Strengthen your forces and battle for new territories with the next downloadable content pack for Mass Effect™ 3 multiplayer! Available to download at no additional charge*, the Mass Effect 3: Rebellion Pack adds two brand-new maps, a new team objective and a new equipment slot to the game’s critically-acclaimed cooperative experience. The Mass Effect 3: Rebellion Pack will also introduce new unlockable characters, including the Vorcha, ex-Cerberus operatives and Male Quarians. Also available are all new weapons and items that can be obtained through reinforcement packs in the game’s multiplayer store.

The Mass Effect 3: Rebellion Pack will be available starting May 29 on XboxLIVE® and the Origin™ client software and on PlayStation® Network in Australia and New Zealand on May 30.
The Mass Effect 3: Rebellion Pack includes the following content:

• Two New Action-Packed Maps – Land on Firebase Jade, located in a Salarian STG base on Sur’Keshand fight to control Firebase Goddesson the Asari homeworld of Thessia.
• Six Powerful New Unlockable Characters – Level and promote six new unlockable characters, including the ex-Cerberus Adept and Vanguard, the Vorcha Soldier and Sentinel or the Male Quarian Engineer and Infiltrator.
• New In-Mission Objective – Randomly occurring during waves 3, 6 and 10, this new objective will demand that teams retrieve a high priority package and securely escort it to a designated extraction zone on each map.
• New Gear Slot –A new slot will be available on the equipment screen, offering players a persistent gameplay bonus that will not expire after the end of a match. These new items will vary from weapon upgrades to character enhancements and will be available through reinforcement packs.
• Lethal New Weapons – Eliminate the enemy with deadly new weapons, including the Cerberus Harrier, Krysae Sniper Rifle, and Reegar Carbine.

As part of the Mass Effect 3 Galaxy at War** system, success in the cooperative  multiplayer experience in Mass Effect 3 links back to the player’s single-player campaign, helping Commander Shepard rally the forces of the galaxy to eliminate the Reaper threat once and for all. Multiplayer puts players in the role of a team of elite Special Forces soldiers sent to protect resources and assets that can help the greater war effort.
Mass Effect 3 has received over 75 perfect scores and won over 50 awards from critics around the world. For more information on Mass Effect 3, please visit http://masseffect.com, follow the game on Twitter at http://twitter.com/masseffect or “like” the game on Facebook at http://facebook.com/masseffect.

Melbourne Australia 25 May 2012 – Impulse Gamer interviews Triss Merigold from the Witcher 2. This rare and sanctioned interview from CD Projekt Red gives gamers an interesting insight into the mind and body of Triss Merigold. There’s also an interview with Grzegorz Rdzany, the Technical Producer. Read on!

Triss Merigold is the beautiful red headed sorceress from Maribor who played a key role in preventing a cataclysmic disaster and keeping the Northern Kingdoms from tearing apart the world. Triss is also romantically linked to Geralt of Rivia, a Witcher who some believe is the Kingslayer of King Foltest.

Welcome to Impulse Gamer Triss, can you tell the readers a little bit about you?

I’m just a simple sorceress. I was King Foltest’s mage advisor at one time, but right now I’ve become something of a freelancer and do not allow any king to command me.

If you want to know more, ask away (laughter).

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IRVINE, CALIFORNIA — MAY 25, 2012 — ATLUS ONLINE, a division of ATLUS dedicated to massively online gaming and entertainment, today launched commercial service for BattleSpace, their exciting new free-to-play, browser-based sci-fi MMORTS.  Continuing their partnership with Kongregate, ATLUS ONLINE confirmed that BattleSpace is also now available via the popular gaming portal.  To celebrate the official launch, ATLUS ONLINE is offering limited-time level up and Crowns events to encourage players to explore all of the rewards the game has to offer:

Players receive free in-game rewards for reaching each of the following level milestones:

*  100 Honor Medals for level 5

*  Ship parts gift package for level 10

For a limited time, players who use Crowns will earn bonuses with purchases:

*  300 Honor Medals for 7000 Crowns

*  Exclusive commander, Godwin, for 21000 Crowns

Players who opt not to participate in these events will still enjoy the server-wide benefits of 20% bonus commander EXP and 20% increase in flight speed till the 6/11 maintenance.

In BattleSpace, players take control of one of many different races vying for resources and dominance in an unclaimed galaxy overflowing with resources.  With real-time resource management, full-scale space wars, and limitless strategic possibilities that directly affect all allies and foes within the player-driven universe, BattleSpace delivers an accessible yet satisfyingly deep massively online strategy experience.  No download or installation requirements allow players to instantly command their own vast solar system and battle for control of the sector!

