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The action-driven, all-out warfare gameplay in Battlefield 3TM gets a massive boost this March as gamers engage in high-speed combat across four distinct maps in the all-new Battlefield 3TM: End Game digital expansion pack. Players can race through enemy lines using the new dirt bike, bringing speed and agility to the battlefield, or fight back aerial assaults with the new lightweight AA vehicles. Coordinate lightning fast attacks and defenses or take to the sky and engage in massive dog fights in the return of the two classic Battlefield game modes – Capture the Flag and Air Superiority. Buckle up, it’s time for battle!

The action-driven, all-out warfare gameplay in Battlefield 3TM gets a massive boost this March as gamers engage in high-speed combat across four distinct maps in the all-new Battlefield 3TM: End Game digital expansion pack. Players can race through enemy lines using the new dirt bike, bringing speed and agility to the battlefield, or fight back aerial assaults with the new lightweight AA vehicles. Coordinate lightning fast attacks and defenses or take to the sky and engage in massive dog fights in the return of the two classic Battlefield game modes – Capture the Flag and Air Superiority. Buckle up, it’s time for battle!
Check out the debut Battlefield 3: End Game trailer here:

Fans looking to get the most out of their experience on the battlefield have that opportunity with Battlefield 3TM Premium. An innovative offering that provides members all five themed digital expansion packs including Battlefield 3TM: Back to Karkand, Battlefield 3TM:Close Quarters, Battlefield 3TM: Armored Kill, Battlefield 3TM: Aftermath as well as two week early access to Battlefield 3TM: End Game. These five digital expansion packs provide 20 new maps and weapons, over 10 new vehicles and 4 new game modes to the Battlefield 3 experience.

Members will also receive a host of unique in-game items not available anywhere else, including the ACB-90 knife, a set of dog tags, and exclusive soldier and weapon camos. Battlefield 3 Premium members also gain access to powerful Battlelog features such as the ability to reset stats, queue priority into servers, and new decals for Platoon emblem – all for a one-time fee of $64.95 on PlayStation 3 and PC and for 4000 MS Points on Xbox 360. Whether players are looking to stand out with unique in-game items, early game access, or to use powerful new features, Battlefield 3 Premium delivers an unprecedented multiplayer experience.

 
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New details release for PS Vita exclusives Killzone: Mercenary and Tearaway

Killzone: Mercenary is a new first-person shooter in the Killzone series, developed specifically for the PlayStation Vita platform and powered by the stunning Killzone 3 engine.

Starting just after the ending of the original Killzone, and revisiting many of the events from the Killzone trilogy, the game puts players in the rugged combat boots of a mercenary named Arran Danner. Danner is a former UCA-soldier who has no qualms about taking on paid contracts from the ISA as well as the Helghast.

When a seemingly routine mission to evacuate the Vektan Ambassador and his family in Pyrrhus goes awry, Danner discovers that the outcome of the war could very well depend on the fate of the Ambassador’s young son. With both sides going through increasingly desperate lengths to get hold of the boy, he begins to wonder whether the price of victory is really worth the paycheck.

Killzone: Mercenary is set to launch in stores across Australia on 19th September 2013.

Click HERE to view the all new gameplay trailer.

Click HERE for more gameplay details.

Tearaway

Just one of the stops you’ll make as you go on your deliver adventure in the world of Tearaway is Sogport!  Sogport is a mysterious island marooned in a deep sea of glue, and inhabited by some very fishy gold with a fearful obsession with the island’s monstrous local wildlife.

Click HERE to view the all new trailer.

Click HERE for more details.

And finally…

Click HERE to be the first to know.  #playstation2013

 
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GRID2 Street Date

Friday, February 1st  – Codemasters® today announced that GRID® 2™, the long-awaited sequel to the BAFTA-award winning, critically acclaimed Race Driver: GRID™, will race into Australian & New Zealand stores on May 30th for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC.

Codemasters has also announced a range of pre-order bonus items for GRID 2 with extra content, redeemable via download on PlayStation Network, Xbox LIVE® for Xbox 360 and Windows PC, illustrated in screenshots also released today. Check with your local retailer for their latest preorder offers.

GRID 2 will challenge players to be fast, be first and be famous. Going behind the wheel of a handpicked selection of automotive icons spanning four decades, gamers will race their way to the top of a new, evolving world of motorsport. From Paris to Abu Dhabi, Chicago to the sun-kissed California coast and beyond, beautifully created city streets, licensed circuits and edge-of-control mountain roads will become home to the most visceral and exhilarating racing yet.

GRID 2 will also set new standards for a racing multiplayer experience with an entirely distinct and extensive gameplay component and unique progression system. Deep customisation options and integration with RaceNet – the online community portal for Codemasters Racing games which tracks player’s races, rewards and rivals – will offer further immersion and connectivity in GRID 2’s new world of motorsport.

