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4K60 is pushing it for Scorpio. It's only a diddy 6 TeraFLOP system. The 9 TeraFLOP GTX 1080 can only manage 4K60 on high graphics, it can't even max them out. Might pay to temper your expectations for 4K on Scorpio just a tad. It will be powerful but just like Microsoft boasted Xbox One could do 1080p60, Scorpio won't be doing 4K60 and if anything the majority of its experiences will be 1440p or lower if they want uber insane graphics.

They may be hurting and they may be sad at the time. The difference is they can go out and buy a McLaren 570s with three weeks pay, some of them in only two weeks. That kind of shit cheers you up pretty damn fast I am sure.

Might be down so they can switch the new look website. Get everything looking fresh before the new owner is announced.

5:30pm and literally anywhere. IGN website, Gamespot website. There will likely be a handful of sites hosting the conference on Twitch and YouTube.

Tony is in the UK. He flew into Birmingham from LA yesterday and according to his Weibo (Chinese Twitter) it is all done. We are likely just waiting for the FA/Football League to announce it to the press.

PC. Only a handful of celebrities were using controllers. The rest were largely owning it up on keyboard and mouse.

All in all a pretty average day by E3 standards. EA was terrible I just don't know what they were thinking really. The whole dual show format is only fun for those that got a ticket to the London show, even then it was a pretty typecast affair. EA were like British people like sports right? Lets talk about an NFL tournament happening in LA and FIFA 17 that'll please em' Pleeeease EA we are a nation that loves sport yes but treat us like you can show us more than that next time yeah? 'Fe' looked like a cool game. I am still sceptical about the whole EA Originals scheme mainly because it's EA. I mean "all profits" go to the developer? So what's in it for EA? Is this charity is EA actually being selfless? I have my doubts, I get a feeling that something will come out that indie devs as part of the deal had to sign over IP rights, so while they get the profits if they walk away they lose what put them on the map. Aside from that little cynical rant they ended the show positively with what will likely be many gamers FPS of the year Battlefield 1. That game is just stunning there isn't much else really to say about it other than that. As for Bethesda they did well considering the whole show could have fallen flat when it was obvious Wolfenstein 2 was not appearing. All in all I came away impressed. Quake Champions by iD Software should be great fun, very ballsy to have it as a PC exclusive even though arena shooters like that tend to only work well on PC anyway. Looking forward to Quakecon to see more on that. Prey looked cool and it's a unique take on the series feels very psychological horror with a seemingly BioShock type twist at the end with the main character talking to himself in the mirror, I cannot wait to see more. Aside from that the show was pretty standard. Skyrim: Special Edition looks cool as it's basically a heavily modded version of Skyrim on PC being used as the base version. I am looking forward to that as modding Bethesda game typically causes stability to tank, that or I just have bad luck with the mods I choose. Dishonored 2 looked pretty rad but I'm not a huge Dishonored fan to be honest. I have always been left scratching my head at all the praise it got, but maybe I just missed something or maybe I played it in a way that made it less fun. So may need to revisit that one. Bring on Microsoft, UbiSoft and Sony!!

What makes me think that there is more to this than meets the eye is Xia's plans. We get that Recon is likely worth about £10 billion if other Chinese articles about his asset worth are true. Yet he's spending more than you would expect. He has a $3 billion deal to buy a logistics company in the US. He wants to buy four more clubs so you'd assume he has more than enough money to buy us, run us, make us the top team in English football and run four other clubs. He also wants to turn the greater Aston area into a massive Aston Villa theme park. Maybe Xia is just absurdly rich and he hides it very very well. Yet it seems incredibly likely that there is investment coming in from somewhere. He may be funding the logistics takeover himself as we know his company has cash, but the rest seems like an awful lot of money for a company to invest with no guarantee of a return on investment.

Live in the now and enjoy it rather than thinking about what may or may not happen in the future.

It's only going to get leakier until publishers and devs start to understand this ultra-connected world better. They need to stop preemptively doing things as all these leaks have come from people finding strings of code in websites, or seeing a trailer they gave Snapchat a week early for some reason. Publishers need to stop and slow down a bit cause they are ruining their own element of surprise. They can blame coders and apps all they want for leaks but there is nothing to find or accidentally see if you just hold off on doing all this stuff until the last possible moment.

