Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast have released the “Know Your Magic” Trailer for Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013, launching in Australia and New Zealand on June 20, 2012, for iPad, Xbox LIVE Arcade, Steam and PlayStation Network.

Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 is part of the recently announced Magic: The Gathering 2013 product line-up featuring the Magic: The Gathering 2013 Core Set for the trading card game (TCG) and the Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 video game for iPad, Xbox LIVE Arcade, Steam and PlayStation Network platforms.

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image presents Late Bit

Late night live entertainment to coincide with Game Masters

6pm to 9pm each Thursday night

The Lightwell, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square

FREE!

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) will present a program of free live entertainment each Thursday evening to coincide with the extended opening hours of the Game Masters Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition. 

From 6pm each Thursday evening during the exhibition, visitors are invited to take their exhibition experience to the next level with a playful and eclectic program of games-inspired music, performances, gameplay and mingling.

On the first night of Game Masters, Thursday 28 June, the Late Bit will become a veritable playground of activity to celebrate the opening of the exhibition. Hosts of ABC TV’s Good Game, Bajo and Hex, will preside over a bumper evening of special appearances, friendly game tournaments, roving performers and a live music soundtrack by DJ Supermelody, Mintendo and Late Bit headliner Catcall.

Then, for three weeks, Two Bright Lakes DJs take up residency at Late Bit. Two Bright Lakes DJs – aka Blake Byron-Smith and Tig Huggins – are long-time music lovers and collectors, whose diverse, dance-worthy selections have been moving heads and feet for nearly a decade.

On Thursday 26 July, Late Bit is Levelled Up for ‘Versus’, a night to divide and conquer your senses. Exploring the concepts of Nerd vs Cool, Game vs Art or Sound vs Music, ‘Versus’ will see Two Bright Lakes DJs create a musical battleground with ambient pop troubadour Space Cactus and artful soundscape musician Guerre.

Taking up residency for four weeks in August is DJ Ms Butt who will bring her mix of global party tunes spanning reggae, dancehall, hip hop, disco, house, afrobeat, latin, calypso, soul, jazz, and more to Late Bit.

August will end with Late Bit’s tribute to ‘Game Girls’ – a Levelled Up night of female-centric view of games, gaming and music. The ‘Game Girls’ event will feature tunes by DJ Whiskey Houston, as well as live performances from local wunderkind Piklet and vintage synth darling Seja.

ACMI will extend gallery opening hours until 10pm on Thursday and Friday nights to accommodate evening visitors to Game Masters. Late Bit offers free live entertainment to accompany the exhibition experience on Thursday nights from 6pm to 9pm.

ACMI’s Late Bit season runs for the duration of the Game Masters Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition, on until 28 October. The program for September and October late nights will be announced in the coming months. For more information, please visit www.acmi.net.au/game-masters-late-bit

“Hoboken Blues”, the second chapter in the Max Payne 3 comic series produced by Marvel, is now available to read in its entirety and additionally downloadable as a PDF at www.rockstargames.com/maxpayne3/comics.

Grab the demo here: http://www.resonance-game.com/demo

Got questions? Well, here are some answers…

Story: Resonance is an adventure game five years in the making from indie developer Vince Twelve, with a little help from publisher Wadjet Eye Games. When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault. The suspicions they harbor, the memories they guard, the connections they share — all will converge as these four ordinary people work together to prevent a potentially cataclysmic disaster. The Resonance demo introduces the four characters and gives a glimpse into the tangled mystery that awaits.

Availability: Resonance will release for PC on June 19 from the official website at http://www.resonance-game.com as well as GOG.com. It will also be coming to Steam in the near future. Through the 19th, the game can be preordered as a download with digital goodies for $8.99, or as a boxed collector’s edition for $24.99 including free worldwide shipping. More details: http://www.resonance-game.com/preorder

MELBOURNE, Wednesday, 13^th June, 2012: Madman proudly presents the eagerly-anticipated third season of the best-selling Network Ten series, Offspring – starring Asher Keddie, two-time ‘Most Popular Actress’ Logie Award-winner – coming to DVD, 1^st August, 2012 ($49.95srp).

