The Battle of Gettysburg, fought between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia, is considered by many the turning point of the American Civil War.

Lasted three days, from July 1st to July 3rd, 1863, the battle saw many epic and tragic moments, culminating in the famous Pickett’s Charge, the desperate frontal assault of the confederates against the unionist defensive lines at Cemetery Ridge.

Today, Shenandoah and Slitherine are very proud to release Gettysburg: The Tide Turns, the brilliant hex-based wargame that will make you relive all the hard tactical choices the Confederates and the Unionists had to take during these long and crucial days of fierce fighting. Watch the Gettysburg: The Tide Turns Launch Trailer here.

But the news is not over! We have just opened the gates for the first Gettysburg: The Tide Turns Tournament!

Take the challenge and defy your human opponents! The tournament will start on Wednesday 19th! Click here to sign up!

IMPORTANT! Only 8 players will be allowed initially, so first come first served! We will add more players in future matches once we will collect enough feedback! Even if we did beta testing during the development stage, “no plan resists contact with the enemy”!

What are you waiting? Grab Gettysburg: The Tide Turns now!

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.

• AMD Announces Ryzen Threadripper 1920X and 1950X Processors – VIDEO
• MSI Announces the Immerse GH70 Gaming Headset
• ASUS Adds Three ROG TUF Series X299 Motherboards
• MSI GTX 1080 Ti Lightning X and Z Now Available on Newegg- $859/869
• ADATA Launches XPG SPECTRIX D40 RGB Memory
• ID-Cooling Announces Frostflow Plus Series AIO Liquid CPU Coolers
• Colorful Announces the iGame GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Neptune W Graphics Card
• ASUS Launches VP28UQG UHD Gaming Display
• MSI Intros the GK-701 RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard

Massive update features new FREE Authentic Plus difficulty mode, maps, more! The final chapter of Deathstorm, Sniper Elite 4′s thrilling mini-campaign, launches July 18th 2017 on PlayStation®4, Xbox One and PC.

Deathstorm Part 3: Obliteration is the main course in a veritable feast of brand new Sniper Elite 4 content! Also coming to the game on July 18th is the LOCK AND LOAD weapons pack featuring three new weapons.

And that’s on top of tons of FREE extras, including the new AUTHENTIC PLUS difficulty mode, the new “Facility” map for Survival mode and the new “Bunker” map for competitive multiplayer.

Deathstorm Part 3: Obliteration is the final chapter in a new three-part campaign for Sniper Elite 4, taking fans back to World War 2 Germany for the first time since Sniper Elite v2 in 2012.

It’s in the Bavarian town of Steigerloch, in the heartland of Germany, where the abominable nuclear project known as Deathstorm is being researched. A heavily guarded underground complex is rumoured to lie hidden beneath the sleepy town’s hilltop church, with suspicious vehicle activity suggesting the Nazis are planning something big – and soon. Elite agent Karl Fairburne must draw on all his skills to neutralize the facility and bring Deathstorm down, once and for all.

Deathstorm Part 3: Obliteration is out July 18th. As a bonus, players who purchase it will also unlock six new Axis characters to use in multiplayer! Agents can also bolster their arsenals with the new LOCK AND LOAD expansion pack, delivering the firepower of the SVT, M30 Drilling and Mauser M712 rifles.

The new content doesn’t end there! The free AUTHENTIC PLUS difficulty will also be available starting July 18th, featuring relentless enemies and even fewer display aids. It’ll be a Herculean challenge, and players who are up to it will find two new trophies and achievements to earn.

Other Sniper Elite 4 freebies arriving July 18th include:

▪ Elite ranks, raising the level cap from 50 to 250!
▪ “Facility” Survival map, inspired by “Magazzeno Facility” campaign mission
▪ “Bunker” adversarial map, inspired by “Allegra Fortress” campaign mission
▪ By popular demand, the option to choose your rifle’s scope reticule!

Watch the Sniper Elite 4 – Deathstorm Part 3: Obliteration DLC Trailer HERE.

For more details on the game, please visit SniperElite4.com.

