Dead Space 3 Limited Edition Gives Players Advanced Spacesuits and Weapons to Help Overcome Deadly Necromorphs and the Icy, Harsh Alien Terrain

SYDNEY, Australia – Aug. 14, 2012 – Surviving violent, subzero conditions while fighting gigantic creatures, human enemies and blood-thirsty Necromorphs won’t be as easy as it sounds! Gamers can go it alone, or fortunately for fans everywhere, they will have the chance to face these terrors with a friend when Visceral Games, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) studio launches Dead Space 3 in Australia on February 7, 2013 (8 February 2013 in NZ). From the lonely depths of space, to a graveyard of derelict spaceships, to a frozen planet with brutal conditions, Dead Space 3 takes action and terror to incredible new heights. In Dead Space 3, the fate of mankind rests in the hands of engineer Isaac Clarke and his new merciless co-op partner, John Carver. Survival is more difficult than ever before, but Visceral Games announced today that fans who pre-order the Dead Space 3 Limited Edition at participating retailers will have the advantage of using two bonus* suits and weapons, right when they start the game.

The Dead Space 3 Limited Edition provides gamers with first access to two game bundles: “First Contact” and “Witness the Truth” – each of which contains an advanced suit and devastating new weapon. These hand-crafted weapon combinations act as initial blueprints for the millions of permutations players will be able to create using the all-new weapon crafting system in the game.

“First Contact” Bundle • First Contact Suit: This unique EVA (Extra-Vehicular Activity) suit was built by the SCAF (Sovereign Colonies Armed Forces) for encounters with “foreign entities.” It sports a flamboyant golden finish to provide protection from long-term space exposure and thick armor for… unspecified reasons. The suit was given the nickname “First Contact” by the scientists who made it.
• Negotiator Weapon: While technically classified by the SCAF as a “scientific instrument,” the gold-plated “Negotiator” is loaded with some surprisingly aggressive hardware. The overclocked, top-mounted Tesla Beam is capable of bursting a man-sized organism into several pieces with a single shot. The bottom-mounted Linegun appears to have been built with the sole purpose of cleanly dismembering organic tissue from a distance.

”Witness the Truth” Bundle • Witness Suit: These insulated suits were worn by a SCAF deep dig team assigned to exhume the darkest secrets of Tau Volantis. Whatever they found locked deep in the ice changed them forever. When they emerged weeks later, they were covered head to toe in strange graffiti and claimed to be “Witnesses to the Truth.”
• Evangelizer Weapon: A modification of the standard AL-2 used by the Sovereign Colonies Legionaries, this version sports a souped-up AL-2g assault rifle on the top with an Emerson 2100 “Big Boy” tactical shotgun on the bottom. The surviving “Witnesses” of the SCAF deep dig team dubbed it the Evangelizer and decorated them top to bottom with strange symbols.

Winner of more than 15 critic awards at E3 2012 including Best of Show from Game Informer Magazine (third largest consumer magazine in the U.S.**), Dead Space 3 cuts to the heart of deep space terror. The game is recognized by game critics worldwide for its incredible craftsmanship in horror, action, suspense and sound design. Players will embark on a thrilling ride through space that takes them to a hostile new planet, Tau Volantis. Fortunately, they are not alone this time around. The fully integrated drop-in/drop-out co-op feature gives players the option to play alone or team-up with a friend anytime. Players that choose to take down the terror together will experience additional story details, side missions and gameplay mechanics only found when playing as John Carver.

Dead Space 3 is being developed for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system and on PC. This product has not yet been rated by the Australian Classification Board. Follow us on twitter at: www.twitter.com/deadspace. Become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/deadspace. For additional information and news, visit www.deadspace.com.

14 August 2012 — Wargaming today announced that warplanes from the Japanese Imperial Air Service will soon take to the skies in its highly anticipated flight combat MMO World of Warplanes.

