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I'm waiting with bated breath for next-gen graphics cards and their associated technologies, with one of the cornerstones of 2018's graphics cards to be GDDR6 memory.

Micron has announced today they've finalized design and internal qualification of their upcoming 12Gbps and 14Gbps GDDR6 chips, meaning they are now laser-focused on mass production of this memory while developing even faster GDDR6 that should reach the peaks of 16Gbps.

GDDR5X is the best NVIDIA uses on the consumer GeForce side of things, with speeds of up to 11Gbps offered by the GTX 1080 Ti and TITAN Xp, while they can be overclocked to 12Gbps or more depending on the card, voltages, and cooling. GDDR6 will start off at 12Gbps, ride into 14Gbps, and beyond.

Crytek will pay you in digital cryptocurrency to play specific games...just not in Bitcoin or Ethereum.

While there's still reports Crytek hasn't paid its employees for work owed, the games-maker will apparently pay gamers in its new "Crycash" cryptocurrency to play Warface, it's free-to-play shooter. In order to make its own cryptocurrency, Crytek co-founder Faruk Yerli teamed up with Wachtang Budagaschwili, who sits as CEO of the startup.

As per info gleaned from Yerli, Polygon explains that as gamers play Warface and achieve certain things, they'll get Crycash. This will essentially be treated as a reverse digital currency--instead of buying, you're getting something in return for your time and effort. It's kind of like a reverse microtransaction of sorts. The cryptocurrency will be put in a digital wallet, and can potentially be traded and exchanged for Bitcoin and Ethereum (not sure about this one).

On the heels of selling over 20 million copies to date, the last-man-standing shooter won't stop smashing barriers.

Today PUBG finally exited early access and embraced the harsh realities of a bona-fide release on PC (the Xbox port is still in early access and based on the performance issues it's likely to stay there for quite some time). While it's quite impressive that PUBG Corp was able to keep their promise to launch the game in 2017 alone, the game's official launch is accompanied by yet another milestone: the game has reached 30 million players worldwide across all platforms.

With sales numbers like these as well as this strong playerbase, it's only a matter of time before big publishers step into the arena. Epic Games jumped in with Fortnite, and rumor has it Valve is jumping in with a battle royale gametype for CS:GO, but nothing's been confirmed just yet. We can only imagine how much cash Bluehole will make from PUBG's in-game cosmetic microtransactions, which were planned to go live in the final release.

Following the big fiasco around Middle-earth: Shadow of War and the most recent Battlefront II, gamers have asked the powers that be to regulate lootbox "gambling," which is something that other countries have long done. While the movement has yet to gain major traction insofar as legislation, Apple is cracking down in its own way.

According to the latest Apple App Store review guidelines, games and apps published on the storefront that contain lootboxes must disclose the odds of everything that can pop in said in-app purchase.

"Apps offering loot boxes or other mechanisms that provide randomized virtual items for purchase must disclose the odds of receiving each type of item to customers prior to purchase," reads part of the long review guidelines.

Apple being one of the two leading companies in smartphone manufacturing has come forward and admitted to slowing down previous generations of iPhones due to battery instability. Instead of having these iPhones shut down periodically, Apple installed software that reduced the performance of the phones which brought the power to a stable level.

Primate Labs conducted a study on Apple products such as the iPhone 6, iPhone 6s and iPhone 6 SE. Primate Labs benchmarked the phones through software they developed that tested the speed of the iPhone's processor, they found that as the iPhones aged over time the performance of each of them would become slower.

Apple had admitted to this fault by coming forth and saying that they implemented software on the phones to "prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down during these conditions." The condition Apples phones are being put in is due to the lithium-ion batteries used by each of the phones, as the batteries age over time they begin to degrade due to the accumulation of charging cycles, thus resulting in a difficulty with peak current draws.

A new Apple store is opening up in Federation Square in Melbourne, Australia, the location of the store is in a public place and in the heart of the city. According to The Federation Square website the store is scheduled for an opening in 2020 and will be the most significant store in the Southern Hemisphere.

The new store will be 500 square meters of new public space and will connect Federation Square with the Yarra River and Birrarung Marr. Based on the above renderings Apple will be replacing the old Yarra building with the new one, which will have glass windows surrounding it allowing for a sight for customers over the Yarra River.

Angela Ahrendts, the retail chief at Apple has told The Australian that the store will be a "bespoke design concept" and have "extensive landscaping."

Waymo is the mists of striking a insurance bargain with Trov, a insurance start-up concentrating on protecting riders using the upcoming self driving hailing service. Trov will be protecting riders by covering health expenses that result from rides and or any possesions lost throughout the transition of the trip.

Trovs insurance will invisible to riders using the service as the deal Waymo has struck with the insurance company is a bundled package within the overall cost of the service making Trov operate behind the scenes out of sight.

This is a massive step towards the normalization of self-driving cars being used throughout society, many people will feel a lot more safer knowing that they are covered completely if there happens to be a collision, thus resulting in a overall increase of use for the service.

