It is not exactly a secret that AMD will be launching a 12nm fabbed Polaris series of graphics cards. The Sapphire Radeon RX 590 8GB Nitro+ got exposes, and now all specs have surfaced as well.

Just before the weekend, the XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy surfaced onto the web. The XFX card looks rather similar to the RX 580 GTS as it has the very same cooler. 

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

Football Manager 2019
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
Total War: WARHAMMER II - Curse of the Vampire Coast
ARK: Survival Evolved Season Pass
Grand Theft Auto V
ARK: Extinction - Expansion Pack
OVERKILL's The Walking Dead
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition
ARK: Survival Evolved
HITMAN 2

SK Hynix announced that it has developed 1Ynm 8Gb (Gigabits) DDR4 (Double Data Rate 4) DRAM. The productivity of this product is increased by 20% and the power consumption reduced by more than 15%, compared to the previous generation, 1Xnm DRAM.

Microsoft has announced that it has acquired Fallout: New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity developer Obsidian Entertainment, as well as Wasteland and The Bard’s Tale developer inXile Entertainment. The acquisitions are the latest in Microsoft’s efforts to build up its first-party. At E3 2018 in June, Microsoft announced the acquisitions of Undead Labs, Playground Games, Ninja Theory, and Compulsion Games. 

Square Enix has confirmed that further PC production has been canceled, meaning that we won’t be getting anything new on the PC (apart from the Ardyn DLC). This means that the possible raytracing features are not going to happen either.

Micron announced the next step towards market leadership for its quad-level cell (QLC) NAND technology with an immediate broad market availability of the popular Micron 5210 ION enterprise SATA SSD, the first QLC SSD, began shipping May this year.

A new week, a new Windows 10 bug. As it seems there is an issue specific towards Windows 10 Pro license holders, for a number of people the license deactivates or downgrades itself rendering the Windows 10 build useless in a couple of days.

Yesterday evening the Origin Access Premier Subscribers got a surprise, Battlefield V unlocked itself and is now playable. The new EA tactic is upsetting many Deluxe build pre-order buyers as for them, the game unlocks next week. 

Eurocom launches another supercomputer class laptop, the Tornado F7 Mobile Workstation powered by 8cores/16threads Intel i9 9900K processor with NVIDIA’s high performance Quadro P52000 upgradeable GPU technology.

Intel Corporation released model legislation designed to inform policymakers and spur discussion on personal data privacy. Prompted by the rapid rise of new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), Intel’s model bill is open for review and comment from privacy experts and the public on an interactive website.

NVIDIA just released their GeForce 416.81 WHQL driver as released by NVIDIA. The driver is the official release driver for Battlefield V. NVIDIA was not listing this driver as GeForce RTX compatible, we just tried and it is installing just fine.

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Today we are reviewing Apacer Panther Rage DDR4 RGB memory. This is a successor to the Panther Rage Illumination and the Panther Rage. The first thing that you’ll notice is the claw-shaped design of the heat spreader.

Read the full review here.

It has been available for a couple of weeks already but BenQ released an Ultra HD monitor based on a 60Hz 10-bit IPS panel (10bit without FRC), the PD2700U is a 27-inch ultra HD monitor which is intended for professional users and designers.

Here is some capillary action for you. Remember a while ago that some key folks working at EK got employed by Corsair? Well, it's late 2018 and behold what was just shown at PGW 2018 (Paris game week), their first watercooling DIY products.

Mad Catz today announced the shipping of an all-new range of R.A.T. mice, the first line of products to ship from the reborn Mad Catz Global. The first territories to receive the new line of mice will be Germany, Austria and France with the rest of Europe, North America and beyond receiving product shortly.

While typing this, I started to wonder - do people actually really buy stuff like this?  Zotac announces the VR GO 2.0, the world's first VR Backpack PC refreshed from the ground up. The VR GO 2.0 improves the untethered VR experience with high-end performance repackaged into a more compact, ergonomic chassis. 

Check this puppy out, man that thing could fly around in a Star Wars movie totally unnoticed. Well, it is the new NETGEAR Nighthawk AX8 router (AX6000), an 8-stream AX WiFi router with up to 1.2 + 4.8 Gbps wireless speeds (4x4+4x4). It promises over 1 Gbps transfer rates over Wifi.