DICE and EA offer a rare glimpse at Battlefront II's concept art to give an idea how imagination is translated to dynamic video game worlds.

I absolutely love concept art, especially video game concept art. There's something magical about these early windows into fabulous worlds: they speak of limitless possibility and potential, fanning the flames of creativity and hope. Quite often I've looked at concept art and been able to capture the overall tone and feel of a game--other times it's been a surprise. But there's always something special about these slices of captured imagination, and Battlefront II is no exception.

With Battlefront II's concept art, the talented artists at DICE have recreated the early works of Ralph McQuarrie to a tee. McQuarrie's original concept art is directly responsible for the iconic aesthetic of Star Wars' favorite characters and locales, from the Cloud City of Bespin to Darth Vader's imposing samurai-esque helmet, and even X-Wing fighters, the Death Star, Star Destroyers and so much more. McQuarrie's talent envisioned what Star Wars is today.

KING Art Games, the developers for the upcoming World War I real-time strategy title Iron Harvest have announced a bunch of new features for the multiplayer alpha that has just been released.

The developers for Iron Harvest have launched the multiplayer alpha on Steam today and to celebrate the launch they have released the above 'Alpha 2 Gameplay' trailer. Since the release of Alpha 1, KING Art Games took all of the feedback from players and funneled it back into the game, implementing new features to the title such as; 1v1, 2v2, co-op, five new mechs, a second weapon system and much more.

Not only have weapons and multiplayer seen an upgrade, but buildings have also gotten some love. In alpha 2, players can enjoy upgrading their buildings through new build options, some of these options even include additions to the fortification and bunker systems. Many more features have also been added and they have been listed in the entirety of this post. Iron Harvest is currently available for pre-order, visit the official website here. In other news about Iron Harvest, the developers started a Kickstarter campaign and that ended with a whopping $1.5m+, more on that story here.

Warframe recently released on the Nintendo Switch and since then Warframes developers, Digital Extremes have issued a hotfix to the Switch version of the game. The update brings changes to the camera controls and more.

The update has been announced on the official Warframe Twitter page and also has been detailed on the Warframe forums. The hotfix has been titled 'Mask of the Revenant (23.5.0) Hotfix 3' and brings changes to volumetric lighting, motion controls, ambient occlusion, crashing and camera movement. Within the forum post, it is detailed what specific changes were made to the camera movement.

What was also detailed in the forum post was the specifics for aiming being fixed, the developers coded "deadzones to allow for more refined, precise aiming and removed the inherited velocity when shifting directions." Digital Extremes says that players "should now notice an immediate falloff in camera movement once input is no longer applied to the control sticks." If you are interested in checking out the full patch notes they can be found in the entirety of this post, or a direct link to them can be located here.

Right on queue, Nintendo have detailed the next event to come to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, it's titled 'The Fire Emblem Fest' and will be arriving on December 20.

Last weeks event was titled "A Spectacle to Behold!" and just like this event will run for a total of three days. Throughout those three days, Fire Emblem characters will take over the Spirit Board and appear much more frequently. Players that fight these characters throughout the time frame of the event will be rewarded with bonus SP.

It should be noted, Nintendo have detailed that the spirits that players encounter at the beginning of the event could be subject to change in part 2. The Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Fire Emblem Spirits event will commence on 20th of December 10pm, and will finish on the 23rd of December, 10pm.

Stranger Things star, David Harbour goes down to the depths of hell and comes back in the form of Hellboy for a reboot. The first trailer has already been released.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly the actor gives some explanation toward what to expect in the story. Harbour says that this reboot is "not an origin story, but it's his coming to terms with where he came from. He's been Hellboy for a long time, but there's a new turn of events at the start of the film, where people start to bring up the fact that he might bring about the end of the world, and it's really the first time he's heard anything like that. The question that comes up in the movie is where does he really belong?"

The other actors that will be featured around Harbour will be Resident Evils Milla Jovovich as the Blood Queen, Ian McShane as Professor Broom, Daniel Dae Kim as Ben Daimo and Sasha Lane as Alice Monaghan. The director for the reboot is Neil Marshall and he has previously done work for HBO's Game of Thrones, Netflix's Lost in Space and movies such as Dog Soldiers and The Descent. The reboot for Hellboy is planned for release in theaters on April 12th, 2019.

