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Beloved 2006 ARPG Titan Quest is making a big jump to consoles in 2018, THQ Nordic today announced.

Titan Quest's console port is actually coming to all modern consoles including the PS4, Xbox One, and even the Nintendo Switch. The latter is a very welcome surprise and I'm wondering if it'll have some form of couch or on-the-go co-op action, especially given the Switch's transforming nature. The publisher notes that the Switch version doesn't yet have a release date and will likely miss the March 2018 timeline for the other versions.

THQ Nordic is also offering two editions of the game: the standard edition, which comes with the base game and the Immortal Throne expansion, for $30; and a collector's edition (PS4, Xbox One, PC) for $120 that includes a Greek helmet replica, a special box, and a notepad.

Last month Lyft announced that their company was taking their service international, marking their very first expansion to another country other than the United States. Lyft is expanding their service to Canada, more specifically the capital city of the country Toronto.

Lyft will be brining their full service to Canada which includes Lyft Plus, Lyft Premiere, Lyft Lux and Lyft Lux SUV. Users of this service will be able to hail rides to and from Toronto's Pearson Airport which in turn will directly compete with the already taxi service there as well as Uber. Lyft might just be able to squeeze into the market though, as the company has racked up a whopping 100 million rides within three months, compared to taking four years to get to that figure the first time.

It will be no surprise if Lyft decide to lower ride fares and surcharge fees for the first couple of months that they are getting set up in Toronto, this would encourage the immediate use of the Lyft service rather than users turning to their typical Uber or legacy taxi.

Nintendo has said in a press release that the Nintendo Switch since the release of the console on the third of March this year has finally surpassed 10 million units. That number is quite an achievement as the time frame from those sales is not a large one, in comparison Sony's PlayStation 4 which needed around 10 months to reach that milestone back in 2014.

Not to long ago Nintendo said that it expected Switch sales to surpass the sales of the Wii U and now the company has said that this December they are planning to release more consoles to consumers for them to enjoy over the Christmas holidays. What contributes to the sales of the Nintendo Switch is their win at the Games Awards with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild and also the success of Super Mario Odyssey.

With this success it can be assumed that the Switch sales are not going to be slowing down over the festive season, what will be interesting though is if the sale percentage will stay strong heading into next year.

Google is upgrading Google Maps, where in the near future Google roll out an update that will give users of Google Maps live guidance to your destination as well as interactive real-time notifications.

The goal of this update is to provide real-time updates to the user making for a more informative and user friendly trip. Google will make these updates for the trip appear within the Google Maps application as well as on the Android lock screen.

If real-time updates are what Google is aiming for, then the understanding of the update would be that Google desires to be able to let the user know throughout their journey that they need to get off at the next stop, depending on their form of transportation.

According to a report fron CNET which cited an email from Atari that they sent out today to consumers, the home console will be available to pre-order this Thursday. Since its official reveal in July, the Ataribox has been spotted in two variants, a wood-like appeal or a black and red modern finish.

The Ataribox will be featuring Linux and a custom AMD processor, making it usable for both mid-range PC titles as well as classic Atari games. It has been reported by the Verge that Atari plans on selling the console at a price range between $250 and $300 making it quite an affordable pick up for any fan of the old Atari games.

The concrete release date for the Ataribox is currently unknown, but as we come closer to Thursday we are more likely to acquire some information regarding the early next year release.

The transportation market has been overrun by Uber in Australia as cabs are beginning to slowly phase out of peoples first choice for a ride home. This of course is due to the convenience of Uber, but now Uber might have a challenge on their hands, Taxify is attempting to crack into the market by launching in Sydney, Australia with 4,000 drivers signed up already.

Markus Villig, the founder and CEO of Taxify has said in a statement"Sydney is a huge and vibrant city, and we are eixcited to launch in the Australian market. We are confident that locals are looking for an alternative ride hailing option, and Taxify is committed to providing both riders and drivers with what they want"

He continued by saying "We have based our business model on fairness and transparency, and it is because of this that we have had so many drivers sign up to Taxify in such a short space of time."

Over a year after the release of the Xbox One S and Xbox One X, YouTube has finally updated to allow streaming of the selling point of these consoles, 4K streaming.

Microsoft released their Xbox One S console as a step-up from the original Xbox One, the selling point being not only the ability to get close to playing games in native 4K but also to be able to stream video in 4K. Following the release of the Xbox One S was the Xbox One X, it was released this year and came with hardware upgrades but not until this update was rolled out to the two consoles couldn't stream 4K video.

It is quite surprising that it took until now for Microsoft to roll out this update to their consoles, considering 4K video streaming has been available on YouTube since 2015. More importantly, the option of having 4K video streaming as a service was a massive consumer draw point for the console which has been returned by Microsoft as a late update feature.

