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Colorful Unveils EVOL G Series Gaming Laptops

Colorful Technology Company Limited, a leading brand in gaming PC components, gaming laptops, and HiFi audio products, proudly introduces the new EVOL G Series gaming laptops powered by the 13th Generation Intel Core processors and NVIDIA RTX 4060 graphics. The EVOL G Series comes in a new futuristic design featuring Lila – a space traveler exploring colorful galaxies and the universe.

Futuristic Design with Lila

The EVOL G Series gets a new look that sets it apart from the EVOL P Series. The new EVOL G Series also introduces Lila, a space explorer that inspired the futuristic design of the new EVOL gaming laptop. The EVOL G Series is available in white and grey colors with an RGB-lit keyboard.

Made for Gaming

The COLORFUL EVOL G Series comes equipped with up to a 13th generation Intel Core i7-13620H processor with 10 cores and 16 threads, clocked up to 4.9GHz. It is paired with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 GPU, which supports ray tracing and DLSS 3.5 for more immersive gaming, and the highest AI power of up to 233 TOP.

EVOL G Series comes equipped with a QHD (2560 x 1440) 165Hz IPS gaming screen, with a high screen-to-body ratio of 86%. Display also features a viewing angle and 100% sRGB color gamut coverage delivering accurate colors and vivid visuals.

Advanced Cooling

The EVOL G Series laptops feature three cooling modes allowing users to tweak cooling performance between maximum cooling and maximum silence. The EVOL G Series are packed with 10mm-thick heat pipes with high-density turbine fans for fast heat dissipation with improved acoustics.

Specifications

Pricing and Availability

For more information on availability and pricing, please contact your local COLORFUL Technology representative.

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F1 Manager 2024 Release Date Revealed

Frontier Developments plc (AIM: FDEV, ‘Frontier’) today announced F1® Manager 2024, the officially licensed Formula 1® management game, will launch digitally on July 23 across PC, PlayStation® 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation® 4 and Xbox One for £29.99/$34.99/€34.99. Players will return to the role of F1® Team Principal, where they can choose to design their own constructor and bring an eleventh team to the grid in the new Create A Team mode, take the hotseat at an existing Formula 1® team in Career mode or re-write the real-world 2024 season in Race Replay.

Players who pre-order ahead of launch will receive an additional exclusive Create A Team preset livery replicating the F1® 2024 Show Car. Those wanting to enhance their experience with F1® Manager 2024: Deluxe Edition will also receive 10% off the suggested retail price of £39.99/$44.99/€44.99. Deluxe Edition further expands fans’ creative options with five additional classically inspired patterns, providing additional Create A Team livery options, whilst an additional five fictional Race Replay scenarios offer unique single-race challenges.

For the first time, fans can live out their ultimate fantasy by bringing their own team to life, with customisable livery and logo creation tools giving them control of their team’s unique branding. Team Origins provide total customisation of their team’s starting conditions, whether they choose to enter as a total newcomer, or to target an immediate spot amongst the title contenders with major investment and an all-star line-up. Team Principals must also directly manage their stable of sponsors to deliver both engagement opportunities and results to bolster marketability and attract future support.

At the pinnacle of motorsport, F1® Team Principals are responsible for ensuring every individual is motivated and believes in their ability to achieve their goals amidst fierce competition. With the introduction of the all new Mentality System, players will have greater understanding than ever before into the personal ambitions and characters of their team. Managing people and personalities, Team Principals will see the impact of their decisions directly influence drivers and staff mentality; prioritising one car’s performance risks building an inter-team rivalry. Failure to keep their stars happy will present rivals with opportunities to poach talent, disrupting the team’s trajectory towards the top.

Building their legacy across multiple generations, Team Principals can secure rising stars by recruiting them to the new Affiliates system, allowing young drivers to continue their careers in F2™ and F3™ whilst receiving training and development from the player’s F1® team. Fans can experience this evolution of the sport across multiple seasons and plot their own route to the top with the option to simulate entire races, build their credentials in the paddock by making the leap to a competitor, or adjust their challenge with difficulty settings.