COLORFUL has just announced two new graphics cards in collaboration with professional eSports team RNG, with the first of the two being a GTX 1060 while a higher-end GTX 1080 Ti is offered.

COLORFUL's new iGame GTX 1060 RNG Edition rocks an overlocked GP106-400 GPU with 1620/1847MHz on base/boost, respectively. It has 6GB of GDDR5 RAM at 8Gbps, untouched from its stock frequency.

The higher-end iGAME GTX 1080 Ti RNG Edition rocks an overclocked GP102-350 GPU with base and boost clocks of 1620MHz and 1733MHz, respectively. It rocks the usual 11GB of GDDR5X and is clocked at its stock 11Gbps frequency. Both cards rock COLORFUL's impressive SWORIZER cooler that packs COLORFUL's awesome iGame Status Monitor LCD.

Samsung has announced the smallest 8-gigabit DDR4 RAM chips ever made, with its fresh second-gen 10nm manufacturing technology powering the new chips.

These new DDR4 chips are 15% more power efficient, and are around 10% faster than the previous-generation that was launched only 20 months ago now. Productivity is up 30% on the new DDR4 RAM, meaning Samsung can make more chips, with yields improved above the last-gen DDR4.

Now that Samsung has got its second-gen 10nm tech working beautifully, the South Korean everything giant is working on "accelerating its plans for much faster introductions of next-generation DRAM chips and systems, including DDR5, HBM3, LPDDR5 and GDDR6, for use in enterprise servers, mobile devices, supercomputers, HPC systems and high-speed graphics cards".

I didn't think I'd ever have to type this but, Paris dominatrix 'Theodora' has been pimping out her clients to mine cryptocurrency in something she calls a "Crypto Slave Farm". Her slaves, will deposit cryptocurrency into a digital wallet with her clients turning into a "human ATM".

MarketWatch has the story, where they report: "... clients - many of whom never meet her in person - derive sexual pleasure from giving her gifts and money. Exchanges of money can range from several dollars in "tributes," as they are called, to gifts of more than six figures. Some clients even become a "human ATM," meaning they give her complete control over a bank account".

Theodora explains: "It's a form of psychological domination where money is the tool for the transfer of power. It's quite common for powerful men like politicians or CEOs to look for a form of sexual release by submitting to a woman - they are in control all the time during the day - and giving up control financially is a more tangible instrument of power for them".

With the release of Battlegrounds v1.0 right around the corner, NVIDIA is preparing GeForce owners with their new Game Ready 388.71 WHQL drivers that provide the "optimal gaming experience" for PUBG.

NVIDIA says they spent "hundreds of hours of work from over half a dozen teams across three continents" to get it done, and here we are. You'll only need a GeForce GTX 1060 to reach 70FPS average at 1080p, while at 2560x1440 you'll need the beefier GeForce GTX 1070 to hit 72FPS average. For those at 4K, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti hits 60FPS or higher in PUBG with the new Game Ready 388.71 drivers.

If you want to run Battlegrounds on Ultra settings, you'll need the GTX 1070 for 1080p, GTX 1080 for 1440p, and an overclocked custom GTX 1080 Ti for 4K.

G.SKILL today announced the world's fastest DDR4 SO-DIMM memory with 4000MHz speeds.

The new high-performance Ripjaws DDR4 memory kits run at 4000MHz frequencies with CL18-18-18-38 timings, offering speed and ultra-low latencies for powerful builds. The memory comes in 32GB (4x8GB) kits with voltages of 1.35V

"Featuring super high frequency and ultra-low CAS Latency, the Ripjaws DDR4-4000MHz CL18 32GB (4x8GB) kit is the fastest SO-DIMM memory solution for building an extreme performance mini-PC with the latest Intel Skylake-X CPU. The screen below shows an incredible 101106 MB/s bandwidth for read, using the AIDA64 benchmark," reads a press release sent out by G.SKILL.

The Witcher 3 is absolutely one of the best games ever made, and while the game still plays best on PC, CD Projekt RED is aiming to even out the playing field a bit with the game's new Xbox One X enhanced update.

Microsoft's new Xbox One X console is quite beastly by today's console standards with its highly optimized and scaled GPU and CPU specs, but the hardware still doesn't hold a candle to today's PC gaming tech. Then again it doesn't have to; while both platforms often share the same games they're also quite different. With the arrival of the Xbox One X a number of studios and publishers have released enhancement patches that allow their games to leverage the platform, and after saying it had no plans to release such a patch, CD Projekt RED has indeed launched an update for The Witcher 3.

The Witcher 3's Xbox One X patch, which is out now, has two modes: 4K Mode and Performance Mode. In the 4K Mode the game will run in "4K resolution" (probably not native) at 30FPS and also has enhanced features like boosted shadows, ambient occlusion, texture filtering, and 4K textures.

If Denuvo Anti-Tamper's servers go down, you may not be able to play games you rightfully own that use the DRM tech.

