Two games at E3 occupied the frustrating position of looking Quite Good, yet only being confirmed for consoles. But where Bungie’s Destiny remains tantalisingly out of reach, Ubisoft’s latest Clancyesque shooter – The Division – has been more vocal in its teasing of a possible PC future. According to DSOGaming, the game’s developers – while taking part in a Machinima livestream – encouraged PC players to “sign petitions, get on the forums and post their requests.”

That petition has already received over 50,000 signatures.

The big question: What are Ubisoft up to? Do they genuinely need an indication of the potential audience for the game, despite the lack of correlation between sales and internet signatures? (No.) Is this just a marketing tactic that simultaneously promotes the game while stymieing potential friction from the lack of an official announcement? (Yes.)

Or maybe we’ve simply reached the next phase of the often twisted relationship between the publisher and our platform. Are we going down a dom/sub route now? Do they just want to see us beg? (Probably.)

If you want to join the growing swell of voices supplicating themselves for Ubisoft’s pleasure, you can sign the petition here. A strong showing of eager potential players will by no means hurt the game’s chances of arriving on the PC. Just don’t feel it’s the only hope for securing a release. I suspect Ubi already have a pretty clear idea of their plans for the game.

While some of us might be happy to have the latest Haswell chips inside our laptops, enthusiasts out there might not be so impressed. But there’s some really good news from Intel regarding plans for next year.

A supposedly leaked slide from an Intel presentation points towards the company’s plans for their E-line of chips. The E line is focused on power and performance and it consists of some of the most powerful desktop CPUs.

According to this slide, Intel is planning to release an 8-core Haswell CPU somewhere in the second half of 2014. If this proves true this would be the first 8-core Desktop CPU from Intel.

The Haswell-E product will probably be based on a second iteration of the Haswell architecture due out next year. The new chip could offer up to 20MB L3 cache, support for DDR4 and, of course, 16 threads thanks to its hyperthreading technology.

There’s no clear indication about what the performance of such as chip would be but speculation puts it at between 30-50% above this year’s Ivy Bridge-E processor.

While we know the human body is capable of generating electricity, we never quite thought of it as a data transmission channel like this Microsoft patent application suggests. According to the document, the folks up in Redmond would like to be able to transfer information from one electronic device to another with a simple touch, as seen in the image above.

AMD today unveiled its most powerful member of the legendary AMD FX family of CPUs, the world’s first commercially available 5 GHz CPU processor, the AMD FX-9590. These 8-core CPUs deliver new levels of gaming and multimedia performance for desktop enthusiasts. AMD FX-9000 Series CPUs will be available initially in PCs through system integrators. “At E3 this week, AMD demonstrated why it is at the core of gaming,” said Bernd Lienhard, corporate vice president and general manager, Client Products Division at AMD. “The new FX 5 GHz processor is an emphatic performance statement to the most demanding gamers seeking ultra-high resolution experiences including AMD Eyefinity technology. This is another proud innovation for AMD in delivering the world’s first commercially available 5 GHz processor.”

Did you think the Xbox 360 was being kept around just for the budget market? It turns out Microsoft's got another sort of customer in mind for the revamped last-gen hardware: the crews of nuclear submarines. Xbox chief Don Mattrick, in response to the backlash over the Xbox One requiring an internet connection, said that "fortunately, we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity, it's called Xbox 360."

In this world building trailer, titled “Breakdown,” voiceovers describe the series of unfortunate events that lead to the shattered civilization shown in the gameplay video. During the gameplay video, staples of third-person shooter games like cover and an immersive heads-up display were shown—but we’ve never seen anything quite like this applied in an MMO setting.

Toward the end of the trailer, the group of three players comes into contact with another group in what appears to be the first glimpse of PvP. Overall, the game looks like it has real potential to shakeup the MMORPG genre. Ready for the bad news? PC isn’t mentioned as a release platform. At this stage of the game, though, that doesn’t mean it won’t come our way eventually.