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EA SPORTS FIFA 14 CAPTURES THE EMOTION OF SCORING GREAT GOALS

Innovations Inspire Midfield Build Up And Rewarding Finishing

SYDNEY, Australia – April 18, 2013 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) today unveiled innovations to the greatest sports game on the planet that will enable fans to experience the emotion of scoring great goals when playing EA SPORTS™ FIFA 14 on the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system and PC.

Innovations to the franchise’s award-winning* gameplay will make FIFA 14 the complete matchday experience, introducing features that inspire fans to build play through midfield, dictate the tempo of a match and create rewarding opportunities. Great football matches are achieved through measured build up and incredible finishing. A new feature in FIFA 14 called Pure Shot and a brand-new ball physics system will transform shooting, making every shot attempt feel real, and when players connect with the perfect strike, feel exhilarating.

 
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PlayStation®Plus gives you something to look forward to this May with a host of exciting new titles lined up for PlayStation®3 and PlayStation®Vita

SYDNEY, 18TH April 2013 – Sony Computer Entertainment Australia (SCE Aust.) has today confirmed the May line-up for PlayStation®Plus (PS Plus) subscribers which features impressive titles such as Hitman: Absolution, Catherine and MALICIOUS heading your way on May 2nd, when each of these PlayStation®3 (PS3) titles will be available to download.

Take on the moral dilemma of Agent 47 in Hitman: Absolution as he is faced with the most complex contract of his career. Forced to choose between the wishes of his agency or the life of his acquaintance, he’ll need to use all of his skills to survive and uncover the truth.

After several unexplained deaths in the city, things begin to take a dark turn for Kevin in the psychological horror adventure Catherine, when he has a strange encounter with an irresistible woman and his nightmares turn into a dreadful reality.

Enter a world of chaos in the unusual action title MALICIOUS in which the Kingdom of Santville lies in pieces and traitorous King Eldrake’s forces have been slain. You are a spirit vessel summoned by the prophets to battle the dark force that has emerged and come to be known as the MALICIOUS.

If you like to game on the go, then grab your PlayStation®Vita (PS Vita) and enjoy the unique shoot ’em up hit Sine Mora, which will be available on PS Plus from 9th May. Alternatively, prepare to be impressed by the ultra-sharp and stylish visuals in the innovative space-age shooter Velocity Ultra HD, available from the 16th May.

PS Plus provides subscribers with access to top-rated games* on PS3 and PS Vita throughout the course of the subscription. Gamers also have access to great PlayStation®Store discounts as part of their subscription package.

PS Plus subscribers receive an array of exclusive features and access, including 2GB cloud storage (1G for PS3 & 1G for PS Vita ) for game saves which will be welcomed by subscribers keen to take advantage of the Instant Game Collection. Automatic update and beta access, as well as a huge collection of exclusive dynamic themes and PlayStation®Network avatars, makes PS Plus the place to be in 2013.

PS Plus is also available on PS Vita, extending the service to two platforms for a single price of AUD$69.95 for a one-year subscription or AUD$19.95 for a 90 day subscription will give users the same fantastic features including exclusive access, special features and huge discounts.

 
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BEHIND THE SCENES TRAILER FOR DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION – DIRECTOR’S CUT RELEASED

Get inside Adam Jensen’s Neural Hub with the Lead Developers 

Sydney 18th April, 2013 – Check out the new behind the scenes trailer for Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut released today by Eidos Montreal. Hear about some of the exciting new changes to the Director’s Cut from key developers David Anfossi, Antoine Thisdale, Steve Szczepkowski, Jean-Francois Dugas, and Émile Pedneault.  Get a first look at the game in action, an inside look Melbourne’s Straight Right Studios, and the philosophy behind the development of Human Revolution – Director’s Cut.

Watch the Behind the Scenes Trailer at: http://youtu.be/yJJCDgKAltA

In addition to an abundance of new features, the Director’s Cut also offers approximately 8 hours of developer commentary and a 45 minute “making of” video that that reveals secrets and background info on the creation and production of Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut is coming to the Nintendo Wii U later this year.

To explore the whole Deus Ex universe, check out:

Official Site: http://www.deusex.com/

Community:  http://community.eidosmontreal.com/

Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/DeusEx

Twitter:   https://twitter.com/eidosmontreal

Tumblr:   http://eidosmontreal.tumblr.com/

Forums:   http://bit.ly/Sct4Q9

 
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Guardians of Middle-earth Latest Character Revealed – Kili

 
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Origin’s Mystery Deal to Feature the Award-Winning Battlefield 3 from DICE

SYDNEY, Australia – April 18, 2013 – Feel the battle this Friday as Origin’s Mystery Deal for Australia is unveiled: Battlefield 3TM for $5.00! From 12:00:00 pm AEST Friday, April 19, 2013 until 11:59:00 pm AEST Friday, April 19, 2013, Origin will be offering Battlefield 3 for $5.00 AUD, down from the usual price of $49.99 AUD. You’ll have to act fast; Origin’s discount on Battlefield 3 is available for 12 hours only! Visit the Battlefield 3 page on Origin after midday on Friday to get your copy for $5.00!

