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The Farm 51 has taken to Facebook to announce their newest title Chernobylite, a horror game set in the nuclear disaster zone of Chernobyl.

The developers specifically left their announcement until the 26th of April as "Exactly at this date and time the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe has started. The melted core of the burning Reactor No. 4 mixed with the other chemical substances to create a highly radioactive material that hadn't exist anywhere in the world besides Chernobyl."

This catastrophe has been documented by the developers as it is their goal to bring "a deep, emotional story, engaging survival and horror experience, and a visually stunning recreation of Chernobyl area achieved with detailed 3D scanning of rich game world, beautifully rendered in Unreal Engine 4."

Starbound developer Chucklefish has released a trailer for their new upcoming title Eastward. The new trailer showcases the pixel art players will be enjoying as well as puzzles and some enemies.

For those that do not know about Eastward here is the description of the title that was released with the trailer. "Eastward is an adventure game for PC & Mac combining RPG elements, with a visual style inspired by 90s Japanese animation. As the world around falls to ruin, you play as hardworking digger John, who must guide a mysterious girl named Sam through dangerous decaying cities, inhabited by strange monsters, and even stranger people!"

To check out more information on Eastward, visit the official Eastward website here, or visit the Chucklefish YouTube Channel here.

The newest Marvel movie taking to the big screens is Avengers: Infinity War and the title has now been projected to set a new box office record.

According to the newest weekend forecasts from box office pro, Avengers: Infinity War has already surpassed the highest first-weekend release record. Star Wars: The Force Awakens made $248 million and has been bumped down to second place, Avengers: Infinity War is now taking the top place with an expected total of $250 million by the end of Sunday in US and Canada time.

On a global scale, Avengers: Infinity War is also taking the lead, as the title has already made an estimated $380 million, bringing in a total of $630 million. Universal's The Fate of the Furious previously held the global first place weekend with $541.9 million and that was including the world second largest market for movies, the Chinese market. Avengers: Infinity War is yet to open in the Chinese market so it will be very interesting to see how these numbers increase when it does.

AMD will be shrinking Vega down later this year from 14nm to 7nm, with the first real tease happening a few days ago when company CEO Lisa Su said they had the 7nm-based Radeon Instinct accelerator in their labs for testing.

This isn't a Radeon RX Vega refresh for gamers, but a professional graphics card with much more HBM2 on-board. The original Radeon Pro SSG and Radeon Vega Frontier Edition graphics cards both had 16GB of HBM2, but this new 7nm node shrink adds another 16GB of HBM2 for a total of 32GB of HBM2. Impressive.

There are GPU clocks and 3DMark runs but I wouldn't look at much of this without throwing in a grain of salt or 5000. For starters, the HBM2 clocks are at 1250MHz (up from the 1100MHz at maximum overclocks on the RX Vega 64 or 945MHz default HBM2 clocks). This would provide some truly crazy memory bandwidth numbers.

It looks like the new Hitman game has been accidentally teased, with both the Australian and Korean classifications ratings boards teasing Hitman: Sniper Assassin for the PC, Xbox One, and PS4.

Hitman: Sniper Assassination hasn't been offically announced by developer IO Interactive, and while this could be a genuine error, I doubt it - we should expect Sniper Assassin to be announced soon enough. But, there was mobile variant 'Hitman: Sniper' released in 2015, so this could be a better polished or sequel to that game, or a totally new game... we don't know just yet.

IO did announce that they were "making great progress" on a follow up to Hitman from 2016, so we should expect something soon. Hitman: Definitive Edition is right around the corner as well, with a release on both the Xbox One and PS4 on May 18. E3 2018 is less than a month after that, where I think we'll be officially introduced to Hitman: Sniper Assassin.

Apple didn't have the best launch with its iPhone X late last year, and now according to sources of the company they are "disappointed" with the sales of iPhone X as it's not competing against other similarly priced flagship smartphones on the market.

FastCompany is now reporting that Apple wants to "burn off" the inventory of iPhone X smartphones with its resellers, and when mixed with the production of iPhone X being cut down to just 8 million units in Q2 2018, things begin making sense. Apple expected to sell 27 million iPhone X handsets in Q1 2018, now expecting to have sold 14 million units.

We should know more about iPhone X sales on May 1, which is when Apple reports its financial results for the March-ending quarter. Analysts will have their eyes glued to numbers, to see if iPhone sales failed, met, or exceeded their expectations.

The rumors of Apple working on their own AR/VR headset have been around for years, but the most exciting rumors of their purported headset have just arrived, teasing dual 8K displays.

