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If you've been waiting on pulling the trigger on Samsung's aweosme new Galaxy S8 smartphone, well... your time has come. If you're based in the US, you will be able to activate two Galaxy S8 smartphones through T-Mobile, with one of them ending up free.

How does it work? Samsung will send a $750 refund to you for the second smartphone after you've paid for it, which will take 7-10 business days. You'll need to opt in on the website, and that's all. Samsung is also giving away its Entertainment Kit, which includes a Clear View stand, 64GB microSD card, and a 6-month Netflix subscription.

The total for the two Galaxy S8 smartphones comes to $1608.76, so with Samsung providing $750 back after you've registered one of them with T-Mobile, that means the total price for both Galaxy S8 handsets drops to $858.76, or just $429.38 after tax. This is an amazing deal from Samsung, absolutely amazing.

NVIDIA unveiled its next-gen Volta-based Tesla V100 at GTC 2017 a couple of weeks ago, but now we could be looking at their new Volta-based TITAN Xv graphics card.

There was an image posted to Facebook from a NVIDIA intern, but there's nothing else known about the card. We don't know if it's real or not, with the image posted over at Overclock3D.net forums. If it's a real card, take note of the lack of SLI connector and instead, the purported TITAN Xv has NVLink connectors.

I don't think this is the TITAN Xv, but at the end of the day it could be... and NVIDIA could be preparing TITAN Xv to combat AMD's upcoming Radeon RX Vega. What do you think?

While principal photography on Zack Snyder's 'Justice League' has been completed, the director, alongside his producer wife Deborah have announced they are stepping down from the production after the death of their daughter Autumn. Warner Bros have announced that 'The Avengers' director Joss Whedon will step in to complete the film which will hit cinemas at the end of the year.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Whedon will complete post-production and limited reshoots on the film although studio president Toby Emmerich is adamant that the film won't deviate too far from the tone set by Snyder, saying "We're not introducing any new characters. It's the same characters in some new scenes. He's handing the baton to Joss, but the course has really been set by Zack". Tragically, the Synder's lost their 20 year old daughter to suicide in March.

Featuring Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), the Flash (Ezra Miller), Superman (Henry Cavill), Cyborg (Ray Fisher) and Aquaman (Jason Momoa), 'Justice League' is set to be the DC comics version of 'The Avengers', which the studio is hoping will bring in the huge revenue that eluded last summer's 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice'. 'Justice League' is set to still hit it's previously announced release on 3D, 2D and IMAX cinema worldwide from November 2017.

Rockstar Games today announced Red Dead Redemption 2 would be delayed to Spring 2018, and investors and shareholders aren't too happy about the delay.

The stock value of Take-Two Interactive, Rockstar's parent company, recently dived by 8.75% in after-hours trading following the announcement of Red Dead Redemption 2's delay. The parent company recently reassured investors that Red Dead Redemption 2 would release Fall 2017, and now shareholders are understandably frustrated. Just three days ago Take-Two stock surged to a near-record high.

Take-Two promised that Red Dead Redemption 2 will release during its Fiscal Year 2018 timeline, and it's still technically possible that the game will meet these promises, as the sequel has been delayed to Spring 2018. Rockstar Games is pressured to ensure the game launches before the company's fiscal year ends in March.

For the first time ever, Destiny is coming to PC with its new sequel. Although Bungie is doing their best to ensure the game properly taps the raw power of the PC platform, Destiny 2 is missing something quite big: dedicated servers.

Bungie has officially confirmed that Destiny 2 won't use dedicated servers on PC, despite the fact that it'll have online 4v4 multiplayer PVP modes on the platform. When asked if Destiny 2 features P2P servers or dedicated servers, Bungie's Luke Smith said "It is a complicated typology. We do not have dedicated servers for Destiny 2 on PC," Smith said in a recent interview with PC Gamer.

The studio has already confirmed that Destiny 2's PC version will be exclusive to Blizzard's Battle.net client, but Bungie will maintain the game's online shared-worlds shooter's servers. Blizzard's Battle.net will just be used for "login and social services."

Rockstar today confirmed that Red Dead Redemption 2 has been delayed to Spring 2018 on PS4 and Xbox One.

Rockstar Games says that they need the extra time to ensure Red Dead Redemption 2 delivers the best possible experience. "This outlaw epic set across the vast and unforgiving American heartland will be the first Rockstar game created from the ground up for the latest generation of console hardware, and some extra time is necessary to ensure that we can deliver the best experience possible for our fans," the studio said.

"We are very sorry for any disappointment this delay causes, but we are firm believers in delivering a game only when it is ready. We are really excited to bring you more details about the game this summer."

Final Fantasy XIV director and producer Naoki Yoshida today confirmed the prices for the new job-class boosting items that will be rolled out in the game's new Stormblood expansion.

Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood will feature specific convenience items that let users skip key parts of the game as well as single-boost potions that instantly raise a single job to max level. These conveniences items are labled as "Tales of Adventure" and will be sold on the game's Mog Station storefront, which allows players to buy in-game cosmetics for real money. These new job potions represent the first step in selling items that have a clear affect on the game.

The game's new job-level boost items, called Tales of Adventure, will cost $25, will be released on Jun 16, and can only be used to increase a single job to level 60. Yoshi-P confirms that there will be different Tales of Adventure for each job, so you'll have to buy them individually at $25 a pop to level up all your jobs to max level (if you wanted to skip the game, of course). But that doesn't matter because players will only be able to buy one Tales of Adventure job-boost per account until Patch 4.1 rolls out.

LG has announced its second X-line smartphone - the X Venture. The rugged phone has an IP68 water and dust protection, and 14 MIL-STD 810G certification for extreme temperatures, shock, and water as well as multiple immersions up to 1.5 meters deep.

The phone is powered by a Snapdragon 435 and comes with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage, expandable with a microSD card.

The X Venture comes with a 5.2-inch display and runs Android 7.0 Nougat. The phone features a 16MP rear camera and a 5MP front shooter.

Destiny 2's new subclasses don't actually add anything extra to the game, they replace some of the most interesting abilities and classes that the original had to offer.

As a Destiny player, I'm excited about Destiny 2. But I have one very, very big problem with the sequel: Defender Titans are now dead, being replaced with the new Sentinel class. Now I've only ever played as a Titan in Destiny, and as soon as I saw the Defender subclass tree, I knew I wanted to be a support character based on replenishing shields and protecting my fireteam. This was all facilitated by one of the most enjoyable abilities in any shooter: the Ward of Dawn "bubble shield." That won't be in Destiny 2, and neither will the Warlock's potent resurrection spell from the Sunsinger tree.

I had a strong feeling that Destiny 2 would replace classes, and make no mistake, these new subclasses simply wipe out their respective elemental forerunners: Titan's void-based Defender is now replaced with the shield-bearing Sentinel subclass; Hunter's arc-based Bladedancer is now replaced with the spear-bearing Arcstriker subclass; and Warlock's beholden solar-based Sungsinger is now replaced with the fire-sword bearing Dawnblade. Apart from wiping out some of Destiny's favorite classes, the sequel dramatically changes the skill tree to make things much more consolidated.

Ubisoft today released a teaser trailer for Far Cry 5, confirming a modern-day setting for the sequel.

Despite speculation, Far Cry 5 won't take place in the old west, but it will take place in Montana. Ubisoft today made good on its promise of Far Cry 5 news "coming very soon" by launching a live-action teaser clip for the game. The clip is made from the footage recorded from production company Nightcall's captures of Montana's great prairie.

The clip gives us many clues about the game itself, and directly corroborates the rumors of tje religious cult gone wrong theme. The opening sequence shows a man running in fear, and then armed security sounding a bell with a dead man's head. This highly suggests that the religious followers in the game's fictitious setting of Hope County, Montana are kept prisoner by armed force, and anyone who tries to escape is summarily executed--and humiliated.

Lately, we've heard more and more rumors about Apple's upcoming flagship. While we still don't actually know whether or not Apple will call their new phone the iPhone 7S or iPhone 8, a new rumor has appeared claiming that it might not be a matter of 'or' but 'and.'

The latest report claims that Apple will, as usual, announce the S series of the last year's devices - the iPhone 7S and iPhone 7S Plus, and an iPhone 8 for the iPhone's tenth anniversary. While we can't confirm this at the moment, the report comes with an image of alleged iPhone molds showing those devices lined up next to each other.

It appears that the iPhone 7S Plus will be the biggest device, while the iPhone 8 is between the 7S Plus and 7S in terms of size.

Earlier this month, Evan Blass leaked the specs of the upcoming Moto Z2 Play, the successor to the Moto Z Play announced in August last year.

The report claimed that the device would come with a smaller battery than the original phone. The Moto Z Play had a 3,510 mAh battery, while the Moto Z2 Play is expected to feature a 3,000 mAh one.

Although the Moto Z2 Play hasn't been launched yet, Lenovo has confirmed that the device would indeed come with a smaller, 3,000 mAh battery. The company revealed this info on their official Twitter profile.

Nokia's Snapdragon 835 powered flagship has been rumored for a while, and it is believed that the device will be named the Nokia 9.

Nokia recently announced the modern version of the Nokia 3310 and three smartphones, but their flagship has yet to arrive.

Now, the first images of Nokia's upcoming flagship have leaked. Unfortunately, the phone is locked in an enclosure so we can't get the full image of the phone, but it is enough to confirm some previous leaks.

