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NVIDIA will be launching their next generation GPU architecture in Q3 2018, with a new report from DigiTimes and their sources saying that Turing will "not enter the mass production until the third quarter". NVIDIA is currently expected to unveil the new Turing GPU architecture at GTC 2018, but there could be a few months between its detailing and public roll out.

DigiTimes reports that NVIDIA will be "forbidding" AIB partners to "publicly promote cryptocurrency mining activities or actively sell its consumer graphics cards to miners". NVIDIA wants to move the focus away from cryptomining and back to gaming, which has been in a very sore place for the last 6-8 months.

Prices are all over the place, and this needs to stop, hence the realignment of marketing focus to AIB partners by NVIDIA. DigiTimes' sources added that since the profitibility has dropped for both NVIDIA and AMD, they have been "decelerating the developments of their new GPU architectures and prolonging their existing GPU platforms' lifecycle".

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 released on the 8th of March and to add to its launch, Fatshark have decided to release their roadmap for the upcoming three months.

So far the new title has been quite successful, pulling in a 83% rating from user reviews. Steamspy records a massive 343K owners already and to support those players the above roadmap was released by Fatshark.

From the roadmap we can see that there is quite a lot planned for the newly released title. The first three months will be dedicated to bringing new maps, mod support and dedicated servers.

The upcoming World of Warcraft expansion Battle for Azeroth will be featuring a new Orc model which will be standing upright.

To tie World of Warcraft players over until the new expansion arrives, gamers can participate in Trails of Style the fashion contest mode. More importantly though, WoWhead has datamined the new Orc models which can be found above.

The video shows the new Orcs that are going to be featured in the upcoming expansion, it appears from the video that the Orcs are standing much more upright compared to their previous models. Images of the models can be found below.

It looks like NVIDIA will be controlling the stock levels of its graphics cards in the coming months, with DigiTimes reporting that the company will "practice strict control over inventory levels".

DigiTimes reports: "GPU demand for cryptocurrency mining has shown signs of a slowdown prompting NVIDIA to practice strict control over inventory levels", according to its sources. The story is so fresh that its only available in the 'Before Going to Press' section of the site, which costs $410 yearly to access. As the story develops, I'll update this story.

If this is true, we could be looking at NVIDIA being able to control GPU prices as it keeps "strict control over inventory levels", so that they don't sell out to miners. Gamers are losing out as GPU prices have skyrocketed, with the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti costing well over $1000 while the GTX 1070 Ti ranges from $600-$950.

President Trump has issued an order that immediately stops Broadcom's attempts at acquiring Qualcomm, with Broadcom now blocked from the takeover and anything "substantially equivalent" to it, as it might "impair the national security" of the United States.

Broadcom has been lusting after Qualcomm for a while now, offering up a huge $130 billion to acquire the Snapdragon creator, and soon, 5G leader. There was a letter from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US that warned of a major national security threat if the Singapore-based company were to acquire Qualcomm.

In the meantime, Broadcom has said it is "reviewing" President Trump's order, and that the company "strongly disagrees" that its acquisition of Qualcomm would affect US national security. Qualcomm has said that once they've got the Order, they will kick off their annual stockholders meeting on March 23.

Corsair hasn't had a super ridiculously high-end chassis since the Obsidian 900D which was released all the way back in 2013, before RGBs went mainstream, and now we're seeing a tease of the unannounced Obsidian 1000D chassis.

The new Corsair Obsidian 1000D is a beast, with the super-tower costing $500 and already listed early on Amazon. We should expect a beautiful style that is mixed with curved tempered glass, matte black aluminum, and RGB LEDs throughout. Inside, it's a bevy of ultimate enthusiast options.

Corsair has the front, sides, and top panels all made using curved tempered glass with aluminum inserts that allows for discrete air inlets for a bunch of fan mounts inside.

It looks like NVIDIA isn't finished with the P102 GPU, with CryptoMining-Blog.com reporting on a tip that the NVIDIA P102-100 GPU are going to be "interesting for miners" as they are similar to the P104-100 with a custom configuration on memory and increased performance for those all important hashes.

