ASUS, GIGABYTE, and MSI will be increasing retail pricing for its motherboards and graphics cards in China starting next month, right after the 2017 Lunar New Year holidays, according to sources of DigiTimes.

They reported: "The sources expect the motherboard players to raise their product prices by around 5%. Since demand for motherboards has not been strong for the past few years, maintaining sales with the price increases will be a major task for the players".

The same sources said that Intel's new Kaby Lake-capable 200 series motherboards and NVIDIA's latest GeForce GTX 10 series graphics cards will be increased in price in China. DigiTimes continued: "Currently, NVIDIA's GTX 1080 and 1070 GPUs are in shortage due to issues at an upstream foundry partner. Although NVIDIA tried to shift its orders to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), TSMC's fully loaded capacity is expected to prolong the shortages. As a result, NVIDIA has been adjusting its GPU supply to graphics card vendors recently and this has caused graphics card prices to rise".

Samsung is reportedly securing most of Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 835 processors for its upcoming Galaxy S8 smartphone, according to sources of Forbes.

Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 835 processor has some industry leading features and technology, including 1Gbps speeds over LTE - and so much more. Samsung has worked closely with Qualcomm over the years, but the use of the Snapdragon 810 and its overheating issues had Samsung shift to using its own Exynos processors in some of its Galaxy handsets. The Galaxy S8 is shaping up beautifully in leaked videos of the handset, with what's sure to be the best smartphone display yet.

Samsung is working even closer with Qualcomm in regards to using their next-gen Snapdragon 835 processor in its upcoming Galaxy S8 smartphone, which is sure to be one of the best selling smartphones of 2017. According to Forbes' sources "Samsung has first dibs" on Snapdragon 835 processors for its new phone.

LG is moving forward with its entertainment products, with a tease of its new MusicFlow wireless speakers that will have built-in Google Home and Google Multiroom support - not only that, but they will also have "Chromecast built-in" - perfect.

Better yet, LG will make their older line up improved with an over-the-air update, baking in the Google goodness through the OTA update to previous-gen MusicFlow speakers. LG added it has worked closely with Google for the Multiroom configuration, so they added Home support at the same time.

LG wrote in a forum post: "We have prepared Google Multiroom functionality. During preparing for that, we also discuss with Google team about Link with Google Home device function. And, we decide to update two major functionalities, 'Google Multiroom' and 'Link with Google Home device' at the same time".

Resident Evil 7 was meant to be a fresh change for the franchise, and it seems Capcom weren't lying - with the initial wave of reviews for Resident Evil 7 being overwhelmingly positive.

For the first time in the Resident Evil series, the game is 100% in the first-person perspective - with many gamers wanting to see Capcom keep the first-person style starting with Resident Evil 7. First-person horror games are quite big right now, but with a massive franchise like Resident Evil entering it - in a sea of some very good indie devs and smaller studios with first-person horror games, this is a great thing to see.

Better yet, Resident Evil 7 works on PlayStation VR - an exclusive to the PS4 for now, before it heads on over to the VR headsets on the PC. Our friends over at UploadVR reviewed the game, with David Jagneaux saying:

We've had a little tease of LG's upcoming G6 smartphone, but now The Verge is here with a full reveal ahead of LG's official announcement on February 26 during Mobile World Congress 2017.

LG's new G6 smartphone will rock a large 5.7-inch display with a 2:1 aspect ratio, with the company wanting as little bezel as possible. The G6 rocks a screen-to-bezel ratio of 90%, which will make the G6's screen take up most of the front - and so it should.

The company has however moved away from its modular design in the G5, with the new G6 built entirely from glass and metal. LG will be including a 3.5mm headphone jack on the G6, which will make people happy - but there'll be waterproof goodness included, but unfortunately - the battery is not replaceable. Boo.

Apple teamed with LG their new UltraFine 5K Display, something that was compatible with Apple's newly refreshed MacBook Pro, but now the 5K displays are having problems and Apple has been deleting consumers' negative reviews.

The issue with the new 5K displays are that some consumers are seeing their monitor flicker briefly after their MacBook Pro has gone to sleep and recently woken up. The screen won't properly turn on, is to pull the power out of the display and plug it back in. Sometimes this doesn't fix the issue, with some people saying that their MacBook Pro would completely freeze up, needing a manual reboot.

Others reported that the flashy new TouchBar doesn't work when the 5K monitor is connected, with some reports that FileVault - the file encryption in macOS, is incompatible for them - with their MBP being 'unreliable' with the 5K monitor and FileVault enabled.

