magnify
formats

Out this week – Mrs Brown’s Boys Season Three!

After a staggeringly successful second series, the highly anticipated, multi-award winning comedy phenomenon Mrs. Brown’s Boys has returned in full force for its third season.  Mrs Brown’s Boys: Season 3 is out this week on Blu-ray™ and DVD, with plenty of outlandish one-liners, wit and riotous humour.

In Mrs Brown’s Boys: Season 3, Brendan O’Carroll and his dysfunctional family bring us six uproarious new episodes following the lives of Agnes Brown and her eccentric relatives as they blunder through the throws of daily life. The series sees Agnes and her family reeling from the effects of the recession. Rory and Dino can’t afford a place to live, Mark and Betty may be forced to emigrate to Australia and Agnes’ kitchen is falling to pieces.

 
formats

Industry Giants Line up for Seagate Ultra-thin 5MM Hard Disk Drive

Taiwan — June 3, 2013 —Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ:STX), a world leader in storage solutions, today announced its shipping its thinnest hard disk drive (HDD) ever to OEM partners — the Seagate® Laptop Ultrathin HDD. Just 5mm thin, the Laptop Ultrathin HDD is designed to be integrated into ultra-thin, lightweight mobile computing devices and tablets all while delivering high capacity storage at an affordable price.

“When we originally demonstrated this solution last September, we knew we had a truly innovative product that would empower our partners to reimagine mobile applications,” said Steve Luczo, president, CEO and chairman of Seagate. “The strong support from our OEM partners indicates we have delivered on our vision and look forward to a new wave of innovative solutions enabled by this revolutionary product.”

The 2.5- inch drive is just 5mm thin and weighs a mere 3.3oz— making it about as thin as four stacked credit cards and lighter than a deck of cards. It delivers up to 500GB of capacity in 25 percent less space than its previous-generation 7mm counterpart, freeing up valuable real-estate within portable devices to accommodate additional designed-in features such as longer-life batteries and better air circulation. An affordable alternative to SSD storage, Laptop Ultrathin HDD helps blur the lines between notebook and tablets by enabling new emerging applications like convertible and detachable storage.

“The new Seagate Laptop Ultrathin truly raises the bar, enabling us to finally create high-capacity, thin and light laptops that consumers crave at mass-market price points they can afford,” said S.Y. Shian, corporate vice president and general manager of Asus’ notebook business unit. “The drive’s capacity, coupled with its ultra-slim, lightweight footprint, empowers our engineers to think out of the box and create truly ground-breaking, innovative system designs— it’s a win- win for both us and the consumer.”

Delivering the best cost per GB and cost per millimeter in the industry for ultrathin applications, the svelte high-capacity drive can support over 100,000 photos, 125,000 songs or 62 hours of high-definition video. The Laptop Ultrathin incorporates a 6Gb/s SATA interface for fast data transfer rates and comes with the industry standard SATA connection for easy integration into existing laptops supported by both hard drive and SSD storage. SED encryption is available on the 500GB capacity version.

The Seagate Laptop Ultrathin has a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $89. For more information on the new Seagate Laptop Ultrathin HDD please visit http://seagate.com/www/ultrathin.

 

World War Z | Three New Clips

formats

Deep Silver and 4A Games hail critical acclaim and early sales success for Metro: Last Light

Deep Silver today announced that Metro: Last Light has enjoyed a stunning first week of sales, significantly outselling its predecessor Metro 2033 over the same launch period, and earning stellar reviews from the gaming media on all three platforms.

  • On PC, the game more than tripled Metro 2033’s worldwide sales over the same opening week period.
  • In Australia & New Zealand, Metro: Last Light sold through more boxed units in its first week of sale than Metro 2033 sold in its’ first month of sales.
  • Metro: Last Light has already shot to #1 in the weekly charts in multiple territories across Europe, and looks likely to repeat that success in Australia and New Zealand.

Metro: Last Light has garnered praise from players and critics alike, with all three formats enjoying a Metacritic score of 80+ and a slew of 9 / 10 reviews from GameSpot, Official PlayStation® Magazine, Game Trailers.com, Joystiq, The Escapist and more.

“Metro: Last Light is Deep Silver’s most critically acclaimed game to date,” said Menno van der Bil, International Commercial Director Deep Silver. “We are delighted with the deserved critical and commercial success the game has achieved, and hope that this success represents a statement of intent for future quality titles from Deep Silver. We would like to thank 4A Games for their talent, passion and commitment in helping us reach this milestone.”

“4A Games are honoured by the reception our latest project has received,” said Andrew Prokhorov, Creative Director at 4A Games. “We are a small but dedicated team who are lucky to have been given the creative freedom and support to make the kind of experience we dream, as gamers, of playing. Our work on Metro: Last Light continues with new single player DLC, and we look forward to revealing future projects from the team. We want to thank all the Metro fans for support we have received.”

