Weekly Recap: Call of Duty Infinite Warfare and Battlefield 1 Revealed, Nvidia GTX 1080 Announced

Recap!

Did you step away this week? Here's a roundup of some of the biggest stories and others you may have missed.

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Infinite Warfare, Revealed

After rumors, reports, leaks, and teasers, Activision officially announced Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare on Monday. One of the biggest differences from past games is that this one is set in space--partially, at least. There is dogfighting, zero-G combat, and more. Coming November 4 for PS4, Xbox One, PC.

Battlefield 5 Is Battlefield 1

The sequel to Battlefield 4 is not called Battlefield 5. EA announced this week that the game is called Battlefield 1, as it's set in World War 1. It sounds very cool and very ambitious.

New Heights

Windows 10 continues to soar. Microsoft's latest operating system has now reached 300 million installs across all devices--PCs, Xbox Ones, and phones. Additionally, people have spent 9 billion hours playing games on Windows 10 devices to date. One more thing: the free upgrade offer expires on July 29, so upgrade now before it's too late.

The World's Best GPU, According to Nvidia

Nvidia this week announced a new GPU called the GeForce GTX 1080. It's the beefiest GPU on the planet, the company said during a news event on Friday night. Thousands of engineers worked on it; altogether, the R&D budget was "several billion dollars," Nvidia's CEO said .

Dawn of War 3, Detailed

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 3, the first new, numbered entry in the RTS series since 2009, was announced this week. PC Gamer spoke with the development team at Relic about it and there is a lot to know about what is being called Relic's biggest game ever! Check out PC Gamer's story here.

"Recognize All eSports As 'Legitimate' Sports"

People are calling on the White House to recognize eSports as a "traditional" sport so athletes can get a Visa to get into the country. It needs 100,000 signatures to get a response from the White House, and so far, it has 51,000. You can read the petition for yourself here.

Wow

Here's a video of an epic Fallout battle where some 30,000 robots duke it out. My goodness, take a look and be amazed/scared. The action starts a few minutes in. As you might have guessed, YouTube's Cosmic Contrarian, maker of other mass-scale Fallout battle videos, is also behind this one.

Go watch it here.

Game Fest

Microsoft has announced a new Xbox One indie game promotion called ID@Xbox Fest. This is a month-long event where Microsoft will highlight some top indie titles; you can get the rundown on what to expect here.

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