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Just a week ago, Motorola launched its Moto Z2 Play, and now the company has launched two new smartphones - the Moto E4 and Moto E4 Plus.

The Moto E4 is the smaller of the two, with a 5-inch 720p display. The phone comes with a choice of Snapdragon 425 or 427, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB of storage.

The phone features an 8MP main camera and a 5MP front shooter. Other features include a fingerprint sensor and a 2,800 mAh battery.

E3 2017 - Forza Motorsport 7 will run at native 4K 60FPS on Microsoft's new $499 Xbox One X console without even using full GPU power.

Microsoft has confirmed Forza Motorsport 7 runs at a "rock solid" 4K 60FPS on the new high-end Xbox One X console, but now Turn10 revealed something else: Forza 7 actually hits 4K 60FPS without even using the console's full GPU power.

The developers told Destructoid that Forza 7's native 4K 60FPS performance uses 70% of Xbox One X's highly customized Polaris-based 6TFLOP GPU, with 30% power left over. This isn't particularly surprising, as the same developer was able to hit native 4K 60FPS at Ultra PC equivalent settings in Forza 6: Apex with 88% GPU usage.

E3 2017 - After 15 years of waiting, Ubisoft today announced Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still alive and showcased the game with an incredible new trailer.

Ubisoft Montpellier has been developing Beyond Good and Evil 2 for quite some time now, and has spent the last three years diligently shaping the universe. The game is actually a prequel, and has a persistent seamless online universe to explore for gamers, strongly indicating it'll be built on Ubisoft's live services framework and offer multiplayer content for years to come.

Beyond Good and Evil is a "seamless online playground" that allows players to discover new worlds across a wide cosmos.

E3 2017 - Every game played on an Xbox One X will indeed play better, but native 4K resolution and other enhancements aren't guaranteed. Here's how Xbox One X works.

Microsoft has said from the start that developers will have the freedom to do whatever they want with Xbox One X's beefy hardware. But that kind of freedom means that there's no guarantee that all existing games will play at native 4K on the new Xbox One X. Developers have to upgrade their games with native 4K textures and add in other enhancements that tap the console's highly customized AMD SoC. Essentially Microsoft is handling the Xbox One X's game enhancements very similar to how Sony handled its Forward Compatibility upgrades on the PS4 Pro: developer participation isn't mandatory, but certain devs have partnered up to bring optimized upgrades to their games.

To bring native 4K textures and upgrades to Xbox One games, Microsoft has created the Xbox One X Enhancement Program. From now on Xbox One games supporting native 4K upgrades will be stamped with a little "4K Enhanced" on their boxes, similar to Sony's PS4 games. Developers must choose to opt-in on upgrading their games with native 4K textures, HDR, and other enhancements to tap Xbox One X's hardware and push it to the limit. These upgrades will be sent out via digital patches and updates, like PS4 Pro games.

When Samsung revealed the Galaxy S8 and S8+, one of the biggest downsides of the phone was the position of the fingerprint sensor, placed right next to the camera on the back of the phone.

We know that Samsung has planned to embed the fingerprint sensor under the glass on the front of the device, but due to certain problems, they had to give up on the idea.

It was expected that the company would resolve the problem and embed the biometric fingerprint reader under the phone's display on the upcoming Galaxy Note8, but recent reports suggest that the company is still having issues.

E3 2017 - Machine Games' explosively awesome Wolfenstein game is getting a sequel, and it's better than ever.

After Destiny 2, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is hands-down my most anticipated shooter for 2017. As I predicted way back when, Machine Games' new FPS takes place in Nazi-occupied America during the 1960's, showing us a unique alternate world set in the chaotic universe the devs have built.

The New Colossus is a direct sequel to 2013's The New Order, and features new weapons, characters, a new story, and tons of other goodies folded around thrilling grisly FPS action.

Huawei has finally announced the Honor 9 and the rumors were somewhat true.

The Honor 9 is powered by Huawei's Kirin 960 processor, the same as the company's current flagship the P10, and comes with 6GB of RAM, which is more than the P10 and Mate 9 have. The device comes in versions with 64GB or 128GB of internal storage, expandable with a microSD card.

The phone also features a 5.15-inch 1080p display and runs on Android 7.0 Nougat with EMUI 5.1 on top.

E3 2017 - Bethesda got into hot water with its new Creation Club program, which allows gamers to buy credits with real money to spend on extra content in Skyrim and Fallout 4. But the publisher has revealed new details about the initiative, clearing up some important facts.

Bethesda's new Creation Club program is less like paid mods, and is more like extra high-quality DLC snippets made internally from the studio themselves. The publisher says that the content sold on Creation Club aren't mods--they're high-quality pieces of content that must pass Q&A testing, including full Alpha and Beta phases.

