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It looks like everyone is now thinking that graphics card prices will remain high throughout 2018, with Massdrop recently hosting NVIDIA at the Massdrop HQ where they talked about the current graphics card shortage.

Massdrop's Tech Community boss Brian Hutchins said he talked to NVIDIA about the graphics card shortage, with Hutchins writing: "All new cell phones coming out by Apple and Samsung (and others) last year started using the same memory as graphics cards. Apple and Samsung are willing to pay more for this memory to make sure they get it first and all of it that they need. This has created a shortage of memory for the much smaller companies like MSI, GIGABYTE, ASUS, and EVGA to make graphics cards".

Hutchins continued: "As long as I can bring them a better deal than what is currently available I will continue to do so. That being said MSRP is kind of out the window at this point so keep your eye on market price VS Massdrop as you will not see any cards out there anywhere close to MSRP for a while to come".

It was the year of cryptocurrency mining last year, and now that Jon Peddie Research's new GPU market report is out, we can get a better idea of just how many graphics cards AMD and NVIDIA sold to crypto miners.

GPU shipments actually decreased in Q4 2017 compared to Q4 2016 by around 1.5% but comparing these numbers year-over-year, GPU shipments actually decreased 4.8%. The report does state that 3 million graphics cards were sold to cryptocurrency mining, making $776 million in total.

AMD shipments increased 8.08% quarter-to-quarter while NVIDIA's shipments dropped by 6%. Dr. Jon Peddie, President of Jon Peddie Research, said in the report: "Gaming has been and will continue to be the primary driver for GPU sales, augmented by the demand from cryptocurrency miners. We expect demand to slacken from the miners as margins drop in response increasingly utilities costs and supply and demand forces that drive up AIB prices. Gamers can offset those costs by mining when not gaming, but prices will not drop in the near future".

As someone who grew up with a Dreamcast and whose first game was Shenmue, I was curious to see how Ys Net's Shenmue III would evolve. But things just don't feel right, and these new screenshots give me unease.

Instead of excitement, every new batch of screenshots and gameplay footage for Shenmue III gives me a distinct feeling of worry. The game just looks odd to me, and other outlets and gamers have cited soulless blank eyes as the culprit. But a new unreleased trailer recorded by an attendee at a recent gaming event shows what appears to be rusty gameplay.

During the MAGIC 2018 gaming event the devs at Ys Net released a new batch of screenshots--some are decent but others are pretty weird--and also screened an older Gamescom 2017 trailer for the game. Despite warnings not to record the footage as it "does not represent the latest of the game in development," someone actually did and uploaded it to YouTube.

Although Kingdom Come: Deliverance is priced as as a full AAA game on Steam, the studio that made it is quick to affirm the game is a blend of indie and AAA quality.

With a nice dynamic RPG style and punishing gameplay, Warhorse Studios' latest big game Kingdom Come: Deliverance has swept gamers everywhere into a medieval world of change and consequences. Many say Bethesda should be taking notes from the game, but it also mirrors the publisher's signature engine with glitches and performance hiccups--especially on consoles. According to Kingdom Come: Deliverance's executive producer Martin Klima, the team would've loved more time to smooth over its rough edges...but six years was a long dev cycle.

"I freely admit though that I wish we had more time to polish the game before the release, that's what AAA game deserves," Klima said in a recent post on the game's forums. Alas the game isn't AAA, more of that underdog AA spirit that saw Ninja Theory win big with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.

Ahead of its big PC release, Square Enix has released a demo slice of Final Fantasy 15.

The Final Fantasy 15 demo is out now on Steam, and mirrors a lot of the content that was featured in the last PS4 demo (not Episode Duscae or the Platinum Demo). The trial clocks in at a big 21GB and includes 4K assets, but they'll only be turned on if you have an applicable graphics card/rig setup.

Remember this is just a demo and that sub-quests/side-quests are turned off, so you'll get to do battles and a few main quests before the preview peters out. If anything it'll allow PC gamers to test and experiment with the graphics and performance settings to find that perfect balance.

In preparation for its release in Fiscal Year 2019, EA and DICE are busily working on the new Battlefield game's announcement trailer.

Reveal trailers are critical for any game, especially something as massive as the Battlefield franchise. Since the new Battlefield game will be showcased at EA Play in June, it's only logical DICE is hammering away at making an amazing cinematic showcase of their next shooter that should be a crown jewel of E3 2018.