Fans can keep up with all the latest updates straight from the studio by speeding over to http://www.gridgame.com and www.facebook.com/gridgame or follow the team at www.twitter.com/gridgame.

 
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World War Z – Official TV spot

 
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BlackBerry 10 Platform Launches on Two New Smartphones

Jan 30, 2013

Waterloo, ON – BlackBerry® (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today launched BlackBerry® 10, the re-designed, re-engineered, and re-invented BlackBerry platform that creates a new and unique mobile computing experience. Available on two new LTE-enabled smartphones, the BlackBerry® Z10 (all-touch) and BlackBerry® Q10 (touch with physical keyboard) smartphones powered by BlackBerry 10 offer you a faster, smarter and smoother experience than any other BlackBerry you have used before.

BlackBerry unveiled the new BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 smartphones at events held simultaneously in New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Dubai, and Johannesburg.

“Today sees a re-invented BlackBerry launching an entirely new mobile experience,” said Thorsten Heins, President and CEO of BlackBerry. “We are thrilled to be introducing BlackBerry 10 on the new BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 smartphones, to deliver a faster, smarter experience that continuously adapts to your needs.  Every feature, every gesture, and every detail in BlackBerry 10 is designed to keep you moving.”

Highlights of BlackBerry 10

BlackBerry 10 is a robust and reliable platform that is smooth and responsive. It has a modern design and a gesture-based interface that is highly discoverable. It is designed to support, learn, and adapt to the way you work and share with features like:

  • The ever      present BlackBerry® Hub, which is a single place to manage all your      conversations whether personal or work email, BBM™ messages, social media      updates or notifications, and the ability to “peek” into the BlackBerry      Hub from anywhere, so you’re always only one swipe away from what matters      to you.
  • BlackBerry®      Flow, where the BlackBerry 10 experience excels by enabling features and      apps to flow seamlessly together, helping you complete the task at hand      effortlessly and efficiently. For example, you can tap on an attendee      listed for a meeting to see their latest tweet or LinkedIn profile. Or tap      the thumbnail of a picture you just took to launch the Picture editor and      quickly apply a transformation or filter, then instantly share it with      your contacts.
  • A keyboard      that understands and adapts to you, that learns what words you use and how      you use them, then offers them up to you so you can type faster and more      accurately.
  • BBM      (BlackBerry® Messenger), which allows you to share things with the people      that matter to you in an instant. BBM in BlackBerry 10 includes voice      calling and video chat, and introduces the ability to share your screen      with another BlackBerry 10 contact.
  • BlackBerry®      Balance™ technology, which elegantly separates and secures work      applications and data from personal content on BlackBerry devices.
  • Time      Shift, an astonishing camera feature that lets you capture a group shot      where everyone is smiling with their eyes wide open. Story Maker, which      lets you bring a collection of photos and videos together, along with      music and effects, to produce an HD movie that you can instantly share.
  • The new      BlackBerry 10 browser, which sets the industry benchmark for HTML5 support      on smartphones, is incredibly fast. Scrolling or zooming is fluid and      responsive. The browser includes many advanced features, supports multiple      tabs, lets you browse sites privately, includes a reader mode, and integrates      with the platform for easily sharing content.
  • BlackBerry®      Remember, which combines memos, tasks and much more into a single      experience. It helps you organise and manage information you have on your      smartphone around projects or ideas, letting you collect content such as      websites, emails, photos, documents, and other files, and then like a      To-Do list, lets you create tasks, assign due dates, and track your      progress. If your BlackBerry 10 smartphone is set up with a work account,      your Microsoft® Outlook® Tasks will automatically be wirelessly synced      with BlackBerry Remember.  If you have configured an Evernote account      with your smartphone, BlackBerry Remember will sync Evernote workbooks as      well.
  • BlackBerry®      Safeguard technology that helps protect what is important to you, and the      business you work for.
  • Built-in      support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync® so your BlackBerry Z10 or      BlackBerry Q10 smartphone can be simply connected and managed as other      ActiveSync devices in a company, or enabled with BlackBerry® Enterprise      Service 10 to gain secure access to work email, “behind the firewall”      applications and data, and benefit from other security and enterprise      mobility management features.
  • The      BlackBerry® World™ storefront, which now includes 70,000 BlackBerry 10      apps and one of the most robust music and video catalogs in mobile today –      with most movies coming to the store the same day they are released on      DVD. In addition, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Foursquare apps for      BlackBerry 10 are preinstalled, and BlackBerry 10 customers will have      access to leading applications from across the globe. Leading application      providers including Disney, Cisco, Foursquare, Skype and Rovio have      committed to the platform.

