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Undead Labs and Microsoft have released a new official trailer for their upcoming title State of Decay 2, the video details in-depth gameplay mechanics such as construction, character selections, combat and more.

For those that aren't caught up with State of Decay 2, it is a title that is aimed to completely immerse players in a online multi-player post apocalyptic zombie fantasy world that will require players to use teamwork to survive. Players will have to utilize correct base placement strategies, explore the wilderness around them to collect supplys, overcome challenges and craft your own experience and story by the choices you make.

State of Decay 2 is currently planned for a release on May 22nd, check out the above gameplay trailer if you are interested in what the new title will be providing.

If there was a job within a job that you wouldn't expect to see on Reddit, it would be a farmer playing a farming game while... farming. This is exactly what 'ZoMgPwNaGe' on Reddit posted to the /r/StardewValley subreddit, which propelled it up the ranks of Reddit with a huge 3830 upvotes at the time of writing.

ZoMgPwNaGe, otherwise known as Tim, has the top comment on his post saying: "Wow great. You have one of the most important jobs in our society! Thank you very much!". Tim replied saying "Thank you, that's a refreshing opinion of us to hear :)", and then 'icebiker' said: "Is that not a common opinion? I love vegetable farmers - I thought everyone did? I'm Canadian though, maybe it's different here?".

That's where the more personal reply comes in, with Tim saying: "A lot of people seem to think farmers are corporate drones who are out to poison them with as many chemicals Bayer and Monsanto will let us have, which is false. Our farm has a total of 1 employee, the rest of the work is done by myself and my dad. Our partners have a total of 3 employees. Between us we have nearly 2k acres of ground. We're very much not corporate. And we use the least amount of chemicals and pesticide possible, because it's our money we're spending".

Epic Games knows it has a hit on its hands when Fortnite has addicted students in class forcing their teacher to troll them, and now affected families and partners want the game banned because it as "brainwashed" their loved ones.

There is a petition on Change.org that is simply called "Get rid of Fortnite", where anyone who signs it wishes for the game to be banned so their loved ones have time spared up to spend with them instead of battling gamers in Fortnite. The petition has 750 signatures at the time of writing.

Fortnite won't be banned, no matter the petition, as the petition itself was "made as a joke" with the person who started the petition saying they "started playing it" and said that "it's actually fun". The person continued, saying: "But i see how the game can take away from family time and It is a problem in that sense and i see how mothers get annoyed".

It looks like ASUS is preparing a new brand of graphics cards, completely separate to their gaming-focused Republic of Gamers (ROG) brand, exclusive for AMD and their Radeon family of cards.

VideoCardz reports that ASUS is preparing a new AREZ brand for Radeon graphics cards, where they might not even be branded as ASUS at all. There will not be an AREZ ROG STRIX graphics card, it would simply be AREZ STRIX, we should also see other sub series including the AREZ branding including Phoenix and Expedition.

It's an interesting move, but if NVIDIA is forging ahead with its GeForce Partner Program, I'm sure one of their biggest AIBs (ASUS) would want to stay in NVIDIA's good graces and continue pumping out GeForce GTX series graphics cards under its strong ROG brand.

Samsung has had a massive first three months of 2018, with a huge 58% increase in profit and demand for its memory chips through the roof, more than enough to offset Apple's reduced requirement of displays for iPhone X.

Bloomberg is reporting that Samsung's operating income reached $14.7 billion in Q1 2018, compared to $13.5 billion that analysts expected Samsung to report. Samsung sold through a huge $56.4 billion in Q1 2018, with these sales including the new Galaxy S9 and the near unlimited want for memory across the world with ASIC miners and graphics cards.

Samsung became the world's largest chipmaker by sales late last year, besting Intel, but memory is where Samsung is making its strides lately. Lee Jay-yun, an analyst with Yuanta Securities Co. explains: "Memory chips are the loyal son of Samsung. Still, momentum may slow toward the end of this year with price rises likely to be less steep than last year".

Just as graphics card prices begin to settle with a nice 25% discount on Amazon from the highs of an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti costing you $1600 and AMD's flagship Radeon RX Vega 64 making you burn $2100... Alphacool is here to save the day with a new 12 x GPU mining rig open air frame.

Alphacool's Mining Rig 12 open air frame case can take not just one motherboard, but two, and some mounting for serious watercooling setups. You can use 6 x 360mm radiators and mount them on the Alphacool Mining Rig 12, while two reservoirs can be placed with positioning for their respective pumps.

Alphacool takes mining rigs to the next level by making them water cooling friendly, with the company using different NexXxoS radiators, Eisbecher reservoirs, and various pumps.

SNK is re-releasing a bunch of its classic retro games in a compilation on the Nintendo Switch.

Following Capcom's big Street Fighter and Mega Man collections, NIS America is bringing a bunch of classic SNK arcade and console games to the Nintendo Switch, further cementing the idea that the Switch is either A) not getting traditional Virtual Console game store support or B) Virtual Console isn't coming for quite some time. Given these collections, and that ACA is selling a bunch of re-released old-school games on the Switch for $7.99 a pop, option A is looking more and more likely.

