Bethesda releases the PC version of Wolfenstein: Youngblood on Thursday, one day earlier than planned. However, it will be lacking RTX support with its initial release. Something NVIDIA advertised massively with. Raytracing is to be added later with a patch.

Based on the latest mobile DRAM standard, the new Samsung 12Gb LPDDR5 maximizes the potential of 5G and AI features in future flagships.

Chip manufacturers are speeding up the transition to 96-layer 3d NAND by improving their yield rates. The technology should then become mainstream in 2020. 96-layer 3d NAND offers lower production costs and more storage volume per package. 

Yeah, ELSA is still around man. They just inserted a new SKU, the ELSA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti ERAZOR GAMING. What an original suffix eh? The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is equipped with a "SAC 3 (Silent Air Cooling Ver. 3)" cooler. 

Activision and Infinity Ward have released a new video for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, showing almost six minutes of gameplay footage from the game’s Gunfight multiplayer mode. Gunfight is said to be a new fast-paced, close quarters, 2v2 multiplayer mode that will be featured in this new COD game. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is currently planned for an October 25th release. 
 

It has been a while since we posted one of these, these are the ten top-selling titles on Steam for the week as reported by Valve:

Valve Index VR Kit
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
Grand Theft Auto V
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5
OCTOPATH TRAVELER
Prey Digital Deluxe
Killsquad
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS
Gloomhaven
Valve Index Headset + Controllers

All eyes were on San Diego Comic Con's Star Trek panel this year, as anticipation continues to build for Star Trek: Picard, the first Trek entry to feature Sir Patrick Stewart since the 2002 film Star Trek: Nemesis.

Tea, Earl Grey, hot :-)

The upcoming week you'll see the GeForce RTX 2080 Super being launched. The graphics cards have a notch more shader processors and new faster GDD6 memory.  One of the cards already was spotted in the Final Fantasy XV benchmark.

AMD joins the Compute Express Link consortium, which is developing an interconnect based on the PCIe 5.0 interface. AMD follows with Intel and Arm

Epic Games is giving away FREE copies of Limbo for one week, starting today and lasting until July 25th 2019. With Super Meat Boy, Subnautica, What Remains of Edith Finch, The Jackbox Party Pack, Axiom Verge, Thimbleweed Park, Slime Rancher and more games already given away, expect even more free games to be given away every single week during the whole 2019.

EK Water Blocks, the Slovenia-based premium computer liquid cooling gear manufacturer, is releasing EK-FC Trio RTX 2080 Ti Classic RGB water block that is compatible with the MSI® RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio graphics cards. This kind of efficient cooling will allow your high-end graphics card to reach higher boost clocks, thus providing more performance during gaming or other GPU intense tasks.

Yesterday ASRock shows some photos of their Radeon RX 54700 custom cards, MSI can be added today. MSI released more details about its custom video cards. Four versions can be expected for the RX 5700 and 5700XT. 

Ubisoft has announced that a new game mode will be released for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands today. This game mode is called Mercenaries, is described as an eight-player free-for-all PvPvE gameplay experience, and will be available for free to everyone. In this brand new game mode, your objective will be to call for rescue, locate and reach the extraction point, and be the first to board the chopper. Mercenaries will feature three phases: Recon, Helicopter Deployment and Extraction.

Corsair today announced the addition of 32GB modules to its range of VENGEANCE LPX high-performance DDR4 memory, allowing PC builders to equip their systems with more DDR4 memory than ever before. 

As discussed in detail, older 300 and 400 series motherboards have been stripped in the BIOS from older CPUs and some features, due to a too-small EEPROM size. No biggy, but MSI is solving this with updated motherboards as well.

Intel CEO Bobert Swan announced on the Intel 2019 Investors Day that their 7nm CPUs will appear 2021. He also talked a bit about the actual delay.

ASRock is announcing the Radeon RX 5700 Challenger 8G OC series graphics cards, featured AMD's latest Radeon RX 5700 series gaming GPUs. Considering what happened to the Challenger space shuttle years ago, not a very handy name we'd say.