CNET is reporting that Apple's purported 'T288' headset rocks dual 8K displays (one 8K display per eye) but unlike Mashable who seem to not know how resolutions and pixels work (they said "Most impressive is the resolution it reportedly packs: an 8K display per eye, for a total resolution of 16K. That would be an insane amount of pixels") it is 'just' 8K per eye (7680 x 4320).

The site reports that Apple's purported headset would "connect to a dedicated box using a high-speed, short-range wireless technology, according to a person familiar with the company's plans. The box, which would be powered by a custom Apple processor more powerful than anything currently available, would act as the brain for the AR/VR headset. In its current state, the box resembles a PC tower, but it won't be an actual Mac computer".

We all know that cheating in Battlegrounds is a big deal, with 120 suspects arrested by Chinese authorities earlier this year, and another 15 cheat makers were just arrested with fines totaling $6.24 million.

PUBG Corporation's Ryan Rigney said that the arrests took place in China on April 25, with the developer aiming at people who were "developing and selling hacking/cheating programs that affect PUBG". Rigney continued, saying that some of these cheats that were made had malicious code and were installing backdoors and stealing user information.

Rigney explained: "The longstanding rumor that hacking/cheating programs extract information from users' PCs has been confirmed to be true. Using illegal programs not only disrupts others, but can end up with you handing over your personal information".

AMD has lost yet another executive to Intel after bleeding out Radeon Technologies Group boss Raja Koduri, and recently ex-Tesla (and former AMD CPU architect) Jim Keller recently joining the ranks of Intel, with Chris Hook marking the third AMD executive to join Intel in almost as many weeks.

Hook was the former Radeon marketing boss and will be leading marketing for visual technologies and dGFX (think graphics cards) at Intel. Hook will become their first graphics card marketer, where he'll form a strategy for Intel to use to fight AMD and NVIDIA in the graphics card market in the coming years.

Intel is forming quite the ex-AMD dream team for its CPU and GPU divisions, with both Raja and Hook quite the duo in the not-so-long-lived RTG team. AMD has been morphing very silently into a semi-custom company, with a bunch of high level executives exiting the company over the last few months, bleeding talent out into Intel, and other companies.

We're finally starting to see more concrete details on Shadow of the Tomb Raider, something that is coming very soon and is now being pushed as the latest game to be donned by NVIDIA's technologies.

NVIDIA has announced it partnered up with Square Enix, Eidos Montreal, Crystal Dynamics, and Nixxes Software on the PC version of the game. The press release reads: "NVIDIA will lend its gaming and PC development expertise to help bring the PC platform's advanced gaming features to Shadow of the Tomb Raider. This effort will help maximize the performance benefits of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 10-series GPUs for PC gamers across the world. This continues the collaboration that began in the series' previous title, Rise of the Tomb Raider".

We should expect Shadow of the Tomb Raider to rock the usual GeForce technologies like VXAO, HBAO+ and more. The game itself is expected on September 14 for the PC, Xbox One, and PS4.

AMD will be continuing their onslaught of CPU releases throughout 2018, starting the year out with a bang with the Ryzen 2000 series processors led by the flagship Ryzen 7 2700X.

But now we're hearing about new Ryzen desktop CPUs with the Ryzen 2100, 2300X, and 2500X. These processors will join the Ryzen 2200 and 2400 processors, so we should expect the Ryzen 5 2500X to be a 4C/8T chip for mainstream consumers and gamers.

Moving onto the mobile offerings with Ryzen Mobile 2000U, 2600U, and 2800U. The interesting note here is the Ryzen 7 2800U that is a full Ryzen 7 flagship offering in mobile designs, very cool to see, but will it be very hot under full load? That's what I want to see out of it all.

Intel has delayed its 10nm node yet again, but during AMD's recent Q1 2018 earnings call the company teased that they have not just their 7nm Radeon GPUs being tested in their labs, but upcoming 7nm server CPUs as well.

AMD President and CEO Lisa Su explained: "We have 7nm GPU based on Vega that we'll sample later this year. We have a 7nm server CPU that we'll sample later this year. And then, obviously, we have a number of products that are planned for 2019 as well. So it's a very, very busy product season for us. But we're pleased with the sort of the execution on the product roadmap".

Where we normally see Intel nailing the process node game, AMD is ahead here with what seems to be Globalfoundries' mature 7nm LP node that will power desktop Ryzen 3000 series CPUs in 2019.

