Yay, it's already Friday!

SALES & DEALS

City of Brass is the latest free game on the Epic Store
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/city-of-brass-is-the-latest-free-game-on-the-epic-store/
The Epic Store has chosen City of Brass as their second free game of this month for players to try and keep. This is the perfect chance to play your hand at this whip-lashing, sword-swinging, Arabian-themed adventure that took the indie and middle shelf scene by storm last year.
>> Here's the link to get it. The next free game will be Kingdom New Lands.

On the Humble Store there are three new deals:

• The Daily Deal is Overgrowth, 50% off for the next 3 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/overgrowth
• The Dawn of War franchise is on sale, up to 75% off for the next 6 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/dawn-of-war-franchise-weekend/
• And Slitherine has also put its Warhammer games on sale, also 75% off for the next 6 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/slitherine-warhammer-sale/

At Fanatical there are 4 new deals:

• The Star Deal is Trillion: God of Destruction, 93% off for the next 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/trillion-god-of-destruction
• Beamdog puts its games on sale, up to 75% off for the next 5 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/beamdog
• There's an Arc System Works bundle, with 5 games at a 95% for the next 11 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/arc-system-works-bundle
• The new Dynasty Bundle comes with 3 games 96% off for the next 14 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/dynasty-bundle

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GAMING NEWS

Beyond Good & Evil 2 won’t be present at E3 2019
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/beyond-good-evil-2-wont-be-present-at-e3-2019/
E3 2019 is just around the corner and Ubisoft has confirmed that this game won’t be present in the biggest gaming event. According to the statement, the development team is currently working hard on the game and promises to release new gameplay footage when the time is right.
>> I think we all know that this is a next gen game (if it ever comes out).

Call of Duty Modern Warfare officially announced, releases on October 25th, first gameplay trailer
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-officially-announced-releases-on-october-25th-first-gameplay-trailer/
As promised, Activision has officially revealed the next part in the Call of Duty series which is – as we have already reported – Call of Duty Modern Warfare. In order to celebrate this announcement, Activision released the game’s debut trailer, which features in-game footage, that you can find below.
>> It also runs on a new engine and will support Ray Tracing.

New Darksiders game to be revealed at E3 2019, will take the franchise in a fresh direction
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/new-darksiders-game-to-be-revealed-at-e3-2019-will-take-the-franchise-in-a-fresh-direction/
It appears that a new Darksiders game will be revealed at E3 2019. E3 Coliseum has revealed that a discussion about the inception of the Darksiders universe and where it’s headed next will be held on June 13th, Thursday, that will coincide with the E3 2019 unveil of a brand new Darksiders game.
>> It's the second game that has been leaked through E3 Coliseum. Someone should be more careful. As for the game, I hope they're careful with that "new direction".

Larian Studios, developer of Divinity: Original Sin, is teasing Baldur’s Gate 3
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/larian-studios-developer-of-divinity-original-sin-is-teasing-baldurs-gate-3/
Yesterday, Larian Studios updated its official website with the above image, teasing a new game. At first glance, it seemed like the team was teasing the third part in the Divinity: Original Sin series, however it appears that the team is about to announced Baldur’s Gate 3.

Friday news, part two:

Apex Legends Season 2 Battle Pass details revealed, first LTE coming next week
https://www.pcgamer.com/apex-legends-season-2-battle-pass/
Respawn has revealed the first details about the upcoming Apex Legends Season 2, which will be supported with a new and much-changed Battle Pass. But before all of that happens, a time-limited event called Legendary Hunt will get underway next week that will give players a chance to earn an Epic Master of the Hunt skin for Bloodhound, the Honored Prey Legendary skin for the R-301, and a Legendary Night Terror Skin for Wraith.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night adds Solid Snake man David Hayter to the cast
https://www.pcgamer.com/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night-adds-solid-snake-man-david-hayter-to-the-cast/
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night creator Koji Igarashi said last week that the game would have $10 day-one DLC, followed by new characters, modes, and cosmetics released in free post-launch updates. The first of those new characters was revealed today, and it's none other than Solid Snake! Well, sort of.

'The next chapter of Destiny 2' will be revealed on stream next week
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-next-chapter-of-destiny-2-will-be-revealed-on-stream-next-week/
Bungie said last week that after the launch of Destiny 2: Forsaken's Season of Opulence and the completion of the new Crown of Sorrow raid, it would begin "looking deeper into the future, and sharing with you more about a new era for Bungie and Destiny 2." The Season of Opulence begins on June 4—which is next Tuesday—and it appears that Bungie will turn its eyes to the future just a couple of days later.

Microsoft has 14 first-party games to show at E3 2019
https://www.pcgamer.com/microsoft-has-14-first-party-games-to-show-at-e3-2019/
Microsoft is planning a lengthy two hour press conference at E3 2019, and the details are starting to emerge: not only has the company announced (but not thoroughly detailed) the arrival of Xbox Game Pass on PC, but Phil Spencer has revealed that 14 Xbox Game Studios games will be shown at the press conference. In his words, that's "more first party games than we've ever had in the show".
>> We know that two of them, Gears 5 and AoE4 will come to PC. Let's see how many of the others come too.