Across each visually enhanced circuit on the official 2024 race calendar, fans will aim to execute the perfect strategy; instructing their drivers to extract every millisecond of performance. As tyre wear and temperatures increase, so too does the risk of an incident. Much like their real-world counterparts, players will need to think tactically as they strive to mitigate and capitalise on the ever-evolving challenges and opportunities mechanical failures bring. Players can choose to watch the action unfold from a range of immersive camera angles; feeling the rush of acceleration with Visor-cam, directing the race from trackside and onboard cameras or even taking to the skies with the debut of the strategic Heli-cam view as the simulation brings the racing action to life with greater realism.

F1® Manager 2024 will launch on July 23 on PC, PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation®4 and Xbox One for a suggested retail price of £29.99/$34.99/€34.99, with the Deluxe Edition available for a suggested retail price of £39.99/$44.99/€44.99. Fans who pre-order Deluxe Edition will receive 10% off the suggested retail price.

Blade Runner RPG Replicant Rebellion – Kickstarter Announcement

Free League Publishing has announced that a Kickstarter for Replicant Rebellion, a mammoth expansion for the award-winning Blade Runner: The Roleplaying Game, is launching on May 28, 2024!

Replicant Rebellion massively expands the scope of the critically acclaimed tabletop RPG, recruiting players to join the ranks of the Replicant Underground in Los Angeles 2037. Set at the same time and place as the Core Rulebook, players explore this neon-noir cityscape from the opposite perspective – now running from Blade Runners in an evocative cat & mouse race of provocateurs and powder kegs lit to explode, expose, and oppose the establishment, one way or another.

For the Rebellion, players will run their own independent crew who must undertake a variety of operations, all while attempting to maintain their cover and keep their records clean. Are they helping fugitive Replicants evade capture? Sabotaging the Replicant trade? Grappling with the cops, courts, and megacorps? Clashing with warring crews and syndicates? Smoking out moles in your midst? In this big city of dazzling lights and moral contradictions, Replicant Rebellion flips the famous script of the beloved Blade Runner universe and dares you to explore how much you’re willing to lose for a cause that’s sacrificing it all. Yet regardless the price, the Rebellion must live on.

This Kickstarter campaign also offers an Asset Pack for use with both Replicant Rebellion and the core game. The Asset Pack includes a host of physical and digital handouts and tools for the Game Runner to create their own Case Files and Operations.

Find out more and sign up at the Replicant Rebellion Kickstarter Page here.

The Kickstarter will be launched on May 28th at 6:00 am US Pacific Time (9 am US Eastern, 3 pm Central European). Backers and retailers alike eager to enlist should visit the Kickstarter pre-launch page and sign up to be notified the moment the campaign goes live. If successfully funded, all backers will get the PDF version of Replicant Rebellion months ahead of the official release. All backers who pledge levels with physical rewards within the first 24 hours will receive a bonus item to be revealed soon.

  • An in-depth overview of the history and organization of the Replicant Underground, charting its presence throughout the Blade Runner Universe.
  • Detailed guidelines on how to play a Replicant Underground campaign, including several new player character archetypes and various new rules, such as maintaining Covers and sweating the Heat as the law closes in.
  • Several complete Operations (i.e., full adventures) to play for a crew in the Replicant Underground.

Frostpunk 2 SAPPHIRE AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT Announced

11 bit studios, the creators of Frostpunk 2, the anticipated sequel to the bestselling city-builder, and SAPPHIRE Technology, engineering innovative graphics products, are thrilled to blow frozen air into the market of graphic cards.

Designed with the reflection of Frostpunk 2 themes, SAPPHIRE AMD Radeon™ RX 7700 XT contains a frosty-white fan shroud and an oil-black metal backplate with rusty accents. In the box, players will also find exclusive extras: three enamel pins, three keyboard keycaps, a keycap puller, and a PC code for the Deluxe Edition of Frostpunk 2.