"Creation Club is a collection of all-new content for both Fallout 4 and Skyrim. It features new items, abilities, and gameplay created by Bethesda Games Studios and outside development partners including the best community creators. Creation Club content is fully curated and compatible with the main game and official add-ons," Bethesda says.

One of the hottest games right now is PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, which has sold over 3 million copies on the PC, with the new survival shooter game headed to consoles - an exclusive Microsoft scored for its Xbox One platform.

Battlegrounds' creator Brendan Greene announced the news during Microsoft's own E3 conference, as an Xbox One exclusive. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds will be released "later this year" on Xbox, with Greene confirming Battlegrounds will have Xbox One X specific enhancements, but we don't know what they are just yet. With the game squeezing even the best PCs to their edges, it'll be interesting to see what it looks like, the render resolution and detail on the Xbox family of consoles - especially the new 4K-capable Xbox One X console.

NVIDIA has released their new GeForce 382.56 WHQL drivers, which include support for two new game releases: Dirt 4 and Nex Machina, which both drop later this month. Download the new GeForce 382.56 drivers right here.

There are also some fixes for various games and technical issues, with V-Sync issues alongside NVIDIA's Fast Sync being fixed, so now you shouldn't get any nasty tearing from a FPS limit. NVIDIA also notes that GeForce GTX 1060 owners will have no issues running Dirt 4 at 1080p, while GTX 1070 easily runs 1440p, and the GTX 1080 Ti is reserved to hitting 60FPS at 4K. NVIDIA adds that the GTX 1080 can also run Dirt 4 at 4K 60FPS, if you drop MSAA.

Next up is Nex Machina, which requires the same GTX 1060 for 1080p, GTX 1070 for 1440p, and GTX 1080 Ti for 4K. Added to the new GeForce 352.56 WHQL drivers are updated SLI profiles for Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, Little Nightmares, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and Transformers Online.

If you thought Minecraft looked alright in its stock state or modified state, prepare yourselves for the "Super Duper Graphics Pack" that Microsoft just announced for Minecraft.

The upcoming "Super Duper Graphics Pack" will add more realistic textures, light effects, and graphics into Minecraft - with the new Xbox One X rocking 4K support for the game. The company also announced the new Better Together Update for Minecraft, something that adds a new community marketplace for gamers to sell creations, new in-game servers to play on, and new cross platform play between a huge variety of devices.

Minecraft gamers will soon be able to game between Xbox One, Windows 10, Nintendo Switch, and even mobile devices. The new 4K graphics pack will drop later in the fall, while the Better Together Update will be released soon.

E3 2017 - Bethesda is moving forward with a new Creation Club program for Fallout 4 that allows users to spend credits on mods. Yes, paid mods are happening.

Bethesda hasn't revealed full info about its new Creation Club program, but it's essentially just like Minecraft's new monetized add-ons initiative. Gamers will buy credits and then spend them on a storefront, selecting a wide variety of mods hosted on Bethesda.net for Fallout 4 and Skyrim: Special Edition.

It's likely that Creation Club will host paid mods on all platforms--PS4, Xbox One and PC--and Bethesda will actually make mods this time, too. The best and most popular mod-makers will be able to monetize their creations with Creation Club.

E3 2017 - Microsoft has killed it at E3 2017 this year, unleashing its new 4K-capable Xbox One X console with a million and one tricks up its sleeve, but the announcement of Forza Motorsport 7 for the PC will have racing fans happy.

The only problem with Forza Motorsport 7 on the PC is that it will be exclusive not only to Windows 10, but the Microsoft Store, which is so meh. Both Forza Horizon 3 and Forza Motorsport 6: Apex were released on PC, but Forza Motorsport 7 is the first full-fledged Forza game for the PC, and it's about damn time.

Forza Motorsport 7 will provide dynamic weather effects, including puddles of water that will get bigger as rain continues to fall, and some beautiful lighting effects. There are over 700 cars in the game, but there's no news on crossplay between Xbox and PC just yet... which would be cool, Microsoft: do it.

Intel has just made its upcoming Cannon Lake CPU architecture official, with its 9th-gen Core processor on track and made on the 10nm process.

Intel also took the time to announce that its second micro-architecture built on 10nm is taped out, with details on Ice Lake to follow. Intel is reacting in a scared fashion as I said months and months ago now, throwing out its 18C/36T processor at Computex 2017 without any details, a gimped X299 chipset compared to the ThreadRipper ready X399 chipset from AMD which has 64 PCIe 3.0 lanes compared to just 44 PCIe 3.0 lanes on X299.

