Deck 13 has finally released more than just concept art for their upcoming science-fiction version of Lords of the Fallen. The Surge now has two rather promising looking in-game screenshots.

The Surge is the second game from Deck 13 and is going to follow a similar open-world survival type perspective. It's set 60-70 years into the future when technology has turned against us. You'll get to utilize an exo-suit, which upgrades can be crafted for it to suit your play-style. It's not necessarily a military shooter, but you can certainly go in that direction.

You'll be able to harvest the technology of your enemies and mold it into parts for your suit, upgrading them to better survive and take on the various challenges in the world. And like Lords of the Fallen, it's likely to be very difficult.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Far Cry Primal is the number one selling game on the UK sales charts for the period ending on February 27th.

Perhaps it was the setting or even the promise of being able to live a somewhat true-to-life amalgamation of the violent and fearful lifestyle of a prehistoric human that led it to be an instant success. It sold like hotcakes overnight. Coming up close behind is Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, something we expected to do fairly well, and it seems to be meeting expectations thus far.

Interestingly, Street Fighter V sunk down to the number 10 spot, which was previously sitting confidently as the second best selling game since it launched.

An interesting leak yesterday seems to point towards the HoloLens having some very fascinating interactive, personal, experiences, particularly a game called Fragments.

HoloLens is getting an interactive crime-drama style game where you'd search around the real-world, with the HoloLens attached to your face, looking to clues to solve the various mysteries of the game. It first appeared in the Windows Store along with several other HoloLens enabled apps, but those were promptly removed. Information about it was posted in a blog post on Fortune, though that was taken down very quickly. A new blog post from Microsoft explains the new HoloLens experiences that are launching with the development edition of the device.

Thankfully a cached page is still available and explained exactly what kind of experience Fragments seeks to provide. "Fragments puts gamers in the middle of an augmented reality crime drama that unfolds in their living room. Players are able to investigate clues and solve crimes by interacting with characters that sit on their couch and talk directly to them." Kudo Tsunoda, the corporate VP of Microsoft, further explained how they want this to be a personal experience, one that potentially adapts to the available space. No two crimes will be the same, in other words.

The Band 2 from Microsoft is one of the most advanced, if flawed, fitness trackers around, and its price was already decent considering the wealth of sensors it packs into its moderately svelte body. But Microsoft is discounting it to $175.

The $175 price is only for a limited time and won't last forever. But if you do decide to drop the cash down, you'll get a small OLED display attached to a small battery with a gyro meter, barometer, heart rate sensor, UV sensor, VO2 sensor, accelerometer and a GPS for good measure. The strange proportions and the bulk from sensors placed on both sides might take some getting used to, and the battery might only last around two days, but it's a far cry more advanced than the usual bands.

There's certainly a lot of competition lately with fitness bands, many offering some surprising value for the money, and of course, there's the addition of sensors to the burgeoning smartwatch segment making them excellent alternatives. But the lines are being blurred, though. The price reduction of the Band 2 might signal a more permanent price-cut coming in the future, or it might be a sign that we're to see a new Band product from Microsoft in the near future.

Described in a recently issued press release as a record winning experience, LG Electronics has cleaned up the recent iF Design 2016 ceremony with 28 awards in total, spread across the Gold Award and Design Award categories.

The prestigious iF Gold awards were given to the LG Signature fridge, LG Signature Washing Machine, and Gram 15 laptop - a product that weighs in at 980g, measures at only 16.8mm thick and features a 15.6-inch screen.

The lower-level iF Design awards were where LG really dominated its competitors, being given to various products including the Signature OLED TV, portable speaker strap, Mini Beam LED projector, 24MP88 Monitor, LG G4 smartphone and more.

Gears of War 4 is coming closer to release, and with that comes a beta test on the Xbox One in the Spring of 2016. If you'd like to secure your place in that beta test then all you have to do is play Gears of War Ultimate Edition while signed-in your Xbox Live account by March 1st. So you only really have a few hours left to make sure you can play it.

