PRINCE OF PERSIA® TRILOGY (SANDS OF TIME, WARRIOR WITHIN AND THE TWO THRONES)
NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD ON THE PLAYSTATION® NETWORK
· Games are HD re-mastered and playable in 3D with a compatible 3D TV
· Games are available for purchase separately
· All three games are also available for Playstation 3 on one retail blu-ray disc. In stores now.
For more information on the Prince of Persia® games, please visit: www.princeofpersiagame.com
Now available for free on Playstation Network®, Xbox Live® and Steam®
Sydney, Australia — December 23rd, 2010 — Today, Ubisoft announced that the first downloadable content (DLC) for R.U.S.E, The Manhattan Project Pack is now available for free on Xbox Live®, PlayStation Network® and Steam®.
The Manhattan Project Pack offers new challenges, including 3 exclusive multiplayer maps, along with 2 additional multiplayer modes. These modes will affect strategy and pace, and allow players to create nuclear cannons and benefit from accelerated technology evolution.
Details of the multiplayer maps are as follows:
– Twilight of the Gods, 2 vs 2
– Vesuvio, 2 vs 2
– Guns and Tulips, 3 vs 3
The two additional multiplayer modes are:
– Nuclear War: all the prototypes factories, researches and upgrades are unlocked from the beginning.
– Total War: the player starts in 1939 with the units and the specificities of that time. He will then unlock 1942 units and 1945 units step by step.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – DLC detailed
KONAMI unleashes two new DLC packs for the most spectacular Castlevania title of all time…
Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH has announced two new downloadable content packages for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow which will feature all new areas, monsters, and brand new story lines.
In Castlevania Lords of Shadow ‘Reverie’ players will return to the Castle as Gabriel to help Laura, the former servant to the vampire Carmilla, in destroying the unruly evil that was previously kept in check by the recently slain Queen.
Once completed, fans of the series can download the second DLC entitled ‘Resurrection’, which continues the story directly after the end of the game and gives some insight into the dramatic epilogue seen by players upon completion of the game, and Gabriel’s ultimate destiny. This will be larger in scope than the first add-on, as it features a final showdown with a very notorious enemy. Both packs are expected to launch in early 2011.
From the director of CLOVERFIELD, and featuring rising stars Chloe Moretz (Hit Girl in Kick Ass) and Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road) comes the provocative thriller LET ME IN. Based on the cult book Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist and it’s Swedish film adaptation of the same name, LET ME IN is a haunting take on teenage love.
Abby (Chloe Moretz) is a mysterious 12-year-old who moves next door to Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a social outcast who is viciously bullied at school. In his loneliness, Owen forms a profound bond with his new neighbour but he can’t help noticing that Abby is like no one he has met before. As a string of grisly murders grips his wintry New Mexico town, Owen has to confront the reality that this seemingly innocent girl is hiding a dark secret.
– Exclusive Runes of Magic Mounts on offer – Proceeds to finance Save the Children’s Bhutan Project –
AUSTRALIA – December 23, 2010: Frogster is starting a large-scale fundraising campaign to help needy children in the Kingdom of Bhutan, also known as the ‘Land of Dragons’. Starting now, Runes of Magic, players can purchase the exclusive Charity Wolf from the fantasy MMO-game’s Item Shop, which allows two players to travel simultaneously at maximum speed through the virtual world. Frogster will donate AUD $5 for the Wolf mount to an educational programme run by Save the Children aimed at supporting parents and children in the remote mountain regions of Bhutan. Save the Children is the world’s largest independent children’s aid organisation and will use the proceeds to establish remote classrooms with the goal of raising awareness for the problems faced by many adolescents in Bhutan regarding adequate education and healthcare.
Due to the great success of the campaign last Christmas featuring Moa’s Charity Steed, Frogster will now be offering the same high-speed mount again and will donate $4 for each one sold to the Save the Children project in Bhutan.
Frogster and Save the Children encourage all players to take part and help achieve as big a donation as possible to help the children in Bhutan. The Charity Wolf can be found in the Runes of Magic Item Shop for 225 Diamonds and Moa’s Charity Steed is available for 199 Diamonds. The amount donated per item sold corresponds to all proceeds after tax and directly related third-party costs. Runewaker, the Taiwanese developer of Runes of Magic, will also be supporting the project by foregoing its usual revenue shares, so that they won’t reduce the funds for the campaign.
“Thanks to the overwhelming support of our players last year we were able to donate €40,000 to Save the Children in order to support the important work they carry out in fighting for children’s rights throughout the world. We’re enthusiastic about the organization’s project in the mountain regions of Bhutan and are pleased to help them realize their goals with our fundraising campaign”, commented Andreas Weidenhaupt, member of the executive board at Frogster Interactive Pictures AG, on the initiative.
For more information on the fundraising campaign visit: www.runesofmagic.com.au and www.savethechildren.net.
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Runes of Magic – A world full of magic and adventure and The First MMO game with dedicated servers in Australia!
