[New Trailer] Guardians of Middle-earth Reveals Film-related Character
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today releases a new Battle Profile gameplay video for upcoming multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game, Guardians of Middle-earth, where players can learn about the powers and abilities of Nori, a key playable film character, who is one of the 13 dwarves who accompanies Bilbo Baggins in the upcoming The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey motion picture, which is set for release on Dec. 26, 2012, directed by Peter Jackson and a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
Reduce desktop clutter with the Cooler Master ROC for MacBook and iPad
Sydney, Australia – 8 October 2012 – Cooler Master, an industry leading chassis, thermal solution, peripheral, and accessory manufacturer today announces the ROC stand for the Apple MacBook Pro and Apple iPad.
Style and Convenience
Wish a fond farewell to clutter while significantly reducing the footprint of your MacBook Pro or iPad. Elevate your MacBook Pro by placing it in the ROC stand and know that it will stay secure with the ROC’s anti-slip rubber grips. View recipes, instructions, watch a video, use as a digital easel, and more while docked in the ROC. Also, extended periods of use can be made more comfortable by placing your Macbook Pro or iPad in the ROC and using an external display, keyboard, mouse or other peripherals.
Capture Their Attention
Constructed from high-grade materials, the ROC stand is a perfect complement to your MacBook Pro. In addition, it also functions as a stand for the 3rd Generation iPad and earlier. Whether you are working hard, watching a video, or playing a game, you can stand up your MacBook or iPad and display it proudly. The ROC is available in either Black or White.
Pricing and Availability
Manufacturer: Cooler Master
Product Name: ROC
RRP: AU$69.90 NZ$79.90
Website: http://www.coolermaster.com.au
Distributors: DMA/Rectron/AUIT/ PB Tech (NZ)
Availability: October
About Cooler Master
Cooler Master was founded to provide the best thermal solutions to our customers worldwide. Since its establishment two decades ago, we continue to invest in product development in order to provide leading-edge innovations to people and businesses. Cooler Master’s enclosure technology line-up includes heat sinks and fans, chassis, power supplies, function panels and accessories. Cooler Master has its headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan, with global branch offices located in Europe, America and APAC, so that we can offer to our customers the best service in time. For more information on Cooler Master, please visit www.coolermaster.com.au.
New Girl Season 1 – brand new Roommate Advice Videos – to brighten up your Monday
Sydney, Australia, 6 September 2012 – Friends, flings and modern relationships… get in on the adventure when the offbeat charm and hilarious antics of “Jess” and her three single guy roommates come to DVD. NEW GIRL, The Complete First Season will be released on 10 October 2012 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
This new, ensemble comedy stars Zooey Deschanel as the adorkable “Jess”; Max Greenfield (Schmidt), Jake Johnson (Nick), Lamorne Morris (Winston), and Hannah Simone (Cece). As their relationships progress, this five-some realises they need each other more than they ever thought they would, and end up forming a charmingly dysfunctional – or strangely functional – family.
With additional material, available only on DVD, get a firsthand look at even more of the fun that makes NEW GIRL a hit with viewers and critics, alike.
NEW GIRL DVD Special Features:
- Dress Like Jess – Fashionista Zooey Deschanel and NEW GIRL costume designer Debra McGuire talk about creating Jess’s cute, vintage-inspired look.
- New Girl: Evolution of an Episode – from the writers’ room to table read, see what goes on behind the making of a NEW GIRL episode.
- Auditions with Lamorne – an insider’s look at Lamorne Morris during his audition
- Alternate Jokes – watch the actors run through variations of the same line but using different jokes
- Deleted & Extended Scenes
- Audio Commentaries on 3 Episodes (Pilot, Bad in Bed and See Ya) with creator Elizabeth Meriwether, producers and cast
NEW GIRL is a charming, offbeat comedy about friends, flings and modern relationships. After a bad breakup, free-spirited optimist Jess moves in with three bachelors who have plenty of issues of their own. Winston is a former athlete, Nick (Jake Johnson) is a law school dropout, and Schmidt is a wannabe womanizer in love with…himself. Together with her super-hot BFF [best friend forever] Cece, this NEW GIRL discovers that hanging out with the guys can be a challenging – and hilarious – adventure!
