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PlatinumGames is interested in making Bayonetta 3, and is discussing plans on what it'll be like and laying out early ideas. But don't expect it any time soon.

"I would like to make Bayonetta 3," PlatinumGames executive producer and co-founder Atsushi Inaba outright declared to SourceGaming at Japan's recent BitSummit event. "We're talking within the company even now about what to do. But because we're constantly talking about it, that actually makes it really hard to say. If we weren't talking about it, we could just say something random or offhand, you know, but because we're actually talking about it."

However it'll likely be a long time before Bayonetta 3 happens: the developer is currently working on a new formless, shapeless IP that's completely unrelated to its existing franchises. In fact, PlatinumGames will elevate a new game director to help facilitate and guide this new IP, and it may tap NieR: Automata's senior game designer Takahisa Taura to direct the new game.

Instead of teasing users of what the phone will look like, as we've seen from numerous leaks, OnePlus is instead teasing the abilities of the phone itself. The ability that OnePlus is showing off is the phone's photography performance and image quality.

This is important because OnePlus has teased that the OnePlus 5 will have a great camera thanks to their partnership with DxO, the photography benchmark experts.

In the teaser, OnePlus asks users to guess which of the photos was captured by the OnePlus 5. This allows users to get an idea of what the camera performance could be like before they buy it.

Computex 2017 - Toshiba today revealed its new premium high-end XG5 solid state drive that leverages its innovative BiCS 3D flash memory for improved reliability, speeds, and capacities.

Toshiba breaks through new barriers and ushers in a new age of storage proficiency with its new XG5 NVMe SSD, the company's first SSD that uses its third-generation 64-layer BiCS 3D flash memory with 512Gb dies built with the 15nm process. Armed with 64-layer BiCS flash, the Toshiba XG5 NVMe solid state drive can hit blazing fast sequential read write speeds of 3,000 MB/sec (3GB/sec) reads and 2,100 MB/sec (2.1GB/sec) writes.

The XG5 SSD is a single-sided M.2 form factor drive that comes in capacities up to 1TB thanks to its vertically-stacked flash memory, and sports increased reliability with a Mean Time to Failure rating of 1.5 million hours. Toshiba's new high-performance SSDs will be available in the XG5 Series line, which includes drives in three capacities on matching M.2280 form factors: 256GB, 512GB, and 1024GB.

Andy Rubin, the co-founder of Android, and his company Essential Products have just unveiled their first smartphone - Essential.

As rumored, the phone rocks an almost bezel-less design, similar to the Xiaomi Mi MIX. The design is the first thing you'll notice on this phone, and it's absolutely stunning. The device is made of titanium and ceramic, with no logos meaning that it is unlikely to scratch, ever. The phone will come in four colors - Black Moon, Stellar Grey, Pure White, and Ocean Depths.

The device is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 processor, which puts it the same class as the Galaxy S8 and HTC U11. The phone comes with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage.

Computex 2017 - If there's one thing wrong with the gaming monitor market right now, at least IMO, it's that gaming displays are too small at 27 inches.

ASUS changes things up with the introduction ROG Strix XG32VQ, their new 31.5-inch gaming display.

We're looking at a native resolution of 2560x1440 and the glorious #pcmasterrace refresh rate of 144Hz, with AMD's FreeSync technology sprinkled on top.

Computex 2017 - GALAX had its super awesome GeForce GTX 1080 Ti HOF OC Lab Edition graphics card at Computex 2017, but there was also the new GTX 1080 Ti HOF Limited Edition - you know, the one with the LCD display.

GALAX has clocked the GPU at 1645/1759MHz for base/boost, respectively.

As you can see on the left NVIDIA has forced its GEFORCE GTX branding, while the middle is graced with the LCD display.

Computex 2017 - The very first graphics card that I ran towards at Computex this year was MSI's new GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Lightning Z, something we got some more hands-on time now that it was in a PC and turned on.

