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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.

• ASRock X99 Extreme4 is World’s First Windows 8.1-Certified X99-Based Motherboard
• Lian Li Announces the PC-V2130 Brushed Aluminum Full Tower
• EIZO Unveils the FlexScan EV3237 31.5-Inch UHD Monitor
• Creative Releases the T3250 2.1 Wireless Speaker System
• AMD Introduces New APUs for System Builder and DIY Market
• AMD Announces the Athlon 860K and FX-8300 CPUs
• Cooler Master Announces V Semi-Modular 750W PSU
• Cooler Master PSUs Follow New EU Regulations
• Inter-Tech Releases the SY-113 Midi Tower PC Case
• Microsoft Unveils Halo-Themed Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500
• NVIDIA to Launch GeForce GTX 880 in September
• SteelSeries Introduces the Siberia Elite World of Warcraft Edition Headset
• Researchers Uncover Fundamental USB Security Flaw, No Fix in Sight

Source: Battlefield Blog

Get ready to fight in dense Asian Pacific cities as Battlefield 4 Dragon’s Teeth is rolling out for all Battlefield 4 players. Take part in epic urban battles across four new maps including:

• Pearl Market: Wage war within the bustling alleyways and upon the rooftops of the marketplace
• Propaganda: Fight amongst massive despotic monuments in the grey concrete battleground
• Lumphini Garden: Cruise with fast-moving PWC’s on the canals in the pristine park to get the upper hand
• Sunken Dragon: Battle between modern high rises as you wreak havoc in a floating restaurant or drain the lake opening up for a frontal vehicle assault

In addition to four new maps, player’s will get five new weapons including the Ballistic Shield. Dragon’s Teeth also introduces a Battle Pickup, the R.A.W.R, a heavily armed remotely operated ground vehicle armed with a machine gun and grenade launcher, as well as a new game mode called Chain Link. Bringing another layer of depth and strategy, Chain Link is a twist on Conquest where teams need to act fast and link together capture points to ensure victory.

For more information, visit the Battlefield 4 Dragon’s Teeth site.

Source: Blue’s News

Publisher Deep Silver announces the acquisition of the Homefront intellectual property and all related assets from financially troubled publisher/developer Crytek, offering no hint about what they paid for the shooter series. Word is development of Homefront: The Revolution will continue in Nottingham, England at a newly formed studio called Deep Silver Dambuster Studios. Here’s the announcement:
Today, Koch Media together with its publishing label Deep Silver announces that it has acquired the Homefront brand and all coherent assets from Crytek. This includes Homefront: The Revolution which has been announced on 2nd June 2014. The development will be continued in newly founded, Nottingham-based Deep Silver Dambuster Studios.

“We are thrilled to see another great IP joining the Deep Silver universe,” says Dr. Klemens Kundratitz. “We strongly believe in the potential of Homefront: The Revolution and trust in the new team to continue the path we have been walking in the last years.”

Deep Silver Dambuster Studios is the third development studio within the Koch Media Group, joining Deep Silver Volition and Deep Silver Fishlabs.

More game information is available at the official Homefront: The Revolution webpage.

Ubisoft has released a new CGI trailer for Assassin’s Creed: Unity that shows Arno racing against time and through a dense and chaotic central Paris in order to prevent the beheading of Elise, a character central to Assassin’s Creed: Unity’s story. As an independent young noblewoman, Elise is determined to secure her place in the Templar dynasty amidst the chaos of the French Revolution. Her quest leads her to cross paths with Arno and establish an unlikely bond with him.

In addition to the new trailer, Ubisoft is offering fans the chance to discover a novel by Oliver Bowden based on Assassin’s Creed: Unity. This new paperback from Penguin Random House builds on Bowden’s past Assassin’s novels – with 3 million copies sold to date – and examines an era when the divide between the rich and poor is at its most extreme, and a nation is tearing itself apart. Told from Elise’s perspective, the book follows her and Arno as they are drawn into the centuries-old battle between the Assassins and the Templars – a world with dangers more deadly than they could ever have imagined – and fight to avenge all they have lost.

Finally, fans can now also order “Elise: The Fiery Templar,” a high quality figurine designed by Ubicollectibles that features Elise as she sets her sights on her target with her gun poised and sword sheathed at the ready on her back. This collectible can be assembled into a diorama with the “Arno: The Fearless Assassin” figurine. Additional digital content for Assassin’s Creed: Unity also is included with the purchase of this collectible.

Assassin’s Creed: Unity will be released worldwide on October 28. The novel Assassin’s: Creed Unity will be available in November. “Elise: The Fiery Templar” figurine will be released on October 14.

