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One of the biggest games on the market right now is Epic Games' free-to-play hit Fortnite, and one of the most beloved franchises might not have struck all of the chords in gamers' hearts, but Diablo 3 is still massive.

Now we have rumors floating around that Fortnite and Diablo 3 will be released on the Nintendo Switch, which would be huge. The insider said: "Diablo 3 is in development for the Nintendo Switch and should be out early 2019. They are wanting to implement Local play with multiple switches".

The insider in question is Marcus Sellars, who also tweeted that Fortnite is headed to the Nintendo Switch sometime in August or September. Sellars added: "Wouldn't say fact as it's not confirmed by the developer but yeah it's happening".

Samsung has just announced its next generation SSD, something it's calling the PM1643, and it has propelled the South Korean giant to new storage records with up to 30TB on tap.

Samsung's new PM1643 boasts a huge 30.72TB of SSD storage, with the company pushing the new SSD for next-generation storage systems for the government, health and education markets, and others. The new 30TB SSD has enough space to hold thousands of movies and countless files.

The new 30TB SSD is twice the capacity of Samsung's current 15.36TB SSD that it unveiled in 2016 which boasted speeds of 2100MB/sec for reads and 1700MB/sec writes. Samsung combined layers of flash memory into "super-sense" 1TB packages in order to double the SSD storage beast to 30TB.

Update: Intel has reached out to me with the following statement: "Last week at ISSCC, Intel Labs presented a research paper exploring new circuit techniques optimized for power management. The team used an existing Intel integrated GPU architecture (Gen 9 GPU) as a proof of concept for these circuit techniques. This is a test vehicle only, not a future product. While we intend to compete in graphics products in the future, this research paper is unrelated. Our goal with this research is to explore possible, future circuit techniques that may improve the power and performance of Intel products".

An interesting statement that shows the purported discrete GPU everyone is talking about isn't something new, as it's a prototype that Intel is working on - an existing product and "not a future product". Intel clarifies that it intends to "compete in graphics products in the future", though, which is so great to see.

All of that kerfuffle last year when AMD lost Radeon Technologies Group boss Raja Koduri wasn't for nothing, as he has jumped into Intel and now we're seeing the first tease of their new discrete GPU.

Nintendo's partnership with DeNA is becoming quite fruitful as smartphone games like Fire Emblem Heroes rakes in serious cash.

While it's not up there with Pokemon GO and Clash of Clans, Fire Emblem Heroes has made nearly $300 million in its first year earnings. According to data compiled by analyst firm SensorTower, the Fire Emblem mobile game has pulled in about $295 million in its first twelve-month period, dwarfing Super Mario Run and the more recent release of Animal Crossing.

Japan is the most interested in the game--not surprisingly since the Gacha business model is in full effect in the game--with the lion's share, or 59%, of earnings coming from the country. The U.S. made up about 29% of earnings, and other countries just sitting at about 12%.

Polish dev CI Games has shed lots of employees from its workforce.

Despite a profitable year, Sniper Ghost Warrior developer CI Games will dramatically downsize its current employee count to about just 30 people. The company announced that its internal studio will continue focusing on its next unannounced tactical shooter with the help of a large number of subcontractors. Interestingly enough this move was made despite Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 selling 1 million copies.

CI Games CEO Marek Tyminski had this to say about the business move: "The decision to downsize the studio was the toughest decision I have taken over the past years-it is never easy to let go of friends and colleagues with whom we've worked for years-however I truly believe that it was the best way to move forward. Quality is not only extremely important to our upcoming tactical shooter, but it is important to every game we will bring to the market.

Microsoft has taken to Twitch to show off the upcoming Minecraft Bedrock Edition, the developer streamed for almost a whole 2 hours.

The Minecraft Bedrock Edition for the Switch was said to be "mostly done" and the team is currently just making some overall quality of life improvements before they release the final copy.

Currently, the Bedrock Edition will be supporting local play for gamers that have taken their Switch to a remote location that cannot connect to Wi-Fi. To make sure this is all working perfectly on release the development team has said they will be "taking a lot of extra care with trying to make sure that this launch is really smooth, that the world conversion system works really well for people, and that migrating over from Editions is an easy transition for you to make"

SOMA the underwater horror adventure released a Safe Mode at the end of last year, now the developer is bringing the mode to PS4.

'Safe Mode' was brought to players by the developers as an easier option for players to progress through the game. Some sections in SOMA would provide to difficult or overwhelming, this resulted in the 'Safe Mode' being added as an optional mode.