The new upcoming real-time strategy game 'Conan Unconquered' from developers Petroglyph Games, and published from Funcom have confirmed that next year we will be getting some gameplay footage.

For those that don't know, Petroglyph Games are the developers behind Star Wars: Empire at War and Command & Conquer. Last week, Petroglyph Games and publisher Funcom announced that they will be bringing gamers a new real-time strategy game based in the universe of Conan the Barbarian.

We have already seen a cinematic trailer which you can check out here, but more importantly we can now expect some gameplay footage for the title sometime next year. In a reply to my above Tweet to the official Conan Unconquered Twitter page, we have confirmation that that "Sometime next year" we will be receiving some brand new gameplay footage. Hopefully its sometime in the early year that we get this new gameplay footage for Conan Unconquered, as this upcoming real-time strategy game looks very promising. To check out the official Steam listing for the title, click here.

Elon Musk has just unleashed a Christmas surprise for Tesla owners, with a few new Easter Eggs included in the latest over-the-air update to its fleet of electric vehicles. One of them includes the ability to fart, yes fart, on-demand.

As you can see from Kevin Pereria's tweet, one of the Easter Egg's in the new update are called Emissions Testing Mode, which gives drivers six different fart noises to choose from. This is an awesome troll for people who haven't read this news, or don't own a Tesla as you'll get a Tesla vehicle owner driving their friends around trolling them with fart noises... coming from THE CAR. Hat tip, Mr. Musk.

The six different fart sounds are themed around Musk's companies and marketing, including:

Qualcomm announced its new Snapdragon 855 processor during the Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Hawaii, and now we know what smartphone will be the first to use the new Snapdragon 855 processor: Lenovo.

Lenovo announced its new Z5 Pro GT smartphone that is powered by the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, and is joined by a whopping 12GB of RAM, and up to 512GB of storage. Lenovo is using a cool pop-up selfie camera, meaning the display can stretch across the screen more, now taking up 95.06% of the front of the phone with its large 6.39-inch display.

The new Z5 Pro GT smartphone rocks Sony's impressive IMX576 sensor that sees the phone featuring a dual-camera rig that is split between a 24-megapixel and 16-megapixel sensor. Inside, there's a large 3350mAh battery, and Android 9.0 Pie pre-installed with Lenovo's own ZUI 10 custom launcher on top.

AMD made its next-gen EPYC 'Rome' CPU official during the huge Next Horizon event in San Francisco, and when I was on the ground the energy there was nothing but a buzz. The new 64C/128T processor was announced, the world's first CPU to be made on the exciting new 7nm node, and it crushes anything Intel has in its Core and Xeon lines of CPUs.

The new EPYC 'Rome' CPUs will be used in new supercomputers, with Atos announcing its new BullSeqyuana XH2000 supercomputer that will be using a huge 3125 of the new EPYC processors. 3125 of these new 64C/128T processor means Atos will have a total of (and wait for this) 200,000 cores with 400,000 threads of CPU performance at its disposal.

Atos' new supercomputer will be joined by another machine that will use Intel Cascade Lake CPUs while the GPUs will be NVIDIA Tesla cards in a new supercomputer called BullSequana X400 and will be made next year. The AMD EPYC 'Rome' powered BullSequana XH2000 will be delivered in 2020, as AMD's new 7nm CPUs will be made available in 2019.

Samsung is ramping up towards the launch of the world's first foldable smartphone which is meant to launch as the 'Galaxy F' that could cost over $2000, as well as the launch of the new flagship Galaxy S10 smartphone that will feature a 5G-capable variant.

It's not just smartphones where Samsung dominates but it is in mobile display production, where the South Korean giant commands a huge 93.3% of the smartphone OLED market. Over 61% of the smartphones shipped in the last 12 months featured an OLED panel of some sort, with Samsung taking 93.3% of the OLEDs in those phones in Q3 2018.

The entire smartphone display market has seen revenues of $10.7 billion in Q3 2018, with OLEDs commanding $6.6 billion of that, or 61.1%. This is because more and more flagship smartphones are rolling out with OLED displays, with Samsung, Huawei, and Apple all out in the market with beautiful OLED displays inside of their flagship handsets.