Outnumbered and outgunned, the Marine pilots of VMF-221 paid a heavy price for their heroic efforts to stem the Japanese onslaught on Midway Atoll.

By Richard Camp @ Historynet.com

At 0555 hours on June 4, 1942, the heart-pounding wail of Midway atoll’s air raid siren sent the pilots of Marine Fighting Squadron 221 (VMF-221) scrambling to their aircraft. The island’s air defense radar had detected a swarm of Japanese aircraft—“Many planes, 93 miles, 310 degrees, altitude 11,000 feet”—heading their way, and no pilot wanted to be caught on the ground when they arrived.

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Wargaming has teamed up with Lionsgate to promote the new Midway film, premiering worldwide today, by offering a host of special combat missions in the popular naval combat game World of Warships.

Until the 5th of December, World of Warships players can try their hand at special battle missions which, if successfully completed, grant them the IJN Kaga aircraft carrier and the IJN Saipan. Furthermore, selected cinemas in Poland, Czech Republic and Romania will be offering invite codes giving access to valuable content in-game to visitors of a Midway screening. World of Warships trailers will also be shown ahead of the Midway movie in partnership with Cinema City.

Players can jump into the online free-to-play combat game to relive the pivotal Battle of Midway, which saw the United States Navy decisively defeat an attacking fleet of the Japanese Imperial Navy near the Midway atoll in the Pacific Ocean. This decisive engagement of World War 2 has been recreated inside World of Warships with meticulous attention to detail, with players able to command 30 historical ships that took part in this massive naval battle.

Wargaming and its dedicated team of historians and game designers pride themselves on carefully recreating history by using archival documents and official blueprints with each individual warship in World of Warships and its console companion version, World of Warships: Legends.

Visit the official World of Warships website now for more info and to sign up and play World of Warships for free!

Source: The Activision Blog

Got any weekend plans? You do now: Modern Warfare latest game update going live today at 10AM PST introduces new maps and a new game mode to all platforms, for all players. Enjoy a mix of Multiplayer action that you can experience with all of your friends through crossplay.

Today’s release of free maps and a new mode is a precursor to upcoming in-game events, which will bring a ton of free content to players. Everyone can look forward to more celebrations like today along with major community events in support of Modern Warfare. Plus, in addition to new content dropping today, developer Infinity Ward is also releasing a number of quality of life, tuning and play balancing updates across the game.

Uniting The Community

Today’s release of free maps and a new mode is just the start. With the release of Modern Warfare, fans can play together through crossplay and cross progression, and look forward to a ton of new content and the start of live seasons coming free to all players on all platforms.

Additional Multiplayer Map Content

Two free maps are available now; a new traditional Multiplayer map, Shoot House, and a large Ground War map, Krovnik Farmland.

Additional Game Mode Content

Hardpoint

“Capture and hold the zone to earn points for your team.”

Race to secure and defend a specific “hardpoint” on the map, and then repel this zone from enemy incursions. Several times during the match, the hardpoint rotates to a different position around the map, so it’s worth learning the likely location of each hardpoint so you can react accordingly.

When your team is within the hardpoint, your teams’ score increases, though if none of your team have made it to the hardpoint, there are no points gained. A point is gained every second you or a team member (or a group of teammates) is present within the hardpoint. When your team reaches 250 points, you can claim victory.

Click here for more info about the new game mode and maps, and to watch the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Community Content Trailer.

By Hilbert Hagedoorn @ Guru3D

We review the new GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 Super in the WTF edition, yes that is a playful way of wording in many regards. WTF is short for Work The Frames, which realistically you would have never guessed. This RTX 2070 is based on the new Super series, as in super-charged based on a Turing TU104 chip.

But what has GALAX done with it? Armed with a three-fan based cooling solution it is bound to remain chilled nicely. But it also has four configurable LED zones with a plethora of animation options. Once powered on, this graphics card will look really nice.