We all remember those 'Intel Inside' stickers on our PCs and the massive marketing campaign that chipzilla pushed behind it, but now reports are surfacing that say Intel will be cutting the budget to its "co-operative marketing program".

According to CRN, Intel will be reducing the funding that the Intel Inside marketing program receives, in the vicinity of 40-60%. CRN cites unidentified sources, saying that the cuts are being made so that the company can increase budgets to "other groups within Intel that aren't channel-specific or PC-centric".

Intel would reportedly use the freed up funds to dominating the datacenter market, but have reportedly not added anything else to that list. With the growing list of competitors at Intel's doorstep with AMD in various markets with Ryzen, Threadripper, EPYC, and Radeon Instinct... while Qualcomm just put their marker down with the new Always-On, Always-Connected PC world with Snapdragon and Windows... I don't see how Intel is making a good move here.

Inno3D is jumping right into the cryptocurrency mining product game with the announcement of their new P104-100 Crypto-Mining Accelerator, a new card that is powered by NVIDIA's GP104 GPU and packs 4GB of GDDR5X at 11Gbps.

The new P104-100 Crypto-Mining Accelerator will be available in Inno3D's TWIN X2 edition, and offers 40% more mining power than its predecessor for mining ETH, ZEC, and many other cryptocurrencies. The reason it is so powerful, is that Inno3D have kicked down the VRAM to just 4GB, but amped it up by using GDDR5X with 11Gbps of bandwidth on a 256-bit memory bus that provides 320GB/sec of memory bandwidth.

This means Inno3D's new P104-100 Crypto-Mining Accelerator rocks 35MH/s or more of ETH mining power, 470 Sol/sec of ZEC mining power, and 660H/sec of XMR mining power.

NVIDIA has officially unveiled its monstrous new TITAN V graphics card, a new Volta-based graphics card that packs a huge 5120 CUDA cores and 12GB of HBM2 for a massive $2999.

Our friends at GamersNexus have performed an awesome teardown of the card, both on video (embedded above) and in written form. I won't cover the teardown itself as you really should spend the time watching Steve's video on it (his hair is glorious, I know) or alternatively read the full teardown article that covers everything under a microscope in terms of detail.

GN did point out that the card "follows the same screw pattern as all previous NVIDIA Founders Edition cards, including the Titan Xp and GTX 1080, primarily isolating its cooler and shroud into a single, separable unit". As for the build materials of the TITAN V, GamersNexus point out that they "are all the same, assembly is the same, but the underlying GPU, HBM2, VRM, and heat sink are different".

Bitcoin has reached new peaks of $17,000 while Ethereum is enjoying the lofty heights of over $600 but it is the surprise cryptocurrency Litecoin that absolutely exploded over the last 48 hours.

The price of Litecoin has gone through the roof from $100 earlier this month to $317 at the time of writing, boosting its market cap to a massive $16 billion. Right now it seems the price of LTC isn't stopping, but BTC is also on the rise as is ETH. It seems healthy to have any of these in your crypto wallet.

What do you hold right now?

It's not just Bitcoin that is exploding in price, as most of the major cryptocurrencies are seeing massive journeys to the moon right now, with Ethereum reaching a new all-time high.

Overnight, the price of Ethereum peaked at $637 after starting the day at $504, a level it has been at for months now. At the time of writing, ETH had dropped slightly to $603, giving it a market cap of $57.4 billion.

Some of the talk about Ethereum on various sites and subreddits tease that it could be priced as high as $1800 by this time next year, which would be a 300% increase from its $603 price now. If you aren't already invested somehow into cryptocurrency, we are still at the ground floor.

Hideo Kojima's latest game Death Stranding started out quite cryptic and strange, but with time (and a few new trailers and quotes from Kojima himself), the bizarre has been broken down into consumable little tidbits.

"I'm trying to make something different. How to show that, how to have people see that, that's something I'm trying to figure out," Kojima said in a recent interview with IGN. Based on the latest trailer for the game shown off at The Game Awards 2017, we'd say the gaming guru has achieved this feat (and then some).

But what about specifics? Well for one, death isn't the end in Death Stranding. When you die in the game you just open a doorway to another place, a kind of purgatory of sorts or a temporary way station. You can always return to the real-world (or the world you were just in) after you die. "One of the themes of this game is life and death. So I want people to realize that when they die in the game, that isn't the end."

After considerable fan push-back (and the wake of the big Battlefront II controversy), Bungie admits they messed up by using the Curse of Osiris expansion to lock gamers out of Destiny 2 content they previously had access to. Some things are getting "fixed," but mostly Bungie is reverting to the old original Destiny 1 temporary lock-out model.

