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EA is one of the biggest players in the games industry, and the company's current yearly financials highlight all the ways the publisher has conquered the gaming world. Microtransactions, DLC, and live services are a massive revenue stream for EA, and this year alone the company pulled in $1.68 billion via digital content outside of full game downloads.

EA just reported positive Fiscal Year 2017 earnings from April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017, and something in particular caught my eye: EA is making money hand-over-fist with "recurrent consumer spending," aka microtransactions, and live services, ie season pass additions like extra maps and other priced DLC. Just how much is EA earning in this digital sector? Over $1 billion.

Electronic Arts pulled in $1.682 billion in digital net sales with live services across PC and console in FY2017. This value doesn't even include digital net sales earned from mobile, which amounts to $682 million.

We recently reported that OnePlus might have discontinued the 128GB version of the OnePlus 3T. The company's official website listed the device as discontinued.

However, it seems that that phone is simply out of stock. The company's global website now changed the 128GB OnePlus 3T from 'discontinued' to 'out of stock.'

A representative from OnePlus said:

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is one of the best games ever made, and while it is selling a bunch of Nintendo Switch consoles, PC gamers are getting a huge tease of the game running at the glorious 4K resolution through Wii U emulator Cemu.

YouTuber 'CryZENx' has been hard at work on Breath of the Wild on the PC, with his latest build running at 4K 30FPS - which is a huge leap from the previous iterations of the game. Cemu took to Patreon in March, with 8000 backers on the project - and now the team is making $34,000 per month that they're pumping into the coding behind the scenes. The pay off? Zelda: Breath of the Wild at 4K 30FPS.

Zelda: Breath of the Wild was running through Cemu 1.7.5 at 4K on an Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.8GHz, and 2 x EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti cards in SLI, with 32GB of DDR4 and an ASRock Z97 Extreme 4 motherboard. This is obviously a mountain of hardware compared to what's inside of the Switch, but still - Breath of the Wild has never looked any better.

It looks as though one of the first engineering samples of AMD's next-gen Raven Ridge APUs has leaked onto the SiSoftware Database, giving us some details on the processor - and as always this is a hot and steamy rumor, and nothing else.

AMD has launched its new Ryzen CPU family with multiple SKUs in the Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 lines, but we haven't seen Ryzen 3 yet. Later this year AMD will launch Raven Ridge, a new APU using Zen CPU cores, but it'll also rock Vega NCUs as well. The engineering sample in question was a 4C/8T part at 3GHz base clock and 3.3GHz turbo clock, with 704 Vega NCUs at 800MHz.

The Raven Ridge engineering sample featured 2MB of L2 cache and 4MB of L3 cache, while the new chip sported 11 compute units - so if we blend in 64 stream processors per CU, we should see 704 stream processors in total on the Vega NCU. The chip was pushing 572.68 Mpix/s, too.

GTC 2017 - NVIDIA is preparing to unleash its next-gen Volta GPU architecture at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, CA - with Jensen Huang, CEO and founder of NVIDIA saying that the company is building inventory for a new product announcement during his keynote in the morning.

At GTC 2016 the company unveiled its Pascal-based Tesla P100 professional graphics card powered by HBM2 technology, so I'm expecting a Volta GPU architecture announcement alongside the unveiling of the Tesla V100. I'm sure we'll see even more HBM2 on the purported Tesla V100 (The 'P' in Tesla P100 stands for Pascal, so V100 would be Volta, right?) and we could even see a GDDR6-based variant, but I think that'll be the GeForce GTX 20 series announcement for later this year.

Until then, what do you think we'll see unveiled at GTC 2017? Volta in professional form? A new TITAN Xv graphics card on the new Volta GPU architecture, or something completely different?

GTC 2017 - NVIDIA has been constructing its new headquarters for a while now, and we're still 5 months away from completion so that their 2500 employees can have a new home to work.

The company has spent $370 million on the new HQ, which spans 46,500 square meters, and is split into two floors. The entire building is centralized, which has all of the underground garage through to the toilets being accessible from the center of the building. NVIDIA did this, so that they could "capture the energy and the buzz of the company".

NVIDIA has watercooled the entire building, where they're using recycled water that will be piped into a tower sunk under the roof of the building, and will cool the building through "an evaporation system with three giant fans". NVIDIA CEO and founder Jensen Huang will not have an office, and will work across different buildings in various places instead.