Sekiro game files seem to reference the FromSoftware game George R. R. Martin is apparently working on
https://www.pcgamer.com/sekiro-game-files-seem-to-reference-the-fromsoftware-game-george-r-r-martin-is-working-on/
Rumor has it that A Song of Ice and Fire author George R. R. Martin has worked on an upcoming, unannounced game with FromSoftware and Dark Souls creator Hidetaka Miyazaki, and now some Reddit users believe they’ve found clues about it hidden in the game files for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.

Vermintide 2’s Winds of Magic DLC is coming in August
https://www.pcgamer.com/vermintide-2-winds-of-magic-release-date/
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 will be adding its endgame DLC, Winds of Magic, this August. The expansion adds new enemies and challenges, and it will become available after an open beta, which you can sign up for now.
>> Sign for the beta over its official website.

SteamWorld Quest is out now on Steam
https://www.pcgamer.com/steamworld-quest-is-out-now-on-steam/
Those wacky SteamWorld robots are at it again, and this time they’re starring in their first RPG. SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech has launched, and is—appropriately enough—now available on Steam.
>> Here's the link to the game, that has a 15% discount during its launch week.

Time now for the GOG and Steam deals for the weekend:

+GOG

• GOG is celebrating its Summer Festival Sale with up to 90% discounts on more than 2,000 games. Plus Obduction is free to get for the next 22 hours.

+Steam

• The "daily" deal, which is a weekend deal, is Verdun, free to try for the next 2 days and 80% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/242860/Verdun/
• Devil May Cry 5 is 34% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/601150/Devil_May_Cry_5/
• To celebrate the launch of its new Invasion expansion, EVE Online puts some of its contents on sale, between 15 to 75% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/8500/EVE_Online/
• The F1 franchise is on sale, between 75 and 78% off: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/f1/
• Paradox Interactive is putting its strategy games on sale for the weekend, with up to 75% discounts: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/pdxstrategy/
• And of course, there's the weeklong deals.

What else do you want? Go! Go, and have a happy and gaming weekend.

4 x 4 GB is better than 2 x 8 GB, right? But is it worth paying some 25% more?

Is it really better, tho?

4x 8GB is better than both ;)

JPR has published its guaterly reports o GPU shipments

https://www.jonpeddie.com/press-releases/global-gpu-shipments-mixed-in-q119-reports-jon-peddie-research

Overall GPU shipments decreased -18.62% from last quarter, AMD shipments decreased -4.6% Nvidia decreased -12.7% and Intel's shipments, decreased -22.5%.

AMD showed a 21% gain in desktop discrete GPU shipments in Q1’19. The PC GPU market decreased year-to-year by -10.7%, sequentially GPU shipments decreased -18.6%.

Quick highlights

• AMD’s overall unit shipments decreased -4.55% quarter-to-quarter, Intel’s total shipments decreased -22.50% from last quarter, and Nvidia’s decreased -12.66%.
• The attach rate of GPUs (includes integrated and discrete GPUs) to PCs for the quarter was 130% which was down -6.69% from last quarter.
• Discrete GPUs were in 28.95% of PCs, which is up 1.17% from last quarter.
• The overall PC market decreased -14.44% quarter-to-quarter and decreased -4.15% year-to-year.
• Desktop graphics add-in boards (AIBs) that use discrete GPUs increased 0.34% from last quarter.
• Q1'19 saw a no change in tablet shipments from last quarter.

>>In summary: Everybody is down on a quarterly and yearly comparison, except for AMD that, while it shipped less GPUs, that's just because Ryzen parts don't have iGPUs, and that's the bulk of their CPU sales. Their discrete GPUs saw actually shipped more units.

Larian Studios, developer of Divinity: Original Sin, is teasing Baldur’s Gate 3
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/larian-studios-developer-of-divinity-original-sin-is-teasing-baldurs-gate-3/
Yesterday, Larian Studios updated its official website with the above image, teasing a new game. At first glance, it seemed like the team was teasing the third part in the Divinity: Original Sin series, however it appears that the team is about to announced Baldur’s Gate 3.

Oh damn, I didn't see this one coming.

First Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, then THQ Nordic buying Piranha Bytes (which will, I would bet, result in new Gothic), now this...all I need is Bethesda to go defunct and MS buying back Fallout and giving it back to original creators (inXile/Obsidian) and those idiots at Ubi either selling or doing something serious about Might and Magic (M&M X: Legacy was quite a long time ago and quite average) and I'm set. ;)

Worst if you are running only dual channel... Often puts more strain on the CPU's memory controller which can limit overclocking.

If you have a quad-channel system, then 4x4GB is better than 2x8GB no doubt... And is worth the extra cost.

How dare Nvidia call something like that bullshit "super"?

You mean this?

NVIDIA SUPER Lineup Will Consist Of Three Cards: Faster RTX 2060, 2070 and 2080 Variants With $100 Off MSRP And Souped Up GDDR6 https://wccftech.com/nvidia-super-lineup-will-consist-of-three-cards-faster-rtx-2060-2070-and-2080-variants-with-100-off-msrp-and-souped-up-gddr6/

I almost (but not fully) feel sorry for those that buy those cards at launch.