2K and Gearbox Software announced today that Borderlands®: The Pre-Sequel™ will offer four add-on content packs following the release of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft, and Windows PC. The four add-on content packs will encompass new characters, challenges, missions, and experiences and each pack will retail individually for $9.99 on all available platforms. As Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel nears completion and the teams shift their focus to add-on content, additional details will be announced as development progresses.

Additionally, the Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Season Pass bundles the four add-on content packs at a discounted rate. Priced at $29.99, the Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Season Pass includes access to all four of the add-on content packs – a $39.96 value – and will be available for purchase when Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel releases on October 14, 2014 in North America and October 17, 2014 internationally. Once purchased, the Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Season Pass enables the download of all included add-on content packs as they become available on the PlayStation®Network, Xbox Live online entertainment network from Microsoft and PC.

Gamers who pre-order Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel from participating retailers will gain access to the Shock Drop Slaughter Pit bonus content. Taking place in an old Dahl facility on Pandora’s moon, players will meet TR4-NU, who once was one of Dahl’s military recruiters until he went crazy. TR4-NU is now hosting the Shock Drop Slaughter Pit and giving awesome loot to those who succeed against the moon’s toughest enemies. The Shock Drop Slaughter Pit will not be included in the Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Season Pass, but it will be available for purchase at a later date, for those who do not pre-order Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. To pre-order Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, please visit the official Borderlands website.

Wargame is back with a second dose of free DLC for the million-selling franchise’s third installment, Wargame: Red Dragon. In this new expansion for the spectacular real-time strategy game from Eugen Systems, which will patch automatically into the game today, 12 new units and an additional full-length story campaign are added, which takes the war to 1992 charging an uchronical alternate-history narrative.

Fielding some of the most advanced military technology of the time, The Second Korean War will see China, North Korea, and the Soviet Union pit themselves against the might of the United Nations’ coalitions. Armed with the Patriot missile system, the USA buffs their anti-air defenses, as do the Chinese with the JH-7. The South Korean K9-Thunder marches onto the field, to the detriment of the USSR’s elite Spetsnaz GRU infantry units.

In the all-new campaign, a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev succeeded in 1991, a year prior to the events of the narrative. The former guard succeeds Gorbachev, and restores Soviet order, bringing them closer to the communist leaders in Asia, as leaders in the West grow ever-distant from the Soviet super-power. After a year of friction, the entire Korean peninsula is at war as the Soviets and UN coalitions take their increasingly distancing ideologies onto the battlefield.

And there’s more good news: Wargame is the MidWeek Deal on Steam!

My.com and Obsidian Entertainment have released an exciting video showing off Armored Warfare gameplay footage for the very first time, as shown to the public at PAX Prime.

Rich Taylor, Executive Producer at Obsidian Entertainment, goes through brand new, previously unseen gameplay footage, giving a more in-depth and detailed look at the action.

You can watch the video here:

In Armored Warfare, players will take on the role of private military contractors who are called into action throughout a modern virtual world. Overseeing their own personal command base, players will expand, enhance, and customize their headquarters, manage and upgrade their military convoy of vehicles, and train and develop their crews through a robust reputation and experience system. Dynamic environments in Armored Warfare require players to change strategies on the battlefield at a moment’s notice keeping them ever vigilant to the tides of battle.

To learn more about Armored Warfare, please visit the games official website.

By Josh Walrath @ PC Perspective

It seems like yesterday when I last talked about an AMD refresh! Oh wait, it almost was. Some weeks ago I was able to cover the latest AMD APU offerings that helped to flesh out the Kaveri lineup. We though AMD was done for a while. Color us wrong. AMD pulled out all the stops and set up an AM3+ refresh! There is a little excitement here, I guess. I am trying to contain the tongue-in-cheek lines that I am oh so tempted to write.

Read The Review Here

AMD has released the Radeon R9 285 graphics card. It comes packed with the latest Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture1 innovations like support for the upcoming DirectX 12 and AMD’s revolutionary Mantle API3. The newest addition to the Radeon family features an engine clock speed of 918 MHz, and 2 GB of frame buffer running at 5.5 Gbps. The Radeon R9 285 GPU is capable of delivering up to 3.29 teraFLOPS of computing performance, offering extreme gaming detail that outshines any card at 1080p and beyond in its category.