The carrier-based fighter class will become the first available branch of aircraft for the Japanese line of warbirds, and will include a number of iconic aircraft. Players will be able to get behind the cockpit of the legendary Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero, a plane that proved vital to Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater. Other aircraft include the Nakajima Type 91, the twin-boom Mitsubishi J4M1 Senden interceptor fighter, as well as the Kyushu J7W1, J7W2 and J7W3, three canard configuration prototypes that never saw combat.

“The inclusion of Japanese warbirds has given us the opportunity to explore a number of iconic aircraft as well as give players the chance to experience first-hand how they developed and evolved throughout World War II”, said Anton Sitnikau, World of Warplanes Producer. “Since each aircraft is unique, it’s really going to provide players with a wide variety of tactical freedom in how they play the game and combat other players.”

Japanese World War II aircraft garnered a fearsome reputation amongst Western nations, namely due to their combination of speed and power. Their exceptional horizontal maneuverability made them extremely nimble in combat, while their impressive array of armaments made them deadly in any engagement. Japanese warbirds also typically benefitted from increased field of vision which gave pilots ample views around their aircraft.

World of Warplanes is currently in its closed beta. Virtual pilots are invited to test out the game’s features, and master their combat skills in head-spinning aerial action in 60 different aircraft from Germany, the United States and the U.S.S.R, across four unique maps.

Learn to Play Bass Guitar On Your Favorite Songs

SAN FRANCISCO – August 14, 2012 – Today, Ubisoft announced the release of Rocksmith Bass Expansion DLC, a content add-on for the innovative and award winning game Rocksmith. The bass DLC is available for $29.99 on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the Playstation® 3 computer entertainment system.

With the new Rocksmith Bass Expansion, players can learn to play bass lines of their favorite songs by plugging any bass guitar. Players can plug in any six-string guitar to emulate a four-string bass directly into an Xbox 360 console or PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system. Bass arrangements have been added to the 53 original on-disc tracks and are available for all previously released DLC that feature bass parts, effectively doubling your music experience with Rocksmith. If you already purchased the downloadable content, bass versions are made available automatically. You’ll also gain access to all-new bass guitar features, including tutorials, bass pedals, amps, technique challenges and bass support for the Guitarcade games.

On October 16, 2012, the standard edition of the game, available for $79.99, will ship with the bass content included on the disc and the Rocksmith Real Tone Cable™. The Real Tone Cable is a unique 1/4” to USB cable that is the first of its kind, developed exclusively for Rocksmith. This revolutionary cable turns the instruments signal from analog to digital, allowing it to be recognized and played through video game consoles for the first time. The popular guitar bundle will also be available for $199.99 and includes an Epiphone Les Paul Junior guitar, along with the bass DLC and the Rocksmith Real Tone Cable. Both the standard edition and the guitar bundle will ship for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PlayStation® 3 computer entertainment system. The game will also be available on PC. Rocksmith is rated “T” for Teen.

Rocksmith is the first and only video game that allows players to plug in any real guitar into an Xbox 360® and PlayStation®3 to play a sizeable library of songs from the latest hits to classic rock songs. Rocksmith adapts to the player’s skill level from novices who have never picked up a guitar to the most experienced shredder. Players will be able to choose from actual lead, rhythm, and combo guitar compositions, inspiring players to perform songs after the game is turned off. Nothing compares to a real guitar.

For more information on Rocksmith, please visit www.rocksmith.com, and follow Rocksmith on Facebook at www.facebook.com/rocksmithgame.

Events Going On Now And Through Open Beta

AUGUST 14, 2012— Joymax, leading online game developer and publisher widely known for Silkroad Online and Digimon Masters, today launches the start of their exciting Open Beta Contests for the upcoming free-to-play MMORPG, Knight Age.  Players are counting down the last fourteen days before the fantasy MMORPG enters open beta on August 28^th!  With more than a dozen contests planned, now’s the best time to be a Joymax player.  To pre-register for the open beta, players simply need to have a Joymax account, created at http://bit.ly/GKAPortal0814.

