All your top EA mobile games on sale to celebrate Chinese New Year 

SYDNEY – 20 January, 2012 –  EA Mobile celebrates the Lunar New Year With Super-Hot Deals

All of EA Mobile’s top rated games in Asia available for $0.99 

SYDNEY – 20 January, 2012 – EA Mobile is ringing in the Lunar New Year with great deals across their top selling iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad games in Asia. 

Starting today through 25 January 2012, EA Mobile will be slashing prices on the following titles to only $0.99. 

FIFA 12 (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad)

Need For Speed Hot Pursuit (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad)

Command and Conquer (iPad)

Monopoly (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad)

Real Racing 2 (iPhone)

Tetris (iPad)

Trenches 2 (iPhone)

SimCity Deluxe (iPad) 

Get in fast! This deal is only for a limited time!

This February, fall in love with having fun again! IMAX Melbourne is giving visitors a chance to experience the world’s greatest rock band, ‘The Rolling Stones’ on the giant screen; feel the adrenaline of surfing massive waves; and return to Pandora.  

This year is the 50^th Anniversary of the Stones. To celebrate, IMAX Melbourne Museum has the ultimate summer treat for all ages: two tickets for the price of one to experience all our films, including Rolling Stones: Live at the Max. 

According to IMAX Melbourne Museum General Manager Richard Morrison, this will put a bounce in your step no matter how old you are. 

“The Stones really has been a band that transcended time. Whether you saw the band tour Australia in 1965, experienced the vibe when they came back in 1973, or wished you were in Europe for their 1990 Urban Jungle Tour, this is your chance to relive it,” said Mr Morrison. 

Rolling Stones: Live at the Max was filmed with IMAX cameras during their 1990 Urban Jungle Tour in Europe and sees the band completely fill the seven storey IMAX screen. 

According to reviewer Roger Ebert in a 1992 review, this is ‘the greatest concert film ever made’. Suntimes.com.  

“Dance in the aisles as you experience the Stones rock out on the world’s (3^rd) largest screen with 15,000 watt digital surround sound,” said Mr Morrison. 

Live at the Max, is just one of the favourites IMAX Melbourne Museum is bringing back for you to enjoy with a mate this February; also returning is the ultimate adrenaline-junkie flick, Extreme  and Avatar 3D: Special edition.  

“With big wave surfing, amazing rock climbing and other adventure sports, Extreme at IMAX Melbourne is the ultimate movie for adrenaline junkies this February,” said Mr. Morrison. 

“And with ground breaking special effects that create the stunning world of Pandora, Avatar 3D: Special Edition still captures hearts and imaginations across the globe. Feel the love again.” 

Free Friend in Feb at IMAX 

Extreme:                                             Limited screenings from 3 February, 2012

Rolling Stones: Live at the Max:      Limited screenings from 10 February, 2012

Avatar 3D: Special Edition:              Limited screenings from 17 February, 2012

                                                            IMAX Melbourne Museum, Carlton Gardens

Tickets and session times:  www.imaxmelbourne.com.au or at the box office

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Malware to increase attacks on android, social networks 

SYDNEY & AUCKLAND – January 19, 2012 – Malware will expand by 23 per cent in 2012 to 90,000,000 samples, almost 17 million more than at the end of 2011, according to Bitdefender®, the award-winning provider of innovative antivirus solutions. 

The data forms part of E-Threats Landscape Report, which looks ahead at the expected evolution of malware in social media networks including Facebook and Twitter, on mobile devices, and the predicted overall growth of cyber crime. 

The report is now available for download at http://www.bitdefender.com.au/news/#E-Threats Reports. It also predicts that much of the new malware and cyber fraud will focus on rapidly growing social networks in 2012, while malware for Android devices will significantly boost the number of threats to smartphones and tablets. 

“The story of 2012 in terms of malware will be one of explosive growth, mostly because of the spread and growing allure of social networks,” said Bitdefender E-Threats Analyst Bogdan Botezatu, who coordinated the report. “Android malware will undergo exponential growth, but starting from a much lower base of malware samples.” 

The Landscape Report, compiled from over a year of detection, prevention and removal worldwide, also includes a Top 10 overview of malware in 2011. It covers developments in hacktivism and abuse of digital certificates, and provides a breakdown of spam messages, which accounted for 75.1 per cent of all emails sent worldwide last year.

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Bethesda Softworks are pleased to announce that DOOM, originally released in 1993 by id Software, is now available once again for download on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace worldwide.
 
Face off against Hell’s army as you experience the revolution of DOOM. Lay waste to hordes of demonic monsters with an arsenal of classic weapons including the infamous BFG 9000. Take the deathmatch online via LIVE and battle your friends for dominance of the leaderboards, or team-up with a friend in co-op.
 
DOOM is available for download for 400 Microsoft Points.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 will be available for release on March 29th in Australia and March 30th in New Zealand.

