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Qualcomm has been leading the 5G game for what feels like years now, and now we have news that Sprint has promised to launch mobile 5G services nationwide in the first half of 2019.

Sprint boss Marcelo Claure explained during their recent quarterly earnings conference call with investors: "We're working with Qualcomm and network and device manufacturers in order to launch the first truly mobile [5G] network in the United States by the first half of 2019. This development will put Sprint at the forefront of technology innovation on par with other leading carriers around the world... We believe our next-gen network will truly differentiate Sprint over the next couple of years".

US telco competitor T-Mobile has promised nationwide 5G support in 2019, finishing it in 2020, with Sprint now in the lead for the next generation of mobile connectivity.

Final Fantasy XV will be one of the biggest releases on the PC this year, with the Windows Edition of the game to be the definitive version as Square Enix built the game from the ground up for the PC, and have confirmed it is not just a simple PC port.

Square Enix has released a benchmark tool so that you can see how your PC will handle Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition, which takes over six minutes to run. There are some NVIDIA GameWorks features in the game, with NVIDIA providing serious support to Square Enix for the PC version of Final Fantasy XV.

Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition launches on Steam, Origin, and the Windows Store on March 6, and will cost $50.

Corsair has just launched its high-end T2 Road Warrior gaming chair, something that comes in five color schemes: black, blue, yellow, white, and red).

The new T2 Road Warrior can handle up to 300 pounds, with Corsair using an aluminum seat base, steel frame that is coated in polyurethane foam and five rollerblade-style polyurethane. Corsair isn't using genuine leather, but that will also keep the price under $500 which helps for mainstream gamers.

Corsair provides a wider seat this time around, with a taller back and deep cushion that will ensure a great seating experience. The angle of the base and armrests can be tweaked, with the gas-powered light raising or lowering the seat by 3.3 inches.

With the recent release of Dragon Ball FighterZ, Bandai Namco have proudly announced Dragon Ball FighterZ has already reached the 2 million total units sold mark, just within the first week of release.

What is more surprising though, is that this number has not been even been influenced by the Asia or Japanese markets, as Bandai is releasing the title into those regions a couple of days ago. It can be almost guaranteed that once Dragon Ball FighterZ hits both of those markets that the 2 million units sold will turn into something much higher.

Already with the recent success of the title, Bandai Namco has deemed Dragon Ball FighterZ the fastest selling Dragon Ball game ever, across all platforms.

Nintendo's earnings call has been jam-packed full of new information, one of the biggest subjects that was discussed was the paid online service coming to Nintendo Switch.

Nintendo announced their Nintendo Switch Online service that will debut this September. The service contains a bunch of extra benefits for Switch players, such as online gameplay, lobbies, voice chat and a "Classic Game Selection."

The service is only going to cost $20, and that isn't a monthly payment either, the $20 covers for a entire year of membership. It can be expected that in the coming months Nintendo will release a specific date or more information surrounding their Online Switch service, until then enjoy Nintendos' online services while you can.

We saw the Nintendo Switch back in December sell more than 1.5 million units in a month and now we learn from Nintendo's earnings call that the Nintendo Switch has beaten the lifetime sales margin of the Wii U.

Released 10 months ago back in March, the Nintendo Switch has reached more than 14.86 million unit sales before the end of 2017. This puts the Nintendo Switch ahead of the Wii U which is counted at 13.56 million units sold.

Game sales on the Nintendo Switch shared similar success with a massive 52.57 million games being sold on the hybrid console. Super Mario Odyssey reached took first place as most sold game, coming in with 9.06 million copies sold. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was second with 7.33 million and finally, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with 6.7 million copies sold.

The head of Minecraft, Helen Chiang has told PopSugar that their game has reached an all time high in terms of active monthly players, she has said that Minecraft has pulled in 74 million active players in December.

Even with the massive growth that Minecraft is experiencing Chiang has said that their goal is to keep bringing more content to players which will both apply to older players as well as the new.

Here is what Chiang had to say: "We just recently set a new record in December for monthly active users, so now we're at 74 million monthly active users - and that's really a testament to people coming back to the game, whether it's through the game updates or bringing in new players from across the world, that's really our goal, to keep building the community that we have."

I never thought I'd see the day that I'm writing that the co-creator of CS:GO has been accused of the sexual exploitation of a minor, with Jess Cliffe appearing in a King County courtroom on Friday where his bail was set to $150,000.

