Order of Battle: Kriegsmarine is the upcoming, newest expansion for the Order of Battle series, and it’s coming out on April 20th!

It features the German Navy in a series of exciting and hard-fought battles. It innovates the naval gameplay of the base game decisively, adding plenty new units as well as several new mechanics and features, including new rules for submarines – naval warfare in Order of Battle has never been deeper!

Watch the Order of Battle: Kriegsmarine release date announcement trailer here.

Learn more about Order of Battle: Kriegsmarine at the games official webpage.

Starting today there are two 6-core and two 4-core AMD Ryzen 5 models available, all featuring AMD simultaneous multithreading (SMT) technology. All AMD Ryzen processors support the new AM4 infrastructure, with motherboard designs already broadly available from top motherboard manufacturers. We’ve gathered a number of reviews from around the internet and posted the links below for your convenience.

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Source: TechPowerUp!

AMD today released the Radeon Software Crimson ReLive 17.4.2 drivers, its second release this month. The drivers are important if you’ve updated Windows 10 to the latest “Creators Update” (version 1703), since it supports the new WDDM 2.2 driver model. In addition, the drivers fix bugs related to SteamVR asynchronous reprojection, poor multi-GPU scaling for “Battlefield 1″ in DirectX 11 mode, flickering noticed on ReLive running on Windows 7, and a bug with Radeon Settings that removes application profiles upon logout.

You can download the Radeon Software Crimson ReLive 17.4.2 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.

• NZXT Announces the Kraken G12 AIO Liquid VGA Cooling Adapter
• BIOSTAR Introduces A320 PRO Series AM4 Motherboards
• EVGA Announces the B3 Series Power Supplies
• MSI Intros B350 Gaming Plus Motherboard
• PowerColor Confirms Radeon RX 580 Launch Date
• New GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA is Just 16mm Thick
• AMD’s Mid-range Ryzen 5 Processors Start Rolling Out
• Intel’s Skylake-X, Kaby Lake-X Rumored to Arrive Ahead of Schedule
• ASUS Intros GeForce GTX 1060 3GB Phoenix Graphics Card
• Pre-Orders for LG’s 32UD99 Display Available: 4K, DCI-P3, HDR10, FreeSync for $999
• MSI Unveils A320 Grenade Socket AM4 Motherboard
• PowerColor RX 580 Red Devil Golden Sample Pictured
• Palit Intros GeForce GTX 1080 Ti JetStream and Super JetStream
• G.SKILL Announces Trident Z RGB DDR4-3333 MHz 128 GB (16 GB x8) Kits
• MSI Intros X370 Gaming Pro Socket AM4 Motherboard
• Linksys Ships Entry Level New Tri-Band MU-MIMO Wi-Fi Router
• Western Digital Launches Its First Portable SSD
• Samsung Investing in 3840×1080 and 3840×1200 Curved Displays at 144 Hz

Source: Blue’s News

Laminar Research announces the launch of XPlane 11 for Windows and OS X, offering the latest installment in the flight simulation series. Word is: “XPlane 11 continues the evolution of the desktop version of XPlane. Over the years it has always been the policy of Laminar Research to continually improve XPlane, providing the most realistic flight simulation available, with flight modeling so accurate that it has been adopted by numerous commercial aviation organizations.” This can be picked up from the Aerosoft website, and you can get a look at this in this trailer. Here’s word:

XPlane 11 continues this evolution with new aircraft, scenery, and 3-D airports. This new version also incorporates the newest technology available in computing and graphics processing, resulting in breathtaking visual and dynamic effects.

Some of the major features of X-Plane 11 include:

• A brand new intuitive user interface and control setup
• A completely overhauled aircraft fleet with detailed documentation, plus multiple new aircraft
• High-resolution exteriors and detailed 3-D cockpits for many aircraft
• New global auto-gen scenery with both European and North American details
• The latest road placement and global scenery from open street map are included
• Now with over 3000 airports with 3-D buildings & airport scenery
• Airports are now populated with dynamic, driving service vehicles and static and dynamic aircraft.
• New rendering engine for enhanced lighting and water effects
• Updated weather and atmospheric effects
• Enhanced performance from the modern 64-bit engine

The boxed version of XPlane 11 is available at: www.aerosoft.com

Go for the Golden Era in Mandate of Heaven

With one eye on the rising sun and another eye on a glorious future, Europa Universalis IV: Mandate of Heaven is available today. Mandate of Heaven is the new expansion to Paradox Development Studio’s flagship franchise about exploration, religious turmoil, economic dominance and conquest. Taking its name from the Chinese belief that their empire was divinely ordained, Mandate of Heaven will bless your ambitions for years to come.