Nina Proudman is on cloud nine; she’s head-over-heels in love with Dr. Patrick Read, everything is smooth-sailing at work and Proudman family crises are refreshingly few and far between. But given the chaos of modern life, Nina can’t shake the feeling that her bliss is tempting fate. Is it all about to come crashing down around her?

From the award-winning producers of Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, Beaconsfield, The Secret Life of Us and Tangled, comes the latest instalment of this beloved Melbourne-based series – in which Nina, her family and friends will face some of the biggest challenges of their lives.

As well as Asher Keddie, Offspring boasts a stellar line up of Australian talent, including Kat Stewart (Underbelly), Deborah Mailman (The Secret Life of Us), John Waters (All Saints), Matthew Le Nevez (Howzat! Kerry Packer’s War) and comedian Eddie Perfect – plus special guest appearances by Garry McDonald (Mother & Son).

Offspring – The Complete Third Season features all 13 episodes, plus exclusive special features and all-new webisodes from the online spin-off series, The Nurses, in one complete DVD set.

Offspring – The Complete First and Second Season DVD sets will also be available in new slim-line packaging, at the new price point of $39.95srp each, 1^st August, 2012.

Offspring – The Complete Third Season comes to DVD, 1^st August, 2012 – $49.95srp.

13th June 2012

The Supanova Expo is a celebration of all things Pop Culture featuring special guests, anime, comic-books, manga, sci-fi, TV shows, movies, gaming, cosplay and more! Celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2012 means the show this June will be even bigger and more goodness filled than ever before!

Even better, if you’re heading to Supanova this weekend, Nintendo are hosting a Kid Icarus: Uprising Multiplayer Battle Challenge. Bring along your Nintendo 3DS and copy of Kid Icarus as it’s the perfect opportunity to StreetPass with other Nintendo 3DS owners and enjoy some friendly multiplayer fun with the Nintendo community.

Nintendo 3DS consoles and Kid Icarus: Uprising games will available to use on the day so everyone is welcome to join in the fun!

Exclusive Kid Icarus: Uprising AR Cards only available at this event will be a special bonus for those who play. These AR cards are very exclusive and availability is strictly limited so please ensure you are there early to ensure you get your hands on one.

Supanova 2012 – Sydney

When: 10am to 6pm, Saturday and Sunday June 16 – 17

Where: The Dome, Sydney Showground, Sydney Olympic Park

Kid Icarus Challenge times: Saturday and Sunday between 1pm – 5pm

Click here for more information on SupaNova

Click here for more information on Kid Icarus: Uprising

If you are not based in NSW, please keep your eyes peeled for future events on nintendo.com.au

Directed by Joe Carnahan (A-Team, Smokin’ Aces) and produced by Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Black Hawk Down), THE GREY is a gripping man-versus-nature action thriller.

CHOOSE
College student Fiona (Katheryn Winnick – TV’s Bones, Love and Other Drugs) is taunted by a mysterious online stalker and calls upon her detective father (Kevin Pollack – The Usual Suspects, A Few Good Men) for help. Together they uncover a trail of horrific murders in which the psychopathic killer forces his victims to choose between two equally dismal fates. As the case unfolds, Fiona realises she is much closer to the killer than she ever imagined…

THE SWELL SEASON
Life imitated art for Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová after their performance in the Academy Award winning film ONCE, and their onscreen romance became reality. But as the romantic music-duo embarked on a gruelling world tour, the challenges that awaited them would test the very essence of their relationship. Filmed in black and white, this music-filled documentary is an intimate look at the exhilaration and turmoil created by both love and fame.