The Battlefield 3 army continues to grow quickly, capturing more than 20 million players since release in October 2011 and has been lauded by game critics worldwide for its compelling single player campaign, intense co-op missions and world class, all-out-war multiplayer experience. Since its debut in June 2012, more than 2.9 million players have signed up for Battlefield 3 Premium, the innovative offering that delivers five massive, themed digital expansion packs loaded with a wealth of content – Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand, Battlefield 3: Close Quarters, Battlefield 3: Armored Kill, Battlefield 3: Aftermath and Battlefield 3: End Game – all for $64.95 on the PlayStation® Network, PC at Origin.com or 4000 MS points on the Xbox LIVE® Marketplace.

Battlefield 3 is rated MA15+ by the Australian Classification Board. For more information on Battlefield 3, please visit www.battlefield.com/au, and for more information on Battlefield 3 Premium be sure to go to www.battlefield.com/premium . For the latest news on Battlefield please visit www.facebook.com/battlefield  or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/battlefield.

 
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All you need to know about Mars in one video

Discover, with a special video, all there is to know about Mars War Logs, the sci-fi role-playing game developed by Spiders Studio.

Narrated by Jehanne Rousseau, CEO of Spiders Studio, this video shows new gameplay sequences and tells us more about the game and its origins. We learn how Mars War Logs was born and how its talented and passionate developers gave a truly unique soul to this project they hold very dear.

After giving us a few details about the setting of this game that presents the Red Planet as we have never seen it before, we learn why Mars War Logs is a fully-fledged RPG, in which player choices leave their mark on the story and its unfolding. Spiders Studio really wanted to offer total freedom to the players who will have to face the consequences of their decisions through dialogues, through choosing their skills, with their behaviour toward their companions, or even through the equipment and upgrades they decide to craft. Players will be forced to take responsibility for their actions: for example, slaying human opponents after a battle will be an advantagous source of income… but will also make many characters wary of you!

Get ready for your trip to Mars on 2nd May on PC.

 
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DIGIMON MASTERS WELCOMES NEW TAMERS

Special Event Rewards New Players Entering The Digital World

April 17th, 2013— Joymax, a leading online game developer and publisher of free to play MMORPGs has a special event exclusively aimed at new players for their exciting MMORPG, Digimon Masters!  Based on the popular Japanese animation series, Digimon Masters takes place in both the human and digital worlds, with players taking on the role of Tamers, ensuring the two don’t collide with disastrous results.   Join the Digital World now and be rewarded for taking up the role of a Tamer at http://bit.ly/Play_Digimon_Masters

From now until May 7th, new tamers are invited to the Digital World with a bevy of prizes awaiting them.  New tamers will be set with a cash shop package that sets them up to succeed in a competitive digital landscape.  Suit up now and receive all of the following: 30 day Amplification Booster(100%), 7x Inventory Expansion, 1x Digimon archive expansion, 7x Storage Expansion, 20x Recovery items, 10x Jump boosters (Yokohama), 10x Jump boosters (Western Village), and even a Level 4 Mysterious Egg!

Veteran players aren’t being left behind!  All players who log in from now until May 7th will receive rewards based on how long they remain within the Digital World; prizes can be earned once per day.  After 33 minutes, players will be awarded a random Data Box, and a Chicken Combo.  Staying logged in for three consecutive hours rewards players with a Giant Growth Fruit, a Fruit of the Goddess, and a File Island Box!

File Island Boxes are a new item to celebrate the opening of File Island and include several cash shop items including 1 day DigiAuras, Evoluteras, Mode Selectors, Regular Backup Disks, Mysterious Fruit, and Fruit of the Goddess.  Continue the story after the recent launch of File Island with three new zones, three new raid bosses, four new Digimon, and plenty of activities.

Tamers expect more news to come on the official Digimon Masters Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/digimonmasters; check out all the latest news, GM interviews, and sneak peeks at upcoming content at http://bit.ly/Play_Digimon_Masters

 
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Creating the unique world of Wonderbook: Diggs Nightcrawler

Sony Computer Entertainment Australia is pleased to raise the curtain on the development progress of Wonderbook: Diggs Nightcrawler in this first video diary, and what better place to start than with our collaboration with the talented and highly creative team at Moonbot Studios!  The team provide a little insight into how they created the unique world of Library City and its cast of colourful characters for this exclusive experience on Wonderbook.

Please click HERE to view.

With the book as the starting point, the world, the characters, the story and the interactions were born (or as Humpty would say, “hatched”). A detective bookworm who knows he’s inside a book, whose world is made from books, and who travels throughout the course of the game to different sections of the library, meeting unique characters along the way – being Wonderbook this is no ordinary hardcover. The world that the characters inhabit is in your hands, creating novel ways of interacting with the game.

Wonderbook: Diggs Nightcrawler will launch in Australia on June 14, 2013.

