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

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.

• Intel Officially Debuts Haswell-E and the X99 Chipset
• EVGA Debuts Its X99 Motherboard Lineup
• GIGABYTE Launches Its X99 Series Motherboards
• MSI Launches 5 New Mighty X99 Motherboards
• MSI Releases New X99S GAMING 9 AC Motherboard
• ASUS Announces X99 Series Motherboards
• ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces Rampage V Extreme
• X99 Domination: Rampage V Extreme Overclocking World Records!
• ASRock’s Upgraded Super Alloy X99 Series Motherboards Unveiled!
• Corsair and ASUS Create World’s Fastest Production DDR4 Memory Kit
• Kingston HyperX Demos DDR4 Memory at PAX Prime
• Alienware, Digital Storm, Maingear, Origin PC, Velocity Micro Do Haswell-E, X99
• NVIDIA Cuts GeForce GTX TITAN-Z Price by 37 Percent, But for OEMs Only
• NVIDIA to Skip GeForce 800 Series, GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 Mid-September
• Panram Technology Launches the NINJA-V Series DDR4 Memory
• VTX3D Introduces the R9 285 X-Edition Graphics Card
• Iiyama Outs ProLite E2483HS 24-inch Flicker-free LED Backlit Monitor
• Inter-Tech Announces Badger JY-230 Mid-Tower Case
• ASUS Unveils ROG GM50 Gaming Mousepad
• Sapphire Officially Launches its Radeon R9 285 Lineup
• PowerColor Officially Launches Radeon R9 285 TurboDuo OC
• EVGA TORQ X10 Gaming Mouse Now Available in Europe
• TP-Link Outs Archer C20i AC750 Wireless Dual-Band Router
• Sharkoon Announces VS4 Series Case – VIDEO
• EK Introduces New Flagship CPU Water Block
• CYBERPOWERPC Updates Desktop Line with Intel X99 Chipset and Core i7 EE CPU

The Battles of Mons and Nery, 1914

By John Dudek @ The Wargamer

Many, if not most, historians agree that the most professional, well trained and effective army to enter the fighting on the European continent during that summer of 1914 was the British Army. Although comparatively small when compared to the opposing million man armies fielded by both Germany and France, it numbered but 80,000 men in two corps. However the British Army Expeditionary Force was comprised primarily of long service veterans and territorials who’d served a minimum of seven years for both king and country in wars ranging in size from the small colonial wars of empire to the Boer War in South Africa 14 years before. They were a hard bitten, professional lot of “Old Sweats” who saw the army as not only their occupation, but as an integral part of their very core of being and not merely as a temporary term of enlistment and national service. They knew the savage killing art of soldiering and every aspect of their terrible trade from muzzle to butt-plate. They could put a life saving tourniquet on a wounded arm using their teeth to tighten the knot, and still roar defiance at an oncoming enemy by firing 30 aimed shots at them in a “mad-minute” from their Lee-Enfield rifles. “These long service veterans had made the British Army their home and they would no more not be a part of it than for a fish to exist out of water.” The aforementioned .303 calibre Short Magazine Lee-Enfield rifle MK.III was perhaps the best designed bolt action rifle ever used on the battlefield and it continued to serve the British Army well into the 1950′s. Its smooth pull bolt action meant that a rifleman skilled in its use could quickly chamber and fire numerous rounds without ever losing the enemy’s sight picture, giving every British infantryman a devastatingly effective high rate of fire. It was said that Germany’s ruler Kaiser Wilhelm upon hearing of Britain’s declaration of war against them on 4 August 1914, derisively dismissed the six divisions and five cavalry brigades of the British Expeditionary Force soldiers now arriving in France as members of “This Contemptible Army”. Whether he ever spoke these words or not, the average German soldier would soon discover the British Army’s true worth and learn much from the bitter experience after meeting them in battle.

Read on…