Well, as you all know, yesterday the site was down and I could make the news. In an ordinary week, that wouldn't be much of a problem, but we're in the middle of Gamescon, and that means that there are more news than usual. Because of that, today I won't post PCGamer articles (at least not in the "Gaming news" section).
Without further ado, here are the news:

SALES & "SALES"/DEALS

Get Dead by Daylight and BioShock Remastered in the Humble Spooky Horror Bundle
https://www.pcgamer.com/get-dead-by-daylight-and-bioshock-remastered-in-the-humble-spooky-horror-bundle/
Halloween is almost here, right? No? Well, whatever. The Humble Bundlers may have jumped the gun a bit with the Humble Spooky Horror Bundle 2018, but it's still a very solid collection of horror games, especially if you (for some reason) still haven't played BioShock.

>>And on the Humble Store, there are another two more deals:

• The Spotlight Deal is 7 Days to Die, 64% off for the next 3 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/7-days-to-die
• The Square Enix Collective (but not collection!) offers up to 75% discounts for the next 6 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/square-enix-collective-week/

At GOG, the daily deal is The Mummy Demastered, 25% off: https://www.gog.com/game/the_mummy_demastered

At Steam, we have several deals to talk about

• The daily deal is Ancestors Legacy, 30% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/620590/Ancestors_Legacy/
• The Starter Edition of the game FOR HONOR is free to keep. The offer will end on the 27th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/304390/FOR_HONOR/
• When it comes to the Midweek Madness deals, we have three games:
  • BATTLETECH is 30%: https://store.steampowered.com/app/637090/BATTLETECH/
  • Chrono Trigger is 50% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/613830/CHRONO_TRIGGER/
  • Dying Light is 60% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/239140/Dying_Light/

And at Fanatical, there are also several offers to mention:

• The Star Deal is American Truck Simulator Gold, 70% off for the next 24 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/american-truck-simulator-gold
• Baldur's Gate: The Complete Saga is 80% off for the next 9 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/baldurs-gate-the-complete-saga
• The Fully Loaded 5 Bundle gives us 10 games with a 96% discount: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/fully-loaded-5-bundle
• The publisher Excalibur Games has put its games on sale, with up to 80% discounts: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/excalibur
• And there's also a SciFi weekend sale, with an extra 10% off with the code SCIFI10: https://www.fanatical.com/en/collections/sci-fi

Also, if you sync your Steam Wishlist with Fanatical's Assistant, you'll get a chance to win $100 on the Fanatical Store. Read more here: https://www.fanatical.com/en/blog/chance-to-win-100-to-spend-on-steam-pc-games-with-fanatical-assistant

SOFTWARE

Resident Evil 2 Remake will support NVIDIA’s RTX technology
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/resident-evil-2-remake-will-support-nvidia-rtx-technology/
Although NVIDIA has not announced whether Resident Evil 2 Remake will be taking advantage of its RTX technogloy, Digital Foundry’s John Linneman revealed that it will actually be using it and that a PC version with RTX was available at Gamescom 2018.
Unfortunately, we don’t know whether Capcom and NVIDIA will be using real-time ray tracing or deep learning super sampling. Fingers crossed that it will be the former as a horror game with real-time ray tracing effects (like global illumination and ambient occlusion) could potentially look great.

MODS/EMULATORS

Monster Hunter: World mod lets you transmog your armor's appearance
https://www.pcgamer.com/monster-hunter-world-mod-lets-you-transmog-your-armors-appearance/
Monster Hunter: World has done the series justice on PC, but it is missing some popular features, chief among them the ability to transmog armor: changing its appearance to another armor set, while keeping its stats. Alas, transmog was added in Monster Hunter XX, which hasn't been announced for PC and probably never will be. Luckily, the PC does have modders—more specifically, modders like FineNerds, who's gone and created an armor transmog mod for World.
As FineNerds explains on Nexus Mods, all you have to do is download the mod, open Monster Hunter: World, open the mod, and "enter the armor you want to switch to." I was skeptical, so I decided to try the mod for myself. And while it's not quite that simple, it does work and it is very easy to use.