Like frosty winds on the streets of New London, the card’s Tri-X Cooling Technology ensures that three white-coloured fans provide quiet and efficient cooling by creating a double layer of downward air pressure. The latest AMD RDNA™ 3 chiplet architecture provides performance even in the harshest realities, with strong gaming performance in AAA titles at Quad HD resolution.

Frostpunk 2 arrives on PC and through PC Games Pass on the 25th of July.
SAPPHIRE PURE AMD Radeon™ RX 7700 XT Frostpunk 2 Edition, 12 GB Specs:

GPU Architecture
  • AMD RDNA™ 3
Stream Processors
  • 3456
Core clocks
  • Boost Clock up to 2584 MHz
  • Game Clock up to 2226 MHz
Ray Accelerators
  • 54
AMD Infinity Cache™
  • 48 MB
Compute Units
  • 54 CUs
Memory Size/Bus/Clock
  • 12 GB / 192 bit GDDR6 / 18 Gbps
Displays
  • Maximum 4 displays, each with resolution up to 7680 x 4320 px
Interface
  • PCI-Express 4.0 x16
Video output
  • 2x HDMI 2.1a
  • 2x DisplayPort 2.1 UHBR 13.5
BIOS Support
  • UEFI
Frostpunk 2 Features
  • Metal Backplate with Frostpunk 2 Graphics
  • 3 Keyboard Keycaps
  • 3 Enamel Pins
  • Frostpunk 2 Deluxe Edition Game Code
  • Product package with Frostpunk 2 theme
  • ARGB SAPPHIRE Logo (set to Orange default colour)
PURE Features
  • White Fans and Fan Shroud
  • Premium Digital Power Design
  • Ultra High-Performance Conductive Polymer Aluminum Capacitors
  • Fuse Protection
  • High TG Copper PCB
  • Optimized Composite Heatpipe
  • Intelligent Fan Control
  • Precision Fan Control
  • Angular Velocity Fan Blades
  • TriXX Supported
  • TriXX Boost
  • White Graphics Card Supporter
AMD Features
  • DirectX 12 Ultimate Support
  • DisplayPort™ 2.1 Support
  • AMD Radiance Display™ Engine
  • AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution technology*
  • Microsoft® DirectX® 12 Ultimate Support
  • Microsoft® DirectStorage Support
  • Vulkan® Optimized
  • AMD Smart Technologies
  • AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™
  • AMD Noise Suppression
  • AMD Privacy View
  • AMD Radeon™ Super Resolution technology
  • AMD FreeSync™ Technology*
Cooling
  • Tri-X Cooling
  • Two-Ball Bearing fans
Size
  • 2.5 slot, ATX
  • 320 x 128.75 x 52.57 mm
Power Consumption
  • 240 W Total Board Power
OS
  • Linux®, Windows 10 or 11
  • 64-bit operating system required
System Requirements
  • 700 Watt Power Supply
  • 2x 8-pin PCI Express® Power Connector
  • PCI Express® x16 lane graphics slot
  • Minimum 8 GB RAM, 16 GB recommended

Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire Coming to Meta Quest

Today, Schell Games announced that Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire, the spine-chilling jumpscare VR game, will launch on June 6, 2024, for Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest Pro, and Meta Quest 3 headsets. Eager vampire slayers can pre-order the game for $19.99 USD now on the Meta Quest Store. Those who pre-order before June 6 will receive a 10% discount.

Schell Games also unveiled an eerie mixed-reality trailer giving viewers a peek behind the curtain at the castle’s dark interior, the toolset that slayers can use to quietly disarm traps, and the fanged foes that lie in wait. Witness the heart-pounding action of what’s to come in the mixed-reality trailer here:

In Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire, players assume the mantle of a persistent vampire hunter with a mission: eliminate a dormant evil residing in a grand castle. As slayers navigate treacherous traps and perilous puzzles, they must carefully dismantle devious defenses, and strike precisely to defeat undead adversaries.

Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire Key Features:

  • Vicious Vampires – Prepare to face enemies with distinct peculiarities and inclinations.
  • Tactical Tools – Killing vampires is arduous; players will require many unique items to eliminate the monstrosities.
  • Jumpscares Galore – Tension builds with every move. Only the bravest of souls will prevail.
  • Devilish Distractions – Only slayers who maintain unwavering focus and a steady hand will have the resilience to conquer these unsettling diversions.
  • A Twisting Tale – In the end, slayers must come to terms with their fate, souls be damned.

Mute Witness and American Gigolo Newly Restored on 4K UHD

On June 11th, director Anthony Waller’s cult horror classic Mute Witness arrives in both 4K UHD and Blu-ray Limited Edition sets featuring a 4K restoration approved by Waller himself (An American Werewolf in Paris). The plot revolves around a mute make-up artist named Billy Hughes, who is in Russia working on a low-budget slasher film. Working late one night in the studio, Billy wanders onto an adult film set and witnesses a murder. She goes on the run but quickly realizes that there is nowhere to turn as friends and family cannot protect her against the Russian mob, corrupt police officers, and the KGB. Waller’s audacious thriller is a stylish ode to the work of Hitchcock featuring Sir Alec Guinness (Star Wars) in his final role.

The 4K UHD and Blu-ray editions feature two audio commentaries, two visual essays, archival interviews, original scouting footage, original footage with Alec Guinness, trailers, and an image gallery.

View the trailer here:

On June 18th, Paul Schrader’s stylish neo-noir crime drama American Gigolo makes its debut on 4K UHD and Blu-ray in Limited Edition sets featuring a brand new 4K remaster from the original negative. Julian (a mesmerizing Richard Gere, in his breakthrough performance), a high-priced male escort, has the perfect car, the perfect wardrobe, the perfect house, and the perfect life. He desires the same lifestyle that his elite clients enjoy, but that desire turns to jealousy and one of his clients ends up dead. The drama builds as Julian realizes he’s being framed for the murder and races to prove his innocence.

American Gigolo was shot by John Bailey (In the Line of Fire, The Big Chill), and features music by Golden Globe nominee for Best Original Score, Giorgio Moroder, who co-wrote “Call Me,” the film’s signature theme song by Blondie. The costuming by Giorgio Armani defined the era of disco and 80s extravagance and is widely credited for establishing the designer’s brand in North America. Featuring performances by Lauren Hutton, Bill Duke, and Héctor Elizondo.

The 4K UHD and Blu-ray editions feature an audio commentary, seven brand new interviews with cast and crew, original trailer, and more.

View the trailer here:

Way of The Hunter Outfits Pack Trailer

Time to hunt in style – the new Outfits Pack DLC is available now. Explore the wilderness in the attire of a traditional Slovak hunter or a distinguished gentleman! The DLC includes one original costume for each character – River, April, Wallace, Jackie, and Malachi, all usable in Free Hunt and Multiplayer mode.

Along with the Outfits Pack, on May 16th, a new patch for Way of the Hunter will be released on all platforms, introducing numerous tweaks, improvements, and fixes to the game. Anticipate enhanced controller support on PC, several new parking spots scattered throughout Nez Perce Valley and Transylvania, and more.

Check the full patch notes here: https://thqnordic.com/article/way-hunter-patch-125…

The Outfits Pack DLC is available now for an SRP of € 4.99 / $ 4.99 / £ 3.99. Owners of Map Pack 2 will receive the Outfits Pack DLC on launch day free of charge! The base game is required to play the DLC. Way of the Hunter is available for PC, PlayStation®5, and Xbox Series X|S at an SRP of $ 39.99 / € 39.99 / £ 34.99.

Way of the Hunter – Map Pack 2
The Way of the Hunter Map Pack 2 includes two new region DLCs as well as the Outfits Pack DLC. Each new map is 64 square kilometers / 25 square miles and comes with new wildlife, story and features. The first new region has already been released: Matariki Park lets you explore New Zealand with a brand new story, many new animal species, and a premium portable stand. The second new region DLC will be released in Summer 2024.