Ranked Above Music Studios, Software Developers, & Expensive Anti-Piracy Companies, Takedown Piracy Demonstrates Its Superior Services!

May 25, 2012 — CHATSWORTH, Calif. — Takedown Piracy is listed amongst Google’s top 5 reporters of copyright infringements.  The internet giant’s most current transparency report citing copyright statistics records the leading organizations requesting Google remove search results linking to allegedly infringing content (per Google.com).  Ranked above music studios, software developers, and anti-piracy companies costing more than 10 times as much, Google’s list demonstrates Takedown Piracy’s superior services.

To view Google’s list of top copyright infringement reporters, visit http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/.

To view Google’s profile on Takedown Piracy’s effectiveness, visit http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/reporters/1620/.

Takedown Piracy is the only anti-piracy company on Google’s top 5 list providing protection for adult entertainment companies.  The only other anti-piracy company in the top 5 exclusively represents companies like Microsoft Corporation and Lionsgate.

Takedown Piracy owner Nate Glass states, “Much of our effectiveness may be attributed to persistence.  It’s that persistence which has us in the same company as NBC / Universal and BPI for sheer volume of infringement reports to Google.  Actions speak louder than words, and I’m proud our clients can look on Google and see what we’ve done for them.”

Takedown Piracy’s new SEO program, Search Clean™, is responsible for eliminating infringements from even the largest search engines, like Google.  Combined with its custom tool, the Aikido Program™, Takedown Piracy is removing hundreds of thousands of copyright infringements at an incredible speed.

Takedown Piracy recently celebrated its 3-year anniversary combatting piracy.  Created by Nate Glass in 2009, Takedown Piracy is known for its highly effective and affordable services, while always operating with the utmost integrity.  Whether harnessing the power of its one-of-a-kind customs tools or following up on an individual file reported through its free piracy tip page, Takedown Piracy has been responsible for the removal of over 6.5 million copyright infringements.

For more information about Takedown Piracy, visit http://takedownpiracy.com/why-use-takedown-piracy/.

Takedown Piracy continues to be in the media spotlight for its renowned effectiveness fighting piracy.  Featured on CNBC.com, TechDirt.com, The Daily.com, the 1709 Blog, and more, word is spreading about the small but mighty company, and its David versus Goliath story.

Wanting to better involve the fans of Takedown Piracy’s numerous artist clients, the company created a tips page.  Millions of additional eyes provide Takedown Piracy with an army seeking out illegal downloads on torrent, tube and cyberlocker sites.  Users are asked to report the copyright owner and a link to the infringement.  To report a copyright violation using Takedown Piracy’s tip page, visit http://takedownpiracy.com/tips/.

Takedown Piracy actively tracks at least nine different ways content may be pirated, providing widespread coverage.  Takedown Piracy’s army of servers offer protection in the following areas: Cyberlocker sites like Rapidshare, Torrent sites, Tube sites, Auctioned or unauthorized DVD resellers, Search Engines, Image Hosts, Blogs, Forums, Social Media.

To view a statistical breakdown of infringements removed by Takedown Piracy, visit http://takedownpiracy.com/stats/. 

About Takedown Piracy:

Takedown Piracy (TDP) is an anti-piracy service started in April of 2009.  The service was founded by 14-year entertainment industry veteran Nate Glass.  TDP offers copyright holders an affordable and highly effective means to fight back against content thieves.  For less than the cost of a part-time, minimum wage worker, copyright holders can benefit from Glass’ expertise and passion for protecting copyrighted content from thieves.  To date, TDP has removed over 6.5 million content infringements.  Leading piracy websites are closely monitored to always provide clients with immediate service and protection.  Every month detailed reports are provided to clients with each action taken on their behalf.  A price can’t be placed on trust, but with Takedown Piracy, clients can be sure the company has their best interest in mind 100% of the time.  For more information, visit www.TakedownPiracy.com or www.Twitter.com/TakedownPiracy.

About Google:

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.  Google has packed a lot into a relatively young life.  Creators Larry Page and Sergey Brin named the search engine they built “Google,” a play on the word “googol,” the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros.   Google Inc. was born in 1998, when Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a check for $100,000 to that entity—which until then didn’t exist.  Since Google’s inception, it has grown to serve hundreds of thousands of users and customers around the world.  After going public in 2004, Google began to expand through its acquisition of companies like Keyhole and YouTube.  As of 2009, Alexa listed Google.com as the internet’s most visited site.  For more information, visit www.Google.com.

