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To celebrate this week's release of the horror reboot 'Rings' on Blu-ray, DVD and digital, we have 15 Blu-rays to give away thanks to our friends at Universal Sony Home Entertainment.

Evil is reborn. A new chapter in the beloved RING horror franchise. A young woman becomes worried about her boyfriend when he explores a dark subculture surrounding a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after he has viewed it. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before...

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Computex 2017 - TweakTown has descended on Taipei, Taiwan for yet another year of technology fun with Computex 2017 - and one of the biggest rumors is that NVIDIA will unveil a new graphics card... tomorrow.

NVIDIA is hosting its Computex 2017 keynote with NVIDIA CEO and founder Jen-Hsun Huang to take the state to talk about everything from artificial worlds, to artificial intelligence. But, we've been hearing different things: NVIDIA will unveil a new graphics card - we just don't know what.

I've had a couple of my industry sources tell me it's definitely a graphics card of some sort, but that doesn't mean it isn't a new laptop graphics card, or a new desktop GeForce graphics card. If it is a new desktop card, could we expect NVIDIA to trump AMD with an early reveal of a Volta-based GeForce card? It would make sense, since AMD is so late to the game with Vega.

Nintendo has once again increased its production order for more Switch console-handheld systems to meet strong demand, sources indicate.

Japanese console-maker Nintendo is preparing for a storm of sales of its new Switch handheld-console hybrid this fiscal year, primarily during the holiday season which should be driven by its next big-name Mario game. As a result of strong Nintendo Switch sales and massive demand, the company has again substantially raised the production of its Switch console by 12.5%.

Sources tell Financial Times that Nintendo is set to produce 18 million Switch consoles during its fiscal year ending March 2018. This marks the third time Nintendo has upped Switch production: the company first produced an extra 1 million units to meet demand during the Switch's launch, enabling the strong 2.74 million global sales; the second time was shortly after Nintendo announced its fiscal year estimates and doubled the console production contract from 8 million units to 16 million units. This latest increase sees Nintendo producing a whopping 2 million more units over its revised 16 million plan.

Global entry! We have teamed up with Patriot to give away one of their Viper V570 RGB laser gaming mice and Viper V370 RGB 7.1 virtual surround gaming headsets to one lucky winner.

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Back in September of last year, at IFA in Berlin, Huawei launched a new series of smartphones named nova (yes, with lowercase 'n').

Now, the company has announced the second generation of the nova series - the nova 2 and nova 2 plus. The biggest difference, compared to its predecessor, is that the new models come with a dual rear camera setup.

Both the nova 2 and nova 2 plus have a 12MP + 8MP rear camera and a 20MP front shooter. For a comparison, the company's latest flagship, the P10, has an 8MP selfie camera.

Nintendo continues to gain momentum as investors predict Monster Hunter XX being a major Switch system-seller in Japan.

Nintendo's shares have soared to their highest point in eight years on Friday following the announcement that Monster Hunter XX, the latest entry in Capcom's ultra-popular video game series, will arrive on Nintendo's new Switch handheld-console hybrid in Japan. Thanks to the announcement Nintendo shares raised by over 5% in one day, representing a sizable $2.2 billion increase in the company's market capitalization.

Since the Switch released on March 3 of this year Nintendo shares have been steadily rising as the system gained momentum and broke sales milestones. As of Friday the company's stock sits at $300 a share (33,510 yen), surpassing last year's massive Pokemon GO share spike by 5.48%.

Thanks to heavy hitters like GTA V and GTA Online, Rockstar Games parent company Take-Two Interactive hit an all-time high in add-on earnings.

In the fiscal year ending March 2017, Take-Two Interactive hit a record milestone in monetization earnings, with Grand Theft Auto Online's lucrative in-app purchases leading the pack.

"During fiscal 2017, we delivered Bookings and cash provided by operating activities that significantly exceeded our original expectations, along with revenue growth and margin expansion," Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick said in a recent report.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is being developed specifically to harness the power of a "new generation of consoles," hinting the game will run in 4K with HDR support and expansive features on consoles, while leveraging the full brunt of Microsoft's high-end Project Scorpio console and Sony's new PS4 Pro system.

Rockstar Games recently delayed Red Dead Redemption 2 to Spring 2018, and now its parent company Take-Two Interactive recently commented on why the game was pushed back, affirming the sequel is being built from scratch for the first time ever.