Unfortunately we don't have many details about what'll actually be playable in the beta, but we'd imagine the first one will be a multiplayer-centric experience to test the networking backend among other things. A few games that have released recently have had issues when faced with large amounts of players all online at the same time. But of course they'll want to show-off how fantastic the graphics are at this point, since it's set to be a graphical showcase of the Xbox One's capabilities.

If you're interested, it's easy, that is if you happen to own the Ultimate Edition, if not, then you can wait patiently and enjoy watching others navigate the intricicies of the beta test this spring.

Sporting support for DDR4 and its paired 'boost technology', MSI has announced its new mATX B150M Gaming Pro motherboard, coming packed with an MSI DS B1 Gaming mouse for free as part of the package - described in a recent press release as a "great and nimble" peripheral.

DDR4 Boost is described by MSI as "fully isolating the memory circuitry from other components" which helps ensure "the purest possible memory signal for maximum performance and stability." Further packed with an LED illuminated LAN connector that comes with 15KV anti-surge protection, this new product also contains an isolated audio PCB for better quality sound.

MSI has not yet announced a release date or pricing.

Games downloaded and played from the Windows Store seem to be a very limited and poorly executed experience when compared to using other launchers and platforms. The list of limitations are deal-breakers for many gamers, but Microsoft is acknowledging those disadvantages and are working towards updating their home-grown gaming experience.

Mike Ybarra, the Xbox technical director has responded to criticism on Twitter surrounding those features that are lacking, promising to fix the v-sync issue in a future update. One of the more pressing concerns was a lack of SLI or CrossFire compatibility with games from the Windows Store. Ybarra also clarified that support for those technologies works and that each game needs to separately support it. That being said, the profiles for Rise of the Tomb Raider which hasn't been available might not have been added to the Universal Windows Platform version, or NVIDIA's and AMD's drivers don't recognize the store at a lower-level.

This positive news follows similar comments by Phil Spencer about wanting to improve the entire PC gaming sphere from feedback and advice given by players. Behind the scenes, it seems, they're working hard at correctly implementing the features we all want to see, and they definitely have plans to improve.

It seems that the majority of technology companies are tackling the peripheral market these days, with GIGABYTE pushing hard on its self-named and AUROS gaming gear, Tt eSPORTS and Corsair making the leap a few years ago and further companies such as ASUS its ROG division slowly slipping into the market.

ASUS has now presented us with the announcement of its Sica White gaming mouse, including 1000Hz polling rate, a 5000DPI optical sensor, Omron switches for durability and an ambidextrous design.

Without any shelf date or price announced in the recent press release, ASUS tells us that this mouse comes attached with its Armoury software, allowing users to change macros, performance settings and lighting effects - saving in the mouse memory for later use.

The creative director for Turn 10 Studios, the developer that's behind the impressive and very popular Forza series of racing games says that we'll see something new about the franchise coming up this March. The information comes at a curious time, shortly after Microsoft announced their initiative to bring gamers on their platforms together, breaking through historic exclusivity-based walls.

The message alone tells us nothing, but previous actions by Microsoft seem to indicate a willingness to bring franchises from the Xbox One to the PC. We're already seeing an interest in making those titles available. Quantum Break is coming to the PC with much enthusiasm, as plenty more titles will eventually make their way to the PC, some even having been significant symbols of the console in the past. But it does make sense to expand to the exclusivity to across both their platforms, if for sales alone. Rise of the Tomb Raider sold nearly three times more than the Xbox One version despite the latter actually be profitable as well. So we might end up seeing news regarding either a historic Forza game coming to the PC or a future game having cross-platform compatibility. It's only natural.

And the advent of Windows 10 across all their disparate platforms, Universal Windows Applications and DirectX 12, it seems that the Xbox One is nothing more than a less powerful PC anyway. As each update is released, it runs more and more PC applications as it is, so why not take that capability and make the whole platform exclusive. It could help grow the entire Microsoft brand and instill more confidence in gamers with graphics that are more adaptive, with a wider selection of graphical options for a variety of levels of systems. Phil Spencer himself has been very adamant about breaking down previous barriers that have been in place, bringing together the two contrary world's. They aren't so different, after all.