Deep Silver announced earlier this week that 4A Games will support Metro: Last Light with a series of original single player content packs throughout the summer. Metro fans can pre-purchase all future  DLC at a discount with the Season Pass, now available on Steam, Xbox LIVE Marketplace and the PlayStation® Network for AU$14.99/ 1200 MSP. The Season Pass also grants an additional weapon, the deadly Abzats, a semi-automatic shotgun rifle with a devastating secondary fire mode that unleashes six shells in one blast.

The Season Pass will include:

  • The ‘Faction Pack’ and the ‘Chronicles Pack’, featuring new, original single player gameplay that expands on the Metro: Last Light universe and story
  • The mysterious ‘Tower Pack’ ,  a unique solo challenge to Metro veterans
  • The ‘Developer Pack’ , giving creative players some interesting tools with which to explore the world of Metro…

Metro: Last Light is available now for PlayStation®3, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, and Windows PC .

 

 
formats

Company of Heroes 2 – Above the Battlefield Trailer

 
formats

The Sims 3 Dragon Valley Has Hatched!

Newest Digital World Now Available

Today, The Sims 3 releases The Sims 3 Dragon Valley, the newest digital world to launch from The Sims Store. In this brand new world, players will journey to a mythical realm of lore and fantasy. Once travellers arrive in Dragon Valley, they will discover a village full of towering Celtic-style architecture that rests along the banks of a gently flowing river and low rising hills.

For the first time ever, The Sims 3 Dragon Valley introduces Baby Dragons – the exclusive and premium item for the world. These dragons not only exist amongst the residents but can also be kept as pets. Players can hatch three different types of dragons, (Red, Green and Purple) and each has its own personality, mood benefits and funny fails.
Link: http://youtu.be/DfNY8W2FR6U

The Sims 3 Dragon Valley requires The Sims 3 base game to play and is available now for digital download at The Sims 3 Store as a Standard Edition or Gold Edition. The Gold Edition comes with 1900 SimPoints and includes the Celtic Lands set featuring 10 ancient and mysterious virtual objects for players to bring into their Sims’ homes and backyards.
The Sims 3 Dragon Valley will also be available worldwide starting August 8, 2013.

 
formats

Razer Introduces the Blade Pro—Designed For Work and For Play

The Razer Blade Pro: 17-inch HD Screen, Intel Quad Core i7, NVIDIA GTX 765M; comes with built-in professional-grade SBUI applications for creative professionals

SAN FRANCISCO – May 30, 2013 Razer™, the world leader in high-performance gaming hardware, software and systems, today announced the Blade Pro, the latest evolution of its award-winning 17-inch gaming laptop. Powered by a future 4th gen Intel® Core™ processor, next generation NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 765M graphics and groundbreaking storage performance, the new Blade Pro is faster and more powerful than ever before.

“With the Razer Blade Pro, we’ve designed a gaming laptop for work and for play—appealing to on-the-go hardcore gamers, game developers, creative artists and aspiring video professionals,” says Min-Liang Tan, Razer co-founder, CEO and creative director. “The Razer Blade Pro can flawlessly run the most popular creative software applications, and is powerful enough to run the most graphically intensive games on the market today.”

Razer’s designers and engineers refined every inner component to increase performance, while staying true to portability. At 0.88 inches thin and weighing 6.5 pounds, the Blade Pro is the most portable 17-inch gaming laptop in its class. Every detail is sleek, slim and light, all the way down to the compact power supply, making the Blade Pro the best choice for gaming performance and creative work on-the-go.

The Blade Pro, the third iteration of Razer’s ground-breaking, ultra-portable laptop, features a 47-watt Intel chip, 10 watts more than the last 17-inch Razer Blade and the most powerful CPU ever fitted into a Razer system for increased professional performance. The latest NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M GPU is also included. All of this is packed into the thinnest and lightest form factor in the 17-inch laptop class. The Blade Pro comes with Dolby® Home Theatre® v4, featuring immersive audio quality that is custom-tuned to each Razer laptop to deliver a cinematic sound experience. All of this is topped-off with gaming-grade peripherals built right in, such as Razer Synapse 2.0, a fully programmable anti-ghosting keyboard with adjustable backlight and an ultra-sensitive track pad.

“Innovation is happening across the PC industry, and what Razer has done with the Blade Pro is groundbreaking,” says Navin Shenoy, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Mobile Client Platforms. “Utilizing a future 4th gen Intel Core processor, the Razer Blade Pro delivers top-class gaming and professional performance in a very portable form factor.”

“The Razer Blade Pro packs extreme performance in an ultra-portable form factor,” says Rene Haas, vice president and general manager of notebook GPUs at NVIDIA. “Thanks in part to the performance-per-watt efficiency of the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPUs, the new Razer Blade Pro is incredibly thin for a 17-inch gaming laptop.”