"The purpose of the delay of Red Dead Redemption 2 is to make sure we deliver the most extraordinary experience we're capable of providing," Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick said during the company's recent earnings call. "We haven't run into particular [technical] issues [with development], and we are building Red Dead Redemption 2 as a new game from the ground up for the first time for the new generation of consoles."

Square Enix is eager to embrace the games industry's gravitation towards the digital games as a service business model, and will bake in key features in its future games to ensure long-term monetization.

Today's games market is ruled by digital operations: big-name publishers like Activsion and EA are finding new and inventive ways to make money from digital online games via microtransactions and key engagement models. Square Enix wants its cut too, and the publisher has re-affirmed its commitment to the games as a service model, and will plan its upcoming slate of titles with revenue opportunities in the form of in-game purchases and other lucrative staples.

Square Enix recently held a fiscal year results briefing to break down its successes in last year's earnings, and outline future plans. According to Square Enix CEO Yosuke Matsuda, the Japanese games-maker will incorporate this business model into its games across all platforms--especially its smartphone and PC browser-based gaming segment. There's also plans to bring its arcade games to the entire global gaming audience via digital online game streaming.

Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive (Rockstar Games' parent company) affirms that Red Dead Redemption 2's recent delay won't have an impact on future Rockstar projects and activities, and won't interrupt Grand Theft Auto Online's roadmap.

Rockstar recently announced that Red Dead Redemption 2 has been delayed past its original Fall 2017 timeline, and will release in Spring 2018 instead. However thanks to Take-Two's financials, we know that Red Dead Redemption 2 will actually release in its Fiscal Year 2019 roadmap, meaning the game won't launch until after April 2018.

Since RDR2 is such an absolutely massive title that Rockstar is spending tons of time on, gamers and analysts are worried the extra development caused by the delay could disrupt other projects in the studio's pipeline--namely the next big Grand Theft Auto game. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick affirms that's not the case: "The decision to move Red Dead Redemption 2 to FY2019 will have no impact on any of Rockstar Games' other activities," Zelnick said in a recent earnings call.

Ubisoft today announced players can team up with their friends and take on Far Cry 5's gun-toting cultists via a new Friend For Hire feature.

In Far Cry 5, players can recruit deadly hillbilly gunmen and even team up with animals like cougars and bears to dispatch their foes. But the best ally is your best friend: Far Cry 5's campaign has full online co-op integration. "Ally with a Friend For Hire to take down the cult in a two-player co-op experience that extends across the full campaign," reads the game's official fact sheet. The developer continues by saying: "Players will have total freedom to navigate this serene-looking yet deeply twisted world solo or entirely in two-player co-op as they fight for survival and freedom."

Ubisoft Montreal promises that Far Cry 5's Montana will be a veritable playground of choice and explosive action for players, featuring a variety of vehicles like airplanes outfitted with machine guns, ATVs to zoom around the forests, and even muscle cars to recreate old-school Dukes of Hazzard chaos. But the open world isn't just about GTAV-style anarchy; the studio says Hope County, Montana will actually evolve and react to the decisions you make throughout the game.

Ubisoft sates our curiosity about Far Cry 5 with a huge fact sheet full of details.

Far Cry 5 is shaping up to be quite an interesting-looking game; not only does the game follow the franchise's radical and ultra-violent themes by capturing a religious-based cult gone wrong, but it comes to the United States for the very first time. Ubisoft Montreal will develop the game, and the devs have packed in tons of features and content to ensure Far Cry 5 feels like the best Far Cry yet.

As we reported a bit ago, Far Cry 5 will have a dynamic open world that reacts to your in-game decisions, and evolves with time. Whatever you choose, bad or good, the world will change along with your character. The game will also feature a fully-fledged co-op mode that lets players team up with friends for the entire campaign. Ubisoft boasts that Far Cry 5 features the biggest assortment of customizable weapons and vehicles of any game in the series, and features a plethora of memorable characters as well as a riveting, ever-changing storyline that evolves with your decisions.

Computex 2017 - EVGA is now officially showing off their super-custom GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Kingpin graphics cards, something that's not for mere mortals, but those who want the absolute best GTX 1080 Ti that money can buy - oh, and serious overclockers who use extreme cooling like LN2 to break world records.

