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Warner Bros Interactive has partnered with dev IO Interactive to publish future Hitman games, and release a new definitive edition of 2015's Hitman title.

Following its break-up with Square Enix, IO Interactive had been searching for a new partner to ensure the Hitman series' future could live on through publisher funding. Fast forwarding to today sees Shadow of War publisher WB Interactive stepping in to team up with IO Interactive, and the first step is to re-release an all-in-on version of the most recent Hitman game.

"We're super excited to be working with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment on HITMAN and together releasing the HITMAN: Definitive Edition to new players," said Hakan Abrak, CEO IO Interactive. "Working with a partner like WBIE means that the team at IOI can stay focused on what we're good at, making games."

Thanks to its crazy anything-can-happen atmosphere and chaos-inducing open world play ground, Far Cry 5 is the talk of the gaming world right now...and has the sales figures to back it up.

The latest Far Cry game is now the fastest-selling title in the franchise's entire history, Ubisoft today confirmed. The French games-maker was delighted to report that more than 50% of first-week sales were from digital--a trend that's been booming for Ubisoft and other publishers--and that Far Cry 5 more than doubled first-week sales of Far Cry 4.

It gets bigger, though: Hope County's explosive escapades account for the second biggest game launch in the publisher's history by making $310 million in total game spending (full sales, microtransactions, etc) in the first week.

Today Western Digital announced their latest addition to their SSD line, the Western Digital Black 3D NVMe. Western Digital's new vertically integrated SSD platform has been engineered from the ground up, and specifically architected to help maximize performance for NVMe SSDs.

Advanced power management, durability and endurance for the growing range of applications benefiting from NVMe technology were engineered into the drives by design.

The series of M.2 drives feature a new Western Digital designed SSD NVMe architecture and controller, which optimally integrates with Western Digital 3D NAND. This new breed of SSDs were designed to help remove the traditional storage bottleneck. The drives are set to feature up to a sequential read (up to 3,400 MB/s for 1TB and 500GB model) and write performance (up to 2,800MB/s for 1TB model) combined with up to 1TB.

IO Interactive took to their blog on their website to celebrate the 20 year life-time of the company, within this blog post it was proudly said by IO Interactive that Hitman has reached 12 million players worldwide.

Back in 2017 Hitman only had 5 million players, in just 5 months the title has grown double that and is rocking a massive player-base of 12 million.

Here is what IO Interactive had to say about the recent achievement: "Back in 2015 when we announced HITMAN, we talked about building an expanding and evolving world of assassination. These numbers prove to us that we're pulling that off and we're inspired to continue creating content that our players will want to play and experience. Obviously, that number was helped by our Spring Pack, which was available for a limited time. This download allowed anyone to play Sapienza, the beautiful Italian coastaltown and one of the most highly-praised locations from HITMAN."

Nintendo UK released a new advertisement for the Nintendo Switch yesterday and what was found in the middle of all the family fun was the Mario Tennis Aces character selection screen.

Skipping to 1:49 or looking below at the screenshot I have provided we can see a selection of characters. Of course starting with the classics, Mario, Yoshi, Peach, Bowser and Luigi are seen but most interestingly we also now have a character called Spike. Spike was first introduced in Super Mario Bros. 3 and was an enemy that, well, shockingly threw spike balls.

Also from the character selection screen we can see there is quite a lot of vacant space, perhaps there will be some un-lockables along the way, wouldn't you just love to see Captain Olimar take to the tennis court? Because I know I would.

Awhile back we heard of the Spyro series being remastered on the PS4, now a leak has surfaced through an Amazon Mexico listing titled 'Spyro Reignited Trilogy.'

Spyro Reignited Trilogy will be published by Activision and is currently being developed by Toys for Bob. The trilogy will be featuring three different Spyro titles in HD, the games included will be: Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! and Spyro: Year of the Dragon.

On the product page of the Amazon listing was the release date of the title, as this is not official yet take the release date with a grain of salt. On the Amazon listing Spyro Reignited Trilogy has a release date for September 21.

CIRCLE Entertainment has released a new trailer for their exclusive Nintendo Switch title, Shelter Generations. The trailer reveals some details about the upcoming game and lets us see what it is like to be both a mother and an infant lynx.

Those that are not familiar with Shelter Generations the game allows for players to experience what it is like to be a mother lynx and raise cubs. Activities include a range of common motherly problems, feeding the cubs, protecting them from predators and surviving from the wilderness overall.

