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AMD is improving eSports gaming performance and making things smoother with their new initiative that they've called Project ReSX (Radeon eSports Experience).

The company has been working behind the scenes with the game developers of big eSports games like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Overwatch, and Dota 2 to offer not just more performance, but smoother performance and more responsive gaming.

The company has compared their older RSAE 17.12.1 drivers against the new RSAE 18.3.1 drivers that include the Project ReSX improvements, where the performance of Battlegrounds increases by 11%, and between 3-6% for Overwatch and Dota 2, respectively.

Broadcom has its heart set on acquiring Qualcomm so much so that the company has offered a huge $121 billion takeover offer, with Qualcomm denying it, and has now pushed back its shareholder meeting that would've ended with a decision on the Broadcom takeover.

The reason? A request by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) that is concerned about Broadcom's possible acquisition of Qualcomm for national security. Broadcom is a Singapore-based company, which could create national security-related issues if it were to acquire US-based Qualcomm, which has technology inside of billions of communications devices.

Qualcomm was behind the request to CFIUS to review the takeover, with the company saying in a statement: "In compliance with the CFIUS order, Qualcomm will delay its Annual Meeting of Stockholders and election of directors for at least 30 days so that CFIUS can fully investigate Broadcom Limited's proposal to acquire Qualcomm".

Ex Horizon: Zero Dawn senior producer Samrat Sharma is now working at Ubisoft Toronto on an unannounced game, and we have an inkling its the mysterious new IP the company confirmed a while back.

Ever since May 2017 we've known Ubisoft is working on yet another new IP for release in its Fiscal Year 2019 timeline (which ends March 2019). Based on the available clues, it's possible the Horizon: Zero Dawn producer is helping develop either the new IP, or one of the new AAA games Ubisoft is developing--possibly the game it actually delayed past its current fiscal year. It could even be that the delayed project was in fact the new IP, too.

Whatever the new franchise turns out to be, having the help of a key player who worked on one of the best open-world games of this gen certainly helps--and might give clues the IP is open-world (again). Also Ubisoft seems quite confident in it: the company's Fiscal Q3'18 report says it expected the game to make up 5 million sales during the period.

EVGA has just changed its RMA procedure, where the old "Guest RMA" option to return a graphics card is over and done with, and now the company requires that you register products before you send them back.

The older Guest RMA option was good because it meant that if someone purchased an EVGA graphics card second hand, they could still RMA the card even if the original owner had registered their card. EVGA will now require that GeForce GTX owners register their card and provide the company with their name, address, phone number, and email address to create an EVGA account to register their card.

Once this is done, the graphics card you've just purchased is registered to you alone.

Bethesda may be releasing a new DLC to Prey, one of the best games of 2017.

If you've read my Prey review then you already know it's a fantastic, haunting, mind-bending experience that absolutely should continue with expansions and DLC. And apparently Arkane might actually keep it going: a recent post on the official Prey Twitter account strongly teases a new DLC pack that will take place on the moon. If you read my review, played Prey, and followed my advice, you should remember the Pytheas moon base from a book--and an optional side-quest.

No one knows for sure what happened on the base itself, but the in-game book mentioned something about underground tunnels and experiments...which already sounds intriguing. I kept wanting to know what's out there, and I was hoping I'd get to actually venture to the base at some point in the game. But like most things in Prey, nothing is as it seems...so we won't actually know for sure until the DLC drops. Or maybe Arkane was just teasing for fun and Bethesda doesn't plan to greenlight more content.

The next Battlefield game will reportedly be set in WWII, but according to new info, the game could be somewhat similar to DICE's WWI shooter Battlefield I in a few key ways.

Battlefield V--working title--will apparently have a special co-operative mode that allows players to team up and tackle objectives together, says a new report from VentureBeat. The publication recently confirmed the veracity of the Battlefield V picture leak, and has now followed up with some more info about the upcoming shooter.

Sources close to the matter tell VentureBeat that the next Battlefield game will also have an episodic campaign similar to Battlefield I that changes perspectives on a mission-by-mission basis. No exact details on the levels have been confirmed, but expect the missions to be slices of WWII versus a big arcing storyline like Battlefield 4. Other details include a prone stance that can be used in multiplayer, hearkening back to more tactical play in Battlefield 4.

Capcom's new online-based Monster Hunter: World is a runaway success that keeps breaking sales milestones.