GAMING NEWS

Gamescom 2018 trailers for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, BIOMUTANT, Darksiders 3, The Division 2 and more
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/gamescom-2018-trailers-for-assassins-creed-odyssey-biomutant-darksiders-3-the-division-2-and-more/
Gamescom 2018 is currently underway and a lot of publishers have released some new trailers for their upcoming games. Instead of posting each trailer individually, we’ve collected most of them in one article.
As such, below you can find the Gamescom 2018 trailers for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, BIOMUTANT, Darksiders 3, One Piece World Seeker, The Sinking City, BATTLETECH: Flashpoint, SOULCALIBUR VI, JUMP FORCE, NBA 2K19, PLANET ALPHA and Breach.

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden releases on December 4th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/mutant-year-zero-road-to-eden-releases-on-december-4th/
Funcom and developer The Bearded Ladies have announced that Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, the tactical adventure game that combines XCOM-like turn-based tactical combat with real-time stealth and exploration, will be released on December 4th. In order to celebrate this announcement, the publisher has released a new trailer that you can find below.

First details and screenshots for DONTNOD’s upcoming psychological thriller, Twin Mirror
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/first-details-and-screenshots-for-dontnods-upcoming-psychological-thriller-twin-mirror/
Bandai Namco has revealed two new gameplay features for its upcoming psychological thriller Twin Mirror – the Mind Palace, and the Double. The narrative adventure will be an episodic game composed of three parts, the first of which – “Lost On Arrival”, will be available in early 2019.

Here are 12 minutes of gameplay footage from Desperados 3
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-12-minutes-of-gameplay-footage-from-desperados-3/
We are pretty sure that a lot of our readers were excited when we revealed yesterday that a new Desperados game is under development. Desperados 3 currently targets a 2019 and below you can find a video showing 12 minutes of gameplay footage from its Gamescom 2018 build.

Here is your first look at FromSoftware’s upcoming action RPG, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-is-your-first-look-at-fromsoftwares-upcoming-action-rpg-sekiro-shadows-die-twice/
At Gamescom 2018, Activision and FromSoftware showcased their upcoming action RPG, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and IGN has shared a video showing 10 minutes of gameplay footage. This is basically our first look at raw footage from the game, so make sure to watch it if you are fans of FromSoftware’s titles.

The Waylanders is a new time travelling fantasy RPG inspired by Dragon Age: Origins and Neverwinter Nights 2
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-waylanders-is-a-new-time-travelling-fantasy-rpg-inspired-by-dragon-age-origins-and-neverwinter-nights-2/
Gato Salvaje Studio has announced The Waylanders, their new RPG aiming to hit Windows PC in Q1 2020. Featuring the talents of the one and only Mike Laidlaw (formerly of Bioware — Dragon Age: Origins, Jade Empire, Mass Effect) as a high level Narrative and Creative Consultant, The Waylanders will provide players an engaging narrative featuring impactful character development, unique companion romance options, and a deeply technical combat system.

First free update content for The Crew 2 coming in September
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/first-free-update-content-for-the-crew-2-coming-in-september/
Ubisoft has announced that the first major update for The Crew 2 will be released on September 26th and will be called Gator Rush. In order to celebrate this announcement, the publisher has also released a brand new trailer that you can find below.

Here are 11 minutes of direct feed gameplay footage from Shadow of the Tomb Raider with RTX On
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-11-minutes-of-direct-feed-gameplay-footage-from-shadow-of-the-tomb-raider-with-rtx-on/
IGN has shared a new video, showing 11 minutes of direct feed gameplay footage from the PC version of Shadow of the Tomb Raider that was showcased at Gamescom 2018. This video has real-time ray tracing enabled and will give you an idea of what you can expect from it, though – and as the developers have noted – this implementation is still a work in progress.

New pre-alpha gameplay trailer released for The Surge 2
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/new-pre-alpha-gameplay-trailer-released-for-the-surge-2/
Focus Home Interactive has released a brand new pre-alpha gameplay trailer for The Surge 2. The trailer showcases the new Park sector, located in the middle of a city ravaged by the events of The Surge. Devious mercenaries called The Hunters roam the artificial, man-made forest, searching for a powerful creature. Beware their traps, their cunning cloaking devices, and most of all, the out-of-control former park guardians.

Ubisoft confirms that there won’t be a new full-fledged Assassin’s Creed game in 2019
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/ubisoft-confirms-that-there-wont-be-a-new-full-fledged-assassins-creed-game-in-2019/
At GamesCom 2018, Ubisoft’s CEO Yves Guillemot confirmed that there won’t be a new full-fledged Assassin’s Creed game in 2019. Instead, Ubisoft will keep supporting Assassin’s Creed Odyssey which releases on October 5th.