The new Cannon Lake CPUs will be a die shrink of the Coffee Lake chips, so don't expect huge things from it, apart from lowered TDP and possibly higher clocks. Ice Lake will be the bigger one, something like the upgrade from Broadwell to Skylake, and is expected in 2H 2018.

E3 2017 - Microsoft today confirmed that Crackdown 3, one of the games-maker's most anticipated games in recent memory, will release in 2017.

It's official! Crackdown 3 will launch this year. In fact, the anticipated sequel will release alongside Microsoft's new high-end native 4K Xbox One X console on November 7, 2017. Crackdown 3 won't be a console exclusive, however, and will release on both Windows 10 PCs and Xbox One consoles via each system's respective storefront.

Crackdown 3 is also a Play Anywhere game, which means digital cross-buy for Windows 10 PCs or Xbox One consoles--including the new Xbox One X. Microsoft confirmed that Crackdown 3 will leverage Xbox One X's higher-end hardware to achieve native 4K gaming and HDR.

While the consumer CPU world is tangled up in AMD's upcoming ThreadRipper that comes with up to 16C/32T, Intel is wrapping up their next-gen Xeon Platinum line with the flagship Xeon Platinum 8176 processor that rocks 28C/56T of processing power.

Better yet, Intel's upcoming Xeon Platinum 8176 can be used in dual CPU socket configurations, and with each CPU featuring 28C/56T, you'd be looking at 56C/112T of CPU performance. Intel's new Xeon Platinum 8176 comes with a stock 2.1GHz CPU clock, while a single core can ramp up to 3.8GHz, the all cores enabled Turbo clock hits 2.8GHz. It's a beast.

But what good are the specs of this 28C/56T processor without benchmarks? Intel's new Xeon Platinum 8176 scored 6525 points in Cinebench R15 (which supports more than 16 threads), blasting past the 44C/88T dual-CPU socket Intel Xeon E5-2696 v4 processor... amazing stuff.

E3 2017 - Microsoft's newly announced 4K-ready Xbox One X console carries with it a $500 price tag, and releases in November.

Microsoft today announced that its new premium Xbox One X system costs $499 and comes in a single 1TB configuration. The new 4K box will be able to play games in native 4K on 4K displays with HDR, but only supports HDMI 2.0. Gamers can enjoy low-latency experiences on Xbox One X with FreeSync 2 display support, and developers are adding in key optimization enhancements to run games in native 4K 60FPS, such as Turn10's new Forza 7 game.

Xbox One X features a highly customized and tweaked 16nm SoC with a heavily customized 8-core Jaguar CPU at 2.73GHz, alongside a Polaris-grade GPU with 40 Compute Units, 1.71GHz of clock speed, and 6TFLOPs of compute power. 12GB of GDDR5 unified memory gives the console a hefty bump of system memory with 326GB/sec bandwidth.

E3 2017 - 4A Games completely blew us away by announced Metro Exodus, a sequel to the landmark Metro series based on Dmitry Glukhovsky's novels.

Metro Exodus' reveal was totally surprising and is easily one of my favorite announcements made during Microsoft's E3 showcase. The game is a indirect sequel to Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light, and will instead focus on a story that takes place over multiple seasons, all sourced from Glukhovsky's original Metro novels.

Metro Exodus takes on a more open-world scope with incredible fidelity and detail--all shown on Microsoft's new high-end Xbox One X system.

E3 2017 - Ubisoft today annoucned its Egypt-themed Assassin's Creed with a release date shortly before the Xbox One X.

Assassin's Creed: Origins looks absolutely incredible; as a history buff, I've long imagined exploring ancient Egypt, and the game basically makes my dreams come true. AC: Origins will have deep RPG mechanics and features high-end 4K resolution and HDR to boot, showing an amazing recreation of ancient Egypt.

Assassin's Creed: Origins launches October 27, 2017 on PS4, Xbox One and PC with 4K support on Xbox One X.

E3 2017 - Microsoft confirmed its new Project Scorpio is called Xbox One X, and will launch in November.

Microsoft's new high-end 4K ready Project Scorpio console is officially known as Xbox One X, and is coming on November 7. The company confirms that Xbox One X is the most powerful console ever made, but it's also the smaller Xbox ever made. The Xbox One X looks like a small, scaled down Xbox One S, and as we previously predicted, it's quite svelte and sleek.

As we previously announced, Xbox One X uses a Polaris-grade GPU at 1.17GHz and a highly customized 8-core Jaguar-based 2.73GHz CPU alongside 12GB of GDDR5 RAM. Xbox One X will support FreeSync 2, full native 4K support, and is completely compatible with all existing Xbox One games and accessories. Xbox One X will also play all Xbox 360 backward compatibility titles.