The beautiful Mystic Light RGB goodness comes out to play, and it really does look freakin' slick in person.

MSI requires 8+8+8 pin PCIe power connectors, but will the additional 8-pin PCIe power connector help GPU clocks that much? I doubt it.

Computex 2017 - Intel has just launched its new HEDT offensive with the introduction of the new Core i9-7980XE processor offering 18C/36T of CPU performance for a whopping $2000.

Intel's upcoming Core i9-7980XE will have 18C/36T of CPU performance at a yet unknown frequency, but their new 10C/20T chip in the Core i9-7900X sees a base clock of 3.3GHz, Turbo Boost 2.0 clock of 4.3GHz, and scales right up to 4.5GHz under Turbo Boost Max 3.0 tech.

The new Core i9 Extreme processor will feature support for Intel's AVX-512 instruction set, Turbo Boost Max 3.0, 44 PCIe 3.0 lanes, quad-channel DDR4 support at up to DDR4-2666, rebalanced Intel Smart Cache hierarchy, and support for Intel's Optane memory.

To celebrate this week's release of the return of 'The Great Wall' on 4K Blu-ray, 3D Blu-ray, DVD and digital we have 15 Blu-rays to give away thanks to our friends at Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

What were they trying to keep out? Between courage and fear, between monsters and men, stands a wall that must never fall. The film is set in ancient China and Matt Damon's character is a mercenary who travels east in search of gunpowder and discovers the mighty Great Wall and the terrible secret behind why it was built. This savage tale of man vs. nature will leverage the world class visual effects of Weta to create an entire ecosystem of creatures hellbent on our destruction.

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Computex 2017 - Western Digital announces two new high-end solid state drives aimed at enthusiasts and gamers.

Western Digital has revealed the world's first consumer 64-layer 3D NAND SSDs: the WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD, which targets DIY enthusiasts, resellers and system builders, and the Sandisk Ultra 3D SSD, which targets high-end gamers. Both premium-grade SSDs rock blazing fast speeds of up to 560 MB/sec reads and 530 MB/sec write speeds, and feature higher efficiency, reliability, and capacities thanks to the company's new 64-layer 3D NAND technology.

The WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSDs come in 250GB, 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities and leverage two form factors: 2.5-inch cased drives as well as single-sided M.2 2280. The Sandisk Ultra 3D comes in similar capacities of 250GB, 500GB, 1TB and 2TB but are exclusively available in 2.5-inch cased drives.

To celebrate this week's release of the return of 'Gold' on Blu-ray, DVD and digital we have 10 Blu-rays to give away thanks to our friends at Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Gold is the epic true tale of one man's pursuit of the American dream, to discover gold. Starring Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey as Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, he teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on an amazing journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Getting the gold was hard, but keeping it would be even harder, sparking an adventure through the most powerful boardrooms of Wall Street.

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According to the latest leaks from infamous leaker Evan Blass, the latest LG V30 could actually feature a unique approach to having dual displays.

While Evan Blass states that this is just a conceptual render and that the V30 may not ever end up having this feature, its still a possibility they moved forward with it.

Traditionally, the LG V series has been a dual-display larger flagship device with the V10 and V20 both featuring a smaller 'ticker' style OLED display to show notifications and persistent icons at lower power. However, with this concept, it appears possible that LG has gone with a more unique approach to dual displays with a sliding concept that could theoretically make the display on the phone larger without compromising the size of the device.

A couple of weeks ago, Qualcomm accidentally revealed the name of its upcoming platform, the Snapdragon 845. The SoC is rumored to power next year's flagship phones, such as the Galaxy S9.

We already heard that Samsung and Qualcomm are in talks to determine exactly which models will ship with the new Snapdragon inside.

The latest report suggests that LG is also interested in the Snapdragon 845 for its G7, which should be announced next year. Earlier this year, the company launched the LG G6 powered by last year's Snapdragon 821, which was a bit unexpected considering that this year's flagships are being powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835.

