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AMD might have had a good year in 2017 with its new Zen-based line up of CPUs through Ryzen, Threadripper and EPYC, but this wasn't enough to impress OEMs from building machines round Ryzen.

Now we have Dell EMC's CTO, John Roese, saying that "Intel is the big player, AMD is the second player. There's enough diversity between them that there are use cases to have them both in our portfolio, but just the sheer breadth of the Intel processor portfolio is massive compared to even the accelerated AMD world". He's not wrong, but it's still surprising to see.

It's not all doom and gloom about AMD from Dell, as he added: "AMD is doing some interesting things, and by adding them to the portfolio we pick up a few extra areas, but let's be very clear: there is a huge, dominant player in compute semiconductors, and then there is a challenger which is doing some very good innovative work called AMD, but the gap between them is quite large in terms of market share and use-cases. So our portfolio is not going to change in any meaningful way".

To celebrate the release of 'Thor: Ragnarok', we have five Blu-ray copies of the film to give away thanks to our friends at Walt Disney Home Entertainment.

Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe without his mighty hammer and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok-the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization-at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela. But first he must survive a deadly gladiatorial contest that pits him against his former ally and fellow Avenger-the Incredible Hulk!

Thor: Ragnarok is directed by Taika Waititi and returns Chris Hemsworth starring as Thor and Tom Hiddleston reprising his role as Loki. They are joined by Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson and Karl Urban, with Mark Ruffalo and Anthony Hopkins.

AMD will be launching their refreshed Ryzen 7 2000-series later this year, with a new tease leaking out about the Ryzen 7 2700X that it will be packing the same 8C/16T as the current-gen Ryzen 7 1700X, but have turbo clocks of up to 4.2GHz.

AMD's current Ryzen 7 1700X is an 8C/16T processor with a base CPU clock of 3.4GHz and boost CPU clock of 3.8GHz, but the new Ryzen 7 2700X will have base clocks of 3.7GHz, while the boost clocks will not only hit 4GHz but fly a little higher to 4.1GHz.

There are other entries of the Ryzen 7 2700X at 4.2GHz, so we should expect a larger punch in the frequency department. My insider sources have told me there "won't be much performance" increases with the new Ryzen 7 2000-series processors, so we'll have to wait and see how big the difference is between 3.8GHz boost on the 1700X and the purported 4.2GHz on the 2700X.

Rare has decided that Sea of Thieves needs another scale test before its launch, this time the test will be conducted on March 4th in just a couple days.

Microsoft and Rare are working tirelessly to make the Sea of Thieves launch to be a stable one as all of the previous server tests provided them with a great amount of information. These scale tests are designed to put major strain on the server, this is done by allowing a large amount of players to join but unfortunately for the players this causes performance issues for everyone involved.

Rare has taken to their Sea of Thieves website to announce the news, saying that the scale test will be running from Friday, March 2nd, at 2 a.m. PT until Sunday, March 4th, at 2 a.m. PT.

Mulaka released on the Nintendo Switch yesterday and to celebrate the launch Nintendo have released a new trailer for the title.

The trailer appears to be quite similar to that of The Legend of Zelda: Breathe of the Wild but definitely does have a certain uniqueness to it.

The third-person action adventure that is based on Mexican mythology takes players through "the rich indigenous culture of the Tarahumara." For those that do not know what Mulaka is the description reads as such "Renowned for their impressive running abilities, embark on the journey of a Sukurúame - a Tarahumara shaman - as you fight back the foulness corrupting the land, while drawing upon the powers of demigods. Mulaka is available now on Nintendo Switch!"

Nintendo Switch data-miners have delved into Super Mario Odyssey files and discovered a bunch of new unreleased costumes. These costumes are planned to be released at later dates.

According to the data-miners, these files have already been downloaded by players and have been implemented into the game but have been blocked by Nintendo servers.

We can assume that based on some of the costumes titles and descriptions that costumes such as the Santa outfit will be released at their respective times. What also could be speculated is that some of the costumes that don't have a respective event will be added in with a new mini-game or even a new kingdom, this is not confirmed as of yet but just a guess towards how Nintendo will release some of these very cool costume ideas.

Blizzard have taken to Twitter to tease their entire audience on Diablo 3 coming to the Nintendo Switch. A gif was released showing a Diablo themed night light being turned on and off.

The post from Blizzard certainly is confusing and does come across as slightly random, but when looked at as a marketing post for a future game release the picture comes together much more nicely. The post captioned "Sweet Dream" features a gif of someone switching on and off their Diablo themed night light, this could suggest that Diablo is coming to the Nintendo Switch.