Several pre-open beta contests open today, with a total of 17 different events planned between now and the as-of-yet unannounced end of open beta.  Prizes include numerous in-game items, including a generous bundle of helpful goodies for players when they first log into the game, to Pupae (in game pets) which will carry over to the game’s launch later this year, and even physical prizes like a brand new fully loaded laptop!

“We wanted every players to have a chance to win something, while still retaining strong competition for the ultimate grand prize of an amazing gaming laptop.” said Nam-Chul Kim, CEO of Joymax.  “Players can watch for all the contest starting dates on the official Knight Age Facebook and Twitter.”

With a total of 17 events and activities, players will have plenty of options to enter via the Joymax website, the Knight Age Facebook at http://bit.ly/GKAFB0814, and in-game once the open beta launches in just two short weeks.  Knight Age’s official Open Beta is scheduled to begin August 28^th, and excited players can already download the open beta client at http://bit.ly/GKADL0814. Participants of the closed beta simply need to run their client any time to get the latest patch.

Participants of the closed beta will be thrilled to see several popular events will be returning to Knight Age’s open beta. To celebrate over three thousand Facebook ‘Likes’, a double experience buff will be cast on all players during the first week, with additional buff extensions as more ‘Likes’ come.  What will 10,000 ‘Likes’ bring?  Only Joymax knows, but players will be thrilled to find out!

Knight Age, a 3D fantasy MMORPG, will take players through a vast world of Knights battling against a malicious God.  Featuring a unique riding-action where—unlike other MMORPGs—Knights can perform elaborate attack skills on mobile mounts. Knight Age provides a one-of-a-kind combat system that is carried out on rides with each providing different types of power-ups!

This is all in addition to Knight Age’s numerous game feature, such as the colossal PVP system pitting 50 allied knights against 50 opposing knights, the Battle for Excalibur where players battle against 100 other players for the legendary sword, as well as the Pupa pet system where raising a strong companion.

Players looking for all the juiciest tidbits, such as daily game information, character tips, and plenty of screen shots can check out Knight Age’s Facebook at http://bit.ly/GKAFB0814, or Twitter at @OfficialKnightAge.

Over 33 Million Facebook Fans Receive Exclusive Global Announcement as the Film That Became a Worldwide Phenomenon Arrives on Blu-ray 3D in October

Sydney, Australia. (August 14, 2012) – The world of Pandora has never looked better as over 33 million AVATAR Facebook fans were the first to learn of the upcoming release of the AVATAR Blu-ray 3D Collector’s Edition, available in Australia from October 24 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

A home entertainment experience like no other, for the first time ever, fans will be able to welcome James Cameron’s global box office sensation into their homes in stunning 3D high-definition.

“3D television is the future of home entertainment,” said James Cameron, the Oscar® winning Director. “I’m a huge proponent of the technology and very pleased that AVATAR can be viewed in the living room the way it is meant to be seen.”

“As the number of homes with 3D televisions continues to grow, we thought it was important to bring the biggest 3D film ever right into your living room,” continued Jon Landau, Academy Award® winning Producer of Avatar. “This is the only way fans should experience the world of Pandora and this release offers the highest picture quality possible.

”Previously only available to consumers through an exclusive deal with Panasonic, the two-disc AVATAR 3D Blu-ray Collector’s Edition will feature the original theatrical release and be available in all-new collectible packaging. Seen by more than 310 million people worldwide, the Oscar and Golden Globe winning epic is the highest grossing film of all time, taking in more than $2.7 billion in worldwide box office. It is also top-selling Blu-ray disc of all time.