Inno3D will be manufacturing the new P102-100 mining accelerators, which will feature no video output connectors as this is a mining-specific card. The new Inno3D P102-100 will be a mighty powerful mining card, capable of 47MH/s mining Ethereum (a GTX 1080 Ti will reach around 38-40MH/s while the TITAN Xp will push 42MH/s when overclocked).

Inno3D P102-100 specifications:

Based on explosive sales of the Nintendo Switch and strong software attach rates, analyst firm IHS Markit predicts Nintendo will actually outpace Microsoft's Xbox division in terms of product sales and services.

With the Switch, Nintendo is back in the game, so to speak: the console has propelled the games-maker to its former glory with monumental sales and global acclaim. Before the Switch the console gaming space was dominated by the PS4 vs Xbox One battle--a battle which Microsoft was losing--but now Nintendo will push Xbox to the third spot...at least that's what IHS Markit predicts.

According to recent data released by the firm, Nintendo is expected to rake in about $11 billion in hardware, games, and services revenue in 2018, whereas Microsoft is predicted to pull in around $8 billion or so in combined gaming earnings.

Square Enix is currently hiring a level planner for its massive new Final Fantasy VII: Remake project.

Final Fantasy VII: Remake has been in development for a while now, and the game is actually taking shape quite nicely, but the Japanese games publisher Square Enix wants to make it absolutely incredible. That's why it's in a hiring phase for new devs in a bid to expand its team and bolster talent. It's also very likely that Final Fantasy XV's dev tools and procedures are bleeding into the project, as FFXV Game Director Hajime Tabata said his developers have become "tougher and faster" because of internal pressure.

"FF VII REMAKE has all functions and contents implemented," reads the job listing. "We are constantly examining the program within the development team, but while it is satisfying to say that the original is reproduced with high quality graphics, We have reached the conclusion that we should aim for a step further in quality so that can meet the expectations of fans."

Microsoft's new job listing suggests a game mod hosting service is coming to Xbox LIVE.

Mods have been proven to drive engagement across the board--not only do they considerably lengthen a game's life cycle, but in the case of Minecraft's community storefront, they can actually make money too. If it's one thing Microsoft loves, it's the billion dollar industry of engagement (Activision, EA, Ubisoft and Sony too).

A new Microsoft job listing affirms that the company is keen on building a mod service right into Xbox LIVE, which hints that future first-party Xbox games could have monetized mod storefronts baked into the online platform. Since most of Microsoft's first-party games have live services for maximum engagement, it's likely that this plan will mesh neatly with its current roadmap.

Drew Karpyshyn, who's best known for helping write some of BioWare's most beloved series such as Mass Effect, has left the studio once more to pursue other endeavors.

In a recent blog post, Karpyshyn says he left BioWare in order to focus on his own freelance work, which includes making games at a studio called Fogbank Games as well as continuing his novel series. This marks the second time the writer has left the Edmonton-based game dev; the first was in 2012 for many of the same reasons, but Karpyshyn came back in 2015 to help write Star Wars: The Old Republic and work on BioWare's massively ambitious new IP Anthem.

Anthem was recently moved to calendar Q1 2019 by Electronic Arts, and Karpyshyn's departure strongly hints that his role in the game has been wrapped up. Or, of course, BioWare is using a team of writers to make their huge new live service game (which is likely too).

Sony Bend's new zombie survival game Days Gone has been delayed into next year, Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed.

Speculation started when Days Gone's official game page was updated to a 2019 release, and now Sony verified the push back to various outlets. The company gave no reason behind the delay, ie that Sony Bend needed more time to optimize or polish, but it's not always as simple--Sony might've needed to fill a hole in its games lineup or the studio actually needed more time, or both.

Starting in FY2018, Sony says it will focus even more on strong first-party games in a bid to improve the PlayStation ecosystem's attractiveness to new and existing gamers. We may get specifics when the company outlines its new Mid-Year plan in the coming months, and maybe even some clues on the upcoming PlayStation 5 console to boot.

Microsoft recently confirmed FreeSync 2 support is coming to the current Xbox One consoles as a beta test next week.

During the newly brought back Xbox Insider show Major Nelson announced that FreeSync would arrive on both Xbox One S and Xbox One X consoles next week for members of the insider alpha program. We've known for quite some time that the Xbox One X supports FreeSync/FreeSync 2 and HDMI 2.1, but up until now the features, which help synchronize the display's and console's refresh rates for smoother gaming, haven't really been discussed too much. But now Microsoft breaks that silence.

