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TweakTown was the world exclusive with news that AMD was preparing a rebranded Radeon RX 500X series, and here we are: a full confirmation that AMD has simply rebranded the RX 500 series, with the 'new' RX 500X series.

AMD is simply rebranding their entire lineup of Polaris-based RX 500 series cards, the same cards that they released last year that were tweaked RX 400 offerings. The RX 500X series the same RX 500 series cards that AMD will now be giving to system builders, OEMs, and mobile platforms. AMD is simply refreshing the brand for OEMs and notebooks.

The deal here with the rebranded Radeon RX 500X series is that AMD is ensuring that the RX 500X series cards are using the latest hardware and driver revisions for Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition for 2018. It might not be a big deal to gamers because this isn't a new card, but this means a lot to OEMs selling Radeon.

I had an interesting conversation with someone a couple of days ago regarding the future of Intel, AMD, NVIDIA and the future of GPU technology going into the 2020s.

What was confirmed on that phone call was that Intel is serious about entering the gaming graphics card market, something the company confirmed in February. More so since Raja Koduri left AMD to get inside Intel (pun intended), as well as a few other key staff and news coming in the next few months. We're in for a big ride.

My sources have said that Raja is "building a great team", that Intel wants to take big bold risks by thinking big and courageous. Raja and Intel want to drive these people hard and that they're 100% in it, with Raja wanting to bring people in to win with Intel now that he's outside of the downward spiral with AMD and their non-direction-no-action-at-all with Radeon.

While Mark Zuckerberg sits on his booster seat at a Senate hearing, the Winklevoss twins are continuing with their crypto empire. This week they have announced that their Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini will launch Gemini Block Trading. Block trading is a feature which allows high volume trades to exist outside of Gemini's continuous order books and will only appear once the trade is complete. This helps lessen the impact on the market price for such large buy or sell orders. For example, if someone holds a large amount of bitcoin and would like to sell it without affecting the market price they would use a block trade and the trade would only appear once it is complete. The minimum trade quantity for a Gemini Block Trade is 10 BTC and 100 ETH.

This is fantastic news and helps preserve the ecosystem. The Winklevoss Twins are longtime advocates of crypto and have been doing their best to help the space progress for many years now. They also mentioned to Bloomberg that they are hoping to add more tokens to their exchange. Currently, they only have bitcoin and ethereum. Obvious candidates for expansion "are from the Satoshi Nakamoto family tree -- Bitcoin cash, Litecoin," Tyler Winklevoss said.

At the start of the year I wrote about a Mega Man collection coming to the Nintendo Switch, now Nintendo and Capcom have gifted us with a trailer for the Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1 & 2.

Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1 will be containing Mega Man X games 1 - 4, Legacy Collection 2 will be containing the rest of the games 5 - 8. Both of the collections will be coming with "plethora of rare game art, nostalgic trailers, merchandise galleries, and more."

On the trailer released onto the Nintendo YouTube Channel, the description details that both of these collections will also be featuring a "All-new X Challenge mode, which features a series of challenges in which X faces off against two deadly Maverick bosses at once!"

Microsoft has announced that they will be bringing more original Xbox games to the Xbox One, 19 original Xbox games will debut with six Xbox 360 titles all of which will come with Xbox One X Enhancements.

Microsoft has taken to their website blog and has announced that fans of some of the classic games will receive Xbox One X Enhanced updates. These titles include: Darksiders, Gears of War 2, Portal 2, Red Dead Redemption, and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

In the blog post Microsoft details that each of these titles will "take advantage of the power of Xbox One with up to 4X the pixel count on Xbox One and Xbox One S, and up to 16X the pixel count on Xbox One X."

The Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion was revealed in the most recent Nintendo Direct back in early March, now Nintendo Europe has taken to Twitter to reveal some screenshots of the upcoming DLC.

Nintendo Europe says that the Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion will begins in a huge, "underground test facility" that will require players to journey through to escape to Inkopolis. Nintendo Europe say that world feels stagnate, as if time itself has stopped. "The area is completely isolated from the outside world, as if time stopped long ago."

Players will jumping into a "full-on single-player adventure spans 80 missions starring Agent 8" who is a "new character who awakens without her memories on a dark subway platform." Check out the below screenshots to get a better look at what the new DLC content will be featuring.

The world is sick of centralised entities taking advantage of our trust and complacency. Facebook is imploding, now the Centre For Digital Democracy has requested for the FTC to investigate Google's YouTube for the illegal collection of personal data from children. Centralised giants are being ousted one after the other. Snapchat, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter, and even Reddit are all guilty of selling and/or suppressing information.

This is not the first time social media users have called for decentralised alternatives. Two years ago a blog on Steemit, a decentralised blogging and social media website that launched in July 2016, reported there were 5 up and coming decentralised social media platforms. None of them are yet to catch fire.

We had no reason to leave MySpace, it was amazing until Facebook came along and as much as social media users are pained by their personal data being sold and even manipulating their consumption of information, they have not been given an alternative.