I still remember when Bungie did this in the original Destiny: when the first expansion hit, daily and weekly activities were often locked behind expansion-only maps or areas. So if you didn't buy the latest expansion there would always be a chance that key activities were simply not available to you. As I predicted, Bungie did the same thing with Destiny 2. But now they're doing something different: fixing some of the issues while doing more of the same.

Over the past few months Destiny 2 players have felt quite jaded. The game's progression system isn't so rewarding, and the Eververse is frustrating people. Many are questioning why they still play. The game's latest Curse of Osiris expansion, which Activision affirms will be the first of many content/expansion updates, was a big deal to many and seen as a way to add more value to the game. But alas Bungie actually ended up taking away from non-expansion owners (again), this time the Prestige-level Raids and Nightfalls, as well as the Trials of the Nine game mode.

The next Battlefield game will be a new chapter in the fan-favorite Bad Company series, according to rumors posted by a known gamer with insider information.

YouTuber AlmightyDaq, who accurately described Battlefield 1 to a tee months before it was officially revealed, is back with another hot bit of info about the next Battlefield game. Daq has reportedly received more info from inside sources close to development who say Battlefront Bad Company 3 is in the works, and that it'll be set during the Vietnam and Cold War era.

EA has confirmed a new Battlefield game is in currently in development and slated for release during the publisher's Fiscal Year 2019 timeline, which extends from April 1, 2018 through March 31, 2019. The new Battlefield game is set to launch during the same year as BioWare's massive online-based mech shooter Anthem, however EA hasn't confirmed exact details on the DICE-made first-person shooter just yet.

In the wake of controversy, Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst Justin Post has reduced EA's predicted share price and Battlefront II sales...however the game could still make over $100 million from in-game microtransaction purchases.

The hoopla over Battlefront II's in-game purchases has apparently had a strong affect on sales as gamers avoid the title in an effort to send EA a message. The publisher has responded by temporarily removing microtransactions, but according to Post, this is just a temporary measure. Even still the analyst firm feels Battlefront II will miss its original 14 million sales target by more than 2 million units, and has reduced the company's earnings per share price as a result.

"EA has had a challenging Calendar 4Q, beginning with the shutdown of Visceral Games and now Battlefront 2 (BF2) controversy," Post wrote to clients on Monday. But there's a silver lining for EA: Battlefront II's poor reception sets the company's fiscal 2019 timeline up for a big upswing, especially with games like Anthem and the next Battlefield game on the way.

Last week we reported on Oreo coming to Android Wear watches but what we didn't know was which devices are set to be updated. So far we know that the LG Watch Sport is being updated to 8.0 but now thanks to a post by Google we can all see a full list.

Google seems to have put their main focus on the expensive fashion brands such as Fossil and Loui Vuitton leaving out older Android devices such as the LG Watch R and the original Huawei Watch. Oreo will give users the option of choosing vibration strength, touch lock and battery-saving upgrades. From the updates listed we can assume that the older model watches weren't compatible with this update which is why they have either been postponed for release or left out entirely.

The full list of which watches are set to receive Oreo has been provided below, while also Google answers the question of if your watch is not listed "For the exact timing of the update or if your device isn't on the above lists, please contact the device manufacturer."

Security researcher ZwClose has found that HP have pre-installed a keylogger into different models of their laptops, with over 460 different models affected.

This keylogger installed by HP allows for hackers to record every key stroke made on your laptops keyboard, essentially giving the open opportunity for passwords, credit card details and any personal account information to be stolen.

Courtesy of ZwClose we now know that the file is embedded in the SynTP.sys which is apart of the Synaptics touchpad driver which ships with standard HP notebook computers.

Boss Key Productions co-founder Arjan Brussee has left his studio to join Epic Games to collaborate on a new "Secret Project." This was confirmed in a tweet by the other co-founder at Boss Key, Cliff Bleszinski, who said that Brussee is "not only a brilliant person but also a dear friend and I wish him well in his future endeavors. Onward and upward--still makin' games here!"

Earlier in his career Brussee actually worked for Epic Games then left the company to make Guerrilla Games and establish titles such as the Killzone series and the game of the year nominee Horizon: Zero Dawn.

It is unclear whether the departure of Brussee has anything to do with the current player-base of LawBreakers, since the release back in July the game might not of been as big as the studio would of liked which then in turn would of influenced Brussee to move onto something with larger potential - the "secret project" Epic Games is working on.

Secretlab make some of the best gaming chairs in the world, with it culminating in their latest OMEGA gaming chair that I personally reviewed and rated the best gaming chair yet.

Well, if you want to get some massive discount on their flagship TITAN Tempo gaming chair, Secretlab are celebrating with their 12.12 sale that sees a 24-hour period where $191 discount is applied to the TITAN Tempo bringing the price down to just $329 down from $520.

The deal requires the code of '1212TEMPO' and will work December 12-13, so get in now!