GTC 17 - NVIDIA is always showing off incredible new technology at its own GPU Technology Conference, and this year is no different with a new system shown off that is capable of driving multiple VR headsets at once.

It's just a proof of concept right now, with the system running 4 x NVIDIA Quadro P6000 graphics cards on 4 x virtual machines, all on HTC's Lighthouse tracking system. The 4 x Quadro P6000 graphics cards feed their GPU horsepower into HTC's Vive Business Edition headsets, making it perfect for professional multi-user VR systems in amusement parks, cinemas, and arcades.

Tom Kaye, Senior Architect at NVIDIA explains: "The possibilities are endless. With the addition of remote management and reliability features, such as multiple templates, clone on boot and remote rebuilds, we could see system builders working to create a robust, ready-to-deploy multi-user VR appliance".

NVIDIA has come out swinging with its quarterly financial report yet again, with the company seeing a huge 48.4% increase in quarterly revenue, thanks to the never ending demand for its GPUs that are used in gaming PCs, cloud computing, AI, the data center world, and more.

NVIDIA's future HQ

NVIDIA's data center revenue saw nearly double the revenue in Q1 2017 up to $409 million, beating analysts' expectations of $318.2 million, according to FactSet. Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress said: "All of the world's major internet and cloud service providers now use NVIDIA's Tesla-based GPU (graphics processing unit) accelerators".

After Samsung has launched its new Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones, and before Apple has yet to counter with its iPhone 7S and iPhone 8/X release - Microsoft's Alex Kipman has kicked the house of cards over by saying "The phone is already dead. People just haven't realized".

If we consider there are 1.5 billion smartphones expected to ship this year alone, and that Microsoft has virtually none of that pie, it's not hard to see how the company can have a skewed view on things. Sure, augmented/mixed/virtual reality headsets and devices will be really cool new technologies and products, but I don't see how the smartphone is "dead" and we all haven't "realized" it yet. Kipman didn't say when the smartphone would start showing signs of death, but with Apple recently being called one of the most valuable companies in the world - again - I wouldn't worry just yet.

GTC 2017 - SK Hynix is displaying its next-gen GDDR6 technology at NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference, their new memory standard that will power NVIDIA's next-gen Volta GPU architecture, with Volta-based graphics cards set to arrive in 2018.

NVIDIA is currently using various different RAM standards on their graphics cards, with their Tesla P100 graphics card using HBM2 (yes, before AMD's upcoming Radeon RX Vega), GDDR5X at 11Gbps on the TITAN Xp, Titan X(P), GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, and the new GTX 1080 11Gbps model, and then GDDR5 for the rest of its graphics cards.

SK Hynix displayed the differences between GDDR5 and GDDR6, with some huge increases in speeds and bandwidth - and up to 16Gb chips, while offering less power consumption.

Among the many changes Final Fantasy VII: Remaster has over the beloved PlayStation original, Cloud Strife--along with the rest of the cast--will have full voice acting. In fact, Cloud's voice in the Remaster will match the same tone and timber as in Advent Children, Kingdom Hearts, World of Final Fantasy, and other games.

In a recent Tweet, voice actor Steve Burton has confirmed he'll lend his voice to Cloud Strife in Square Enix's hotly anticipated Final Fantasy VII: Remake. "Hope you all have a great day. Flying to LA today for the Daytime Emmys this Sunday and a little voice over work for Cloud Strife. Much love," Burton wrote on Twitter.

Since Burton has voiced Cloud in fourteen games to date, including six Kingdom Hearts games, Dirge of Cerberus, Crisis Core, the aforementioned Advent Children, and two Dissidia Final Fantasy games, it makes sense for him to be on board for the Remake as well.

Today Valve released a new Steam feature to help point PC gamers towards titles they may not know about.

Valve just published an interesting bit of insight into their hopes and plans for Steam as a whole, and if you haven't read it yet, I urge you to check it out. Valve says it will publish a three-part series that discusses various features and changes coming to Steam, and the first part revealed a new feature that's coming to the platform today: algorithm-based predictions. This feature will point you towards games you may like, and gives you reasons based on your previous games library on why you may like said new game.

"We want to show you more of what [the black box algorithm] doing and why - and we have some features planned to help with this, starting with one we're launching today: an algorithm section on game pages that states why the Store thinks this game will (or will not) be interesting to you," Valve's Robin Walker wrote in the update. "This section will let you see inside the black box, and understand what the Store is thinking. We hope it will be useful whenever you're exploring the Store, but in particular, whenever you've navigated from an external web page directly to a specific game's Store page."