EVGA's upcoming GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Kingpin features a fully custom multi-layer PCB with the 'KINGPIN' logo on the front of the PCB. But it's the rear of the GTX 1080 Ti Kingpin where all of the action is, with 8+8 pin PCIe power connectors on the end of the card (thank you, EVGA) and much more power that will be delivered across the overclocked GPU, GDDR5X VRAM, and electrical components.

There's even an EVBOT connector and points that can be used for PCB voltage reading, showing that EVGA has put everything including the kitchen sink into the GTX 1080 Ti Kingpin.

OPPO has started this year with good results. Its R9s was the best selling Android smartphone in Q1 2017 with 8.9 million units shipped.

But OPPO is just getting started. While we are waiting for the launch of its long-rumored flagship, the Find 9, the company is all set to unveil another smartphone - the R11.

A poster with the date of the launch has leaked to Weibo, revealing that OPPO will launch the device on June 10th. The same image shows the design of the phone and three colors options, although others might be announced too.

Back in March, Andy Rubin, co-founder of Android, teased a photo of a smartphone that he is working on at his new company, Essential Products.

No details were revealed with the teaser, but the image seemed to be showing an almost bezel-less design, similar to the Xiaomi Mi MIX.

Today, the company has tweeted for the first time, and they announced "something big" for May 30th. Of course, we think that this means the company could launch its first smartphone on May 30th.

HTC is one of the pioneers when it comes to VR. The company's HTC Vive still offers the best VR experience, and recently, the company announced that they would be shipping their own Google Daydream standalone headset later this year in partnership with Google.

While we wait for the standalone headset, HTC has launched the Link VR headset for the U11. The headset might remind you of the Gear VR, but the difference is that with the Link VR your smartphone doesn't go inside the headset. Instead, it is connected to it via USB-C cable.

The headset has its own displays - 3.6-inch big (110° fields of view), with 1,080 x 1,200px resolution and capable of 90Hz refresh rate.

Having felt he's fulfilled his role, SEGA Europe Chief Operating Officer Jurgen Post is leaving the company on a high note, and shares insights on SEGA's business model and what the company has done to become profitable again, and what it needs to do to stay that way.

SEGA is back. The Japanese games-maker recently reported a massive 421% boost in year-over-year profits, raking in a respectable $242.9 million.

SEGA's games segment is not only lucrative again, but represents over half of the company's total sales for its last fiscal year: the Entertainment Contents sector pulled in $1.81 billion (205.7 billion yen) in sales, or a whopping 56% of SEGA's total $3.23 billion (366.9 billion yen) in sales. Like its classic blue blur mascot, SEGA is accumulating lots of golden rings and running fast towards the goal.

Vertu, a British manufacturer, and retailer of luxury mobile phones has launched another insanely expensive device - Signature Cobra.

This feature phone comes with 2-inch QVGA display, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, and a 1,200 mAh battery.

But the specs aren't what's going to sell this phone.

Ubisoft today announced Far Cry 5 in a new reveal trailer, showcasing key features including an impressive dynamic open-ended environment that evolves based on your decisions.

Far Cry 5's Hope County, Montana might be ruled by crazy gun-toting religious hillbilly psychopaths, but the rural landscape feels like the real star of the show. The in-game world is filled to the brim with environs straight out of Montana; golden wheat-filled prairies, forests with rivers and streams snaking through, and snowtopped mountains that saw the sky. But outside of its beauty, Ubisoft Montreal promises Far Cry 5's setting actually has a life of its own--a life that will react and change as you make key decisions.

Ubisoft says Far Cry 5 is a "world that evolves", describing Hope County as a "dynamic open world that adapts and reacts to the choices you make." Players will rise up and build a resistance to overthrow the menacing Joseph Seed and his fanatical, maniacal doomsday cult, and every resistance fighter you recruit will push the story forward in meaningful ways. The developers also affirm that bad decisions will spawn new unique experiences: "your choices affect the world as new gameplay opportunities rise for the chaos."

A couple of weeks ago we reported that OnePlus might be discontinuing the 128GB version of the OnePlus 3T device. The company's official websites in numerous countries listed the phone as 'discontinued,' but they quickly changed it to 'out of stock.'

Fast forward to today - the company has announced that it is discontinuing the OnePlus 3T in an official blog post. OnePlus says this is "the last call to buy the OnePlus 3T before stock runs out".

The company says that there are only a few devices left in their warehouse and if you want to get the OnePlus 3T, now's the time.