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Rise on every front starting November 5: Witness the origins of Special Forces in a gripping Campaign. Become a Special Forces Operator in adrenaline-fueled online Multiplayer. Experience a universe-expanding Zombies crossover. Featuring full integration with Warzone™, including a brand-new map coming later this year.

This is WWII combat like never before. Witness the origins of Special Forces as you play a pivotal role and change the face of history, forming Task Force One in a gripping Campaign across four major theaters of war. Become an original Special Forces Operator in an online Multiplayer rich in innovation with 20 maps available at launch. Prepare for a franchise-first, universe-expanding Zombies crossover. Immerse yourself in a fully integrated Call of Duty®: Warzone™ experience featuring a new and massive map. This is the most connected Call of Duty ever, all powered by the next generation Call of Duty® engine introduced in Modern Warfare®.

This is Call of Duty®: Vanguard.

The award-winning Sledgehammer Games is leading development on Call of Duty: Vanguard. It is scheduled for a worldwide release on Friday, November 5, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on Battle.net.

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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.

• Akasa Introduces SOHO H4 Tower-Type CPU Cooler
• Alphacool Provides Compatibility for Coolers and AIOs on Socket 1700 and Socket P+ (LGA 4189)
• EK Releases a Versatile Multi-Use Screwdriver Set
• CORSAIR Announces the HS80 RGB WIRELESS Gaming Headset
• SilentiumPC Unveil Fera 5 ARGB Cooler & Fluctus 120 ARGB Fan
• ASUS Announces TUF Gaming VG28UQL1A Monitor
• In Win Introduces the 309 Gaming Edition Case – A Mid-tower Where You Can Play Games on the Front Panel
• Fractal Design Launches Airflow Oriented Torrent Case, 180mm Fans, and Ion+ 2 Power Supply
• Lexar Announces Hades RGB Line of Premium DDR4 Gaming Memory

A new DLC from Command Modern Operations, recreates a “what if” conflict between NATO and Communism powers, a follow on from ” Northern Inferno 1975″, twelve scenarios across all areas of the World including the Pacific, North Atlantic, South China Sea.

Tension Explode in the Norwegian Sea when a standoff takes place between NATO Destroyer and a Soviet Submarine, which drew both Powers into a rapidly escalating war that draws in Neighbours and super power alike.

Watch the Command: Red Tide Announcement Trailer HERE.

Get more information from the DLC’s Product Page.

In its continuing mission to deliver the best air combat gaming experience to fans, the Project Aces team has created a DLC package featuring the aircraft skins of the Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) which will be available for download on August 31. In addition to the new aircraft skins, this latest DLC package will also feature classic background music from past ACE COMBAT games that will play during multiplayer matches.

To check out the new JASDF themed aircraft skins in action and hear your favorite classic background music tracks from past ACE COMBAT games; head over to the following YouTube link (ready for embedding) and watch today’s ACE COMBAT 7: Skies Unknown JASDF DLC trailer.

JASDF aircraft skins include:

• Komatsu Special Marking 2017
• 6SQ 60 Anniversary
• 301SQ F-4 Final Year 2020

 New background music tracks for multiplayer mode include:

• Mayhem – from ACE COMBAT Zero: The Belkan War
• Glacial Skies – from ACE COMBAT Zero: The Belkan War
• Rendezvous – from ACE COMBAT 5: The Unsung War
• Blockade – from ACE COMBAT 4: Shattered Skies
• Transparent Blue – from ACE COMBAT 3: Electrosphere
• Naval Warfare – from ACE COMBAT: Assault Horizon

There will be more DLC to come for ACE COMBAT 7: Skies Unknown.

To find out more about Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, head over to the games official website or via Steam.

Sledgehammer Games’ new Call of Duty is almost here

Source: Polygon

Activision released a new teaser trailer for Call of Duty: Vanguard, officially announcing the next game in the series after a series of leaks. Players will get a first look at this year’s Call of Duty game on Aug. 19, during a special event inside Call of Duty: Warzone called the Battle of Verdansk.

The first trailer for Call of Duty: Vanguard opens with a montage of battlefields that centers on World War II. There’s a sniper’s nest that appears to be in or near Russia, a desert battlefield, a German forest, and a beach littered with destroyed aircraft. Each one of these areas features a face somewhere in the landscape, and sometimes a name (Petrova in Cyrillic, Sgt. Kingsley), hinting at characters that will be in the game. It’s also possible that these characters are the same four from the game’s official art at the end of the trailer.

The trailer featuring each of these battlefields also seems to imply that the game will likely take place in all four theaters of the WWII: the Eastern Front, the Western Front, North Africa, and the Pacific — something Activision and the Call of Duty team have been teasing for the last several days.

It seems that Activision and developer Sledgehammer Games will announce more information about the game on Aug. 19 at 1:30 p.m. ET inside of Warzone. If this is anything like previous events set inside the free-to-play Call of Duty battle royale game, you’ll likely want to log in well ahead of the scheduled start time to make sure you get in. While it’s not clear exactly what the event will be just yet, Activision will likely reveal more about it before it starts on Thursday.

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.