On the other hand, this post could also be interpreted the opposite way, as the caption says "Sweet Dreams" this could also suggest that the Diablo themed night light is just a random post by Blizzard. This side of the debate is backed up by a post made by South Park that said "Nin-ten-do. I'm coming. I'm coming, Nin-ten-do #blizzard2017." Everyone thought that this meant a South Park game was coming to the Switch, unfortunately it was just a 'joke' post that never had any further meaning.

Following up on the speculation that the next Overwatch hero is a cat or Torbjorns daughter can now be done, as we now have confirmation from Blizzard that Brigitte Lindholm is on the way.

On the Overwatch YouTube channel, Blizzard have released two videos, one video is a origin story of Brigitte and the other is a Developer update which is narrated by Jeff Kaplan.

From both of the videos we can understand that Brigitte will be falling into the defensive/support role, much like Reinhadt. Brigitte and Reinhardt are tied in two as from the origin story we discover that "Eventually, she realized that serving only as a mechanic wasn't enough, and that the best way she could aid Reinhardt was to become a warrior in her own right. While Reinhardt trained her in combat, Brigitte began to build her own suit of armor in secret."

It appears that the Pokemon website is hiring localisation editors to translate what is to be believed a Pokemon game for the Nintendo Switch.

The contracts are a minimum 6 months, which could suggest that a Pokemon game for the Nintendo Switch would be looking at a release time of either late this year or early 2019.

It is believed that the localisation to specific regions is only done later in development, this is not confirmed but if it is true that would give us a better idea for when the game is planned for release. If that is true, that could mean that we might see a new Pokemon game for the Switch this year at E3.

Microsoft has provided some more details on its Xbox spring update, something that is available to Xbox Insiders who are part of the "alpha ring" group.

When the new Xbox spring update arrives, it will enable 1440p output from both the Xbox One S and X, with 2560x1440 monitor owners able to enjoy 1440p from their Xbox consoles. Not only that, but the new update will enable new interactive features for Mixer, which is Microsoft's Twitch-like competitor.

Xbox gamers streaming on Mixer have the ability of sharing their controller with a streamer who is watching them through Mixer.com, where the streamer can join in on the person playing. Mixer broadcasts will pause instead of stop when the streamer switches games.

Intel won't be launching its new Hades Canyon NUC for a little while yet, but that hasn't stopped someone in South Korea from getting their not-so-grubby (because they're wearing gloves) hands-on it. Why is this important? Because Intel's new NUC for the first time in history, is powered by AMD Radeon graphics.

AMD's new Radeon RX Vega M will be inside of the new Hades Canyon NUC, with 4GB of HBM2 @ 1.6Gbps, all in under 100W TDP under the NUC8i7HVK version of the PC, while the NUC8i7HNK features a 65W TDP and lowered CPU/GPU clocks.

The faster NUC is powered by a Core i7-8809G processor at 3.1GHz stock and 4.2GHz Turbo, with 8MB of cache and 100W TDP. Right next to it, is the Radeon RX Vega M GH with GPU clocks of between 1063-1190MHz, with Intel saying that this is the 'Unlocked and VR-capable' NUC. The slower NUC features a knocked down Core i7-8705G processor that is identical to the faster NUC, except its Turbo clock has been reduced by 100MHz and the GPU has been reduced even more down to 931-1011MHz as the Radeon RX Vega M GL is used.

Marvel has just surprised the world by bringing the release date of Avengers: Infinity War up from May 4 to April 27, using Iron Man in the process.

This is how it went down: the official Twitter account of Marvel Studios tweeted "on a scale of one to infinity, how excited are you to see #InfinityWar on May 4th?" to which - within 60 seconds, Robert Downey Jr (who plays Iron Man/Tony Stark) replied with "any chance I could see it earlier".

Marvel replied with "Anything for you, Mr. Stark! How's April 27th?" to which there were a few more tweets, and then the official announcement of Avengers: Infinity War dropping on April 27. Boom.

Crytek is going through some changes with Cevat Yerli stepping down from his position as CEO and president, where his two brothers Avni and Faruk Yerli taking over Crytek as joint CEOs.

Cevat said: "With the company in a strong position, now is the ideal time to recognize the existing leadership's excellent achievements over these past two years and formally transition executive leadership to Avni and Faruk". The associated press release also stated that Crytek received an investment of capital in 2017 that "fortified" the company, providing solid foundation to forge ahead into the future.

