Month: May 2021

Source: Blue’s News

SEGA and Relic Entertainment are commemorating the US’s Memorial Day Weekend with a giveaway of Company of Heroes 2, the World War II real-time strategy sequel. The freebie comes along with an additional bonus, as the Ardennes Assault standalone single-player campaign is free as well. Both are available on Steam, yours to keep if you claim them over the next week. Also, all the other content for the game is currently on sale for 80% off. This trailer celebrates the giveaways. Here’s more:

There really is no better opportunity for strategy fans to get their hands on this ground-breaking historical title, engage in its thrilling tactical combat and claim victory over both the Eastern & Western Fronts of World War II. Newcomers to the award-winning World War II RTS series can expect countless hours of single and multiplayer gameplay, with the ultimate goal of defeating the mighty German forces and turning the tide of war. Download COH2 and Ardennes Assault for free now and kick off your single player campaign with The Battle of the Bulge, or dive straight into various intense online multiplayer modes and missions.

Creative Assembly today announces a substantial patch for Total War: Three Kingdoms, as well as exciting news on the future of the series, explained in a newly released Dev Diary. The 1.7.1 patch which goes live today contains numerous community-requested fixes, as well as an important change to the campaign map that sees Mount Song and Hulao pass move to their correct locations. This also allows for some additional improvements to areas around the Yellow River, preventing players getting past gate passes quite so easily – which is a good thing!

In the accompanying Dev Diary, Creative Assembly look back at the past two years of development on Three Kingdoms, sharing the exciting news that while the content for Three Kingdoms DLC is now complete, the team has transitioned onto another project based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel.

As outlined in the video, the team will share more of their direction and scope for this new project when they’re able. For now, the team have indicated that they will be “increasing [their] focus on this novel’s rich cast of characters and their individual and unique narratives, taking the core of what made Total War: Three Kingdoms so special and pushing it further.”

Alongside this important update from the team, SEGA announced a new ‘Complete your Collection’ bundle, allowing players to fill in any gaps in their Three Kingdom’s DLC library at a further discount. This offer will go live alongside the 1.7.1 patch and will end on Thursday 8th July.

To find out the details of the 1.7.1 patch, please visit the Total War blog.

Slitherine announces that Combat Mission: Cold War has a new release date: July 22nd.

The game will also be arriving with our improved PBEM multiplayer system when it officially releases, allowing you and your friends to dive into the immersive multiplayer experience with minimal setup and co-ordination.

In case you missed the original announcement, Combat Mission is returning with a brand-new chapter set between 1979 and 1982. This was the tipping-point of a conflict that gripped the world for 45 years, the Cold War.

Developed by Battlefront, Combat Mission: Cold War comes with 15 standalone scenarios set in the US V and VII Corp sectors of West Germany and 3 full length campaigns.

We apologize for the delay, which was slightly longer than expected due to some internal factors caused by Covid. Robust multiplayer is something we feel strongly about, so we hope you will enjoy the enhanced experience PBEM system will offer and why we felt we had to delay the release to include it.

Check 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.

• Acer Updates Its Predator Orion and Nitro Gaming Desktops
• NZXT Announces CRFT 08 H510 Valhalla Case
• Acer Expands Its Predator Gaming Portfolio with Three New HDR Monitors
• Philips 243B9H Monitor Launches with USB-C & Windows Hello Webcam
• EVGA Announces SuperNOVA G6 Series Power Supplies
• Roccat Announces Syn Pro Air Gaming Headset
• ROCCAT Launches New White Colorway for the Popular Elo 7.1 Air Wireless PC Gaming Headset
• MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ti SUPRIM X and Ventus 3X Pictured, 8GB GDDR6X Confirmed, GA104-based
• Gelid Launches the Glacier RGB CPU Cooler
• TEAMGROUP Launches All-Round Storage Solutions at COMPUTEX 2021
• EK Unveils Quantum Vector Strix RX 6800 and RX 6900 Water Blocks
• EK Launches Active Backplates for EVGA FTW3 RTX 3080 AND 3090 GPUs
• Gigabyte Unveil AORUS 6900 XT Xtreme WaterForce WB GPU
• Western Digital Unveils WD Black 750 SE NVMe SSD: Budget PCIe 4.0
• SteelSeries Unveils its Prime Series Gaming Peripherals
• BIOSTAR Unveils B560M-SILVER Motherboard
• AOC Expands its Gaming Ecosystem with Mechanical Keyboards, Mice & Mousepads
• BitFenix Adds ENSO MESH 4ARGB Model and Spectre ARGB SE Kit
• InWin Launches its Luna AL120 ARGB Case Fans
• Razer Launches BlackWidow V3 Mini HyperSpeed Keyboard
• GIGABYTE Unleashes the AORUS Gen4 7000s Prem. SSD, Your Smartest Choice for High-speed SSD
• Antec Releases New NeoECO Platinum PSU Series

The World Kneels Before You in Crusader Kings III: Royal Court

The life of a king isn’t all feasting and fighting. The larger the court, the more demands that are placed on the head of a ruler. Vassals and subjects demand audiences, petitions somehow find their way to your throne room, and we haven’t even talked about all the interior decorating. So much fabric. How will you rule your court?

In Crusader Kings III: Royal Court, all of these new challenges confront you, as your courtiers clamor for attention. Royal Court is the first major expansion for Crusader Kings III, Paradox Development Studio’s critically-acclaimed strategy role-playing game about the medieval world. Powerful rulers can establish the kind of court that inspires troubadours, decorating it with relics from family history and favoring subjects with the answers to their many problems.

