Source: Blue’s News

Call of Duty: Vanguard is now available for PC, Xbox, and PlayStation, putting out the call for players to reenlist in the military shooter series in a return to a World War II setting. The Windows edition is for sale on the Battle.net Shop as either a Standard Edition or an Ultimate Edition with additional skins and blueprints, a battle pass bundle, and an XP booster. The game kicks off with a solo campaign, a new zombies experience, and 20 multiplayer maps with crossplay support between PC and consoles. A new season of Warzone will kick off on December 2nd, bringing the free-to-play battle royale to the war in the Pacific. Here’s the previously released Launch Trailer featuring Jack White along with more details:

In Vanguard, players will experience the origins of Special Forces fighting across four major theaters of World War II like never seen before.

With development led by Sledgehammer Games, Vanguard enlists players in an engaging blockbuster campaign as ordinary soldiers from diverse backgrounds rise on all fronts to do the extraordinary and turn the tides of war. Multiplayer features 20 maps, 12 Operators and over three dozen Weapons in the revamped Gunsmith all starting day one. Vanguard multiplayer delivers new ways to play with the Combat Pacing system and the fast and frenetic multi-arena survival Champion Hill mode. Vanguard also brings a franchise-first Zombies crossover developed by Treyarch, expanding upon the Dark Aether storyline that players were introduced to in Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War.

Matrix Games has released the second tactical video from Decisive Campaigns: Ardennes Offensive. 

We’re back with a new technical video, this time regarding the new rules designed to fit the game’s lower scale. Discover what’s changed with LOS, height levels, Kampfgruppen, and much more with this new technical video, and get ready for November 18th.

For more game information please visit the Decisive Campaigns: Ardennes Offensive webpage.

By Hilbert Hagedoorn @ GURU3D

To be precise, ASUS is back in the game, this time with another HERO, in the form of a Z690 motherboard. This Alder Lake motherboard is loaded with features and gadgets, and it’s dressed to impress with its dark design. The Z690 motherboards from ASUS will be plentiful, with some of the models offering a choice between DDR5 and DDR4 memory configurations. It all starts with the flagship ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Extreme motherboard, which is followed by the FORMULA, HERO, and APEX motherboards, all of which will include DDR5 memory and only DDR5 memory — and that’s all there is to it. In total, there will be three ROG STRIX Z690 motherboards, one TUF GAMING Z690 motherboard, and a slew of PRIME Z690 motherboards, all of which will have differing degrees of technological sophistication, features, and sizes. ProART Z690-Creation 10G motherboard, which sounds like it’ll be a “content creator” motherboard with 10GbE LAN connectivity and, I’m sure, a ton of I/O connectivity, will be sandwiched between the rest of the ASUS Z690 lineup. The ASUS Maximus Z690 Hero, as tested today, rocks a 20-phase power design with 90A PowerStages.

Read the Review Here

The embargo on independent reviews of the Alder Lake-S desktop series has officially lifted.  Now available from retailers, the six unlocked desktop processors are the first based on Intel’s performance hybrid architecture featuring a combination of Performance-cores (P-cores), the highest performing CPU core Intel has built, and Efficient-cores (E-cores), designed for scalable multi-threaded workload performance. We have gathered a number of reviews on the new 12th Gen processors, and they are featured via the links below.

Intel Core i9-12900K and Core i5-12600K

• TOM’S HARDWARE
• EUROGAMER
• HOTHARDWARE
• OC3D
• OVERCLOCKERS
• GURU3D (Core i9 12900K)
• GURU3D (Core i5 12600K)
• TECHPOWERUP! (Core i9 12900K)
• TECHPOWERUP! (Core i5 12600K)

Intel Core i7-12700K

• TECHPOWERUP!

Source: TechPowerUp!

AMD has put out the first Radeon Software release for the month of November 2021, with the Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.11.1 beta. These drivers add optimization for “Call of Duty: Vanguard,” and “Forza Horizon 5.” For the latter, the drivers provide a massive 23% performance gain at 4K with “extreme” settings over the previous driver, as tested on a machine with an RX 6800 XT graphics card. A couple of issues have been fixed. Samsung Odyssey G9 C49G95T monitors were showing up display corruption with their resolution set at 5120 x 1440 @ 240 Hz, which has been fixed. Certain visual artifacts in the menu screen of “Call of Duty: Warzone,” have been fixed.

The Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.11.1 drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.

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.

• MSI Unveils 12th Gen Intel Core Gaming Desktop and Definition the New Standard of Gaming Monitor
• Sharkoon Introduces the SKILLER SGK50 S4 60% Keyboard
• G.SKILL Trident Z5 Breaks DDR5-8704 World Record with ASUS ROG Z690 Apex
• PNY Announces Specifications and Availability of XLR8 Gaming and Performance DDR5 Desktop Memory
• GIGABYTE Prepares AORUS Z690 First Look Event to Showcase the Launch of the new Intel Alder Lake Platform
• Scythe Announces Mounting Upgrade Kit for Intel LGA1700 Socket
• Noblechairs Releases White Edition EPIC Gaming Chair
• Turtle Beach Velocityone Flight Controller Pre-orders Close Within Hours!
• EK Launches Precision Torque Screwdriver
• ASUS AIO Coolers Support Intel Core Processors of the 12th Generation
• SilentiumPC Cooling System Compatibility with the LGA1700 Platform
• GIGABYTE Releases GeForce RTX 3070 with a Silver colored Triple-fan Cooler
• Alphacool’s CPU Coolers & AIOs are ready for Intel’s LGA 1700 Socket
• Cooler Master Announces Free Mounting Upgrades for LGA1700 Release
• Arctic Launch Freezer i35 ARGB & Freezer A35 ARGB CPU Coolers
• SteelSeries Unveil Aerox 3 & Aerox 3 Wireless 2022 Editions