A richest men in china article I think was on Forbes. It placed him like 500th or so worth about $77 million. It was posted on this site almost 2 months ago yet Forbes post so much shit I'm struggling to find it through Google.

It's accurate. The guy personally is only worth about $70 million or so. That said his company where all his assets are stored is what is worth all the money. He's said on numerous occasions that he can just sell up a stake in something and get another £400 million. He's not super rich as a person but that's likely to keep him off rich lists which he seems to prefer, but he has cash through his company. There was an article found some weeks back that described his company as a collection of assets worth in the 100 billions, now back then we all assumed it was 100 billions in Yuan, but that is still over £10 billion.

So one sided and yet no one taking their chances, it's frustrating to watch.

Yeah when the likes of Middlebrough only spent like £10 million last season it's crazy that we are looking at potentially £50+ million if some of our better players move on. That said we are in a position of power as if Ayew/Gana/Amavi/Veretout don't leave then we keep them and still have £35 million to spend.

A lot of failures on that list at least for Villa. Seems he can work with money as Liverpool's list obviously reads rather well aside from some duds which all teams will sign. Seems Riley's issue is more finding players on an incredibly tight budget than anything. Could he be an asset under Xia? Maybe, but I think his failings at this club have meant any chance to try and make a mends is gone.

He already said when he proved his worth somewhat with that bank statement of £400+ million ready to be used that much of it was for Villa. I doubt this is a Randy style "let's spend big to get them on side and then be tight for several years" kind of thing. Xia has plans for world domination with us and you don't achieve that with just £35 million normally.

It's likely expensive. Sony won't want that derailing what is set to be a good show. They have already said the Neo is more than $350 and given the spec I would assume it's possibly pushing $450/$500. For me personally it's something you save for a throwaway show like Paris Game Week or something. I mean the news will still get out, but it also won't overshadow things like The Last Guardian finally getting a release date which is likely happening at E3.

I'd be telling Grealish like "I know the Championship isn't where you want to be. You know you are a lot better than where we find ourselves. You've seen the press reports that other clubs also think you're too good for Villa's current predicament, but stick around and after next season we will be back where we belong. If not then we will talk about your future here" I think just talking to players and giving them a time frame can help. Let them know that they are wanted and needed but that they aren't trapped here. Grealish right now likely thanks to his agent will be hearing that chatter in his ear to bail out, but he may find that a season in the Championship especially if it's a promotion winning season could benefit him even more long term. Players need to realise that yes their careers are short but they aren't that short. Just look at Vardy he likely considered where he was in football to be as good as it was going to get. He was like 26 when he made his move to Leicester which was likely as high as he thought he would ever go, now he's won the Premier League at 29 and is now fending off Arsenal for his signature. Grealish is 20 he can take one season in the Championship out of the next 14+ years of what could be a very successful footballing career.

I doubt he does. He has a hard time handling those dishing out the truth on his Instagram and Twitter. I don't see why he'd go out of his way to track down the Villa forums out there. This is where you go to find the most vocal and opinionated and passionate fans of the club, if you want to keep you happiness as a Villa player right now don't delve much deeper than Instagram it'll hurt.

Money. While Di Matteo may not be on world elite levels of money based on some news headlines a week or so back, we are likely paying the going rate for coaches of this quality. Battara and Marchesi won't have come cheap, but they will be worth it if in their short pre-season can turn players into a well trained unit. Discipline at the back and fitness were our core issues so RDM has brought in two of the worlds finest coaches to tackle both, it's almost as if RDM knows what he's doing.

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He may keep one or two as a personal pet project, but he also knows that it's not sensible to keep all off them even if the club is now one of the richest in the world. Who he keeps on will depend on how well releasing players on a free goes, I mean he can make a player free but that doesn't meant they will leave as many clubs outside the Premier League cannot afford Richards, or Lescott or Gabby from a wage perspective. So if Gabby stays it's because RDM still thinks there is a player there, but I don't think much of the bomb squad will remain.

@ferguson1 If reports last week are to be believed sites like Birmingham Mail were reporting that Xia had given RDM permission to offload any players he didn't like at an insanely cut price, so chances are Xia doesn't actually care about the sell on value of this lot.

Hype is addicting.. Hype hype hype!

It's likely more work to remove VP than to leave it in. Though they did just announce that FIFA 17 is on a new graphics engine for the first time in like 10 years, so maybe they will have to re-do everything like stadiums.