 
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Bigger, bolder and packed with features for a competitive edge

BenQ unleashes the XL2720T – the world’s premium Gaming Monitor

BenQ has brought a smile to the face of all professional gamers confirming today the release of their new XL Series Gaming Monitor – the XL2720T.  Equipped with a stunning 27” large view display, 120Hz and blazing-fast 1-ms response time, the new XL2720T guarantees an incredible gaming experience.

The official monitor for the Intel Extreme Masters – seasons 6 and 7 – and preferred by many of the major tournaments around the world, BenQ’s XL Series gaming monitors have earned a reputation from the gaming fraternity as being the best, with a range of features and presets, such as the unique Black eQualizer, Display Mode and Smart Scaling, giving players a competitive edge.

BenQ’s XL gaming monitors have impressed competitors at the Intel Extreme Masters, ESEA (E-Sports Entertainment Association) ESWC (Electronic Sports World Cup) 2012 Finals, G-League, Asia e-Sports Cup 2012 and ESL Pro Series in Poland since their release some three years ago.

The new addition to the flagship series, the XL2720T was designed to handle the most demanding game plays within the diverse eSports spectrum.  Its launch was timed to coincide with the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship Season 7 which was recently held in Hanover, Germany (March 5-9, 2013).

Said BenQ Australia’s Joshua Edwards, “Users get to make a difference between victory and defeat from FPS (first person shooter) games such as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Battlefield to popular console fighting games such as Street Fighter, due to the intuitively equipped ultra-low 0.002-frame input lag that synchronises action without latency from mouse motion.

“The 27’ widescreen (16:9) Full HD LED screen, which uses LED backlighting for great colour and low power consumption as well as a 12 million:1 contrast ratio for the best and most optimal picture quality will impress the world’s gamers and make tournaments a lot more interesting,” said Edwards, who is himself a professional gamer.

“The XL2720T offers two variations to the preset FPS Mode.  While the FPS1 Mode configures and optimises the display for Counter-Strike 1.6, the FPS2 Mode does likewise for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, as recommended by BenQ.  With these specialised preset modes offering optimal brightness, contrast, sharpness and colour tint, gamers gain the advantage of being able to spot and track their opponents’ every move,” claimed Edwards.

“Furthermore, the XL2720T features BenQ’s Black eQualizer function to enable total visibility by allowing gamers to adjust the screen brightness without over-exposing the light levels, revealing critical combat details with improved visibility in darkened scenes.  To accommodate individual viewing preferences, the Display Mode allows gamers to switch between nine monitor screen sizes from 17”, 19”, 19”W, 21.5”W, 22”W, 23”W, 23.6”W, 24”W and 27”W, while the Smart Scaling feature gives players the ability to scale the screen on-the-fly to virtually any custom size, without impacting controller sensitivity.”

Edwards explains the BenQ Game Mode Loader of XL2720T, storing the gaming presets used by pro gamers and gaming legends, are available for various game titles, including Battlefield 3, Call of Duty, Diablo 3 and Dota2.  “Users can install the exclusive presets of professional gamers around the world and save them onto the S Switch for quick access.  The game mode selection is to be expanded over time,” he said.

The XL2720T comes with dual HDMI ports, and is engineered to provide Full HD connectivity with all kinds of peripheral and console devices including but not limited to the PS3, XBOX, Blu-ray players, PCs and cameras, allowing gamers to enjoy their digital entertainment effortlessly.

Certified as NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ ready, the XL2720T provides gamers with Full HD 3D gaming and stereoscopic entertainment experiences like never before.  For a more vivid viewing experience, it even comes with the NVIDIA 3D LightBoost™ technology for up to twice the original screen brightness.

For further information on the new XL2720T Gaming Montior, visit www.BenQ.com.au

RRP:                             $599.00

Available:                      April

 
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Know your enemy – Deep Silver releases the second Metro: Last Light Ranger Survival Guide, “Enemy Danger”

Deep Silver today opened the next chapter in the Ranger Survival Guide for Metro: Last Light. The second video in a series of three, “Enemy Danger” prepares the player against the hostile inhabitants of the Metro, both human and mutant, and can be viewed here.

While deadly creatures control the desolate Moscow wastelands, the  human survivors, having splintered into extremist factions, gangs of bandits, and the order of Rangers,  try to maintain a hold on the tunnels of the Metro. To stand up to them, the player has the choice: will he try to sneak past the threats, save their lives and rare ammunition, or will he seek direct face-off to wipe them out once for all. Both ways carry risks and every action has consequences within the tunnels of the Metro.

Metro: Last Light will be available from May 16, 2013 across Australia and New Zealand for PlayStation®3, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, and Windows PC and is distributed by All Interactive Entertainment.

For more information about Metro: Last Light, please visit www.enterthemetro.com. Alternately, follow us at Twitter.com/MetroVideoGame, find us at Facebook.com/MetroVideoGame and subscribe to the official YouTube channel at YouTube.com/MetroVideoGame for the latest gameplay trailers.

 
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