Nintendo's new Switch handheld-console hybrid might only have a total of fourteen games when it launches on March 3, 2017 (half of them being Japanese), but Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima wasn't kidding when he said the Switch would have a "full software library."

We've seen lots of lists of confirmed Nintendo Switch games, but sometimes a visual aid is needed to truly underline the scope of the hybrid console's software library. Nintendo America President Reggie Fils-Aime has confirmed that "over 50 developers are working on more than 80 games for the Switch," many of which haven't been announced. But when we take a look at all the confirmed announced titles, it certainly adds much-needed perspective to the Nintendo Switch's games lineup.

The above visual aid was crafted by Twitter user Dystify, and if you're keen on more Switch news, you should definitely give them a follow. It's also interesting to note that publisher and developers are revealing even more Switch launch games as time goes by, so this list could continue to grow. For example, Square Enix today announced that I Am Setsuna would be a day one Switch game. So by no means are online lists like IGN's Switch games lineup list 100% complete.

Today Bandai Namco revealed Tekken 7 has been delayed to June 2, 2017 on all platforms. June is a far cry from the original "Early 2017" timeframe touted by the publisher, with the game now releasing in Summer 2017 instead, but the publisher has stepped in to answer for the cause of the delay.

Although Tekken 7: Fated Retribution has been out since 2015 in Japan, the console and PC port is much different than the arcade version. The NA and European Tekken 7 will have a multitude of features that aren't available in arcades while also retaining much of the same content of the Japanese version.

"The console version of TEKKEN 7 contains features, tuning, characters, and modes that are not found in the arcade version," a rep from the publisher wrote on Bandai Namco's Facebook page.

Intel has only just launched its new Kaby Lake CPUs led by the Core i7-7700K, and yet we're hearing rumors already on the company's new HEDT, or high-end desktop processor.

The new Skylake-X will be the successor to the Core i7-6950X, while the lower-end 4-core/8-thread model arrives as the Kaby Lake-X family. The higher-end 10, 8, and 6-core models are based on the older Skylake architecutr, with a higher 140W TDP. The 4-core Kaby Lake-X processor feature a 112W TDP, while all of the new HEDT processors will be pushed as the Core i7-7000 series.

This means we won't see a Core i7-7950X, but rather a K series processor as the report mentions Intel will release 4 new K series products, and no X series product. So we should expect the the possibilities of Intel calling their new HEDT processor the Core i7-7950X.

Dark Souls 3's second and final DLC pack The Ringed City will release on March 28, 2017 on all platforms, Bandai Namco today revealed.

This is it, folks: this is the final ride in the Souls universe. The Ringed City will be a story-based content expansion that fully expands on the series' macabre weirdness, and serves as the actual final chapter of the series as a whole. Hidetaki Miyazaki has already confirmed that Dark Souls 3 is the final chapter in the franchise, and this bit of DLC will be the setting sun point for the series. So let's hope it's a good story.

"At the close of the Age of Fire, as the world ends and all lands converge upon themselves, a lone adventurer descends into the madness of the earth and uncovers the secrets of the past. As players make their way to the fabled Ringed City they will encounter ancient beasts, a new cast of characters teetering on the edge of insanity, new armor, weapons, magic, and at the bottom of it all, a long lost city filled with new horrors for players to overcome."

The next installment in the episodic 'Star Wars' saga has been revealed by Lucasfilm. Drum roll...

Starring Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley, Carrie Fisher, John Boyega and Adam Driver, 'The Last Jedi' breaks with 'Star Wars' convention to continue directly from the conclusion of 'The Force Awakens'.

The Wii U is all-but dead: when Zelda: Breath of the Wild rolls out onto the system on March 3, 2017, the console will be effectively retired in terms of software--Breath of the Wild will be Nintendo's last game on the Wii U, and their entire focus will shift to Nintendo's new Switch handheld-console hybrid. Now Nintendo is started to pull attention away from the retired system in an effort to push its hot new hybrid.

The Wii U is no longer a major focus on Nintendo's official website. The Switch has taken its place, and for good reason: the Switch represents the total culmination of everything Nintendo has ever done in the games industry, and is the combination of all its hardware. The Switch is a huge deal; the Wii U sold terribly and had awful third-party support. In many ways, the Switch is the polar opposite of the Wii U (at least in Nintendo's mind), so it's doing everything it can to distance itself from the Wii U, and distance the Switch from the dead system.