NEW GIRL ROOMMATE ADVICE VIDEOS
New Girl Roommate Advice: Ways To Avoid The Douchebag Jar (Video)
New Girl Roommate Advice: Your Roommates Will Tell You The Truth (Video)
New Girl Roommate Advice: Read The Recipe (Video)
New Girl Roommate Advice: Always Lock Your Bedroom Door (Video)
New Girl Roommate Advice: Don’t Play Ball Games In The House (Video)
New Girl Roommate Advice: Your Roommates Will Tell You The Truth (Video)
Want to understand the potential of broadband connected homes?
The Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation, an initiative of CSIRO, has just released a report on Broadband Connected Homes: Opportunities for developing broadband applications and services.
“The report is designed to help businesses, government agencies and software developers better understand the potential to design new applications and services that can be used in homes that are being connected to next generation broadband services such as the NBN,” Mr Colin Griffith, Director of ACBI, said.
“The report describes the changing environment of the broadband connected home, the technologies that are affecting it, and its capacity to support new applications and services.”
This includes the new capabilities and features of NBN and home networks, the increasing range of connected devices being used in the home, and some of the development platforms for applications. It is the ability to leverage all these different aspects of a connected home that will enable successful new applications and services.
The report has been commissioned by the ACBI to capture some of the concepts discussed by a group of industry experts earlier in the year at its Broadband Apps Day on broadband connected homes.
To download a copy of the report, go to: www.acbi.net.au
The Master: Paul Thomas Anderson to visit Sydney and Melbourne – Roadshow Press Release
Celebrated director Paul Thomas Anderson will visit Sydney later this month for the Australian premiere of his critically-acclaimed epic THE MASTER at the inaugural Cockatoo Island Film Festival.
The Academy-Award-nominated director of There Will be Blood, Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Punch Drunk Love will conduct media interviews and walk the red carpet at the inaugural event on October 24 before travelling to Melbourne in support of the film.
Described by the LA Times as “bristling with vivid moments and unbeatable acting”, The Master took home awards for best director and actor at the recent Venice International Film Festival and is already garnering early Oscar buzz.
A striking portrait of drifters and seekers in post World War II America, the film follows the journey of a naval veteran, Freddie (Joaquin Phoenix), who arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader, Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Amy Adams plays Dodd’s wife, Peggy.
ALLIANCE AND HORDE ARMIES GROW WITH LAUNCH OF MISTS OF PANDARIA™
New World of Warcraft® expansion sells 2.7 million copies in first week — global subscriber base passes 10 million
IRVINE, Calif. — October 4, 2012 — Following the September 25 global rollout of World of Warcraft®: Mists of Pandaria™, the new expansion to the world’s #1 subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that millions of players have already joined the fight for Pandaria. During the first week of launch, prior to the release in China on October 2, the expansion had already sold through approximately 2.7 million copies and the game’s global player base passed 10 million subscribers, with growth across all major regions.*
“With Mists of Pandaria, we set out to expand on the sense of fun and discovery that’s always been at the heart of World of Warcraft — in addition to adding a huge variety of new content and features to the game,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. “It’s been gratifying to see the results of all of the work we put into this expansion and to hear all of the positive feedback from players so far.”
The World of Warcraft development team is already hard at work on the first major post-launch content update. Further details, including features and release timing, will be provided in the weeks ahead.
In World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, warships of the Alliance and Horde clash off the coast of a long-lost continent, signaling the start of a new era of discovery and conquest in the history of Azeroth. As players storm the shores of this exotic new frontier and begin to explore its mysteries, they’ll encounter brave new allies, unearth ancient secrets, and play their part in reigniting the long-brewing conflict between the Horde and Alliance on a strange battlefield far from home.
Mists of Pandaria is available now on DVD-ROM for Windows® XP/Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 and Macintosh® at a suggested retail price of $59.95 AUD. The
expansion is also available digitally directly from Blizzard’s World of Warcraft website (www.WorldofWarcraft.com).
A special Collector’s Edition packed with bonus items is also now available exclusively in retail stores at a suggested retail price of $99.95 AUD. In addition to the game disc, the Collector’s Edition contains:
- World of Warcraft Imperial Quilen flying mount and Lucky Quilen Cub pet, StarCraft® II Battle.net® portraits, and Diablo® III banner sigil and accent
- The Art of Mists of Pandaria, a 208-page hardback tome including never-before-seen artwork from the development process
- A World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria behind-the-scenes DVD and Blu-ray two-disc set including over an hour of developer interviews and commentary
- The World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Collector’s Edition soundtrack CD
- A special-edition World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria mouse pad featuring Chen Stormstout, the legendary pandaren brewmaster
For the first time, World of Warcraft players also have the option to purchase a special Digital Deluxe version of Mists of Pandaria via the World of Warcraft website (www.WorldofWarcraft.com). The Digital Deluxe edition includes a full digital copy of Mists of Pandaria as well as the digital items from the retail-exclusive Collector’s Edition. Players who purchase the standard edition digitally or at retail will have the option to upgrade to the Digital Deluxe version at any time (for as long as the standalone Digital Deluxe version remains available).