Read The Review Here

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 Announces Radeon RX 5700 Phantom Gaming Series
• Game Untethered with Razer’s New Line-up of Wireless Basilisk Mice
• Nixeus Introduces The EDG34 A 34″ 3440×1440 144hz Ultrawide Gaming Monitor
• CORSAIR Launches T3 RUSH Gaming Chair
• AMD Introduces World’s Most Powerful 16-core Consumer Desktop Processor, the AMD Ryzen™ 9 3950X
• AMD Introduces World’s Fastest High-End Desktop Processors With 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper Family
• ASUS Announces Trio of TRX40 Motherboards for AMD Threadripper: ROG Zenith II Extreme, ROG Strix TRX40-E Gaming, and Prime TRX40-Pro
• MSI Announces Creator TRX40 and TRX40 PRO Series Motherboards
• GIGABYTE Presents TRX40 AORUS Motherboards
• ASRock Announces TRX40 Taichi and TRX40 Creator Motherboards
• Thermaltake outs TOUGHRAM RGB White Edition DDR4 Memory Kits
• EK Water Blocks Launches a New Quantum X570 Monoblock for the ROG STRIX X570-E
• ADATA Launches IM2P33E8 PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 2280 SSD
• EK Reshapes Your Perception of Reservoirs With Flat D-RGB Models
• Kolink Launches the Ethereal and Refine Chassis
• EK-Quantum Vector Goes D-RGB – Addressing the Wishes of Builders
• NZXT Reveals New Audio Suite for Gamers – AER, STND, and MXER Products
• Antec Presents DP501 White Gaming Chassis
• Jonsbo Unveils CR-2000 Twin Fin-stack CPU Cooler

Bullet (drop) to the head.

By David Jagneaux @ IGN

It seems weird to me that after about 20 years of military shooters, so few of them really focus on sniping. Plenty of movies have highlighted snipers as lethal and heroic soldiers, but very few game franchises go through the effort — with one of those few staples being Sniper Ghost Warrior. While Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 was a major departure for the franchise by expanding things into an open-world setting, Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts scales things back to a mission-based format once again.

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Command: Modern Operations will be the most advanced military-simulator available in the market, taking all the features from its CMANO predecessor and expanding them greatly, both in number and quality.

An indication of this massive leap forward is the over 300 pages Manual, that will constitute the best learning tool for every Commander willingly to rightly manipulate the battlefield.

If you are eager too what to expect in-game, your wait is over. The full Manual is now available as PDF, and – as promised – it covers everything you need to know about CMO!

From introducing the game to newcomers and beginners to detailing the new exalting features and mechanics dreamed by CMANO veterans, this Manual will blow your mind.

You can find the manual at this link (PDF), in the Download section of the Product Page and its Steam page.

IMPORTANT. Due to the great amount of content, the Manual that will be included in the box at release will be a shortened version (210 pages). The full (350 pages) E-Book Manual will be included in the installer or available in the Product Page.

Source: TechPowerUp!

NVIDIA has released GeForce Software version 441.12 WHQL. These drivers come game-ready for “Red Dead Redemption 2,” which is going live today (November 5th). The drivers add or improve optimization for “Need for Speed Heat” and “Borderlands 3.” The drivers fix a white-screen game crash associated with “Super Robot Wars V.” With these drivers, NVIDIA is also addressing a security vulnerability, which isn’t documented publicly yet, but will be released on Nov 6th, as “Security Bulletin 4907″. Right now it is only briefly described as “Added security updates for driver components”.

You can download the GeForce Software 441.12 WHQL drivers via GeForce.com.

Source: TechPowerUp!

AMD has released a new and improved version of their “Adrenalin” graphics card driver with the release of the version 19.11.1. The new release brings many bug fixes and most importantly a support for Red Dead: Redemption II game. Some of the improvements with the 19.11.1 are the fixes for frame rate limit of 60 FPS in some game titles that utilize Vulkan API; OBS streaming now doesn’t get a heavy frame drop when using AMF encoding and error when some users try to connect to Twitch from the connect page in Radeon Settings for live streaming is gone.

The new Radeon Software Adrenalin 19.11.1 drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.

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.

• GIGABYTE Releases Watercooled AORUS Gaming Box with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
• Razer Announces the Razer Firefly V2 RGB Gaming Mouse Mat
• Phanteks Unveils Digital-RGB Motherboard Cable Adapter
• Inno3D Announces New Gaming OC X2 and Twin X2 OC RGB Graphics Cards
• Cougar Unveils the DarkBlader Line of Full-tower Cases
• XFX Revises RX 5700 XT THICC II Cooler and Offers Replacements
• AOC Announces New U32U1, Q27T1 Monitors in Partnership with Porsche
• BIOSTAR Ready for AMD New Firmware and RYZEN 9 3950X
• Thermaltake Introduces Level 20 HT Series Full Tower Cases
• Corsair Intros ST50 Headset Stand
• Phanteks Renames Enthoo Luxe 2 to Enthoo 719