Month: August 2016

Operation Skull Rain Now Live for Rainbow Six: Siege

rainbowsix-siege-logoSource: UbiBlog

The third major content update for Rainbow Six: Siege is now available, bringing with it two new Operators from Brazil’s elite BOPE – Caveira and Capitão – as well as a highly destructible new map set in a Brazilian favela. Operation Skull Rain also introduces a Tactical Realism mode aimed at veteran players, which strips away nearly all of the HUD elements and pushes teammates to stay in constant communication.

As with previous updates, the map is free to all Rainbow Six: Siege players, while the new Operators are available immediately to Season Pass holders, who have exclusive access to them for seven days. For their part, the new Operators bring potentially game-changing new abilities to bear on the action, with Capitão packing an asphyxiating, oxygen-burning crossbow and Caveira able to move silently and interrogate enemies to reveal opposing players on the map. Rounding out the package are a new angled grip attachment that speeds up switching between hip fire and ADS, and a surrender system that lets your team vote to forfeit a match if things aren’t going your way before the third round.

Operation Skull Rain is available now as an update for Rainbow Six: Siege on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Watch the official release trailer here.

For more information about Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege, please visit the games official website.

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Paradox Announces When The Reaper’s Due in Crusader Kings II

Deadly New Expansion to Launch on August 25 with New Patch

Paradox Interactive, a publisher and developer whose games have serious reaper-cussions, today announced the release date for “The Reaper’s Due,” the upcoming expansion for the medieval grand strategy game Crusader Kings II. Featuring new disease and medicine mechanics and a whole host of deadly new challenges for players’ in-game nobles, The Reaper’s Due will be available on Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs on August 25, 2016.

This expansion will return the Black Death to its rightful place in the center of medieval history, and add new systems that reward sound realm management and planning. But, as with all expansions from Paradox, The Reaper’s Due will launch with a new content patch for Crusader Kings II, updating the game for all players, whether they purchase The Reaper’s Due or not.

Among the changes coming in the new patch will be:

  • New custom rules options at start up for epidemics, invasions, legal changes and so on,so you get the Middle Ages that you want.
  • New options to auto-save the game at different time intervals
  • A new interface for better understanding the death and succession of rulers
  • Adjustments to how alliances work, including AI attitudes to disloyal allies
  • Major improvements to game optimization
  • “Continue” button on game launcher to get you to your map even faster
  • New mod triggers to account for The Reaper’s Due content
  • Tons and tons of balance and gameplay tweaks, plus new events
  • The new patch will also be available with the release of The Reaper’s Due on August 25, 2016.

For those who want more details on The Reapers Due Paradox Development Studio releases regular developer diaries on their forums.

For more information about Crusader Kings II, visit the games official website.

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Strategic Command Beta AAR: First Moves

strategic-command-ww2-war-in-europeWelcome to the first Beta-AAR of Strategic Command WWII: War in Europe. This is a mini AAR, and as such, the AAR will only cover the inital shots in Gleiwitz Poland in September of 1939, to the fall of France in mid 1940. Since the game is still in Beta, there might be some changes of the material covered between now and the final release, but the game already feels complete and the development team assures me that they don’t expect much to change other than minor items to ensure any final polish and balance to the main campaign.

Check out the first Strategic Command WWII: War in Europe AAR here.

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PowerColor Radeon RX 480 RED DEVIL Edition Review

powercolor-radeon-rx-480-red-devilBy Hilbert Hagedoorn @ GURU3D

Today we review something evil, the PowerColor Radeon RX 480 RED DEVIL. Armed with 8GB graphics memory lucifer presents himself as a mainstream graphics card series that will allow you to play your games in both the Full HD 1080P range as well as gaming in WQHD (2560×1440) range. And all that at a rather reasonable price of 269 USD.

Read The Review Here

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AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.7.3

amd-radeon-crimson-softwareSource: TechPowerUp!

AMD signed off July with the month’s third Radeon Software Crimson Edition release. Version 16.7.3 features performance optimization for “Rise of the Tomb Raider.” The drivers improve performance of the game by up to 10 percent over 16.7.2 drivers. The drivers also address a large amount of game-specific bugs; Radeon Settings UI improvements, and bugs related to task-switching in multi-display setups.

You can download the Radeon Software Crimson Edition version 16.7.3 drivers here.

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Just Announced Hardware for 2 August 2016

newhardware-iconCheck out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source.

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