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Keen on promoting its new dino movie and following the juggernaut that is Pokemon Go, Universal has announced an AR-based mobile game based on Jurassic World.

Jurassic World Alive is pretty much Pokemon GO with dinosaurs--at least that's what we've gathered from the brief teaser released by the dev team. However Ludia, the studio that's making the game, promises key differences from the pocket monster behemoth: gamers can actually pit their dinosaurs against other players'.

"Players discover dinosaurs by locating them on a map and deploying an in-game drone to collect DNA samples," the company told The Verge.

A surprise Nintendo Direct is coming tomorrow, and Switch owners are speculating what new games they'll get in 2018.

Nintendo today announced a Nintendo Direct showcase for tomorrow at 2PM PST/5PM EST that will reveal a number of new Switch games. Given all of the hubbub about a certain unholy monster rising to the handheld-console hybrid, we're betting one of those new games will be Diablo III's confirmation on the Switch. Mario Aces Tennis will also be highlighted in greater depth.

So what games could get revealed? Maybe the next Pokemon game? Probably not, Nintendo may save that for E3, and it's even possible Diablo III could be saved as well. We'll likely get a bunch of indies, a first party game or two (Mario Aces Tennis), and some other third-party games to boot.

Like the MMO before it, Square Enix has put titanic effort into streamlining Final Fantasy XV on all platforms--least of all PC--and this process will be an asset for future games development.

With Final Fantasy XV the game's internal dev team was under tremendous pressure to get the game just right, especially since the higher-end PC tech used to make the game had to be scaled down quite a bit to run on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. But the team didn't stop there: they went all out with a PC version with native 4K (and even 8K support), HDR, UltaWide, and a number of tweaks and optimizations befit a true AAA PC game. This blistering pace will bleed over into other projects and has taught the developers massively important lessons along the way.

In a recent interview with Japanese publication Famitsu, key Final Fantasy XV developers including game director Hajime Tabata, designer Takefumi Terada, and Episode Ignis director Yoichi Kuroda underlined some key points about the process. "I had absolutely [made builds] once a month to eliminate bugs and bring them to the world with constant quality. So, what we got is technology to develop HD game at a tremendous speed. Everyone was tough, fast and tough," the devs said in the interview.

7 minutes of Mordhau gameplay has been released and the first-person melee game is looking quite good, the video showcases the true colors players should expect in the alpha.

Potential players that are considering picking up this game should know that this title is within a closed alpha so do not expect 100% smoothness. From the above video and also the comment section we can see a very positive response from the audience, some people even saying this title is better than the classic Chivalry.

Mordhau is powered by Unreal Engine 4 and will have a skill-based free-flowing combat system that according to the developers will be hard to master but easy to learn. Some other positive additions to the title is that the game will be coming with a field of view slider, as well as support for mods.

Blizzard have decided to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their beloved real-time strategy game StarCraft, the company has released a short video showing the progression of the game since its first release.

The video that was released by Blizzard shows how the classic RTS has aged since its release back in 1999, until the remastered edition was pushed out in 2017.

Blizzard are not only celebrating the anniversary with a short video but they are also releasing a slew of extra content across their other games to celebrate the occasion. For example, Overwatch players will be glad to know that they will have access to the special Sarah Kerrigan Ghost skin for Widowmaker, this skin will be available from March 6th until April 3rd.

To celebrate the launch of the new God of War game by Santa Monica Studios, Sony have decided to debut a limited edition God of War themed PS4 Pro.

The limited edition console will be launching the very same day as God of War and will also be coming with a physical copy of the game.

The console will be featuring 1 TB of storage and will be retailing for $399USD, meaning that the game included comes completely free.

Ubisoft have taken to their own blog to announce that Far Cry 5 will be featuring a custom level editor that will allow players to create and share their map designs.

The level editor has been titled Far Cry Arcade, this news was broken by lead level designer of the Arcade, Clark Davies. Davies has said that this will be most packed level designer so far.

"We've really pushed hard this time to make it a much more integral part of the Far Cry experience, and to really give it its own identity. We're going to make sure it's more visible than ever. Not just in our menus, but in the campaign itself. We're going to put arcade booths all around our campaign world in places where it makes sense. And then on top of that, there will be posters all over the game world, which will be simple portals to quick-launch you into our best featured maps."

Geralt of Rivia, the well-known character from the infamous Witcher series, has had CD Projekt RED's Community Manager Marcin Momot drop a teaser bomb for Geralt returning to the world of gaming, but this time not in his own game...

