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AOC has just rolled out its new AGON series gaming monitor, led by the impressive AG251FZ which is a 24.5-inch 1080p monitor with AMD FreeSync technology and a huge 240Hz refresh rate.

The 240Hz refresh rate is a huge deal for professional gamers and enthusiast PC gamers, but you'd better be prepared to own the GPU horsepower to drive 240FPS in your games. Gamers that are playing games like Overwatch, League of Legends, CS:GO or DotA 2 won't have an issue - but don't think you'll be playing at 240FPS on Ultra detail on Battlefield 1 easily on the AOC AG251FZ.

AOC has also included their own Flicker Free Technology and AOC Low Blue Light mode that reduces eye strain and fatigue during those all-night gaming sessions. There's also AOC Shadow Control that will light up the corners of the screen, without making the entire screen brighter. But what good is this new 24.5-inch 1080p 240Hz gaming monitor, without a price?

Amazon is looking to extend its retail dominance into the Middle East with the rumors that it will be acquiring Souq.com, which some call the Amazon of the Middle East.

Bloomberg is reporting that Amazon will be making the $1 billion deal that would give it a large presence in the Middle East, in countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Souq has been doing good things in the Middle East, overcoming issues we overlook in the US and around the world, like having to develop a new payment platform for a part of the world where credit cards aren't everywhere.

This means people can shop for products on Souq with prepaid cards sold at brick-and-mortar retail stores, topping them up when they need to. The other issue that needs to be considered is logistics, which is something that Amazon knows a little about - so I guess that means we can expect drones flying around in a country that doesn't have tight laws pressed on them like the FAA do in the US.

Tesoro has just entered the gaming chair market with the introduction of their new Zone Balance professional gaming chairs, which the company says combines "unique design with versatility and extreme comfort".

The company has used premium materials that are held up by the strong steel frame, with high-density cold core foam that is covered with "uniquely designed polyurethane (PU) faux leather delivering enhanced durability, and splash resistance". Tesoro has included adjustments on the Zone Balance chairs, with an extra-comfy headrest.

You can use the Tesoro Zone Balance gaming chairs as a flat bed, with the back being adjustable to 180 degrees, and a class-4 gas piston that provides easy height adjustment.

BioWare has put significant effort into Mass Effect: Andromeda, and the game has been built from square one featuring all-new textures, assets, alien worlds, ships, characters, tech, powers--all the vital bits--to ensure optimum performance and quality on DICE's potent Frostbite 3 engine.

Now that EA has confirmed all of its studios and future games will be powered by DICE's powerful and flexible Frostbite 3 engine, devs like BioWare typically have to make their assets from scratch in order to transition over and ensure games run smoothly on the engine. That's the case for Mass Effect: Andromeda, which uses completely fresh assets and content to propel the series into a true next-gen feel.

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Armed with the power of modern day CPU and GPU tech, the devs at Ubisoft can make finally realize their complete vision for Beyond Good and Evil 2--in many ways, the sequel will be everything the devs weren't able to achieve in the first game, and those ideas have been kept alive for quite some time. Michel Ancel, the creative director behind the project, affirms the game will be massive in scope and will even take on interstellar juggernauts like Star Citizen.

Beyond Good and Evil 2 is officially in full-fledged development, with Michel Ancel and Ubisoft Montpellier working in tandem to make it. In fact, the game has been in development for quite some time: in a recent interview with Kotaku, Ancel revealed that he's been working on the game for five years now, and that it's "a very serious development for Ubisoft." The game has taken so long because the tech needed to make it wasn't accessible to everyday consumers until the arrival of current-gen consoles.

Ancel continues by saying that Beyond Good and Evil 2 will have a heavy focus on interplanetary travels--something that wasn't really possible with the first game. And he says it's working.

Microsoft Xbox One users will now be able to cross-save Resident Evil 7: Biohazard to their Windows 10 PC consoles and vice versa.

The news first landed on Japanese site, Dengeki. The website stated: "The Windows Store version can share play data with the Xbox One version." IGN also dropped the same information, mentioning Capcom's confirmation of the cross-save feature, providing more evidence to support the story.

Capcom has also confirmed that Resident Evil 7 will have 4K HDR support on the PS4 Pro and PC, and it will be sold on the Windows Store for PC gamers--hence the Xbox One-and-PC cross-save functionality.

Update: The "leaked" Marvel vs Capcom 4 pictures were faked by a NeoGAF user, but the game is still supposed to be revealed at the PlayStation Experience on December 3-4. Check here for more information.

