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CES 2018 - Gaming hardware maker ASUS has revealed a nifty new solution for bezels in multi-monitor setups.

Bezels can be a problem if you're trying to play, say, a racing game like Project Cars on three monitors. While most gamers probably get used to the interrupted visuals posed by the bezel frames on the outside of displays, wouldn't it be great if there was a way to remove them? ASUS has an answer: lens strips.

As Engadget notes, ASUS' new Bezel-free Kit uses light refraction to pull the image in an apparently-seamless way across the bezel points where the monitors meet. The lens strips need to be mounted at a 130-degree angle, or as ASUS puts it, "the angle determined through extensive testing to provide the best viewing experience."

CES 2018 - Westinghouse makes a splash in the affordable 4K UHDTV market with budget-friendly 43-inch sets.

4K UHDTV adoption is set to climb throughout 2018 and 2019 as more and more consumers buy into the tech for gaming, streaming, and other interactive mediums, but one of the biggest hurdles is price. Now companies like Westinghouse are making 4K TVs more accessible with a line of televisions that won't break your wallet. At CES 2018 in Las Vegas, Westinghouse showed off a 43-inch 4K UHDTV that costs just $350.

As you'd expect the set doesn't have HDR capabilities (too bad!), but it does come with smart-enabled capability with Android and Wi-Fi built right in--so it's a good solution for Google Cast and other options to cast from your wireless devices and such. Westinghouse's 43-inch 4K TV also has a 120Hz refresh rate, but don't expect outstanding visuals without HDR tech (it's a budget set after all).

CES 2018 - HyperX today showcased a new fleet of hardware at Las Vegas, which includes RAM, a new headset, a keyboard, and a new gaming mouse.

Kicking off HyperX's new lineup is the company's new Predator DDR4 RGB memory, which boasts the world's first synchronized chromatic RGB lighting with infrared tech. Pricing, memory config/modules and more will be revealed in Q2 2018, but HyperX is confident that the RAM will offer a "new way to experience RGB lighting on a PC."

Next up we have the HyperX Cloud Flight wireless headset, which touts a huge 30 hours of battery life--which the company says is the longest battery life available in the gaming market. The headset features 90-degree rotating ear cups and 50mm drivers that broadcast at 2.4GHz, and is compatible with gaming PCs and PlayStation 4 console hardware.

NetherRealm Studios, the developer of Injustice 2, has just dropped a new gameplay trailer showcasing their upcoming new character release, Enchantress.

From the above video we can see that Enchantress has quite a unique array of abilities, ranging from a number of counters and the ability to teleport around the stage. To balance the fact that she can kite her opponent with teleportation and range attacks it appears that she is quite slow with movement and attacks in general.

Enchantress will belong to the Fighter Pack 3 DLC that also includes Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles and Atom the size-changing superhero. Below you can find the full fighter pack 3 reveal trailer showing off all of the new characters.

For a game that was released back in November of 2011 it is incredible that mods are still being created for Skyrim. Modder 'Arcky' has released a new video showcasing 'Lordbound' an upcoming mod that is going to add a new region to the game and 30+ more hours of content.

A new region being added to Skyrim seems like a impossible task but from looking at the above video it can be seen that the environments that have been created do not disappoint at all. To go with this new region the mod will also include non-linear quests, new weapons and armor which is said to be totaling up to a massive 30+ hours of content to get through once finalized.

Unfortunately there is no set time for release for the mod as the team working on it is quite small and is taking their time to perfect it. Originally, Lordbound was due for release back in Q4 of 2017, but as the year moved closer to the end the team realized that they needed extra time to work out the kinks and further polish it before release.

Steam has reached a new milestone for overall player count with just over 18 million gamers being recorded to be using the platform, surpassing the last milestone of 17 million in just over a month.

The last milestone that Steam hit was back in November 2016 when the service reached over 17 million users at once, in just over a month that milestone has been broken and a new one has been set. The specific number found on the Steam stats website is a huge peak of 18,528,722 concurrent users, the game taking the largest chunk of those players was none other than Battlegrounds, coming in with just over 3 million chicken dinner hungry gamers.

According to the graphs, the game taking second place on the leader-board is Dota 2, pulling in 780,061 players. Following up second place is Counter-Strike: Global Offensive with 637,510 players, then a massive drop in player count occurs as Grand Theft Auto V comes in with fourth place with a peak of 168,575 players.

A French startup called Cosmo Connected has launched a smart light product that attaches magnetically to the back of the riders helmet.

The 'smart light' that has eight LED lights installed is designed to ensure the riders safety with a suite of safety features that include: automatic turn signals, a deceleration light which indicates drivers that the rider is slowing down and also a "fall detector" which alerts family of possible injuries.