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Turbo-charged launch trailer now playing at www.dirtgame.com as DiRT Showdown races into retail

Friday May 25^th – Gamers are set to go fast, take chances and never give way as DiRT® Showdown™ speeds into ANZ stores, on the Codemasters Racing label. To mark the game’s retail release, Codemasters has unleashed a spectacular launch video featuring DiRT Showdown’s new brand of full-throttle, tyre-shredding, panel-smashing gameplay, now showing at www.dirtgame.com.

The launch video showcases the maximum-impact racing, bone-rattling destruction game modes, freestyle Hoonigan events and multiplayer party games set to take centre stage on DiRT Showdown’s World tour of motorised mayhem. From Miami to LA and San Francisco to Yokohama, the trailer features drivers taking down their rivals, boosting to overtake, hitting jumps and performing stunts as they go for the win across DiRT Showdown’s wide range of game modes. The video is now playing at www.dirtgame.com.

DiRT Showdown players have already done plenty of damage since the demo launched earlier this month.

Gamers have:

• Destroyed over three million cars in crashes
• Driven over five million miles
• Boosted for over 2000 days

These impressive results were recorded by RaceNet, the free new online extension for Codemasters Racing games that tracks and rewards player achievements. RaceNet launched in Beta mode alongside the DiRT Showdown Demo and will add extra functionality to mark the retail release of the game.

New features in the update will include players being invited to take part in regular community challenges and RaceNet events and the ability to add other RaceNet members as friends. Gamers will be able to earn new RaceNet Awards and XP which can be viewed on a new Driver Profile page and additional new pages will reflect the status of Showdown Challenges and enable players to compare best times and scores with their friends across a range of game modes. Gamers can enjoy these new features and more by registering at www.racenet.com.

DiRT Showdown will deliver a new world of competitive and combative racing as players race, crash and hoon their way to ‘Showdown’ finals to perform in front of thousands of fans when it launches in Australia & New Zealand today for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft®, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and PC.

A special ‘Hoonigan’ edition of DiRT Showdown is available from leading Australasian retailers. Sporting unique packaging, the DiRT Showdown: Hoonigan Edition will include an in-game cash boost, an online XP multiplier plus Monster Energy liveries for the Kohler D350, Duke Coupe and Ford Fiesta Gymkhana 3 and Hoonigan liveries for the Holbrook Growler, Logan Vulture and Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X JUN, redeemed via an online code.

For all the latest updates straight from the studio, crash over to www.dirtgame.com, www.facebook.com/dirtgame or follow the team at www.twitter.com/dirtgame.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – May 25, 2012 – Phenomic™, the Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) studio dedicated to developing world-class free-to-play games, today announced that Command & Conquer™ Tiberium Alliances,has completed beta testing and is now officially live worldwide. Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances is a browser-based, massively multiplayer online (MMO) strategy game where players choose one of two playable factions, the Global Defense Initiative (GDI) or the Nod, harvesting resources, building huge armies, fostering strategic alliances, all in the pursuit of victory.

Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances is now available and fully localized in 11 languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, and Turkish. Gamers around the world can get in on the action and fight for territory by visiting www.tiberiumalliances.com. In the game, players are pit against each other and against AI-controlled factions in an intense and strategic battle for territory domination. Gamers spend resources to build bases and strengthen armies before deploying their forces against the enemy, constantly adapting to a dynamic theatre of war, where alliances shift and power over territories change constantly. With integrated in-game status and news feeds, players are updated on their allies and enemies, forcing them to strategize, adapt, and react on the spot.

As the first free-to-play, cross-platform MMO strategy game, Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances is the only game to offer true, anytime, anywhere gameplay. In the coming months, the game will feature cloud-saved game data to make it accessible across web browsers and mobile devices. Players can play from their desktop at home, or on the go from their smartphone or tablet. Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances is one of two highly-anticipated releases in the  Command & Conquer franchise available in the coming months. In December 2011, it was announced that internationally acclaimed developer, BioWare™ are developing  Command & Conquer Generals 2 utilizing the advanced Frostbite™ 2 game engine. For more information on  Command & Conquer Generals 2, please visit  www.commandandconquer.com, and for information on  Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances and to begin playing for free, please visit  www.tiberiumalliances.com.

Today sees the playable demo for Steel Battalion Heavy Armor hit Xbox LIVE. Experience the true feeling of war by taking control of a Vertical Tank and getting introduced to your fellow crew members in the first two levels of the game. A Kinect for Xbox 360 exclusive, Steel Battalion Heavy Armor is set for release on June 21st in Australia.

The Starlight Children’s Foundation thanks gamers around Australia for their continued efforts to brighten the lives of seriously ill and hospitalised children and their families during Starlight Week 2012.