Runes of Magic has redefined the standard for free-to-play MMORPGs with its wide range of features. The online role-play game is based on an exciting, multi-layered story, driven by more than 2,800 quests set in the atmospheric fantasy world of Taborea which spreads over two continents. Players choose one of eight classes which they can combine with a secondary class. Each class combination has individually assigned elite skills. Runes of Magic offers two races to choose between, the elves and the humans, which can be customized using the wide selection of available physical characteristics. A large range of furniture and other functional items lets players furnish and customise their own virtual homes. In guilds, groups of players can construct their own guild castles which may then be expanded with additional buildings and powerful siege engines allowing them to go head-to-head in absorbing guild wars. Thanks to comprehen! sive crafting and ranking systems, gripping player vs. player features such as arenas and open battlefields, flexible and extensive customization of the user interface, a selection of demanding dungeons and many other features ‘Runes of Magic’ has something for everyone. So far Runes of Magic has attracted over 4 million registered users making it one of the most popular and successful free-to-play MMORPGs on the market.
The Only MMO Game With Dedicated Australian Servers!
What does this mean for our players?
Lower latency and a better gameplay experience.
More of your friends and other players online at peak playing times.
Australian based customer support.
Gold Coast based N3V Games is the Australian publisher of Runes of Magic.
Runes of Magic Features
Dual class system with eight classes and unique elite skills
Individual furnishing of player housing and guild castles
Gripping player-versus-player duels in arenas and on the battlefield
Guilds can set themselves against each other in formidable guild wars
In-depth story experienced through above 2,800 quests laced with epic quest-lines
Easy travel using portals and a wide range of mounts
Challenging boss-combat in dangerous and extensive dungeons with up to 36 players
Dual difficulty levels in the most challenging dungeons
Entertaining mini-games for single players and guilds alike
Dynamic crafting and customization of items
Versatile role play elements including a marriage system
Regular comprehensive free updates with new game content
About N3V Games PTY LTD
Australia’s Biggest Independent Game Publisher!
The golden sandy beaches and rolling surf of Australia’s Gold Coast houses Australia’s biggest independent video game publisher, N3V Games!
N3V Games has built Rock Solid partnerships with industry heavyweights like Nintendo and Sony as well as a myriad of top notch game developers and publishers including 1C Company, Akella, CDV, DTP, EA, Endgame Studios, Focus, Frogster, Frozenbyte, GFI, Half Brick, Hot Head, Idea, JoWooD, Just-A-Game, Koch, Kylotonn, Lexis Numerique, Lighthouse, Merscom, Monte Cristo, Nobilis, Noviy Disk, Paradox, Playlogic, PQube, Real, Stardock, Techland and Timetrip just to name a few.
For Indie Developers, working with publishers can sometimes leave you banging your head against a brick wall. You’re too busy making games to be dealing with IP ownership, marketing, contracts and dealing with 10 different producers, marketing, QA, biz dev and accounting people. N3V Games guarantees you speedy feedback when evaluating your product and will handle all publishing aspects when signing your title so you can focus on doing what you do best, making knockout games! Website: www.n3vgames.com
About Runewaker Entertainment Ltd.
Runewaker Entertainment was founded in August of 2004, with headquarters located in Taichung, Taiwan. The founding members were all very experienced in the field and decided to come together to pursue their dream. Currently Runewaker employs over 100 highly skilled programmers, designers and artists and is constantly expanding. Runewaker specializes in making massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPG). The company has built their own engine from scratch which rivals some of the best available on the market. Runewaker is constantly producing more content for Runes of Magic. Website: www.runewaker.com
Frogster – We take you to a new world!
The Berlin based Frogster Interactive Pictures AG, listed on the stock exchange, has focused on the growth sector of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) at an early stage already. The company licenses, markets and operates its virtual worlds for millions of players in Europe, Asia and North America. In Europe its subsidiary Frogster Online Gaming GmbH is taking care of the operating business of the Frogster group. Founded in 2006 and based in Seoul, the Korean joint venture Frogster Asia Co. Ltd. markets and operates virtual worlds in Asia. Frogster America Inc., based in San Francisco, was founded in January of 2009 and markets and operates MMO games in North America. At their offices in Berlin, Seoul and San Francisco, the Frogster group employs more than 200 staff members in the fields of game development, licensing, IT, web design and web development, product management, marketing, PR, web publishing, community management, customer support,! hosting, sales, billing and finance/administration. In the year 2008, Frogster won the “Landmark in the Land of Ideas”, a competition under the patronage of the German President. Additional information is available at: www.frogster.de
Australia, 24 December, 2010 –
Nintendo announces that the biggest selling video game console of all time in Australia, Nintendo DS® (inclusive of Nintendo DS, Nintendo DS Lite®, Nintendo DSi™ and Nintendo DSi™ XL), has sold through more than three million* units!
For the last four years, Nintendo DS has been Australia’s number one selling console, and it is on target to be the number one selling console again for 2010.
The World’s Number 1 Football Management Series is back on your iPhone and iPod touch!