Leveraging partnership with Hortonworks, Cluster File System technology enables customers to get timely business insights with their existing infrastructure

SYDNEY, Australia. – August 14, 2012 – Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced an add-on solution for Symantec’s Cluster File System that enables customers to run Big Data analytics on their existing infrastructure by making it highly available and manageable. Apache Hadoop offers customers significant value to drive revenue by helping analyse data for business insights, however many existing data solutions lack the data management capabilities and built-in resilience to overcome the cost and complexity of increasing storage and server sprawl. By working closely with Hortonworks, the new Symantec Enterprise Solution for Hadoop offering provides a scalable, resilient data management solution for handling Big Data workloads to help make Apache Hadoop ready for enterprise deployment.

Symantec’s Cluster File System is a proven enterprise solution to address Big Data workloads. With Symantec Enterprise Solution for Hadoop, organisations can:

• Leverage      their existing infrastructure by scaling up to 16 PB of data including      structured and unstructured data
• Avoid      over provisioning on both storage and compute capacity
• Run      analytics wherever the data sits, eliminating expensive data moves
• Make      Hadoop highly available without a potential single point of failure or a      performance bottleneck

Read more detailed blog posts: http://bit.ly/P3dtSA

Leveraging Existing Infrastructure and Avoiding Over Provisioning
IT administrators have spent considerable time and resources consolidating their data centers and reducing their footprint through virtualisation and cloud computing. Taking advantage of Big Data analytics should leverage this consolidation of storage and compute resources. Symantec Enterprise Solution for Hadoop enables customers to run Hadoop while minimising investments in a parallel infrastructure – greatly reducing the storage footprint to reduce cost and complexity.

Analysing Data Where it Resides and Eliminating Expensive Data Moves
The first step in making the Hadoop infrastructure work is to funnel data for analysis. By enabling integration of existing storage assets into the Hadoop processing framework, organisations can avoid time consuming and costly data movement activities. Symantec Enterprise Solution for Hadoop allows administrators to leave the data where it resides and run analytics on it without having to extract, transform and load it to a separate cluster – avoiding expensive and painful data migrations.

Ensuring Hadoop is Highly Available
In an Apache Hadoop environment, data is distributed across nodes with only one metadata server that knows the data location – potentially resulting in a performance bottleneck and single point of failure that could lead to application downtime. To meet the need for timely insights, Symantec Enterprise Solution for Hadoop provides file system high availability to the metadata server while also ensuring analytics applications continue to run as long as there is at least one working node in the cluster. Since the Hadoop file system is replaced with Symantec’s Cluster File System, each node in the cluster can also access data simultaneously, eliminating both the performance bottleneck and single point of failure.

Pricing, Availability and Support
The Symantec Enterprise Solution for Hadoop is available now to existing Cluster File System customers at no additional charge. Symantec Enterprise Solution for Hadoop supports Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 1.0 and Apache Hadoop 1.0.2. Customers running HDP 1.0 will be able to get Hadoop support and training from Symantec’s Hadoop partner Hortonworks, a leading commercial vendor promoting the innovation, development and support of Apache Hadoop.

Supporting Quotes
“Customers can’t afford to let the challenges of implementing Big Data translate into management challenges within the infrastructure they’ve worked so hard to build,” said Don Angspatt, vice president of product management, Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec Corp. “Our Enterprise Solution for Hadoop helps connect Hadoop’s business analytics to the existing storage environment while addressing key challenges of server sprawl and high availability for critical applications. It’s now entirely possible to get the Big Data solution you want from the infrastructure you’ve got.”

“Hortonworks is excited to partner with Symantec to provide customers robust business analytics without having to rebuild their IT infrastructure,” said Mitch Ferguson, vice president of business development, Hortonworks. “The Hortonworks Data Platform is built upon the most stable version of Apache Hadoop and Symantec provides the market leading storage management and high availability software with their Cluster File System to enable seamless implementation. We look forward to providing best-in-class support and training to help customers run Hadoop in their existing environment and drive their businesses forward to the next level.”