Starlight Week kicked off in 400 EB Games stores nationally on the 30^thof April to the 6^th of May, with the EB Games team hosting in-store competitions, an all-night gaming challenge and collecting donations to raise $500,000 towards the target of $2 Million for Starlight Day 2012.

Elisha Mackenzie, EB Games Marketing Manager thanked all the generous customers for their support during Starlight Week: “EB Games would like to say a massive thank you to all our generous customers that donated during Starlight Week 2012. This year’s result is simply amazing and could not have been achieved without local community support right across Australia.”

Louise Baxter, CEO of the Starlight Children’s Foundation talks about the impact EB Games will have on Starlight programs: “The funds raised by EB Games and its staff will be vital in continuing to deliver our Starlight programs across Australia.”

“Every minute of every day a child is admitted to hospital. Thousands of these admissions will lead to a diagnosis that will impact upon the whole family, and change their lives forever. Starlight’s programs are developed to distract children in hospital from the pain and stress of their illness and transform their experience of illness and treatment into a positive one.  Starlight relies on the generosity of partners like EB Games to continue to brighten the lives of these children.

Starlight’s relationship with EB Games began in 2007 with donations of gaming consoles to update the Starlight Express Rooms around the country and soon blossomed as EB Games joined the Starlight Day fundraising effort.

“EB Games are proud to be a Starlight supporter as it allows our whole team to give back not only in a monetary sense but most importantly in a personal sense through hospital visits and VIP Shopping Experiences. The joy that an individual can give a hospitalised child just by spending time with them is invaluable and we look forward to continuing to dedicate our time to this special initiative”, Mackenzie stated.

To make a donation or to find out how you can support the Starlight Children’s Foundation, visit www.starlight.org.au or call 1300 727 827

The Moscow Metro. A monumental feat of Soviet engineering, with a dark secondary purpose – to serve as a refuge in the event of an atomic attack. As the Cold War thawed and the threat of nuclear annihilation seemed to fade, this purpose was forgotten – except by a few, waiting for the signal, ready to open the vaults… the last refuge for the remnants of mankind.

May 25th, 2012 – Two new Pokémon titles for Nintendo 3DS are coming soon, complementing the upcoming launch of Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2 for the Nintendo DS family of systems later this year. In addition to the new entries into the series, Pokédex 3D Pro and Pokémon Dream Radar will both release in Australia and New Zealand in Spring 2012, giving players new ways to capture and learn about their favourite Pokémon.

Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2 bring players back to the Unova region two years after the events of Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version. Players who are familiar with Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version will immediately notice that the Unova region has transformed significantly in the new games. Embark on a brand new adventure starting in the new Aspertia City and discover what strange events are occurring and why the Unova region has changed two years after Team Plasma’s defeat.

Players can also look forward to two new Legendary Pokémon, Black Kyurem and White Kyurem, which are featured on the games’ packaging. These powerful Legendary Pokémon each boast new devastating Ice-type signature moves; Black Kyurem knows Freeze Shock and White Kyurem comes ready for battle with Ice Burn. Black Kyurem will be available exclusively in Pokémon Black Version 2, while White Kyurem will only be found in Pokémon White Version 2. Developed for the Nintendo DS family of systems, the games can also be played on the Nintendo 3DS system in 2D mode.

Pokémon Dream Radar lets players use several different features of the Nintendo 3DS system, including the Nintendo 3DS camera, motion control, and augmented reality technology by moving the Nintendo 3DS to discover hidden Pokémon. Shooting the Pokémon with beams allows players to catch them. Caught Pokémon from Pokémon Dream Radar can be transferred into Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2, helping players build their roster of Pokémon. Pokémon Dream Radar also includes some hard to get Pokémon, giving players even more incentive to catch them for their game. Pokémon Dream Radar will be available for purchase via download from the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS.

Pokédex 3D Pro is a fully enhanced and upgraded version of the original Pokédex 3D application that includes detailed information about the more than 600 Pokémon featured in the history of the Pokémon video game series. Pokédex 3D Pro will include in-depth sorting, comparison and ranking tools, as well as comprehensive details on what moves each Pokémon can learn and how it evolves. The application also includes extensive augmented reality capabilities, including the ability to take photos of Pokémon in the real world. With Pokédex 3D Pro, all Pokémon are unlocked from the start, allowing players to access a wealth of information that will be useful as they play through Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2. Pokédex 3D Pro will be available for purchase via download from the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS.

For more information about Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2, Pokédex 3D Pro and Pokémon Dream Radar, visit www.pokemon.com.