AMD is poised to change the entire PC market with its Ryzen processors launching next month, leaving a once super confident Intel in its silicon dust - but Intel is firing back, confident that it can sustain the fumes of Ryzen with its upcoming Cannonlake architecture.

During a chat with Deutsche Bank Securities, Intel boss Brian Krzanich was asked about the company "That's very helpful. I guess as my follow-up, you talked about the ASPs in answering a prior question. I wondered about the competitive intensity in the PC market. You're taking a more conservative tack than the third-party vendors are forecasting, but your primary x86 competitor is coming out with a new architecture for the first time in many, many years. So, I wonder whether it's on the ASP or the unit or the market share side how you're factoring that into your forecast for the year".

Krzanich replied with: "Sure. I would tell you that we always look at this environment and say there's going to be a competitive risk in the environment. And we're always focused on really, our own product roadmap and making sure that we have the highest performance product. So, when we look at 2017, we still believe that our product roadmap is truly the best ever it's been".

After reports surfacing that AMD wouldn't be launching 6-core variants of its upcoming Ryzen CPUs, there are new reports that AMD will indeed be launching 6-core Ryzen CPUs.

CanardPC tweeted that there is a 6-core/12-thread Ryzen CPU clocked at 3.3GHz base, lower than the 8-core/16-threaded Ryzen CPU. It makes sense, as if the silicon can't handle the additional two CPU cores, they can disable them and have a rock solid 6-core Ryzen chip instead.

VideoCardz is reporting that there are 3 different Ryzen CPUs in the high-end SKUs that are of interest:

Nintendo outlines a substantial software trajectory for the Nintendo Switch with a massive games library, ensuring the handheld-console hybrid will have a consistent offering of unique and varied games.

In a recent earnings report, Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima confirmed that over 70 developers are currently developing over 100 games for the new transforming Switch handheld-console. This number of games is almost one-seventh of the Wii U's total software library, and the last projection was given by Nintendo America's Reggie Fils-Aime who said 50 devs working on over 80 games.

"After the presentation on January 13, we have continued to receive requests from more and more software publishers who want to develop games for the system," Mr. Kimishima said in a presentation slide. "At the presentation, we announced that there were over 80 titles in development from more than 50 software publishers, but that number has now climbed to over 100 titles from more than 70 publishers. Please look forward to more announcements about the software lineup in the future."

Final Fantasy 15 director Hajime Tabata wants to unlock the game's full potential by bringing it to PC, and if it does happen, he'd love to expand the game with user-created mods.

Even on consoles, Final Fantasy 15 is a visual marvel to behold. Honestly it's the best looking PS4 game I've ever seen, besides Uncharted 4. Despite the awesome fidelity, amazing lighting, and immersive atmospheric effects, it's still quite obvious the game is being held back by underwhelming console hardware. FF15 was absolutely made for PCs.

In fact, the RPG was actually created using NVIDIA Gameworks technology, and Square Enix's high-end Luminous engine was demoed with four NVIDIA GTX Titan X GPUs back at BUILD 2015.

Apple overtook Samsung's #1 position in Q4 and became top global smartphone vendor in the world.

According to a report from Strategy Analytics, Apple sold around 800,000 units more than Samsung in Q4 2016. Apple shipped 78.3 million smartphones worldwide and captured 18% market share in Q4 2016, rising 5% annually from 74.8 million units in Q4 2015. This was the iPhone's best performance in over a year.

Playing a huge role in this was Samsung's fiasco with the Galaxy Note7. The Korean company shipped 77.5 million units worldwide, around 800,000 less than Apple.

Obsidian Entertainment squashes the rumors and confirms it's not making a new Fallout game. That means the rumors about Fallout: New Vegas 2 and Fallout: New Orleans are absolutely false.

Yesterday FragHero perpetuated a rumor that Obsidian is currently developing a sequel to Fallout: New Vegas. I saw through this right away, but decided not to report on it without more info: how could Obsidian, a smallish dev team with 50-200 employees, be working on a massive sequel to Pillars of Eternity and a huge open-world Fallout game? The answer is simple: it can't.

"We've said plenty of times that we'd love to work on a Fallout again if Bethesda wanted us to, we just aren't at this time," Obsidian PR rep Mikey Dowling told Kotaku. "Right now we're very focused on the Fig campaign to make our first ever sequel in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire. Whenever a new Fallout comes around though, whoever is doing it, we all look forward to playing it!"