Source: Blue’s News

Friday is D-Day for Call of Duty: Vanguard, as that’s when the World War II first-person shooter is set to invade PCs and consoles worldwide. The World Premiere Video Link says the video premiere will go live at 9:00 pm EDT on Wednesday. Those who’ve preordered the Windows edition can begin preloading tomorrow at 1:00 pm EDT to be ready to play when the switch gets flipped. Publisher Activision and developer Sledgehammer offer a new trailer showing off PC specific enhancements. There’s also a new article on the Call of Duty Blog on the subject. This includes presumably final PC specs formatted, well, oddly:

Video Card

• Minimum: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 470
• Recommended: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580
• Competitive: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070/RTX 3060 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 5700XT
• Ultra 4K: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Video Memory

• Minimum: 2 GB
• Recommended: 4 GB
• Competitive: 8 GB
• Ultra 4K: 10 GB

Source: Blue’s News

A new trailer from NVIDIA shows off some of the enhancements owners of GeForce RTX video cards will see in Battlefield 2042 when the military shooter is released later this month. The clip shows off support for RTX ray tracing, DLSS, and Reflex. Here’s an explanation:

PC gamers will get a Battlefield 2042 experience like no other, because a PC allows you to enjoy higher detail levels, uncapped frame rates, and gameplay enhanced by variable refresh rate G-SYNC monitors, TVs and displays.

Graphics on a PC are next-level with ray-traced ambient occlusion (available only on PC), and GeForce RTX-based PCs have dedicated RT cores to deliver excellent ray tracing performance. With NVIDIA DLSS, performance is boosted without sacrificing image quality. NVIDIA Reflex optimizes system latency to assure shot accuracy for maximum competitiveness.

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.

• NETGEAR Expands Orbi Line With Industry’s First 5G Tri-band WiFi 6 Mesh System
• BIOSTAR Announces New AMD Radeon RX 6600 Graphics Card
• XPG Unveils Latest ATOM PCIe 3 & 4 M.2 SSDs
• ADATA Unveils LEGEND Series PCIe M.2 2280 Solid State Drives
• G.SKILL Showcases DDR5-7000 CL40 Extreme Speed Memory
• Acer Offers New 4K Monitor Model with a Non-glossy IPS Panel and Three LCD Options incl 28-inch
• SteelSeries Unveils New Wireless Gaming Headsets: The Arctis 7+ and Arctis 7P+
• Thermaltake AIO Liquid & Air Coolers are Fully Compatible with Socket LGA 1700
• Patriot Unveil its Signature DDR5 Memory Series
• Kingston Announces FURY Renegade Line of Performance PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs

The first Israeli aircraft and dozens of other vehicles have also been introduced in the ‘Ground Breaking’ major update

Gaijin Entertainment announces the release of the ‘Ground Breaking’ major Content Update for the military online action game War Thunder. Terramorphing technology makes the ground battles even more realistic and offers players more tactical options. Aviation fans get the chance to try the first two aircraft from Israel, the next playable nation to be added to War Thunder. The update also brings dozens of other military vehicles and three new maps.

The terramorphing feature allows players to change the ground’s surface in real time and create cover or obstacles. Ground vehicles with self-entrenching equipment installed (i.e. the Soviet BMP-3 or the British Chieftain with dozer blade) are now capable of quickly building tank scrapes everywhere not surrounded by buildings, rocks, boulders, ice or paved roads. Air bombs weighing approximately 50kg or above, heavy rocket and missile explosions now form a crater of which diameter and depth depends on the power of the blast.

Israel, one of the leading producers and operators of military vehicles, will become the next playable nation in War Thunder. The Closed Beta Test of Israeli Air Force will start in the next major content update, but two packs with premium aircraft are available now for purchase in War Thunder. Their owners will be the first to get access to CBT. One of the packs contains a Spitfire LF Mk IXe in the livery of the personal aircraft of Ezer Weizman, a RAF veteran pilot, who later became the president of Israel! An alternative pack is available with the A-4E Skyhawk, a late Israeli modification of one of the best strike aircrafts in the game.

There are even more new toys to play with, including the light Ystervark, South African mobile anti-air unit, Cold War era destroyer USS ​​Mitscher and three versions of fast and deadly German Wiesel armored vehicles. The Wiesel 1A4 is a basic variant with a 20mm Rheinmetall 202/20 cannon. The Wiesel 1A2 is equipped with a launcher for the TOW-2 ATGM, tandem warhead TOW-2A and TOW-2B, able to hit tanks from above. Finally, Ozelot is a version with Stinger SAM on board.

The Aral Sea map puts ground and air vehicles fighting at the shores of a dried out sea, where a port has been abandoned a long time ago with cargo terminals, fish processing plants, bulk carriers and fishing vessels. Bourbon Island is a location for air battles inspired by Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. A characteristic feature of this large and flat shaped area is the gigantic craters of volcanic origin with a wide flat bottom – calderas. Finally, the Vyborg Bay location for War Thunder coastal vessels has been created using the magnificent northern nature of the Vyborg Bay near Medyanskaya Bay. Players fight inside a dense cluster of rocky islands covered with forest – so called skerries.

The full list of changes in the update is available HERE.

Visit the official War Thunder Website for more game information.