King County Prosecuting Attorney's office originally set Cliffe's bail at $250,000 "for the community's safety and the victim's safety", after Cliffe allegedly talked to at least one minor on the internet, where he said he paid for sex "multiple times". During one of these events, Cliffe purportedly recorded the sexual contact with the anonymous witness "against her will".

When the court set the $250,000 bail, Zachary Wagnild, the defense attorney for Cliffe, said: "Even if the facts are true as claimed, this was a meeting on an adult website. He was not looking for underage women and had no idea this woman was underage".

We have all seen the headlines lately, with cryptocurrency in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple and hundreds more cryptocurrencies, as well as crypto mining, but now we find out industry heavyweight Samsung is getting into the crypto mining game.

New reports from last week hit South Korean outlet The Bell, where they reported Samsung had started manufacturing ASICs that they would provide to a Chinese mining firm, that is anonymous for now. A company spokesperson has told TechCrunch that "Samsung's foundry business is currently engaged in the manufacturing cryptocurrency mining chips".

This is gigantic news as right now, TSMC is the king of ASIC miners that they ship a large majority to Bitmain, the China-based Bitcoin miner that has over 70% of the market share.

Microsoft has made some big changes to their next version of Office, with the company announcing that Office 2019 will be released later this year, but only Windows 10 users will be able to enjoy it.

Office 2019 will only work on select Microsoft operating systems, including:

Now that we know Office 2019 will only work with Windows 10, what happens with Office 2020 when it's released? Well, Microsoft are doing this so that both Windows and Office are tied to each other for the very latest updates, especially in the wake of security bugs in Meltdown and Spectre.

Ubisoft has unveiled new details from the Far Cry 5 season pass, something that will include a bunch of goodies including a detailed DLC path, and a free copy of Far Cry 3.

Instead of continuing the storyline of Far Cry 5 with the DLC, Ubisoft will be providing three different pieces of DLC with Dead Living Zombies, Hours of Darkness, and Lost on Mars. This move gives me the same feels as Blood Dragon did, and I'm truly digging what Ubisoft is doing with Far Cry 5 and its season pass.

Dead Living Zombies will throw Far Cry 5 players against "hordes of the undead" in a "zombie-infested wasteland", while Hours of Darkness will throw you into Vietnam where you will fight the Viet Cong. Lost on Mars sounds the most interesting, as it will put players into a spacesuit and have you fighting giant spiders on Mars.

AMD will be having a huge year this year, at least in their CPU department, with the release of their refreshed Ryzen CPUs and new 400-series chipsets in a couple of months. But now news is breaking of their upcoming Starship/Mattise CPUs that will be released late this year and early 2019.

HWINFO is now recognizing a bunch of new CPUs, AMD's upcoming 400-series chipset, and even Intel's upcoming Ice Lake-SP platform. AMD's next-gen Starship CPU is going to be a monster, offering a huge 48C/96T of CPU power rocking the refreshed Zen+ or Zen 2 architecture.

Here's what HWINFO32 and HWINFO64 v5.72 supports:

First Red Dead Redemption 2 was to release in 2017, then it got delayed to Spring 2018...not Rockstar Games has delayed the game once again but also attaches a firm release date as well.

Today Rockstar Games announced that Red Dead Redemption 2 will release on October 26, 2018, ahead of the big annual holiday season sales blitz. "We apologize to everyone disappointed by this delay," the dev wrote on the blog post. "While we had hoped to have the game out sooner, we require a little extra time for polish."

The Western sequel looks like Rockstar's most ambitious game yet thanks to its graphical fidelity and effects, as well as the online-based component that will likely mirror GTA Online's sentiments, mechanics, and microtransactions. The team released a few new screenshots (see below) to highlight just how much effort they're putting into the project. In fact Rockstar parent company Take-Two Interactive says that the dev has built Red Dead Redemption 2 from the ground up specifically for consoles, hinting that it might skip PC.

Recent news coming out about the New Game+ mode being on the way to Assassin's Creed Origins has been toppled by Ubisoft releasing patch 1.21, bringing improvements all round.

The patch fixes a variety of things, an example is the bug where quest objectives would not be correctly updated. Another fix that has been implemented is the scaling down of enemy level progression when players are in Horde Mode, while also improving character animations at the same time.

