Academy Award winning director Steven Soderbergh and adult film star Sasha Grey unite in this sexy New York drama.

Chelsea is a high-end Manhattan call girl who offers more than just sex to her clients: she’ll dress with the client in mind, go to dinner and a movie, listen attentively and will have conversations about their work, then she will provide sex- the ultimate ‘girlfriend experience’. Chelsea thinks she has her life totally under control- she runs her own business making $2000 an hour and has a devoted boyfriend who accepts her lifestyle, but when you’re in the business, you never know who you’re going to meet…

Set in the days leading up to the 2008 Presidential election as the world enters economic crisis, Chelsea will have to make a choice. Should she break her own rule and pursue a client that could end her relationship, career and future?

 Available to rent or buy on DVD, January 6, 2010

  Director:
  Steven Soderbergh (Oceans 11, Traffic)
  Genre:
  Drama
  Cast:
  Sasha Grey

  Chris Santos

Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans and Camilla Bella use their super-human abilities in this non-stop action sci-fi.

A group of young Americans with telekinetic and clairvoyant abilities are in hiding from Henry Carver ( Djimon Hounsou) a ‘Pusher’ with similar abilities who works for a clandestine U.S. government agency.

 Whilst in Hong Kong, the ‘Mover’ Nick Gant (Chris Evans) is contacted by the ‘Watcher’ Cassie Holmes (Dakota Fanning) to seek out other ‘Pusher’ Kira Hollies (Camilla Belle), who has just escaped from the agency.

 When the trio join others with similar abilities they must fight all costs to stop Carver and escape the agency forever.

 Available to rent or buy on Blu-ray & DVD, January 6, 2010

 
  Director:
  Paul McGuigan (The Wrong Man)
  Genre:
  Action
  Cast:
  Chris Evans (The Fantastic Four, Street Kings)
  Dakota Fanning (Twilight Saga: New Moon, War of The Worlds)

  Camilla Belle (10,000 BC)
  Djimon Hounsou (Constantine, Blood Diamond)

BATTLE OF RED CLIFF & RED CLIFF: SPECIAL EDITION- PART 1 + 2

From the director of Mission: Impossible II and Face Off comes a spectacular action-packed war-epic starring Tony Leung.  Red Cliff is the epic tale of wits, bravery and heroism taking place in the final days of the Han Dynasty. The highest grossing film in Chinese Box Office history, Icon Home Entertainment will release two versions, Battle of Red Cliff and Red Cliff: Special Edition- Part 1 + 2 on both DVD & Blu-ray

As seen in cinemas nationwide, Battle of Red Cliff will now offer the option to view the film with English subtitles or with an English dub. For the first time in Australia, audiences will also be given the opportunity to view the original two part Chinese theatrical version in Red Cliff: Special Edition – Part 1 + 2. This two-disc extended version contains over 5 hours of non-stop entertainment that allows audiences to experience the film as the director originally intended.

Based on the legendary battle in which a force of fifty thousand men defeated an army of nearly one million, Red Cliff follows shrewd Prime Minister Cao Cao who convinces his fickle Emperor that declaring war on the remaining kingdoms is the only way to unify China. Under a brutal military campaign of unprecedented scale, the remaining kingdoms are forced into an unlikely alliance. Waging several battles of strength, this newly unified force faces their ultimate and final battle at shores of Red Cliff, which would change the course of Chinese history forever.

Both the Battle of Red Cliff and Red Cliff: Special Edition- Part 1 + 2 will be available to rent or buy on Blu-ray & DVD, January 6, 2010

  Director:
  John Woo (Mission: Impossible II, Face Off)
  Genre:
  Action
  Cast:
  Tony Leung (Hero)
  Takeshi Kaneshrio (The House Of Flying Daggers)

Touch-friendly puzzle game available on the App Store for $1.99 in the US, £1.19 in the UK and €1.59 for the rest of Europe