And now, the rest of the news:

Here are 4 minutes from the PC version of Resident Evil 2 Remake running in 4K at 60fps
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-4-minutes-from-the-pc-version-of-resident-evil-2-remake-running-in-4k-at-60fps/
NVIDIA has shared a new video, showing 4 minutes of gameplay footage from the PC version of Resident Evil 2 Remake. Although the green team did not reveal the specs of the machine that was used to capture this footage, it did claim that the game was running in 4K and with 60fps.

New screenshots released for Overkill’s The Walking Dead
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/new-screenshots-released-for-overkills-the-walking-dead/
Starbreeze and 505 Games have announced that OVERKILL’s The Walking Dead is playable to the public at gamescom this week with an all-new level called Underpass that shows off some of the game’s darkest corners. In order to celebrate this announcement, the teams have also released some new screenshots that you can find below.

Here are 12 minutes of raw gameplay footage from World War 3
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-12-minutes-of-raw-gameplay-footage-from-world-war-3/
The Farm 51 showcased World War 3 at this year’s Gamescom and LevelCapGaming has released a new video showing 12 minutes of gameplay footage from it. From what we’re seeing here, World War 3 feels like a more realistic version of Battlefield 3 (which is definitely a good thing).

New Battlefield 5 multiplayer Gamescom 2018 gameplay trailer released
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/new-battlefield-5-multiplayer-gamescom-2018-gameplay-trailer-released/
Electronic Arts and DICE have released a new multiplayer gameplay trailer for Battlefield 5. According to its description, and for the first time ever in Battlefield, players will be able to assemble a customized collection of soldiers, weapons, and vehicles, and take them on journey through World War 2.

SoulCalibur 6 official PC system requirements revealed, will be using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/soulcalibur-6-official-pc-system-requirements-revealed-will-be-using-the-denuvo-anti-tamper-tech/
Bandai Namco has revealed SoulCalibur 6’s official PC system requirements via its Steam store page. According to the specs, PC gamers will at least need an Intel Core i3-4160 with 6GB of RAM, 20GB of free hard-disk space and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050.
Bandai Namco recommends an Intel Core i5-4690 with 8GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060. Moreover, and like Bandai Namco’s previous fighting game, Tekken 7, SoulCalibur 6 will be using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech.

Edge of Eternity comes to Steam Early Access on Nobember 29th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/edge-of-eternity-comes-to-steam-early-access-on-nobember-29th/
Midgar Studio and Playdius have announced that the stunning JRPG adventure Edge of Eternity will enter Early Access on Steam on November 29th. Following a successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, Edge of Eternity still stands as one of the most anticipated titles within JRPG communities.

Here are 11 minutes of gameplay footage from Call of Cthulhu’s Gamescom 2018 build
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-11-minutes-of-gameplay-footage-from-call-of-cthulhu-gamescom-2018-build/
IGN has shared a new video, showing 11 minutes of gameplay footage from the Gamescom 2018 build of Call of Cthulhu. Call of Cthulhu is the official videogame inspired by Chaosium’s classic pen and paper RPG, brings you deep into a world of creeping madness and shrouded Old Gods within Lovecraft’s iconic universe.

Here are 16 minutes of gameplay footage from A Plague Tale: Innocence
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-16-minutes-of-gameplay-footage-from-a-plague-tale-innocence/
Focus Home Interactive has released a new video, showing 16 minutes of gameplay footage from A Plague Tale: Innocence. In this gameplay sequence, which was unveiled behind closed door to journalists at E3 last June, we follow Amicia and her young brother Hugo through a small portion of one of the game’s chapters – the site of a brutal clash between the armies of France and England, currently locked in what will be known as the Hundred Years’ War.

Black Desert Online 2018 Remaster is now available, free access announced for the next two weeks
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/black-desert-online-2018-remaster-is-now-available-free-access-announced-for-the-next-two-weeks/
Pearl Abyss has announced that Black Desert Online 2018 Remaster is now available for download. This remaster features completely revamped graphics and audio, including the use of physically based rendering, improved post-processing with YEBIS, as well as new, original soundtracks and voiceovers.

First Monster Hunter World patch addresses connection error issues
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/first-monster-hunter-world-patch-addresses-connection-error-issues/
Capcom has released the first patch for the PC version of Monster Hunter World. According to the release notes, this patch will update your game’s version to v151910 and will address some of the game’s connection error issues.