Crytek added that Cevat will stay with the company as an advisor in the role of "strategic shareholder". Cevat added: "I have been honored to serve as CEO of the company I founded with my brothers almost 20 years ago and have seen the team accomplish breakthrough things in that time. I look forward to continue helping Crytek as a major shareholder, and I am very excited to see what tomorrow brings. I have every confidence that the company will continue to shine under the guidance of Avni, Faruk, and the rest of the leadership team".

Sony revokes access to Yakuza 6's now-famous slip-up.

Thanks to a pretty serious error on SEGA's part a ton of people who downloaded the free Yakuza 6 demo actually got the whole game for free. Luckily Sony has stepped in to set things right and ensure SEGA gets paid the cash it deserves for the full game. Essentially what happened is the demo was indeed the entire Yakuza 6, which is typical for today's games, but instead of cutting off after a certain period gamers saw they could just keep playing. And playing. And playing.

However Sony isn't punishing anyone for taking advantage of this glitch--how could they, really, when all they did was download the game--but all licenses have been yanked and SEGA says it plans to re-upload the demo to the PlayStation Network soon. The Yakuza series of games is pretty important to SEGA so it definitely behooves the games-maker to get things up and running smoothly as fast as possible, especially if they want to win over new players and secure pre-orders.

There have been more and more rumors starting up about the new entry into the Battlefield series, and while I thought Battlefield 1 was one of the weakest entries yet, EA and DICE seem confident in throwing Battlefield gamers back into the original World Wars.

The latest rumor is from VentureBeat, who is reporting that Battlefield V will be based during World War II, the first time for Battlefield since the 2009 release of Battlefield 1943. Internally, the team was calling it Battlefield 2, but the name has shifted to Battlefield V. For your reference, I've included the recent Battlefield titles below, because things are going to get confusing, really fast.

To celebrate The Division's second anniversary--and a rather hefty active playercount--Ubisoft opens up new events to pull new and lapsed players back in.

Ubisoft, like other games publishers, understands quite well how engagement works: release an online game, update update update, build engagement with new events and items, and then cash out by monetizing your investment. The French games-maker has successfully done this with a lot of their games, and The Division is no different, helping the company rake in billions a year from Player Recurring Investment. In the last two years, The Division has pulled in 20 million active players and gone through many, many changes...and Ubisoft is banking on more engagement.

In celebration of its second birthday and the 20 million player milestone, a new timeline of events is scheduled for the entire month of March. The new global events will roll out each week, Ubisoft clarifies. The goal here is to attract lapsed players as well as push new gamers into the fold, as all free events and updates are designed to do.

Quantic Dream's new QTE-filled, heartstring-pulling game launches this May.

Detroit: Become Human will release on May 25, 2018 exclusively on Sony's PlayStation 4 console, Sony today announced on the PlayStation Blog. According to David Cage, this new entry is the studio's most ambitious project to date, and will feature winding paths to lots of different outcomes--in other words your choices really matter.

"Detroit is by far the most ambitious title ever created by Quantic Dream; with this game, we wanted to push our limits by creating the most bending game we have ever made," Cage said.

Payday 2 for the Nintendo Switch released only a few days ago and now after some heists it has been been revealed that the Payday 2 port for the Nintendo Switch is struggling to maintain even 30FPS as well as having numerous problems.

According to an analyst firm called Digital Foundry, the Nintendo Switch version of Payday 2 is struggling to even maintain a solid 30FPS and also harbors many other problems. When docked the Switch appears to produce some stuttering for textures, as well as the game doesn't utilize dynamic resolution so the pixel count can't be dropped in intense scenarios to maintain a solid FPS.

If you thought all of that was bad well then you are going to be shocked at this. The in-game time has been tied to the game's frame rate which means that the game speed slows down considerably whenever the frame rate fluctuates.

Horizon Zero Dawn launched as an exclusive PlayStation 4 title just over a year ago now, more accurately since its release on February 28th 2017 it has sold an astounding 7.6 million copies.

According to Sony, the sale records that Horizon Zero Dawn has broken through and caused the title to be deemed the "most successful new first-party franchise launch on PS4" ever.

Guerrilla Games Managing Director and Co-founder also commented on the sales of his companys title, "we had huge ambition for Horizon Zero Dawn and as we approached the launch we knew people were excited, but to see sales of this volume is truly mind blowing"

Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition for the Nintendo Switch has had a new trailer released by Koei Tecmo, showcasing more characters.

Not to long ago we saw the first trailer for the re-master coming to the Nintendo Switch, now we have a new trailer that details different characters that will be playable such as Toon Link, Tetra, Medli, and King Daphnes.

Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition for the Nintendo Switch will release in Japan on March 22nd, the west will most likely see it closer to the end of the year heading into spring.