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NVIDIA released the GeForce 358.50 WHQL drivers, which are “Game Ready” for Star Wars: Battlefront Open Beta. Open for pre-loading now on Origin for free, the game goes life in a day. In addition to this, it includes an updated driver support for GameWorks VR SDK; and OpenGL ARB 2015 extensions. This includes support for OpenGL ES 3.2 on the desktop
You can download the new GeForce 358.50 WHQL drivers from GeForce Experience and GeForce.com.
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.
Movement in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is based on momentum, chaining together moves to engage your enemies in a variety of ways
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Activision Publishing has unveiled new footage from Call of Duty: Black Ops III, which is scheduled to arrive on November 6th, 2015. The game engrosses players in a dark and gritty future, where a new breed of Black Ops soldier has emerged, and the lines between humanity and military technology have been blurred. You must navigate the hot spots of a new Cold War to find your missing brothers. While much has changed, one thing remains the same: everything you know may be wrong.
Get more game information at the official Call of Duty: Black Ops III website.
A look at the level of detail and attention that went into each audio line for the British faction to truly convey each unit’s unique character
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SEGA and Relic Entertainment have released one more video developer diary for Company of Heroes 2: The British Forces, a new standalone multiplayer expansion pack for Company of Heroes 2. The British Forces features 15 new units, six new commanders with unique abilities and a total of eight new multiplayer maps portraying historic battlefield locations representing the shattered infrastructure seen throughout Europe at the end of World War II.
Please visit www.companyofheroes.com for more information.
“To a New Yorker like you, a Hero is some type of weird sandwich, not some nut who takes on 3 Tigers” – Oddball, in Kelly’s Heroes
Listen up soldiers! Let me refresh your empty brains on what is happening! A game like no other has been released today. It’s engaging, fast-paced, with big explosions, and it can provide you a real challenge with four gameplay modes. And, most important of all, the good guys and the bad guys are perfectly recognizable so you dunces don’t risk shooting each other!
The wait is finally over! The PC adaptation of the famous board game Heroes of Normandie is out and is ready to blow your mind!
In this stunning turn based strategy game you will command small group of gallant soldiers in tough fights through dense French countryside in six distinct campaigns against the AI or another human opponent in furious multiplayer battles! Heroes of Normandie comes with multiple game modes including campaign mode, rogue campaign, skirmish and multiplayer.
Customize your Army with a wide set of units with specific equipment , deploy powerful Heroes, give your orders on the battlefield and lead your men to victory!
Get more game information and view the release trailer on the games official webpage.
Source: Blue’s News
A post to the Eagle Dynamics forums has word that version 1.5.0 of DCS World is now available in open beta, offering the chance to test fly updates to this combat flight simulation that includes a graphics revamp. They also announce that open beta testing is underway for their L-39 Albatros module that adds this light jet to the game. This page is where to find the downloads along with details on testing, and this video shows off the L-39 Albatros.
The U.S. Army today announced it has fully launched the FREE America’s Army: Proving Grounds (AA:PG) game on Steam. The game, which was released in beta in August 2013, had more than 920,000 player accounts created during the beta period and over 7.7 million hours of play. Players can register their Soldier name for the game at the America’s Army: Proving Ground website. and download the game from Steam.
“We received great feedback from our fans during the beta and with the help of our community we greatly improved the AA:PG game and experience,” said Daniel Kolenich, Executive Producer for America’s Army. “We’ve also been blown away by some of the great creations by our fans who used our AA Mission Editor to recreate some of their favorite maps from the franchise and develop new styles of game play that AA players are already loving.”
Bringing the best features of the previous versions to a new America’s Army environment, AA: PG stresses small unit tactical maneuvers and training that resembles the current day Army. America’s Army: Proving Grounds (AA: PG) showcases the Army by emphasizing Army Values, teamwork, training and completing the objectives through gameplay that reflects the Soldier’s Creed.
Set in a fictional country, The Republic of the Ostregals, players are in the role of an 11B Infantryman practicing combat maneuvers at JTC Griffin, a fabricated training MOUT (military operations on urban terrain) environment created by Conex modular containers. This training is crucial to the player’s success as part of a Long Range Combined Arms – Recon (LRCA-R) unit, a full spectrum capable team that embarks on special operations missions behind enemy lines.
Find out more about America’s Army: Proving Ground on the games official website.
MEDICI IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST OPEN-WORLDS IN GAMING
The third entry in the Just Cause 3 Dev Diary series takes a closer look at Rico’s place of birth; the gigantic 400 square mile Mediterranean island of Medici.
While beautiful and serene on the surface, Medici is under the tyrannous reign of the dictator General Di Ravello and is far from peaceful. This island paradise provides the player with a highly explosive playground of destruction coming December 1st 2015 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and high-end Windows PC.
Watch the ‘Episode 3 – World’ dev diary here.
More game information available at the Just Cause 3 website.
360° experience produced in cooperation with Google immerses viewers in a historic 1941 battle recreation
Wargaming today released “1941 Battle: 360° Reenactment”, a unique 360° virtual reality video that teleports the viewer into the heart of battle with four tanks, 40 infantry reenactors, artillery and warplanes for the first time ever.
“Wargaming is excited to share our passion for history, and to use innovative technology to bring history alive,” said Tracy Spaight, Director of Special Projects at Wargaming. “Recreating this historic tank battle in 360°, with iconic tanks like the T-34 and Panzer III, will reignite the past like never before.”
Earlier this year, Wargaming’s global PC phenomenon World of Tanks, in partnership with Google and The Bovington Tank Museum, released a series of five 360° videos titled “Virtually Inside the Tanks”. Covering famous vehicles such as the M4 Sherman from the movie “FURY”, viewers could discover some of history’s most notable tanks, inside and out.
Click Here for more information about World of Tanks.
iEntertainment Network’s acclaimed World War II simulation WarBirds 2016 has landed on Steam!
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, WarBirds 2016 is loaded with a wide range of improvements and brand new content – including new geographical terrains, airplanes, online modes, and flight models by veteran fighter pilots and engineers. All WarBirds 2015 owners will automatically be upgraded to WarBirds 2016.
WarBirds is the longest running online combat flight simulation in the world. Hundreds of thousands of WarBirds veterans have flown, won, died, and celebrated the Greatest Generation’s fighter and bomber pilots of World War II. WarBirds takes dedicated learning and lots of practice to survive and win.
“WarBirds 2016 rewards attention to detail, teamwork, and courage under fire above all else,” says iEntertainment Network’s CEO, ‘Wild Bill’ Stealey Lt. Colonel, USAF Retired, Command Pilot. “These are the same qualities you were expected to have if you sought to survive the deadliest air battles of World War II.”
