The Giant, a remake of Der Riese, one of the all-time fan favorite Treyarch Zombies maps, is now available for a la carte purchase for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 players on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. The Giant was previously only available as a bonus, included with the Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Juggernog Edition, Hardened Edition and Digital Deluxe Editions, as well as part of the Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Season Pass. Now, however, the map is available as a stand-alone offering for eager Zombies fans.

The Giant takes players back to a secret research facility of Treyarch’s classic Der Riese Zombies map, picking up the Zombies story with classic characters Dempsey, Nikolai, Richtofen and Takeo.

Additionally, The Giant is now available for individual purchase on PlayStation 3, with availability on other last gen platforms to follow.

For more information, and to view the “The Giant” Zombies Bonus Map Trailer visit the Activision Games Blog.

NEW GAMEPLAY TRAILER AVAILABLE NOW

Just Cause 3: MECH LAND ASSAULT, the second content pack from the Air, Land and Sea Expansion Pass is out now for Expansion Pass Holders, and will go on sale as a separate add-on for everyone else on June 10th. To celebrate the release, the first new gameplay trailer has been made available today showing Rico causing chaotic destruction in brand new, gravity-defying ways.

MECH LAND ASSAULT takes Rico Rodriguez to the new island of Lacrima, home to an abandoned eDEN research base and a prison camp run by the mysterious Black Hand. Defended by huge powerful Mechs, Rico will need the new Bavarium Power Core rifle to disable their shields and hijack them. Once inside, Rico can use their powerful cannons and the GRIP Gravity Guns to hurl and smash the enemy into pieces.

Features:

• Pilot two types of powerful Mech and drive them anywhere in Medici.
• Unleash the Mech’s Gravitational Remote Influence Projector or “GRIP” to attract and hurl objects at your enemies.
• Jump and smash helicopters from the sky or ground pound tanks with the GRIPS’s “Force Pulse” attack.
• Prove your skills and earn upgrades in Mech arena challenges.
• Call in a Rebel Mech buddy for extra firepower when the going gets tough.
• Includes a powerful new energy weapon, the Bavarium Power Core rifle.

The MECH LAND ASSAULT pack is priced at $11.99 / €11.99 / £9.49 whilst the AIR, LAND & SEA Expansion Pass is available for $24.99 / €24.99 / £19.99. The final content pack – BAVARIUM SEA HEIST – will be released by the end of summer 2016, released one week early to Expansion Pass holders.

Watch the Launch Trailer on YouTube here.

More game information available at the official Just Cause 3 website.

On June 6 1944 the Allied forces under the supreme command of Eisenhower launched the largest amphibious invasion in history. The goal was to land in France and finally liberate mainland Europe after so many years of Nazi occupation. Many men died on that day and performed the ultimate sacrifice in the name of freedom. One year later, fascism had been defeated and peace had been restored to the world.

We at Slitherine will always remember. We just make games, but in our own small way we can help other people keep the memory of such heroic and tragic times alive, in the hope they will never be repeated.

Over the years we have released a number of games set on the western front of World War II. We are giving a 30% discount on them, starting from today, until the 6th of June! The discount is valid only in our stores (Matrix Games, Slitherine & AGEod). For those games which are available on Steam you’ll also be given a free Steam key. All you have to do is write “D-Day30” in the coupon code field when you’re buying the games from our stores.

Click here for the complete list games on sale!

By Aris Mpitziopoulos @ Tom’s Hardware

Thermaltake introduced the Toughpower DPS G Platinum line that consists of three new, semi-digital and fully modular PSUs made by Enhance Electronics. The highest-capacity 1200W model is our test subject in today’s review.

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.

• Phanteks Launches Glacier G1080 Water Block
• SeaSonic Unveils its Flagship Prime Titanium PSU Series
• Thermaltake Hard Tube RGB Water Kits Announced
• ASUS Outs ROG Swift PG258Q Gaming Monitor, Designo Curve and ProArt 5K UHD Monitors
• EVGA Unveils Unique L-shaped VGA Power Adapter
• Be Quiet! Unveils the Dark Base 900 Chassis with Reversible MB Tray
• Tt eSPORTS Reveals the New VENTUS Z Gaming Mouse
• Patriot Announces New Spark SSD
• Reeven Intros the Rheia Mid-tower Chassis
• Reeven Also Intros the Zephyros RGB LED Fan
• AORUS Announces RGB Fusion Keyboard and Award Winning X7 DT

Sim155 Ltd. has announced today the pricing of its exciting new air combat simulator, Combat Air Patrol 2 (CAP2). Combat Air Patrol 2 (CAP2) is a flight and naval combat simulator game for PC (Steam/Windows) where you pilot the AV8B Harrier II.

As launch is fast approaching we thought we had better let you know how much CAP2 will cost. The Early Access price will be $29.99. Its worth noting that Steam converts the price for different regions based on factors other than exchange rate – so for example the UK price will be £22.99 and the Euro price €27.99, both are slightly more than the current exchange rate. Some regions will be less.

