Sam Fisher is Back with New Mandate to Take Down an Escalating Terrorist Threat

SYDNEY — June 5, 2012 —Today, at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Ubisoft^® unveiled the development of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist, the next blockbuster title in the critically acclaimed Tom Clancy franchise. The game will be available worldwide for the Xbox 360^® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation^®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC in autumn 2013.

As the first production project from Ubisoft Toronto, with support from Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Shanghai, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist delivers a gripping modern-day special-ops storyline with a new level of technical innovation and quality. The game includes voice recognition features on Kinect™ for Xbox 360^®, an arsenal of new gadgets and reinvented classic weapons and a new “Killing-in-Motion” fighting style, which allows players to strike with lethal precision by marking and executing multiple enemies in one fluid motion.

In the game, a group of rogue nations have had enough of the United States’ military presence in their countries. In an effort to force the withdrawal of the U.S. forces, they mastermind “The Blacklist,” a countdown of escalating terrorist attacks on U.S. assets. Given a presidential mandate and the power to act above the law, players take on the role of lethal operative Sam Fisher. Outfitted with Sam’s infamous tactical suit and goggles, players will infiltrate terrorist cells while using ruthless interrogation methods to extract crucial information to prevent the next Blacklist attack.

The thrilling storyline and wide range of intense, eye-opening missions will propel players to find those responsible for these deadly assaults by any means necessary. Throughout the game, Sam and Fourth Echelon seek out their missions aboard a new Mobile Command Center housed inside a stealth aircraft. Ready to take off at a moment’s notice, Fourth Echelon is equipped with unlimited resources and cutting-edge technology including a Strategic Mission Interface that reports global events in real time.

“Ubisoft Toronto has taken great care to develop an evolutionary Sam Fisher experience that takes the franchise to dramatic new heights,” said Maxime Beland, creative director at Ubisoft. “With exciting gameplay enhanced by full motion-capture performances, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist offers a highly cinematic experience that will immerse fans and gamers new to the series in an intricate, action-packed adventure.”

For more information on Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist, please visit: http://splintercell.ubi.com/blacklist/en-GB/

Trailers:

Gameplay trailer – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuhfD48VRGE

Interview with Michael Ironside – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_e3Li6CFzc

Character vignette – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njwUry0u3Yw

SYDNEY — June 5, 2012 — Today at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Ubisoft debuted its new, ground-breaking intellectual property, an open-world action-adventure game called Watch Dogs.

Development of Watch Dogs is being led by Ubisoft Montreal, with a team comprised of industry veterans from blockbuster franchises like Assassin’s Creed^®, Rainbow 6^® and Far Cry™.  Watch Dogs blends cutting-edge technologies and sophisticated game design into a realistic and living open world where players must use any means at their disposal to take down a corrupt system.

In Watch Dogs, players enter the dangerous world of Aiden Pearce, a new class of antihero whose ability to hack into any connected system could be his most powerful weapon.  Whether it’s triggering a 30-car pileup by manipulating traffic-lights to trap an enemy during a downtown shootout or tapping into the city’s omnipresent security cameras to access anyone’s personal information, Pearce is capable of coercing and controlling almost every element of the world around him.

“Watch Dogs goes beyond the limits of today’s open-world games by giving players the ability to control an entire city,” said Jonathan Morin, creative director, Ubisoft.  “In Watch Dogs, anything connected to the city’s Central Operating System becomes a weapon.  By pushing the boundaries, we can provide players with action and access to information on a scale that’s never been seen in a video game before.”

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE INTRODUCTION TRAILER 

CLICK HERE TO WATCH GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE

PROMETHEUS: THE IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE

Ridley Scott, director of ALIEN and BLADE RUNNER, returns to the genre he helped define. In PROMETHEUS 3D, he brings us yet another groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of humanity within an advanced alien civilisation. See it on the world’s largest 3D screen at IMAX Melbourne Museum. Tickets are now on sale.

