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Today ENERMAX have launched the RevoBron power supply range. This 80PLUS bronze PSU range is packed with features such as DFR self-cleaning technology and Coolergenie 2-in-1 fan controller that allow the RevoBron to power gaming systems, multimedia systems and home theater systems.

The RevoBron is equipped with a Twister Bearing fan which produces extremely quiet cooling. Complimented with ENERMAX's DFR self-cleaning technology, this allows for the PSU fan to perform a self-cleaning cycle for 10 seconds upon startup, eliminating accumulated dust and increasing the life of your PSU.

Coolergenie is an intelligent 2-in-1 fan controller that features 2 useful functions, semi-fanless mode and fan-delay. Semi-fanless mode allows users to adjust fanless settings for system fans while fan-delay can keep your system fans active for up to 60 seconds after you have turned your PC off, removing any residual heat.

The world thinks that Samsung will be the first with a popular foldable smartphone, but it looks like that award will be going to Chinese electronics giant ZTE.

ZTE's upcoming codename Axon Multy smartphone could launch on October 17 as the Axon M, with dual 1080p displays that fold out into a huge 6.8-inch 1920 x 2160 display. When folded, it looks like most regular smartphones, so it'll blend in easily without looking out of this world.

ZTE's purported Axom M could really change things in the smartphone world if it's done right, as they would beat Samsung to the foldable smartphone punch. I've been wanting a larger foldable smartphone, because I'm always doing so much at once... so a single screen for quick use and a foldable screen for multi-tasking would be perfect.

The last time we heard about BIOSTAR's upcoming RACING Z370 GT7 motherboard it was from our friends over at VideoCardz, but now we have an exclusive look at the GT6 variant before it becomes available to the public.

BIOSTAR's new RACING Z370 GT6 motherboard looks awesome, with a slick black and gold style that is joined by an array of RGB LEDs that you can customize for the perfect gaming PC.

BIOSTAR did have only 4 nodes on their previous RGB utility, but now they have 10, along with two RGB 5050 headsers on the motherboard for additional RGB LED strips.

AMD is now making custom AI processors for Tesla, and now it seems NVIDIA is losing another piece of the electric car makers' pie, with Intel taking over the infotainment systems according to sources of Bloomberg.

What makes this news even more interesting is that Tesla, NVIDIA, and Intel have declined to comment. Tesla shipped around 76,000 vehicles in the last financial year, so while it's not a carmaker that ships millions of vehicles, it does get a lot of press because of the technology inside of the cars.

Tesla's Autopilot 2 system is still powered by NVIDIA designs, but it seems like it's one of the last parts of Team Green inside of Tesla cars with AMD and Intel both making big moves with the electric car giant.

Fortnite has been enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of gamers, but now Epic Games has launched the next part of the game: their new Battle Royale mode.

Fortnite Battle Royale features the same look and style of the core game, with a Battle Bus dumping gamers across the map, PUBG style. The game is out right now on PC, Xbox One, and PS4 with Epic Games noting over 1 million gamers were playing Fortnite Battle Royale on day one.

There has been some pretty major drama surrounding the release of Fortnite Battle Royale and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' developer Bluehole. Bluehole executive Chang Han Kim explained that Bluehole were "concerned" over the marketing of Fortnite Battle Royale.

Forza Motorsport 7 is one of the largest downloads of any game ever, with the base install of the game weighing in at 45GB, while the day one patch comes in at a hefty 50GB. A total of 95GB, which is insane.

But with what seems like a common occurrence in the gaming world these days, there were issues with some gamers' pre-loading of Forza 7. Some people are reporting that pre-loading gets interrupted, forcing gamers to re-download the entire 95GB of data.

Gears of War 4 and Forza Horizon 3 experiencing similar pre-load issues, with all three games having the Windows Store in common. I'm not saying it's the Windows Store, but it's probably the Windows Store. 95GB of re-downloading is nearly impossible for some gamers. Even on a good connection that's a day of downloading, while those on slower DSL and cable connections might take entire days. Not everyone has 500Mbps+ fiber.

AMD has just released its new Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.9.3 drivers, something that includes multi-GPU support for Total War: WARHAMMER II, and more.

The new 17.9.3 drivers also include support for Forza Motorsport 7, as well as some bug fixes that fix issues like bad multi-GPU scaling in F1 2017 on Radeon RX 580 series graphics cards. ReLive pushing GPU clocks higher on a second RX Vega graphics card in multi-GPU configurations on certain AMD Ryzen systems has also been fixed.

Fixed issues:

Update: I've reached out to GIGABYTE/AORUS which have confirmed with TweakTown that they are indeed making custom Radeon RX Vega graphics cards, there's just "no news on the horizon" yet.

If you've been waiting on GIGABYTE or MSI's custom Radeon RX Vega graphics cards, you won't have to wait any longer - or wait at all, because the companies aren't working on them according to fresh rumors.

AMD has been reportedly having troubles getting Vega GPU production in large numbers, which is something I exclusively reported earlier this year when I said AMD would have less than 16,000 available post-launch. Here we are, post-launch, with no official sales numbers to go by.

