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New DVD, Blu-ray Releases – Press Release

Michael Haneke’s Academy Award® winning, critically acclaimed AMOUR releases on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download today!

Up next we have Eli Roth’s THE LAST EXORCISM PART II and the TRUE JUSTICE SEASON 2 BOX SET on July 31 followed by five fantastic titles releasing on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download in August – just in time for Father’s Day!

EMPEROR

Inspired by true events and starring Academy Award® winner Tommy Lee Jones as General Douglas MacArthur and Matthew Fox as General Bonner Fellers, EMPEROR is a gripping tale of love and honour forged between fierce enemies of war.

Available on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download August 21

A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III

Directed by Roman Coppola and starring Charlie Sheen, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Patricia Arquette and Aubrey Plaza, A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III is a playful comedy of lost love, friendship, revenge fantasies and Brandy Alexanders.

Available on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download August 21

KON-TIKI

Academy Award® and Golden Globe nominated KON-TIKI is the true story of an astonishing voyage across the sea and an epic journey of courage, faith, and friendship.

Available on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download August 28

PASSION

Directed by Brian De Palma and starring Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace, PASSION is an erotic thriller about a deadly power struggle between two women in the cutthroat world of international business.

Available on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download August 28

TOP OF THE LAKE

Jane Campion’s stunning TV series starring Elisabeth Moss, Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan and David Wenham, TOP OF THE LAKE is a powerful and haunting mystery exploring our search for happiness and the dark secrets we keep hidden. From the Academy Award® winning producers of THE KING’S SPEECH and SHAME.

Available on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download August 28 TBC

In stores now (released June 12):

AUGUSTINE
COCKNEYS VS ZOMBIES
WINSTON CHURCHILL: WALKING WITH DESTINY

Source: Transmission Films

 
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AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000 Powers Rubicon Project’s Advertising Trading Platform

 – Real-time trading platform for buying and selling digital ads manages over 3 trillion bid transactions per month –

SYDNEY, Australia. ? 18 June, 2013 ? AMD today announced that its SeaMicro SM15000™ server is the foundation for Rubicon Project’s REVV, the world’s largest, fastest and easiest-to-use independent real-time trading platform for buying and selling digital ads. The REVV platform currently reaches 97 percent of all U.S. Internet users, as measured by comScore’s reach measurement, and processes transactions between more than 500 of the world’s premium publishers and over 140,000 advertisers across a massive marketplace. AMD and Rubicon Project worked closely to create the RubiCube, a standardised, tightly integrated micro-POP-in-a-box solution, which will provide Rubicon Project with an operational competitive edge in all its key markets.

“The scale at which we must operate is hard to fathom. We have the challenge of inventing technologies that can handle hundreds of billions of transactions, and we needed a partner that was willing to help us break out of the constraints of the traditional data center,” said Jan Gelin, vice president, Real Time Cloud, Rubicon Project. “AMD has been an amazing partner, and we could not have created the RubiCube without the unique innovations of the SeaMicro SM15000.”

The scale and reach of REVV requires a commitment to engineering excellence from the hardware to the network to the software. This need for innovative engineering led Rubicon Project and AMD to create the RubiCube, a single SeaMicro SM15000-based hardware platform which replaces two racks of equipment and slashed provisioning times from six months to five days.

“Rubicon Project has some one of the most demanding applications with very high performance requirements, and AMD was up to the challenge of supporting its growth and expansion,” said Dhiraj Mallick, corporate vice president and general manager, Data Center Server Solutions, AMD. “The SeaMicro SM15000 system provides computing efficiency and allows our customers to achieve best-in-class operational efficiencies as well.”

The SeaMicro SM15000 system is the highest-density, most energy-efficient server on the market. In 10-rack units, it links 512 compute cores, 160 gigabits of I/O networking and more than five petabytes of storage with a 1.28 terabit high-performance supercomputer fabric called Freedom™ Fabric. The SM15000 server eliminates top-of-rack switches, terminal servers, hundreds of cables and thousands of unnecessary components for a more efficient and streamlined operational environment.

