Microsoft truly believes that major third-party publishers like EA, Activision and Ubisoft will embrace its cross-buy PC-and-console Play Anywhere initiative, despite these companies losing out on potential sales.

Xbox's Play Anywhere program is great for first-party games, and many gamers love the idea of buying a digital PC game and getting a free console port with their purchase. It's an effort to unify Windows 10 PCs and the Xbox brand, but not all publishers are likely to be keen on this idea, as companies typically hate the word "free," especially when it applies to something they can charge $60 for. In an interview with PC Authority, Xbox division manager Phil Spencer was recently asked if third-party publishers will ever adopt Play Anywhere, and here's what he said:

"I'd say some of the bigger traditional third party publishers, they want to see how [Play Anywhere] works out for us. There's always a fear that 'are you giving away two games for the price of one?' I'll say I think there are very few people that actually buy a game twice, once on PC, once on console."

Blizzard prepared something special for World of Warcraft players, especially those who have been playing the game for a while. After updating some of the old dungeons in the past, such as Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep, Blizzard will now upgrade Karazhan and turn it into a 5-man dungeon.

Karazhan was initially introduced as a ten-player raid instance in the Burning Crusade expansion but even after newer expansions came out, and Karazhan wasn't actual anymore, many players kept returning there hoping the Fiery Warhorse's Reins would drop.

With patch 7.1, confirmed for October 25th, players will once again return to Karazhan. The developers promised that the Return to Karazhan would feature lots of new content, and the comeback of the iconic Karazhan will gladden many players.

After the rather dull Platinum Demo, my expectations for Final Fantasy 15 somewhat faltered; and I wasn't alone. FF15's Titan battle demo at Xbox's E3 2016 showcase didn't help much, and then we had reports that the game was an unoptimized mess on consoles, barely hitting 1080p 30FPS. To address this and polish the game to a fine sheen, Square Enix delayed FF15 to late November.

But it looks like all of our fears and worries were in vain, and Square Enix has made great progress with the game. According to Polygon's Phil Kollar, the game is actually "very good" and "worth the wait," featuring a "story that's much more engaging than I had imagined."

Kollar played through the first 15 hours of the game's total 200 or so hours of content, taking on a portion of what the game had to offer in that slice of time: side missions, main quests, combat, open world exploration, etc. We're not sure if Kollar tested the final optimized version, or if he's playing the E3 2016 demo version, and I've reached out to him for clarification. Seeing as FF15 drops next month, I'm guessing it's the final version, or very close to the final release build.

Two Chinese astronauts arrived at the space lab Tiangong-2 and began the longest Chinese mission in space. Astronauts Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong will spend 30 days in space, conducting many experiments.

The spacecraft Shenzou-11 has successfully docked with the uncrewed Tiangong-2 space lab on Tuesday at 3:24 p.m. EDT, at an altitude of 393 kilometers (244 miles), after Monday's launch from the Jiuquan space center managed by the Chinese army on the border with the Gobi desert.

The Chinese state television broadcast a three-hour live video showing the landing and astronauts floating trough a meter long and 80 centimeters wide passenger passage which they had to go trough in order to get to the space lab. Haipeng and Dong will spend the next 30 days doing experiments, and their return to Earth is scheduled for November 14th.

Battlefield 1 hits a glorious 160x90p 60FPS on PS4. Wait...what?

As we all know, PS4 and Xbox One typically can't hit 1080p 60FPS in games, so they use dynamic resolution scaling that sacrifices resolution in order to hit a targeted frame rate. Battlefield 1 hits 60FPS on both PS4 and Xbox One, so both consoles have to dip in resolution.

A glitch in the PS4 version of Battlefield 1 sees the dynamic resolution scaling backfire tremendously, with the resolution dropping to an insanely paltry 160x90p at ~60FPS. The glitch was caught in a Battlefield 1 PS4 frame rate test by VG_Tech, and has gone viral across the net.

Huawei just announced its latest self-made Kirin 960 chip, a high-end SoC that will bring performance boosts to its new Mate 9 flagship handset this November.

The Kirin 960 is a 16nm SoC, and features an octa-core CPU that's comprised of four of ARM's new high-end Cortex A73 2.4GHz cores alongside four Cortex A53 1.8GHz cores. On the GPU side, Huawei's Kirin 960 taps ARM's new 900MHz Mali-G71 MP8 GPU, which features full Vulkan support and doubles the core shader count while offering an 180% boost in GPU performance over the Kirin 950.

Manhattan and T-Rex offscreen benches show the Kirin 960's new bigger MP8-grade Mali-G71 GPU topped the Snapdragon 820 and Exynos 8890.

The Soyuz MS-02 successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 4:05 AM EDT Wednesday, October 19. NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos are now safely in orbit.