The automatic turn signals will be activated by using the riders route on the SatNav app or through a optional remote control that can be secured to the handlebar of the bike. The app also has an array of sensors that will automatically alert family or friends in any cases of injuries that happen while traveling. Accompanied with this software is also the option of subscribing to a service that will automatically alert emergency services in times of injury as well.

SpaceX has already begun with what it does best, launching rockets and landing them back on the ground again. This time though, the space exploration company has not revealed what is on board the rocket or even the motive for the mission in the first place.

The first mission for 2018 has been launched into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The payload has been given the codename "Zuma" which is basically all that is known about the launch so far as the mission has come under a government initiative.

The 'Zuma' mission has been known about for quite some time and was originally meant to take place last year in November, but due to investigative testing the launch has to be postponed until now. Even though we do not know what was on board the Falcon 9 rocket it has been confirmed that the launch was a success, as the rocket has been landed safely and securely back on the ground.

The recent success of PlayerUnknown' Battlegrounds has inspired developers to pick up the popular new genre and attempt to implement it into different games. Hi-Rez studios, the developer of Paladins, is one of these companies and will be updating their game to receive a new battle royale mode in 2018.

Hi-Rez Studios announced the news on their YouTube channel, showing off the games new mode in cinematic form and gave a quick run down of what players will experience in the description "Enter a fantasy world of ancient technology in Paladins, a team-based shooter with strategy elements and deep character customization. Through a unique collectible card system, players can amplify and augment a character's core set of abilities to play exactly how they want to play."

Furthermore, Paladins has deemed this new mode 'Paladins: Battlegrounds' and has also provided a complete list of the key features that will be within the game:

Ethereum has been on a huge run for the last week or so after it was happily sitting at around $800, where it breached $1000 and then $1100 easily in the last few days.

It didn't stop going, culminating in a new all-time high price of $1310 before cooling d own a little and coming down just under $1200 to $1191 at the time of writing. Ethereum's market cap is a ballooned $115 billion, with $3 billion ETH being traded in the last 24 hours alone.

Ripple (XRP) sets a new all-time record price of $3.17

Rivet Networks (Killer) and Intel have teamed up on a new Wireless-AC card, the 1550. Its predecessor, the 1535, was a formidable card, but now Killer is working with Intel to produce their next generation Wireless AC products with Bluetooth 5.0.

The new card will feature 160MHz support, with theoretical speeds of 1.73Gbps. That is double the speed of most existing 2x2 Wireless AC cards.

It will also offer Wave 2.11ac features like MU-MIMO and Transmit Beamforming. The card is powered by Intel's latest technology, and should lead the way into the next generation of wireless-AC cards. The new card will be capable of DoubleShot Pro, which is where wireless and wired NICs work together to handle different bandwidth.

CES 2018 - Dell has unveiled its new Dell XPS 13, with the new 2-in-1 refresh packing the latest 8th-gen Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processor options, arriving in both 1080p and 4K display options.

Dell's new XPS 13 laptop strips both USB 3.0 ports by switching to USB-C, packing three USB-C ports while getting rid of the normal sized SD card reader and replacing it with a not-so-useful microSD card reader.

There have been some tweaks to the carbon fiber material used on the refreshed XPS 13, with Dell making the white palm rest with a woven texture that looks "kind of cheap in person" according to The Verge. The material reportedly gets super dirty, and while Dell knows about this, the company says that it can be easily cleaned.

CES 2018 - NVIDIA has just struck me directly in the heart, unveiling something that they're calling Big Format Gaming Displays (BFGDs) at CES 2018.

These beasts are gigantic 65-inch TVs that will be made with NVIDIA partners like Acer, ASUS, and HP as 4K HDR displays that are really, just gigantic G-Sync gaming displays. NVIDIA will be building Shield directly into the TV, meaning there are thousands of Android-powered apps that people will be able to use on the 4K 120Hz HDR TVs, with Google Assistant to boot.

These new TVs sound insane, but what's happening inside of them? Matt Wuebbling, head of GeForce marketing for NVIDIA explains: "PC gamers expect high performance and instant response times, but, until now, they've been largely limited to traditional desktop displays. BFGDs change that. With NVIDIA's latest technology built into these new displays, PC gamers can now experience their favorite titles in all the low-latency glory they deserve".

CES 2018 - Samsung has just unveiled their new Family Hub 3.0 refrigerator that features Bixby voice control, but the company hasn't explained what exactly you can do with voice controls on your fridge.

Samsung has explained that the Bixby-powered smart fridges will be capable of personalized responses to individual voices, where you can ask your fridge about your personal calendar and news updates, just for you... and maybe a drink or snack for you, too.