Final Fantasy XV has turned into a live game thanks to its massive volume of updates, and the lead development team is keen on adding more story-based content. But not for free.

Square Enix's Final Fantasy XV took a long, long time to make, but it doesn't exactly feel complete. Despite its incredible open world and engaging combat, here are still plot holes and things missing from the game. Game director Hajime Tabata wants to fix that. Mr. Tabata confirmed FFXV's content updates would continue well in 2018, even after the PC version launches. But story-based content takes a lot of effort so the team will have to sell it. And this means the game could get a second season pass.

Mr. Tabata recently told Japanese games magazine Famitsu that the Final Fantasy XV team will devise a new roadmap for the new content. To make money from this content, Mr. Tabata says the team is mulling over a second season pass, but this probably won't go over very well with fans (traditionally games with more than one season pass see considerable backlash, just like Evolve). The director plans to reveal this timeline sometime in November. Although the team is still working on Episode Ignis, the final story-based release in the current season pass, the team will start chipping away at the new post-release content after Episode Ignis is launched in December.

The global video games market will exceed $130 billion in revenues by 2021, analyst firm Juniper Research forecasts.

The billion dollar video games industry is poised to pull in $132 billion by 2021, according to a new report by Juniper Research. Unsurprisingly, the firm forecasts that the mobile gaming segment will earn the lion's share of these revenues thanks to the lucrative free-to-play gaming market, which typically monetizes gamers in the form of in-game purchases and lootboxes. According to IHS Markit analyst Piers Harding-Rolls, the console and PC gaming segment has made a smaller impact on total yearly earnings compared to mobile.

For the immediate future, analyst firms like SuperData predict the games industry will break $100 billion in revenues in 2017. The global interactive media market, which includes video games software, esports, streaming monetization, and virtual reality, is expected to peak at $104.6 billion in 2017, the firm says.

Nintendo's new SNES Classic Edition uses the same cheap (well cheaper) internal components as last year's massively hyped NES Classic Edition, but costs 33% more.

The SNES Classic Edition costs $80 compared to its predecessor's $50, but you won't be getting any new snazzy or upgraded hardware with your purchase (you do get an extra controller and a great library of games though). In fact, the SNES Mini has the exact same budget internal guts as its 8-bit sibling, right down to the Allwinner quad-core R16 SoC and 256MB of SK Hynix DDR3 RAM--even the board is 100% the same.

This essentially means that the SNES Mini's 21-game library will likely be expandable via hacks and other such ROM trickery just like the NES Mini.

The free PS Plus games for October prove Sony has made good on its promise to make the service more appealing.

The PlayStation Plus lineup for August, September, and now October have all included major AAA games, illustrating that Sony is serious about providing more value to subscribers. Sony, who's subscription services are a major boon for consistent revenues for its Games and Network Services Segment, is keen on increasing the number of PS Plus subscribers--as of May 2017 only 37% of active PS4 users subscribed to the $59.99 a year service. One of the best ways to attract gamers is to offer free games, but locking online multiplayer behind the service doesn't hurt either.

For PS4 owners, October's PS Plus lineup is another great month of titles. The offering includes the excellent Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain alongside the Amnesia collection that includes both horror classics. Combined with the subsequent months, Sony has delivered consistent mainline content with the service, but it took almost a year since PS Plus' $59.99 price hike to get to this point.

Volition, the developer of Saint's Row and the new Agents of Mayhem, has been faced with layoffs, sources familiar with the matter tell Kotaku's Jason Schreier.

Thirty employees have been fired from Volition's 200-person team, including general manager Dan Cermak who has been with the studio since 2003, the sources say. This effectively means Volition has lost 15% of its employees. The reason behind the layoffs is unknown, but it's possible the culprit is the studio's recent Agents of Mayhem game not hitting internal sales targets set forth by the publisher Deep Silver. The game currently has middling review scores and lukewarm reception from fans on Metacritic. To contrast, Saints Row IV, the last big game Volition made, sold over 1 million copies in its first week of availability.

Volition is currently owned by Deep Silver parent company Koch Media, who bought the company from THQ's asset auction in 2013 for $22.3 million. The publisher, nor the developer, have confirmed the veracity of this report, however three separate sources corroborated the layoffs to Kotaku.

Ubisoft is putting in an interactive educational game mode into Assassin's Creed: Origins, and I'm incredibly excited.

Assassin's Creed games teach gamers about history. These games are more than games--they blend real history with fiction and spark our imaginations and interests into periods we didn't know much about. And as you learn more about history, the more you get out of the games. But Ubisoft is going far and away above the call of duty by adding in a new special educational app to Assassin's Creed: Origins that will teach you tons about ancient Egypt as you explore, uncover, and engage with an interactive world of 49 BC.

The new mode is called Assassin's Creed: Origins Discovery Tour, and will be free for owners of the game. The mode essentially turns off combat to let you explore one of the most magical periods in history when Greeks and Egyptians mingled societies in a flourishing, golden age of innovation. You'll learn neat little factoids as you explore and drink in ancient relics like Khufu's Horizon, the Bent Pyramid, and (my favorite) the Pharos of Alexandria. In short: this mode is a dream come true for a history buff like myself.