• TEAMGROUP Pioneers in Bringing RGB to Next-Gen DDR5 with the Launch of T-FORCE DELTA RGB DDR5 Gaming Memory
• PNY Introduces XLR8 DDR5 4800 MHz Desktop Memory
• EVGA Announces SuperNOVA 1000 GT Power Supply
• EK and MSI Collaborate on X570S Gaming Carbon EK-X Motherboard
• CORSAIR Launches New CORSAIR ONE Gaming PCs with GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Graphics
• SK hynix Launches 2TB Gold P31 Ultra-low-power Solid State Drive
• MSI Unveils Series of New X570S Motherboards
• Noctua Announces Free-of-charge Mounting Upgrades and Updated CPU Coolers for LGA1700
• XFX Preps Radeon RX 6900 XT Speedster Zero WB Liquid Cooled Graphics Card
• Gainward Announces New RTX 30-series Phantom Graphics Cards
• BIOSTAR Announces Z590A-SILVER Motherboard
• EK Water Blocks Releases 2nd Generation QuantumX Delta TEC

Over a week of gifts, and more, await tankers, including a brand-new Premium tank

World of Tanks’ August Heat is heating up even more with their 11th birthday celebrations. As with any anniversary, World of Tanks is offering up some great gifts to say thank you to their players for their continued support with Summer Presents.

For simply logging into the game, tankers will get their hands on a brand-new, historically accurate Premium tank: the T-34 with L-11. This Tier IV Soviet medium tank features a default concealment bonus and will come with a 100% trained crew and a Garage slot.

Additionally, tankers who log in 7 times on separate days between August 12th and 22nd will be rewarded with 7 days of World of Tanks Premium Account and 7 Gift Tickets, which can be exchanged for valuable rewards, including bonds, credits, and even more valuable goodies in a special section of the in-game Store.

“We’ve prepared a special event for our 11th anniversary with some great gifts, and we invite all players, old and new, to come join us,” states Max Chuvalov, Publishing Director, World of Tanks. “We really hope everyone enjoys what Summer Presents, Update 1.14 and August Heat as a whole bring to the game!”

Another huge part of August Heat is in full swing: the above-mentioned Update 1.14. The latest update introduces a line of Czechoslovakian heavies which will follow on from the Škoda T 25, the Tier VI medium tank. These beasts sport a feature unique to them: the choice of two guns, which are both equal in terms of performance and stats, but one features a two-shell autoloader, the other a classic cyclical gun. Additionally, with Update 1.14, tankers will also have more freedom to tinker and tune their vehicles to better suit their roles on the battlefield. Field Modifications are available to all Collectors’ and Tier VI-X vehicles, excluding rental ones.

As well as Czechoslovakian reinforcements and Field Modifications, a new map, Safe Haven, is coming to World of Tanks. Available for Random Battles, this summer map takes inspiration from 1960s Japan and features a soundtrack by the World of Tanks audio team and Akira Yamaoka, the man behind those iconic Silent Hill compositions.

And finally, Update 1.14 will also see the return of Frontline for the first time in 2021, a new game mode called Topography which will test and improve tankers’ knowledge of maps and various changes to select Premium vehicles and the Personal Missions for Artillery.

For more information about the Summer Presents event, visit worldoftanks.com.

Ubisoft has announced that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s next major expansion, The Siege of Paris, is now available. Set in Francia, this new adventure will set Eivor on a dangerous path full of gripping questlines across the Frankish countryside towards one of the most infamous battles in Viking history. Players will get their hands on new weapons, abilities, gear, and skills to take on new enemy types. The Siege of Paris will also mark the return of Infiltration Missions, directly inherited from long-time, fan-favourite Black Box Missions. Here, players will have the liberty to choose the best way to eliminate their designated target. The Siege of Paris will be available for all Season Pass owners or as a separate purchase by all owners of the main game.

Players will have access to the expansion after completing one of the two first narrative arcs available in England (Grantebridgescire or Ledecestrescire), which unlock just after they arrive from Norway. When in Ravensthorpe, Eivor will stumble upon visitors from Francia offering suspiciously generous presents and will then find their way to Francia. The suggested power level for Francia is 200, but there is no mandatory power level to play The Siege of Paris.

For more information about Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, please visit assassinscreed.com.

Source: Blue’s News

2×2 Games and Croteam announce Moscow 41, new DLC coming to Steam on August 31st for Unity of Command II, the Windows and macOS World War II strategy game. Here’s more on this chance to relive Germany’s ill-fated effort to conquer the Soviet Union:

In Moscow ’41 you take control of Soviet forces as they deliver blow after blow to an overextended Wehrmacht during their winter counteroffensives of 1941/42. Though battered and bruised, German armies will prove mighty opponents for the less experienced Red Army, which must also contend with overly ambitious objectives set forth by the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

Source: Blue’s News

Exodus, the promised short film for Battlefield 2042, is now online. This helps set the stage for the events in the upcoming installment in the military shooter series, and shows off some returning faces. Here’s word:

Electronic Arts and DICE have released “Exodus,” a short film providing a closer look at what started the No-Pat Civil War in Battlefield™ 2042 as well as introducing its rich cast of playable No-Pat characters known as Specialists. Most notably, “Exodus” reintroduces an old friend for fans of the series with Battlefield 4’s Kimble “Irish” Graves, played by Michael K. Williams, returning to 2042 as a playable No-Pat Specialist. Exodus also introduces the mysterious “Oz,” who clashes with Irish over the future of the No-Pats and sows the seeds of conflict. The narrative will continue to evolve over time as more Specialists join the conflict, each with their own story to tell, and pull players deeper into the world and lore of Battlefield 2042.