BODYGUARD
After foiling an attempt on a business tycoon’s life, Lovely Singh (Salman Khan) is hired to guard the tycoon’s only daughter Divya (Kareena Kapoor). Irritated by Lovely’s constant presence, Divya devises a mischievous ruse to distract him from his duties and regain some freedom. Divya falls victim to her own plan as Lovely is forced into increasingly perilous situations to protect her.

Storage Foundation HA for Windows to provide business continuity through Windows Azure from Microsoft

SYDNEY, Australia. – June 12, 2012 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it will extend Symantec’s Storage Foundation High Availability for Windows and Veritas Volume replicator disaster recovery (DR) software solution to the Windows Azure cloud platform. Symantec’s solution will allow organisations of any size to recover business critical applications and their associated data in Windows Azure in the event of a local failure or site disaster. The solution will expand the ability of Symantec’s existing business continuity solutions for Microsoft Corp., providing on-premise-to-cloud disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS).

Fast and Cost Effective Disaster Recovery to Cloud

Organisations are increasingly demanding better protection and more recovery options, including leveraging the public cloud for disaster recovery protection. According to IDC’s 2011 Business Continuity Market Analysis, “Advancements in replication, clustering and server virtualisation software have opened the door to a more flexible approach to those architecting business continuity (BC) schemes. Given the increased need for business uptime and corporate reliance on information technology… the role of public clouds within the BC market will surely increase¹.” As organisations deal with downtime due to disasters, storage failures, network issues, maintenance or power outages, they need an off-premise solution that provides fast recovery to keep their applications and data available to users.

Flexible Protection for Business Critical Applications

Symantec’s DRaaS solution with Windows Azure will go beyond today’s more common backup to and recovery from the cloud offerings. Symantec’s award winning Storage Foundation High Availability and Veritas Volume Replicator high availability and disaster recovery technology will enable organisations to not just protect their data but protect their applications as well. With this solution, IT organisations will benefit by realising vastly improved recovery time and recovery point objectives for business critical applications in the event of an on-premise outage. Not only will the solution ensure real-time replication of critical application data, but it will also provide end-to-end recovery coordination from the data all the way up through the application. IT organisations can avoid having to manage a DR site themselves and benefit from the cloud services provided by Windows Azure.

Technology from Symantec’s market leading Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability for Windows and Veritas Volume Replicator products will form the basis for the solution. With this announcement, Symantec continues to expand its availability and disaster recovery interoperability with Microsoft solutions, which includes Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server Hyper-V, and now Windows Azure. More information on the new solution will be made available at a later date.

Supporting Quotes:

“In this economy, customers see cloud computing as a new option for flexible, cost-effective computing,” said Jean S. Bozman, Research Vice President, IDC. “Many organisations have been looking for a way to automate the recovery of production data — and to keep important applications running — in the event of an outage that has the potential to disrupt business for hours. Leveraging cloud computing as a Disaster Recovery (DR) target addresses business continuity needs for organisations that cannot afford a secondary site or at-a-distance failovers for mission-critical, virtualised workloads.”

“Windows Azure is designed to provide resilience and availability,” said Walid Abu-Hadba, corporate vice president, developer and platform evangelism at Microsoft. “Symantec’s service aims to extend the built-in reliability of Windows Azure and help customers recover on-premises applications and data with a disaster recovery and business continuity solution utilising complementary technology from both Symantec and Microsoft.”

“Windows Azure is growing rapidly as a platform, and we are seeing many of our customers utilizing it as part of a new delivery model for computing resources,” said Deepak Mohan, Senior Vice President, Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec. “With Symantec’s proven high availability technology, and Microsoft’s cloud platform, organisations can rest assured that their business will keep running in cases of disasters and outages.”

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Agni’s Philosophy – A Final Fantasy Realtime tech demo using Square-Enix’s stunning Next Generation Luminous graphics engine. A must watch for one of the absolute highlights from this year’s show!