The WWII shooter revival is coming sooner than you think

Days of War lowers pricing, increases rewards, announces stretch goals, and shows a new gameplay trailer, in a new Kickstarter Campaign with the goal of releasing on Steam Early Access in August.

Driven Arts, the studio behind Days of War, thinks the WWII revival goes far beyond next generation visuals:

• Control back to the players. Dedicated servers and admin tools, console access, definable rulesets. These are all the things we used to have but don’t anymore. Hopping into a quick matchmaking session is always fun, but even better are micro-communities built around dedicated servers. Many old games still have vibrant (though small) player communities for this reason.
• Accessible but deep. Let’s face it. Most of the people who grew up playing CoD 1/2, DoD, Wolfenstein ET, and MOHAA, are older now. They dont have time to grind through unlocks, they just want something they can sit down and play for 30 mins after they put their kids to bed. Those older games had a certain simplicity to them that likens them more to a sport than todays shooters, which is why people still play them after all these years.
• Indie through and through – We aren’t trying to convert Black Ops players to WII, we’re trying to serve the underserved communities, even if it means fewer dollars in our pockets, because we are starting to tire of playing games that are 10 years old even though they are more fun than what we have today.
• Custom mapping – This was a crucial part of older shooters. George Rivara, Lead Developer says, “I love to build, and I think this is trait many other people share, but the programming skills required present a massive barrier. It’s our job to make it easier for them to create. I want to let every player unleash whatever it is inside them that makes messing around in minecraft or playing with legos so gratifying.”

in 2016 Days of War will join the first batch of shooters built on Unreal Engine 4, releasing on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

You can find the official Days of War website here.

Battlestate Games, the creators of the hardcore online shooter Escape from Tarkov, are happy to reveal the latest package of screenshots showcasing the game locations that change dynamically over the daytime hours. The shots are made in the vicinity of the industrial plant, featuring a wide, open-air territory. This is one of the large scenario locations open to Escape from Tarkov players for exploration, reconnaissance, and combat.

Check out the new screenshots here (Hosted by Worthplaying).

Sign up now for the Beta on the official game website.

Massive Sunderland Flying Boat, Deadly P61 Black Widow, Plus Formidable Ground Armour and New Snow Environment Maps are Incoming!

Gaijin Entertainment today announced that its award-winning MMO WWII online game, War Thunder, will be introducing some impressively sized fire power, new maps and unique vehicles in its forthcoming ‘Battle March’ 1.57 update for War Thunder’s ten million players to enjoy.

War Thunders ‘Battle March’ 1.57 update will introduce more than 20 new aircraft and ground vehicles. Among them – a giant of the skies, the S.25 Sunderland flying boat, one of the largest sea planes to see active duty during WW2. Also joining the War Thunder ranks is the deadly American P61 night fighter, ‘Black Widow’ (otherwise known as the “flying tank”). Further demonstrating its ability to bring a diverse range of vehicles to its combat sim Gaijin Entertainment are also introducing the FW 189 A-1 ‘Uhu’. This unique looking aircraft was known as the ‘flying eye’ due to its reconnaissance role and unique all glass cockpit design. Another exotic plane, the Do 335 heavy fighter, Germany’s fastest piston powered aircraft with two propellers in alignment also makes it into the latest update.

Other additions on offer include the Falcon AA gun which has been created in co-operation with the British tank museum in Bovington due to the rare nature of the vehicle. In total, the British contingent will get three top-tier vehicles of which the Conway tank destroyer and Chieftain Mk.3 main battle tank add armoured muscle to. Germany will have new tracked firepower in the form of the deadly Nashorn and other open-top SPGs. USSR will get armour in the form of the T-44-100 and KV-1S and the USA rolls in with the Super Pershing tank.

Update 1.57 introduces two new map locations, Frozen Pass, a new Alpine snow map available for both aerial and ground battles, and the second map Volokolamsk, based on the real location of the same name in Russia which saw heavy fighting against German forces in the defence of Moscow during winter of 1941.

Finally, lighting effects such as muzzle flashes, launch effects of rockets and explosions of bombs has been vastly updated, which means even more spectacular and realistic battles, especially during nighttime.

To see the full list of new improvements vehicles and features, visit the War Thunder developer’s blog section.

Watch the new ‘Battle March’ 1.57  update video and check out some new screenshots on the official War Thunder website.

Despite the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbour, Europe had been considered the main front by the United States from the beginning of the war. Here, Great Britain is increasingly isolated and the Soviet Union has been driven back, losing millions of men and tanks in the effort to gain time.

Germany is close to winning the War, and the Wehrmacht is the arbiter in the Old Continent. Only the opening of a new front could give a chance to the Allies to reverse the tide!

Today Flashback Games, is proud to announce a new exciting chapter in the series, with more content than ever!

Panzer Corps: US Corps is composed of three different DLCs, each one with its unique theatre of operations and scenarios, but all linked in a colossal branching campaign!

Start with brave but inexperienced “rookies” in the sands of North Africa, and lead them through the entire Western Front! Learn how to wisely employ your troops to save your veterans for the next battles!

Panzer Corps: US Corps is ready to enter the Beta Phase! Enlist now and help us add the final touches!

Important! If you apply for the beta for one of the three DLCs, you will be beta testing all of them!