Now Nintendo hasn't completely scrubbed the Wii U from its online site. The Wii U still has its own tab at the top of the screen that links to the Wii U's dedicated section. While I can say the Wii U is dead, it's still being supported by Nintendo's eShop and the company has been rolling a steady stream of Virtual Console games onto the system...but that's probably the extent of any future game support from anyone.

EA Access and Origin Access members will get try out a 10-hour demo of Mass Effect: Andromeda five days before the game comes out, the publisher has announced.

The 10-hour Mass Effect: Andromeda Play First Trial will be available on March 16 for all regions, a full five days before the action RPG's multi-platform launch on March 21, 2017. Remember that EA Access is console exclusive for Xbox One systems and isn't available to PlayStation 4, so PS owners will be left out of the trial.

BioWare has confirmed that all your progress from the trial will carry over to the main game, too.

At IFA Berlin in 2011, Samsung announced the original Galaxy Note, the first smartphone from the Note line. Since then, Samsung has introduced at least one Note device a year with the latest being the Note7.

After the Note7 fiasco, there were speculations of what will happen with the Note line and whether Samsung will discontinue it which would be a shame since the Note7 was a wonderful phone (apart from the exploding batteries).

Now, we finally know for sure that the Note isn't dead and we will be seeing the Galaxy Note 8 later this year. The news was confirmed by DJ Koh, Samsung's Mobile Chief, who said in an interview that the company would keep working on the Note-series smartphones.

Bandai Namco today revealed that Tekken 7 will blast into battle on June 2, 2017 on Xbox One, PS4, and Steam...but the publisher also revealed some worrying details too.

Tekken 7 will have characters locked behind paid DLC in a season pass format. I can't say I'm surprised given the nature of Bandai Namco's current business model, but I do think this has absolutely no place in Tekken; Tekken has always been about earning the extra characters with time, not money. And if that wasn't enough, the publisher is also locking a character, Eliza, behind a pre-order paygate.

As a hardcore Tekken fan, I don't agree with these changes. I don't like them. And I'm wondering how Harada feels about it. This move has to bee quite awkward, and it might be the right one in terms of money and investment on Bandai Namco's part, but it just feels so wrong in terms of a fan perspective.

Samsung has confirmed that they will not unveil their highly-anticipated flagship, the Samsung Galaxy S8, at this year's MWC in Barcelona.

This will be the first time in four years that Samsung won't launch their latest flagship at MWC.

DJ Koh, the head of Samsung's mobile business, confirmed this to Reuters although he didn't give any specific reasons for why they are postponing the launch of the Galaxy S8.

At this year's CES, Xiaomi announced that the beautiful Mi MIX would soon come in white color as well.

While the dates for its release haven't been confirmed yet, Xiaomi's marketing director Zang Zhiyuan has revealed that the launch will happen very soon. The rumors say that we could see the white Mi MIX in February.

The price of the white Mi MIX should be the same as the one of the black version (around $516, but can vary between $500 and $600, depending on where you are looking at) and it is expected it will come with the same specs.

Samsung has finally revealed the results of the investigation regarding the Note7 debacle.

As speculated, and confirmed a week ago by a source close to the investigation, Samsung blames the faulty batteries from two suppliers for the Note7 fiasco.

The investigation ruled out the problems with hardware and software and concluded that the only cause of the incidents were manufacturing and design defects in the Note7 batteries.

Hugo Barra, the face of Xiaomi, has announced that he is leaving the company after three and a half years.

Barra said in a social media post that he will return to Silicon Valley, where he was formerly Google's Vice President of Android Product Management until he joined Xiaomi, to "embark on a new adventure."

The disappointing 2015 sequel 'Terminator Genisys' was met with an equally disappointing box office returns, which is why Paramount scrapped initial plans to close out the long running franchise with a new film trilogy. But now the director who started it all is taking back the reigns to finish it properly.

Deadline reports that 'Teminator' and 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' director James Cameron, who originally created the franchise is looking to produce a new film "is in early talks with 'Deadpool' director and VFX wiz Tim Miller to direct a reboot and conclusion of one of cinema's great science fiction tales." Cameron regains the rights to the saga in 2019, but it looks as if current rights holder David Ellison, CEO of Skydance Media is cooperating with the effort.

Meanwhile, 26 years after its original release, 'Terminator' fans can look to the theatrical return of 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' in 3D which is set to hit cinemas later this year.