At the center of Mandate of Heaven, players will find the new Historical Ages system and the associated Golden Eras. The four centuries of play are divided into four Historical Ages, each with seven objectives and seven special abilities that can be unlocked. If you accomplish three objectives in an Age, you may choose to initiate a Golden Era, giving your empire 50 years of prosperity and military prowess. But choose your time wisely! You only get one Golden Era per game.

Mandate of Heaven’s other features include:

• Empire of China: The Chinese Emperor has great powers at his disposal, and the efficient bureaucrats keep things running smoothly. But greedy neighbors may seek to take the Mandate of Heaven for themselves.
• Ashikaga Shogunate: The Japanese Shogunate has been reworked for more interaction and political considerations among the daimyo. As Shogun, carefully balance the pride of your subjects or compel them to choose and honorable death.
• Confucian Harmony: Keep order in your eastern realm or risk short term spiritual disruption in exchange for long term religious harmony.
• Shinto Isolation: Will your Japanese kingdom seek benefits in an open society or promote greater unity through closed doors? Major incidents will challenge your aspirations.
• Tributaries: Eastern empires can persuade weaker neighbors to pay an annual tribute in gold, manpower or monarch points in this new subject nation format.
• Diplomatic Macro Builder: New addition to the left-hand side macrobuilder automates many repeated diplomatic tasks.
• And more including Chinese meritocracy and Manchu Banner troops

As usual, Mandate of Heaven launches alongside a major free update to Europa Universalis IV that improves and updates many aspects of the core game experience.

Watch the Europa Universalis IV: Mandate of Heaven release trailer HERE.

Starting later today, a number of Paradox Interactive titles will go on sale on Steam for the weekend, including the Europa Universalis IV core game. Ambitious rulers who have yet to try their hand at world conquest will have the perfect opportunity to try the latest version of the game alongside its newest expansion. Europa Universalis IV: Mandate of Heaven is available now on Steam and the official Paradox Store for $19.99.

The expansion for the acclaimed real-time wargame Scourge of War: Waterloo is finally here!

Scourge of War: Wavre will put you in command of the French forces of the aile droite of the l’Armée du Nord lead by Marshal Groucy, or hold the line with the Prussians of Johann von Thielmann and protect the rear of Blucher’s Army!

Are you ready to fight in the last battle of the Napoleonic Wars?

Grab the game here!

Scourge of War: Wavre is available also on Steam!

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Gigabyte is releasing several GeForce GTX 1080 models, yet the flagship graphics card from from that GeForce GTX 1080 Ti just arrived in our labs for testing! It is the sweet Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme 11G. This GeForce GTX 1080 Ti comes all customized with an impressive PCB and component design, Windforce 3X cooler, RGB LEDs, extra on-board HDMI connectors and the looks to impress.

Read The Review Here

Source: TechPowerUp!

NVIDIA today released GeForce 381.65 WHQL “Game Ready” drivers. The drivers come with optimization for “Quake Champions” closed beta. This isn’t, however, the biggest change with these drivers. These are the first WHQL-signed drivers from NVIDIA to support WDDM 2.2, and with it, the upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update, due for April 11th. The drivers also add DTS X and Dolby Atmos support for 5.1.2 speaker configuration through the GPU’s in-built audio controller (which outputs from the HDMI and DP connectors). Also added is support for Dolby Vision. Games “Snake Pass” and “Kona” get support for NVIDIA Ansel. There’s also the curious case of the driver’s release-notes mentioning “Added support for the NVIDIA TITAN Xp.”

You can download the new GeForce 381.65 WHQL drivers from GeForce Experience and GeForce.com.

Source: Videocards.com

Would you expect another TITAN? Well, I didn’t, but it’s here. Full GP102 graphics processor with 3840 CUDA cores is now available for 1200 USD.

The new TITAN, which is now called Xp ships with 12 GB GDDR5X memory across 384-bus. What’s new is memory speed which is set to 11.4 Gbps, even higher than GTX 1080 Ti. This results in 547.7 GB/s of bandwidth.

The boost clock is set to 1582 MHz, which means over 12 TFLOPs of computing power.

According to the official specs, this model supports 8K@60Hz resolution.

NVIDIA TITAN Xp is the world’s most powerful graphics card. Incredible computing horsepower and groundbreaking NVIDIA Pascal™ architecture give you the power to accomplish things you never thought possible.

The card is already available for sale on NVIDIA website for 1200 USD.