Intel has delayed its upcoming 10nm processors yet again, with Cannon Lake stuck back in the firing line with mass production delayed until 2019, instead of late-2018 like Intel promised.

The company promised 10nm back in 2015, but delayed it into 2017 and then again into 2018, so this new delay marks the fourth delay in a row for Chipzilla. Instead, the company has been reworking its seventh-gen 14nm+ node (Kaby Lake R) and their newer 14nm++ (Coffee Lake). We were meant to have eighth-gen parts in 10nm Cannon Lake node, but yeah that won't be happening until 2019 now.

Intel revealed the fourth delay to its 10nm node in their recent earnings report, and while they nailed it with record Q1 revenue of $16.8 billion (up 16% year-over-year), high-volume 10nm production has been delayed until sometime in 2019, with no specifics provided at all.

It might look like Intel has the CPU game in its hands, but Chipzilla was dealt a pretty big blow by delaying its 10nm node yet again, and now we're hearing about what is coming next, the next big thing that could see us with a truly next-gen leap in CPU architecture technology.

Intel has a job listing looking for a Senior CPU microarchitect that would join their Ocean Cove team in Hillsboro, Oregon where they would begin work on the next-gen Core architecture.

Ashraf Essa from The Motley Fool tweeted that Intel's next-gen Ocean Cove CPU core "comes after the core inside of ADL" which is the Alder Lake generation. This means we can expect the launch of Ocean Cove to take place sometime after 2020, and could arrive as the 11th generation Core family of CPUs from Intel.

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Rare has released a new Sea of Thieves trailer, this time the developer showcases the games community options that are designed to bring players together.

The trailer displays what players will have to do if they desire to create a crew and take to the high seas with a bunch of new players. Players will have the option of joining in on the Xbox One's Clubs, using the Looking for Group feature, Discord and the official forums.

Sea of Thieves is currently available for the Xbox One and PC, check out the games official forums here if you are interested in joining a crew.

Recently we have been seeing quite a lot of leaks for Shadow of The Tomb Raider and finally we have an official trailer released by Square Enix on the Tomb Raider YouTube Channel.

The trailer reveals Lara tackling the very difficult terrain of the Mexican or Central American Mayan jungle. The trailer showcases classic Lara takedowns, scaling of mountains and other extreme heights.

The trailer showcases Lara saving a child from a ritual sacrifice, then after only to see the entire tribe looking up at her with confusion as if she has done something wrong. The release date for Shadow of The Tomb Raider is currently set for September 14. Check out leaked screenshots here as well as possible guerilla marketing that has gone underway for Shadow of The Tomb Raider.

A new patch has been released for Dynasty Warriors 9, patch 1.07 has been made available and the patch notes have been revealed.

This new patch will be adding a new setting called "Ultimate" which will be another setting of difficulty ontop of what is available now. The patch also adds a new mission titled "The Arena" as well as more features to 'options.'

To view the full patch notes visit the official KOEI Tecmo website post here, or visit the official Steam patch notes here.

A new trailer has surfaced for KURSK which is a new title from Jujubee. The trailer is rendered in real-time and showcases how far the title has come so far.

According to the CEO of Jujubee, Micha Stepien the studio wants to concerntrate on developing new titles from serious and controversial themes. The studio believes that if they do this correctly it will gift players with knowledge of true events that have happened or are happening around the world.

Here is what Stepien had to say: "We believe the time has come to tell real stories. In an age in which we compete for the free time of consumers against the entire entertainment industry, including movies and TV series, and when people are less likely to read non-fiction, game producers have an additional obligation."

It really seems inevitable that at some stage we are going to see Fortnite debut to the Nintendo Switch, recent rumors have surfaced and suggested that this day could be sooner rather than later.

The rumors have been sourced from a group of leakers that post on the Twitter account LeakyPandy. LeakyPandy did leak some information about the contents of Nintendo Direct before Nintendo went live, this could suggest that the Twitter account has some slight credibility.

The rumors are as follows: "After debating we have decided to release a portion of the Fortnite x Switch information we have - the statements we consider to be the most reliable. This could be part of Nintendo's E3 Showcase. The majority of the most interesting information about this is actually about Save the World. Nothing seems to point to Battle Royale being all that different on Switch. That goes for Cross-Play, it will be there too. Save the World, on the other hand, apparently got Nintendo's interest. One of our most trusted sources pointed to us that this game's version local Switch-to-Switch Save the World. Exclusive Nintendo IP related content is also being worked on exclusively for Save the World."