The SNK 40th Anniversary Collection will include a number of hits like Vanguard and Ikari Warriors, but I'm admittedly mostly excited to play Crystalis, which is definitely one of my favorite NES games of all time. The games bundle will have most of the options you'd expect including save states and optimized graphics.

Square Enix finally reveals when PC gamers can start making Final Fantasy XV mods...and we'll be waiting a fair bit for the complete package.

One of the biggest questions I had about Final Fantasy XV's confirmed mod support was 'just how in-depth will the tools be, and how long until we can use them?' The answer to the first part is Fall 2018, at least for the big level editor tool, and the second part is a bit more vague. While Square Enix didn't confirm that FFXV Windows Edition gamers would have as much freedom as in, say, Bethesda's Creation Kit that has spawned hundreds (maybe thousands) of awesome player-created mods, the company did give some answers.

At a PAX East panel the dev team said that FFXV's mod support will roll out in two stages: first it'll release a lighter program that allows users to make customized gear and weapons and upload them to the Steam Workshop. This version is supposed to roll out in Spring so it should be released fairly soon. But the second part is the most interesting--Final Fantasy XV is getting a legitimate level editor that essentially turns Eos into a playground of sorts. The editor, which is coming in Fall, will let users make and manipulate in-game areas as well as throw in enemies and even quests, so depending on how in-depth the tool is, this could be a huge game-changer for the PC flavor.

When you have a headline which encompasses two of my favourite things, you automatically get my attention! Etherbot wrote a fantastic article "The Blockchain Gaming Revolution: Why Ethereum will revolutionise a $100 billion dollar industry" on why we need blockchain technology in gaming and why we need it asap! Blockchain is not here just here to disrupt banks and tracking packages, it's here to revolutionise gaming!

As Etherbot points out the gaming industry is currently a 100 billion dollar industry and it is set to triple by 2022. Most of us have bought skins or a neon pack here and there and the kids coming through want so much more and have their parents cash to splash.

How does blockchain come in? Etherbot writes: "Imagine a game where every hour you spend grinding or smashing your opponent isn't financially in vain. Where the ultra-rare drop you find could be worth thousands, or you could buy the very weapon used to win a World Championship."

Klei Entertainment's 2013 release titled Don't Starve has been announced for the Nintendo Switch, it will be debuting with free DLC's this April.

Nintendo have released a trailer for the title on their YouTube channel, the trailer showcases the games DLC packages that will be featured. The DLC's that will be within the purchased package of the game are completely free and include "Reign of Giants" and "Shipwrecked."

Don't Starve the Nintendo Switch Edition is planned for release on the 12th of April, if you haven't already picked up the game before on a different platform I highly recommended you do on the Switch. Happy surviving!

Yesterday we saw Spyro Reignited Triology leaked through an Amazon listing, today we are seeing the exact same thing but this time through the Nintendo UK Store, confirming Spyro is coming to the Nintendo Switch.

It appears that Nintendo UK has made a slight error in revealing that Spyro Reignited Trilogy onto their store as they have now removed the page completely, saying that the site is "under maintenance."

There is no official confirmation from Activision that the Spyro Reignited Trilogy is coming to the Nintendo Switch but having the listing on the Nintendo Store is most likely the strongest indication that the title is about to be announced. My personal guess is that Nintendo wants to wait to announce it separately for the Switch, and also that this listing could of been on purpose to create hype for the announcement in the coming days/weeks.

Campo Santo, the developers by the highly acclaimed single-player first-person mystery title Firewatch, has confirmed that Firewatch will be coming to the Nintendo Switch.

Firewatch forces players back to the world of 1989, where you have taken a job as fire spotter deep in the Wyoming wilderness. Players only have their supervisor Delilah to talk to which creates a feeling of isolation and forces immersion upon the player as she is the only contact with you to the outside world.

Camp Santo has posted a short description of their title coming to the Nintendo Switch onto their website, it reads as follows: "Imagine: The sounds of a babbling brook, a cool mountain breeze blowing through the timber. And in your hands, your trusty Nintendo Switch. This Spring, take your Nintendo Switch on an outdoor adventure and experience the gripping mystery beloved by gamers and critics alike."

Rare has released their second patch for Sea of Thieves, the last patch was a massive 19.53GB this time Rare manages to squeeze some performance improvements in a 450MB update.

In the recently released patch Rare will be changing the ship re-spawn distance, adding performance improvements and fixing some other bugs. Here is a few important changes in the patch notes, "Ship respawn distance - When a ship sinks, we have significantly increased the distance at which the crews new ship will respawn. Ships will now respawn outside of visible view of the ship that sank them." A bug has also been fixed concerning Mermaids and treasure. "Mermaid Teleport - It is no longer possible to accidentally teleport to your ship from the mermaid whilst holding treasure items."

Rare has also included in this patch performance improvements through adding "Multiple server and client crash fixes" Patch 1.0.2 will be automatically downloaded and for those that want to view the entire patch notes you can visit the official Sea of Thieves website here.