Historic in-game events and missions roll out with Christopher Nolan’s epic drama, DUNKIRK

In conjunction with Warner Bros. and alongside the WWII action thriller DUNKIRK, Wargaming is kicking off the commemoration with a series of history-based activities and bundles. The “Remember Dunkirk” content will be available in all three of the Wargaming “Battle Trilogy” of video games beginning July 14th. The robust program encompasses World of Tanks (PC & Console), World of Warships, and World of Warplanes.

“The historic ‘Miracle of Dunkirk’, like many of the events of World War II, continues to impact and inform our battle-focused games,” stated Erik Whiteford, Head of Marketing, Wargaming America, “We are inspired by this momentous military operation and are excited to be in a partnership with Warner Brothers for Christopher Nolan’s highly-anticipated action thriller DUNKIRK.”

Wargaming’s “Remember Dunkirk” activity debuts this Friday, July 14th. A full series of “Remember Dunkirk” themed missions will take over the tank battlefields of World of Tanks and combat-filled skies of World of Warplanes. Players can compete to earn “Remember Dunkirk” themed vehicles and accumulate experience points (XP) that are redeemable for in-game gear, including special camouflage and more.

The battles expand in the coming weeks, as the “Remember Dunkirk” missions embark onto the high seas in World of Warships. A series of challenging missions will give warship commanders the opportunity to earn Dunkirk-themed containers and flags, as well as a Dunkirk themed ship Commander!

More detailed information on all of the historic in-game action and offerings can be found here.

Additional information on Wargaming’s Dunkirk related activities, including the ability to register to play the entire Battle Trilogy of games can be found here.

Warner Bros. Pictures’ DUNKIRK arrives in theaters July 20, 2017.

Upcoming expansion will bring new progression vehicles, Waterway PvP map and game system enhancements

My.com, Developer and Global Publisher of Armored Warfare is proud to announce its next expansion – Eye of the Storm. This major update will bring new content including five, long-awaited, new progression vehicles, the new Waterway PvP map and existing map overhauls to enable them to be played in Global Operations mode.

Next to brand-new content Eye of the Storm will also address community feedback to two backbone systems in the game. Enhancements will be introduced to the way shell damage works across the various ammo types as well as Economy changes that rebalance the rewards and their relation to in-game prices and costs. Eye of the Storm will make its appearance on the servers of Armored Warfare this summer!

Watch the new Armored Warfare – Waterway Map Trailer on Youtube.

Full set of features introduced with Eye of the Storm:

• New Progression Vehicles
• Waterway PvP Map
• PvP Map Overhauls
• Ammunition Changes
• Economy Changes
• Garage UI Improvements
• Visual Enhancement Program

Progression Vehicles:
In the expansion, My.com are introducing a series of Czechoslovak and Polish vehicles. It consists of Tier 6 to Tier 10 vehicles of various classes that are bringing new mechanics currently unique to their branch, such as the Spike-LR fire-and-forget guided missile system. The branch consists of both tracked and wheeled vehicles, which all have excellent firepower (often with very high rate of fire) and mobility for their respective tiers. Vehicles: BVP Šakal, KTO Rosomak, KTO Rosomak M1M, WPB Anders and Wilk XC-8

Waterway PvP map:
The next map called Waterway will take tank commanders to one of the biggest feats of engineering the world has ever seen – the Panama Channel! Recently, several rogue corporations hired an unscrupulous band of mercenaries to take over the channel to attack and pillage the ships passing through Panama’s massive waterway to drive the already exorbitant commodity prices even higher. The player’s task is to put an end to this and deal with the raiders once and for all.

For in-dept information on the further features of Eye of the Storm, please read more about them HERE.

The development history of Gettysburg: the Tide Turns has been a rollercoaster ride. When Slitherine acquired the rights to complete the game three years ago, our expectations were that we would deliver the game in a matter of months. That turned out to be impossible and we had to rewrite huge chunks of the code from scratch, taking 3 years rather than 3 months.

Gettysburg: The Tide Turns will be available for PC on Thursday (July 13th).

