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PUBG players will soon be gifted with a very special mode from PUBG Corp, titled 'Event Mode' will bring to life a slew of different game modes and types for players in a rotative fashion.

At the moment 'Event Mode' is available on the test servers and has been described by PUBG Corp as "periodically changing preset Custom Game where we will be trying new things and experimenting with different game parameters."

Currently, players can be apart of the test server fun, joining as a eight-player squad that will be dropping into Erangel with double the drop rates for rifles. PUBG Corp has said that this is just the beginning for 'Event Mode', here is what they had to say "We know it's not a huge change from the public matches, this is just to get things rolling, the future of the Event Mode holds exciting things!"

Nintendo has decided to gift their Nintendo Switch owners with a eShop sales in both Europe and North America. The sales range from games that are well known on the Switch to amazing indie titles.

If you are interested in adding some new titles to your Nintendo Switch, you will be glad to know if you check the Nintendo eShop this week you will be bombarded with sales across the board.

A special thanks to Resetera user "Captain of Outer Space" for providing a full list of the titles that are on sale for not only the Nintendo Switch, but all other Nintendo eShop sale compatible products as well. Examples of some well known titles on sale are Rocket League, Steamworld Dig and Brawlout, check out the full list here.

If are not good at Sea of Thieves and notice that you are being resurrected quite a lot then sadly I have some bad news for you, Rare will soon be implementing a gold-fee charge for players to re-spawn.

Rare has addressed this new mechanic in their recent release notes which can be found here. The new change will usher in the Captain of the Ferry of the Damned asking players for a "small gold fee" once they perish.

Rare discusses that the "rates are dependent on the cause of death, so the more avoidable the death, the less patience the Captain will have when we enable this feature!" Many players are expressing concern about this update, saying that spawn camping could happen or even that this could be a incentive for players to purchase more gold through future microtransactions.

Electronic Arts have created a brand new AI that has the capabilities to self-teach, the AI has already taught itself how to play Battlefield and gets smarter and smarter with every game it plays.

Electronic Arts has a separate division called SEED, 'Search for Extraordinary Experiences Division' and the teams technical director Magnus Nordin has created a "self-learning-agent" that has the capabilities to teach itself Battlefield gameplay.

Nordin took to this blog post to explain what has exactly happened here, he begun by asking himself "how much effort it would take to have a self-learning agent learn to play a modern and more complex first person AAA game like Battlefield"

Grand Theft Auto V is a great looking game on its own, but there's a brand new remastered version of the already incredible NaturalVision mod for the game, and it's absolutely mind blowing.

The new NaturalVision Remastered mod features Enhanced Motion Blur, a Corona Modifier, Darker Nights, First-Person Depth of Field, Alternate Lens Flare Style, and allows to hide weapon reticle and damage overlay. It also improves the Extra Sunny and Clear weather at all hours, reworks cloud colors and and Clear weather.

The new GTA V mod increases procedural vegetation density throughout the world with nearly no hit to performance, while increasing the amount of litter and trash throughout the city. NaturalVision Remastered also features improved ambient lighting, fog haze colors and other fog-related settings in Rainy weather.

Epic Games had a bunch of new things to show off at the Game Developers Conference this year, but one of the best would have to be Siren.

Siren is a new "high-fidelity, real-time digital character based on the likeness of Chinese actress Bingjie Jiang", with actress Alexa Lee playing the character. Epic Games collaborated with 3Lateral, Cubic Motion, Tencent and Vicon on Siren. Together, they captured Jiang live and turned her into a digital character powered by Unreal Engine.

Vicon VFX product manager Tim Doubleday explains: "To create a realistic digital character requires more than just tracking movements, you need to be able to isolate and mimic everything down to the most minute details. There have been some incredible attempts to create realistic digital avatars recently, and so when Epic approached us, we were eager to get involved and help push the field even further".

Your data was never safe. Bitcoin was never safe. The blockchain itself was never safe. The US government made sure of that by tasking the NSA back in 2013 to track all users and information flowing through Bitcoin.

Edward Snowden is behind the new information, with The Intercept writing it up revealign that the NSA has been tracking Bitcoin users since 2013. Snowden has classified documentation that shows the NSA has access to the various fiber optic cables that have the entire of the internet running through them.