Over the next two days, they will orbit the Earth 34 times before docking to the Space Station's module on Friday, October 21. The two cosmonauts and an astronaut are a part of ISS Expedition 49, and upon their arrival at the Station, they will be welcomed by the rest of the members - Anatoli Ivanishin, Kathleen Rubins and Takuya Onishi, who arrived at the Station in July.

EA has just revealed its pricing fee structure for Battlefield 1's private server rentals, and they're kinda expensive.

With Battlefield 1's Rent a Server program, any player can rent a private server on PS4, Xbox One, or PC. The Rent-a-Server pricing, however, comes at a premium, and PC gamers can expect to shell out $150 for the maximum 6 month rental period, whereas PS4 and Xbox One owners get charged $100.

Battlefield 1's Rent-a-Server Program will launch in November. Check below for the full pricing scheme as well as a FAQ at the end.

After the catastrophic release of the Galaxy Note 7, it looks like Samsung might be approaching 2017 in a very different way according to rumors out of South Korea.

The Korea Herald is reporting that Samsung is "planning to ditch its existing smartphone marketing strategy and may release only one premium model annually to ensure product quality", according to Korean news outlet Newsis. Samsung normally releases two flagship smartphones every year, with the Galaxy S in the first half of the year, followed by the larger Galaxy Note in the second half of the year.

We don't know if Samsung will be retiring the Note brand after its battery-related issues that have seen tens of billions of dollars of value wiped away from Samsung shares, but one of Samsung's partner firms said: "Samsung has not notified its suppliers of the plan to scrap the current two-flagship models strategy, but if so that could impact the parts suppliers to some extent. For now, everything is up in the air about what Samsung will do to recover from the recent fiasco involving the Note 7, but it will certainly make changes to its current marketing strategy and product portfolio".

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided limped through its release on the PC, with Nixxes releasing yet another update that includes DX12 performance and stability optimizations. The last patch released by Nixxes included multi-GPU support for DX12, as well as being the official DX12 support stamp for Mankind Divided on PC.

Nixxes' new patch is built 592.1, and includes many improvements to DX12, gameplay, and general fixes/stability improvements. The full details:

The following gameplay changes are in this patch:

Qualcomm may have just blown our minds with the first 5G modem, but it wasn't finished with the announcements during its 4G/5G Summit in Hong Kong, where it announced it's teamed with Netgear, Ericsson, and Australian telco Tesltra on the Netgear Mobile Router MR1100.

Netgear's new Mobile Router MR1100 is the first mobile hotspot to support 1Gbps LTE speeds, thanks to a combination of Qualcomm's Snapdragon X16 LTE modem, MIMO technology, 3X carrier aggregation, and Higher Order Modulation 256 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM).

Australia, with its piddly download quotas, will be the first country to have the 1Gbps-capable MR1000 router in operation, through Telstra who say that it should be running "in the coming months". Qualcomm will be baking the new LTE modem into its next-generation Snapdragon processors that will power devices throughout 2018 and beyond.

We all know the pain of reinstalling or getting your Windows installation on a new OEM "clean" install of your OS, but Microsoft has just made this a million times easier with their new Windows 10 refresh tool.

Microsoft's new tool lets you "reset" the entire operating system, removing the bloatware that comes on some PCs from big brand companies like Lenovo (sorry for picking you out of the bunch, Lenovo - so how about I add Samsung, Dell, and others). The new tool can be downloaded right here, where Windows will reinstall itself to the same state as if you were to install it from the USB flash drive or DVD - without all that OEM bloatware crap.

Rob Williams from HotHardware (and TechGage!) says: "First and foremost, you don't have to lose your files by doing this; you'll be provided the option to keep them. Second, you may run into some roadblocks with regards to app licenses (eg: the preinstalled apps that are no longer preinstalled). That even includes vendor-specific drivers, so if your notebook or desktop has special hardware that Windows 10 can't install on its own, you'll need to hit up the vendor's website to download and install the drivers manually".

The Pokemon GO craze has no doubt taken over the gaming scene around the world, but now it looks like the app will be making its first music career debut, starring in a parody type style video for the new Maroon 5 single: "Don't Wanna Know". Launching on YouTube only days ago, the video provided below is the official clip posted.

Maroon 5 known for its hit songs "This Love" and "Sugar", along with many other record selling titles, has taken the smartphone app an incorporated their own spin on it with the adaptation of humor and chaos, similar to how it's portrayed in today's society both online, and through social media.

The video clip captures lead singer, Adam Levine and other band members in what appears to be a monster/Pokemon like costumes running away from children that are seen holding phones, chasing after them. The music video then switches to a different scene located at a concert where it's apparent that all members are performing in Pokemon like costumes as the one in which Adam is wearing could be mistaken for the water Mon "Squirtle", as it possesses a turtle like shell and is visually the same color.