The mode changed the games monsters into being curious of your presence around them instead of immediately attacking you on sight. Even though this mode may seem to ruin some immersion within the game, the atmosphere is said to of hardly been changed. On a more lighter note, players might now be able to take the game a bit slower to appreciate some of the intricacies.

Capcom has confirmed a release date for the Mega Man collections arriving on the Nintendo Switch, May 22 this year has been the confirmed debut date.

Mega Man Legacy Collection 1 will contain six 8-bit Mega Man classics but also a new rewind feature that will allow players to instantly retry harder sections of the games. The Mega Man Collection 1 will have Mega Man games 1 - 6, Legacy Collection 2 will continue on with the games with 7 - 10.

Legacy Collection 2 will display smoother graphics with the use of 16-bit and 32-bit. Three generations of gaming graphics will also be available to play as well 'extra modes' such as Challenge mode, Sound Mode and Mueseum Mode.

Scampering into the PSVR world on the 27th of February is Moss, a 3D platformer-like game that allows for players to feel as if they are assisting the main protagonist Quill on her epic adventure of small stature.

To gear up for the release, a new launch trailer has been released on the PlayStation YouTube Channel. The above video shows the audience that players will be bonding with Quill through activities such as puzzle solving, defeating enemies and more. She will be needing all the assistance she can get.

Moss could honestly have the potential to be ones of the best options for a unique gaming experience on PSVR. The 3D platformer-like feel to the game has been reported to be of one the best PSVR experiences, as the zoomed out field of view makes players really feel like they are there helping Quill on her adventure.

The upcoming open-world RPG from Experiment 101 and THQ Nordic, Biomutant has received a new gameplay teaser trailer.

Biomutant looks extremely unique in this trailer in terms of creative abilities that the main character can do. We can see that the protagonist can fire an arrow and launch himself to the desired location, control a glider, bounce on enemies and even be electrocuted.

Players should note that the gameplay within Biomutant is drastically affected by how the player decides to mutate/customize their main character. When looked at as individual clips Biomutant may not seem that unique when it comes to gameplay, but when addressed a whole experience we can see that the game has no problem traversing from one uniqueness to another in only a matter of seconds.

It looks like Samsung will be taking to the skies in the very near future, with the South Korean electronics giant filing a patent for something they're calling a "flying display device".

LetsGoDigital spotted the patent which was filed in 2016, and describes a drone-like device that would sport a screen and be capable of streaming video. The Verge has a better idea, where this hovering display could be used for huge advertisements that float in the sky.

Samsung's patent would also see the floating display hovering thanks to four propellers, and it would feature a vibration system, an obstacle detection unit that would pack a camera and sensor that would include motion and accelerometer sensors, and more. As for the display it could be anything from a tablet, laptop, or mobile medical device.

MonteCrypto: The Bitcoin Enigma is going to fire up those Steam charts with its cheap entry price of just $1.99, but is giving away a single Bitcoin to whoever can solve the 24 puzzles in the game.

The new puzzle game was developed by Gem Rose Collective, and launched on February 20 with a bunch of puzzles set in a maze, where once the game is complete the one and only winner walks away with one BTC, valued at over $10,000 at the time of writing.

Gem Rose is very secretive right now, where they've said in their press release: "We are trying to keep our identities secret for now. But we can say we are a group of game developers and that we had a crazy idea for a game. As huge fans of treasure hunts we took inspiration from riddles like la chorette d'or (the golden owl), a statue of the owl was buried in 1993 at the same time a series of clues was published, and still nobody has solved the clues to find the owl and claim the 15kg (33lb) statue made of gold and silver".

There was some huge cryptocurrency FUD spreading in early January, when South Korea was reportedly preparing a new bill that would ban cryptocurrency trading.

One of the officials who helped South Korea's regulatory changes on cryptocurrency, Jung Ki-joon, has been found dead in his home. Ki-joon was the head of economic policy at the Office for Government Policy Coordination, where he helped the efforts to mold a new legislation that would slow and stop crypto speculation and illegal activity.

Ki-joon is presumed to have had a heart attack, with Yonhap reporting that a government official said "he died from some unknown cause. He passed away while he was sleeping and [his] heart [had] already stopped beating when he was found dead".

If there was something I've been excited over more than most things in the technology industry, but the thought of Windows 10 on ARM was doing funny things to my body. But now... it seems there's not much to get excited for, a bunch of things to be disappointed about, and a few points to be downright pissed off at.