EA has confirmed that Battlefront 2 will have a fully-fledged singleplayer campaign story mode along with a ton of extra content, characters, ships and game modes.

Compared to its predecessor, Battlefront 2 will be a behemoth. At least that's the signals EA sent during its recently Q3 2017 earnings call, where it talked up the sequel and promised to "deliver fans exactly what they want from a Star Wars game." In fact, Battlefront 2 is so jam-packed with extra content (including a meaty story mode) that EA had to assign three studios to work on it: DICE, Motive and Criterion.

Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima has confirmed the Nintendo Switch's paid online subscription service will be quite inexpensive.

Starting in Fall 2017 Nintendo will charge owners of its new Nintendo Switch console a subscription fee to play online. This move was quite controversial when it was announced, however, thanks to analyst Dr. Serkan Toto, we know now the fee will be extremely competitively priced at just 2-3,000 yen ($17.50 - $26.50) a year. Compared to Microsoft and Sony, who both charge $59.99 a year for their online service, this could end up being a huge boon for Nintendo.

Unlike PlayStation Plus and Xbox LIVE Gold, Nintendo's paid online service won't give subscribers access to an incremental free games library. Instead Nintendo will grant subscribers limited access to a single NES or SNES Virtual Console game for a month, and then revoke access after the month is over. The selection will rotate from month-to-month and subscribers will get a discount on that period's game should they want to buy it from the eShop.

The LG G6 will be unveiled before the S8, on February 26th in Barcelona. We have already seen some images of the upcoming flagship, and now the prototype photos of the phone have leaked.

As you can see, the phone looks far from polished, but it does confirm some previous rumors. According to the images, the G6 will come with a dual camera and a fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone, as we previously reported.

It is also clear that the G6 will have USB Type-C port. Other rumors also suggest that the G6 will have a 5.7-inch display and it will probably be water resistant.

After more than 12 years studying Saturn, its rings, and moons, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has entered the final year of its epic voyage. The conclusion of the historic scientific odyssey is planned for September 2017.

Cassini already sent some impressive images of the Saturn's atmosphere, and now it has shown us detailed images of Saturn's rings.

The views are some of the closest-ever images of the outer parts of the main rings, giving scientists an eagerly awaited opportunity to observe features with names like "straw" and "propellers." Although Cassini saw these features earlier in the mission, the spacecraft's current, special orbits are now providing opportunities to see them in greater detail. The new images resolve details as small as 0.3 miles (550 meters), which is on the scale of Earth's tallest buildings.

Xiaomi Redmi Pro was announced last year in July, and it seems that Xiaomi should unveil its successor soon.

Unlike the original Redmi Pro which had a dual camera, the Redmi Pro 2 is rumored to have a single camera that will use a better sensor - the 12MP Sony IMX 362 (1/2.55" sensor size, 1.4 µm pixel size).

The device should have a 5.5-inch display, fingerprint sensor, and a sizable 4,050 mAh battery.

EA today revealed information on BioWare's mysterious new IP, confirming many of our reports to be accurate: the game is action-based, and will likely have online multiplayer. In a sense, this new game could be EA's unique answer to Bungie's MMO-like shooter Destiny that uses action-adventure elements instead of FPS.

BioWare's new IP is entirely fresh, and isn't based on Dragon Age or Mass Effect. Interestingly enough, however, the new IP has been developed by BioWare's original Mass Effect Edmonton studio for the past five years (since 2012) and will release by March 2018. Based on the teasers video from E3 2014 (see above) we can surmise it's sci-fi based, which aligns with the Edmonton studio's skillset.

EA confirms the IP is a "clean sheet design with new concepts, new gameplay mechanics, and new stories set in a unique universe." EA has said that the new IP won't be an RPG, and will instead be "genre-melding" across the action and adventure genres while retaining the deep character progression and story that BioWare is known for.

Samsung won't be releasing or unveiling its next-gen Galaxy S8 smartphone at Mobile World Congress later this month, but the company will be showing something off - as it has just invited the press to its MWC press event with the tease of what looks like a new tablet.

Samsung hasn't included any more details in its invitation, but The Verge reports that the purported Galaxy Tab S3 passed through the FCC yesterday, with Korean site ET News writing that Samsung's new slate would rock a 9.6-inch 2048x1536 display, Qualcomm's current-gen Snapdragon 820 processor, and 4GB of RAM.

