Source: Blue’s News

Stalingrad is now available for Windows and macOS on Steam as new DLC for Unity of Command II, the World War II strategy game. This gives players the chance to do battle on the eastern front, fighting the enemy, the elements, and starvation. Here’s what to expect:

After staving off the Soviet winter counteroffensive of 1941/42, the German Wehrmacht reclaims the initiative the following summer. Concentrating their forces in the south, the Germans once again slice through Soviet lines, aiming for the oilfields of the Caucasus and the industrial city of Stalingrad. But the Red Army has learned much from past failures and prepares to strike back in an overwhelming fashion.

In this DLC, you will command the multinational Army Group South in its bid to deliver a crippling blow to the Soviet war machine, while securing oil for Germany’s ongoing conquests.

Source: TechPowerUp!

AMD has released Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 drivers, which come just in time for the Early Access release of “Battlefield 2042″ later today. The game’s general release is slated for November 19. Tested at 4K UHD with Ultra settings, the new drivers up to 14% higher performance over previous drivers for the RX 6900 XT, up to 15% higher performance for the RX 6800 XT, and up to 11% higher for the RX 6700 XT. The company did not put out any bug-fixes with this release.

The Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.

Source: TechPowerUp!

NVIDIA has released the latest version of GeForce Game Ready software. Version 496.76 WHQL comes with optimization for “Battlefield 2042,” including support for DLSS and Reflex. The drivers also enable DLSS support for “Assetto Corsa Competizione,” “Bright Memory: Infinite,” “Farming Simulator 22,” “Hot Wheels Unleashed,” and “Myth of Empires.” Also released with these drivers is official support for NVIDIA Image Scaling.

Among the issues fixed are a game crash at launch with “WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship,” a texture flickering bug with “Ghost Recon Breakpoint,” a crash-to-desktop at launch with “Transport Fever,” a null pointer error with “Transport Fever 2,” over “blooming” with “Quake II RTX,” a game crash with “FarCry 6″ in DirectX 12 mode with RTX 3070 Ti, random freezes with “Detroit: Become Human,” a TDR crash with “Red Dead Redemption 2,” and random crashes with “Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.”

You can download the GeForce 496.76 WHQL Game Ready drivers via GeForce.com.

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.

• HyperX Launches Cloud Core Wireless Gaming Headset with DTS Headphone:X
• Team Group T-FORCE DELTA RGB DDR5 and VULCAN DDR5 are Released to the Global Market
• In Win Announces DIY Series Cases—AIRFORCE (ATX) and EXPLORER (Mini-ITX)
• Alphacool Introduces the Eisbaer LT240 and LT360 Aurora AIO CPU Coolers with Digital RGB Lighting
• ASUS Intros ROG Thor 1000W Platinum II Power Supply, Focus on Low Noise
• BIOSTAR Announces RACING Z690GTA Motherboard
• EK Launches Free LGA 1700 Upgrade Kit for EK-AIO Products
• CRYORIG Announces LGA 1700 Mounting Socket Support
• Antec Unveils its Dark Phantom DP31 Micro-ATX Chassis
• EVGA Announces X570 FTW WiFi Motherboard
• KLEVV Launches DDR5 Memory for Home and Gaming PCs With Intel Alder Lake Compatibility
• Noctua Introduces NH-L9i Low-profile CPU Coolers for LGA1700 and NA-FD1 Fan Duct
• SilverStone HELA 2050 Power Supply is Hella Powerful, Hella Compact

A few days in, Champion Hill is one of a handful of stand-out features.

By Seth Macy @ IGN

Call of Duty: Vanguard’s multiplayer is fast, fun, and more than anything, familiar. There are some great new additions by way of expanded game modes, including the excellent new Champion Hill, but if you’d told me I was playing a patched version of Call of Duty: World War II or a reskinned Black Ops: Cold War (which itself felt like a reskinned Modern Warfare) I would probably have believed you, you devious trickster.

Read on…

A fun, truly cinematic campaign that lacks variety over its brief runtime.

By Simon Cardy @ IGN

Call of Duty: Vanguard’s campaign starts off on the right track – literally. An explosive train sequence through a burning Hamburg, Germany thrills as you jump between carriages, fending off dozens of angry Nazis on your way to a submarine base. It’s a cinematic opening to a game that wears its film influences proudly; whether that be the tense behind-enemy-lines aspects of D-Day in The Longest Day or the vivid depictions of the Pacific in Terence Malick’s The Thin Red Line. No shadow hangs heavier over this latest Call of Duty World War II story, however, than Inglourious Basterds. Its tale of a small group of expert soldiers on a secret mission to stop the Third Reich may sound familiar to anyone who has seen the 2009 movie, but Vanguard plays it with a much straighter face than Tarantino ever could. Even so, Vanguard’s campaign is over quickly, and its small series of battles are all too rarely memorable high points.

Read on…

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!