One of the most highly-acclaimed first person shooters of 2011 is getting a facelift. Today, EA and Crytek will be releasing the Crysis 2 Ultra Upgrade, giving PC gamers full DirectX®11 support. Enhancing the Crysis 2 gaming experience on PC, the Crysis 2 Ultra Upgrade delivers higher quality visuals and features including tessellation, water rendering improvements, high quality HDR motion blur, and many other special effects and higher quality texture formats with the optional high res texture pack. The Crysis 2 Ultra Upgrade is available via an auto installation once gamers go online* with Crysis 2 on PC.

Additionally, PC gamers can design their own maps and create their own epic battleground with the Map Editor Pack which can be downloaded at http://mycrysis.com for no cost starting *Thursday.

Crysis 2 catapults players into Crytek’s stunning recreation of New York City in 2023. With the city on the brink of annihilation from a terrifying alien threat, players will use the powers of the Nanosuit 2 to be fast, be strong and be invisible, in an attempt to save humanity. Crysis 2 has won over 25 awards from critics around the world and received 50 review scores rated 90 percent and above, including “4 stars out of 4 stars” from the Associated Press.

For more information on Crysis 2 and additional details regarding the Crysis 2 Ultra Upgrade, please visit the official game website at www.ea.com/au/crysis-2 the official Crysis community web site at http://mycrysis.com.Follow the development team on Twitter at http://twitter.com/crysis or on Facebook at http://facebook.com/crysis.

All-New Map Pack and Gripping Zombies Experience Set to Annihilate Xbox Gamers Today

Sydney, Australia – June 29, 2011 – Call of Duty®: Black Ops, the best selling game ever on the Xbox 360®, today unleashes a new onslaught of combat with a fresh delivery of downloadable content, Call of Duty®: Black Ops Annihilation. Available now worldwide on Xbox LIVE, Annihilation delivers four new multiplayer maps and a mind-blowing Zombies experience for the ultimate online showdown.

Annihilation is the third downloadable content pack release from Activision and Treyarch in support of the worldwide phenomenon and record-setting Call of Duty: Black Ops. Fueled by the breakthrough Call of Duty®: Black Ops First Strike and Call of Duty®: Black Ops Escalation content packs, the blockbuster title is recognised for having the highest selling add-on content in Xbox LIVE history, according to Microsoft.

The Annihilation content pack’s new maps include:

· “Hangar 18,” located in the highly classified military base of Area 51, where gamers will fight through experimental weapons labs, the SR-71 test hangar and a mysterious autopsy room.

· “Drive-In,” where players experience close-quarters combat through a 1960’s American Drive-In theatre, complete with a snack shack and a classic arcade.

· “Silo,” where-in gamers can infiltrate a massive secret Soviet nuclear missile site under construction within a multi-level battleground.

· “Hazard,” located on the cliff sides of Cuba, gamers can explore a coastal golf course fit for a Dictator, where stocked clubhouses and manicured fairways meet snipers hidden in sand traps.

· “Shangri-La,” the all-new Zombies experience, transports players into a mythical paradise overrun with the undead. Our Heroes will come face-to-face with new species of zombies and navigate through a treacherous labyrinth of underground caverns, all set within a legendary shrine lost in an exotic jungle.

“Our commitment to delivering great new content for Black Ops continues with Annihilation,” said Treyarch Studio Head, Mark Lamia. “Annihilation offers four of the best Black Ops multiplayer maps to date, and a stunning new Zombies experience laden with deadly traps and dark secrets buried deep within the shifting walls of the infested temple.”

To celebrate the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation, Activision and Treyarch today are hosting a “Grudge Match” on Xbox LIVE at Treyarch. Jason Terry of the Dallas Mavericks and Rudy Gay of the Memphis Grizzlies will lead teams in a head-to-head match-up featuring members of the Treyarch development team and Call of Duty: Black Ops fans.

Developed by Treyarch and published by Activision Publishing, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), Call of Duty: Black Ops is rated (MA15+) by the Classification Board for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence and Strong Language. Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation is available first on Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft for 1,200 Microsoft Points. For additional Call of Duty updates and information, visit us on the web at www.callofduty.com/blackops, www.facebook.com/codblackops, and also via Twitter @Treyarch. Treyarch will host Double XP starting Friday, July 1st.

About Activision Publishing, Inc.

Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision Publishing, Inc. is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and leisure products.

Activision maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia, South Korea, China and the region of Taiwan. More information about Activision and its products can be found on the company’s website, www.activision.com.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Supergiant Games are pleased to announce that Bastion, the award-winning action RPG for Xbox Live Arcade, will be premiering on July 20th, the first title to be released for the Microsoft Summer of Arcade line-up. The downloadable title will be available for 1200 Microsoft Points.

Bastion received seven award wins and nine nominations coming out of E3, including Best Downloadable Game, Best Original Game, and Game of Show. The game invites players to take control of a character known as the Kid, who is thrust into a world that has crumbled around him. Players must now create a safe haven in order to build a new world from the remnants of the past. Bastion features lush and imaginative artwork as well as an innovative reactive narration system that responds to players’ actions in real time throughout the adventure. The game offers great gameplay customization, a wide variety of unique enemies, and a deep story in a world that players can immerse themselves in. Bastion will also be available for PC later this year.

For more information about the game, please visit www.supergiantgames.com or follow @SupergiantGames on Twitter.