Opens: 7 June, 2012

Tickets: $25.50 adult, $21.00 concession, $18.00 child

TO THE ARCTIC 3D

Take a journey to the majestic and unforgiving Arctic and follow one extraordinary polar bear mother on the ultimate journey of love and survival. TO THE ARCTIC 3D brings you up, close and personal with this family’s struggle to survive in a frigid environment of melting ice, immense glaciers, spectacular waterfalls and majestic snow-bound peaks.

Opens: 21 June, 2012

Tickets: $18.00 Adult, $14.50 Concession, $13.50 Child, $55.00 Family (2 adults & 2 children)

ARCTIC WINTER AT IMAX

Snow in Melbourne? Your better believe it! To celebrate the opening of TO THE ARCTIC 3D, IMAX Melbourne Museum will be hosting a fun filled snow weekend on the IMAX plaza! Kids will get to play in real snow, build snow men, have snow fights and take photos with an 8 foot giant snow polar bear!

When: 23-24June, 10-3pm

Where: IMAX Melbourne Museum plaza

Cost: Free

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: THE IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE

One of the world’s most popular superheros is back as a new chapter in the Spider-Man legend unfolds. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents’ disappearance – leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors, his father’s former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors’ alter-ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero.

Opens: 4 July, 2012, for a strictly limited two week season

Tickets: $25.50 adult, $21.00 concession, $18.00 child 

DARK KNIGHT TRILOGY EVENT

Get ready for the movie event of the year! IMAX Melbourne Museum will be screening BATMAN BEGINS, THE DARK KNIGHT and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES in the ultimate movie marathon event. That’s nine hours of heart pumping Batman action and 90 minutes of explosive IMAX footage, all on the world’s 3rd largest screen! Tickets go on sale Monday 11 June at 9am.

When: 18 July 6pm & 19 July 6am

Tickets: $75, includes three films and dinner/breakfast box. For more details go to http://www.imaxmelbourne.com.au/movie/dark_knight_trilogy  

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE

Get ready for the highly anticipated Batman finale you have all been waiting for in IMAX! THE DARK KNIGHT RISES will feature over an hour of IMAX sequences, shot specifically for IMAX screens and double the amount of THE DARK KNIGHT! IMAX Melbourne Museum is one of only 100 theatres in the world that will screen THE DARK KNIGHT RISES as it was truly intended to be experienced by director Christopher Nolan. Gotham City is once again threatened by the bone crushing, master villain Bane. The caped crusader must return once again to take on the ultimate villain. Tickets to the first two sessions on 19 July – 3am and 3.15pm, go on sale online, on Monday 11 June at 9am. Subsequent sessions will then be released Tuesday 12 June at 9am.

Opens: 19 July, 2012

Tickets: $25.50 adult, $21.00 concession, $18.00 child 

IMAX Melbourne Museum, Rathdowne Street, Carlton.  Films screen daily from 10.00am. For session times visit www.imaxmelbourne.com.au or call 03 9663 5454. For live daily film updates follow us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Chairman Jonney Shih unveils ASUS Open Cloud Computing, integrating software, services and the ultimate ASUS transformation devices into one seamless platform

Taipei, Taiwan (4 June, 2012) – At ASUS’ pre-Computex press event “Incredible Innovation Endless Possibilities”, Chairman Jonney Shih unveiled the company’s total solution for the ubiquitous cloud computing era, ASUS Open Cloud Computing (A.O.C.C.).

“At ASUS we have been looking forward to the arrival of this exciting era for several years. We believe that an open and balanced architecture can provide the best solution for the new ubiquitous cloud computing era,” said Mr. Shih as he introduced A.O.C.C. and unveiled an entire line of incredibly innovative products including ASUS TAICHI, Transformer AiO, Transformer Book, Designo MX monitors and RT-AC66U router which took transformation into a whole new level.