The event kicks off at 1PM ET on February 26, and we'll be on the ground at MWC 2017 to bring you all of the delicious mobile coverage.

I've just written about SK Hynix's new dates for HBM2 deployment, which will affect AMD's Vega GPU roll out a little, but we're still getting Vega graphics cards in Q2 2017.

AMD confirmed the news during their latest financial report, where they said: "AMD introduced preliminary details of its forthcoming Vega GPU architecture designed to address the most data- and visually-intensive next-generation workloads. Key architecture advancements include a differentiated memory subsystem, next-generation geometry pipeline, new compute engine, and a new pixel engine. GPU products based on the Vega architecture are expected to ship in the second quarter of 2017".

As for the new Vega graphics cards with HBM2, we should expect 8GB of HBM2 with just under 410GB/sec bandwidth - and a release later in the year with the faster 512GB/sec HBM2.

AMD is expected to launch its Vega graphics cards in the next couple of months, with an unveiling in May and a launch in June to be expected - but now SK Hynix have updated their memory product catalog, giving us a better look at the bandwidth numbers around HBM2.

SK Hynix updated their graphics databook, showing off HBM2 for Q4 2016 with a 4-stack 4GB HBM2 product with two different speeds: 2Gbps and 1.6Gbps, with 256GB/sec bandwidth and 204GB/sec bandwidth, respectively. This has now changed, with a shift in availability.

The company is now listing the slower 1.6Gbps (204.8GB/sec) for Q1 2017, while the faster 2Gbps (256GB/sec) HBM2 now stuck with a 'TBD' for availability. This could lead AMD to launch a slower HBM2-based card in Q2, and a faster Vega graphics card later in the year.

Nokia is rumored to make a splash at Mobile World Congress in a few weeks time, with the purported Nokia N1 tablet.

The new slate would be powered by Qualcomm's impressive Snapdragon 835 processor, and it was claimed that Qualcomm was showing off Nokia's new flagship at CES, which featured a 23-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss branding, and their new Snapdragon 835 processor.

Now there's a new benchmark listing for the new Nokia N1 tablet - which would feature a huge 18.4-inch display with a native 2560x1440 resolution, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, Android 7.0, and more.

The latest entry in the 'Star Wars' saga; 'Rogue One' has not only smashed through the $1 billion worldwide mark, but it's now leap-frogged 'The Phantom Menace' to be the second highest grossing film in the long-running franchise.

Despite a smattering of differing opinions, 'Rogue One' has been nothing short of a financial success for Disney, grossing $1034 million to date at the international box office. The 1999 prequel, which re-introduced the saga to cinemas after a 16 year absence but proved to be a critical disappointment went on on to gross $1027 million combined from its initial theatrical release and 2012 3D re-release. 'The Force Awakens' remains the highest grossing 'Star Wars' film yet, which took over $2 billion during it's theatrical release in 2015.

'The Last Jedi' which continues the Skywalker saga and features actress Carrie Fisher reprising her role as Princess Leia for the final time, will hit cinemas worldwide in December.

At the Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary event, Square Enix revealed new DLC for Final Fantasy XV including Episode Gladiolus, Episode Prompto and another free Booster Pack download.

Final Fantasy XV will have story DLC for each of Noctis' brothers in arms, with Gladio, Prompto and Ignis all getting their own solo episodes.

The first of these DLCs, Episode Gladio, will release on March 28 and will allow players to take the perspective of Gladio to fight enemies alongside Cor Leonis. Gilgamesh will make an appearance so there's a good chance we'll be fighting an updated modern version of the age-old character.

Nintendo's beleaguered Wii U console has finally been put to rest: the Japanese console-maker has confirmed that Wii U production has ceased in the Land of the Rising Sun.

Now that Nintendo's hot new Switch hybrid handheld-console is on the way, the company is keen on erasing the Wii U from its current hardware lineup. Nintendo has confirmed that it won't be making any more Wii U consoles and once the current stock is sold the system will become another curious part of gaming history.

In many ways, the Wii U was absolutely essential for Nintendo's success. The console taught Nintendo a valuable lesson about the importance of third-party developer relations as well as clearly and concisely advertising their hardware.

ZTE has released a video teaser for their upcoming smartphone. The video doesn't reveal the name of the device, but according to the rumors, it should be the ZTE Blade A610 Plus.

The video also doesn't reveal the specs of the phone, but it does give an idea about the design. However, there are already leaks about the ZTE's upcoming device, so we know what to expect.