Microsoft reportedly published a list of limitations that Windows 10 on ARM would bring, but the list was quickly deleted over the weekend. This is the internet remember, so a cached copy of the information is still available and now we get to look at the major limitations and disappointments of Windows 10 on ARM:

Now, just to make it very clear: Windows 10 on ARM and the huge deal between Qualcomm and Snapdragon technology to get into Windows 10 devices, is going to be a game changer. It's not just the gamers, or to get the headlines like 'OMFG, Windows 10 gives us 30 hours of gaming on-the-go'. Yeah, no.

There are some competitors coming into the battle royale scene with Automation Games showing off its next-gen shooter Mavericks: Proving Grounds.

Mavericks: Proving Grounds is poised to become one of the biggest battle royale games in terms of players, where the 2018 version of the game supports up to 400 players, but the team will shift into a 1000-player world in 2019. The world of Mavericks will be filled with reactive wildlife, dynamic water, MUDDY TRACKS and even spreading wildfire, all in a huge 12x12km.

Eventually, the game would support battle royale and online MMO modes where it will battle on a different field than the usual Battlegrounds and Fortnite. Automation's CEO has teased that the game is powered by SpatialOS technology.

Microsoft's new build test for Xbox One consoles will allow gamers to preview 1440p resolution support.

We've known for a while now that Microsoft's new high-end $499 Xbox One X will support native 1440p resolution on appropriate monitors, along with FreeSync adaptive sync, FreeSync 2, and HDMI 2.1 support, but there's always been a question of when. Now the games-maker teases that 1440p support will launch in a new preview build coming soon.

According to Xbox's Kevin Gammill, both the Xbox One X and Xbox One S will receive 1440p support in the new Xbox insider update...however the lesser Xbox One S will most likely support light applications such as streaming and UI in 1440p, whereas gaming will likely be supersampled.

I've had my fair share of issues with cryptocurrency wallet and app, Jaxx, but I've never written about them. I reached out to the company for help, and they really just brushed me to the side.

A few months ago I transferred $3500 AUD ($2770 USD) from Jaxx to Bittrex (a crypto exchange) and it kept on giving me error messages, but I persisted and tried again with the same error. After a few failed transactions, I realized my problem - I was using the built-in ShapeShift functionality.

This is why I was getting an error message, it was my mistake - but Jaxx was displaying that it was erroring. After this, I thought I would go back and do it properly only to see that $2770 of my funds had gone missing, because even with the 'error' it was taking my funds and throwing them into the blockchain, somewhere.

Ubisoft is eager to extend Rainbow Six: Siege's lifespan as far as possible--even for another 10 years.

Service games are all the rage these days, and every major publisher is embracing them in some form. Ubisoft, who has pushed a more digital-focused transformation, is a key player in the live service market with its slew of popular online games such as Rainbow Six: Siege. We've already highlighted why Ubisoft is on this path and why it won't change anytime soon, but just how long can the publisher expect its games to stay relevant? If it handles engagement properly, perhaps 10 years or more.

"We are saying extremely loudly here - there is no sequel planned. We will be here for the next 10 years. So expect more Rainbow 6 in your life for quite some time," R6 brand director Alexandre Remy said during the game's big 2018 Invitational esports event.

Original Diablo designer David Brevik weighs in on Blizzard's Diablo III, and how the game might've been if Blizzard North hadn't been dissolved.

At one point Blizzard North, who had made the original first two classic Diablo games, was making Diablo III...but ultimately its vision was scrapped and restarted. Blizzard eventually delivered a rampantly broken, weird, and jading mess in 2012 with the release of Diablo III on PC that ultimately betrayed the soul of its forebears. But despite its failures, Blizzard turned things around with Reaper of Souls and saved the game while introducing a long-term playtime that both Diablo and Diablo II significantly lacked. So what does David Brevik, who helped shape the franchise as we know it, have to say about Diablo III?

"I thought that they added a lot of really great stuff to it that fleshed it out and made it a much better game than I thought that it was at launch," Brevik said in a recent interview with IGN.

Remedy is making serious strides with its new Northlight engine, which will power its upcoming game projects including the new P7 IP.

It's no secret that Remedy is making a brand new third-person shooter IP called P7, and that they've signed a big multi-year deal with 505 Games to get it funded. But what's a bit more ambiguous is the lingo that's thrown around about the game, and how the developer wants to ensure P7 will deliver "longer-lasting game experiences." This is usually prime nomenclature for service games, and I even went so far as to predict the game would have monetized service elements thanks to a recent job listing.

Now in its latest fiscal earnings report, the game dev assures shareholders that its proprietary Northlight games engine is being fine-tuned and optimized for specific experiences outside of its usual focus, including multiplayer.