Commemorative Trailer Dedicated to Heroes of the Russian Front during WW2.

Gaijin Entertainment has released a brand new commemorative live action trailer for its WWII MMO mega-hit War Thunder. Titled “Victory is Ours” the trailer commemorates the heroism of all the participants of the Great Patriotic War and got its worldwide debut at the Russian Comic Con event on Oct 4th.

The video emphasizes how important the combined actions of each individual were for overall victory, whether dogfighting with the enemy in the skies as a pilot, or engaging in heated ground based combat as a tanker to support ground troops. In October 1941, the German Army Group Centre advanced on Moscow. Only after six months of intense fighting was the enemy able to be repelled from the capital. In the war torn fields near Moscow the first major defeat of the German army in World War II occurred against the might of its armed forces, and on 9th of May 1945, after the Battle of Berlin, Germany surrendered.

View the commemorative trailer here.

About War Thunder

Over seven million players already know the enjoyment of laying opponents to waste, leaving only burned out hulls in their wake in War Thunder. This cross-platform MMO game is currently in Open Beta for PC and Mac OS, available for PlayStation®4 and OnLive®, and in development for Oculus Rift and other mobile device platforms. Players have access to over 450 historically accurate WWII planes and armored vehicles.

For more information, please visit the official War Thunder website.

Get ready to own more and be more with the Battlefield 4 Premium Edition. Packed with content, the Battlefield 4 Premium Edition includes an intense single-player campaign as well as the award-winning multiplayer experience found in Battlefield 4 that lets players experience the rush of all-out-warfare on land, air and sea. The Battlefield 4 Premium Edition also delivers fans a Battlefield 4 Premium membership which provides access to five themed digital expansion packs with tons of multiplayer content including 20 maps, game modes, a variety of weapons and vehicles and more.

The Battlefield 4 Premium Edition will be available on Origin for PC starting October 21 priced at £39.99. From October 24, it will be available in the UK via Digital Download on PlayStation 4, Xbox One (both priced at £54.99) and PlayStation 3 (priced at £39.99).

The Battlefield 4 Premium Edition includes all of the following:

• Engage in all-out warfare with award-winning multiplayer, and intense single-player missions delivered in Battlefield 4
• 5 expansion packs featuring multiplayer maps and in-game content:
• Battlefield 4 Second Assault
• Battlefield 4 China Rising
• Battlefield 4 Naval Strike
• Battlefield 4 Dragon’s Teeth
• Battlefield 4 Final Stand coming Fall 2014
• Exclusive personalization options including camos, paints, emblems, dog tags and more
• Priority position in server queues
• 12 bonus Battlefield 4 Gold Battlepacks

For more information please visit the Battlefield 4 Premium Edition official website.

The Fighter Collection and Eagle Dynamics are pleased to announce that Su-27 for DCS World is now available as a pre-purchase from the DCS e-shop at: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/shop/. The pre-purchase provides both a 20% discount off the retail price and access to the Open Beta coming later on November 15th, 2014.

The Su-27, NATO codename Flanker, is one of the pillars of modern-day Russian combat aviation. Built to counter the American F-15 Eagle, the Flanker is a twin-engine, supersonic, highly manoeuvrable air superiority fighter. The Flanker is equally capable of engaging targets well beyond visual range as it is in a dogfight given its amazing slow speed and high angle attack manoeuvrability. Using its radar and stealthy infrared search and track system, the Flanker can employ a wide array of radar and infrared guided missiles. The Flanker also includes a helmet-mounted sight that allows you to simply look at a target to lock it up! In addition to its powerful air-to-air capabilities, the Flanker can also be armed with bombs and unguided rockets to fulfil a secondary ground attack role.

Su-27 for DCS World focuses on ease of use without complicated cockpit interaction, significantly reducing the learning curve. As such, Su-27 for DCS World features keyboard and joystick cockpit commands with a focus on the most mission critical of cockpit systems.

Su-27 for DCS World will sell for $9.99 at November 15th. Pre Purchase now for $7.99 and save 20%!

Note: This will be a free update to owners of Flaming Cliffs 3!

New content and Hexagonal Hexing Hexstasy Coming to Fantasy Wargame

Warlock 2: The Exiled, the fantastical turn-based strategy wargame from Ino-Co Plus and Paradox Interactive will soon release its first expansion: “Wrath of the Nagas.” Featuring a new game mode centered around the new-game creatures, a pair of new mages to lead that new race, and a new game campaign centered around that new race and their new mages, Wrath of the Nagas will add more magical mayhem to Warlock 2 than is probably safe. The new expansion will be available later this year on Windows PC from digital retailers worldwide, but only on this particular shard of Earth.

Wrath of the Nagas introduce the ancient Naga race to the worlds of Warlock 2 – a sinister people who have lurked outside the realm of Ardania since time immemorial, waiting for their chance to break back through the barriers and unmake reality. By purchasing the Wrath of the Nagas expansion, you have given them that chance. Way to go.