Monster Hunter: World has now amassed 7.5 million units in combined digital sales and shipments, Capcom today confirmed. This follows last month's news of 6 million shipments worldwide, signalling final sales could balloon even farther. Remember that shipments aren't technically sales to consumers and represent sell-in and not sell-through, but digital sales are direct to gamers.

As of now, with this combined figure, Monster Hunter: World sits as the best-selling game in Capcom's history. The company has a handy list of Platinum Titles, or games that have sold more than 1 million copies worldwide, and the previous record holder was Resident Evil 5 which has sold 7.3 million units worldwide.

Ubisoft really are trying to create as much hype as possible for their upcoming release of Far Cry 5, videos detailing the allies and the villains players will be running into have been released.

The first of the videos shows what NPC's are available to assist players on the adventure and what is needed to be done to acquire their trust. An example of this is the White Tail Militia which players will need to work for to gain trust.

There is 4 videos that detail the villains, first off his Joseph Seed, the leader of the cult, John Seed which is a highly manipulative leader, Jacob Seed who is extremely violent and impatient and finally Faith Seed who is a women that found solace by being involved in the cult.

I remember playing Soulcalibur II back when I was quite young, now one of the series' fan-favorites and a character that I personally remember playing, Nightmare makes his debut.

Siegfried or better known as Nightmare has been introduced to Soulcalibur VI by Producer Motohiro Okubo. Okubo discusses how Nightmare is one the more integral characters to the series.

Okubo talks about how they are quite impressed with the game that they have created and more so overall Okubo just wanted to say "that this game has ended up being absurdly cool" and that he "definitely encourage you all to pick it up and give it a shot."

The collaboration between Psyonix, developers of Rocket League and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment bring a new DC DLC pack to Rocket League, the release date has been confirmed for March 5th.

This news was confirmed on the Rocket League Twitter, the post read "Heads up! Our next 'Mini Update,' Rocket League v1.42, will release globally on ALL platforms on March 5 at 10am PST/1pm EST/7pm CET. v1.41 includes several bug fixes and the DC Super Heroes DLC."

This DLC pack will contain 20+ customization options, as well as 2 new Batmobiles and plenty of new DC themed player banners. For more information regarding the DC DLC pack visit the official Rocket League website.

Ubisoft have decided to launch a new trailer for their upcoming Far Cry 5, the new trailer shows an additional Bill of Rights which concentrates on "arming bears."

Far Cry 5 seems to be concentrating on arming animals instead of players arming themselves. As we can see from the above trailer players will be able to use dogs, bears and even cougars to take out their enemies.

The rest of the Rights on the Bill contain leeway for players to 'Deliver Unusual Punishment, Do Without the Process of Law, Rain Down Destruction, A Partner in Crime, Flex your American Muscle, Take 'em Out of the Ballgame, Be Resurrected and finally Blow **** Up!'

A fashion event is coming to World of Warcraft, the event is called Trail of Style and will be beginning on March 5th for anyone that wants to test their transmogrification skills.

The Trail of Style event is a limited time event which includes 6 players that will be competing with each other for who has the best-looking transmogrification set. The event will give the 2 competing players a scenario, the players will then have to create the best-looking transmog set for that particular scenario, the remaining 4 other players vote for who looks the best.

Once everyone has competed, 1st, 2nd and third place will be rewarded while the other three competitors will be granted a Trail of Style Consolation Prize. The prize contains Trail of Styke Tokens which can be used to purchase items that could help you win the next event you enter.

A rumor has surfaced for a new title coming to the Nintendo Switch and it is no other than Team Cherrys Hollow Knight.

According to an Amazon listing that was found by KianPlaysGames on the Nintendo Switch reddit, Hollow Knight should be released on the Nintendo eShop on March 16th.

It should be noted that Kirby Star Allies is also scheduled for release on that very same day which could mean that Amazon has simply used March 16th as a placeholder date. Adding to the speculation that is this a placeholder date, the Nintendo UK website shows Hollow Knights "release date: 2018."

ZOTAC has announced that its ZOTAC Cup Masters CS:GO 2018 tournament will begin this month, where after a series of ZOTAC Cup qualifiers will feed into the Regional Live Final Qualifiers, and then into the ZOTAC Cup Masters Grand Finals in Hong Kong.

This year is a big one as it is the largest ZOTAC Cup Masters global tournament yet, with the company throwing up a huge $300,000 prize pool for the ZOTAC Cup Masters CS:GO Grand Finals Tournament. Between March and June, there will be online qualifying matches across Asia, Europe and the US. The best teams from here will advance through to the Regional Qualifier Finals.