"Starting next week users in the Xbox Insider alpha ring will be able to play on AMD Radeon FreeSync displays for variable refresh output on Xbox One X and Xbox One S," Xbox's Larry Hryb said during the broadcast.

To celebrate the return of 'Justice League' on home video, we have ten Blu-ray copies to give away thanks to our friends at Roadshow Home Entertainment.

Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes-Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash-it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.

Directed by Zack Snyder, this marks the big screen debut of the Justice League, featuring an all-star lineup: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller and Ray Fisher.

We all know just how big Amazon is, and with its founder and CEO Jeff Bezos kicking off the New Year as the world's richest man, but did you know he's making around $231,000 per minute this year?

Bezos has a fortune of nearly $100 billion already, and added another $10 billion in the first two weeks of 2019 alone. By the end of January, Bezos racked up another $10 billion bringing his net worth to $120 billion, while the Bloomberg Billionaire Index has Bezos' net worth hitting just over $129 billion, meaning he's made $30.1 billion IN THE LAST THREE MONTHS.

If we consider Bezos added just $35 billion to his fortune in 2017, making $30 billion in under three months of 2018 is astounding. Bezos is now making $10 billion per month, which equates to around $231,000 per minute, seeing Bezos make around 400% more than the average American worker makes in an entire year.

Broadcom has it hard for Qualcomm right now as they see the San Diego-based giant as a massive acquisition target going into the future with the world leading Snapdragon product family, 5G, and a million things in between.

But now, rumor has it Intel wants to acquire Broadcom and this is something that hit on Friday night. Intel shares dropped 1% in after-hours trrading, while Broadcom shares jumped over 6% in the same period. In a world where Broadcom did acquire Qualcomm, it would create a near unstoppable threat for Intel, more so than Qualcomm is on its own.

An Intel spokeswoman reached out to CNBC who said: "That being said, we have made important acquisitions over the past 30 months - including Mobileye and Altera - and our focus is on integrating those acquisitions and making them successful for our customers and shareholders".

The team behind the game This War of Mine has released a new trailer for their new upcoming title Frostpunk. Not only was a cool trailer released, the title also had its release date confirmed.

Director of Frostpunk, Grzegorz Miechowski originally wanted to release his new game in the first quarter of this year, but instead decided to delay the title to add the "final polishing required to deliver a game that, we believe, is the best 11 bit studios title so far."

Miechowski explains in detail why he decided to delay the title, here is what he had to say "We wanted to make it before end of Q1, but we ended up slightly moving the release further. The reason is simple - we needed this time for the final polishing required to deliver a game that, we believe, is the best 11 bit studios title so far."

Yesterday, Nintendo held their Nintendo Direct which revealed a slew of new content coming from the developer, taking the cake for the biggest reveal would have to be the Super Smash Bros teaser trailer.

Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai has confirmed on Twitter that he is apart of the next Smash project, whether it is a port of the Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U or a completely new game.

Sakurai took to Twitter to announce "Right now, we're just at the stage where we revealed this game, but I've been working on this game in silence day after day. Please wait until we can release more information, or until release day!"

Bethesda's development studio expands outside of Maryland and Montreal with a new Austin-based sister branch.

We've known for a long time that Bethesda Game Studios is working on "two big and crazy projects" that are "totally different" than anything they've done before, and that The Elder Scrolls VI will indeed happen (just not for a long time). So it shouldn't come as a surprise that the developer is growing its ranks so it can fashion these ideas into actual tangible games.

"As the vision, scale and ambitions for our games continue to grow, so does Bethesda Game Studios," Todd Howard said in a press release. "We've had the pleasure to know the talented developers at BattleCry and knew we could do great things together."

So many cool games have been confirmed at the recent Nintendo Direct, one of them is Undertale which is making its way to the portable console.

Undertale is coming to the Nintendo Switch and from the above trailer we can see that the Nintendo is teasing everyone by not giving a release date for the game but instead just saying "eventually."

Undertale is now one of the most anticipated games coming to the Nintendo Switch, as Nintendo Switch fans on the /r/NintendoSwitch subreddit have said that there isn't a better platform for Undertale to come to.