Gaming console news headlines are being dominated by Microsoft's upcoming Project Scorpio console, but that doesn't mean that Sony isn't getting some love - with news that The Surge has gone gold, and that it'll run at higher framerates and resolutions on the PS4 Pro.

The Surge will have PS4 Pro enhancements that let gamers choose between dynamic 4K 30FPS, or performance mode with 1080p 60FPS, something that will arrive with a launch day update. HDR abilities will be added post-launch in a follow-up patch. On the normal PS4, The Surge will run at 1080p, while the Xbox One will handle the game at 900p.

What is The Surge? The developer explains: "The Surge is a game with an unusually honest approach to its design. Although it unapologetically uses Dark Souls as its primary source of inspiration, The Surge is filled with an array of new features that build upon an impressive foundation. If it can keep the impressive atmosphere, brutal combat and intriguing inventory manageable, The Surge might make an admiral series in its own right".

EA affirms that Star Wars: Battlefront 2 will deliver everything fans have been asking for since the original game, but what about server browsers on PC?

Battlefront 2 looks to be larger than life--certainly larger than its predecessor--with a ton of promises, including a new class system, an overhauled progression system, tons of new maps across three eras, a multitude of heroes that've all been balanced properly, 20 vs 20 ground-based battles, offline co-op/split-screen, galactic interstellar combat, and a fully-fledged singleplayer campaign. Now we can confirm that Battlefront 2 will feature dedicated servers...but don't hold out much hope on a server browser on PC.

After being asked if Battlefront 2 would be P2P-based without dedicated servers and server browsers on PC, DICE's Dennis Brannvall confirmed dedicated servers are in. "We have dedicated servers [in Battlefront 2], like always," Brannvall said.

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 will have a fully fleshed-out singleplayer campaign that takes players to the Dark Side of the Force, showing what the fall of the Galactic Empire was like for Imperial soldiers.

EA affirms that Battlefront 2's campaign story will be everything fans have wanted. The story appears to be a dynamic interweaving tale that spans the 30 years from Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, and centers around Iden Versio, an Imperial Commander who witnessed the fall of the Empire and helped rebuild the pieces to make The First Order.

The story itself was made by EA's Motive studio, and Spec Ops: The Line's Walt Williams as well as ex-IGN editor Mitch Dyer have penned the plot. EA promises Battlefront 2's story will be "emotionally gripping" and feature "revenge, betrayal, and redemption."

Microsoft has tailor-made the entirety of its new 4K ready Project Scorpio console, from its highly customized hardware components like the Scorpio Engine silicon, to the software pipeline and toolsets that enable efficient game performance scaling--everything has been custom-fit in the best way possible. All the resources are synergized, and nothing is wasted--not even power. Now the company reveals how its achieved this efficiency, and it all stems from the foundation of all systems: the motherboard.

Project Scorpio's tight power efficiency is achieved thanks to the Hovis Method, a digital power delivery system infused onto the console's motherboard that fine-tunes each console's voltage. Every single chip is a little bit different, and Microsoft knows that no two Project Scorpio SoCs will be exactly the same; different chips and mass-produced parts can result in different power draws across the board, which can disrupt the system's delicate balance. The Hovis Method was employed to custom-tune each system's power settings so that there's no power wasted, and no extra heat (this gives us a very big clue that Project Scorpio will indeed be quite small).

"To maximize performance and minimize power consumption, Project Scorpio uses the Hovis Method, a cutting edge digital power delivery system that custom tunes each console's voltage," Microsoft says.

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HTC unveiled their latest smartphones earlier this year, the U Play and U Ultra, but they are yet to unveil a worthy successor to the HTC 10. Although it has been rumored that the device will be named the HTC 11, trustworthy leaker Evan Blass confirmed that HTC chose a rather simple name for their upcoming device - HTC U.

The famous leaker unveiled the specs of the device last month, and now, he has posted the first image of the upcoming flagship.

The image reveals what looks to be glass on both front and the back of the phone. It is also apparent that the phone will have significant bezels, unlike LG's and Samsung's recently unveiled flagships. The fingerprint sensor will remain on the front of the phone, and in case there were some doubts - there is no dual camera.

I've just read the technical deep dive article that the amazing writers at Eurogamer tackled on Project Scorpio, and noticed some very interesting news: AMD's next-gen Vega GPU architecture is making an appearance in Project Scorpio.

Project Scorpio rocks a mostly Polaris-based GPU, with technical features from the Polaris GPU architecture making up most of the soul of the new Xbox, but there are features like delta color compression that boosts bandwidth for 4K rendering and 4K textures. Microsoft took some of the improvements that AMD made in the Polaris architecture in Project Scorpio.

According to Andrew Goossen, Technical Fellow, Graphics told Eurogamer that performance optimizations from the next-gen Vega GPU architecture made it into the Scorpio Engine's design.