Apple only made 200 of its Apple-1 computers back in 1976, something that was built in Steve Jobs' garage, and was just auctioned in Germany for a huge $130,000. Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak designed, and marketed the Apple-1 in 1976.

John Dryden, the original Californian software engineer who owned the Apple-1, admitted it was hard to sell. He said: "(The Apple 1) was one of the first opportunities for someone to possess a real computer. I'd been working with computers for a while but they were huge".

Dryden sold the Apple-1 computer with the original receipt for the motherboard and cassette recorder, an operating manual, and something that would be amazing to see in person: notes of telephone conversations between Dryden and Wozniak from 1977. Apple never made an external housing for the Apple-1 computer, with the company selling the power supply, keyboard, monitor, and cassette recorder separately.

There are some people that use Facebook so much that they might not have many other apps installed on their phone, and for the people who want an even easier food delivery service with their phone will soon be able to tap the 'Order Food' button on Facebook.

TechCrunch is reporting that the new Order Food button will be made available on the Facebook app for mobile, as well as the desktop. It will be accessed by the main navigation menu, where it will be found at the bottom, with a hamburger icon. The ordering process itself is smooth, with Delivery.com and Slice powering it. You can type the specific location or general area you're in, where you'll be greeted to a list of available restaurants.

The options of restaurants and outlets won't be large at first, but it will continue to grow as the service expands with more users and businesses signing up. As TechCrunch said in their article, it seems like Facebook is building itself into a much larger ecosystem, where you will not need to leave Facebook at all, even if you're hungry.

I've always thought that you would need eyes to play most games, but there is a 27-year-old gamer that has pumped countless hours into games over his life, all without eyes.

Toby Ott is 27 years old, and was born with a rare condition called bilaterial anophthalmia, which means he was born without eyes. In the documentary Gaming Through New Eyes, they explain it hasn't stopped Toby from playing games since he was a young child. Toby has played through games that millions of other games, including myself, have played - like fighting games with Injustice, and even RPGs like Final Fantasy.

Toby says he plays Final Fantasy for its story and characters, as well as its gameplay. But how the hell does he play the game without seeing, is something that anyone would ask - with Toby having a friend help him through the structure of the game's menus, where Toby will memorize how many button presses to get to a specific menu or action.

There's one thing that makes the Xbox One S purchase worth it: its 4K video content abilities with its built-in 4K Blu-ray drive and 4K streaming capabilities.

With a new update for the Xbox One S, it will now work with Amazon Video and 4K content. Microsoft has said that with the latest Amazon Video app for the Xbox One, it will provide 4K streaming support. With top-rated Amazon original shows like Man in the High Castle, Sneaky Pete, and The Grand Tour, the new 4K streaming feature on Xbox One S is going to be a big deal.

Xbox One S can now stream 4K video from Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon - as well as the growing library of 4K Blu-ray discs. Not too bad at all for a console, even the PC finds that hard to do as you require a Kaby Lake-based processor from Intel, and the use of Microsoft's own Edge browser in Windows 10.

If you're still playing Ghost Recon: Wildlands, you'll be pleased to know that Ubisoft has pushed out their new Update #4 for the game, including HUD and UI improvements.

The new patch will fix issues with gamers seeing through walls, and certain spots of the map where you would get stuck or fall through the map. Ubisoft has also polished up the aim consistency when shooting from behind cover, and they've also introduced a new short time to kill alerted enemies to avoid failing the mission (in the stealth missions of Wildlands).

There are also some PC-specific fixes, with the Steam and Uplay versions of the game being automatically updated, so you won't need to worry about any manual updates.

Resident Evil is the highest-grossing film series of all time that's based on a video game, raking in over $1.2 billion worldwide, and now the series is being rebooted.

Constantin Film owns the movie rights to the Resident Evil franchise, with Chairman of the Board of Constantin Film, Martin Moszkowicz, confirming with Variety at the Cannes Film Festival that the studio is working on a Resident Evil film reboot. The reboot will have another 6 movies in the series, after the 6 movies that we've experienced over the last decade.

We don't know who will star, direct, or write the new Resident Evil movies, but with $1.2 billion in box office profits - it's no wonder it's being rebooted this quickly.

Facebook is stepping into the world of gaming and eSports streaming, announcing it has teamed with ESL to stream eSports content on Facebook.

The social networking giant will be streaming exclusive eSports events and content in six languages, all within the elite Rank S CS:GO competition. ESL will be bringing 5500 hours of eSports content to Facebook, as well as offering 1500 hours of exclusive eSports content for Facebook.

Facebook won't just have the Rank S CS:GO matches, but we will also receive ESL One and Intel Extreme Masters events as well - all livestreamed in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and German. The social networking giant will also be making an original 30-minute Facebook Live series that will look back at previous CS:GO match highlights, showcasing top players as well as up and coming players.