Bohemia Interactive released a special Arma 3 developer diary video, providing more details on Tanoa – the new terrain featured in the upcoming Arma 3 expansion, which is scheduled for release in the first half of 2016. The new terrain, a 100 km² South Pacific archipelago, was originally revealed during the PC Gaming Show at E3 2015.

In the developer diary, Arma 3′s Creative Director Jay Crowe and Project Lead Joris-Jan van ‘t Land discuss how the devteam came to a South Pacific destination, describe some of the key characteristics and points of interest on Tanoa, and reflect on development so far and the roadmap ahead.

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.

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.

For more information about Tanoa, please visit www.arma3.com/tanoa.

Learn more about Rico Rodriguez in the first of a 5-part series

Today sees the first release in the Just Cause 3 dev diary series. This first video offers insight from Avalanche Studios about who Rico Rodriguez is, what new skills and abilities he’s bringing to the table for his third outing, and how the team have brought him to life.

“He’s gotten older,” explains Game Director Roland Lesterlin in the video, “he’s got his scars from his years in Panau and San Esperito. We wanted to give him that background. What would it be like if you set off a nuke? Twice?”

If you missed it, we’ve also released a ‘Meet the Team’ Vignette’, which offers a glimpse behind the curtain at Avalanche Studios, introducing some of the key team working on Just Cause 3.

Watch ‘Episode 1 – Rico’ dev diary here.

More game information available at the Just Cause 3 website.

Source: Blue’s News

A new “Know Your Units” trailer introduces the Centaur, a tank in Company of Heroes 2: The British Forces, the upcoming standalone RTS expansion. Word is:

“In this third installment in the series of four “Know Your Units” videos for Company of Heroes 2: The British Forces, Relic unveils the Centaur tank. Featuring twin 20 mm Polsten guns, the Centaur helps control the battlefield by serving as an excellent anti-aircraft and anti-infantry tank.”

The new NVIDIA GeForce 353.62 WHQL Game Ready drivers for Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 are now available to download from GeForce Experience and GeForce.com. Featuring launch-day support for Windows 10, tweaks and optimizations for games running on other operating systems, and new SLI profiles, our latest Game Ready driver is a recommended update for all GeForce GTX gamers. You can download the release notes in .PDF form here.

With the release of Windows 10 today, AMD has made available a minor update to its Catalyst drivers, version 15.7.1. This driver provides support for Windows 10 as well as full WDDM 2.0 and DirectX 12 support which is available on all AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) products, – AMD Radeon HD 7000 and newer graphics products. The new 15.7.1 Catalyst drivers also include a number of bug fixes. For more information, check out the release notes here.

You can download the AMD Catalyst 15.7.1 drivers 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.

• G.SKILL Conquers 4000MHz Speed Barrier and Releases New Trident Z and Ripjaws V Series DDR4 Memory
• GIGABYTE Unveils GeForce GTX 970 Twin-Turbo Graphics Card
• Mionix Unveils the CASTOR Gaming Mouse
• EK Announces CoolStream CE Series Radiators
• ASRock Unveils Gaming G10 Router – VIDEO
• COUGAR Announces 230M and 250M Gaming Mice
• AOC Reveals U3277PQU and Q3277PQU 32-inch Monitors
• AMD Readies Radeon R7 370X to Counter GeForce GTX 950
• GIGABYTE’S Upcoming Gaming 3 Motherboard With WoT Theme Pictured
• MSI Z170A XPOWER Gaming Titanium Edition Motherboard Pictured

D-Day from the German Perspective

By John Dudek @ The Wargamer

Of all the British, Canadian and American D-Day invasion beaches along the Normandy coast, none was as fiercely defended nor caused as many lost Allied lives than at Omaha Beach. The reasons for the near disaster at Omaha beach were many, with both Allied and Axis forces directly or indirectly sharing the blame for this near defeat, turned to costly victory.

Read on…

Source: Blue’s News

A new trailer from Company of Heroes 2: The British Forces is a “know your units” feature profiling the sniper in the upcoming standalone World War II RTS expansion. They explain these snipers are not just to take out individual soldiers:

“In addition to targeting infantry troops on the battlefield, the sniper has two additional capabilities: the ability to order all 25 pound howitzers in the area to fire on a designated target, and armor piercing rounds that can damage, or even destroy, select vehicles on the battlefield.”

You can view the trailer here.

TaleWorlds Entertainment has today launched a major update to the Viking Conquest DLC, released for Mount & Blade: Warband in December of last year, entitled “Reforged Edition”. In both name and spirit, this represents a revival for the DLC, rewarding fans for their loyalty with a long list of new features. All Viking Conquest owners are receiving this update for free and all new copies of Viking Conquest are sold with the update included.

Among the key features of the DLC is a brand new storyline, “The Last Tuatha De Danann”, taking place in dark, mysterious Ireland. Players are expected to fall in love with the new canine companions that can be befriended and will be faithful to their master, even in battle! New Berserker troops add a new dimension to battling, with their terrifying strength to be feared by friend and foe alike…

The update has received the service of a brand new trailer which demonstrates some of the improvements.

A full list of features is available on the TaleWorlds website.

“Never do any enemy a small injury for they are like a snake which is half beaten and it will strike back the first chance it gets.” – Niccolò Machiavelli

Boots are pounding the ground for days. Dirty and grimy soldiers are marching in the ranks with the sergeants trying (mostly in vain) to keep them disciplined. Too many days have passed since the last plundered town and now food is starting to run out. The men are nervous. Suddenly a cry from the head of the column. Scouting cavalry have spotted enemy heavy pikemen formations supported by artillery.

It is time to spill some blood!

Pike and Shot: Campaigns is a brand new all-in-one package. It includes the Pike and Shot base game and the Tercio to Salvo expansion, plus 21 new skirmish army lists for the rest of Europe during the period of the Italian Wars (1494-1559) covering the armies of England, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, German States, Austria, Hungary, Transylvania, the Ottoman Empire, Poland-Lithuania and Russia!

But the main new feature is the strategic map system, implemented to allow you to lead your armies to victory over an entire theatre of operations, taking into account strategic considerations such as terrain, available manpower, supply, attrition, sieges and economic damage.

Pike and Shot: Campaigns includes 4 campaigns:

• Gustavus Adolphus, set in the “Swedish phase” of the Thirty Years War, allows you to play as Swedes or Imperialists.
• English Civil War allows you to play as Royalists or Parliamentarians.
• Great Turkish War, set in the period of the famous Siege and Battle of Vienna in 1683, allows you to play as Austria and Poland or as the Ottoman Empire.
• Pike and Shot allows you to match any two armies from 1494 to 1648 in a struggle for dominance.
• With Pike and Shot: Campaigns the infamous Iron Century with all of its military innovations is depicted at its best!

If you already own Pike and Shot and Tercio to Salvo, prepare for a great promotion. The game launches on August 13th!

Get more information about the game from the official Product Page.