Cory Barlog, the director for the upcoming God of War title has announced that he is very aware of some fans within the community not being pleased with the changes that have been made to the new God of War game.

Barlog has told Kotaku that even though their are some vastly different mechanics within the new God of War game still give the title a shot, as Barlog wants players to "experience this game as a whole."

Barlog continues by saying that Sony has been very selective with what has been revealed to the audience through trailers or teases. Here is what Barlog had to say: "We've been very restrictive of the information and what we're showing visually, and part of that is my paranoia. I want people to experience this game as a whole. Everybody who made this game--or a good portion of this team--has been a part of God of War from the very beginning. Nothing has changed cynically or under pressure or just willy-nilly. All of us put a lot of heart and soul into this game, and the DNA of what this franchise is still pumps through the blood of this game."

Boss Key Productions had the hype meter for LawBreakers at 11/10, but after all that hype the game died virtually on arrival, and now the developer has kind of admitted that.

In their 'April 2018 Studio Statement', Boss Key said: "The fact is LawBreakers failed to find enough of an audience to generate the funds necessary to keep it sustained in the manner we had originally planned for and anticipated. And while a pivot to free-to-play may seem like easiest change to make, a change of this magnitude takes publishing planning and resources to do it".

The team continued: "The team here has worked hard on this game over the past three and a half years and our studio is determined to give this game the second life it deserves. However, between now and then, we cannot sit idle. We will continue to support the game in its current state, but we also need to focus on other projects with fresh creative leaders. We have been working on something new and we can't wait to share more about it! It's a passion project that we're in complete control of. Thank you for your ongoing understanding and patience".

The very first patch for the PC version of Far Cry 5 is here, something that promises to solve low occurrence crashes and walkthrough breaks, low occurrence save corruption and low repro AI issues.

Ubisoft also says that the Far Cry 5 Title Update 4 will improve co-op connectivity, map download efficiency, PvP matchmaking and multiple Arcade gameplay problems. PC gamers also receive a specific update where Far Cry 5 players were being incorrectly spawned when the game was minimized during loading.

Stability & Performance

An interesting set of data was compiled by WCCFTech today, with the site keeping a "very close eye" on the graphics card market over the last year or so. The site has looked at prices over the last month and noticed a huge drop on Amazon's price of both GeForce and Radeon graphics cards.

It was only back in January that an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti was $1600 and AMD's Radeon RX Vega 64 was $2100, but prices have been coming down slowly through February, and much faster into March with sharp declines between March 27 leading into today.

Starting out on March 5, the price of an XFX Radeon RX Vega 64 was $1400 and has dropped drastically back to down $945 on March 27.

We all know the Battle Royale genre is the hottest ticket in gaming town right now, with a new rumor that The Division developer Massive Entertainment is working on a new Battle Royale title.

Ubisoft is said to have asked Massive to start looking into how a Battle Royale game from the developer would look like, with the devs said they could make a game in a "short amount of time".

A report from GameReactor says: "Apparently, Ubisoft commisioned Massive to start looking into the Battle Royale game type in January of this year and Massive has reported back to their owners that they could cook up something fun in a pretty short amount of time, especially considering The Division itself contains almost all of the ingredients needed to make this kind of shooter".

Razer pushes headlong into the digital game storefront market in an effort to fortify its ecosystem of products and engagement.

The Razer Game Store opened up today, and it's not really a surprise to me: ever since I read up on the company's zVault strategy I thought a game store was the next logical step. While Razer's game store peddles the latest and greatest PC gaming hits, it isn't a GOG or Steam competitor: instead it's more like a reseller (in theory--Razer says the keys are legit) or like the Humble Store that doles out Steam and uPlay codes for cash. While you might get deep discounts on Steam, GOG, and the Humble Store, the Razer Game Store also offers extra incentives: vouchers, zSilver, and special promos.

Ideally Razer wants you to first spend money on its zGold virtual currency and use it to buy games on the storefront. The currency is used in a wide variety of software and services, making it a kind of microtransaction-esque premium currency that locks you into a specific ecosystem. All purchases on the store will net users virtual coin, but you'll get more zSilver if you buy zGold. Buying games on the store marked as "Razer Exclusive" will net you extra zSilver and other bonuses, and zSilver can then be spent to unlock extra games and promos.

The PS4's new amazing-looking Spider-Man game will eke out some extra power from the PS4 Pro's hardware boost, but don't expect 60FPS.

Although Insomniac's new Spider-Man game is one of the highest-profile PS4 exclusives of 2018 it doesn't mean the game will have a PS4 Pro performance option for 1080p users or get specific frame rate optimizations. Spider-Man's Creative Director Bryan Intihar recently confirmed the game is locked to 30FPS on both the base PS4 and the Pro, but Peter Parker's crime-crushing antics will "take advantage of the PS4 Pro, look a little better and run a little better."

So expect checkerboard 4K upscaling with 30FPS on the PS4 Pro on 4K UHDTVs, and possibly supersampled 1080p 30FPS on 1080p TVs. Regular PS4s should just hit 1080p 30FPS in the game of course.