Month: September 2019

assassins-creed-odysseyWe are pleased to share the latest updates happening across Assassin’s Creed in September. This includes a new The Lost Tales of Greece episode in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, updates to the Story Creator Mode, and a recap of Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece.

Watch the Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: September Monthly Update Video HERE.

DISCOVERY TOUR: ANCIENT GREECE

In Discovery Tour, players are invited to explore the world of Ancient Greece without conflicts and gameplay constraints of the main game. They are free to roam Ancient Greece at their own pace in this educational mode, which includes multiple locations along with guided tours at a plethora of historical sites.

  • Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece features 5 Tour Guides – Aspasia, Barnabas, Markos, Herodotos, and Leonidas.
  • Visitors can interact with more than 300 stations and 30 guided tours scattered across 29 regions.
  • Tours cover 5 different themes (philosophy, famous cities, daily life, war, and myths). Players will be able to test their knowledge with a quiz after the completion of each guided tour.
  • Exploration is encouraged with 35 unique avatars and 15 mounts, accessible by progressing through Discovery Tour objectives.

Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece was curated by historians and classical experts and will be accessible for free from the Assassin’s Creed Odyssey main menu of the game starting September 10th.

NEW ITEMS

  • The Myrmidon Character Pack, containing a gear set, a mount, and a spear.

This new pack will be available from September 27th in the store and at the Oikos of the Olympians.

THE LOST TALES OF GREECE: SOKRATES’ TRIAL

September will see the release of an all-new Lost Tale of Greece episodic story, Sokrates’ Trial. Players will have to help their old friend Sokrates who has been arrested and is awaiting trial, by discovering who is truly behind the arrest. The episode is free to all Assassin’s Creed Odyssey players. To access all the Lost Tales of Greece episodes, players will need to reach Chapter 5 in the main path of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.

STORY CREATOR MODE

This month, Story Creator Mode had new features and fixes.
In the first update, which arrived on September 5th, a kill starter was added to allow creators to start a quest by eliminating a set target.
Moreover, the dialogue editor was also improved to include a notification when the number of sequences used has reached a certain limit.

For more information on Assassin’s Creed, please visit: assassinscreed.com.

xfx-radeon-rx-5700-xt-thicc-ii-ultraBy David Mitchelson @ Vortez

XFX carved a name for themselves under the AMD Tahiti – aka Radeon HD 7970, introducing their Ghost 2.0 thermal solution with the Double Dissipation design. Fast forward to 2019 and they are back with a new cooling configuration based on the design philosophy of that very cooler – THICC II.

Being announced this week is the XFX RX 5700 XT THICC II and THICC II Ultra. Both cards utilise the same cooler but the Ultra version benefits from optimisation under the hood – the GPU boost clock is able to achieve slightly higher frequencies at 1980 MHz and as a result of this will also consume slightly more power (20W).

There are a multitude of 5700 XT cards being released this September – is the THICC II Ultra worth considering? Let’s find out!

Read The Review Here

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nvidia-geforce-logoSource: TechPowerUp!

NVIDIA today released GeForce drivers version 436.30 WHQL. These drivers pack optimization for “Gears 5,” “Borderlands 3,” and “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare” PC Open Beta. It also adds SLI support for “Close to the Sun.” The list of G-Sync compatible displays is also expanded. Among the bugs fixed are stutter noticed with “Fortnite” with Ultra Low Latency Mode enabled; an application crash with “Forza Motorsport 6/7,” flickering in “World of Warcraft” during character selection, BSOD when enabling RTX features in “Control” on GeForce 10-series “Pascal” GPUs; flickering in YouTube on Firefox with G-Sync enabled, and color corruption noticed in various games such as “Gears 5″ and “Forza Horizon 4.”

You can download the GeForce 436.30 WHQL Game Ready Drivers via GeForce.com.

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ghost-recon-breakpointUbisoft has released a new What is Breakpoint? trailer, showing you everything you need to know about Ghost Recon Breakpoint, including the latest intel on the world, story, co-op experience, and the post-launch content we have coming to Auroa. Available October 4.”

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint is a military shooter set in a diverse and hostile open world. The game will be playable solo or in up to four-player co-op. Players will discover Auroa, a mysterious island where the most technically advanced facilities meet wild and untamed nature. Home to tech giant Skell Technology, Auroa has fallen into the wrong hands and all contact has been lost.

