".

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Overwatch is constantly updated with balances and fixes to the game, with Blizzard pushing out a new 1GB update for the PC, Xbox One, and PS4 versions of the game.

The latest map 'Rialto' joins the Overwatch fray, but so do balances for a bunch of the heroes in the game, including some big changes to Hanzo. Blizzard has been working on balancing Hanzo for a while now, with Hanzo losing his Scatter Arrow ability that gets replaced with Storm Arrows.

Storm Arrows let Hanzo fire 6 arrows, with each individual arrow doing less damage than a standard arrow, but they're fired at maximum power. Hanzo also secures a new ability: Lunge, where by pressing jump while in mid-air, Hanzo will leap horizontally.

Twitter has been hit in a big way today, with the social networking giant urging all of its 330 million users to change their passwords immediately after they were exposed in a bug in plain text.

The company wasn't hacked at all, with Twitter recommending people change their passwords out of an "abundance of caution". Twitter wants you to change your password on the site itself, and anywhere else that you've used that password, including third-party Twitter apps.

How did it happen? Well, Twitter says that the bug occurred through an issue in the hashing process, where it masks passwords by replacing them with a random string of characters that then get sorted on Twitter's system. An error in this process happened, so the passwords were then saved in plain text to an internal log. Twitter says they found the bug on their own, and removed the passwords and is working on it so it doesn't happen again.

At the end of April Boss Key Productions released the first patch for Radical Heights the new free-to-play Battle Royale shooter, this time round the second patch has more performance improvements and a gadget has been added.

Just like the first patch this patch comes with a massive amount of bug fixes and improvements. This time round though Boss Key Productions will be adding a new gadget called the Scanner, this item introduces more ways for players to customize their characters.

Also included in this patch is improvements to the server region selection, brand new animations, weapon balancing and more performance improvements. Steam will automatically download this update and if you are interested in delving into the full patch notes visit the official Radical Heights changelog here.

Leading up to the release of Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition this month Nintendo has released a new character highlights trailer, this time introducing some very unique characters.

Not to long ago we saw the first character highlights trailer, now up to the 4th installment of the trailer series Nintendo are showcasing Agitha, Zant, Midna, Twili Midna and Toon Zelda.

Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition is releasing on May 18th for the Nintendo Switch. Players that have already purchased the title on the Nintendo eShop have the option of downloading the 12.9GB game now so its preloaded and ready for the titles debut.

Stunlock Studios, the developers behind Battlerite have revealed that their Action MOBA/Arena Brawler will be receiving a Battle Royale mode.

The Marketing Director for Stunlock Studios has commented on the games upcoming mode, here is what he had to say: "With a top-down Battle Royale mode we've set out to bring the ultimate survival experience to Action RPG and MOBA players. We want to give players the excitement of a Diablo-esque exploration experience combined with the character variation of a MOBA and the thrill of a survival game. That said, I think anyone who's looking for a fresh and different take on the Battle Royale genre will have a blast."

This is certainly quite an interesting way to bring Battle Royale to an arena brawler, the idea of players being able to choose from 27 different characters that each have their own respective advantages will be a very unique Battle Royale experience. According to the details, the Battle Royale map mode will be 30 times larger than the standard Battlerite map, this is mostly to compensate for the 20 players being thrown onto the single map. Battlerite Royale will be available in the coming future and is planned for release closer to this years Summer.