View the Crusader Kings III: Royal Court Announcement Trailer HERE.

Crusader Kings III: Royal Court includes:

• Throne Room: A visual representation of your royal court will reflect all the accumulated majesty and prestige of your dynasty.
• Hold Court: Interact with vassals and courtiers as they come to you with their problems, seeking a royal judgment.
• Grandeur: Increase the quality of life at your court with fancier trappings and better food, all the better to impress your rivals and attract higher quality guests.
• Inspired People: Talented artists, craftspeople and thinkers can work on new projects, adding treasures and artifacts to your court.
• Hybrid Cultures: Make the most of a multicultural realm, developing a new way of life that is specifically adapted to your population and geography.
• Cultural Divergence: split from your traditional culture, adapting it into something new that better fits your aspirations.

This expansion will be accompanied by a major free update that will include a new culture interface and more.

More game information is available on the official Crusader Kings III website.

Matrix Games announce that Reconquista, the first DLC for Field of Glory II: Medieval is now available. Expand your game experience by taking command of the conflicts that have affected the Iberian and Italian Peninsula from 1040 AD to 1270 AD.

Lead your army to victory through legendary battles that have inflamed southern Europe for decades, with 20 more nations and factions covering Spain, Italy and North Africa, including:

The Andalusians, Almohads, Arabs, Aragonese, Byzantine Catapanate of Italy, Castilians / Leónese, Catalans, Granadines, Hafsids, Italian Guelfs, Italian Ghibellines, Italo-Normans, Lombards, Marinids, Murabits, Navarrese, Papal, Portuguese, the Kingdom of Sicily and Tuaregs.

Relive 8 more historical scenarios covering key engagements of the period as well as 4 more historically-based campaigns covering major leaders and conflicts of the era: El Cid, Muhammad II of Granada, Normans in the South and Frederick II Hohenstaufen.

Create your historically realistic battlefield for custom scenarios that can be played against the AI or human opponents using Slitherine’s easy to use PBEM3 server.

Moreover, a new Bundle will be available, containing Field of Glory II: Medieval and Reconquista with an additional 10% discount.

Don’t let your guard down, as the battle continues in Field of Glory II: Medieval – Reconquista.

Check 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.

• EK Launches Offset Fittings to Further Diversify the Torque Series Portfolio
• Razer Outs DeathAdder V2 Special Edition Mouse
• BIOSTAR Announces Gaming X RGB Line of DDR4 Memory
• Jonsbo Adds HX6250 140mm CPU Cooler Rated 250W
• ARCTIC Announces Liquid Freezer II 240 RGB and 240 A-RGB AIO CPU Coolers
• Thermalright Adds to-down CPU Cooler AXP90-X53 in a the Color Black
• Watercool Presents its New HEATKILLER RAD Series Radiators
• MSI Launches its First Lightweight Wireless Gaming Mouse
• SPC Gear Release its SR400 Series of Gaming Chairs
• GeIL Makes Ready to Launch the Next Generation DDR5 RGB High-Performance Gaming Memory
• EK’S GPU Water Block For the Aorus Xtreme/Master RTX 30 Series is Ready
• InWin Launches its BR Series AIO Coolers with Block Fan Design
• ROCCAT Announces Availability of Kone Pro and Kone Pro Air Gaming Mice
• EK Water Blocks Starts Selling 90-degree Pre-bent Acrylic Tubing

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A new update is now live in Insurgency: Sandstorm, kicking off Operation Exodus in this first-person shooter from New World Interactive and Focus Home Interactive. This adds a new survival co-op mode, a new map, two new weapons, and more, as shown off in this trailer. All this comes as the game carries a 50% discount for the next week on Steam. Here’s word on the patch as well as an accompanying paid DLC with some new cosmetics:

In Insurgency’s new survival co-op game mode, you’ll team up and fight to stay alive while securing randomly placed objectives with limited weapon availability. The update adds the Citadel map, featuring ancient, narrow alleyways that force close-combat engagements, as well as an open area with high ground, sight lines and cover for a more tactical approach. Two free new guns have also been added to the game for all players: get your hands on the iconic Desert Eagle or the French-manufactured MR73 revolver, both available with their respective suppressors.

In addition, today’s update brings new paid cosmetic DLC: freshen up the look of your arsenal with the new Bear Claw and True Grit weapon skin sets, along with the Uprising Insurgent skin and Bad Day Security skin. Each is available to purchase individually or as part of the Exodus Set Bundle.

Visit the official Insurgency: Sandstorm website for more game information.

Matrix Games announces Broken Arrow. Broken Arrow is a large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game. It features American and Russian factions, more than 100 units and multiple deck specialisations per nation. The game brings the genre to a whole new level by combining the complexity of a joint-forces wargame with the typical real-time tactics action-packed gameplay.

Watch the reveal trailer HERE.

Click here for more game information.

Matrix Games announces Scramble: Battle of Britain. Scramble: Battle of Britain is a simultaneous turn-based dogfighting game. Set in a 3D airspace, the game features fast-paced, tactical combat with dynamic flight physics. Each turn is divided into three phases: planning phase, action phase, and review phase. Survey the aerial battlefield, plan your flight paths, execute spectacular manoeuvres, scrub through time to assess battle damage, and defeat your enemies through masterful tactics and captivating aerobatics.

Click here for more game information.