The title will be releasing with two stories, Shelter 2 players will experience the mothers perspective, and Paws: A Shelter 2 Game will allow players to experience the perspective of the cub. Shelter Generations will be debuting to the Nintendo eShop on April 12 for $19.99, and for anyone that purchases the title within the first week a 10% discount will be granted.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands was a surprise hit for Ubisoft, with the company announcing the game boasts over 10 million players worldwide.

The company launched Ghost Recon Wildlands back in March 2017, with 13 patches since its release including the 4v4 PvP mode 'Ghost War', the Predator special event, and much more. With over 10 million players, the development team are committed to supporting the game with free content and continuous improvements along the way.

Ubisoft recently announced Year 2 content for Ghost Recon Wildlands, something that will include four major updates titled "Special Operations" with each of them featuring a unique theme. There will be updates to the PvE campaign, special free missions, special challenges, updates to the Ghost War game mode, and more.

After months off the radar, Insomniac comes in swinging with a Spider-Man release date.

The new PS4 exclusive Spider-Man game that pretty much exploded at last year's E3 will launch on September 7, 2018. Pre-orders for the game are up digitally on the PlayStation Store and multiple big-box retailers, and the studio also revealed a deluxe and collector's edition to boot. Pre-orders will include three spidey skins but only one (the spider-punk suit) has been revealed, and early buyers will also get a few extras like an in-game spider drone and some PSN avatars and themes.

"Everyone here at Insomniac Games is thrilled to announce that Marvel's Spider-Man will launch on Friday, September 7, 2018 exclusively for the PlayStation 4 system," Insomniac wrote on the PlayStation Blog. "It's been an incredible experience for us to spend the last few years working on this game. From getting to create our own unique universe and story for our favorite Super Hero, to working with our talented collaborators at PlayStation and Marvel Games, to developing relationships with the Spider-Man and Marvel fan communities (#SpideySquad represent!), it's been an amazing journey thus far."

Last year we exclusively revealed that an industry source of ours said the PlayStation 5 would feature a discrete GPU, but now more rumors are coming - but you'll need to spend $1000 just to read the article.

SemiAccurate is behind the latest report, which was summarized on Reset Era:

I can see Navi making its way into the PS5, just like 'some' of the Vega GPU architecture made it into the refreshed PS4 Pro and Xbox One X consoles. But, I wouldn't be expecting "OMG Navi is in PS5, next-gen Radeon confirmed!' just yet. The big upgrade will come from the Zen CPU architecture, where I'm hoping we see a true beast (6C/12T @ 4GHz would be nice) and a beefy discrete GPU and not some Navi-infused APU.

Blizzard have taken to their forums to announce that they will be ending support for DX9 and 32-bit systems this coming summer for Heroes of the Storm.

Blizzards Community Manager, Nate Valenta said in their announcement that "In the coming months, we're planning to end support for DirectX9 and the 32-bit version of the Heroes of the Storm client."

Valenta continued by saying: "DirectX has had several major releases since DX9, and the vast majority of players in the Heroes community are now running the 64-bit version of the game, along with DirectX11 or higher." Valenta also mentions players that are still using DirectX 10, here is what he had to say "Please also note that while the 64-bit Heroes client might still be playable on some machines using DirectX10, this may not be the case for all configurations, which is why we recommend that all our players upgrade to at least DirectX11."

The release date for Dark Souls: Remastered is next month and ahead of the launch Bandai Namco has released the gameplay changes that will be featured in the Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 4 release.

Thanks to IGN, they have provided a full list of the changes that will be featured in the upcoming remaster, instead of copying the full list I have decided to pull some of the most predominant changes and compile them below.

Bandai will be increasing the "maximum number of players online has increased from 4 to 6", "healing items will not be available during PvP with the exception of Estus Flasks. To prevent long and drawn out battles, the number of Estus Flasks is halved for phantoms."

Ubisoft has released a road-map for Ghost Recon Wildlands, showcasing what players will be enjoying throughout 2018.

The road-map details 4 updates titled Special Operations that will be rolled out over the course of the year, the first update will be released on April 10 and will be featuring what is called Teammate Customization options. Teammate Customization options will allow players to change their outfits based on what items they have unlocked.

Also coming with the update is a new PvP game mode called "Sabotage", exclusive new maps, a new class, new perks and of course new weapons will be added for everyone to enjoy. It is really good to see Ubisoft supporting this title so greatly, laying out a year road-map really does make players feel more secure about what they have in-store for the rest of the year.

It has been revealed that the upcoming Spider-Man game will be a feature in the upcoming Game Informer magazine which will be released in May.

Game Informers executive editor, Andre Reiner revealed the cover story through a preview article, Reiner didn't reveal the release date for the title but he did get a chance to play the first mission.