The Map Pack 2 is available at an SRP of $ 19.99 / € 19.99 / £ 15.99.

Die by the Blade | Official Launch Trailer

Slovakian indie development and publishing company Grindstone is thrilled to announce that the highly anticipated one-hit-kill multiplayer sword fighting game Die by the Blade launches for PC today via Steam and the Epic Games Store for $19.99USD / £16.99GBP / €19,99EUR. Console releases will follow in October 2024.

Vanquish your foes with a single strike in this brutal and unforgiving 1v1 weapon-based fighting game. Dive into a samuraipunk world and wield a range of traditional Japanese weapons to determine your moveset. Outwit your opponent in intense, tactical battles and master the art of the one-hit-kill!

Die by the Blade is a 1v1 weapons-focused fighter where the difference between victory and death lies in a single strike of the blade. Choose your weapon and character combination freely to define your moveset, then do battle in neon-soaked back alleys and ancient forests. Take up arms and crush your friends in local or online multiplayer, or test your skills against unknown warriors in online ranked matches.

Die by the Blade is a game with no health bars — every strike can mean death. Victory in these tense, all-or-nothing matches will depend on your ability to read your opponent, parry and avoid their attacks, and exploit their mistakes at a moment’s notice. There is no room for error.

Your moveset is determined by your weapon rather than your choice of character. Will you sacrifice your speed for the powerful two-handed nodachi? Or will you overwhelm your enemy with a flurry of strikes from the nimble katana?

Choose your favourite from among a range of diverse characters, or mould them into your ideal warrior through in-depth character and weapon customization features. Each character also features minor stat changes to suit certain playstyles.

Die by the Blade is set in a samuraipunk world that fuses traditional Japanese aesthetics with cyberpunk culture.

Fight in the neon-soaked streets of the inner city or among the snowy fields of the Japanese countryside. Don historically inspired armour or kit your character out with a cybernetic mask. Each character and weapon features dozens of components, allowing you to perfectly express your personal style on the battlefield.

House Flipper 2 AMD FSR 3 Update Trailer

Frozen District, the creative minds behind the beloved House Flipper series, are thrilled to announce the latest update for House Flipper 2, now integrating AMD’s revolutionary FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) technology. This update will elevate the gaming experience with unprecedented graphical fidelity and performance enhancements. Are you curious about how FSR 3 transforms House Flipper 2? Check out our latest video demonstration, showcasing the technology in action. See the stunning visual improvements and performance boosts firsthand on the video below.

Experience FSR 3 in Action.
Check out the Steam page (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1190970/House_Flipper_2/), PlayStation Store (https://store.playstation.com/en-ca/concept/10006545), and Microsoft Store (https://www.xbox.com/en-CA/games/store/house-flipper-2/9n67z2d5phw2) for more details about the game.

Prime Video Announces New Tomb Raider Series

Today, Prime Video announced it has ordered a new series based on the iconic Tomb Raider video game franchise as part of a deal between Crystal Dynamics and Amazon MGM Studios. The series will be written and produced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

This exciting news comes after Crystal Dynamics and Amazon Games previously announced a collaboration to develop and publish a new multiplatform Tomb Raider video game. The as-yet untitled game is a single-player, narrative-driven adventure that will add a new chapter to Lara Croft’s story in the Tomb Raider series.

“With great IP, the possibilities are endless. The richness and depth of the fiction allows the Tomb Raider series from Prime Video and the video game from Amazon Games to tell separate stories about Lara Croft’s adventures.” said Christoph Hartmann, VP of Amazon Games. ”We’re honored that Crystal Dynamics has entrusted Amazon with this iconic franchise, and we’re looking forward to seeing where this collaboration takes us.”

We look forward to sharing more about both projects as they progress.

In the meantime, Amazon Prime members can claim Tomb Raider: Game of the Year Edition on PC via GOG, available throughout May. Check out the Prime Gaming May content update for full details on all of the great offers available to members this month.