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Rainbow Six: Siege Collector’s Edition Revealed

As noted on UbiBlog, Ubisoft is now accepting preorders for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege as Standard, Gold, and Collector’s Editions of the shooter sequel that’s expected in October. The Collector’s Edition includes a backpack and other physical rewards to justify its $149.99 price tag, but the Windows version is listed as PC Digital, even though a steelbox case is one of its perks. The gold edition includes a DLC season pass, and preorder customers are promised access to the closed beta test. Here’s word on what it includes…

Included in the Rainbow Six Siege Collector’s Edition are:

Rainbow Six Siege Standard Edition
Season Pass
Steelbox – Designed exclusively for the Collector’s Edition
CTU Operators Hat – Flat-brim snapback hat
Compass Carabiner – Black and gray carabiner with a compass and bottle opener
Operator Backpack – Military-style backpack with a padded laptop pocket. Comes with seven Operator badges that attach to the sides of the backpack with Velcro.
Art of the Siege Tactical Guide – Exclusive 120-page guide

The Art of the Siege Tactical Guide will provide you with all the tips and tricks to give you an edge over your opponents. With advice straight from the development team, the guide highlights each of the Operators and CTUs, weapons, and maps.

First-Person Shooters Rainbow Six: Siege | Donster | June 23, 2015 |

Total War: Attila The Last Roman Campaign Pack Arrives This Week

Experience the story of Belisarius, one of the last great Roman generals, who was tasked with retaking the former Western Roman Empire by the Emperor Justinian

Source: Gamer’s Hell

Scheduled to be released on June 25th, The Last Roman Campaign Pack includes a huge new Campaign Map, a new ‘Expedition’ faction with new gameplay features, 5 playable factions with additional new units, tech and buildings, plus a dramatic story-based, campaign challenge. Specifically, The Last Roman’s Campaign map is a vast and highly-detailed representation of central Western Europe in 533 AD, featuring 35 provinces across over 100 regions, including Italy, North Africa, Spain and France.

The Five playable factions are the following: the brand new Roman Expedition, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Franks, and the Visigoths. Each one features its own faction traits and new campaign starting-position.

View the just released The Last Roman Campaign Pack trailer here.

ASUS X99 Rampage V Extreme ROG Review

By Ian Cutress @ AnandTech

For a number of generations, each motherboard company has had its halo product that pushes boundaries and wallets. For ASUS, the Rampage IV Extreme, based on X79, was a resounding success for sales. We sourced the next chipset iteration, the X99 based Rampage V Extreme, for review to see if ASUS can follow the trend.

Read The Review Here

Hardware Motherboards | Donster | June 23, 2015 |

NVIDIA Releases GeForce 353.30 WHQL Game Ready Driver

Source: techPowerUp!

NVIDIA released its latest “Game Ready” driver that’s become customary for the company ahead of a big AAA game launch; GeForce 353.30. These WHQL-signed drivers come “ready” for Batman: Arkham Knight, including SLI profiles, and GeForce Experience settings. The driver also adds an SLI profile for Lord of Vermilion Arena in its DirectX 9 mode. Batman Arkham Knight features NVIDIA’s GameWorks varnish, and should feature a few effects and settings exclusive to NVIDIA.

NVIDIA’s GeForce Game Ready 353.30 WHQL drivers can be downloaded from GeForce.com or through GeForce Experience.

Hardware Video Cards | Donster | June 23, 2015 |

Just Announced Hardware for 23 June 2015

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.

Hardware | Donster | June 23, 2015 |

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 Making Of Video

Source: Gamer’s Hell

CI Games has revealed a new video for Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 offering fresh details about this tactical shooter video game expected to be available in the first half of 2016 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Set in a modern day conflict based in Eastern Europe, you will be thrust into the role of a sniper caught between three warring factions, played out in a realistic environment. As in the previous installments of the series, you can choose between taking out your targets up close or from a distance, while at the same time focusing on your survival through evasion and stealth. Non-linear, sandbox-style gameplay on large open-ended maps gives players the flexibility to play and replay the missions in a number of different ways.

Find out more about Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 at the games official website.

First-Person Shooters Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 | Donster | June 19, 2015 |

Rainbow Six: Siege Co-op Trailer

Source: Blue’s News

Another E3 2015 trailer for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege shows off co-op gameplay from the upcoming tactical shooter, captured showing five players teaming up against the AI. Here’s word from the UbiBlog:

We’ve told you all about the new TerroHunt in Rainbow Six: Siege. We dug in on the little details like “What modes are part of it?” and “Who are we fighting this time?” But what is it like to actually play TerroHunt? Better yet, what’s it like to play TerroHunt on the hardest setting in the game? After spending a good chunk of time with TerroHunt on Normal, my team and I decided to give Realistic a shot in the newly revealed Consulate map and what followed was an adventure full of surprise Bombers, accidental team kills and seemingly impossible scenarios.

First-Person Shooters Rainbow Six: Siege | Donster | June 19, 2015 |

Just Announced Hardware for 19 June 2015

Hardware | Donster | June 19, 2015 |

AMD Radeon R7, R9 300 Series Graphics Card Reviews

AMD has released the Radeon R7 and R9 300 Series of graphics cards. The AMD next-generation graphics cards mark a technology turning point in PC gaming, bringing super high resolutions, exceptional VR experiences, smoother gameplay, support for new, advanced APIs like DirectX 12 and Vulkan, and groundbreaking form factors to gamers everywhere through a top-to-bottom line of GPUs that fit virtually every need and budget.

A number of reviews have become available featuring cards from various manufacturers. You can check out the various reviews via the links posted below.

Hardware Video Cards | Donster | June 19, 2015 |

Bohemia Interactive Reveals Terrain for Upcoming Arma 3 Expansion

Making its debut during the PC Gaming Show at E3 2015, Bohemia Interactive today deployed a new trailer for Arma 3, revealing the terrain featured in the upcoming expansion.

The video offers a first glimpse of Tanoa – a South Pacific archipelago with a land mass of over 100 km2, and home to lush tropical vegetation, unique landmarks, a rich history, and imposing man-made feats of modern engineering. Besides the new Tanoa terrain, the Arma 3 expansion will include new vehicles, weapons, attachments and gear, characters, playable content, and more. The expansion is scheduled to be released in the first half of 2016 and will be distributed as DLC for the base Arma 3 game.

Situated in the South Pacific, the island province of Tanoa is one of many that, together, compose the Horizon Islands – an independent island nation with historic ties to both East and West. Formerly an outpost belonging to the Empire of Japan, before its liberation by US Marines in 1944, evidence of a long history of conflict and turmoil can still be found dotted across the island – relics from times long-since passed.

Nowadays, Tanoa thrives off rich deposits of rare earth metals exported the world over, but controversy and civil unrest have long surrounded these efforts due to the perceived social, economic and environmental impacts of their exploitation. Tanoa is also believed to be a hub of illicit trafficking in the Pacific, but no formal charges have ever been raised.

In 2035, Tanoa continues to enjoy a prolonged period of apparent peace and prosperity, but the volatile geopolitical situation on the world’s stage threatens to destabilize the region, and plunge it into darkness once more.

Tanoa will be the first South Pacific destination featured in the Arma series. Previous Arma locations included the Mediterranean islands of Altis and Stratis (Arma 3), the Eastern-European country of Chernarus (Arma 2), the Middle-Eastern nation of Takistan (Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead), and various other terrains in the fictional Armaverse.

For more information please visit the official Arma 3 website.

Arma 3 First-Person Shooters | Donster | June 17, 2015 |