Source: Blue’s News

A recent blog update from Activision reveals plans for The Awakening, the first DLC pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops III. They don’t offer a release date yet, but remind us this will start as a PlayStation 4 exclusive before heading to other platforms. Here’s word:

To help kick off PlayStation Experience in San Francisco, today we are thrilled to share the first details of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3’s first DLC map pack and some exciting news for the upcoming Call of Duty World League season. Revealed during this morning’s keynote address, the first of four planned DLC map packs will be Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Awakening and it will arrive first on PlayStation 4. Awakening features four new multiplayer maps—Skyjacked, Rise, Splash, and Gauntlet—and the next chapter in the Black Ops 3 Zombies saga, Der Eisendrachen.

Matrix Games has announced that Battle of the Bulge, the fast paced wargame simulating the tough battle fought between the Allied and the German forces on the Western Front, has been updated to Version 1.16!

This update greatly improves the multiplayer experience introducing a Real Time System, allowing the players to receive live updates in multiplayer sessions without waiting for a notification to return to the fight!

Together with this feature this version fixes some bugs (like the AI stuck on replacements phase bug) and improves the gameplay in many ways!

As always you can download the patch for the PC version here.

The game is also available on Steam.

Find out more about Battle of the Bulge here.

By Marc Adams @ HardOCP

LEPA and its new EXllusion 240 All-In-One CPU Cooler touts 400 watts of cooling ability, a patented copper cooling plate, a larger volume of liquid in the block itself, and a “silent” pump, all with a refillable design. Overall it has the look of a quality built AIO, but is the EXllusion worth 120 of your hard earned dollars?

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By Bob Buskirk @ ThinkComputers

It has been quite a while since we’ve seen a major case release from Corsair. They have been focusing heavily on their all-in-one liquid CPU coolers, gaming products and power supplies, but they haven’t forgot about cases. Today we will be taking a look at a brand new case from Corsair that has elegant minimalist design on the outside, but inside it is anything but that. This is the first case from Corsair that I know of that will feature an inverted-ATX layout. On top of that inside you have plenty of room for storage, watercooling and even a power supply shroud that keeps everything inside looking nice. Corsair will be releasing two versions of this case, a 600C which features a clear side panel to show off your gear inside and a 600Q (which we are reviewing) that has sound-dampening properties and normal side panels. Let’s see what Corsair’s new case is all about!

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By Steven Walton @ TechSpot

The Carbide Series 600C is a sleek, minimalist-looking mid-tower with a radical inverted ATX layout that’s designed to show off your hardware’s best angle. Corsair’s latest creation makes for a master of cable management, offering ample space for high-end hardware and a side panel window to show it off.

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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.

• Cougar Announces the Attack X3 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
• EVGA Announces the GeForce GTX 970 HYBRID Graphics Card
• Corsair Unveils its First Inverted-ATX Cases, the Stunning Carbide 600Q and Carbide 600C
• EVGA PrecisionX 16 5.3.10 Released
• ASRock Intros Cost-Effective Z170X1-3.1 Motherboard with USB 3.1
• Iiyama ProLite X3291HS is a 31.5-Inch Full HD Monitor With Blue Light Reduction
• Asetek Tells AMD and GIGABYTE to Stop Sales of R9 Fury X and GTX 980 Water Force
• Linksys Routers Vulnerable Due to Multiple CGI Scripts
• CRYORIG Posts Official Statement Regarding Skylake PCB Concerns
• AMD Responds to Asetek’s R9 Fury X Sales Cease-and-Desist
• ASUS Motherboards Adjudged as Having the Industry’s Most Reliable
• EK Releases Monoblock for ASUS X99 Motherboards
• MSI Afterburner 4.2.0 Updated
• Silverstone Releases New Antenna Accessories For DIY Network Upgrades

Rainbow Six’s long-awaited revival leaves us wanting more – a little too much more.

By Ryan McCaffery, IGN

Rainbow Six: Siege pulls me in opposite directions at the same time. On the one hand, the moment-to-moment gameplay experience is fantastic. Every second of the short rounds matter, walls and floors won’t protect you, and sound tactics win matches. But, like other 2015 multiplayer-focused shooters such as Evolve and Star Wars Battlefront, there’s not a lot of there there. My time with Siege leaves me feeling like this Rainbow Six revival is a skeleton with not a lot of meat on its bones.

Read on…

Source: Blue’s News

Steam Community Group Announcement from Avalanche Studios talks about technical problems users are encountering with Just Cause 3, saying they are “fully committed to providing you the best possible experience.” To that end a patch is in the works for the just-released action sequel, but they ask for some patience as they work through the process. Here’s word:

We know you’re going to want specific information on when a patch will land and what will be fixed – we would love to give you that information, and we will as soon as we have it. But right now, a little over one day since we launched, we have huge numbers of players in our enormous game world and we’re monitoring all the data coming in.

We need a little bit of time to recreate some of these issues and build fixes. Rest assured though – we are fully committed to making Just Cause 3 as awesome as possible. We already know loads of people are having a blast with the game but we’ll do all we can to make sure everyone is laughing and smiling as they play.

If you do encounter any issues, please contact our Customer Support EU or Customer Support NA.

We’d recommend PC players also visit the Steam forums as there are a number of tips there can could improve or fix some of the issues that have been reported (pinned posts).

The seeds of the French Revolution have borne fruit and now turmoil is spreading out over all of Europe. The growing power of the French Republic is threatening the old monarchies and already two Coalitions have been raised to crush the Revolutionary Armies.

But something has changed. A new leader has emerged from the chaos of the Directoire, a man that will shortly become the scourge of every European kingdom. He will shatter the Old Continent to its foundations.

A new period of war has begun…

Watch the launch trailer here.

The ultimate wargame set during the Napoleonic Era has been finally released! Developed by the veteran strategy studio, Ageod, Wars of Napoleon is a title about grand strategy and bold diplomatic choices.

You will have to carefully handle your armies: managing their equipment and assigning historical generals to lead while you take care of a complex and realistic logistic system. Fight on land and on the seas, in a detailed map with over 4,000 regions as well asspecial areas like the West Indies, North America, Persia and India!

Create powerful alliances to counter your enemy, draft your population, use smugglers, develop your territories; all using a very in-depth diplomacy system, with casus-belli, coalitions, defensive treaties, passage rights and more!

Five beautiful scenarios are available to relive the entire course of the conflicts from 1805 to 1815, plus five more What If scenarios perfectly designed to reproduce alternative geopolitical situations for a more challenging experience!

This is a title that every wargamer simply must have in their collection!

Get more game information at the official Wars of Napoleon website.

By Ian Cutress @ AnandTech

This is a review of a $500 motherboard for Skylake processors. For some readers, there’s going to an instant reaction of a series of question marks, confused emoji and an interrobang or two. You might ask why would anyone want to spend this much on a Skylake motherboard, when at this price point with a K-series processor, one could flip it around and go for a six-core Haswell-E and motherboard, get more cores and more PCIe lanes? The answer is usually simple – more cores only helps with certain non-gaming workloads, and the Z170 chipset has the potential to offer more than X99. With the GIGABYTE Z170X-Gaming G1, that means full quad-SLI while also using dual M.2 at PCIe 3.0 x4 speeds, with three Killer networks in tow, up to four USB 3.1 ports, ten SATA ports, and due to a recent update, all this comes with Thunderbolt 3 as well as numerous overclocking features and customizable lighting. It’s the first list of features on a motherboard that stretches the Z170 chipset to the limit.

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