“At Foursquare, we are extremely excited to launch our new BlackBerry 10 application and to continue developing on the platform,” said Dennis Crowley, Co-Founder and CEO of Foursquare. “Our team built the app just for BlackBerry 10, and the result is an amazing Foursquare Explore experience to help people around the world make the most of where they are.”

“We’re delighted to bring Angry Birds Star Wars to BlackBerry fans around the world,” said Petri Järvilehto, EVP of Games, at Rovio. “It’s a great platform that gives a fantastic gaming experience, so fans can experience the struggle of Rebel Birds vs. Imperial Pigs to the fullest!”

“Bringing Where’s My Water? and Where’s My Perry? to BlackBerry 10 smartphones will introduce some of Disney’s most popular mobile games to new audiences,” said Tim O’Brien, VP of Business Development, Disney Games. “The new BlackBerry 10 platform is an exciting opportunity to expand Disney’s network of mobile players.”

“We’re proud to extend Cisco’s WebEx technology to the BlackBerry 10 platform letting customers of any size join, start, view content, and stay connected to WebEx meetings right from their BlackBerry 10 smartphone,” said Raj Gossain, Vice President of Product Management, Cloud Collaboration Applications Technology Group at Cisco. “Our customers access Cisco collaboration capabilities, such as instant messaging, IP voice calling and conferencing on BlackBerry smartphones to stay connected anywhere, anytime, and with anyone. RIM and Cisco have worked together to develop an application that is user friendly and meets the needs of our global customers.”

“We are excited about our plans to bring Skype to smartphones running the brand new BlackBerry 10 platform,” said Bob Rosin, VP & GM of Business Development for Microsoft’s Skype division. “We are working closely with BlackBerry to ensure Skype runs great on BlackBerry 10 devices. This will give BlackBerry 10 users a great Skype experience, including free voice and video calling, sending instant messages and text messages, sharing photos, videos and files, and calling to landlines and mobiles at Skype’s low rates.”

BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 Smartphones

The new BlackBerry 10 smartphones are elegant and distinctive, and the fastest, most advanced BlackBerry smartphones yet. They feature 1.5 Ghz dual core processors with 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, and an expandable memory card slot. They include the latest enhancements in high density pixel and screen technology to display clear, sharp, and incredibly vivid images. Both feature a micro HDMI out port for presentations, and advanced sensors such NFC (near field communications) to support mobile payments and the exchange of information with a tap of the smartphone. They also have a removable battery.

Models of the BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 will be available from carriers to support their respective 4G LTE or HSPA+ networks, and all the available models include connectivity support for global roaming. The BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 smartphones will also each come in White and Black. For more information about the new BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 smartphones powered by BlackBerry 10 please visit www.blackberry.com/blackberry10

A range of accessories for the new BlackBerry 10 smartphones, including the new BlackBerry® Mini Stereo Speaker as well as a variety of carrying and charging solutions including a unique charger that provides on-the-go charging, will be available from select carriers and retailers.

Pricing and Availability

Worldwide, we have several key markets that are revealing pricing and availability today, including the UK, Canada and UAE.

  • In the UK,      the BlackBerry Z10 will be available beginning tomorrow on pay monthly      contracts and pre-pay plans from EE, O2, Vodafone, Phones 4u, BT, 3UK and      the Carphone Warehouse. BlackBerry Z10 smartphones will be available fully      subsidized on competitive monthly pay contracts. Price points will vary      according to carriers and retail partners.
  • In Canada,      the BlackBerry Z10 will be available on February 5th. Pricing will vary by      carrier partner, but it will retail for around $149.99 on a 3 year      contract.
  • In the      UAE, the BlackBerry Z10 will be available on February 10th. Pricing will      vary by carrier partner, but unsubsidised it will retail for AED      2,599.
  • In the      U.S. market, we expect availability with most carriers for the BlackBerry      Z10 to be in March. Today, U.S. carriers will start announcing      pre-registration and price plans.

Many of our global partners have already launched or will be launching pre-registration and pre-order sites today.

We expect the first global carriers to launch the BlackBerry Q10 in April. We will announce new pricing and availability information as carriers roll-out around the world.

 
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Yahoo Accounts Hijacked via XSS-Type Attack

SYDNEY/AUCKLAND – January 31, 2013 – Popular webmail provider Yahoo has been slammed with a new e-mail-based attack that seizes control of victims’ accounts. Bitdefender Labs discovered the ongoing campaign today and are once again warning users about the dangers of clicking spammy links.

The account hijacking begins with a spam message with a short link to an apparently harmless session of the reliable news channel MSNBC (hxxp://www.msnbc.msn.com-im9.net[removed]).