At the heart of the Blade Pro is a full-HD 17-inch LED display linked in combination with the Switchblade User Interface (SBUI), allowing users to take advantage of tools and creative possibilities at their fingertips. Driven by 10 dynamic adaptive tactile keys, a revolutionary LCD track pad and professional-grade and game apps, users can work harder and play harder. Razer’s SBUI now includes several new, professional-grade apps and a wide array of new tools available at no charge, including programs like Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe Premiere® Pro, Maya®, GIMP and more.

The Razer Blade Pro also features 8 GB of fast 1600 MHz DDR3L memory and now comes standard with 128 GB of total solid-stage storage, with optional 256 GB and 512 GB SSDs. With solid-state storage technology, gamers will now experience up to four-times the performance of a traditional 5400-rpm notebook hard drive.

Razer is also offering a new creative professional pricing program, allowing design students, game developers, development staff, Kickstarter partners and others to purchase Razer products, including the Blade Pro, at special prices. Selected developers and partners are now listed at www.razerzone.com/creativepro. Those not listed are encouraged to fill out an application on the page for a chance to be included in the program.

The Blade Pro will be available for pre-order June 3. For more information, go to www.razerzone.com/bladepro.

Price:

Starts at US$2,299 

Availability:

Razerzone.com – Pre-Order June 3

United States and Canada

Product features:  

  • Future 4th gen Intel® Core™ processor (formerly codename ‘Haswell’)
  • 8 GB DDR3L (2 x 4 GB 1600MHz)
  • NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 765M (2 GB GDDR5) & Intel HD4600
  • Windows 8 64 Bit
  • 128 GB SSD, with optional 256/512 GB SSD (mSATA)
  • Qualcomm® Killer™ NIC N1202 (802.11a/b/g/n + Bluetooth® 4.0)
  • 17.3-in. Full HD 16:9 Ratio, 1920 x 1080, with LED backlight
  • Stereo 2.0 speakers
  • 3.5 mm audio microphone/headphone combo jack
  • HD Webcam (front-facing, 2.0 MP)
  • Array microphones
  • (3x) USB 3.0 port (SuperSpeed)
  • Codec supports 7.1 (via HDMI 1.4)
  • Dolby® Home Theater® v4
  • Razer™ Anti-Ghosting Keyboard (with adjustable backlight)
  • Razer™ Switchblade User Interface
  • Razer™ Synapse 2.0 Enabled
  • Built-in 74 Wh Rechargeable lithium ion polymer battery
  • Kensington Lock
  • 16.8 in. / 427 mm (Width) x 0.88 in. / 22.4 mm (Height) x 10.9 in. / 277 mm (Depth)
  • 6.58 lbs. / 2.98 kg 

For more information about the Razer Blade Pro, please visit www.razerzone.com/bladepro.

 
formats

World War Z | Brand New Clips

BROKEN MIRROR CLIP

I CANT LEAVE MY FAMILY CLIP

 
formats

NEW SCRABBLE GAME FROM EA MOBILE SPEAKS VOLUMES

01 June 2013, Australia  – Electronic Arts Inc., (NASDAQ: EA) today announced the launch of a new version of the SCRABBLE™ gameon Apple® devices, Android™ devices and Facebook®.

Now live in Australia – under license from Mattel – for the first time ever the SCRABBLE game is available for Android devices in six languages, including English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese.  SCRABBLE fans can also look forward to a free-to-download version for Apple devices, as well as a localised Facebook version of the game, which will also be offered in the same six languages.

Additionally, this new version of the game will add authenticity with the addition of the Collins and Larousse Official word lists.

Players in other markets will also have access to the new dialect versions, bringing together global audiences with never-before-seen language support and availability on new platforms. And utilising the Origin™’ cross-platform functionality in the Apple and Android versions, fans can also now play against their friends here and abroad, and like-minded opponents in the SCRABBLE game across multiple platforms.

“The newest versions of SCRABBLE bring the game to global audiences in a way they’ve never been able to experience social word games before. In Australia, we look forward to new players coming on board, with the extended language offerings,” said Mark Fordham, Sales and Marketing Director – Mobile, Electronic Arts. “With this cross-platform technology and localised gameplay, we’re able to bring the joy and social connection of this timeless word game to fans from around the world.”

The new, localised versions of the SCRABBLE game are now live on the App Store SM, Google Play™, Amazon™ Appstore and Facebook worldwide.

To play the SCRABBLE gamefor free, please visit the App Store, Google Play or Facebook.

 
formats

AIE/Little Orbit Media Blast: Young Justice: Legacy Trailer Available Now

Experience Young Justice like never before. The creative forces behind the smash hit TV series have joined forces with Little Orbit to bring the ultimate in fan service — an interactive bridge for Seasons 1 & 2. Find out what happened during the missing years and be a part of the story in the action packed, RGP styled game.

Licensed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and based on the acclaimed Cartoon Network animated series inspired by the DC Comics characters, Young Justice: Legacy takes players on a wild ride in this action-RPG that bridge the show’s first and second seasons. The video game will launch on a variety of console systems including PlayStation®3, Xbox 360®, and Nintendo Wii U™ this spring.

Check out the official trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-raK-h0cHs