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Rare has released a new video onto the official Sea of Thieves YouTube channel, it shows a discussion with design director Mike Chapman and software engineer Topher Winward.

In the above video it was discussed that when players find an NPC in the live game they will be will realize that each NPC has their own respective back-story and personality. Overall this amazing feature will create immersion for the player as they traverse the high seas and bump into a variety of different NPCs.

NPCs will also have the ability to announce what is happening around the world in real-time, such as live campaign or a major boss fight that would include everyone. This software is not strictly for NPCs either, as it can be applied for items as well. An example of this would be if a player found a treasure map in a book and then another person finds the same book only to realize thatthe treasure map will isn't there since it has been taken.

eBay has announced that this year they will be bringing augmented reality to their website, the company is currently in development of an AR tool kit.

According to a Fortune Report, eBay will be working towards bringing AR to the consumer market as an assistant when buying items. An example of this would be if a buyer wanted to see how an item would look or fit such as a new set of tires on a car, they would be able to project that image in the desired space before purchasing.

Another addition that eBay are working on is the same principal as the tires but instead from the sellers point of view. Sellers will be able to view what packaging and box size they need to ship their specific item, this will be done by AR appearing over the item of sale until the correct size of packaging is chosen.

It looks like Huawei and ZTE will be dead in the water in the US soon, with six major US intelligence agencies warning Americans about using products and services made by Huawei and ZTE.

The new recommendations were given during the Senate Intelligence Committee, with the heads of the FBI, CIA, NSA, and the director of national intelligence all in session. FBI Director Chris Wray said the US government is "deeply concerned about the risks of allowing any company or entity that is beholden to foreign governments that don't share our values to gain positions of power inside our telecommunications networks".

Wray added that this would give "the capacity to maliciously modify or steal information. And it provides the capacity to conduct undetected espionage".

Epic Games has just pushed out their latest update to Fortnite, bringing the game up to v2.5.0, with the new patch providing "full 4K resolution now supported on Xbox One X".

We also have optimized performance in general with the new patch, but later this month Fortnite will be updated again with a new 60FPS mode for consoles, but in the 60FPS mode the visual quality will drop.

Fortnite's new v2.5.0 patch notes are massive, with the full list available here. This is a little bit of what the new patch delivers:

ASUS has just unveiled their latest in their line of Phoenix branded graphics card with the new GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Phoenix, coming in with a compact design.

The new ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Phoenix is short, at just 18.3 inches long on a custom-made PCB. ASUS cools the new card with a simple aluminum heat sink, spiral-looking fans, and an 80mm cooler.

ASUS ships the GTX 1060 6GB Phoenix with NVIDIA's reference clocks, so we have 1506/1708MHz for base/boost GPU clocks, respectively. There's 6GB of GDDR5 memory on-board at its stock 8Gbps frequency.

Microsoft is ready to unleash a new Ultimate Performance mode to Windows 10, something that will give beefier desktop PCs additional performance, while laptops and tablets will receive more performance soon.

This new Ultimate Performance mode is something Windows 10 users can turn on when High Performance mode isn't enough, where the new mode will disable all power management. With ultimate performance unleashed, it will eliminate "micro-latencies" and provide 100% performance.

Microsoft will be letting PC makers provides the option of shipping out systems with Ultimate Performance enabled out of the box.

I don't even know where to start, but there's a Sims 4 modder Filip, that is making digital drugs for the game through a mod called "Basemental".

Basemental provides drugs to the game, including marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, and MDMA (aka Molly, X, Ecstasy), which then the sims can buy, use, consume, and even sell. There's a new "drug dealer" trait that you can choose, where you can become a digital drug dealer.

The mod isn't some glossed-over afterthought, because the digital drugs don't just make you act high, hungover, or go to sleep... but they'll see your sim become addicted, overdose (both fatally, and not-fatally), and even get arrested for drug possession.

Fortnite might have over 3.4 million concurrent players, beating out the Battlegrounds but remember that Epic Games' rocking third-person shooter with its Battle Royale mode, is a free-to-play title.

The free-to-play title has in-game currency that Epic calls V-Bucks, and until now it hasn't been required for Fortnite's Season Passes. The official Twitter account for Fortnite tweeted that the Season 3 Battle Pass will cost 950 V-Bucks, and can't be purchased with real money. The developer confirmed the news, where they said "We will not be offering the Season 3 Battle Pass as a real money purchase".