Remember – the last competition before launch is closing today, just head over to the hub and hit follow for your chance to win a free copy.

You can follow the development of Combat Air Patrol 2 on Facebook. Find out more about Combat Air Patrol 2 at the games official website.

By Ian Cutress @ AnandTech

What would you do with more CPU cores? This is a question I see posted from an Intel employee on a yearly basis, and it actually is a difficult question to answer depending on your computing background. A gamer might not need more than four or six, and a number of workstation use cases are now GPU accelerated. Anyone never in a pure compute situation might not need more than four or six cores.

But what about virtual machines, complex encoding, or non-linear functional compute? How many cores are too many? Intel has recently released the Broadwell-EP based Xeon E5-2600 v4 processors, running up to 22 cores, and the smaller silicon die used for the 10-core parts has today filtered down to the prosumer and high-end desktop (HEDT) markets in four different parts, making up the Core i7 6800 and 6900 series. For today’s review we’ll be taking a look at all four.

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.

• Computex 2016: Cooler Master Shows Off New Master Products for 2016
• Computex 2016: Raijintek New Products
• Computex 2016: Ozone Strike Battle Spectra Gaming Keyboard Pictured
• Computex 2016: Colorful’s Unique Air+Liquid Cooling Solution Pictured
• Computex 2016: EVGA Has New GPUS PSUS- Motherboards And Laptops
• Computex 2016: Zotac’s All New Product Lineup for 2016
• AMD Teases Radeon RX 480: Launching June 29th For $199
• Computex 2016: Phanteks Enthoo Elite And Liquid Cooling Hardware On The Way
• Computex 2016: Thermaltake’s 2016 Lineup
• Computex 2016: Noctua Continues To Refine Its Fans And Coolers This Year
• Computex 2016: InWin Shows Off All New Offerings
• Computex 2016: New Fan Controllers Coming From Aerocool
• Computex 2016: What’s New Coming From Zalman
• Computex 2016: Fractal Design Showcase New Products-VIDEO
• Computex 2016: New Products Displayed By Corsair
• Computex 2016: Antec Displays New Cases
• Computex 2016: Deep Cool Shows Off New AIO Coolers And Cases
• Computex 2016: Tesoro Keyboard Lineup For 2016
• Computex 2016: Rosewill Announces Cases, PSUs, Peripherals, PC Cooling
• Computex 2016: Cougar Debuts New Cases, PSUs And Gaming Miscellany

Final Video Developer Diary Puts You In the Big Chair

With Hearts of Iron IV only days away, Paradox Development Studio offers you the levers of power as the world descends into the firestorm of World War II. The latest and final video developer diary before release outlines the types of decisions you will be asked to make as the president, prime minister or dictator of any nation you choose.

The focus here is on the big picture – the long term decisions you make as a national leader to set yourself up for ultimate victory.

On the political side of Hearts of Iron IV, you will responsible for the final shape your nation takes.

• National Focuses: Each major power has a custom tree of decisions where you can set out your immediate and future goals
• Ideological Drift: Appoint cabinet ministers who represent fresher ideologies to bring closer to one side of the ideological struggle.
• Coups and International Support: Commit political power to supporting the rise of a friendly party in a potential rival or sponsor a rebellion against your enemies
• Research and construction: You can’t do everything at once, so organize your government and infrastructure to achieve your long term goals.
• Send “Volunteers” to Help Friends: If a civil war breaks out, it might be helpful to push your side to victory by delegating your own troops to fight at their side.

Hearts of Iron IV will be available on June 6, 2016.

For more information on Hearts of Iron IV, check out the games official website.

Order of Battle fans, we have big news for you. The game previously known as Order of Battle: Pacific is being restructured into Order of Battle: World War II, a bigger project with a wider scope and the goal of featuring multiple fronts of World War II.

Order of Battle: Pacific is going to be split into three different products:

• Order of Battle: World War II, featuring the bootcamp missions and the first mission of each DLC.
• The Order of Battle: U.S. Pacific DLC, featuring the American Pacific campaign.
• The Order of Battle: Rising Sun DLC, featuring the Japanese Pacific campaign.

Now hold on to your seats! Order of Battle WORLD WAR II will be available to everyone for free! It contains the bootcamp scenarios plus the first scenario of every DLC (including future ones), and they are completely free. You will be able to try the game, play several scenarios and decide if you’d like to buy the DLCs.

Important: if you own Order of Battle: Pacific you’ll be given free keys for the two DLCs, Rising Sun and U.S. Pacific, plus any other DLC you already own!

That’s not all: in order to unlock the fully-featured editor and every single faction in multiplayer only a single DLC purchase is needed!

Ok, here is an example of what you can expect from this system.

Below is the campaign screen that you’ll see if you’re a newcomer to the series and you have never purchased the base game. You have immediate access to the bootcamp campaign (at the top) and all of the other campaigns (which are DLCs) are grayed out but you can still click on them!

Click here for new screenshots and more information!