Valve has removed 173 games from Steam, with majority of them developed by Silicon Echo Studios. Why were these games removed you ask? Silicon Echo Studios has been caught 'asset flipping' games, meaning titles have been developed using pre-made assets for Unity game engine. Asset flipping allows developers to create and release games fairly quickly and at little cost for the developer, that wasn't Valve's major issue however.

As you can imagine, of the 173 games that were removed a majority of them were cheap, or free games sold in bundles. The problem is that people could buy these games extremely cheap and use them to collect Steam Trading Cards and resell them on the Steam Market place to generate a profit. This also generates profits for the developer, Silicon Echo Studios in this instance, as they take a cut of the card sales.

Polygon have released a statement in which Valve confirmed that all of the company's games have been removed, and also "ended our business relationship with them."

If you're unfamiliar with Valve's True Sight series, True Sight is a documentary series that takes you behind the scenes of professional Dota 2 tournaments, focusing on the two teams that have made it to the grand final and allows the public to experience the highs, lows and pressure of playing professional Dota. In this episode, True Sight provides exclusive footage of Team Liquid and Newbee as they experience The 2017 International Grand Final.

The winner takes home the prestigious Aegis of Champion trophy and the largest prize in esports history, $10,900,000. Newbee were dominate during their upper bracket run, not losing a series. Team Liquid were just impressive with many people saying Team Liquid played their grand final in the semi-final vs LFY, oh how they were wrong. Team Liquid lifted their game when it counted most to claim a 3-0 series win over Newbee.

True Sight allows the public to experience the emotional rollercoaster of the TI7 grand final from each team's perspective. Watch as Newbee and Team Liquid discuss tactics during their drafting phase, team bonding and even the occasional joke in this 29 minute documentary.

Phanteks have introduced their newest addition to the Eclipse series, the P300. The P300 is the perfect choice for quality, budget friendly builds. Featuring a full-metal exterior and tempered glass side panel, the P300 is the definition of quality without compromising style.

The P300 includes a new power supply shroud that houses not only the PSU, but also 3.5" drives and cabling. This creates a clean and appealing interior to compliment its sleek exterior. The P300 is equipped with some pleasant features including easy cable management tools, AIO watercooling support, dustproof interior, full length GPU support and RGB lighting.

Available now, the Phanteks Eclipse P300 case is priced at $59.99.

Corsair have announced their latest addition to their memory range, the Corsair VENGEANCE RGB White DDR4 RAM. Featuring a new, sleek heat spreader and intense RGB LEDs, the VENGENANCE RGB White is everything Corsair stand for, extreme performance and aesthetically pleasing.

Corsair's new white headspreader actively cool each individual memory module, this allows for extreme performance even when under stress from overclocking. Featuring a custom performance PCB for better signaling and specially designed lighting circuitry, the VENGENANCE RGB White also features XMP 2.0 support to ensure easy configuration of your memory.

Compatible with a range of software including CORSAIR LINK, GIGABYTE RGB Fusion, MSI Mystic Light and ASUS Aura Sync lighting software, this allows users to have full control over their RGB LEDs without the use of any addition cables or connectors.

After lots of misinformation and a big controversy, Warner Bros is now buckling to community pressure and will offer the Forthog DLC, which commemorates a deceased developer at Monolith games, for free.

The saga of Shadow of War's Forthog Orc-Slayer DLC is a contentious one. A bit ago Monolith Productions developer Michael Forgey passed away. WB Games and Monolith decided to do something special by immortalizing his memory as a character and sell the DLC for $4.99. Most of the proceeds would go to Forgey's mourning family in the form of a donation. However, users quickly found WB wouldn't give all the DLC proceeds to Forgey's family, and the PR department apparently sent out misinformation that only purchases in the US would count--and only those in certain states with certain laws (but now WB says they only promoted the promo in the US because of international laws, and always planned to donate proceeds to Forgey's family).

This inspired lots of pushback. Gamers accused WB Games of making a quick buck off of a deceased dev--a shameless move that dragged the publisher's, and Monolith Productions', reputations through the mud. Both companies were already damaged by Shadow of War's hotly debated lootboxes. Something needed to be done, and WB has now made the call to make the Forgoth DLC free and give a single one-off donation to Forgey's family. In the interest of transparency and to explain its actions, WB outlined why they opted for the DLC path in the first place. The WB Games rep says there was no ill-will conceived here and the DLC was made to immortalize their fallen comrade and help his surviving widow and children.

EA is preparing the next series in the Need for Speed franchise, offering up the biggest open world in the series yet. The developer has released a new trailer: 'Welcome to Fortune Valley', which you can check out below.

Need for Speed Payback features older derelict cars in its open world, where you can take the shell and parts to make your own custom car to take on your opponents with. A nice change from the usual drive-the-hell out of your car and beat-everyone-everywhere gameplay in other open world driving games.

EA has built "the biggest open world Need for Speed has ever seen", but in a market filled with similar games and nothing that will grip players in the way something like Battlegrounds has, will Need for Speed Payback be worth the long haul? We'll find out on November 10 when it launches for the PC, Xbox One, and PS4.