A closer look at the real link reveals that the true domain is not part of MSNBC, but a crafty domain composed of subdomains at hxxp://com-im9.net.

The domain was registered in Ukraine on Jan 27 and is hosted in a data center in Nicosia, Cyprus. This page contains a piece of malicious JavaScript, disguised as the popular Lightbox library that will perform the attack in stage 2.

Before we proceed, let’s see what cookie theft is all about: security on the web is based on what we call the same-origin policy, a complex mechanism that won’t allow Site A to access resources of Site B, such as cookies. Cookies are small snippets of text created when the user logs into a system, and they are used to (among other things) remember that the account holder has already passed the authentication once. Otherwise, the user will have to log in whenever they read another e-mail or when they navigate from one page to another. So, in this context, it is obvious that a piece of code running on Site A can’t steal a cookie set by Site B. However, a subdomain of Site B can access the resources of Site B, and this is what the attackers did.

The second stage of the attack is focused on the Yahoo Developers Blog (developers.yahoo.com), which conveniently uses a buggy version of WordPress. More to the point, they exploit the SWF Uploader of the WordPress platform at http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/wp-includes/js/swfupload/swfupload.swf. It has a security flaw known as CVE-2012-3414 (by the way, it has been patched since WordPress version 3.3.2).

Since it is located on a sub-domain of the yahoo.com website, all the attackers need to do is trigger the bug and pass a command that steals the cookie, and then send it “home”.

At this point, miscreants have full access to the victim’s contact list until the current session expires or the user logs out. Crooks will either spam the contacts in the stolen lists (which may include friends, family, business contacts, and professors) or use these contacts to send spam e-mails and/or malware in the name of the crook. 

Why is your account important for crooks?

If you are asking yourselves why crooks take an interest in your e-mail accounts and harvest the e-mail addresses of your friends, the answer is simple. To send more spam.

Miscreants cannot register accounts automatically on webmail providers such as Yahoo, Google, Hotmail and the like because registrants need to fill in CAPTCHA. It takes time, and real people, to type the signs in. That, in turn, costs money. Stealing active accounts is a cost-effective way for an operator to automate attacks and, at the same time, allows them to read your contacts and get more victims.

What’s to be done?

Log out from your e-mail accounts every time you’re done reading or writing your e-mails.

Never click on links in spam e-mails.

Keep your antivirus and software updated.

All product and company names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners.

 
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Indie Development: Exploring the Fringe Unclassified 15+

Indie Development: Exploring the Fringe Unclassified 15+

Tuesday 26 March 2013, 7.00pm

Full $15 Concession $12 ACMI Member $11

www.acmi.net.au 

Take gaming exploration to the next level at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) this March when Re:Play returns for 2013.

On Tuesday 26 March, Re:Play will explore what it means to be an independent developer at the fringes of the mainstream and beyond in Indie Development: Exploring the Fringe.

Away from the corporations and the studios, the economic imperatives and the metacritic, the focus group and the accepted wisdom, are developers intent on being truly independent – and, in doing so, exploring their own personal passions, art and experiences?

Being independent means more than not relying on someone else to pay the bills. It also carries with it a certain aesthetic, a certain outlook and a certain way of exploring the fringes of being creative. Just as the major film studios set up independent divisions, so has the idea of what it means to be an independent game developer initiated the process of being co-opted by the industrial system, turning it into something distinctly softer, safer and perhaps more palatable.

The panel will convene for a night of discussion, game play and live music as we set out to map the outer fringes of game development, far from the mainstream, and step beyond the known into what might lie beyond.

Co-curated by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and Freeplay, Re:Play is a series of talks about videogames and everything else features live music, musings and memorabilia.

The Re:Play program brings together a host of game developers, critics, writers, academics and other industry experts as they explore questions of convergence, play and what gaming culture means today.

For more information and to book, www.acmi.net.au

 
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RE: Vice City Now Available on PSN

Today, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City has officially joined the other two iconic chapters of the Grand Theft Auto trilogy in the PlayStation Store.

Available as part of the PS2 Classics collection (AUD$15.95/ NZD$18.90), Vice City is the story of Tommy Vercetti’s rise to the top of the criminal underworld that pushed the open world game series deeper into popular culture with its vibrant over-the-top take on Miami, stunning celebrity voice cast and loving, satirical look at the cultural excesses of the ‘80s.

Stay tuned for future announcements on additional Rockstar titles being added to the PS2 Classics collection very soon.

 
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Episode 5 – “The Perfect Weapon” – 7 Wonders of Crysis 3 Video

Tailors will tell you that the suit makes the man. Stand back and gape in awe as Prophet dons the Nanosuit, the most incredible combat suit ever created.

 
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FLIGHT – released in cinemas today – New Clip – “Uncontrolled Dive”

 
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