Tagged in their L337 Gaming series, ECS released the Z97I Drone motherboard. It offers decent features at a very good price. ECS took the Z97 chipset and made a nice dark looking motherboard. It also comes with a custom audio solution. Join us in the Z97I Drone review, a product that will please the budget PC gamer with the hunger for a high-end PC at an incredibly small form factor.

Read the review right here.
 

EA have announced Battlefield Hardline Premium, a membership programme offering - amongst other things - early access to the game's DLC. Battlefield Hardline Premium will cost you $50 (on top of the cost of the game, which I imagine will be about $50) and offers "four super features".

On the AMD blog they have released a 450-page programming guide for its Mantle 3D graphics API + the reference API, the company said it will talk about the future of Mantle in its GDC presentation. AMD remains developing and supporting Mantle, while maintaining that it will participate in the development and support of industry-standard APIs such as DirectX 12 and GLnext.

Microsoft Windows 10 will get official support for USB 3.1 functionality such as dual-role peripherals, external displays and the new Type-C connector.

Epic  made Unreal Engine 4 available for anyone to download and use, for free. The download features the the full set of tool and includes 100% of the C++ source code. Future updates will also be added at no extra cost.

Rendered in Unreal Engine 4. Megascans is a massive online library of thousands of physically based material scans and fully scanned 3D assets. The purpose of Megascans is to provide artists with a next generation material library, ushering CG into a new era. The library is ever increasing, with dozens of new scans added every day. Every material scan is seamlessly tiled, 2x2 meters, 4-16K, HDR, and calibrated for all common BRDFs. An unprecedented range of fully separated material components have been scanned for each material, with consistent calibration across the entire library. Every asset is tiered for VFX as well as real-time use, for maximum ease of use.
 

We already reported about this last week, but Intel announced a series of mobile platforms including the company's new low-cost system-on-chip (SoC) for phones, phablets and tablets, a global LTE solution, innovative personal computing experiences, and a range of customers for mobile device and network infrastructure offerings. 

Phanteks introduce their first Mini ITX, a budget oriented chassis that uses metal exterior, to their EVOLV lineup in the Enthoo Series. The case has many useful features, such as a unique bracket solution for a radiator on top and a multi-functional mid plate bracket for a reservoir, pump, and SSD/HDD.

Samsung releases the 27" S27E510C, is has a subtle curve design. The panel technology is listed as MVA, a modern generation of VA technology.

Though GTA V might have been delayed from March 24th to April 14th on the PC, we do have some new screenshots to show you as released by Rockstar. Check them after the break.

Here are the ten top selling titles on Steam for the week as reported by Valve:

1.Homeworld Remastered Collection
2.DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE
3.Grand Theft Auto V
4.H1Z1
5.Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
6.Total War: ATTILA
7.Europa Universalis IV: El Dorado
8.Dying Light
9.Besiege
10.Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

Samsung on Sunday launched the new Galaxy S6 smartphone and its cousin, the Galaxy S6 Edge. A unique phone with a curved screen on both sides of the device. The Super AMOLED display measures 5.1 inches across the diagonal and includes 2560 x 1440 pixels (quad HD). Samsung says it has enhanced brightness for better outdoor viewability.

SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash storage solutions, today introduced the 200GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card, Premium Edition, the world's highest capacity microSD card for use in mobile devices.

SanDisk introduced the iNAND 7132 storage solution, the most advanced embedded storage solution from SanDisk to date. Designed for use in flagship mobile devices, the iNAND 7132 storage solution features SanDisk's new iNAND Accelerator Architecture with SmartSLC technology. 

HP today announced the HP Spectre x360, a 13.3 inch convertible PC that delivers an ultra-thin design, the quality customers expect, and performance to get things done.

Imagine standing on the bridge of a starship rocketing across the galaxy, or strolling through the streets of ancient Rome, or shrinking down to subatomic size and watching molecules collide. Now Re-imagine. HTC’s Vive headset, powered by SteamVR, pulls those virtual worlds off your computer screen and into your home. You’ll experience sights and sounds vivid and lifelike enough to transport you to another place, another time—whole new realities with limitless possibilities. The Vive Developer Edition uses two 1200 x 1080 displays that refresh at 90 frames per second, "eliminating jitter" and achieving "photorealistic imagery," according to HTC. 

You can now download the Nvidia GeForce 347.71 driver. This is a GeForce Hot Fix driver. More details on the download page.

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Be the first to get a piece of the action in Battlefield Hardline, the complete first person shooter experience built on strategy, speed and story through EA Access only on Xbox One. EA Access gives you 10 hours of game time up to 5 days before launch, starting March 12. Play all of multiplayer and the prologue and first episode of the exciting new single player campaign inspired by TV crime drama. All your progress carries over.