• Panzer Corps: U.S. Corps ‘42
• Panzer Corps: U.S. Corps ‘43
• Panzer Corps: U.S. Corps 1944-1945

Join the Beta 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 Launches Radeon Pro Duo for $1499
• Cooler Master Releases MasterKeys Pro Series Keyboards
• Scythe Presents High Performance Thermal Grease – Thermal Elixer 2
• FSP Adds Hydro Series 80 Plus Bronze Power Supplies
• CRYORIG Provides Free Alternate Mounting Parts for C7 and M9i/a – VIDEO
• ASUS Announces the TUF Echelon GTX 950 Limited Edition Graphics Card
• Scythe Launches the GlideStream 120 PWM with 3-way Limiter Switch
• MSI Launches New GeForce GTX 950 Graphics Cards with 75W Board Power
• PNY Reveals HP v250w USB Flash Drive
• Colorful Launches New GeForce GTX 950 Graphics Cards
• Nanoxia Announces the CoolForce 2 Chassis

Fallout 4’s first add-on, Automatron, is almost here, and we’re excited to share the official trailer with you today.

Automatron will be available for download across Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC on Tuesday, March 22.

In Automatron, the mysterious Mechanist has unleashed a horde of evil robots into the Commonwealth, including the devious Robobrain. Hunt them down and harvest their parts to build and mod your own custom robot companions. Choose from hundreds of mods; mixing limbs, armor, abilities, and weapons such as the all-new lightning chain gun. Even customize their paint schemes and choose their voices! (For characters level 15 or higher.)

Automatron marks the first add-on release for Fallout 4. In April, we’re expanding the capabilities of settlements with Wasteland Workshop, and in May, travel beyond the Commonwealth to Maine for Far Harbor – the largest landmass Bethesda Game Studios has ever created for post-release content. And, that’s just the beginning, with even more add-ons to be released in 2016. Stay tuned for more details on free updates like Survival Mode and the Creation Kit, which will allow you to create mods on the PC and then share and play them across all platforms, including consoles.

Click here to view video and new screenshots!

As the release date is coming closer, it’s time to reveal a bit more about our new Napoleonic title Victory and Glory through its Manual!

In the section “Turns, Dates, Seasons and Recruits” you will discover how to keep your forces constantly reinforced to not underestimate the enemies movements! And don’t forget to pay attention to the winter attrition!

But even a mighty army could be not enough if all the Nations are plotting against you. With the “Diplomatic Menu” you will have an useful tool in order to forge new alliances and to prevent minor nations (in a way or in another) to join hostile coalitions!

Stay tuned! Victory and Glory: Napoleon will be released on March 17th!

The game will be available also on Steam.

Have you checked the video tutorials? Find them here!

Source: TecPowerUp!

NVIDIA over the weekend, released the GeForce 364.51 WHQL drivers. These drivers address a critical bug in the company’s previous WHQL-signed GeForce 364.47 WHQL driver, which causes the installer to crash the system with a BSOD/TDR error during “express” install. The bug was so severe, that it forced NVIDIA to pull the driver off its website. The rest of this driver’s feature-set appears to be consistent with that of the 364.47 WHQL.

You can download the new GeForce 364.51 WHQL drivers from GeForce Experience and GeForce.com.

By Alex Connolly @ The Wargamer

Heliborne has officially hit Steam Early Access. With the latest patch, I felt it was time to drop the collective, putting skid to pad to see what’s going on with JetCat Games’ tilt for World of Flying Tanks.

Though enthralled by my time in the pre-alpha, the then-minuscule player population offered a sporadic glimpse at what Heliborne was selling. Freshly deployed and on active duty in Early Access, population boom across the three-strong servers – EU, US Central and SE Asia/Oceania, at the time of writing – makes the ten bone purchase argument far more convincing. A full-blown Heliborne match, with its unique sense of territory control, speaks for itself.

If you’re chasing a more detailed look at just what Heliborne is, do have a goosey at our pre-alpha coverage. In a nutshell, this is an excellent use of the modern “World of [insert romantic hardware]“, and perhaps one of the more nuanced of its ilk. Featuring a simucade feel, aiming to capture the revolutionary flexibility and fragility of the war whirlybird, Heliborne is as much a ground game as it is one of the air. It has an intimacy where others don’t. Each sortie an exercise in grazing ridgelines and hugging rivers; dancing between the snarl of AA tracers and coming in hot under rocketry to snatch bases with a bellyload of troops.

Read on…

Hot off the heels of this past weekend’s PC Gamer Weekender event, Tripwire Interactive has released a brand new trailer for their upcoming first person tactical shooter, Rising Storm 2: Vietnam. The sequel to the smash hit Rising Storm, PC Gamer’s 2013 ‘Multiplayer Game of the Year’, Rising Storm 2: Vietnam will be published by Tripwire Interactive, and is being developed by Antimatter Games, the same team that created the award-winning innovative asymmetric gameplay of the original Rising Storm.

Today’s brand new trailer, Boots on the Ground, reveals the very first in-game footage for Rising Storm 2: Vietnam. The realistic gameplay footage will pull players directly into intense authentic gunplay and visceral first-person action in this brutal recreation of the Vietnam War. Through the lush, but dangerous jungles, to firefights in the streets, across the rolling hills, entrenched deep in the rice fields and even into US Firebases, the environments are as treacherous as they are massive. Choosing sides as either the US forces or the Vietnamese resistance forces, players will experience intense tactical action with up to 64 players in battles, with each force having their own unique abilities and tactical advantages such as Napalm Strikes, Artillery Barrages, surface-to-air missile strikes, traps, ambushes and more.

Rising Storm 2: Vietnam is developed by Antimatter Games and published by Tripwire Interactive for PC and is slated for release in 2016. This title has not yet been rated by the ESRB, but Tripwire Interactive anticipates a rating of “M” for Mature.

Stay up-to-date with the latest Rising Storm 2: Vietnam news and information at the games official website.