Adelaide Australia, June 20, 2011 – City Interactive, one of today’s fastest-growing interactive entertainment publishers, today announced the first two titles it will be showcasing during the E3 Expo in Los Angeles, June 7-9.  Product highlights include Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2, the sequel to the million-plus selling smash hit Sniper: Ghost Warrior, and Combat Wings: Great Battles of WWII, an action-packed aerial shooter featuring leading edge graphics and game play. 

“2010 and the first half of 2011 has been great for City Interactive, and our expectations for the rest of 2011 going into 2012 and beyond are even greater.  The line-up of upcoming titles will offer gamers a great mix of exciting games and will highlight City Interactive’ growing product development capabilities,” said Karl Vosgerau, AFA Interactive Product & Marketing Manager.  “Sniper: Ghost Warrior has been a tremendous worldwide success selling over a million copies and we are excited about some of the great things City Interactive are doing in their development studios. Utilizing the fantastic game engines they’ve licensed, which include the CryENGINE^® 3 and Unreal Engine 3 we expect some amazing games to be developed by them.”

City Interactive will be offering developer interviews as well as playable versions of the following titles at E3 2011:

• Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 (Xbox/PS3/PC) – Takes the bulls-eye precision of its best-selling predecessor to new and exciting heights.  Powered by the CryENGINE^®3 engine, the missions of Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 are graphically stunning and more challenging as you once again step into the ghillie suit of a special ops sniper to take down the enemy. 

• Combat Wings: Great Battles of WWII (Xbox/PS3/Wii/PC) –Piloting a wide range of aircraft, players engage in aerial dog fights and dangerous fighter missions across the major theatres during WW2.  Featuring realistic WW2 aircraft and an unprecedented multiplayer experience, Combat Wings introduces cutting-edge multiplayer features allowing players to challenge each other in different multiplayer modes including Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Racing, Team Racing, Bomb-Target Hunting, Mission Survival and Fleet Escorting.

City Interactive will be conducting all meetings in the South Hall, Level 2, Meeting Room #307.  To book a media appointment, please contact:  karl.vosgerau@allforall.com.au

About City Interactive

City Interactive is an international publisher and Poland’s largest manufacturer of computer games for PCs and consoles, including Xbox 360 and Nintendo Dual Screen.  The company was established in 2002 through a merger of a publishing house and two game studios.  A long-term strategy ensured successful expansion into international markets, and a consistent business model supported the company’s further development.  In addition to its head office in Warsaw, City Interactive has studios in Rzeszów, Katowice and Pozna?.  The company has also established offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. In June 2010, City Interactive launched its biggest production to date: Sniper: Ghost Warrior.  The game achieved spectacular commercial success, selling more than a million copies worldwide in the first several months.  Currently, City Interactive employs nearly 150 people.

About AFA Interactive

AFA Interactive, established in 1999 is Australia’s fastest growing video games distributor supplying games and accessories to the Australian and New Zealand markets. With exclusive distribution rights for Lace Mamba Global, City Interactive, Kalypso Media, Black Bean Games and others, AFA offers a quality broad range of titles across all video games formats. In addition AFA Interactive markets its own brand of games accessories and is the license holder for Ben 10 gaming accessories for numerous territories including the United States, South Africa, Europe and the United Kingdom. www.afainteractive.com.au

New to the world of Tyria, NCsoft and ArenaNet would like to announce the Engineer profession for the upcoming Guild Wars 2. The Engineer is a master of the mechanics and uses explosives, gadgets, alchemy and a wide range of deployable devices to control the battlefield. Much like the Elementalist, the Engineer uses only a single weapon set at time, but enhances that set by equipping special kits that provide additional weapons and skills for both supportive and offensive skill sets. Whether firing elixirs to allies with an Elixir Gun, or laying mines and turrets for unsuspecting foes, the Engineer is never without options as long as a tool kit is near.

The Engineer employs a wide range of mechanical know-how, including:

• Backpack and Weapon Kits: When activated, these kits replace the engineer’s current weapon skill set with all new offensive tech. Lob smoke, concussion and fire bombs with the bomb backpack, or dish out massive area damage by utilizing the flamethrower skills activated by using the flamethrower kit.

• Turrets: By launching and moving around various types of turrets, the engineer controls and defends the battlefield. The engineer can place, pick up and move turrets during battle, and can even use the individual overdrive mode of each turret for extra devastation.

• Tool Belt: An engineer would be lost without a Tool Belt as it increases the effectiveness and functionality of the engineer’s skills. Adding an additional set of skills above the weapon bar, the tool adds an extra function to turrets, mines, grenades and more.