This gives the NSA near unlimited power, and with this power comes no responsibility as an internal NSA report said on March 15, 2013 that the US spy agency was interested in other cryptocurrencies as well, but "Bitcoin is #1 priority" reads the memo. Another memo from March 29, 2013 said that the NSA collected users passwords, internet history, and unique device information in the form of a Bitcoin user's MAC address.

The future of Windows 10 laptops will be powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon-powered laptops, ushering an always-on, always-connected PC future.

In the first video, Qualcomm shows off the truly incredible battery life of their Snapdragon-powered Windows 10 PCs. The what looks to be a Dell XPS 15 on the left can only handle 13 hours, while Qualcomm throws the gauntlet down and rides right up to just under 22 hours of battery life.

The next video has super-fast instant-on abilities thanks to Snapdragon, it's truly instant-on. Dell on the other hand takes a ridiculous amount of time in comparison.

A more harmonized and less fractured console market is an inevitability, says Epic Games' Tim Sweeney.

Microsoft has embraced cross-play for a few good reasons, the biggest one being the company's unification of Windows 10 PCs with its Xbox One console family to make a future-proof gaming platform. But what about Sony? What incentives do they have to open up cross-play and allow gamers to play freely with Team Green's supporters? After all, isn't the console war something that tremendously helped Sony absolutely smash Microsoft in terms of PlayStation 4 console sales? Why would they give it up?

But alas, Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney is confident it'll happen...eventually.

The Witcher trilogy of games has sold through more than two dozen million copies to gamers, showing the strong pull of quality-driven AAA RPGs as well as CD Projekt RED's development prowess.

Geralt's saga remains one of the most unique trilogies on the market today, and the third chapter, The Wild Hunt, remains a strong sales driver for CD Projekt RED even three years after its release. Today the company announced that the games have cumulatively sold more than 33 million copies worldwide on all platforms as of 2017's tail end.

"With regard to sales, The Witcher 3 again provided the largest contribution to sales revenues," said CD Projekt RED's Chief Financial Officer Piotr Nielubowicz. The company pulled in about 460 million PLN in sales revenue, and based on internal charts, The Witcher 3 lead the other games by over tenfold.

Cyberpunk 2077 is built on high-end tech that's well suited for modern and future console hardware, CD Projekt RED confirms.

We've known for a while that Cyberpunk 2077 is the biggest and most ambitious game CD Projekt RED has ever made. The game should feature living breathing worlds with advanced AI and flying cars alongside unique open-world interactions, all built with incredible next-gen technologies refined from the studio's arsenal of tools. This huge investment will ensure Cyberpunk 2077 is not only ready for today's PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC hardware, but also the future of gaming systems as well.

But there's just one small issue: CDPR isn't sure what Sony and Microsoft are cooking up next, despite the evidence the former is working on a PlayStation 5 system. "Next gen hasn't been announced yet, so we can only speculate. Technology-wise, Cyberpunk is very advanced. Our technology is ready to interface with future generations," CD Projekt RED's president Adam Kiciński said in a recent financial conference call.

The newest title from Creative Assembly and SEGA, Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia has sadly been delayed due to the development team wanting to add another coat of polish to the title before releasing it.

SEGA and Creative Assembly announced today on their website and Twitter that their first title in the Total War Saga series will be pushed back a couple weeks, this is happening because the development team would like to add some quality of life features to the UI and other aspects of the game before its release.

To go with the quality of life features, Creative Assembly are also tweaking the difficulty of the campaign, these tweaks are honed in on the titles AI and how it will be reacting to the players movements on the battlefield. Some changes for the AI include: flanking tactics, armies that get recruited and more. For further information in the recent changes visit the official Total War website here.

Epic Games had one of the best demonstrations of real-time ray tracing technology at this years Game Developers Conference, with a peek into their "Reflections" ray tracing demonstration.

The new real-time ray tracing demonstration runs inside of Epic Games' own Unreal Engine, and was powered by NVIDIA's incredible DGX station which packs four Tesla V100s and costs a huge $60,000. Remember that RTX, NVIDIA's real-time ray tracing technology, is exclusive to the Volta GPU architecture until NVIDIA releases their next-gen GPU, which should be unveiled next week at GTC 2018.

