Manufacturers, and well, pretty much anyone these days greatly benefit from open and social platforms to communicate to their end-users directly. That however also can have consequences, as every word you say will be weighed and can haunt you.

Upcoming Monday, CanardPC will launch their print magazine Canard PC Hardware, and apparently tomorrow (Saturday) this already would be out in Paris. As you can see from the cover, the magazine is to feature Ryzen 2200G but also Ryzen 7 2700X (the 12nm Zen+ processor), which should be launching April 19th.

4A Games has released a tech demo video for Metro: Exodus, is shows early implemented NVIDIA RTX real-time raytracing effects. It using raytracing for Global Illumination and ambient occlusion, in real-time and in a practical in-game scenario. It's also apparently running at 4K / 60fps, at least it was uploaded as such

You need to be fast, but until March 24 at 10 a.m. Pacific time you can grab F1 2015 from Humble Bundle totally free. Make sure to redeem your key in Steam soon, since they will get invalid shortly after the promo ends.

EA tests the use of virtual players who in Battlefield 1 teach themselves the basic skills virtually from scratch by using artificial intelligence. 

Mushkin Enhanced MFG, is announcing the Source Series, a new line of solid state drives (SSDs) for the retail, e-tail, system integrator, and channel markets. 

The planned remasters of the original Tomb Raider 1, 2 and 3 games have been canceled, game publisher Square Enix jumped in as Realtech apparently did not ask permission to release the games.

Corsair today announced a new addition to its bestselling Hydro Series liquid CPU coolers, the Hydro Series H60, the H60 offers all the Hydro Series essentials to keep your CPU running fast, cool and quiet.

This HDD makes use of what is called MACH.2 Multi-Actuator technology, basically two magnetic heads and a bit of technology that sounds familiar to raid. 

ADATA  launched the XPG SX8200, its fastest consumer SSD to date. It arrives in a compact M.2 2280 form factor and uses the ultra-fast PCIe3x4 interface to deliver up to 3200MB/s read and 1700MB/s writes. SX8200 employs the latest 2nd generation 64-layer 3D NAND and ships in capacities of 240GB, 480GB, and 960GB. 

We'll look at Core i7 2600K Sandy Bridge processor performance in the year 2018, but also look at game performance and things like platform performance in the form of USB and SATA performance from a product series released back in 2011 (!).

You can read the review right here.

It was 2011 when Intel released Sandy Bridge, so we grab Core i7 2600K and revisit it in the year 2018, apply Windows 10 and compare that Core i7 2600K towards Ryzen 1800X and Core i7 8700K through our processor and gaming benchmark paces.

Samsung announced the availability of its latest application processor, the Exynos 7 Series 9610. Built on Samsung’s 10-nanometer (nm) FinFET process, elevates the multimedia experience with ultimate picture-taking experiences and slow-motion video recording at 480 fps.

TUL has introduced the newest PowerColor Red Dragon RX Vega 56 8GB HBM2. This card complements the already successful Red Devil Vega cards offering a more valuable solution in an environment of rising prices without compromising performance, reliability neither cooling performance.

We've not seen many monitors out there that offer an Ultra HD resolution and HDR, add one more requirement to that, G-SYNC, for those that desire it. It seems though, that in April the first 4K monitors with G-Sync and HDR will become available.

Bauhutte, active in the Asia regions, offers a desk series that you can combine. The latest one, a setup that can improve your aim. Judging from the photos, we doubt that comfy but they recommend a "Cockpit type gaming desk", based on their modular parts of course, to be a new gaming desk.

Continuing the theme from the Game Developers Conference this year, Epic Games in collaboration with ILMxLAB and NVIDIA are showing off real-time ray tracing in the Unreal 4 engine. The video is using Microsoft’s new DXR framework and NVIDIA RTX technology for Volta GPUs, powered by Microsoft's DirectX Ray Tracing API, or DXR. 

Electronic Arts have released the launch trailer for A Way Out and revealed its official PC requirements. A Way Out releases on March 23rd.

Showcasing The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset, the next Chapter in The Elder Scrolls Online saga. Explore the ancestral home of the High Elves, an all-new zone packed with adventure. Join the mysterious Psijic Order and gain powerful new abilities. Reunite with old friends, forge new alliances, and work together to unravel a conspiracy that threatens Tamriel's very existence. The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset will be available on June 5, 2018, with PC/Mac early access starting on May 21.