AMD’s SeaMicro server product family currently supports the next-generation AMD Opteron™ (“Piledriver” core) processor, as well as Intel’s ® Xeon® E3-1260L (“Sandy Bridge”), E3-1265Lv2 (“Ivy Bridge”) and Atom™ N570 processors. The SeaMicro SM15000 also supports the Freedom Fabric Storage products, enabling a single system to connect with more than five petabytes of storage capacity in two racks. This approach delivers the benefits of expensive and complex solutions, such as network attached storage (NAS) and storage area networking (SAN), with the simplicity and low cost of direct attached storage.

Read more about how Rubicon Project uses the SM15000 to enable global micro-POP standardisation.

 
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown is coming to iOS this Thursday, June 20th

2K and Firaxis Games are happy to announce that the award winning XCOM: Enemy Unknown will be coming to iOS devices this Thursday, June 20th. The game will be available via the iTunes App Store for AU$20.99/NZ$24.99 for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch (complete list of supported devices is below). XCOM: Enemy Unknown for iOS takes the complete XCOM experience of the console and PC version of the game and optimizes it for the touch interface of iOS devices. XCOM: Enemy Unknown for iOS is a universal app that includes GameCenter support and utilizes iCloud functionality so players can save games across their iOS devices. While not included at launch on June 20th, the popular head-to-head multiplayer mode in XCOM: Enemy Unknown will be added to iOS at a later date as a free update.

 
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NAMCO BANDAI GAMES LAUNCHES TEKKEN REVOLUTION EXCLUSIVELY FOR PLAYSTATION NETWORK ON PLAYSTATION 3

TEKKEN Enters the Free-To-Play Arena Today in North America and Tomorrow in Europe

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – Leading video game publisher and developer, NAMCO BANDAI Games. today unloaded a one-two punch to the free-to-play landscape by releasing TEKKEN REVOLUTION™, the latest title from their 42+million unit selling TEKKEN® franchise, exclusively for PlayStation®Network on the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system in North America and on the 12th of June in Europe. The long-running TEKKEN series continues to revolutionize the fighting game genre by offering the full TEKKEN gameplay experience free-of-charge to the millions of PlayStation 3 system owners connected to the PlayStation Network.

Crafted by NAMCO BANDAI Games’ internal TEKKEN development team, TEKKEN REVOLUTION provides fighting game fans and newcomers alike the hard-hitting gameplay of the famed franchise.  Choose from an initial cast of eight iconic TEKKEN characters to train and battle with against AI opponents in Arcade Mode and fearsome rivals spanning the globe through online Ranked and Player Matches.  New bone-crushing special moves have been implemented and some command inputs revised to lower the barrier of entry for new players and allow advanced players to employ new strategies.  For the first time in TEKKEN history players will be able to level-up their characters, increasing three key attributes; Strength, Endurance and Vigor, to create a combatant tuned to individual play styles.  Develop a defensive tank character with high HP to withstand knockout blows while offense focused players can create a damage-inflicting character with low health but high critical hit rates to devastate opponents with a flurry of attacks.

“We are extremely proud that the TEKKEN franchise will be the first in the fighting game genre to adopt the free-to-play business model for the console market,” said Katsuhiro Harada, TEKKEN series director.  “By going free-to-play, we hope to open up the fighting game community to a larger audience. We are excited to see everyone’s reaction to the Special Arts, Critical Arts, and the character enhancement system but we also have several major updates with added content scheduled so we hope everyone will stay tuned!”

TEKKEN REVOLUTION is now available for download free on the PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3 system.  For more information on TEKKEN REVOLUTION or other NAMCO BANDAI GAMES, please visit http://www.namcobandaigames.com.and http:///www.facebook.com/namcobandai. To join the TEKKEN conversation, please follow http://www.twitter.com/Harada_TEKKEN..

You can view the trailer for Tekken Revolution on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPMUYhYmhyo

 
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The Sims 3 Island Paradise is Heating Up!