It has been rumored that the Galaxy C10 might be Samsung's first smartphone with a dual camera setup. The upcoming Galaxy Note8 should also have a dual camera, but apparently, the Galaxy C10 will be launched before the Note device.

A popular leaker has now published a rendered video giving us the first look at the upcoming smartphone. The video is based on information leaked earlier.

The video shows a vertically positioned dual rear camera setup, but there's no news about the phone's specs. According to the report, the Galaxy C10 will also have a Bixby button and a fingerprint sensor on the front of the device.

The Galaxy Note7 was discontinued back in October last year, but earlier this year we learned that Samsung plans to release a refurbished version of the device.

A Chinese retailer's website has already listed the Note7R (R for refurbished) on their site at a price of $520-$580, and now a first image of the Galaxy Note7 has been caught in the wild.

A photo of the Note7 appeared on Twitter, and it shows that the phone looks identical to the original Note7 device. This isn't surprising since earlier reports didn't mention anything about the company re-designing the phone.

Gionee has launched three new smartphones. The phones are a part of their S-series and range from high-end to entry-level devices.

The Gionee S10 is the best of the announced phones. It is powered by MediaTek's Helio P25 chipset with an octa-core processor and comes with 6GB of RAM. There's also 64GB of expandable storage on board and a 3,450 mAh battery.

The phone comes with dual rear and front camera setup. The main camera has 16MP + 8MP sensors, while the front shooter features 20MP + 8MP setup.

Computex 2017 - MSI teased us last week with a reveal of its GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Lightning Z graphics card, but now we have all of the details we need to start getting excited.

MSI's upcoming GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Lightning Z will feature a triple-fan cooler, and its GPU clocks in 3 different settings: Silent Mode, Gaming Mode, and Lightning Mode.

Silent Mode: 1480/1582MHz

To celebrate this week's release of the return of 'Doctor Who: Season 9 - Part 1' on Blu-ray and DVD we have 10 Blu-rays to give away thanks to our friends at Roadshow Home Entertainment.

Peter Capaldi returns as Doctor Who for twelve thrilling adventures. He is joined by new companion, Bill (played by Pearl Mackie), along with returning loveable alien, Nardole (played by Matt Lucas). This first volume contains the opening 6 episodes of the new series.

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Rockstar Games parent company Take-Two Interactive makes the lion's share of its revenue from consoles, highlighting a key point PC gamers have been wondering out for quite some time.

While scanning Take-Two Interactive's fiscal year earnings I found something interesting: the company makes 81% of its net revenues from consoles, and only 19% of its net revenue from "PC and other" platforms. This isn't exactly surprising news; big-name publishers like Activision, EA, Ubisoft and Square Enix focus mostly on bringing their games to consoles over PC simply because of the platform's massive and accessible install base.

These financials give us key insight into the age old question of "why do Rockstar games take so long to come to PC?" Sure it has to do with optimizing the games for PC, but it's also a strategic and tactical decision.

At Computex 2017, ARM announced two new CPUs and a new GPU to update their product line for devices coming in 2018. ARM always announces their newest processors ahead of time because their customers, the chip makers, need to build the chips with those new processors.

The two new CPUs that ARM has announced are the Cortex-A75 and Cortex-A55 which are supposed to replace the Cortex-A73 and A53 in smartphones today. ARM says that their 'big' processors like the A75 will get refreshes once every year while the smaller or 'LITTLE' CPUs will get refreshes every 2-3 years, like we are seeing now with the A55.

The interesting part about these new processors other than the obvious performance and power improvements is that ARM's CPU cores can now be configured in a single cluster in odd numbers like 1 + 7 or 2 + 5 which wasn't possible before. ARM's new DynamIQ technology helps to make these new cluster combinations possible. These combinations can also be made within a single cluster of cores rather than multiple clusters as long as they are under 8 cores total. More clusters are possible, but most people will rarely see over 8 in a smartphone.