Month: September 2015

The Fighter Collection with Eagle Dynamics are happy to announce that DCS: NEVADA Test and Training Range Map is available for pre-purchase from the DCS e-shop! DCS: NEVADA Test and Training Range Map will sell for $49.99 in November 2015. Pre-purchase now for $39.99 and save 20%!

The Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) has the largest contiguous air and ground space available for peacetime military operations in the free world. The NTTR land area includes simulated air defense systems, mock airbases, and several target ranges. The NTTR was also used for nuclear testing. Today, it is home to RED FLAG and other military exercises that include countries from around the world. The NTTR map for DCS World 2 includes Nellis AFB, Creech AFB and the infamous Groom Lake AFB (aka Area 51). This map also includes the city of Las Vegas, McCarran International Airport, and Hoover Dam.

Check out the teaser video here.

Key Features of DCS: NEVADA Test and Training Range Map:

• 366,000 sq. kilometres that covers portions of Nevada, Utah, Arizona and California.
• Highly detailed modelling of Nellis Air Force Base, Creech Air Force Base, McCarran International Airport, and the Area 51 facility.
• Hoover Dam and Lake Meade.
• All VOR and VORTAC radio navigation beacons.
• High resolution mesh and textures around the detailed airbases.
• The entire NTTR airspace as well indication of all sub-ranges.
• Las Vegas, Pahrump, Mesquite, Moapa, Indian Springs, Boulder City and other cities and towns in and nearby the NTTR. This also includes all major roads, railways, and power lines.

For those that pre-purchase prior to October 1st, 2015, you will receive a 20% discount and two free Red Flag campaigns (one for the F-15C and one for the A-10C). For those that pre-purchase between October 1st and the Open Alpha release in late November, you will receive a 20% discount and one free Red Flag campaign. Both of these options also include a 20% bonus savings on future purchases at full price.

Visit the Digital Combat Simulator website for more information.

Autumn Signals Real Savings! Save Now thru September 27th at Shrapnel Games!

Fall is almost here! Pumpkin lattees, leaves turning colors, a chill in the air, halloween on the horizon, and football is back. Shrapnel Games is celebrating the beginning of autumn with real savings on all our in-stock titles. From Air Assault Task Force to World Supremacy, Shrapnel Games has a huge selection of Simulation and RPG games for you to choose from.

Remember, the sale lasts through September 27th! Order your favorite games from the Shrapnel Games e-store, Gamers Front.

“I depart, but the State shall always remain” – King Louis XIV on his deathbed

King Louis XIV de Bourbon,following in the political footsteps of Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin, is strengthening the power of the monarchy to the detriment of the feudal aristocracy.

The Thirty Years’ War’s end – won over an exhausted Holy Roman Empire – has not brought a stable peace. Spain is still acting aggressively against France’s interests and many German and Dutch princedoms are starting to fear France’s unmatched military power.

But despite all the enemies he is facing, internal and external, Louis XIV is strongly inclined to make the Kingdom of France the Arbiter of Europe. Like a Sun determining the orbits of the other minor celestial bodies around it.

Le Grand Siècle- the “Great Century” – has begun!

Pike and Shot: Campaigns has been updated! This new version is dedicated to the great military modernization of the French Army – with which the Roi Soleil desired to sustain his absolutism – the matching military advances of the other European powers, as well as several other great improvements!

You can download the update from here.

Get more information about Pike and Shot: Campaigns from its official Product Page.

“What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin” – Winston Churchill

Despite an initial illusion of defensive strength, the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) has been encircled and overrun by the unorthodox tactics of the German panzer divisionen. It is only by Hitler’s misjudgement of Churchill’s will to keep the fight that the evacuation of Dunkirk was not transformed into the massacre of Dunkirk.

The Royal Air Force and the Home Fleet have to protect the national ground against the incoming storm and if the pilots fail, the sounds of the German tanks will soon be familiar to the British shores…

Order of Battle: Pacific – the acclaimed wargame made by The Artistocrats – will on the 15th of September receive free special content in order to celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of Britain!

This update will cover the entire course of the operations, from the initial “Channel battles” to the aftermath!

Stay tuned for further updates!

Get more information about Order of Battle: Pacific from its product page.

Source: Blue’s News

An article on Bethesda.net has details on how Fallout 4 will be supported, outlining plans for regular free updates, DLC, and modification support . Their roadmap includes a $30.00 season pass that will grant all the DLC Bethesda will release for their upcoming RPG sequel and their mod support will include the release (next year) of the Creation Kit for PC, which they say is the same tool they use themselves. Here’s word:

Regular Updates
We’ll be doing regular free updates to the game, and like Skyrim, these will come with not just fixes, but new features. For Skyrim we added things like mounted combat, legendary mode, kill cams, visual enhancements and more. We’ll work with all of you to figure out what new things you’d love to see added to Fallout 4, whether they are small tweaks or new features.