Ubisoft has revealed Ghost Recon: Wildlands first Special Operations mission from their road-map that was recently released, the Special Operation is titled Splinter Cell.

Ubisofts first mission will be putting players in the midsts of a mission with Sam Fisher, the missions rewards consist of Sam Fisher's Night Vision Goggles with Splinter Cell Vision, Proximity Mines and also a Splinter Cell Patch. A new class will also be added through this patch and as you can imagine uses the SC-4000 Assault Rifle, Proximity Mines and a Sonar Pulse ability, the Splinter Cell class.

The new patch is going to be available on April 10th and will be available in co-op, four-player and solo. This update will also increase performance on AMD GPU's by 10%, to view to the full patch notes visit the official Ubisoft website here.

Cartoon Networks release of Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion was mentioned last year as the title was going to be an open world-RPG that would be released early this year. Pre-alpha footage has been leaked suggesting the title is still in its infant stages.

The video has been uploaded to TheStephanFS YouTube channel and according to the description in the video the footage has been leaked by Amazon France. From the four and a half minute clip we can see that the game is still quite bare and while Fin is running around the world that is presented to us it doesn't really showcase lively content. This worries me as a hardcore Adventure Time fan waiting for this game, as I've always wanted to jump into a open-world RPG game based in Ooo as the lively randomness is something I definitely want to experience.

Even though in the footage we don't see that 'living world of Ooo' that is presented to us in the T.V show we do have to take into account that this is pre-alpha footage, essentially the bare bones of the game. Adventure Time is unfortunately coming to an end which makes me think that Cartoon Network will be going all out for their last chance at an awesome Adventure Time game. To me the world of Ooo and the stories behind each of the characters is just to much to pass up, right now the title seems a bit disappointing but that doesn't mean that it can't turn into something every Adventure Time fans wants to play.

I don't even know how to start this news off, so let's just get right into it - Dell has no idea what they're doing in China, with the company bragging about gamers using hacks in Battlegrounds... if they buy their new laptops.

David Hollingworth from PCPP reports that his colleague Ben Mansill was in Beijing last week for Intel's "big reveal" of its new 8th generation Core processors. Dell was on-hand, amongst other laptop and PC makers to show off their new 8th-gen Core-based offerings. Hollingworth reports that Dell "was a big part of the dog and pony show, and a big part of the company's spiel was how many more 'plug-ins' you could run".

What are plug-ins? Well, they're cheats, and this is something Dell spokesperson Sally Zhang drove home, wanting gamers to win more chicken dinners with Dell's new 8th-gen Core-based PCs and notebooks.

Deconomy 2018 saw shots fired from both bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) camps. Roger Ver (BCH advocate) accusing Samson Mow (BTC advocate) of setting back digital currency by years and crying out that babies are dying in third world countries because of not being able to help the unbanked quick enough and Samson Mow acting too cool for school. Even Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum taking aim at BCH advocate Craig Wright.

This whole fiasco bought up the question when we are trying to create a better world, why would we lower ourselves to fighting over which is better? One Reddit user responded to the question:

I'm not sure how employing derogatory tactics is sticking to principles. Especially when most of the general public does not even know there is a war going on and the crypto community just want to see who can come up with something great, something that moves crypto forward. The petty arguments do reduce the conversation, but you could look at it as a bit of 'healthy competition', so long as we do our best not to have a repeat of Deconomy as that was just painful to watch! What do you think? Do you prefer BTC over BCH or would you like to see both spaces evolve and see what they bring to the table? Make sure you let me know on Twitter! @CaseyLPyne

In the last 24 hours, headlines have been dominated - TweakTown included, of Grand Theft Auto V being the best-selling entertainment product of all time... but MarketWatch was wrong.

The best-selling entertainment product of all time goes to Space Invaders, which has generated a huge $13.93 billion, followed closely by Pac-Man with $12.81 billion. Not-so-surprisingly, Street Fighter 2 is in third position with $10.6 billion. GTA V in comparison has made $6 billion or so, while World of Warcraft has dragged in $10 billion for Blizzard.

Sure, Space Invaders, Pac-Man, and Street Fighter 2 were all arcade games (and on other devices) but they still count as an entertainment product. It's pretty crazy to think Space Invaders made that much money, in the wake of tens of millions of consoles and hundreds of millions of PCs that are now used by consumers today.

BIOSTAR has accidentally leaked out Intel's upcoming Z390 chipset, with an early reveal of their own Z390 RACING GT3 and GT5 motherboards with a manual on the B360 RACING GT3S leaking and teasing the Z390 as well.

If we're seeing manuals on these motherboards, it means that the new/refreshed Z390 motherboards are imminent. The manual can even be downloaded from BIOSTAR's website, but we don't know much about the Z390 chipset at all. We do know that BIOSTAR's new motherboard has support for CPUs at up to 95W TDP, which might "indirectly confirm the maximum TDP of 8-core Coffee Lake-S CPU" according to VideoCardz.