The Reflections demo uses next-gen experimental lighting and rendering techniques in Unreal Engine, with Epic Games working closely with NVIDIA and ILMxLAB. It looks absolutely out of this world, but with $60,000 worth of hardware behind it, you'd kind of expect it.

Bethesda Softworks UK have released on their YouTube channel the official teaser trailer for Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset.

Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset will be the second expansion to hit the MMORPG, the above video gives a very quick tease at what gamers will be in-store for as well as the launch date.

Below there are a number of in-game screenshots showing off the amazing looking world players will be immersed in. Players will be glad to know that the new expansion will be featuring a brand new skill line which is based on Psijic Order as well as a new endgame trail and more. For further information on the upcoming chapter, visit the official Elder Scrolls Online website here.

Electronic Arts have released the official launch trailer for the upcoming co-op title A Way Out, to go with the launch trailer the official PC requirements have also been released.

The launch trailer shows a lot of great co-op gameplay and shows off the characters players will be able to play. Vincent and Leo will seem to have to overcome a multitude of problems for them to successfully escape, luckily only one of the players will have to purchase the game for the escape to begin.

Also released with the launch trailer was the official PC requirements which can be found below, I have provided a screenshot from the official EA website, but if you desire to visit the EA website the link can be found right here.

The launch of Dark Souls Remastered has had images leak online through a Japanese magazine titled Famitsu, the magazine shows some gameplay snapshots as well as the Solaire amiibo.

From the below screenshots we can see some bosses and standard enemies that will be no shock to players that have already traversed through the game before. Most importantly though, the magazine shows the classic 'Praise the Sun' emote.

Also what can be found in the leaked images is also the amiibo support that will be featuring with the game. The images shows a knight in different scenarios 'praising the sun,' the images are titled as 'amiibo.'

At GDC 2018, Peter Ellis, Art Director Epic Games, took to his panel to display off some Fortnite art pieces that could suggest that the battle royale shooter will be receiving some new maps in the future.

From the leaked images that can be found below, we can see quite a diverse set of landscapes. It appears that Ellis or more specifically Epic Games wants Fortnite players to jump into a completely different map experience, the images range from desert maps, marshes and large building establishments.

Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that these images are 100% coming to Fortnite as maps but from a development point of view wouldn't it be slightly silly to waste these amazing assets? If these aren't maps then what are they and how are they going to be implemented into the Fortnite experience? I suppose time will only tell, we will update you with any further information regarding the possibility of new maps.

NVIDIA announced their super-exciting new RTX real-time raytracing technology during GDC 2018 earlier this week, with 4A Games the first developer out of the gate announcing support for RTX in their upcoming Metro Exodus.

4A Games announced the news over Twitter that they were excited to announce their partnership with NVIDIA to use RTX real-time raytracing technology in Metro Exodus. This set AMD Radeon gamers into a flurry, with people asking if it would work with AMD Radeon graphics cards.

We should expect a video teaser of Metro Exodus running with NVIDIA's RTX technology on top, and I can't wait. Bring it on.

Battlegrounds took most of the headlines last year, making hundreds of millions of dollars and setting new records every other week for concurrent players on Steam but it seems Fortnite has been playing catch up, in a big way.

According to the latest data from research company SuperData, Epic Games' shooter is bigger than PUBG when it comes to viewers and revenue. Last month, Fortnite made a huge $126 million on the PC while Battlegrounds was only capable of drawing in $103 million.

Fortnite is a free-to-play game, but its Save the World mode starts at $40. The Battle Royale side of Fortnite is free which provides it with a larger player base, while Epic makes money from adds on using its virtual currency, of which you can buy cosmetic items and seasonal battle passes.

The mere tease of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered sent gamers into a tail spin, but now there's new news on the game, and that Activision will only include the single player portion of Modern Warfare 2... and not the multiplayer side.

What the hell, Activision? That's the most stupid thing I've ever heard, and you want to charge $20 for the pleasure of an improved single player experience in something where the multiplayer was what 90% of gamers purchased it for? In this game, puff, puff, pass is what they should be doing - not puff, puff, puff. No one will be able to pull off 420NOSCOPES, now.

Eurogamer is reporting that Modern Warfare 2 Remastered will indeed ship without multiplayer, and rock just the single player campaign. The game is expected to launch on April 20 for the Xbox One and PS4.