AMD is launching their Radeon RX 580 graphics card soon, alongside the RX 570/560/550, with the entire RX 500 series being a rebranded and tweaked RX 400 series. The flagship Radeon RX 580 has already been overclocked, hitting 1.5GHz on the GPU under water.

The overclocked RX 580 in question is from XFX, with it rocking a single 8-pin PCIe connector and stock GPU clocks of 1360MHz. This means the results from this card should line up with the RX 480 clocked at the same GPU speeds, but the thing that concerns me the most is that the XFX Radeon RX 580 needed to be cooled with water cooling to hit 1.5GHz?

I can tell you that I'm hitting that on stock cooling without much tweaking. My results will be arriving very soon! :)

'Star Wars' fans looking to get their next fix following the reveal of 'The Last Jedi' teaser trailer can look no further than the newly released trailer for the fourth season of the animated hit 'Rebels', which Director Dave Filoni has revealed will be the show's last.

Over the last three seasons, the show has gone to critical and fan acclaim, bringing back beloved heroes and villains such as Darth Vader, Grand Admiral Thrawn, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Maul, and has ascended it's animated origins and taken on some dark themes. The final season is promising to end the series with a bang, and hints at some wider ramifications for the film series. During a panel at 'Star Wars' Celebration, Filoni says that "Star Wars Rebels will be the complete journey that it was meant to be from the very beginning. We all felt that the time was right and that the characters were at a point where their story, and their destinies, should finally be revealed. We deeply appreciate all our fans who have journeyed with the Ghost crew, and I promise season four will be like no other."

'Star Wars: Rebels' returns to screens in September.

I fully expect EA to offer early access trials for all of its big-name games, and Battlefront 2 is the latest: EA and Origin Access subscribers will get to try DICE's new Battlefront shooter eight days before its release.

Battlefront 2 is scheduled to launch November 17, 2017 on all platforms, but EA Access subscribers on Xbox One and Origin Access members on PC actually get to try it as early as November 8, 2017. Naturally PS4 owners are locked out of the deal since Sony has barred EA Access from its console. EA hasn't confirmed how beefy the First Access Trial will be, but we expect it to be similar to Mass Effect: Andromeda's by offering a set amount of playtime. No info on a public or closed beta test has been revealed, but expect that info at EA Play in June.

"Try Star Wars Battlefront II starting November 9 when you join EA Access on Xbox One or Origin Access on PC. Your progress carries over to the full game if you decide to buy," EA confirmed. So we should have to download the full game for the trial just like with Mass Effect: Andromeda to ensure our data carries over. We don't know how big Battlefront 2 is just yet, but the PSN listing says "minimum 50GB of save data," so that could be the base install size.

EA today announced Battlefront 2, revealing tons of details including an "emotionally gripping" campaign that connects the original trilogy to the expanded universe, full-on galactic space combat, and tons of new heroes and maps across all three of the franchise's eras.

We've collected an array of new Battlefront 2 screenshots from across the net, and can confirm that Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones' Kamino planet will be one of the in-game maps, and Jango Fett should be one of the un-announced new heroes.

Here's what we know about Battlefront 2 so far:

EA's new Battlefront 2 sequel will retain the original game's 20 vs 20 multiplayer mode, this time with galactic in-space dogfighting.

While DICE and EA have yet to reveal specific details about Battlefront 2's 40-player mode, including which maps and vehicles will be featured, we should see the mode transcend across all three Star Wars eras--prequel Clone Wars timeline, original trilogy, and the expanded universe--with battles from each specific era.

UPDATE: The official Microsoft Store listing for Battlefront 2 says the game has "in-app purchases," strongly hinting the game will have microtransactions as I predicted.

DICE today confirmed that Battlefront 2 won't have a season pass, and EA has "something different in mind" to keep gamers playing longer without fragmenting the community. Does that mean microtransactions are coming?

Publishers like EA and Ubisoft have very typical business models when it comes to online-based multiplayer games: strategic releases of paid DLC content to engage the community, and microtransactions to ensure recurrent player spending keeps things profitable. If a game doesn't go with paid DLC or season passes, it usually goes with microtransactions instead. EA has no stranger to "MTX" (microtransactions), and makes a huge portion of its money through in-game purchases in games like FIFA and Madden.

Electronic Arts today revealed Battlefront 2's official reveal trailer as part of the Star Wars: Celebration, showing off story elements and multiplayer teasers.

As we reported in our original coverage, Battlefront 2 will feature a multitude of eras and heroes across "all three eras" of the Star Wars timeline: prequel, classic universe, and expanded universe.

The game's main campaign, however, will be told through the eyes of an Imperial special forces commander named Iden Versio, and takes place in the expanded universe. The story itself takes place 30 years between the end of Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and Episode VII: The Force Awakens, and players will "avenge the Emperor" and rebuild the Galactic Empire, possibly forming the first seeds of Episode VII's The First Order.