Toy Story 4 will surely be one of the biggest movies of 2019, and while the new sequel was announced back in 2014, there was never a rock solid release date... until now.

The new director of Toy Story 4, Josh Cooley, took to Twitter with a simple image with a bunch of sticky notes in the shape of the number 4, and a date: June 21, 2019. Cooley was the director of Inside Out and is co-directing Toy Story 4 with Jonas Rivera who he worked on with Coco recently.

Originally, Toy Story 4 was meant to be directed by John Lasseter before he left the project in July 2017 following reports of sexual harassment allegations against him. Rashida Jones had the script prepared along with Will McCormack, but they removed themselves from the project.

Leap Motion has teased the future of human-computer interfaces with their new Project North Star, a prototype headset that some of the virtual world, overlayed in the real one.

North Star is a full augmented reality platform that Leap Motion says "allows us to chart and sail the waters of a new world, where the digital and physical substrates exist as a single fluid experience. The first step of this endeavor was to create a system with the technical specifications of a pair of augmented glasses from the future. This meant our prototype had to far exceed the state of the art in resolution, field-of-view, and framerate".

Inside, North Star rocks two low-persistence 1600x1440 displays at 120FPS with a huge 100-degree field of view. Leap Motion includes a "world-class" 180-degree hand tracking sensor that is "a system unlike anything anyone had seen before".

Sony's new PlayStation 5 (or whatever the system will be called) isn't due to release anytime soon, according to industry analyst Michael Pachter.

Although the PlayStation 4 family of consoles has been around for about five years now, Sony shouldn't be in any rush to reset everything with a new console hardware cycle. After all, the PS4 Pro, which marks a new iterative cycle cadence that has served Sony (and Microsoft) tremendously well, is only two years old and the Japanese tech giant depends on the PlayStation brand quite a bit. But if not in 2018, when should Sony release the PS5? 2020 is a good bet, according to Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter.

In a recent interview with WCCFTech, Pachter expressed that it was quite unlikely Sony would release the PS5 anytime this year...and next year probably won't happen either. Sony's new PlayStation console's release has a probability of "25% next year and 75% in 2020," he said.

Panic Button, the guys behind the DOOM port to the Nintendo Switch are also porting over Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, gameplay footage of the title running on the Switch has been spotted and it looks quite decent for a port.

18 minutes of gameplay footage has been released of Wolfentstein II running on the Nintendo Switch and it looks quite smooth for a triple-A title port. The game is only running at 30FPS and it can obviously be seen that the resolution, textures and character models have taken quite a hefty downscale compared to the Xbox One and PS4 versions.

There is currently no specific release date for Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus arriving on the Nintendo Switch but there is hopes that it will arrive sometime this year.

Capcom has posted a new press release onto their Capcom Investor Relations website celebrating the recent success of Resident Evil 7. Capcom celebrates their title winning the Best VR Audio at the 2018 Game Audio Network Guild Awards (G.A.N.G. Awards) and passing 5 million total units sold.

The press release discusses how Resident Evil 7 was awarded the Game Audio Network Guild Award, here is how the title was selected: "RESIDENT EVIL 7 was judged against other VR games before winning the award for Best VR Audio, garnering praise for blending creativity with technological prowess via its use of extended technique with string instruments, sound effects recorded at the company's Foley stage and by utilizing the Yamaha Corporation's ViReal™ stereophonic sound technology."

The press release also states that the games "overwhelming, deeply immersive horror experience" was due to the "game's system" undergoing a "dramatic shift from its previous third-person camera to a new first-person perspective." Capcom believe that this choice is a large contributing factor towards the sales of the title reaching "5.1 million units* worldwide."

Next week hungry gamers will be able to get their hands-on the new God of War, until then Sony has tied us over with a new developer video, this time we see Kratos' customization options.

The above video shows God of War director Cory Barlog discuss what he wants players to feel a sense of freedom when they jump into the new game. Barlog says that players will experience tougher scenarios that will require them to rethink their strategy, "Oh, I've chosen a strength build, and I'm [fighting] a character who's knocking all of my health out in one hit. Okay, I have to rethink this."

The video also showcases that players will have numerous options when it comes to Kratos' gear and appearance, these options will range from crafting, skill trees and unique gear.

DualShockers got into contact with the Senior Vice President of Marketing Pete Hines and throughout the interview Hines was asked if Bethesda has plans on expanding more to other platforms.

Hines answered by saying that Bethesda works extremely hard at bringing their titles to as many platforms as possible. Hines gives an example of The Elder Scrolls: Legends coming to consoles and perhaps even the Nintendo Switch, Hines doesn't give any promises but does say that he "hope that happens, but we'll have to see."

Here is the full version of what Hines said throughout the interview when asked about the future of Bethesda games on different platforms: "Honestly I think everything is on the table. At the end of the day - and this is true for every game, not just Legends - we like to try and get our games to as many platforms as possible, so that as many people as possible have the option to play."