Samsung is dealing with massive issues with the halt of sales of its Note 7 smartphones after a handful of them had battery-related issues, with the number meant to not just stop with the purportedly fixed Note 7, except it didn't. Now we're hearing about the future of SoCs from Samsung, as they've just announced mass production of their 10nm FinFET process.

Executive VP and Head of Foundry Business at Samsung Electronics, Jong Shik Yoon announced: "The industry's first mass production of 10nm FinFET technology demonstrates our leadership in advanced process technology. We will continue our efforts to innovate scaling technologies and provide differentiated total solutions to our customers".

How does 10nm benefit us? The new 10nm FinFET LPE process uses an advanced 3D transistor structure that includes new process technology and design compared to the previous node. With Samsung shrinking down to 10nm, we'll see a 30% increase in area efficiency, as well as a 27% higher performance ratio, and 40% lower power consumption. 10nm isn't easy, with the new node being one of the smallest in mass production, Samsung used "cutting edge techniques such as triple-patterning to allow bi-directional routing are also used to retain design and routing flexibility from prior nodes".

The much anticipated feature film adaptation of 'Assassin's Creed' is almost upon us, and today Twentieth Century Fox has unleasehed the latest trailer for the film, which mercifully drops the Kanye audio.

Starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard and directed by Justin Kurzel, the feature film will follow Callum Lynch in an epic adventure which builds on the deep universe that Ubisoft have built for the last decade with the best-selling series.

'Assassin's Creed' hits cinemas in December in the U.S. and on New Years Day 2017 in Australia.

We knew Netflix was leaning toward original content going forward, but not quite this hard: a letter sent to investors yesterday states it's planning over 1,000 hours of original content for next year, a major increase over 2016.

"We are now in the fourth year of our original content strategy and are pleased with our progress," it reads. "In 2017, we intend to release over 1,000 hours of premium original programming, up from over 600 hours this year."

It has good reason to be pleased, too: quarterly global streaming revenue exceeded $2 billion for the first time (up 36% over last year), attributed partly to success of original shows like Narcos and Stranger Things. Perhaps surprisingly, Netflix is still about breaking even for the 2016 fiscal year, but expects to finally be profitable starting next year.

Orbital ATK successfully launched their Antares rocket carrying cargo to the International Space Station on Monday evening. The initial launch was set for October 16th, but it was postponed due to a ground support equipment (GSE) cable that did not perform as expected during the pre-launch checkout.

This is the first flight on the upgraded Antares 230 launch vehicle, and the first launch from Wallops since an Antares rocket and its Cygnus spacecraft were lost in October 2014, when the rocket failed, and the vehicle and payload were destroyed causing $15 million in damage.

"It's great to see launches to the International Space Station happening again from the Virginia coast - and it shows what can be accomplished with a close partnership of federal and state agencies, along with the U.S. industry, all working together," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.

Today's game graphics are so close to reality that it's sometimes hard to tell whether it is a photograph or a scene from the latest game. Although the video gaming would not reach mainstream popularity until the 1970s and 80s, with arcade video games, gaming consoles and PC games, the first games were actually created about twenty years earlier.

What is considered to be the first video game - Tennis for Two, was released on this day, October 18th, 1958. American physicist William Higinbotham and technician Robert V. Dvorak, who created the game, displayed it on an oscilloscope and played with two custom aluminum controllers.

The game was pretty simple - it was rendered as a horizontal line, representing the tennis court, and a vertical line in the center, representing the tennis net. It was designed for two players, as the game says, who would hit and point the ball with a button on their controller.

The Note7 saga is officially finished after Samsung confirmed their decision to stop the production for the sake of consumer safety. Although some users will accept to exchange it for another Samsung's phone, like a Galaxy S7 or S7 edge, there is no doubt that many users lost their trust in the South Korean giant, and will turn to other manufacturers.

Apple will certainly profit from this trend, but we also must have in mind users that don't want to switch to iOS and want a good Android phone. A logical choice for some might be Google's Pixel or Pixel XL, which was recently announced. But there is another Android phone that could profit from the Note7 fiasco.

Huawei is the third largest phone manufacturer in the world, with an ambitious plan to become the second in the next two years. Their new flagship, Mate 9, will be announced on November 3rd, and the first images, leaked by none other than Evan Blass, show two version of the phone - first one that will look much like its predecessor, the Mate 8 and second one with curved edges on both sides, like the Galaxy Note7 or S7 edge.

Watch Dogs 2's PC port has been delayed to November 29 to ensure the game launches with key PC features intact, including multi-GPU support, 4K support, uncapped FPS, and much more.

Ubisoft is taking Watch Dogs 2 very, very seriously, so they've delayed the game two weeks on PC. The publisher affirms this delay will ensure a number of PC-specific features at launch, including 4K support, no FPS cap and frame rate optimization, full SLI/CrossFire support with multi-GPU setups

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