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

• GURU3D
• HARDOCP
• TECHSPOT
• PC PERSPECTIVE
• TECH REPORT
• TECHPOWERUP!
• LEGION HARDWARE
• TOM’S HARDWARE
• HARDWARE HEAVEN
• HOT HARDWARE

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 AMD Radeon™ R9 285 Graphics, “Never Settle: Space Edition” Game Bundle
• ASUS Announces the Radeon R9 285 Strix Graphics Card
• HIS Announces its Radeon R9 285 IceQ X2 Graphics Card
• GIGABYTE Launches Radeon R9 285 Overclock Edition
• MSI Announces its Radeon R9 285 Gaming OC Graphics Card
• Club 3D Announces Radeon R9 285 royalQueen
• VisionTek Introduces Its Radeon R9 285 Graphics Card
• XFX Rolls Out its Radeon R9 285 Double Dissipation Graphics Card
• NZXT Introduces its New S340 Case – VIDEO
• MSI Teases GeForce GTX 980/970 Gaming with Twin Frozr V
• ENERMAX Announces TwisterStorm High Airflow Fan
• Dell Tempts Gamers With Curvy 34-Inch UltraSharp Monitor, Slated For Holiday Release
• ViewSonic Unveils the VG2401mh 24-Inch Gaming Monitor
• Lian Li Announces the PC-V1000L Full Tower Chassis – VIDEO
• Netgear Announces $280 Nighthawk X4 R7500 Smart WiFi Router
• AMD Offers $999 Promotional Price on its Radeon R9 295X2 dual-GPU Card
• AMD Announces Three New FX-8000 Series Eight-core Processors, New Pricing
• SilverStone Launches the Argon AR05 and AR06 Low-Profile CPU Coolers
• EK Announces Intel Socket R3 (LGA-2011-3) Water Block Compatibility
• ASUS Rolls Out the Republic of Gamers Gladius Gaming Mouse
• MSI X99 Motherboards Break 6 World Records
• BitFenix Fury Passes Intel Haswell Testing
• Dell Debuts the S2415H and S2715H Multimedia Monitors
• Dell Also Readies the UltraSharp U2415 16:10 IPS Monitor
• Team Group Launches DDR4 Memory for Desktop/Server Use

Ubisoft has announced that Assassin’s Creed Unity will be released on November 11 in the US and on November 13 in EMEA. The two extra weeks will help ensure that the quality of the game meets fans’ – and the team’s – lofty expectations. This news has no impact on the company’s full year financial targets, which Ubisoft also confirms today.

“As we got close to the finish, we realized we were near the target but still needed a bit more time to hone some of the details to make sure Assassin’s Creed Unity is exceptional,” says Vincent Pontbriand, senior producer at Ubisoft. “We sincerely appreciate players’ commitment to the game and their patience. It’s just a couple more weeks. And it’s going to be worth it.”

The US release date for Assassin’s Creed Rogue remains unchanged (November 11). In EMEA territories, Assassin’s Creed Rogue will now release November 13, alongside Assassin’s Creed Unity.

For more detail, please visit: http://blog.ubi.com/.

SEGA of America, Inc. and SEGA Europe, Ltd. today announced Total War: Rome 2 – Emperor Edition, the definitive edition of the best-selling game in the Total War series from Creative Assembly. Emperor Edition collects together all free content to date, which includes wide-ranging revisions, additions to game features and adds a brand new Campaign Pack expansion, ‘Imperator Augustus’.

Most importantly, existing Rome 2 players will receive all of the above content via automatic update on the day of launch, upgrading them to Emperor Edition at no cost.

The new ‘Imperator Augustus’ Campaign Pack adds hundreds of hours of sandbox gameplay across a new campaign map reflecting the geopolitical boundaries of the Second Triumvirate War. Players will determine the outcome of a vast civil war, which saw Octavian, Marc Antony and Lepidus vying to become the very first Emperor of Rome.

Alongside all feature updates from launch (including Twitch.tv integration, touch controls, new factions, new units and now the Mac version), Emperor Edition also features an improved politics system, overhauled building chains, rebalanced battles, and improved visuals in both campaign and battle.

For more information about Emperor Edition and the’ Imperator Augustus’ Campaign Pack, please tune in to the latest episode of community show Rally Point which aired today.

Intel’s launch of the new X99 Express Chipset has kicked off a number of new motherboards from various manufacturers. A few of these new motherboards have been made available for review. We have pulled together a number of these reviews and provided the links to them below.

• LEGIT REVIEWS - ASUS X99-Deluxe
• GURU3D - MSI X99S Gaming 9 AC
• TECHPOWERUP! - MSI X99S Gaming 7
• GURU3D - ASUS X99 Rampage 5 Extreme
• GURU3D - Gigabyte X99 SOC Force
• TWEAKTOWN - ASRock X99X Killer Fatal1ty

Intel officially announced its new enthusiast platform, the Haswell-E processor and the X99 chipset. This new flagship processor series includes the Core i7-5960X, Intel’s first eight-core desktop processor. An update to a motherboard with the X99 chipset is required due to Haswell-E’s new integrated memory controller which introduces DDR4 support to the desktop platform. We’ve gathered a number of reviews from around the internet and posted the links below for your convenience.

• OVERCLOCKERS CLUB
• PC PERSPECTIVE
• HOTHARDWARE
• HARDOCP
• TECH REPORT
• HARDWARE CANUCKS
• HARDWARE HEAVEN
• BJORN3D
• TOM’S HARDWARE