You can earn V-Bucks in Fortnite by leveling up your Battle Pass, or by playing the included PvE 'Save the World' mode, which is currently in (paid) early access. Fortnite plays that have been plowing hours into the game will be happy, with the same thoughts for gamers who have been saving up their V-Bucks; they won't need to spend any real-world money on the Season 3 Battle Pass.

BITNAND sent out an email overnight letting everyone know they have their new stock of NVIDIA P106-090 6GB Mining Cards about to drop, where they will begin shipping later this month.

The new NVIDIA P106-090 Mining Card can be purchased directly from BITNAND for $389, with individual card performance varying from batch to batch. BITNAND notes that the "overclocked performance is not a guarantee and will depend on individual card's performance". This is what BITNAND are promising, but these results will vary from card to card slightly:

As for the technical specifications of BITNAND's new NVIDIA P106-090 Mining Card:

Corsair has made some changes to its all-in-one gaming PC, with the refreshed Corsair One now capable of being configured with Intel's latest Coffee Lake CPUs, including the ridiculously fast Core i7-8700K.

Some other changes include an upgrade to the motherboard, where Corsair has switched things up with the refreshed Z370 chipset. Other than that, there's not much changed inside; so we still have two models in the Corsair One Elite, and Corsair One Pro Plus.

The Corsair One Pro Plus rocks the Intel Core i7-8700K (6C/12T), 16GB of DDR4-2666, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, 480GB NVMe SSD and 2TB HDD. The higher-end Elite model upgrades the RAM to 32GB, but includes everything else the Pro Plus comes with.

Bandai Namco's upcoming Souls-like game Code Vein will have online co-op multiplayer action, much like the Dark Souls games.

While Code Vein may have similarities to Dark Souls games, it has a style and a series of mechanics all its own...but that doesn't mean it won't borrow a page or three from From Software's magnum opus lineage. In a bid to give players a sense of camaraderie and interaction, Bandai Namco has announced Code Vein will have an online-based co-op system that allows friends or random users to team up and battle Lost, or the in-game enemies.

"CODE VEIN gives players the chance to answer requests for help from other Revenants finding difficulty battling against the Lost. Explore and defeat the enemies lurking through each dungeon with your A.I. companion and another human player to get through difficult areas of the game. Players can communicate through a combination of gestures, stamps and voice commands for added communication and teamwork."

In a surprise move, THQ Nordic has purchased Koch Media, the parent company for games publisher Deep Silver.

THQ Nordic has acquired Munich-based company Koch Media in a tactical buyout for € 121 million. THQ now has access to Deep Silver's lucrative IPs including the Metro series of games, Dead Island, and Saint's Row. While THQ Nordic has 100% ownership and stake in Koch Media, its wholly-owned studios will still continue on as normal, but THQ will oversee the development of key games on a more controlling business level.

"Koch Media GmbH and its subsidiaries will continue to operate as independent entities," reads the announcement press release.

The Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is releasing next week and if you are one of those old players that enjoyed playing some games with cheats on, you are going to be pleased to know they will still work.

According to Kotaku, the Age of Empires: Definitive Edition has been tested with the cheats from the 1997 version of the game and it has resulted in a success. Old cheats such as Pepperoni Pizza (+1000 food) or Coinage (+1000 gold) still work, its pretty awesome considering some players have very fond memories when playing the game with cheats on.

It has also been confirmed that cheats will also be available to use in campaign and custom scenarios, some of these cheats include:

As the release date for Sea of Thieves moves closer and closer we are hearing much more about it, now it has been confirmed that their will be no Pirates of The Caribbean DLC, no matter how iconic it is.

Rare has taken to the Sea of Thieves Twitter to confirm the news after a fan asked the company if they could add Pirates of The Caribbean specific content. Rare or more so the Sea of Thieves Twitter responded saying " We won't be adding anything specific to other IPs"

In the same Twitter response Rare did reassure the fan that there would be plenty of "pirate goodness" on offer for players so they aren't disappointed. They continued with guaranteeing that "every time you play Sea of Thieves" you will receive a "heavy dose of pirate goodness."

Microsoft and Rare are giving us more shot at Sea of Thieves before they debut the anticipated title on March 20th.