SYDNEY, Australia – 19 January 2012 – Kaspersky Lab has been awarded “Product of the Year” by the respected independent testing laboratory, AV-Comparatives, based on overall test results from 2011.

The award is based on the findings of nine different comparative tests of consumer anti-virus solutions conducted over the year, which in Kaspersky Lab’s case means two products – Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Kaspersky Internet Security. Significantly, Kaspersky Lab was the only participant to have been awarded the highest grade – Advanced+ – in all nine tests.

“What sets Kaspersky Lab apart from its competitors is the fact that our products provide superior detection rates and one of the industry’s fastest outbreak response times,” explains Andrew Mamonitis, Managing Director ANZ, Kaspersky Lab.

“Kaspersky Lab is using the most advanced and effective protection technologies to ensure customers are protected without having to become a computer expert. It’s about making our customers’ lives as simple as possible, while ensuring they have the best protection available.”

In deciding on the winner in the nomination of Product of the Year, AV-Comparatives’ experts evaluated solutions’ level of detection of malicious programs and effectiveness of heuristic algorithms, the number of false positives, resource usage, how well an infected system is treated, and effectiveness in “real-world” user scenarios. Each of these parameters was assessed objectively based on the results in the respective tests carried out during the year.

Throughout 2011 Kaspersky Lab products participated in nine comparative tests of either anti-virus solutions or Internet security suites. In each, the solutions’ different functional characteristics for protecting a computer from today’s threats were evaluated. In all tests both Kaspersky Lab solutions received Advanced+, with excellent results in the two principle indicators of any consumer security solution’s quality – effectiveness of malware detection and minimal false positives. AV-Comparatives also highly praised Kaspersky Lab’s products’ ability to fully cure systems infected with malware and their overall minimal resource usage. Consequently, for the third time in the history of the annual awards, Kaspersky Lab won Product of the Year.

Particular commendation in AV-Comparatives’ annual review report was reserved for Kaspersky Internet Security 2012. The review of the product highlighted its easy installation, its full operability in Windows’ safe mode, and the quality of online user support. The program’s new user interface and comprehensive technical documentation were also highly commended.

The full AV-Comparatives 2011 summary report can be found on the site of the testing laboratory.

To learn more about Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012, visit: https://www.kasperskyanz.com.au/kaspersky_internet_security 

To stay updated with Kaspersky Lab ANZ news and products, check out the Kaspersky Lab ANZ Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/#!/KasperskyLabANZ.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – January 19, 2012 – Award-winning developer BioWare, a label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA), announced today that the demo for 2012’s first blockbuster game, Mass Effect™ 3 will be available beginning February 14, 2012. The extensive demo will allow players to experience the all-out galactic war against an ancient alien race known as the Reapers from multiple fronts, including the mind-blowing opening attack on Earth that kicks off the single-player campaign. Players will go deeper into the campaign and also get a taste of the franchise’s new co-operative multiplayer mode as they preview the epic story, adrenaline-pumping action and deep customization options that lie ahead when Mass Effect 3 launches on March 8, 2012. The Mass Effect 3 demo will be available for the Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and PC. Mass Effect 3 will also be one of the first pre-launch demos to support full voice recognition functionality on Kinect™ for Xbox 360.

“We are excited to be able to give gamers an expansive demo that will put them right on the front lines of this all-out galactic war,” said Casey Hudson, Executive Producer of the Mass Effect series. “The entire scale of the game is bigger than anything we’ve ever done. With its intense action, deep customization and raw emotional power, Mass Effect 3 will deliver a spectacular action RPG experience to fans of the series and newcomers alike.”

In Mass Effect 3, players will be thrust into an all-out galactic war to take Earth back and save the entire galaxy, assuming the role of Commander Shepard, a war-torn veteran who’s willing to do whatever it takes to eliminate this nearly unstoppable foe. With a team of elite, battle-hardened soldiers at your side, each player decides how they will take Earth back, from the weapons and abilities they utilize to the relationships they forge or break. Mass Effect 3 also features a new co-operative gameplay mode that allows fans to experience the war from a different perspective. Players who want to try this new mode will be able to do so on February 17, or by qualifying for early access to the co-op portion of the demo which begins February 14. Gamers qualify for early access if they have activated their Battlefield 3™ online pass* or though other opportunities that will be announced in the near future www.masseffect.com.

Recently named by over 100 outlets around the world as one of the most anticipated games of 2012, including winning the fan-voted Most Anticipated Game of 2012 award at the Spike TV VGAs, Mass Effect 3 is available for pre-order now at participating retailers. Fans who pre-order** have the opportunity to arm themselves with cutting-edge in-game weapons and armor to prepare for the all-out galactic war. Mass Effect 3 arrives on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC in Australia on March 8, 2012 and in New Zealand on March 9, 2012. 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.

*Conditions and restrictions apply. Early access requirement and availability may differ by platform and/or region. See www.masseffect.com for more details.

** Conditions and restrictions apply. See http://masseffect.bioware.com/me3/game/preorderbonus/ for more details.