We all know the NSA has the tools to spy on virtually everyone, but now hacking group Shadow Brokers has released a data dump that has allegedly come from the NSA, which details that the US spy agency can hack international banks - and more important,yl the SWIFT network through Windows PCs and servers that are used during global financial transfers.

What is the SWIFT? It's used by banks as a security measure for fraud, as it's used to validate ones back account - and vica versa. There are trillions of dollars per day that get transferred through SWIFT, with over 11,000 banks and securities organizations in over 200 countries using SWIFT. The NSA allegedly claimed in its now hacked and released article that the "box has been implanted and we are collecting", which Wired explains as the "jargon used by the NSA to indicate spyware has been successfully implanted on a computer".

Security researcher Matt Suiche said that the IP addresses that are next to the financial institutation in the documents do not line up with the real IP addresses of the machines at the institutions. The IP addresses that were listed were to machines at EastNets, which is the largest SWIFT branch in the Middle East, which manages all of the payments for financial clients. Suiche explains: "This is the equivalent of hacking all the banks in the region without having to hack them individually".

It looks like AMD is taking its marketing power over to China, with sections from the trailer for Radeon RX Vega shown off during a marketing campaign in China. We now know, at least from this new rumor, that AMD will be launching limited edition Radeon RX Vega reference graphics cards.

AMD's upcoming limited edition Radeon RX Vega will feature the full Vega 10 GPU and 8GB of HBM2, as well as an all-in-one liquid cooler - similar to the Radeon R9 Fury X. AMD will have its exclusive reference RX Vega with a slick silver and red style, with a GPU tach next to the PCIe power connectors.

Dell teased its UP3017Q monitor back at CES 2016, rocking a huge 30-inch size and 4K native resolution all on a delicious OLED panel at 120Hz. Well, Dell is back with the UP3017Q and while it retains its 30-inch OLED panel and 4K resolution, the refresh rate has been kicked down to 60Hz.

The entry price for a high-end OLED display is hefty, with Dell pricing its new UP3017Q at $3499. You'll get perfect colors and coverage in Adobe RGB, but the color and depth on Dell's new UP3017Q will be so amazing, professionals will still have to tweak their photos and videos on a regular LCD because they're less saturated, and better represent real-world light and color.

Dell has still used a 0.1ms response time, so while its limited to 4K60, the OLED panel should be delivering images faster than a traditional LCD display. There's no G-Sync or FreeSync options, but I'm sure that'll change on future revisions. For now, a delicious 30-inch 4K OLED panel is now available for $3499 from Dell.

Google has very, very quietly launched a new app with Areo, a new destination that lets you order food and home services. The major downside here is that Areo is only available in Bangladore and Mumbai in India, but we should expect Google to eventually launch it around the world.

Areo lets you order food from local restaurants from a single tap to your smartphone, with search features built-in, and more. Google is also pushing in some home services into Areo, with local electricians, plumbers, pest control, cleaners, and more can be ordered from an app and a tap of your finger.

There's no news on whether Google will bring Areo to other countries, but if it's this useful, I don't see why they wouldn't either roll it into its own app available throughout the world, or build it into Google Now.

If like 99% of 'Star Wars' fans you weren't able to get to this year's 'Star Wars' celebration in Orlando to witness the unveiling of the first teaser trailer for 'The Last Jedi'; never fear, because today it's hard to miss.

Starring Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley, Carrie Fisher and John Boyega, 'The Last Jedi' breaks from franchise tradition to pick up directly after the conclusion of 2015's 'The Force Awakens', which had Rey unite with Luke Skywalker on an isolated planet.

'The Last Jedi' is set to hit cinemas in 3D, 2D and IMAX worldwide from December 15.

G.SKILL today announced the latest kit in its premium enthusiast-grade Trident Z memory, and also teases some blazing-fast DDR4-4500 RAM as well.

G.SKILL beats its competitors to the market with the first 16GB DDR4-4333 memory kit. The new Trident Z kit features two 8GB DDR4 modules clocked at 4333MHz frequency, with CL-19-19-39 timings and 1.40V of charge. The screencap below shows the DDR4-4333MHz kit being stressed tested and validated on an ASUS ROG Maximus IX Apex motherboard alongside an Intel Core i5-7600K CPU.

The memory-maker also teased performance of its upcoming 16GB (8GB x 2) DDR4-4500MHz kits with CL-19-19-39 timings, benching them on Intel's Z270 platform on an ASUS ROG Maximus IX Apex motherboard alongside an Intel Core i5-7600K CPU. "The tested bandwidth resulted in 55GB/s read speed, 65GB/s write speed, and 52GB/s copy speed under dual channel mode," G.SKILL revealed in its latest press release.