According to GamesBeat, Microsoft has informed them that their will be another round of beta testing that will be made available to the public. The tests will be strictly for results on how the servers can handle a mass population of players at once, this means that unfortunately there will be no new content for players to try out.

Microsoft has explained to GamesBeat that this test players should be expecting connection errors, Rare will be limiting the vacancies for players in servers so they can really see how their hardware handles immense stress. Even though this may sound problematic for players think of it from the brightside, we get to hit the high seas once more before the launch and the debut is only about a month away.

It was only a matter of time before people found out about The Evil Within 2 PC version secretly harboring a first-person mode, more surprisingly though is the support the developer Tango Gameworks has now given.

After PC gamers finding the mode through an easy console input and many players taking a liking to the new mode, Tango Gameworks decided to officially support the mode across all platforms.

The first-person mode is now has a toggle option after todays update, Shinsaku Ohara, producer for The Evil Within 2 explained his thoughts on the topic "We like to think of it as a 'high-level hack' so we don't want people to compare this with DOOM or anything like that. There were some scenes that just didn't work, so it jumps back and forth a bit to third-person. But we made sure the game's an enjoyable experience and hopefully people will enjoy playing in this mode"

Qualcomm is an industry leader when it comes to SoC, connectivity and LTE modem technologies and are once again showing their strength with LTE modems. Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X24 LTE modem is capable of a huge 2Gbps download speed, which is quite simply insane.

The new Snapdragon X24 LTE modem is the world's first modem built on the 7nm FinFET process, with Qualcomm providing support for Category 20 LTE with 7x carrier aggregation, and 4x4 MIMO on a maximum of five aggregated LTE carriers.

Qualcomm explains: "As the world's first announced Gigabit LTE modem to achieve speeds of up to 2 Gbps, the Snapdragon X24 LTE modem sets a major mobile industry milestone, designed to provide enhanced mobile broadband and deliver an extremely important gigabit coverage layer for commercial 5G networks and mobile devices that are expected to start launching in 2019. Further expanding on the use of 4Ã-4 and LAA capability, the Snapdragon X24 packs a powerful array of the most advanced 4G LTE technologies commercially available, helping mobile operators to fully mobilize their spectrum assets and maximize the capacity of their Gigabit LTE networks, and mobile device makers to offer consumers a tangible glimpse of our 5G future".

To celebrate the upcoming home video release of 'Fear the Walking Dead: The Complete Season Three', we have ten Blu-ray copies to give away thanks to our friends at eOne Entertainment.

Fear the Walking Dead is a gritty drama set in the same universe as The Walking Dead, that explores the onset of the undead apocalypse.

In season three our families will be brought together against the vibrant and violent backdrop of the US - Mexico border. International lines have been done away with following the world's end, and the survivors must attempt to rebuild not only society, but family as well.

Samsung isn't far from announcing its new Galaxy S9 with more hype behind it than Apple's biggest iPhone release since the original iPhone, with the iPhone X not really turning that many heads.

The new Galaxy S9 might rock a similar feature to the iPhone X with a purported Animoji competitor on Samsung's latest flagship handset. The 15-second clip shows their face with an animated overlay, similar to the iPhone X and its Animoji feature that uses the front-facing camera for animated characters that respond to facial movements.

The next video really displays the big tease that Samsung have in store for low-light abilities on the Galaxy S9 camera.

The hunt for hashrates by cryptocurrency miners is hurting the search for alien life, with miners pissing off SETI (Search For Extraterrestrial Life) as they can't find new GPUs to buy.

SETI chief scientist Dan Wethimer told the BBC: "We'd like to use the latest GPUs [graphics processing units]... and we can't get 'em. This is a new problem, it's only happened on orders we've been trying to make in the last couple of months". So it's not just gamers that are mad at the price of second hand and brand new cards, but the lack of stock of new cards is hurting more than just gamers, reaching into the scientific community.

SETI researchers need the GPUs to scan as many communications frequencies simultaneously, with SETI's base in Berkeley using 100 GPUs alone. SETI has other stations in Green Bank, West Virginia and Parkes, Australia are trying to expand, but the GPU shortage isn't helping. Werthimer continued: "We've got the money, we've contacted the vendors, and they say, 'we just don't have them".