BitDefender Safego finds nearly 25% of its users have had at least one friend spreading malicious content

SYDNEY & AUCKLAND – June 28, 2011 – Coinciding with the full launch of its Safego Facebook security application, BitDefender® has found that of 73,000 Safego Beta users worldwide, nearly 25 percent (24.6) have had at least one Facebook friend spread malicious content to others.

With public awareness about the threats present on social networks growing, BitDefender conducted a review that found nearly 25 percent of Safego users have had at least one friend who posted an infected item on Facebook, such as a suspicious application or a link to further potentially harmful content. The negative consequences of such items include targeted scam emails and potential identity theft.

In comparison, only 0.7 percent of Safego users have spread malicious content to their friends. When BitDefender Safego is installed onto your Facebook account, it completes a scan of all wall posts and applications that have been installed. If an infected object is detected, Safego will display a warning message with suggestions on how to proceed. If the ‘publish to wall’ feature is enabled, a warning message will be automatically posted on the infected friend’s Facebook wall to alert them of the malware.

Catalin Cosoi, head of online threats lab at BitDefender, commented: “These findings strongly suggest that more caution should be exercised when using social networks – for our own sake as well as our Facebook friends’. Assuming that friends won’t post malicious content is not enough, as in many cases they may be doing so without actually realising that the application posting on their behalf is of a malicious nature.”

“BitDefender Safego has been developed as a free and simple application that offers a very important layer of security for Facebook users. Since the Beta release in October 2010, Safego has helped to detect nearly 340,000 infected objects, keeping its users and their friends safe from social network security threats.”

The full version of BitDefender Safego for Facebook launches today and offers a range of key features, including:

– 24/7 scanning of newsfeeds for malicious content

– The ‘Friend’o’meter’ to help build a safe network of friends

– Integrated Quickscan, which relies on award-winning BitDefender antivirus technologies to check your PC for threats within 60 seconds

The Safego Facebook application can be accessed here: http://apps.facebook.com/bd-safego.

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Starring Rose Byrne (X-Men: First Class, Bridesmaids) and Patrick Wilson (Watchmen, Hard Candy) comes the spine-chilling, old-fashioned scare that we grew up with. INSIDIOUS is available to buy or rent on DVD and Blu-ray September 14.

Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Renai (Rose Byrne) have just moved into their new family home with their three young children. It’s not long before they discover strange disturbances in their home… something is haunting them. When their son Dalton (Ty Simpkins) has an accident in the attic and falls into a mysterious coma, the family decides that it’s time to move; only to discover it wasn’t the house that was haunted after all.

From the groundbreaking Australian team that bought us SAW, and the producers of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, comes a truly frightening supernatural thriller that takes the horror genre back to its origin.

HOLLYWOOD, CA (June 24, 2011) – Paramount Pictures today introduced a TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON App that lets iPhone and iPod touch users
convert traditional movie posters into an augmented reality experience before their eyes.

The app, TF3: DEFEND THE EARTH, allows iPhone and iPod touch users to locate the closest theaters that have these exclusive interactive posters on display. Upon activation, the poster comes to life via the app and consumers can participate in an immersive game play on their iPhone or iPod touch via the poster’s first-person view of OPTIMUS PRIME. iPhone and iPod touch users simply download the TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON App, and they are able to play the game wherever they are in the world and compete on a global level for the top spot. The interactive movie posters will be located in over 250 IMAX® and AMC theaters across the country.

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON is directed by Michael Bay, written by Ehren Kruger and produced by Don Murphy & Tom DeSanto, Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Ian Bryce. The executive producers are Steven Spielberg, Michael Bay, Brian Goldner and Mark Vahradian. When a mysterious event from Earth’s past erupts into the present day it threatens to bring a war to Earth so big that the TRANSFORMERS alone will not be able to save us. The movie stars Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Tyrese Gibson, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Patrick Dempsey, Kevin Dunn, Julie White with John Malkovich and Frances McDormand. It will be released by Paramount Pictures worldwide on June 29^th.

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The TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON App is available for free from the App
Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at itunes.apple.com/us/app/transformers-3-defend-the/id440535402?mt=8 and www.tf3ar.com.

For more information, go to www.transformersmovie.com. 

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Based on the original cult comic strip, Boogie the Oily, comes an action packed, politically incorrect, animated feature, BOOGIE in 3D to DVD & 3D Blu-ray SEPTEMBER 14.

In a city where crime rules the streets, Boogie shows up… only to make things brutally worse.

A hired thug, with a blatant disregard for human life – especially those that are less fortunate, and an unmatched lack of respect for women, Boogie is the ultimate anti-hero.

BOOGIE is an action-packed, jaw-dropping, 3D animated feature, exploding with sadistic humour, violence and non-stop bullets.

BOOGIE IS AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD SEPTEMBER 14

The Guido Eight take their spray-tanned selves down to Miami for another fist-bumping, grenade battling season of GTL and all things Jersey Shore. There is loads of Ronni and Sammi madness. Are they together? Aren’t they together? Will the girls snitch on Ronni’s philandering ways? Vinny and Angelina hook up, which is, frankly, a disaster waiting to happen; Snooki goes batsh!t. There is clubbing and drinking and screaming and fighting and it all goes to show that you can take the Shore out of Jersey but you can’t take the Jersey out of the Shore… no? You know what I meant.

Jersey Shore. Season 2. Out on DVD from July 21st.