A bit ago DICE Senior Video & Media Director Randy Evans confirmed as much by saying: "Battlefield 2018 reveal trailer is underway." No one knows exactly where the devs will take the series following its excursion into World War I with Battlefield I, but some believe the next game could be set in World War II or maybe a new chapter in the Bad Company sub-franchise.

It appears that we will be receiving the rest of the DOOM collection on the Nintendo Switch soon thanks to hackers that are working on the port.

Last year we saw DOOM brought to the Nintendo Switch, this was the first time the series was ported to a Nintendo platform in almost 20 years, now we are about to see DOOM 3 and DOOM 64 brought to the hand-held console.

Hackers that are working on the open source code of DOOM 3 that was released by id Software in 2011, on their Twitter page they have released a image of DOOM 3 running on the Nintendo Switch, it can be found below.

The highly anticipated Netflix TV show The Witcher has had its pilot script finished, Lauren S. Hissrich has announced the news on her Twitter page.

Hissrich is known for her work on the Netflix's Marvel TV show The Defenders and Daredevil, she also did work on the show The West Wing. More recently though, Hissrich announced that she would be working on the The Witcher TV show which has now had the script for the pilot completed.

The Witcher TV show is originally based off a eight-book series written by Andrzej Sapkowski. The good news that fans of already fantastic game series developed by CD Projekt Red as well as the book series will be happy to know that the creator Sapkowski will be working on the TV show as a creative consultant.

Grand Theft Auto V now harbors the very classic Dragon Ball character Goku, as he makes his way into the world through a talented modder named 'JulioNIB.'

Recently we have seen already seen some nice mods of Goku but this one created by JulioNIB is quite different. This mod allows for players to transform Goku into SSJ, SSJ2, SSJ3 and SSJ4, which grants some respective abilities.

From the video you can see that Goku can truly rain down some destruction, he can basically pick up anything that can be moved and even though it might seem slightly glitchy Dragon Ball fans will still have a ball.

Riot has released the drop rates of the rewards within loot boxes for League of Legends players, will you still be buying loot boxes after seeing these numbers?

Following the recent hate towards loot boxes in games, it appears that titles that have the option of purchasing loot boxes might have to start providing players with the drop rates of certain items.

League of Legends has released the drop chances numbers for their chests, these numbers show the exact amount of 'luck' you will need to receive certain rewards. For those interested in seeing the numbers for the rewards a link straight to the statistics on the official League of Legends website can be found here.

The exclusive Nintendo Switch title Kirby: Star Allies has had a 12 minute co-op gameplay video released by Nintendo, judging from the video this could be the greatest Kirby adventure yet.

In the video we are shown two levels and a boss fight with Frozen General Francisca. The first level that is seen is titled Natures Navel and the second level happens to be a boss level called Fortress of Shadows.

Just like other Kirby games players can use the 'eat' power to absorb enemies abilities but in this new game Kirby has a new item called a Friend Heart which allows you to befriend enemies.

Qualcomm threw down the 5G gauntlet last year, but with their massive 3Gbps speeds teased in 5G simulation tests during MWC 2018 the company is taking it to the next level. Intel is now teasing its own huge 5G push where the company will be powering a "broad-scale" 5G network at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

Intel has announced it will be working with NTT Docomo to build a 5G network for the 2020 Olympic games in Japan, which is something Intel is expecting to be the biggest 5G deployment in the world, at the time of the Olympics.

Better yet, Intel is promising insane 8K 360-degree video streams over their 5G network for the 2020 Olympics in Japan. We should see 4K and 8K cameras and even drones capturing 4K video by then, with these cameras 5G-enabled. Intel says that it will also be powering 5G integration in vehicles, with teh company already seeing 1Gbps while watching 4K video and on-the-move at 30kmph (18.6mph).

If you want to cool that $3000 graphics card of yours, then your TITAN V deserves EK Water Blocks' new EK-FC TITAN V full cover GPU water block that will keep your GPU, HBM2, and VRMs nice and cool.

NVIDIA's super-fast TITAN V is a dual-slot graphics card in stock form, but the EK-FC TITAN V water block will reduce it to a sleek single-slot beast. EKWB's water block directly cools the GPU, HBM2 memory, and VRMs so that you can hit maximum overclocks without any part of the card cooking too much and reducing your OC headroom.

EKWB's new EK-FC TITAN V is available through EK's own Webshop and the Partner Reseller Network. It's availabble in four different varieties:

Qualcomm will enter an entire new level of dominance once they get 5G into the world, but just how fast will those speeds be? We know to expect over 1Gbps, but up to 5Gbps? We're talking over 500MB/sec downloads over a cellular connection and not Wi-Fi, but that is the future.