PRESS RELEASE/SCREENSHOTS

By Stuart Davidson @ Hardware Heaven

Today we take a look at a couple of gaming peripherals (a mechanical keyboard and mouse) in our Tesoro Lobera review. Which also features the Gandiva mouse.

Read The Review Here

By Ron Perillo @ Modders Inc.

Design-wise, the Cooler Master Hyper D92 cooler is a re-engineered Hyper N520, improving upon its design based on current system building concerns such as better RAM heatspreader clearance compatibility, better looks and improved efficiency. The direct-touch design has worked well for Cooler Master’s mainstream CPU cooler offerings so the Hyper D92 utilizes it as well. The Hyper N520’s signature offset fan design remains to compensate for the airflow deadzone, albeit using superior 92mm Cooler Master rifle-bearing Xtra Flow PWM fans and the mounting design has also been improved for convenience.

Read The Review 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.

• AMD Begins Slashing the Prices of its Radeon R9 290, R9 290X GPUs
• QPAD Launches MK-70 Mechanical Keyboard
• Aerocool Debuts the Strike-X Cube Micro ATX PC Case
• Cooler Master Unveils the CM Storm Octane Keyboard and Mouse Combo
• Gigabyte Reveals New Z97-HD3P Motherboard
• Palit Reveals Geforce GTX 980 (Super) JetStream
• MSI Silently Introduces GTX 970 Gaming 4G Lite Edition
• BenQ Outs the XL2430T Gaming PC Monitor
• Mushkin Introduces the Chronos G2 Solid State Drives
• SMART Modular Expands to DDR4 With Its Ultra High Reliability Enterprise Memory
• Aqua Computer Intros Kryographics GTX 980 Full Cover Water Block
• Aqua Computer Also Announces Airplex Radical 2 Series Radiators

The Siege of the Fortified Islands of Manila Bay 1942

By John Dudek @ The Wargamer

Hundreds of Japanese heavy artillery shells smashed down upon the still smoking, darkness shrouded island fortress of Corregidor in early May 1942, shattering the momentary stillness with ear shattering noise and blindingly bright, explosions. The shells landed all around the fortress’ remaining undamaged coastal gun batteries, and especially upon seacoast mortar Battery Way’s glacis wall and into the gun pit itself. To any onlooker so many staccato shell bursts must have sounded like a near endless machine gun of howling shell fire landing all around the island. As soon as this latest artillery barrage momentarily lifted, Captain “Wild Bill” Massello dashed out of the bomb proof shelter into Battery Way’s gun pit with broom in hand to sweep away this latest batch of blast-broken chunks of concrete and spent shell shrapnel from the approach leading to the last functioning 12-inch sea coast mortar remaining of the four gun battery. The other three mortars had been put out of action following a long week of sustained heavy Japanese artillery bombardment. With the approach now cleared, Massello shouted and waved to the men crouching in the shelter and to those in the nearby reinforced concrete magazine to reload the mortar. Instantly the men dashed from the shelter to service the mortar as several others wheeled a trolley carrying a single 12-inch, high explosive shell from the magazine. As the gun crew man-handled the big 650 lb. anti-personnel shell into the mortar’s breech, a second trolley arrived carrying bags of high explosive propellant. These too were methodically loaded into the breech and they quickly primed the piece before closing the gun’s breechblock. As the gunner re-set the mortar’s range and azimuth settings using his quadrant and the gun’s elevation wheels, another attached the long firing lanyard to the mortar. The gun Captain raised his arm in readiness and he took up the tension on the firing lanyard as the gun crew quickly disappeared once more back into their shelters. He yanked hard on the lanyard and the remaining mortar again roared out its defiance with a flashing, ear splitting roar as the shell arched high over Manila Bay toward Bataan’s Cabcaben Docks several miles away.

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Herding Cats…In Space

By  T.J. Hafer @ IGN

I made the jump into Ancient Space, looking to replenish my fleet-based, sci-fi RTS reserves, and what I found did the trick—but only just. Around me shimmered a constellation of gorgeous environmental art, strong mission variety, and impressive tactical depth. But the more I saw, the more I felt weighed down by the gravity of uninspired story presentation, and gameplay elements that sound better on paper than they are in practice.

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There is something rather dark lurking at the centre of Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare, which just might make it the most mature offering this gaming franchise has seen in a while.

By Nick Cowen @ CVG

It’s not reinventing the series in terms of mechanics and structure by any means. Advanced Warfare looks, sounds and plays like its predecessor for the most part – the addition of jetpacks notwithstanding. The E3, Gamescom and more recent reveals have ticked the usual COD boxes: layered multiplayer, high octane campaign set-pieces and – this just in – the addition of a Survival mode similar to that in Modern Warfare 3.

And yet, on closer inspection, Advanced Warfare seems to be treading in far more nebulas moral terrain than its predecessors. In past entries in this series, players controlled Rangers, Marines, SAS thugs and Black Ops bagmen, but never at any time were they under the impression that the soldiers at the centre of the action weren’t the good guys. Advanced Warfare has no such safety net.

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