Mists of Pandaria offers a wide variety of content for new and returning World of Warcraft players. Features include a new playable race (the pandaren) with its own starting zone and quests, a new character class (the monk), and an expansive new continent for players to explore as they adventure to the new level cap of 90. The expansion also includes a host of new gameplay elements designed to give players even more ways to enjoy the game, including scenarios — a flexible new kind of cooperative PvE trial; challenge modes, which offer high-prestige rewards for mastering Mists of Pandaria‘s 5-player dungeons; and an all-new pet battle system.
Mists of Pandaria has received a M rating from the Australian Classification Board. In addition to the English version, Mists of Pandaria is available fully localized into Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, European Spanish, Russian, Korean, traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, and for the first time with a World of Warcraft expansion launch, Italian.
For more information about World of Warcraft and Mists of Pandaria, visit http://www.WorldofWarcraft.com. With multiple games in development, Blizzard Entertainment has numerous positions currently open — visit http://jobs.blizzard.com for more information and to learn how to apply.
*Based on internal company records and reports from key distribution partners.
LATEST SYNAPSE 2.0 PATCH INTRODUCES 3 NEW FEATURES FOR THE RAZER NAGA
eymapping, Unlimited Profiles and Import/Export Features Make the Award-Winning Razer Naga the Choice MMO Gaming Mouse
Razer, the world leader in high-performance gaming hardware, announced that its award-winning Razer Naga and Razer Naga Epic MMO gaming mice are getting substantial software upgrades to allow them to continue to be gamers’ preferred weapons of destruction.
The three new features added to the Synapse 2.0 software suite for the Razer Naga are:
- Keymapping
- Unlimited profiles
- Profile import/export
A keymapping feature lets gamers keep settings like lighting and DPI, but change the layout of the 17-buttons on the Razer Naga on-the-fly. Gamers can cycle through eight keymaps per profile, essentially increasing the available buttons on the Razer Naga eightfold. Alternatively, users may assign temporary keymap toggles for dynamic keymap swapping, useful for temporary in-game skill swaps when changing stances or weapons.
With unlimited profiles stored in Razer’s proprietary cloud system, gamers can have a different profile for each MMO or application they use. Profiles are saved and synced automatically from the dedicated remote server and can be bound to applications for effortless profile customization.
Users will now also be able to export their profiles and macros and share them with friends via the new profile import/export function. The feature also allows settings to be imported from older models of mice for seamless transitions, making hardware upgrades easier, and changing out a gaming mouse simple.
“We’re extremely dedicated to our MMO products and the Naga has become a hallmark for Razer,” said Robert “RazerGuy” Krakoff, president of Razer USA. “These new software upgrades mean that users can customize and switch between more than just a couple of profiles. The Naga is now limitless.”
About the Naga MMO Gaming Mouse
The best-selling MMO gaming mouse of all-time, the Razer Naga, is evolving to take the MMO games of the next generation head-on. Engineered for improved comfort and control, the all-new Razer Naga has a redesigned anti-slip, anti-fingerprint matte finish, re-optimized button placement, and three interchangeable side grips to suit your personal grip style.
Product Features
- 17 MMO-optimized buttons (including 12-button thumb grid)
- 3 interchangeable side panels
- Razer Synapse 2.0 enabled
- 5600 dpi Razer Precision 3.5G Laser Sensor
- 1000 Hz Ultrapolling™ / 1ms response time
- 200 in. per sec. max tracking speed
- Zero-acoustic Ultraslick™ mouse feet
For more information on the new Razer Naga, please visit www.razerzone.com/getimba
About the Razer Group:
Razer™ is the world leader in high performance gaming hardware. Founded in 1998, with its headquarters in Carlsbad, California, the company has offices in nine cities around the globe. Used by the most demanding professional gamers who compete in global tournaments, Razer provides gamers with the unfair advantage of cutting-edge technology and award-winning design. We l