Gamers that are interested in what their hardware can do on Assassin's Creed Origins benchmark will be glad to know that the patch also adds a 'save results' button when the results are shown. Also within this patch, is a fix for the game still running in the background after closing it by ALT + F4.

Some would say Assassin's Creed Origins revived the series with a new feel, and for those looking to replay the title all over again are in luck as a New Game+ or hardcore mode is on the way.

Community manager for Assassin's Creed Origins, Dominik Voigt answered a question on the Origins subreddit regarding the progression of bringing a New Game+ mode to the title. Voigt answered the question by saying "New Game + is coming. We'll have more information to share soon."

Voigt didn't specify any exact date, so it really isn't much to go off, but nonetheless Assassin's Creed Origins fans are more than happy with the statement as Ubisoft will "have more information to share" will us soon.

Human Head Studios has released a new trailer for Rune: Ragnarok, an open-world RPG based in the times of Nordic gods and epic battles.

We can see from the trailer that the game is entirely based around Norse mythology. Even though this is pre-alpha footage of the game we can see examples of gameplay such as: dragons, riding dragons, giant sea creatures and fighting.

It is quite clear from the title as well as from the trailer that Rune: Ragnarok is set in a time when Ragnarok is actually taking place, the gods are descending on earth as well as fighting and dying.

Atari want to see RollerCoaster Tycoon make its way to the Nintendo Switch this year, to do this they have started a crowdfuning campaign with a stretch goal of $1.07 million.

Atari has teamed up with a crowdfunding platform named StartEngine to bring a new version of the 90's themepark management game RollerCoaster Tycoon to the Nintendo Switch this year.

To hit the stretch goal of bringing the title to the Nintendo Switch this year, Atari have set a goal of reaching $1.07 million. According to the StartEngine website, investors or pledgers can only invest $250 or more as that is the minimum amount that has been set on the site.

Not too long ago we saw that Metal Gear Survive will feature micro-transactions and will also require a constant internet connection. Konami has now updated the information surrounding the game, by releasing the official PC requirements to run the title.

According to the official requirements listed on the Steam Store page, Metal Gear Survive won't require much power hardware wise to play. The minimum requirements are only a Intel Core i5-4460, 4GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (2GB) graphics card, which isn't too bad considering some requirements for other games released these days.

For the 'recommended' requirements we are looking at an Intel Core i7-4790, 8GB of RAM and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 graphics card. Metal Gear Survive will be using DirectX 11 and will also require 20GB of free HDD space. I have provided screenshots of the official Steam Store requirements below for those interested.

I love Audio-Technica products, I still have a pair of ATH-AD700 headphones that I've used for nearly 10 years and they still sound amazing. On the topic of Audio-Technica, they have recently unveiled a limited-edition version of their popular ATH-M50x, the ATH-M50xBB Professional Monitor Headphones.

Featuring bold metallic blue earcups, black accents and distinctive A-T trimming branded on the earpads and headband, the ATH-M50xBB is designed to produce an unmatched experience for the most critical audio applications, including recording, live sound, broadcast, DJ and personal listening. This is largely thanks to its 45mm drivers that incorporate rare earth magnets and copper-clad aluminum wire voice coils that is enhanced by sound-isolating earcups that together produce exceptional clarity throughout an extended frequency range, with deep, accurate bass response.

In the this day and age where mobility is critical, A-T have included a collapsible design space-saving portability and convenient storage along with detachable cables. But don't worry, professional-grade earpad and headband material ensure you that these headphones will deliver comfort and durability that I can personally vouch for.

Battlefront II didn't hit its projected 10 million copies sold during the holiday quarter, and EA affirms that monetization will return...when it's ready.

According to Wall Street Journal reporter Sara Needleman, Electronic Arts didn't meet its internal sales quota for Battlefront II during the massively important holiday season. During its third quarter of fiscal year 2018, EA wanted to sell 10 million copies of the game, but missed that figure by 3 million units and instead only sold 7m copies. In the same interview EA's CFO Blake Jorgensen affirmed that Battlefront II would sell another 1-3 million units before the end of the current fiscal year on March 31, 2018. Jorgensen also said in-game purchases would return to Battlefront II once the developers at DICE had made a proper solution.

"We'll do it when we think it's ready," Jorgensen told the Wall Street Journal.