To pre-order Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint, visit ghostrecon.com.

sudden-strike-4-complete-collectionStrategy gaming specialist Kalypso Media has today released Sudden Strike 4: Complete Collection on PC, PlayStation®4 and Xbox One. Sudden Strike 4: Complete Collection is now available from digital and retail stores for all platforms.

Since its original launch, Sudden Strike 4 has improved and expanded greatly, with 11 updates and 5 DLCs bringing significant new features and improvements to the game. This new release of the World War II strategy hit bundles all of these expansive content updates together in one high-value package.

Sudden Strike 4: Complete Collection offers fans the ultimate World War II strategy experience, containing the main Sudden Strike 4 game plus all five previously released DLCs: Battle of Kursk, Road to Dunkirk, Finland – Winter Storm, Africa – Desert War and The Pacific War.

Sudden Strike 4 sends you off on three extensive campaigns set amongst the battlefields of World War II. Command the British and American, German or Soviet troops in the most iconic conflicts of the war, leading over 100 different units into battle. Prove your strategic expertise in over 20 demanding singleplayer scenarios, the challenge-focused skirmish mode and the ultra-competitive multiplayer mode.

Features:

  • Sudden Strike 4: Complete Collection offers realistic real-time strategy gameplay with tactical depth and a historical setting across 11 campaigns with over 45 missions and more than 200 different units in a complete package.
  • Contains all free content updates available, with over 10 new maps and gameplay refinements.
  • Command German and Soviet forces in the Battle of Kursk – one of the largest tank battles of World War II!
  • Road to Dunkirk features 4 new missions, 2 new commanders and 10 all-new units, as well as additional buildings and ships.
  • Finland – Winter Storm features 6 new missions, 3 new commanders, and 19 all-new vehicles, along with additional buildings and units.
  • Africa – Desert Storm features 6 new missions, 5 new commanders, and 30 new vehicles, including a medical truck.
  • The Pacific War features 10 new missions, 6 new commanders, and over 50 new vehicles, including aircraft carriers.
  • Adapt and refine the military doctrines of more than 20 renowned commanders, such as Heinz Guderian, George S. Patton or Charles de Gaulle for a different strategic and tactical approach to each scenario.
  • Pit yourself against other commanders or challenging enemy AI enemies in competitive multiplayer modes.

Watch the Sudden Strike 4 – Complete Collection Trailer HERE.

call-of-duty-modern-warfareSource: Blue’s News

This tweet from Activision is an atlas for the road to launch Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. The military shooter is due for release on October 25th. The text says: “The road to launch for #ModernWarfare is in its final stretch. Gather your intel and get ready for the Open Beta next weekend.” This is followed by a graphic with the following timeline of what will lead up to that point:

PlayStation Exclusive Open Beta
Beta Weekend 1
September 12-16

Crossplay Details
Week of September 16

Crossplay Open Beta
Beta Weekend 2
September 19-23

Campaign Premiere
End of September

Special Ops Premier
Week of October 7

asrock-x570-steel-legend-motherboardBy Morry Teitelman @ PC Perspective

Released as part of ASRock’s AMD X570 product line, the X570 Steel Legend offers support for the latest AMD Ryzen 3000 series processor line as well as Dual Channel DDR4 memory running at up to 3200MHz speeds in stock configuration. The board features full RGB support integrated into it’s armored surface with active cooling provided for the X570 chipset integrated into the hybrid chipset / M.2 device overlay. Further, ASRock integrated PCIe 4.0 slot support into the board’s dual PCIe x16 slots for support of the latest in graphics technologies.

Read The Review Here

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asura-genesis-xtreme-pcie-m2-rgb-ssdBy Marco Chiappetta @ Hot Hardware

Now that SSDs and their components have been substantially cost-reduced and essentially gone mainstream, there are more and more players in the space. What was once a market reserved for but a few top-tier semiconductor manufacturers, is now increasingly crowded by new, lesser-known third-party companies looking to capitalize on the increasing demand for super-fast storage. One such company is Asura Technology. Asura was founded less than a year ago, and has developed a high-end, NVMe SSD with a handful of interesting features, targeted specifically at gamers and performance enthusiasts — the Asura Genesis Xtreme we will showing you here today.

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