Gothenburg, Sweden & Tampere, Finland – November 20^th, 2009 – Legendo Entertainment and Innogiant today announced that Spooky Spirits: Puzzle Drop!!, an original falling-block puzzle game wrapped up in the adventures of wacky spirit wardens Becky and Tim, is now available on the iTunes App Store. The game, which offers game modes for all types of gamers, can be downloaded from:

http://itunes.apple.com/app/spooky-spirits-puzzle-drop/id339559266?mt=8

Developed by the handheld specialists at newly founded Innogiant, Spooky Spirits: Puzzle Drop!!, will have players traveling the world, capturing  runaway spirits in various fun and exciting game modes designed for puzzle fanatics and casual players alike. Having fallen asleep on their watch and lost the Spookies, Becky and Tim are banished and risk losing their spirit warden jobs unless they manage to recapture these pesky ghosts. The unfortunate duo must search haunted locations on Earth to track down the Spookies including the Sphinx of Egypt, a Haunted House in England and an abandoned crypt in Finland featuring none other than Dead Santa himself.

Spooky Spirits: Puzzle Drop!! offers a unique twist on the classic falling block and “match-2” gameplay format. In the game, players build and expand stacks of Spookies in any direction and in any amount.

Three Game Modes:

• In the Panic Mode, players must clear each level by catching an appropriate amount of Spookies before the screen overfills.
• Puzzle Mode is a relaxed mode with no stress – players must outsmart the Spookies’ clever puzzles and beat them in their own game using only a limited number of blocks.
• Eternity Mode is a Tetris-inspired exhaust mode that just keeps going for as long as players can keep it at or reach the max-score of 9,999,999 points (that’s A LOT of Spookies to catch!).

Touch Controls:

• Swipe the screen to control the game, left and right selects blocks, up swaps them and down drops them!

Spooky Spirits: Puzzle Drop!! can be downloaded from the Apple App Store via iTunes or directly from compatible handsets and costs $1.99 (£1.19 or €1.59).

About Legendo Entertainment
Legendo Entertainment is an independent publisher and developer of computer and video games based on myths, legends, classic novels and historical events. Though its headquarters are located in Sweden, Legendo uses a distributed development model employing top talent from across the world. Legendo currently publishes and develops for the PC, Nintendo’s Wii system and Apple’s iPhone / iPod Touch.

About Innogiant
Innogiant is a newly founded games outfit located in Tampere, Finland. The studio specializes in developing downloadable games for handheld devices with its first title being Spooky Spirits: Puzzle Drop!! for Apple’s iPhone / iPod Touch.

Last night Steam rolled out an update for Shattered Horizon which added three popular features requested by our community.

“ROLL LEFT” AND “ROLL RIGHT” CAN NOW BE ASSIGNED TO INDIVIDUAL KEYS.
Fans of Descent, space-sims, and other six-degrees-of-freedom games now have more options to set up and play Shattered Horizon the way they want.

EACH GRENADE TYPE CAN BE ASSIGNED TO A QUICK SELECT KEY.
A quick-key for each grenade type makes it easier to select and fire the right one when under pressure.

CHANGES TO THE COLOR OF THE EMP GRENADE EFFECT.
The color of the EMP lightning effect on players has been changed from blue to white to better balance the effect on MMC players.

OTHER NEWS: GUEST PASSES
This week we have been giving Steam Guest Passes to all of our existing players. Those looking to try Shattered Horizon before they buy should have no problem getting a pass from a friend with the game or from one of the many generous people in our community forums.

Shattered Horizon forums:
http://futuremark.yougamers.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=93

Shattered Horizon forums on Steam:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=755

Full details of the update are listed below. If you have any questions about Shattered Horizon please feel free to get in touch.

PATCH NOTES – Shattered Horizon 1.0.2.3

NEW CONTROL OPTIONS
– Each grenade type can now be assigned to a separate quick-select key.
– “Roll left” and “Roll right” can now be assigned to individual keys.
You can adjust the roll speed when rolling with keys. While you are rolling with keys the mouse is completely free to aim.
– Both the mouse and the individual keys can be used to roll in-game, you don’t have to choose between them so are free to use different roll methods depending on which you prefer for each situation.
– Help screens and FPS-counter controls can now be bound to different keys in the controls menu.
– Added mouse wheel support to controls.