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Despite Capcom's Ryota Niitsuma confirming that "nothing is happening" in regards to Marvel vs Capcom 4, gamers are cautiously kindling the hype fire amid some mysterious pictures that state the sequel will launch in 2017 on PS4.

While everybody is trying to save their wallets from the apocalypse that is Black Friday, Blizzard is trying to give you some good deals reasons to stay at home and away from the crowd by cutting the price of Overwatch almost by half and reducing World of Warcraft price to a mere $4.99. Also, StarCraft 2 and its expansion got a good deal too.

As you can see, Overwatch got a sizeable cut in its price, going from the scary $60 USD to a more modest $35 USD. It's what I would like to call damn affordable. World of Warcraft costed 20 USD but now, you can get it for almost a price of a burger, at only $4.99USD.

As for StarCraft 2, Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm both cost 10 bucks while the newest expansion pack ,Legacy of the Void, cost 30USD for the digital deluxe edition and 20USD for the standard edition.

Ever since Overwatch Mexican female hacker/ hero Sombra have been released, fans have been digging furiously into the game files to find every single one of her voice lines and interactions with other heroes. Much to their surprise - they've found the Christmas theme melody alongside some of them.

You may ask: "Why would such a tiny little jingle be relevant?" Well, with the existence of this tune, we can safely assume that there will be a Christmas event much like what Blizzard did during Halloween. We can potentially see new skins for characters such as a Santa Claus skin for Tobjorn or Mother Santa for Ana! More maps? New co-op mode? Who knows?

As for Sombra, the majority of her lines are jabs and mockeries to the other heroes' past. One of the new voiceline even indicate Sombra translocator might originate from Tracer's tech. That means Sombra may have stolen it from Winston, the gorilla scientist.

Ubisoft have up their generosity game once again. 2016 is the 30th anniversary of the studio. They have been giving away one game each month until now. Today, they have announced a new way to benefit the gamers: 30 days of giveaway.

"30 days of giveaway" will give gamers one freebie each day. It starts on November 24, at 9 am CET and ends on December 23, at 23:59 pm CET. All you have to do is sign up a Ubisoft account, click on the corresponding day and you can enjoy some free games, wallpaper and more!

However, this giveaway does have some quirks like some games might be limited offers and are based on "the first arrive, first served" principle. Some offers might not be available in some countries. As for the unlimited items, you can grab them until the end of the giveaway.

Ubisoft community manager confirms some crucial fixes in upcoming patch for Watch Dogs 2. Mission replayability will be added back at some point.

When redditor Linzo48 lamented about not being able to replay missions in Watch Dogs 2, the community manager UbiBlargmonster reassured the player that "mission replayability will be patch at a later time."

Another redditor who goes by the name of botcomking raised the question about the PS4 screen edge issues with the HUD. Once again, UbiBlargmonster confirms that "it will be fixed in a upcoming patch."

Resident Evil 7 will be the first game in the franchise to support 4K and HDR on the PC, while Sony's slightly quicker PS4 Pro console will run it at native 4K resolution.

Capcom has pumped in highly detailed textures, even on the PS4 Pro, which has furniture and walls looking extremely good according to a few gaming outlets that have laid eyes on Resident Evil 7. Capcom has confirmed my personal fear: Resident Evil 7 will be sold on the Windows Store, which is one of the worst things ever created.

There will be cross-save functionality between the Xbox and PC versions of Resident Evil 7, which is a good touch - while the PS4 version of the game will support PlayStation VR.

We've reported about AMD's next-gen Zen CPU that will outperform Intel's high-end Core i7-5960X, but it looks like the 8-core Summit Ridge SR7 flagship processor will be priced at $499.

AMD will launch 3 different Summit Ridge product tiers, with the high-end/enthusiast SR7 SKUs while the mid-range SR7 and entry-level SR3 SKUs will help out other markets. AMD will launch the higher-end Zen SKUs in January 2017 at CES, while the SR5 and SR3 SKUs will launch two months later in March 2017.

The next-gen SR7 will reportedly have core/turbo clocks of 3.2GHz and 3.5GHz, respectively - while we have 8 CPU cores, with 16 threads in total. There's 16MB of L3 cache joined by 4MB of L2 cache, while we have a 95W TDP. The second member in the SR7 family has the same CPU core count and TDP, but drops the clocks down to 3.0GHz and 3.2GHz for core and turbo clocks, respectively.