Mods & Creation Kit
The most important thing in our games is the freedom you have to create your own experience, and modding is a big part of that. Like all our previous games, we’ve made sure to keep Fallout 4 open and moddable at every step in development. Early next year we’ll release for free the new Creation Kit for the PC. This is the same tool we use in the studio. You’ll be able to create your own mods and share them with others. We’re especially excited these same mods will then be coming to Xbox One, and then PlayStation 4.

Downloadable Content
We’ve always done a lot of DLC for our games. We love making them and you always ask us for more. To reward our most loyal fans, this time we’ll be offering a Season Pass that will get you all of the Fallout 4 DLC we ever do for just $30. Since we’re still hard at work on the game, we don’t know what the actual DLC will be yet, but it will start coming early next year. Based on what we did for Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Skyrim, we know that it will be worth at least $40, and if we do more, you’ll get it all with the Season Pass.

Source: Eurogamer

Apparently concerned that the world is not nearly excited enough for its upcoming quirky indie game Fallout 4, Bethesda has launched a new web series based around the post-apocalyptic RPG’s S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats system.

The first episode is a note perfect parody of cheesy 1950s public information cartoons, starring our old friend Vault Boy as he learns the importance of “S for Strength” in surviving the Wasteland. There’s no gameplay footage in the series, but it’ll get existing fans back in the Fallout mood while explaining some of the core features of the Fallout series to newcomers.

It’s also hilariously gory.

Watch the Fallout 4 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Video Series – “S for Strength” video here.

This content requires the base game Total War: Attila on Steam in order to play

Source: Gamer’s Hell

Scheduled to be released on September 15th, the Empires of Sand Culture Pack brings three new playable factions to Total War: Attila: Aksum, Himyar and the Tanukhids. Part of the new Desert Kingdoms cultural group, the pack also features new campaign and horde gameplay mechanics, events, enhanced religion features, and adds over fifty unique units to the grand campaign.

Note that because of the dramatic impact religious changes had on these cultures in this period, the Empires of Sand Culture Pack includes a number of changes that increase the importance of religion including building chains, victory conditions, events, technologies and overall campaign bonuses. A video and six screenshots are available for your viewing pleasure.

THROUGH AN INTENSE ONLINE TRAINING PLATFORM, PLAYERS WILL LEARN THE BEST INTERVENTION TACTICS AND HAVE THE CHANCE TO WIN A KEY FOR THE UPCOMING CLOSED BETA

Today, Ubisoft unveiled that Art of Siege, the first community facility to learn, master and discuss the strategies and tactics of siege, is now available online. This interactive platform will allow players to better prepare their future matches in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege, the upcoming installment of the best-selling Rainbow Six franchise, when it releases worldwide on December 1 for PlayStation 4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows PC.

Being one of the most complex forms of warfare, the siege technique requires years of training for elite teams, in order to handle each situation with the right strategies and tactics. With Art of Siege, players will enter Field Training, an intense Rainbow Six training program allowing them to get familiar with the different gambits, strategies and Operator specialties. Only the players able to earn the total gold stars in the five Field Training Exercises will obtain a key to the Closed Beta.

Art of Siege will also include Wall of Tactics, an area in which each Closed Beta participant will be able to share their best tactical videos, recorded during their own matches. It will be up to other players to vote and elect which tactics are the best overall. Wall of Tactics will go live with at the launch of the Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Closed Beta, on September 24 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PC.

Here’s an Art of Siege trailer for your viewing pleasure.

Players can start their Art of Siege training right now on the Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege website, at this address: www.rainbow6.com/artofsiege

Author: Brent Justice @ HardOCP

ASUS has just released its new hybrid air/liquid cooled video card based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB GPU. The ASUS ROG Poseidon Platinum GTX 980 Ti can be run with liquid cooling to make this a cool and quiet GTX 980 Ti and hopefully give us some good overclocks. We’ll test it, and find out how it does on air and liquid.

Read The Review Here

The AMD Radeon R9 Nano is now available. The Radeon R9 Nano is the fastest Mini ITX graphics card ever, to enable 4K gaming in the living room through ultra-quiet, ultra-compact PC designs. A number of reviews have become available featuring this latest release from AMD. You can check out the reviews via the links posted below.

• ANANDTECH
• HARDWARE CANUCKS
• LEGION HARDWARE
• HARDWARE HEAVEN
• LEGIT REVIEWS
• HOTHARDWARE
• GURU3D
• TOM’S HARDWARE