It was the year of cryptocurrency mining last year, and now that Jon Peddie Research's new GPU market report is out, we can get a better idea of just how many graphics cards AMD and NVIDIA sold to crypto miners.

GPU shipments actually decreased in Q4 2017 compared to Q4 2016 by around 1.5% but comparing these numbers year-over-year, GPU shipments actually decreased 4.8%. The report does state that 3 million graphics cards were sold to cryptocurrency mining, making $776 million in total.

AMD shipments increased 8.08% quarter-to-quarter while NVIDIA's shipments dropped by 6%. Dr. Jon Peddie, President of Jon Peddie Research, said in the report: "Gaming has been and will continue to be the primary driver for GPU sales, augmented by the demand from cryptocurrency miners. We expect demand to slacken from the miners as margins drop in response increasingly utilities costs and supply and demand forces that drive up AIB prices. Gamers can offset those costs by mining when not gaming, but prices will not drop in the near future".

As someone who grew up with a Dreamcast and whose first game was Shenmue, I was curious to see how Ys Net's Shenmue III would evolve. But things just don't feel right, and these new screenshots give me unease.

Instead of excitement, every new batch of screenshots and gameplay footage for Shenmue III gives me a distinct feeling of worry. The game just looks odd to me, and other outlets and gamers have cited soulless blank eyes as the culprit. But a new unreleased trailer recorded by an attendee at a recent gaming event shows what appears to be rusty gameplay.

During the MAGIC 2018 gaming event the devs at Ys Net released a new batch of screenshots--some are decent but others are pretty weird--and also screened an older Gamescom 2017 trailer for the game. Despite warnings not to record the footage as it "does not represent the latest of the game in development," someone actually did and uploaded it to YouTube.

Although Kingdom Come: Deliverance is priced as as a full AAA game on Steam, the studio that made it is quick to affirm the game is a blend of indie and AAA quality.

With a nice dynamic RPG style and punishing gameplay, Warhorse Studios' latest big game Kingdom Come: Deliverance has swept gamers everywhere into a medieval world of change and consequences. Many say Bethesda should be taking notes from the game, but it also mirrors the publisher's signature engine with glitches and performance hiccups--especially on consoles. According to Kingdom Come: Deliverance's executive producer Martin Klima, the team would've loved more time to smooth over its rough edges...but six years was a long dev cycle.

"I freely admit though that I wish we had more time to polish the game before the release, that's what AAA game deserves," Klima said in a recent post on the game's forums. Alas the game isn't AAA, more of that underdog AA spirit that saw Ninja Theory win big with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.

Ahead of its big PC release, Square Enix has released a demo slice of Final Fantasy 15.

The Final Fantasy 15 demo is out now on Steam, and mirrors a lot of the content that was featured in the last PS4 demo (not Episode Duscae or the Platinum Demo). The trial clocks in at a big 21GB and includes 4K assets, but they'll only be turned on if you have an applicable graphics card/rig setup.

Remember this is just a demo and that sub-quests/side-quests are turned off, so you'll get to do battles and a few main quests before the preview peters out. If anything it'll allow PC gamers to test and experiment with the graphics and performance settings to find that perfect balance.

In preparation for its release in Fiscal Year 2019, EA and DICE are busily working on the new Battlefield game's announcement trailer.

Reveal trailers are critical for any game, especially something as massive as the Battlefield franchise. Since the new Battlefield game will be showcased at EA Play in June, it's only logical DICE is hammering away at making an amazing cinematic showcase of their next shooter that should be a crown jewel of E3 2018.

A bit ago DICE Senior Video & Media Director Randy Evans confirmed as much by saying: "Battlefield 2018 reveal trailer is underway." No one knows exactly where the devs will take the series following its excursion into World War I with Battlefield I, but some believe the next game could be set in World War II or maybe a new chapter in the Bad Company sub-franchise.

It appears that we will be receiving the rest of the DOOM collection on the Nintendo Switch soon thanks to hackers that are working on the port.

Last year we saw DOOM brought to the Nintendo Switch, this was the first time the series was ported to a Nintendo platform in almost 20 years, now we are about to see DOOM 3 and DOOM 64 brought to the hand-held console.

Hackers that are working on the open source code of DOOM 3 that was released by id Software in 2011, on their Twitter page they have released a image of DOOM 3 running on the Nintendo Switch, it can be found below.

The highly anticipated Netflix TV show The Witcher has had its pilot script finished, Lauren S. Hissrich has announced the news on her Twitter page.

Hissrich is known for her work on the Netflix's Marvel TV show The Defenders and Daredevil, she also did work on the show The West Wing. More recently though, Hissrich announced that she would be working on the The Witcher TV show which has now had the script for the pilot completed.

The Witcher TV show is originally based off a eight-book series written by Andrzej Sapkowski. The good news that fans of already fantastic game series developed by CD Projekt Red as well as the book series will be happy to know that the creator Sapkowski will be working on the TV show as a creative consultant.

Grand Theft Auto V now harbors the very classic Dragon Ball character Goku, as he makes his way into the world through a talented modder named 'JulioNIB.'

Recently we have seen already seen some nice mods of Goku but this one created by JulioNIB is quite different. This mod allows for players to transform Goku into SSJ, SSJ2, SSJ3 and SSJ4, which grants some respective abilities.

From the video you can see that Goku can truly rain down some destruction, he can basically pick up anything that can be moved and even though it might seem slightly glitchy Dragon Ball fans will still have a ball.

Riot has released the drop rates of the rewards within loot boxes for League of Legends players, will you still be buying loot boxes after seeing these numbers?

Following the recent hate towards loot boxes in games, it appears that titles that have the option of purchasing loot boxes might have to start providing players with the drop rates of certain items.

League of Legends has released the drop chances numbers for their chests, these numbers show the exact amount of 'luck' you will need to receive certain rewards. For those interested in seeing the numbers for the rewards a link straight to the statistics on the official League of Legends website can be found here.

The exclusive Nintendo Switch title Kirby: Star Allies has had a 12 minute co-op gameplay video released by Nintendo, judging from the video this could be the greatest Kirby adventure yet.

In the video we are shown two levels and a boss fight with Frozen General Francisca. The first level that is seen is titled Natures Navel and the second level happens to be a boss level called Fortress of Shadows.

Just like other Kirby games players can use the 'eat' power to absorb enemies abilities but in this new game Kirby has a new item called a Friend Heart which allows you to befriend enemies.