The preview article consists of Reiner saying that throughout the first mission he ran into a "familiar foe", no other details were really given but Reiner does promise that in his full piece there will be a 14 page breakdown.

Rocket League developers have decided to give everyone a "heads up" that their tournaments update is going to be released tomorrow, the developer has detailed the region times in a Twitter post.

Psyonix took to Twitter to announce that on "Tuesday, April 3 at approximately 10am PDT (1pm EDT, 7pm CEST)" the update will be rolled out, "Deployment on all platforms may take up to 30 minutes."

For further information regarding the new update coming to Rocket League, check out the official Rocket League website or the above video.

Dell announced their new XPS 15 laptop with a bunch of refreshed PC products, including their gaming brand Alienware with the new Alienware 15 and 17 laptops.

The high-end Alienware 17 rocks Intel's new 8th generation Core processors, right up to the super-high-end Core i9-8950HK which should be hitting up to 5GHz. Dell is using a cooling system they've dubbed Cryo-Tech v2.0, which rocks a vapor chamber to keep the chips inside the Alienware 15/17 cool.

NVIDIA is supplying their full GeForce GTX 1080 with Dell noting that the Alienware 17 features an "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 OC with 8GB GDDR5X", so we know this isn't the energy efficient Max-Q design and a full-fledged GTX 1080 that is overclockable, all inside a laptop next to a super-fast Core i9 processor.

Valve has just silenced their Steam Machine initiative, but we don't yet know if this is permanent or the Half-Life maker is preparing for a new wave of Steam Machines in the near future.

This isn't to say Steam Machines are completely gone, as some companies are selling them, it's just now Valve isn't actively promoting them which is a big deal on its own. Even when the Steam Machines were first announced, there was no big reason that would push you away from your gaming PC or from the arms of a console.

Maybe a Steam Machine exclusive, or better yet timed exclusive like Half-Life 3, Portal 3, or Team Fortress 3 could do well on a Steam Machine, but Valve would hurt PC gamers doing that. I can't see Steam Machines in our future until game developers move away from Windows, which could eventually happen... but we're years away from that being a reality.

Just over 8 months after announcing the AMD Radeon Pro SSG based on the "Vega" GPU architecture, Adobe has announced native support within Adobe Premiere Pro CC.

As some may recall, the AMD Radeon Pro SSG was the first card on the market to have 2TB of NVMe storage integrated onto the graphics card. This card is specifically targeted to users who have high demand workflows such as high-resolution video, VR, and 360 video stitching. The announcement by Adobe is the first major partnership to be publicly shown by AMD to harness the unique design of the card.

The soon to be shipping version (April 3, 2018) of Adobe Premiere Pro CC allows for high-resolution video production, supporting 4K and 8K footage in popular native camera formats, including ARRI AMIRA, Canon XF and RAW, Panasonic AVC and P2, REDCODE RAW, and Sony XDCAM, XAVC, and RAW. The Adobe Premiere Pro CC and Radeon Pro SSG workflow should reduce the CPU and memory bottlenecks traditionally encountered, which will allow editors to increase their productivity.

Apple has changed up its PC business considerably, with an announcement that they will be making their own chips in future Mac systems starting as early as 2020.

The new initiative is called Kalamata, and is still in "early developmental stages" reports Bloomberg. The site continues, where they said that Apple's new initiative "comes as part of a larger strategy to make all of Apple's devices -- including Macs, iPhones, and iPads -- work more similarly and seamlessly together, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private information. The project, which executives have approved, will likely result in a multi-step transition".

Intel gets hurt in the process because all of the hardware success of Apple Mac systems over the years have been through Intel CPUs, associated technologies, and innovation. Big enough that Apple's success with the Mac and Intel processors sees Apple responsible for 5% of Intel's revenue every year.

Bitmain has been teasing its Ethereum ASIC miner for a while now, but the China-based Bitcoin mining company has finally unveiled their new Antminer E3 that will ship in July.

Bitmain's new Antminer E3 is limited to "one unit per user" which will stem huge mining farms from loading up on them, while the new Ethereum ASIC miner costs just $800 and has 180MH/s of mining power with Bitmain adding that they expect shipping-ready Antminer E3s will "deliver higher performance and efficiency when they are ready to ship".

The new Ethereum ASIC miner consumes just 800W of power, and with an $800 price tag and 180MH/s of hashing power, this will put a dent in GPU-based mining. An overclocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti can push around 35MH/s in Claymore mining Ethereum, so you'd need 5 of them overclocked to match a single Bitmain Antminer E3.