Once the battle has been won at the Regional Qualifier Finals, the best CS:GO teams will fight into the final ZOTAC Cup Masters CS:GO Tournament that will be livestreamed. CS:GO is a huge eSports game, and with ZOTAC fully embracing eSports it's a great thing to see them driving this home in 2018.

NVIDIA will kick off its GPU Technology Conference event later this month, with NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang giving his annual GTC keynote address on March 27 at 9AM PST.

There will be over 8000 people across the GPU and AI industries, as well as virtually everything in between with the likes of Amazon, BMW, Ford, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Pixar, Toyota, Walt Disney, and so many more. GTC is where we should expect to receive a detailing on NVIDIA's new Turing GPU architecture, and my sources have said we'll see a new GeForce graphics card as well. I still don't think we will, but if my sources are correct this GTC will be the biggest one yet.

Speaking of the biggest one yet, with over 8000 people attending (myself included) there will be some new details revealed on just how the advancements in AI are getting, especially thanks to NVIDIA's various technologies powering this change.

EA went through enough controversy over Star Wars Battlefront II and its ridiculous microtransactions, so the company is going to be taking a different route when it comes to DICE's upcoming Battlefield V.

Kotaku is reporting that it has sources that claim DICE will only include cosmetic-oriented microtransactions for their new Battlefield game, with these real-world transactions only changing things cosmetically, and not changing your abilities in-game.

The site said: "No one's gonna do any pay-to-win stuff anymore. We didn't take any of the loot box controversy lightly".

With tens of millions of gamers using Steam daily, it's always interesting to see just how many gamers use NVIDIA or AMD graphics cards, and the same for whether they use AMD or Intel processors.

According to Steam's new February 2018 hardware survey, NVIDIA and Intel utterly dominate gamers' PCs. A huge 85.3% of Steam gamers use an NVIDIA GeForce graphics card while just 8.9% of gamers use an AMD Radeon. AMD has nearly the same percentage of the CPU market with just 9.1% of gamers using AMD processors while a huge 90.88% use Intel CPUs.

The most popular graphics card used on Steam is NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1060, which is followed by three more GeForce cards: the GTX 750 Ti, GTX 960, and GTX 1050 Ti.

Legends Room is a Las Vegas strip club that opened up in May 2017, and has become one of the first strip clubs in the world to not just accept Bitcoin payments, but some strippers have QR code tattoos on their body for beyond easy payment.

There's even a Bitcoin ATM at the club, while the dancers will don QR tattoos with wallet addresses that can be scanned by your smartphone. Just how many customers pay with Bitcoin with the QR tattoos? According to Brenna Sparks, who works at Legends Room: "Oh, quite often. Like the people that come here, they are like really into crypto. I feel like it's very smart. They are really into that".

She continued: "It's fun though. Once you invest, it becomes an everyday thing. It's peer to peer. It's anonymous, and it's instant".

Surprising absolutely no one, Far Cry 5 will indeed have optional time-saving packages that gamers can buy from a digital storefront.

Back in May 2017 Ubisoft flat out confirmed that all of its games will be powered by live services, even singleplayer games. So the recent confirmation that Far Cry 5 will have a similar monetization model as Assassin's Creed: Origins shouldn't be shocking one bit--in fact I expected as such, especially with Far Cry 5's full online co-operative element. Remember that Ubisoft loves cashing in on engagement, and multiplayer is a massive driver for engagement--even co-op action.

"All our games now are bringing live operations," said Ubisoft CEO and co-founder Yves Guillemot in the financial report. "But the operations are all different. Ghost Recon's live operations are different from Rainbow Six's, and will be different from Assassin's Creed. Clearly the philosophy of all the games that we make is to be able to justify and bring live operations to titles for as long as we think it fits for the game."

Sony has recently announced a few key changes to its executive teams and that the company's gaming division will target more emphasis on its first-party game releases.

Now that current Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai is leaving Sony by April 1, the company has outlined a new roadmap that sees its various American, European, and Japanese branches working closer together than ever before. All of the branches--SIEA, SIEE, and SIEJA--marketing divisions will report directly to company deputy president and global sales/marketing exec Jim Ryan. Current Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO John Kodera will handle the American and Japanese segments whereas Ryan will spearhead the European markets.

Although Sony has yet to announce its new Mid-Year Plan--which typically outlines 4 or so years of planned operations and strategies--for the PlayStation brand, the company did state that its first-party slate of games is more important than ever.