According to recent reports, an interruption in Denuvo's DRM authentication servers cut off access to a number of games in Warner Bros. Interactive's catalog including older games like Batman: Arkham Knight and Mad Max, but also newer games like Middle-earth: Shadow of War. Apparently PC gamers were cut off from playing these titles until Denuvo's servers were brought back online, which they are at the time of writing.

PC gamers were forced to use specific means to circumvent the interruption, but the event poses an interesting question on game ownership and consumer rights in general. If Denuvo somehow goes out of business...what becomes of the games it protects?

After months of teasing, Magic Leap finally reveals its mysterious new AR headset: the Lightwear.

The Lightwear headset isn't exactly wireless: it works in conjunction with a wired lightbox that projects a photonic field that appears over the wearer's field of vision, allowing for a number of different unique activities including gaming, shopping, entertainment, and possibly even digital work. Like the Hololens and much of AR and VR tech, the ball is really in developers' collective courts, and how well the tech is utilized depends on the software and innovation specific content-makers are able to glean.

Magic Leap's AR headset is more like a pair of goggles that actually houses a powerful miniature PC that's akin to a MacBook Pro or an Alienware PC, complete with a GPU and CPU combo. The (likely expensive) tech also uses spatial awareness for audio and visuals, meaning you can walk and the projections will follow your steps. Wearers can project screens onto walls as well as objects and animated characters right before their eyes, turning the surfaces of the real-world into a virtual playground of sorts.

Anyone that listens to music online knows there is already a variety of choices for a streaming websites or apps that make available a very large percentage of what most people want to listen to. Services such as Google Play Music or YouTube Music are some of choices but now Google is set to release their third streaming service called 'YouTube Remix.'

Reported by Bloomberg, YouTube has signed a deal with two new record labels; Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. This deal will allow for YouTube to host songs from each of the labels in hopes to bring more content to the streaming service and sway more people to turn towards YouTube instead of Spotify or Pandora.

Since YouTube has been battling with copyright laws with music for quite some time now, the launch of this new service YouTube Remix and the label deal now in effect YouTube will no doubt convert this new service into a paid subscription to then not only strengthen the already made relationships with labels but also to attract new ones.

Google is set out to rid the annoying ads from its web service, upgrading Google Chrome with a new built-in ad blocker which will be designed to remove any annoying ads that ruin Chrome's web experience.

This new built-in ad blocker will not be blocking all ads across the internet but will instead mainly concentrate on the ones that are super-annoying which is any that are influencing the users experience. What is good to know though is that if the website has a intrusive amount of ads the new ad blocker will instead of blocking just a few, it will remove all ads on the site even if the other ones meet the required standard.

Google assures owners of websites that it has been working very closely with publishers to ensure that the new feature is agreed upon before going live. Google also hopes that since Chrome will have it's own built-in ad blocker that people will stop using third-party software to block ads.

Lyft has partnered up with Aira, an assistive community that is dedicated to making those who have impaired vision lives much easier to manage. Lyft has decided to work with this company to make create a much easier way for those that have impaired vision to use the Lyft service and the answer is augmented reality.

Aira agents will now be able to call Lyfts for Aira users, the Aira agents will be able to convey essential information such as the location of the vehicle, the drivers name, pick-up spot, fare cost and estimated time of arrival.

The agents will also stay connected to the passenger when traveling in Lyft to ensure a safe means of transportation to the desired location, to top this off the agents take it one step further and even give directions for the last 50 feet of the walk, making sure clients have arrived to where they needed to go.

At Fun & Serious Game Festival in Bibaio, Gamereactor caught up with Andreas Ojerfors senior game designer and Tommy Tordsson Bjork narrative designer and asked them some question about their game.

The Nintendo Switch version of Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus has been confirmed by Bethesda for early 2018 and was commented on by Ojerfors, he said "That's a collaboration with a different studio that we're working together with," but later confirms that it is Panic Button that will be porting the game over "It's the same as the Doom studio" and "the same people."

Ojerfors continued and complimented the studios efforts "they're experts at the Switch an now they're experts with the [id Tech 6] engine so we work with them, and the Doom version turned out to be really kick-ass on the Switch so I think Wolfenstein will be the same,"

Bandai has released a new trailer for the upcoming Dragon Ball FighterZ, the trailer gives a long look at what is to be expected throughout the next game as well as a very good look at some new characters from the more recent release of Dragon Ball Super. Also, to go with the new trailer release is the details of a open beta the game will be featuring next month.

In the trailer we can see a selection of new characters such as a Hit, Goku Black and Beerus which will of course all be playable. In addition to new characters what else is seen in the trailer is old characters and their respective scenes with certain villains throughout the anime. An example of this is Gohan versing Cell or Goku turning Super Saiyan for the first time, these scenes will be in-game and are called Dramatic Scenes, Bandai Namco said "when certain team character combinations are chosen or specific finishing moves are performed" these scenes will trigger.

It is assumed that you will require a Xbox Gold or a PS Plus subscription to participate in the open beta and will begin on January 14th at 12 AM PT / 3 AM ET / 9 AM CET and will run until the same times on the 16th of January.