ASUS TAICHI
The ASUS TAICHI is a slim and stylish ultraportable device with an astonishing double-sided LED-backlit IPS/FHD display. With a touch screen on the outside of the lid, the TAICHI opens up a whole host of new mobile possibilities as it plays the role of both notebook and tablet.  With the lid open, it’s just like any other notebook computer, but with the lid closed the TAICHI instantly becomes a multi-touch tablet computer with stylus support. Better still, the two screens are completely independent of each other and can be used simultaneously for a host of innovative new applications. Available in both 11.6” and 13.3” screen sizes, the TAICHI is as light and thin as the ASUS ZENBOOK™ and delivers uncompromised mobile performance, with 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processors, fast SSD storage and dual band 802.11n Wi-Fi.

ASUS Transformer AiO
Part tablet, part All-in-One PC, the Transformer AiO is an innovative device that can seamlessly switch between the two, and features dual operating systems to give users the option of switching between Windows and Android to suit their needs. Engineered to work with Windows 8, the Transformer AiO features an extended 18.4” 10-point multi-touch LED-backlit display which can be easily removed from its base station to become a wireless display for the AiO PC, extending the range of the PC and allowing users to continue with their work anywhere in the home. The display can also be converted into an Android-based tablet for the home with the press of a button.

ASUS Transformer Book
The ASUS Transformer Book is the world’s first convertible notebook — allowing users to instantly switch between a notebook and a tablet by simply detaching the screen. It is aimed at users who prefer the portability of a multi-touch tablet computer for leisure, but still want access to a more traditional Windows-based notebook for productivity use. Thanks to 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processors and discrete graphics, along with SSD and HDD storage, 4GB DDR3 dual-channel RAM and USB 3.0, the Transformer Book delivers performance that rivals other notebooks on the market. It also features ASUS SonicMaster technology to deliver crystal-clear sound with deep rich bass through its integrated speakers.

ASUS Tablet 810 (Windows 8) ASUS Tablet 600 (Windows RT)
The ASUS Tablet 810 (Windows 8) features the Next Generation Intel® Atom™ processor and 2GB of RAM with a 64GB eMMC for user storage. The 11.6” display with 1366 x 768 resolution uses Super IPS+ technology to deliver superior visual clarity both indoors and out, while its 10-point multi-touch is complemented by Wacom digitizer stylus support.

The ASUS Tablet 600 (Windows RT) utilises the NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 quad-core processor and 12-core GPU for outstanding mobile graphics performance; it also has 2GB RAM and a 32GB eMMC for user storage. The 600’s 10.1” display with 1366 x 768 resolution features Super IPS+ technology for excellent readability both indoors and out.

Key to both the 810 and 600, however, is the supplied mobile dock that instantly transforms the tablets into compact clamshell ultraportables, complete with full QWERTY keyboards, a trackpad, additional USB expansion and a second battery for extended usage away from the power socket. Both tablets also include ASUS SonicMaster technology for supreme audio and built-in NFC sensors for easy syncing with other NFC-enabled devices.

ASUS Designo MX279H and MX239H monitors
ASUS’ displays are industry leaders when it comes to vibrant colours and elegant design. With their attractive looks and bezel-free matte IPS panels with LED-backlighting, ultra-wide 178° viewing angles and outstanding color reproduction, the new Designo 27” MX279H and 23” MX239H displays ensure customer satisfaction with their slim and stylish design. Dual HDMI inputs provide flexible connectivity options, while ASUS SonicMaster technology, co-developed with Bang & Olufsen ICEpower® audio delivers incredible audio fidelity.

ASUS RT-AC66U router
The ASUS RT-AC66U router integrates dual-band Gigabit wireless with fifth generation 802.11ac Wi-Fi technology, also known as 5G WiFi, which enables speeds up to three times faster than existing 802.11n. As one of the first routers to achieve this, it tops Gigabit wireless requirements with a combined 2.4GHz/5GHz bandwidth of 1.75Gbps. This massive data rate makes it an excellent high speed router for demanding online applications, coupled with exclusive ASUS AiRadar signal amplification and shaping technology. Easy ASUSWRT setup, multiple SSIDs, and IPv6 support further enhance networking, while strong USB-based capabilities turn the RT-AC66U into a 3G, FTP, DLNA, and printer server for genuine multi-role functionality.