Watch the new Arno Master Assassin trailer HERE.

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

Prepare for a new era of combat. Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. , revealed details on three collector’s edition versions of the highly-anticipated Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. The Atlas Pro Edition, Atlas Limited Edition and Atlas Digital Pro Edition are infused with specialised content sure to immerse players in the high-tech, advanced future Sledgehammer Games is bringing to Call of Duty this November.

The Atlas Pro Edition and Atlas Limited Edition are now available for pre-order while supplies last. The Digital Pro Edition will be available for pre-order at a later date.

Watch the new Campaign Story Trailer HERE.

Find more information about the new collector’s editions at the official Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare website.

All new clan functionality, reworked Prokhorovka map and HD tank models bring more to the battle in Update 9.2

Wargaming today announced that Update 9.2 for World of Tanks is now available in North America. Players from Europe, Asia and Korea will be able to try out new content and features, including the introduction of the Strongholds game mode and a new map, Fire Arc, on July 31. By adding improvements on eight different maps and four reworked HD vehicle models in game, Update 9.2 continues Wargaming’s commitment to consistently refine the gaming experience throughout 2014.

Strongholds is an all new game mode designed specifically for members of Clan Wars. Clan Commanders are now able to create virtual bases for their clans, participate in Skirmishes alongside their fellow players, earn Industrial Resources, develop their Stronghold up to Level 4 and be awarded with special bonuses called Orders. Tankers can use Orders to activate a variety of temporary in-game bonuses for all clan members in all combat modes. As the level of the Stronghold increases, so does the frequency and quality of bonuses received.

“We are very excited to introduce the first iteration of Strongholds to World of Tanks,” said Anton Pankov, Executive Publishing Producer at Wargaming. “It is an extremely engaging game mode that combines tactics, strategy and action elements, bringing more depth to the World of Tanks metagame. Strongholds will evolve over time based on feedback from the World of Tanks community.”

In addition to Strongholds, Update 9.2 also introduces Fire Arc, the new version of Prokhorovka battle arena with stunning visual effects, as well as four new HD models including the Soviet IS and SU-100, the German StuG III and the British Churchill I, and improvements to eight in-game maps that have been reworked based on player requests.

For more information about World of Tanks and to download the award-winning, free-to-play action MMO, visit the games official website.

By Paul Lilly @ HotHardware

What we have to evaluate today is NEC‘s new MultiSync EA244UHD, a 24-inch 4K Ultra HD monitor. As part of NEC’s EA series, this monitor is intended for high-end desktop users as opposed to professional graphics users, though there are features of the EA244UHD that may tempt potential customers who fall into the latter category. Things that separate this monitor from a traditional desktop display include extras like up to four-way display matrix support (there are multiple inputs for connecting multiple PCs), a ControlSync feature that lets users control the settings for up to half a dozen daisychained displays, a high-speed USB 3.0 hub, and a standard warranty that even covers the backlight for the first three years.

Read The Review Here

Written By: Dan Stoltz @ Legit Reviews

Gone are the days of being on the cutting edge of memory with DDR3 running at 2133MHz! These days running 2133MHz memory is pretty much considered the norm for a high end gaming rig. If you’re looking to be on the bleeding edge of memory speeds you’re going to be limited to only one or two kits. Today we have one of the fastest kits available on the market to put through the paces, the ADATA XPG V3 DDR3 3100MHz 8GB memory kit. The ADATA XPG 3100MHz 8GB DDR3 memory kit is sold under part number AX3U3100W4G12-DBV-RG and is definitely for those building a killer rig without budget concerns as the XPG 3100MHz memory kit is currently retailing for only $869.99.

Read The Review Here

By: Hilbert Hagedoorn @ GURU3D

Join us as we review the ASUS Republic Of Gamers Swift PG278Q GSYNC gaming monitor. NVIDIA has announced GSync but 3rd party monitors with that GSYNC module have been hard to get. ASUS outs their second GSYNC compatible monitor, this round they do it with a nice 27-inch WQHD display that can handle a 144 Hz refresh rate and has 1ms response time. The downside, it is a TN screen. So how good is it really?

Read The Review Here

Source: techPowerUp!

NVIDIA has made available a new WHQL-certified graphics card driver, the GeForce 340.52. This release is recommended for Metro: Redux and Final Fantasy XIV, it brings multiple new and updated SLI profiles and allows the streaming of PC games to the just-released SHIELD tablet. The GeForce 340.52 has support for the GeForce 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600 and 700 Series cards and for the ION and ION LE GPUs.

You can download the GeForce 340.52 WHQL drivers from the GeForce website.