Momot took to Twitter to asking his audience "What if Geralt was going to step out of the The Witcher for the very first time to make an appearance in one of the upcoming games later this year?"

Reading some of the replies on the post, it was brought to my attention that we could be seeing Geralt featured in the upcoming Soulcalibur VI which recently had a main character reveal - Nightmare. The reason for this assumption of Geralt coming to the Soulcalibur universe is because of the great relationship between CD Projekt RED and Bandai Namco, who published the highly acclaimed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

Dell has just unveiled their refreshed Inspiron 17 5000-series laptops, which are powered with the latest and greatest APUs from AMD in the form of Raven Ridge.

The new Inspiron 17 5000-series come in a few different flavors with AMD's new Ryzen 3 2200U or Ryzen 5 2500U, with both versions packing a 17.3-inch 1080p TN-based display. Inside, there's up to 32GB of RAM, USB 2.0/3.0 ports, HDMI 1.4b output, 3-in-1 SD card reader, fingerprint sensor, and a tray-loading DVD-RW drive.

The strange thing here is that while Dell's new Inspiron 17 5000-series laptops rock AMD's latest Ryzen/Vega Mobile technology, it packs a 1/2TB 5400RPM (!!!) mechanical SATA HDD. 5400RPM! You know, the now super-slow throwback to the mid-2000s 5400RPM mechanical HDD.

I would cry for years if $2 million of PC hardware turned up in my office so that I could use it for mining cryptocurrency, especially after reading about 600 systems being stolen from data centers in Iceland.

The thieves broke into data centers in Iceland between December 2017 and January 2018, with local police commissioner telling the Associated Press that it was "a grand theft on a scale unseen before".

The theft has been described as "highly organized crime", and because Iceland has been a hot spot for cryptocurrency mining operations thanks to its reduced electricity costs and low temperatures across the country, these thefts could only get worse as there are significant investments in crypto mining across Iceland.

A new update is on the way to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' test servers, which will post-update feature an in-game friend system, a vehicle and limb penetration system, and voice chat in the main menu.

The test servers will go live later this week according to PUBG community manager Andro Dars, who added: "Our test servers are going up this week! We are currently polishing and debugging the test build".

Dars continued: "We are going to be introducing an in-game friend system, voice chat in main menu and vehicle and limb penetration system. We are going to need your feedback on all the new features, especially the new penetration system, so please join our test servers later this week. Detailed patch notes will be posted in a couple of days".

The big deal going on between tech giants in Broadcom and Qualcomm is reaching new levels, with a US government national security panel seeing potential risks in Broadcom's want to acquire Qualcomm.

In a letter to the two companies, a senior US Treasury official said there were enough national security risks in this deal that it warrants a full investigation. Some of the concerns to the US government over national security involve Broadcom's relationships with foreign entities, but no names were released.

The US government's Committee on Foreign Investment ordered a national security review of Singapore-based Broadcom and their proposed deal, where it said there is an unnamed "actor" that is working through Broadcom to hurt US national security by acquiring Qualcomm. Most of the report is classified, so there's not much to go on, but what there is here is pretty damning.

A Gamestop employee sheds new light on recent Black Ops 4 rumors.

Listings for Black Ops 4 merchandise has purportedly shown up in Gamestop's internal registry, Call of Duty news website Charlie Intel reports. According to the snapshots sent by an anonymous Gamestop employee to the website, Treyarch's latest Call of Duty entry will indeed be Black Ops 4--assuming, of course, the pictures aren't faked.

Activision has yet to confirm the next game in the annual Call of Duty series, but we do know Treyarch has been developing the game for some time. The company should announce new info at its E3 2018 event in June.

The gruff hero-Witcher Geralt could slash his way into a new game sometime this year--what could it be?

Today on Twitter CD Projekt RED Community Lead Marcin Momot teased the White Wolf could cross over to a mystery game, and lots of gamers believe it could be Soul Calibur VI.

"What if Geralt was going to step out of the @witchergame for the very first time to make an appearance in one of the upcoming games later this year?," Momot wrote on Twitter. By the way it's worded Momot's statement might actually mean Geralt could show up in an upcoming game trailer that drops in 2018, not necessarily a game that's slated for 2018 (which Soul Calibur VI is).

Assuming Far Cry 5 sells well, its built-in map editor should be a breeding grounds for engagement.