“Enterprises are looking to leverage the power of Hadoop analytics to see if Hadoop-supported applications can drive critical business decisions. Therefore, IT management will need the confidence that their Hadoop-related infrastructure is prepared to stand up to the demands of a production data center environment,” said John Webster, Senior Partner of Evaluator Group. “Symantec Enterprise Solution for Hadoop is one example of a tool designed to smooth the transition from pilot project to production by addressing key data center challenges including high availability, security, data protection, and data governance.”
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The next stage of the project’s development starts with invitation of thousands of new players from all over the world.

Gaijin Entertainment, the developer and publisher of the upcoming massive online universe of War Thunder is happy to announce the launch of Global closed beta test of the project which is set to begin shortly after this press release is published.

Today we start the Global beta of our combat MMO game – a massive testing program that will give players from Europe, America and Africa the opportunity to join the never-ending battles in the skies of War Thunder.

Furthermore, Global beta means that we’ll be inviting new players every week and those who already have access will be randomly given invite-codes that can be shared with friends without any restrictions. Also everyone who purchased Wings of Prey and activated their copy at YUPLAY.com before August 12th will be granted access to the Global beta automatically.

To give players additional opportunities to prepare for exciting aerial combat in the virtual skies of War Thunder we’ve created special War Thunder Starter Kits. These are various bonus packs that will be available for purchase only during the Global beta.

«Dora Starter Kit» and «Typhoon Starter Kit» upgrade player’s hangar with Fw.190D-13 or Typhoon Mk.IIb respectively, add 1 week of Premium account and 2000 Golden eagles. «Pacific Starter Kit» unlocks two full-scale Historical campaigns, gives 2 special gift planes, 1 month of Premium subscription and 5000 Golden eagles. Players who would like to get as much as possible and save a lot at the same time will be offered the ultimate starter pack named «Ultra»: it includes all content from the packs listed above, but the amount of Eagles is raised to 10000 in it and Premium account is given for 2 months.

Each starter kit automatically adds its owner to the list of authorized War Thunder beta test participants. The link to War Thunder Store is as follows: http://warthunder.com/en/store/

The «Sign-up for Beta» form is still available on the official website and remains the best way to get into the Global beta. And we’d like to express our sincere gratitude to all participants of alpha and beta tests who constantly help us improve the game preparing it for the open beta test stage which is set to start later this year.

• The official F.A.Q. document was updated with the      newest info about the developers’ plans for future changes and      improvements in War Thunder:      http://warthunder.com/en/game/faq/#q-52

• A pack of fresh game screenshots depicting Fw.190D-13 ?      Typhoon Mk.IIb from the Global beta starter kits are already available in      the Media section:      http://warthunder.com/en/media/screenshots

• Also we want to share these two new fan-made videos      created by our beta testers with original War Thunder footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI3Ps53bLA8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwbm6xSXabM

Wargaming Reveals Details of Its New Project

13^th August, 2012 — Wargaming today has unveiled details of World of Tanks Generals, a free-to-play, browser-based MMO game combining elements of real-time strategy and collectible card gameplay.

World of Tanks Generals will feature gameplay focused on World War II and will allow players to engage in strategic and intense combat using various military units, including tanks, artillery and infantry. Players will also be able to research new technology, as well as buy new tanks and units for more varied gameplay options.

Across several single and multiplayer gameplay modes, players can join battles taken from historical events, fight for dominance on a global map and destroy the competition in matches where carefully planned tactics and well thought out game plan become the key to victory.

The game will feature four nations at launch: the US, the U.S.S.R., France and Germany.

“The Wargaming universe is evolving onto new platforms,” said Victor Kislyi, CEO of Wargaming “World Of Tanks Generals will merge the worlds of tabletop and video games, featuring solid mechanics, strategic thinking and tactical twists in a fun, approachable way. It will feature the same great multiplayer tank warfare that Wargaming fans have come to love, just from an entirely new perspective.”

World of Tanks Generals will also be available as a card-based strategy board game.

Find more at:

http://wotgenerals.com/