Engineers use their tools, mechanical knowledge and a dose of alchemy to provide offensive strength and defensive support to their teammates. With a touch of steampunk flair, the Engineer profession brings the mechanics of battle to Guild Wars 2.

Visit www.GuildWars2.com  to view the Engineer trailer and read more about the profession’s skills and mechanics.

Calling all Street Fighters!

Nintendo will host two Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition Tournaments this May, giving players the chance to fight it out to win the coveted Championship Trophy.

The events are also the perfect chance to StreetPass – a function that allows the automatic exchange of data between two Nintendo 3DS consoles. Win yourself a limited edition Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition T-Shirt by defeating the Nintendo Champion Team in Figurine Battle via StreetPass, or test your Street Fighter knowledge in the Trivia Sessions to win a limited edition Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition Trucker Hat.

Registration will be open to 128 competitors at each event, on a first in basis, and will feature a second chance competition mechanic. It is recommended that competitors bring their own Nintendo 3DS console and copy of Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition on the day, allowing for their own choice of button configuration and control type. Spare Nintendo 3DS consoles will be provided for tournament entry on the day, utilising standard controls and touch screen LITE control type.

Registration will take place during the first hour at each location.

Melbourne

Saturday, 28 May

The Nintendo Experience, EB Games, 67 Swanston St

9am – 5pm

Sydney

Sunday, 29 May

The Nintendo Connection, Myer Sydney, Level 6, 436 George St

10am – 5pm

Logitech have announced their new lineup of accessories for iPad® and Android™ tablets. These new devices will help make the most of tablets, no matter how or where they’re used – listening to music, connecting with friends via Facebook or shooting off some emails.

More details to come soon! Click a product below to learn more!

Advanced Sound Editor Software Released Alongside a Multitude of New Presets 

Coming off the heels of the incredibly successful launch of the game-changing PX5 headset for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Turtle Beach is proud to release the Advanced Sound Editor software to PX5 owners around the globe. The software is designed with several key audio categories and tools to give users the customized audio experience in gaming, movies or music that they crave. To showcase the vast capabilities of this software, Turtle Beach has worked with the audio team at Visceral Games™ to create five new audio presets to showcase the capabilities of the PX5.

The Advanced Sound Editor gives PX5 owners the chance to craft their own custom presets for their favorite titles utilizing a number of key audio tools. It provides access to every parameter in the PX5’s internal Digital Signal Processor, allowing detailed control over the microphone, chat and game sound.  These settings are saved as Presets which can be uploaded into the PX5 headset via the USB connection. The presets for mic, chat and game channels can be saved independently and combined into a master preset, allowing for different combinations. For example, each channel offers an adjustable multi-band EQ that allows developers to change the frequency response of the mic, chat or game sound depending on the game situation, while Sonic Lens™ technology allows users to focus in on key audio triggers such as enemy footsteps or the engines of competing cars as they try to take the lead.

The Visceral audio team created a total of five horror-themed presets for the PX5; of those two were created with multiplayer action in mind. The first of these gives the player the sound and feel of playing from inside the character’s helmet, literally putting them in the suit for the duration of gameplay. The second will give players the audio landscape as heard from the enemy’s POV. For the first time, players will be able to hear exactly what it sounds like to be reshaped into the form of these horrifying creatures that hunt down their opponents.

The final three presets have been created with the single player experience in mind. The first preset known as “Reference” allows players to hear gameplay exactly as the audio developers intended, in all of its bloodcurdling glory! The second is called “Ambience Enhance” and dials up the creep factor to 11 by accentuating every terrifying nuance. The third known as “Stompinator” lets you feel every bone chilling crunch as you stomp your enemy into submission.

Key features and user benefits of the PX5 Advanced Sound Editor include:

·         Sonic Lens™ technology allows the developers and users to emphasize or magnify specific audio cues or effects in game by frequency

·         Independent multi-band EQ on the mic, chat and game channels allows developers to change the frequency response of the game sound

·         Sound Field Expander processing creates a wider audio soundscape

·         Blast Limiter™ allows developers to turn up the game volume to focus in on subtle sound without simultaneously increasing loud level sounds

·         Independent noise gates on the mic, game and chat channels filter out undesired noise to allow for true silence

·         Replaces the previously available Preset Manager software, by combining both functions into one bundled suite

·         Currently available for Windows XP/Vista/7 platforms, with Mac capabilities coming soon.

Both the Advanced Sound Editor and presets are available on the Turtle Beach website at www.TurtleBeach.com/Customize. They are available, at no additional cost, for registered PX5 owners to download.