Insurgency: Sandstorm Gamescom 2018 Gameplay Trailer
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/insurgency-sandstorm-gamescom-2018-gameplay-trailer/
Focus Home Interactive has released the Gamescom 2018 gameplay trailer for Insurgency: Sandstorm. Insurgency: Sandstorm is New World Interactive’s new game: a reborn, improved, and expanded sequel to indie multiplayer FPS hit Insurgency, coming September 18th to the PC. According to the press release, and thanks to all the positive feedback the game received during the first Pre-order Beta last month, the studio has polished and optimized the game to meet players’ expectation.

Here are 12 minutes of gameplay footage from the upcoming third-person action game, Devil’s Hunt
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-12-minutes-of-gameplay-footage-from-the-upcoming-third-person-action-game-devils-hunt/
YouTube’s ‘Punish – Latest Gameplay Trailers!’ has shared a video, showing 12 minutes of gameplay footage from the Gamescom 2018 build of Devil’s Hunt. Devil’s Hunt is a new third-person action game in which players will go to hell and back in the battle between Demons and Angels. Players will become Desmond, a man with demonic powers who can decide the fate of our world by joining either side of the conflict.

Having seen the presentation I'm pretty sure these graphs are with RT enabled. Which means abysmal framerates for the 1080 and 50% better than abysmal for the new card. The new cards have about 20% more CUDA cores and about the same clock. Where do you expect the 50% to come from? I'm expecting 20% on average.

Um no.
It is highly like that these graphs aren't with RT enabled.
Pascal cannot keep pace with Turing in that aspect.
Volta can't keep up with Turing in that kind of a workload.
If it takes four V100s to lag behind a single Turing card, then a single Pascal card won't be close.
https://s22.q4cdn.com/364334381/files/doc_presentations/2018/08/JHH_Gamescom_FINAL_PRESENTED.PDF
Go to page fourteen.
Pascal wishes it could keep up.
When Turing is getting like 30FPS in Tomb Raider, Pascal is getting something in the single digits.
Not even the most hardcore console players would consider that playable.

The new cards have a decent increase to their bandwidth too, so lets not forget about that.
That's going to make a pretty big difference when trying to render at high resolutions and stuff.
So lets not forget that.

Turing seems to be quite the departure from Pascal.
Nvidia has apparently reworked their SMs for Turing, so core for core, Turing should probably come out ahead.
They seemed quite proud to talk about how their GPUs can do 32bit int and floats at the same time now, so hopefully that results in a pretty decent performance boost, when compared to Pascal cards with the same FLOPS.

Whilst I'm not sure if we'll get support for it in the consumer cards, Turing does support something like AMD's Rapid Packed Math (where you do two FP16 operations in the same time it takes to do one FP32); Intel GPUs support this, the Switch supports it, the PS4Pro supports it, and Vega supports it.
Assuming Turing does support it on the consumer side, these GPUs should be able to take advantage of the optimisations already done for the other devices.
Games such as Wolfenstein II and Far Cry V already support it, so maybe those games will see an extra percent or five of performance.

There's other changes too, but Turing seems to be more than Pascal with some RT and Tensor cores strapped to it.

We'll see. But as usual the gains in 4k will be much more substantial than in 1440p.

My comment was a joke, obviously, but given that you've taking it so seriously, can I just point out that even in those Nvidia made benchmarks, not even half of those games see a 50% increase in performance?

Only the Infiltrator demo, Wolfenstein II and Shadow of War are above the 1.5x mark, with FF XV, PUBG, ARK, Hitman 2 and Andromeda being close, but still falling short, to that 1.5x mark.

We'll see how the cards actually perform when benchmarked by independent reviewers.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=153504937925732&w=2

"DISABLE HYPERTHREADING ON ALL YOUR INTEL MACHINES IN THE BIOS."

Interesting stuff.

Well, now I feel lucky to have an i5 with no HT.

But now more seriously, I really hope Zen2 and whatever Intel comes with next are finally hardware safe against all these vulnerabilities. It's insane how many security holes those CPUs have!

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8872672

FP16 is pretty useless on the PC.
Actually, it could be argued that it's pretty useless on console as well, other than the Switch.

Yeah, I've seen your reply to Peh, just like I'm sure you've seen my reply to Caff where I pointed that even in Nvidia's own benchmarks only two games and the Infiltrator demo actually achieved that 50% increase goal.

But we'll have to wait and see. Maybe doubling the L1 bandwidth and also doubling the L2 cache capacity have an impact on the end result as well.