The new Family Hub 3.0 fridge integrates Samsung's own SmartThings ecosystem, something that lets owners control the lights inside of the fridge, make adjustments to temperature, or even monitor a security camera. Why would you need a speaker with Alexa or Google Assistant, when you can have it all in your fridge? Hell, there are built-in AKG speakers inside the fridge, promising great bass and mid-range... from your... fridge.

CES 2018 - Samsung is going all-out on the TV front with a few new 8K TVs to show off, with the company introducing the world's first modular TV, coming in at a huge 146 inches.

But it is the new 8K-capable Q9S that also has my attention, which isn't quite as big as LG's impressive 88-inch 4K OLED in terms of size, but with its 85-inch panel at 8K, I'd take the 7680x4320 resolution of 3840x2160.

Samsung's new flagship 8K TV uses a "proprietary algorithm" that will upscale lower-res video up to their Super Hi-Vision screen at 8K. There's also AI inside, which Samsung says will be able to "learn from itself" over time, which is scary and awesome, all mixed together.

CES 2018 - Now that Intel's relationship with AMD has reached this point, with the company unveiling their next-gen Core processors powered by Radeon RX Vega M graphics, and snagging Radeon Technologies Group boss Raja Koduri in the process, we can get on with the awesome product announcements.

Intel hasn't just announced a new Core processor range with Radeon graphics, it has also unveiled their latest NUC that is the smallest VR-capable PC, ever.

Intel's new NUC is codenamed Hades Canyon, which is a bit thicker and taller than its predecessor, Skull Canyon, released in 2016. The new Hades Canyon NUC comes in two different versions, with the flagship model rocking the Core i7-8809G processor and more powerful Radeon RX Vega M GH graphics, with the CPU clocking in at 3.1GHz base and 4.2GHz boost.

CES 2018 - Samsung has just unveiled one of the world's largest TVs, and the world's first modular TV with 'The Wall'. The Wall is a huge 146-inch TV from Samsung that uses microLED technology, sharing some of the benefits of OLED technology.

Each individual microscopic LED is capable of emitting its own light, meaning no backlight is needed, with the MicroLED technology providing gorgeous black and beautiful colors, something that you normally look toward OLED TVs for.

Samsung's new 146-inch TV is bezel-less, with the company describing it as "module-based". Samsung says this will let customers create a TV size for their needs, but hasn't said how this will work. This means you could have it at its maximum 146 inches, or small down to 100 inches if you wanted it in a specific room.

That nasty security hole that Intel is dealing with right now is coming into effect on the gaming side of things, in Epic Games' smash hit Fortnite.

Epic has said that Fortnite servers are heavily reliant on cloud services, with the latest CPU patches to affected Intel CPUs (here's a list) are causing all sorts of issues. Epic writes: "We wanted to provide a bit more context for the most recent login issues and service instability. All of our cloud services are affected by updates required to mitigate the Meltdown vulnerability. We heavily rely on cloud services to run our back-end and we may experience further service issues due to ongoing updates".

The developer also added: "Unexpected issues may occur with our services over the next week as the cloud services we use are updated. We are working with our cloud service providers to prevent further issues and will do everything we can to mitigate and resolve any issues that arise as quickly as possible. Thank you all for understanding. Follow our Twitter @FortniteGame for any future updates regarding this issue".

Unikrn has been leading the gaming and eSports scenes for a couple of years now, but the company released Unikoin Gold and ever since then it has been golden.

Unikoin Gold (UKG) has had its price driven up towards the moon starting this year, hovering in the mid-50c mark before it started smashing through $1. UKG breached $1 on January 4 before rising further on January 7 when UKG started hitting new crypto exchanges.

UKG hit $2 before it began dropping, as there was resistance before it could drive up any further, with some original investors most likely taking some profits at the $2 mark. But that didn't stop UKG, which scaled right up with nearly triple its trading volume happening in the last 36 hours alone.

CES 2018 - AMD has just hosted its big event to unveil its new Raven Ridge APU range of processors, with two new CPUs in the Ryzen 3 2200G and Ryzen 5 2400G.

Starting with the new Ryzen 3 2200G, which AMD says offers "best-in-class" eSports game performance, including Battlefield One (it's Battlefield 1, AMD... what the hell is going on here), Overwatch (on low), Rocket League, Elder Scrolls: Skyrim (is an eSports game?) and Dota 2 (running on Vulkan). This is compared against Intel's Core i3-8100 processor.

Next up we have the faster Ryzen 5 2400G, which is a little faster but still doesn't hit 60FPS average in some of the bigger games on the market. Battlefield 1 at 52FPS average, and Overwatch at 49FPS on Medium isn't bad, but it can't even handle Rocket League at 49FPS.