Marrying online elements with campaign-based singleplayer games isn't always easy, but Ubisoft seems to have taken some big cues from its competitors with Far Cry 5. The shooter, which will be powered by live services in the form of co-op, multiplayer, and microtransactions, will also have a mode called Far Cry Arcade that essentially lets players make their own maps and share/play them with friends online.

What's more is the sheer freedom Ubisoft is giving gamers, making it a kind of mod-esque Snapmap-style editor that gives players an interactive multiplayer component to boot. Armed with the map editor, players can create their own playground of chaos for others to enjoy--all of which is instantly accessible any time during the main game.

Diablo III may indeed make its way onto Nintendo's portable handheld-console hybrid after all, despite Blizzard's comments.

A bit ago Blizzard posted something interesting on Twitter: a Diablo-faced nightlight being switched on an off. This, naturally, seemed to amplify the rumors of a Diablo III port onto the Nintendo Switch...however the company later stepped in to say it was just an "engagement piece" and it has "nothing new to announce." But it appears the ARPG could crash onto the console anyway.

Diablo III is currently in production and development on the Nintendo Switch, key sources have told Eurogamer's Tom Phillips. The official reveal, sources say, isn't slated for a few more months--presumably during Nintendo's E3 showcase, or maybe a special Direct stream--and the team working on the game was actually surprised at Blizzard's not-so-coy Tweet.

Rockstars highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6 hasn't been confirmed by the developer as of yet, but recent information from a inside source that desires to stay anonymous has given some details on the title.

News of GTA 6 being released has been floating around since 2015 but with this new rumor we have a better idea of where the game might be sitting. The Know has posted a video saying that the game is to be set in Vice City and will be having a female as a lead role.

Unfortunately, the anonymous source didn't reveal whether the game will be giving players the ability to switch between multiple characters like in Grand Theft Auto V. The video released by The Know also details that the game isn't to be expected for a further 3 - 4 years as Rockstar will be throwing all their attention onto the upcoming Red Dead Redemption 2.

EK Water Blocks has just announced their new full-cover water block for AMD's Radeon RX Vega 56/64 graphics cards, with the new EK-FC Radeon Vega water block featuring a central inlet split-flow cooling engine that promises some of the best cooling for Vega yet.

The company has CNC machined the base of the block from nickel-plated electrolytic copper, while the top of the cooler is machined out of high-quality acrylic material. EK has sealed it with high-end rubber O-rings, with screw-in brass standoffs pre-installed which leads to an easier installation onto your Radeon RX Vega graphics card.

EK recommends that people purchase the retention backplate that ramps the looks of the card to another level, but it doubles as passive cooling to the VRM circuit board. The new EK-FC Radeon Vega water block will work with both the Nickel and Black versions of the current EK-FC Radeon Vega backplates.

Google has just unveiled its new Bristlecone chip, a new quantum processor that takes things to the next level. Google has made Bristlecone for researchers with a testbed for "for research into system error rates and scalability of our qubit technology, as well as applications in quantum simulation, optimization, and machine learning".

Quantum computers normally run at super-cold temperatures in the millikelvins, and are protected from the environment because quantum bits are very unstable, with errors occurring if there's any noise. The qubits in new quantum processors aren't individual qubits, but they are a collective of bits that work together to stop possible errors. Right now, quantum processors are limited to preserving their state for less than 100ms.

Google is taking a different approach to building their future in quantum processors with Bristlecone, with the new chip featuring 72 qubits - and considering the industry says that it will take 49 qubits to be the leader, Google is doing it differently. The company has said that it's not just about brute qubit numbers, but as "Operating a device such as Bristlecone at low system error requires harmony between a full stack of technology ranging from software and control electronics to the processor itself. Getting this right requires careful systems engineering over several iterations".

I didn't think there would be a day where I would be reporting on news that there are Pizza Hut branded sneakers, for one - because what the hell. But secondly, these new shoes even let you order pizza. I don't even.

Pizza Hut has unveiled their new Pie Tops II, a new pair of Pizza Hut themed high tops that have Bluetooth technology that is enabled by pressing a button on the tongue of the right sneaker. Pizza Hut is the "official pizza" of March Madness, as the pizza giant recently took over from Papa John's as the official pizza of the NFL.

Pizza Hut will be partnering with HBX.com where they will sell 50 pairs of their new Pie Tops II shoes between March 12-19, with another 50 pairs being given away on social media, and the final batch will be raffled off during the Final Four Fan Fest in San Antonio.