The Sims 3 Island Paradise is on the horizon! With this summer’s hottest offering releasing next week, The Sims Studio reveals today the never before seen trailer that captures all the fun in the sun moments that await players this tropical world.

With mermaids, monsters, shark attacks, underwater woohoo and so much more, The Sims 3 Island Paradise delivers hysterical and horrific gameplay moments that are sure to leave your Sims yearning for their next adventure.

 
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Need For Speed Rivals Interactive E3 Gameplay Trailer

Need for Speed Rivals will be out in Australia on the 21st of November 2013 for the Xbox 360® games and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and PC. Assets and additional information can be found here on the ANZ press site.

 
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Download the Company of Heroes 2 E3 demo today

You have read about the Company of Heroes 2 demo shown at E3 and now you can try it for yourself by simply visiting the game’s page on Steam.

The demo is part of the game’s campaign and comes from a mid-game mission called ‘The Land Bridge to Leningrad’ where the player will be asked to cross a frozen lake under heavy German fire. The demo is a portion of the full level included in the retail game.

This mission will be included as part of the currently running Open Beta on Steam.  Players who have the beta installed will notice the Campaign button on the title screen is now unlocked. Clicking on it will take them to the mission select screen where the demo can be launched. New players will need to download the Open Beta from the game’s page on Steam http://store.steampowered.com/app/231430/.

There are tutorial videos available in the build to help any new players familiarize themselves with the Company of Heroes 2 control system.

This demo will be available to play along with the Open Beta up until Tuesday, June 18th.

Company of Heroes™ 2 will be available for PC on June 25th 2013. For more information check www.companyofheroes.com, and to download SEGA game assets, please visit www.sega-press.com.

 
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Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is releasing Dynamo: Magician Impossible Season 2 on Blu-ray™ and DVD from August 8, 2013.

The award-winning series, Dynamo: Magician Impossible returns bigger and better than ever pushing the boundaries of magic and illusion in this amazing second series. Prepare to be amazed by astounding tricks that challenge even the greatest of cynics with Dynamo: Magician Impossible Season 2.

This season brings even more cards to the table, revolutionising the humble magician’s trade. Dynamo vanishes through glass walls, walks on water wearing nothing on his feet but a pair of trainers and turns snow into diamonds.

 
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Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is releasing Oblivion on DVD and Blu-ray from August 8th, 2013.

Tom Cruise (three-time Golden Globe® Award winner and Academy Award® nominee) and Morgan Freeman (Academy Award®, Golden Globe® and Screen Actors Guild Award® winner) battle to save the world in Oblivion, their first movie together and this year’s ground-breaking cinematic event from the director of TRON: Legacy and the producer of Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

 
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Introducing The PlayRoom, only for PlayStation 4

PlayStation Australia is today pleased to reveal The PlayRoom, a technical demonstration of the new experiences made possible with PlayStation 4.

The PlayRoom video shows what happens when the new features of the DualShock 4 controller combine with the PlayStation 4 Camera to create a fun and new augmented reality entertainment experience.

  • Light Bar – tracked by the PlayStation 4 Camera to create augmentations, like holographic panels around you on screen.
  • Touch Pad – easy to use for scrolling and interacting in the various AR environments. Players can touch, move and play with AR characters like Asobi, an interactive flying robot who comes out to play in your living room.
  • Motion Sensor – take a look at how a classic Air Hockey game is given a holographic visual treatment, with players stretching, twisting and bending to try to get the upper hand.
  • Improved Dual Motors – watch how you can interact in different ways with AR Bots via the DualShock 4 controller’s Dual Motors and Speaker.

The PlayRoom brings in other devices too for a fully connected experience. The video shows how using your mobile phone, tablet or PlayStation Vita, you can draw anything you like, flick it and it becomes a 3D plastic toy for the AR Bots to chase after.

This video is just the beginning of what will be possible with the PlayStation 4 Camera and DualShock 4 controller and we’ll be sharing more updates on the capabilities with you in the future.

Click HERE to watch the PlayRoom video demonstration

 
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