It was only last Wednesday when Terry Crews called out to all gamers to cancel all their weekend plans to play Overwatch.

This move have made quite a buzz among the gaming community as he have not only build his own computer recently, but he is also collaborating with PC water cooling expert, JayzTwocents, to build a themed computer which you can help him decide in this strawpoll. His choices are Old Spice and President Camacho from Idiocracy .

Yet, the real kicker is that he answered personally to the plea of redditor SleepyRicky , in the Overwatch subreddit, to let him voiced the rumored hero Doomfist. He states: "I would LOVE TO PLAY DOOMFIST", if the character becomes a official hero.

Xiaomi blew everyone's mind last month when they announced their Mi MIX phone, which whether you like it or not, brought some innovation and courage (not the "let's remove the headphone jack" courage) to the market.

However, the company, according to the recent report from the research firm IDC, is struggling with smartphone sales. Last year, they missed their global smartphone target by 12%, and this year's Q3 sales in China, which is their primary market, have dropped by 45%.

We asked Anshel Sag, Associate Analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, what caused the drop in Xiaomi's smartphone sales.

The dust has settled somewhat on the No Man's Sky debacle, so it's a good a time as any for developer Hello Games to reveal its next stage of post-launch support. Dubbed the Foundation Update, this soon to come patch will add in base building basics and the framework for future patches.

Nine weeks in development, Hello says "it won't be our biggest update, but it is the start of something", later describing it as "the first small step in a longer journey."

While the announcement is subtly worded, it's clear what it means when reading between the lines: now that the polish is taken care of, it's time to add in the features and depth that players have been wanting so badly since release.

Microsoft Xbox One owners who are members of the Xbox Live Gold subscription, are going to be able to play The Elder Scrolls Online free over five days.

The exclusive event starts this coming Wednesday, November 23, at 12:01 AM EST and will run its course through til Sunday, November 27, at 11:59 PM EST.

Users will be able to download the from the Xbox Store, keeping in mind you'll need about 80 GB to do so. Along with free access to the ESO, players will receive 500 crowns to spend in the Crown Store.

You'd think that by spending $4.4 billion on something, it would work... right? The US Navy has built its new destroyer, the USS Zumwalt, with an expensive receipt to cry over - and only weeks after it was officially commissioned, it has been put out of action.

The US Navy said it was their most technologically advanced destroyer, with hidden weapons and sharp angles that make it hard to spot on radar. Engineering problems persisted, and when the USS Zumwalt attempted to join with the US Third Fleet in San Diego, it only made it as far as the Panama Canal, reports Engadget.

The ammo for the $4.4 billion ship is also expensive, sitting at $800K per round, and with a purported 30 Zumwalts in development, the US Navy would be spending some big bank on these ships. The total cost for developing just three Zumwalts is already past $22 billion.

Details on the HIS single-slot Radeon RX 460 Slim-iCooler OC 4GB graphics card have emerged, with the new card being a single-slot solution packing the Polaris architecture.

HIS will be the first AIB partner with a single-slot Radeon RX 460, with the card packing its upgraded iCooler. HIS has used a strong lion image on the card, which makes the single-slot card look awesome. The Slim-iCooler itself has a 0dB fan, with the 50mm fan spinning up only when the GPU hits 60C.

HIS has overclocked the GPU, with the Polaris 11 chip running at 1220MHz, while the 4GB of GDDR5 runs at 7Gbps.

Reports indicate that Final Fantasy XV played on Sony's new 4K-ready PS4 Pro might suffer a small frame pacing issue while panning the camera in specific areas, possibly negating the additional optimized and graphical enhancements enabled by the console itself.

According to a recent video uploaded by YouTuber deepo, Final Fantasy XV has some noticable camera lag while played on the PS4 Pro. The lag isn't anywhere to be found in the same area while playing the game in the PS4 Pro's normal default PS4 mode. Deepo notes that this small hitch seems to be isolated in the tutorial area only, so there may not be any cause for alarm. Since we don't have access to the game just yet, we can't verify or squash the reports, but this isn't the first time we've seen the PS4 Pro games technically run worse than their PS4 counterparts.

Final Fantasy XV supports Sony's new PlayStation 4 Pro with two modes: Lite Mode (aka Lightweight Mode) which optimizes higher frame rates to ensure 1080p 60FPS, and High Image Quality Mode (aka High Mode) which enables higher fidelity at upscaled 4K 30FPS. The game is set to Lite Mode by default, but players can also reset the game to it's default PS4 mode while playing on the PS4 Pro.