GAME CHANGES
– The color of the EMP lightning effect on players has been changed from blue to white. This change is to reduce confusion when MCC (yellow) players are EMPed. The EMP particle effect however is still blue and will be changed in a future update.
– When typing a message using in-game chat, a history of all in-game chat messages will appear. The text will disappear automatically after a short time.

BUG FIXES
– Firing the weapon in silent running mode now plays the correct muffled audio.
– Fixed a rare bug that caused rendering to freeze while the game continued running.
– Fixed an occasional issue that resulted in a player spawning into a level with too much speed.
– Fixed an issue with shadows initializing incorrectly, which could cause aliased sharp edges.
– Fixed a bug with in-game chat where lines of text could appear on top of each other.
– Fixed a bug that allowed in-game chat to be used while in silent running mode.

DEVIANTART CHALLENGES ARTISTS WITH  DARKSIDERS: THESE ARE YOUR LAST DAYS CONTEST 

Submit Your Interpretation of the Apocalypse to Win Video Game Prizes 

Hollywood, Calif., November 20 – deviantART today announced the Darksiders: These Your Last Days Contest, based on the highly-anticipated action-adventure game from THQ, Darksiders.  The contest will challenge deviantART’s online community of millions to create artwork depicting an apocalypse vision of their own.  The winners will be personally selected by Joe Madureira, the legendary comic book artist and Creative Director at Vigil Games, the development studio behind the game. Darksiders is scheduled to be available January 7, 2010 for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system 

Artists can submit their entries online to win prizes.  For rules, and more information about the Darksiders: These Are Your Last Days Contest, please visit  http://www.deviantart.com/darksiders 

“We are really excited to partner with THQ to bring this contest to the deviantART community,” said Heather Wetzler, deviantART’s vice-president of Advertising Sales “It’s a great opportunity to engage with both artists and gamers, and a privilege to be working with Joe Madureira.”  

Darksiders is an original action-adventure game that will plunge players into a near future world devastated by the apocalypse.  Developed by THQ’s internal development studio Vigil Games, Darksiders gives players the ability to experience the supernatural destructive power of WAR, one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, as he explores a demon ravaged world – seeking revenge and ultimate redemption with a vast array of modern and mythical weaponry. 

About deviantART

deviantART, Inc. runs the largest online art community in the world with over 80 million unique pieces of artwork and 30 million monthly unique users worldwide. Its past advertising integrations have included brands such as adidas, Wacom, nVidia, Focus Features, Mountain Dew and Scion. 

About THQ

THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) is a leading worldwide developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software. The company develops its products for all popular game systems, personal computers and wireless devices. Headquartered in Los Angeles County, California, THQ sells product through its global network of offices located throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. More information about THQ and its products may be found at www.thq.com and www.thqwireless.com. THQ, Vigil Games, Darksiders and their respective logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of THQ Inc. 

Microsoft, Xbox 360 and the Xbox logos are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and/or in other countries and are used under license from Microsoft. 

“PLAYSTATION” is a registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. 

All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

OPERATION FLASHPOINT^®: DRAGON RISING MULTIPLAYER PC DEMO OUT NOW! 

Insert behind enemy lines in Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising PC Demo – download Intel available at www.flashpointgame.com

It is with great pleasure I give you your first glimpse of the BioShock®2 Special Edition available in Australia and New Zealand on February 9, 2010 for the Xbox 360, PS3 and Games for Windows LIVE. The BioShock 2 Special Edition carries a suggested retail price of $149.95 (NZ $159.95) for Xbox 360 and PS3 and $129.95 (NZ $129.95) for Games for Windows LIVE. (Image of the BioShock 2 Special Edition is attached)  

The BioShock 2 Special Edition  celebrates the game’s unique music and art with contents inspired by the time period and the fantastic undersea world of Rapture.
 
The Special Edition contains the following:
 
·        12” Vinyl LP with BioShock orchestral score

·        Audio CD with BioShock 2 orchestral score

·        Three vintage Rapture advertisement posters (rolled)

·        BioShock 2 Art Book, 164 pages and hardcover

·        BioShock 2 game 

Both the BioShock®2 Special Edition will be limited to a single-production run, so be sure to pre-order now to avoid disappointment!

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