ROCCAT has transcended beyond gaming peripherals to make PC games, starting off with Sick City.

ROCCAT today announced its new games development studio, Roccat Games Studio, and its first-ever PC game called Sick City. The company says Sick City is a real-time tactical combat 4v4 squad-based game that incorporates mechanics and themes from classics like Commandos, Company of Heroes, and Warcraft 3 .

With this unique mashup the studio aims to "create a unique interpretation of action-based tactical combat" while also keeping the PC gaming community close to the game's development, integrating key feedback from players to shape the game.

When the rumors about the name and specs of the OnePlus 3T successor started floating around, the company decided to put an end to them and confirm that they will, in fact, launch the OnePlus 5 this summer.

And while they are still quiet about the specs and we haven't seen any official previews of the phone, OnePlus published the first teaser on its Weibo account.

Read also: OnePlus 5 confirmed, arrives this summer

For the first time ever, Toshiba is publicly demonstrating its new 64-layer BiCS memory at the Dell EMC World conference in Las Vegas.

To demo its third-generation 64-layer BiCS 3D TLC NAND flash technology, Toshiba outfitted a laptop with a prototype XG NVMe SSD with 1TB of BiCS memory to highlight the advantages its new memory brings to the enterprise and consumer storage markets. As Toshiba notes, the new third-gen BiCS flash memory leverages a 64-layer stacking process that offers 65% greater per-millimeter bit density than its 48-layer 256GB storage, offering maximum capacity combined with high-speeds and reliability.

Toshiba also announces that it plans to migrate all client, data center and enterprise SSDs to tap its next-gen 64-layer BiCS 3D NAND TLC memory to ensure optimum performance, capacity, and endurance. No official timeline was given for this migration, but one thing is clear: Toshiba is betting big on its BiCS flash.

We haven't heard much from Faraday Future since they announced their first production vehicle, the FF 91, back in January at CES.

But the company is still here, and they wanted to remind everyone about their upcoming electric car with a new video titled "Emergence." This is the first time, since CES, that we see the car in action.

Read also: Faraday Future stops factory construction to afford CES

Back in 2015, Oukitel launched the K10000, a smartphone that stood out because of its enormous 10,000 mAh battery, which could fully charge three iPhone 6s Plus units and still have 10% battery life left. Now the company is preparing to launch its successor.

The rumored K10000 Pro is expected to have the same insane 10,000 mAh batter, but it should come with spec improvements.

The screen size is expected to stay the same, 5.5-inch, but with a higher resolution, 1080p. The K10000 Pro should be powered by MediaTek's octa-core 1.5Ghz processor, and according to the rumors, it will come with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage.

The OnePlus 3T is the company's current flagship released in November last year. The phone comes in two versions - with 64GB or 128GB of internal storage.

However, there are some reports that the company has decided to discontinue the 128GB version of the device. A quick look at the company's website shows that the device is indeed unavailable at the moment.

It could be that the company wants to focus on the upcoming OnePlus 5, which they recently confirmed and announced its launch in the summer.

The rumor mill is buzzing around Ubisoft's new ancient Egypt-based Assassin's Creed game, and now a purported leaked screenshot of the massive new game has surfaced.

Two days ago we reported that Assassin's Creed: Origins, Ubisoft's reported new game in the landmark series formally known as Assassin's Creed: Empire, might take place in Hellenistic Egypt. Rumor has it that the game will be a massive open-world endeavor with staggering freedom that allows players to sail across the Mediterranean from Egypt to Greece--complete with naval battles, cyclopean cities and world wonders, and much more. Now a possible source on Reddit has released what could be a screenshot from Assassin's Creed: Origins.

The purported source goes on to say that the bulk of Black Flag's dev team at Ubisoft Montreal worked on AC: Origins, and that the game is built within the company's new high-end next-gen Anvil Engine to allow a new dimension of seamless travel and exploration, not unlike Zelda: Breath of the Wild's living, breathing world.

Apple has jumped to the lead in the wearables market, while former leader Fitbit has fallen to third place.

According to the data obtained by Strategy Analytics, global wearables shipments rose to 22 million units during Q1 2017, which is up 21% compared to the first quarter of 2016.

Steven Waltzer, Industry Analyst at Strategy Analytics, said: