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It's official: after five years Soul Calibur is coming back, and the sixth chapter has a set 2018 release window.

At the TGA 2017 awards show Bandai Namco announced Soul Calibur VI with a surprise trailer. The new game will have "all-new gameplay systems" such as the new Reversal Edge system as well as PvE, couch fighting action, and online tournaments. Interestingly enough the new game travels back to 16th century to explore the first Soul Calibur with a "diverse lineup of new and returning characters with their unique fighting styles."

"The fast and kinetic gameplay of SOULCALIBUR is on full display in SOULCALIBUR VI," said Mark Religioso, Brand Manager for BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc. "A stellar lineup of characters and weapons, combined with a simple control layout means gamers of all skill levels can jump into the action and decimate the competition."

Hideo Kojima dropped a new trailer for Death Stranding at TGA 2017 that takes us deeper down the rabbit hole of his dark imagination.

When Death Stranding was revealed last year it really shook up the gaming world. Here was a brand new game from the Metal Gear Solid creator that amplified Kojima's cryptic teasing nature while announcing something quite different. Now a year later we know quite a bit about the game: it's an open world action-game that aims at defying all known genres, it has a weird otherworldly motif, Death Stranding is being built in Guerrilla's Decima engine, and the latest trailer gives even more clues--clues that are, of course, hidden behind cryptic footage.

There's many parts of the new footage that make sense. We first see a crashed expedition rover with three men, making us believe they crossed over to the "Upside Down" (sorry I had to) where they face some pretty wicked shadow creatures. In sheer Kojima style the game takes on a spectacular cinematic scope that closely resembles both an extremely creative horror movie and something out of a lunatic's bad dream. But as Kojima said Death Stranding isn't a horror game.

From Software is making yet another bizarre-looking game, and we've just received our first glimpse at it (not that the footage told us very much though).

Last night during The Game Awards 2017 show host Geoff Keighley showed off a small 30-second window into From Software's new game. The tiny clip was indeed quite odd and has sparked lots of speculation on what the esteemed Bloodborne and Dark Souls dev is working on...but I have a feeling people are off the mark.

The teaser itself gives a few small hits: the unannounced game seems to have an Asian bent due to the scroll in the background, however what exactly that weird...thing...is no one really knows. I speculated that it looks like a weird biological-machine entity as the bone structure somewhat resembles a tibia. Maybe From Software is working on a game about ninjas who are brought back to life to kill again?

Toshiba have announced the addition to their XG5 SSD lineup that is based its 64-layer, 3D BiCS FLASH memory, the new XG5-P. The latest member of the XG5 lineup is designed with the ever-expanding demands of high-end PC, gaming and content delivery thanks to its capacity of up to 2TB and improved random read/write performance of up to 55 percent over standard XG5 SSDs.

"Toshiba recognizes the need for engineering larger capacity, higher performance SSD solutions that target specific applications and use cases," said, Neville Ichhaporia, director of client and data center SSD marketing at TMA. "With our latest flagship XG5-P series, we have once again raised the bar in client SSD storage by delivering NVMe SSDs that take workstation, gaming and content creation performance to the next level."

Featuring a PCI Express Gen3 x4 lane and NVMe Revision 1.2.1 interface, this allows the XG5-P to provide up to 3000 MB/sec of sequential read and 2200 MB/sec of sequential write and up to 320,000 random read and 265,000 random write IOPS6, not bad Toshiba, not bad at all.

Toshiba have been busy in regards to their high-end storage range, with recently announcing a 10TB HDD dedicated for surveillance applications and their new XG5-P SSD. For all those NAS enthusiasts out there, Toshiba haven't forgotten about you and have released the MN06ACA10T, a 10TB hard drive in a 3.5" form factor.

"Our new 10TB MN06 Series provides excellent NAS-class performance and durability," said Scott Wright, Director of HDD Product Marketing at Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. "Our exclusive conventional mechanics delivers real value to work-groups and cloud storage architects who utilize established network-attached storage technologies. The MN06ACA10T 10TB includes RV compensation technology for optimal performance in multi-drive NAS enclosures and is designed for 24/7 operation."

The MN06AC10T sees a 25% increase in regards to capacity and double the buffer size (256MiB) over its predecessor, the MN05ACA800. Toshiba's dedicated NAS HDD is designed for 24/7 operation and an annual workload of an impressive 180TB transferred. MTTF of 1,000,000 hours, and 300,000 load/unload cycles.

According to a report from Bloomberg Netflix will be producing a 'choose your own adventure' TV show designed for adults. This decision by Netflix came after a good response in the kids version of the 'choose your own adventure' genre, 'Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale' and 'Buddy Thunderstruck: The Maybe Pile' both allow for viewers to choose how each story evolves.

The very same principle of allowing the viewer to decide how the story evolves will be added to a new TV series that Netflix is creating, but this time it will be for adults and not children. Giving viewers the option of a 'choose your own adventure' kind of TV show means that viewers will be able to choose a specific storyline, follow it to the end and then re-watch the series from a different perspective granting a entirely new different ending.

Netflix already plans to spend a very large sum of $7 - $8 billion on programming for 2018 and being the largest TV streaming service, Netflix will live up to its title by releasing 30 local-language scripted series and 80 movies. Kids have not been forgotten either, Netflix plans to also product 60 kids TV shows and some animated movies to accompany them as well.

Following the recent events surrounding transportation company Uber more information regarding the investigation has surfaced. According to Reuters, a 20-year old Florida man is responsible for the data breach over a year ago, in conclusion was paid $100,000 by Uber for destroying the information of the breach.

Uber is under fire here, recent reports saying that Uber is to be sued $2,000 per violation, now more information of a cover-up that lasted a year long could go all the way to the top. Uber's silent payment to the 20-year old Florida man was conducted through 'Bug Bounties' which is when compensation is offered for freelance hackers to test vulnerabilities, offerings of $200,000 are not strange.

The Florida hacker did not work alone though, claiming that he paid another individual to help him create false credentials through Github, attempting to prove that Ubers data was stored elsewhere.

Today Android devices will be getting a slight upgrade, as Android Oreo rolls out to all Wear devices. The beta for Oreo originally only featured on the LG Watch Sport can be presumed over, as the Oreo updates for Android Wear include adjustments to vibration strength settings, touch lock and more.

Hoi Lam, the Wearables Developer Advocate at Google is the source for this news as he posted in the Android Wear Developers Community, giving a short run down on the features that wearable devices will be updated with. The update will feature improvements that include a notification vibration strength setting, touch lock option, notification channels, battery saving limits and support for 7 new languages.

It is unclear whether the update is received yet on all Android Wearable devices, but it has been confirmed that it has hit the LG Watch Sport so there is no doubt other Android Wear products will shortly follow.

Google has officially removed desktop Chrome Apps from the Chrome Web Store, the only features that are left are the option of theme customization and Extensions. Last year Google announced in their Chromium Blog that they would be discontinuing Chrome Apps from the Web Store, saying that sometime in mid 2018 users of Google Chrome will not be able to load or use any apps.

"In the second half of 2017, the Chrome Web Store will no longer show Chrome apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux, but will continue to surface extensions and themes. In early 2018, users on these platforms will no longer be able to load Chrome apps."

This removal by Google is only going to be affecting 1% of Google Chrome users, as it is stated in the Chromium Blog across Linux, Windows and Mac only 1% of users actually used Google Apps. For those wondering if Apps will be completely removed from all Google devices fret not, Google Apps will still be available to Chrome OS-powered devices such as Chromebooks.

NVIDIA has surprised the world with the announcement of their next-gen TITAN V graphics card, a new card that rocks the latest Volta GPU architecture and 12GB of HBM2, culminating in a card that costs a whopping $2999.

The new TITAN V features 21.1 billion transistors, packs 110 TFLOPs of raw horsepower, and has "extreme energy efficiency". NVIDIA explains: "Our vision for Volta was to push the outer limits of high performance computing and AI. We broke new ground with its new processor architecture, instructions, numerical formats, memory architecture and processor links".

NVIDIA's new TITAN V features the GV100 GPU that packs 12GB of HBM2 - the first TITAN card to feature HBM2 memory technology. GV100 features 5120 CUDA cores and 320 TMUs, the same amount of CUDA cores that NVIDIA slapped onto the Tesla V100.

Intel is hard at work on the research and development side of its upcoming Nervana Neural Network Processor, a new chip that will blow away any general-purpose processor for machine learning and AI applications.

Vice President of Hardware for Intel's Artificial Intelligence Products Group, Carey Kloss, has provided an update to the work Intel has made on the NNP.

What does a neural network processor (NNP) have to do? In order to train a machine using neural networks needs a gigantic amount of memory and arithmetic operations in order to generate useful output. Then we step into the scaling capabilities, power consumption and maximum utilization being the cornerstones of Intel's Nervana.

Ubisoft has gone and ruined a bunch of gamers' dreams, with the announcement of a delay to the release of the much anticipated Far Cry 5.

Far Cry 5 has been delayed from late-February 2018 to March 27, 2018 - a one-month delay. Ubisoft Montreal need the additional development time to "make some additional improvements that will bring the best, most ambitious Far Cry experience in line with the team's original vision".

Ubisoft didn't stop the delay train with Far Cry 5 either, with the company also delaying The Crew 2. The Crew 2 was due on March 16 but Ubisoft is now playing games and being vague with the release window of The Crew 2 saying it'll be released in the first half of Ubisoft's fiscal year. Cool.

When I was writing my article about Bitcoin hitting $13,000 yesterday I thought we might see a new peak of $14,000 if it went on a really good run. Well, I was wrong.

The massive $60 million+ in BTC being swiped from NiceHash in its rear view mirror, Bitcoin's price continued its meteroic rise past the $13,000 barrier and right into $16,600 overnight. A rise of 30% in 24 hours is absolutely astonishing, with anyone holding BTC right now smiling from ear-to-ear.

At this rate $20K isn't impossible before the end of the year, and John McAfee might need to eat his own d*ck since BTC could hit $1 million sooner rather than later.

TSMC, the leading chip-maker in the world, plans to invest tens of billions to make a new high-end chip facility, reports Nikkei Asian Review.

Senior sources say TSMC will invest $20 billion to make the world's first and most advanced chip-making facility in Taiwan, with a rollout date planned for early 2020s. The facility will be aimed at producing ultra-efficient chips on the 3nm node in an effort to keep ahead of the constantly-evolving world of technology, whether mobile devices or new machines.

"This past September, we announced our plan for the world's first 3-nanometer fab located in the Tainan science park [in southern Taiwan]. This fab could cost upwards of $20 billion and represents TSMC's commitment to drive technology forward," TSMC executive Mark Liu told Nikkei Asian Review.

PUBG is coming to Dying Light...well sort of.

Today Techland announced that their lauded Dying Light zombie game would get a standalone expansion called Bad Blood, which drops players in a multiplayer battle royale experience set in the post-apocalyptic dead-world of the game. What's interesting about Bad Blood, however, is that it's not trying to blatantly copy PUBG: Techland affirms the expansion will have both PVP and PVE elements, which makes me think zombies will be in the mix too.

Bad Blood will have three different modes including:

Capcom today announced the Devil May Cry HD Collection, which should round out the publisher's FY2018 slate quite nicely.

Earlier in the year Capcom promised to resurrect older IPs in an effort to fortify game sales and buffer its release slate. Now with the recently announced Mega Man 11 (yes really), the ports of Mega Man X on Switch, and the freshly announced Devil May Cry HD Collection, we're seeing the fruits of that promise start to take shape. The HD Collection was originally released for PS3 and Xbox 360 some years ago, and now it's making the rounds again.

The latest Devil May Cry remaster collection will include the first three games (DMC1, DMC2 and the DMC3 special edition) with revamped HD graphics on modern systems including the PS4, Xbox One, and PC, with a release date penned for March 13, 2018. This is right before Capcom's March 31, 2018 cutoff date for the current fiscal year, and this isn't a mistake: it should help the games-maker bolster yearly sales and earnings while kicking off FY2019 with a nice software boost.

Sony's ring of first-party studios are known for releasing diverse games--a move that's increasingly different than the normal range of Call of Duty's, Battlefronts, and PUBG's of the gaming world.

PS4 exclusives are usually quite different than anything else you find on the market. Sony has helped release quite a few exclusives that are all unique, including Bloodborne, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and Hideo Kojima's upcoming game Death Stranding. Exclusives account for a percentage of why gamers buy the console itself, and according to IDC Director for Gaming and VR Lewis Ward, Sony's penchant for deep, immersive storytelling is a unique position for the industry.

"Well, like Nintendo, Sony has a massive worldwide game development team. Sony of course makes movies and music and other forms of entertainment, so understanding story structure and character development is in their DNA. If you notice, they really don't make free-to-play games that are open-ended and therefore have no clear conclusion other than player burnout," Mr. Ward said in a recent interview with GamingBolt.

The PlayStation 4 games console has surpassed 70 million units ahead of the big Christmas season, Sony today confirmed.

In a recent press release Sony announced that the PS4 has sold through 70.6 million units globally since the system launched in 2013, up an impressive 10.2 million units from the original 60.4 million sales from June. This milestone is also accompanied by a huge attach rate, which has grown incrementally since June as well.

Sony says that over 617.8 million PlayStation 4 games have been sold digitally and at retail, which puts the attach rate at a minimum of 8.7%. This means that PS4 owners have about at least 9 games for the console since the system released four years ago. The Japanese games-maker further re-affirms commitment to the PlayStation VR platform with a neat statistic: 150 titles have been released for the virtual reality headset to date.

Apple has shared reports on their App Store support page showing statistics of their of their current devices and the percentages of which devices are using specific operating systems. According to the statistics shown 59% of Apples devices are currently using the new iOS 11, this is an increase of 7 percent from last months calculations of 52%.

This adoption of iOS 11 has been slower than that of iOS 10, according to Apple's official App Store statistics iOS 10 was adopted much quicker after its release with 54% of users downloading the update. This 2% decrease in installation despite Apple's efforts to update iOS 11 with focus of solving bug fixes that are throughout iOS have not caused a increase in installation rates.

Keep in mind though, Apple have just released their new software for iOS 11.2, Apple Pay Cash was suppose to be rolled out to devices over the course of the weekend but instead the update was released early to fix a bug that caused it to crash. Now that bug has been fixed by Apple may see a increase in users updating to the new iOS 11.2 update as more and more people adopt the new Apple Pay Cash system.

Japan will see a self-driving car service by 2020, called 'Easy Ride' the service is powered by Nissan and a technology company DeNa. Nissan plan to have this service up and running in Yokohama by at least 2020, hoping for a completion of everything to pick-up and drop-off via mobile payment to having the option of taking the scenic route to your destination.

Nissan is most likely to have all of these problems worked out by 2020, as the Tokyo Olympics is set to be there I can see no reason why Nissan would pass up on the opportunity to promote their self-driving cars throughout this time. The cars that are set to be introduced to the city of Yokohama are Leaf EV's which have already had testing gone underway in the UK.