Qualcomm decided to run 5G simulated tests during Mobile World Congress, where they modeled two real-world conditions in Frankfurt, and San Francisco. The locations are based on existing cell sites and spectrum allocations in two popular, and very dense cities.

The simulation took into consideration things like geography, varying user demands on the network, a bunch of different devices with varying levels of LTE and 5G connectivity for different speeds across devices in order to simulate what to expect from a 5G device.

Nokia has announced a refreshed Nokia 8110 "banana phone", the same super-stylish phone that Neo used in The Matrix. At the time everyone, including myself, wanted the Nokia 7110 and its spring-loaded slider - now we can do it again.

HMD is the maker of Nokia-branded smartphones and has delivered the Nokia 8110 with the slider we all loved back in the day, in two versions: black and yellow.

There's no snazzy Android 8.0 inside of the refreshed Nokia 8110 with HMD running with Smart Feature OS, a very bland operating system but there's not much you can expect when it's priced at under $100.

Samsung has officially revealed its new Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ smartphones at their press conference before Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

The new Galaxy S9 rocks a 5.8-inch screen while the larger S9+ dons a 6.2-inch screen, Qualcomm's snappy Snapdragon 845 processor while Samsung's own in-house Exynos processor will be featured in the Galaxy S9/S9+ outside of the US.

On the back of the Galaxy S9+ we have an upgraded dual-camera set up that has been teased over the last few months, rocking a dual 12-megapixel rear-facing camera rig that is similar to the Galaxy Note 8. We have one wide-angle lens and one telephoto lens with tools like Dual Capture and Live Focus included on the Galaxy S9+.

Surprising nobody, Sony is indeed making the next PlayStation console...but when will it come out? Analysts and experts all have different theories, but the most recent prediction is 2020.

According to The NPD Group analyst Mat Piscatella, Sony should launch its next-gen PlayStation system sometime in 2020, giving the PS4 a substantial 6-year plus lifecycle. "2020 is what I have in my forecast. The data suggest there's no need to do it earlier. But I've been surprised before so I'm as interested in this as anyone," NPD Group analyst Mat Piscatella told Gamingbolt.

Despite the recent executive shake-up with current Sony President Kazuo Hirai leaving the position in March 2018, the company should announce its next mid-year plan at the end of its Fiscal Year 2017 timeline. This plan typically outlines the next few years of its business sectors, including the massively lucrative PlayStation brand, so based on the figures and quotes we may get some big hints on the new console's release.

The short film on Lucas Pope's "dystopian document thriller" is out, and it's absolutely fantastic.

Papers Please just got its first mini-film adaptation, and the 10-minute video faithfully recreates the true gritty, tough-as-nails decision-making that's involved in the indie game. As an inspector on the border of Arstotzka, it's your responsibility to thoroughly vet would-be visitors and immigrants who want to enter the country. This job is harrowing because everyone has a different story; sometimes you'll have to say no to a mother or a wife simply because she doesn't have the right papers. Other times you give in and let them slide through, only to have them blow up an embassy in a terrorist attack.

All in all the film is fantastic and does a great job bringing the dirty, thankless job to life in all of its bleak glory. Be sure to check it out, and maybe fire up the game after watching the video just to see how good--or rusty--your inspector skills have gotten.

I don't know an enthusiast who doesn't know what GPUz is, and in my workflow it's used daily, but now TechPowerUp releasing GPUz v2.8.0 that includes a huge list of improvements.

The team has worked on driver crash issues for AMD's new Raven Ridge GPUs, with new GPUs like the Radeon RX 460 Mobile, RX 560 Mobile, RX 570 Mobile, RX 580 Mobile, RX 550 based on Baffin LE now supported under GPUz v2.8.0. For the change log on GPUz v2.8.0:

You can download GPUz v2.8.0 here.

Blizzard has surprised Warcraft III players with a huge update to their RTS that was released all the way back in 2002, and while there have been annual patches, this new patch delivers a lot of new stuff.

Warcraft III's new patch includes huge adjustments for the heroes, adds 16:9 widescreen support, and more. Blizzard are lining Warcraft III right next to Overwatch for eSports in the future, with the developer announcing the Warcraft III Invitational for February 27 at 1PM PT and February 28 at 11AM PT.

The full list of updates for Warcraft III can be found here.