After a long series of challenging events, we are now ready to deliver the PC version of the game. All backers of the original Kickstarter project will soon receive an email detailing all the granted rewards. At this point in time, there are some rewards that are impossible to distribute. Nevertheless, we came up with a plan to reward all backers and hopefully make everyone who decided to invest in this game pleased and positive.

Stay tuned! Check out the official product page and find out more about the game!

Source: TechPowerUp!

AMD has released the latest version of Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition graphics drivers. Version 17.7.1 Beta adds support for new crypto-currency mining SKUs based on Radeon RX 460 and RX 470; and RX 550 and RX 560. It fixes a”Tekken 7″ application crash seen on R9 380 graphics cards; and crashes noticed on “FFXIV” and “Little Nightmares” on Radeon 300-series SKUs. In addition, it addresses graphics corruption issues seen on “Rainbow Six Siege” when MSAA is enabled; borderless-fullscrreen incompatibility with FreeSync on some applications; and stuttering on some FreeSync setups running Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and World of Warcraft.

You can download the Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.7.1 beta drivers 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.

• MSI Announces X299 XPOWER Gaming AC Motherboard
• ADATA Releases XPG GAMMIX Line with S10 PCIe Gen3x4 NVMe 1.2 SSD and D10 DDR4
• Corsair Neutron NX500 SSDs Surface Online at 400GB and 800GB Capacity
• TEAMGROUP Revolutionizes Memory with T-FORCE DELTA RGB Luminous Memory Module
• Patriot Announces Memory Compatibility with AMD Ryzen™ and AM4 Platforms
• GIGABYTE Intros the Aorus ATC 700 CPU Cooler
• EVGA Launches GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 HYBRID Graphics Card
• Colorful Reveal iGame X299 Vulcan X Motherboards
• ID Cooling Stream 3 has Liquid Cooling Through Frame

The North Pole is hitting the front-page news these days, turning to be the next element of confrontation between Washington and Moscow.

Russia is in the 4th year of a 15-year project to install the ‘SHELF’ underwater Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS), a very modern equivalent to the US Navy’s Cold War system of listening arrays in the Greenland-Iceland-UK (GIUK) Gap.

And it’s news from yesterday that a Russian submarine launched a cruise missile in Arctic Barents Sea, testing Moscow’s offensive-defensive capabilities in the far north.

The United States are seeing this revamped interested and military activity from the Russians as a main threat to their claims over the Arctic, as the region has always been considered a military and economic choke-point of extreme importance.

Do we have to expect a reaction from Washington or will it choose other, subtle, ways to protect its National Interest?

Get more information about Command LIVE: Pole Positions from its official product page.

As the developing process is marching quickly along the beta testing phase, it’s time to dig a bit more into the main differences and improvements players will find from the original game released in 2009.

“Field of Glory II is a complete reboot of the franchise, based on the original tabletop Field of Glory rules as a starting point, rather than on Field of Glory I” says Richard Bodley Scott, the main designer of Field of Glory II. “There are therefore many differences from FOG1 – which we hope are all improvements. Being co-author of the original tabletop game, I am in a unique position to create a fresh take on the system”.

Let’s take a closer look, shall we?

New graphics!

The game has vastly improved graphics. All of the terrain and unit models are true 3D. They are all fully animated – firing bows, throwing javelins, charging with lance, meleeing with sword or spear and so forth. Arrows and javelins fly. Men fall mortally wounded to the ground and die. The battlefield is littered with their corpses. Rear ranks shuffle up to replace the lost men.

Formations become disordered, and men turn to face their opponents when a unit is fighting in multiple directions. Pikes visibly form square. Each unit type has up to 4 variants within the unit, but also has multiple variant texture sheets, allowing the units of each side to be easily distinguished even in civil war battles.

New AI!

The game has vastly improved AI, drawing on the experience of developing the (generally praised) AI for Pike and Shot and Sengoku Jidai. There are six levels of difficulty, allowing all players from novices to experts to enjoy challenging games against the AI.

Read the full developers diary HERE.