Thursday 23rd December 2010 – Sports Interactive & SEGA® Europe Ltd. are pleased to announce that today is the global launch of Football Manager Handheld™ 2011 for the iPhone® and iPod® touch via the App Store. The game is available now worldwide and is priced at AU$ 14.99, and is also fully compatible with the iPad.
Sports Interactive, the kings of the football management genre, bring the unrivalled realism and control of the best selling Football Manager Series to your iPhone and iPod touch. The sequel from the best selling Football Manager Handheld 2010 is again specifically designed for the platform allowing you to take control of all areas of football management, including managing full squad transfers, to setting tactics all whilst using a wider variety of formations and giving your team instructions in any of 29 leagues across 11 countries.
In addition you can now give players specific roles on the pitch, allowing greater control over the team’s performance, whilst the new in-game tutorial guide can help you achieve victory in the no.1 iPhone football management game around the world! Football Manager Handheld 2011 also includes an in game app allowing football fans to find the way to real life stadiums as well as directing them back to their car.
“We were really pleased with the reaction for the first iPhone release with players and press” said Miles Jacobson, Studio Director at Sports Interactive. “With the new version of the game we have raised the bar for the management game genre on the iPhone even higher. With the addition of the stadium finder app too, we’ve also given all players in England the easiest way yet to find out how to get to the stadium on match days, giving them more time to play the game, and will be updating the service to include support for other countries stadiums too during the season.”
For more information please go to www.sigames.com or www.footballmanager.com.
DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION PRE-ORDER PACK REVEALED
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – 23rd December 2010 – Eidos-Montreal in partnership with NAMCO BANDAI Partners is pleased to announce details for the Australian New Zealand pre-order pack for DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION™.
In addition to the standard edition game developed for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows® PC, fans will also be able to purchase the highly collectable and strictly limited Augmented Edition which includes the Explosive Mission Pack and Tactical weapons DLC Packs.
The Augmented Edition boasts features as the same exclusive mission as the Explosive Mission Pack, 10,000 extra credits to buy or upgrade weapons, plus a Huntsman Silverback Double-Barrel Shotgun, the SERSR Longsword Whisperhead silenced sniper rifle, the Linebacker G-87 multiple shot grenade launcher, an Automatic Unlocking Device and the M-28 Utility Remote-Detonated Explosive Device (UR-DED). If that’s not enough, the Augmented Edition also contains an exclusive bonus DVD featuring a 44 minute making of special, game soundtrack, motion-comic (adapted from DC’s official series) plus the E3 trailer and animated storyboard plus the edition will also contain a 40 page art book.
The Augmented Edition will be made available at EB Games, JB Hi-Fi & GAME across the nation, and can be found at the following retailer’s online stores:
http://www.jbhifi.com.au/games/deus-ex-human-revolution/
http://www.ebgames.com.au/search?title=deus+ex
http://www.game.com.au/search?search=deus%20ex
DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION is the return to one of the most critically-acclaimed video game franchises of all time, telling the story of Adam Jensen, a man cybernetically augmented against his choice who finds himself in the middle of a global conspiracy to which he holds the key. By offering players the chance to play the game in multiple and vastly different ways, DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION challenges the foundations of gaming and provides an immersive experience where every choice has a lasting consequence.
DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION is developed for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows® PC.
Pre-Order Today For Exclusive In-Game Content
22 December 2010, Australia – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced a special Limited Edition version of The Sims™ Medieval is now available for pre-order* at JB Hi-Fi, EB Games, GAME, Target, Kmart, Big W and Dick Smith, or online at http://www.ea.com/au/thesimsmedieval. The Sims Medieval Limited Edition will launch in March 2011 and feature exclusive content that will grant players access to three all-new, themed throne rooms: Barbarian, Dark Magic and Princess. Limited Edition owners will also get two exclusive outfit sets – the Monarch set featuring a royally decked out king and queen, and the Executioner set complete with a leather apron and an intimidating black hood.
“With the Limited Edition version of The Sims Medieval, we are giving players several great bonuses for being among the first to experience our new standalone franchise within the world of The Sims”, said Scott Evans, General Manager of The Sims Studio.
The Sims Medieval is a brand new standalone game from The Sims Studio, creators of best-selling games such as The Sims™ 3, and marks a departure from the traditional The Sims games with all-new features and gameplay. Set in medieval times, players now have the opportunity to build up a medieval kingdom, go on quests, level-up their characters and fulfill storyline elements. Players will find their Sims, the characters unique to The Sims games, in a variety of situations previously unknown to them, such as duels to the death, choosing whether to poison a witch or marry her, and punishing Sims by having them thrown into the Pit of Judgment. Every quest plays out differently depending on which Hero Sim the player is controlling.
Everything in The Sims Medieval is crafted to create an immersive medieval world, from the quest-based gameplay, to the medieval objects such as swords, stocks and thrones, right down to the warm look of the characters and the painterly approach to the world itself. Players can choose to customise every new Hero Sim that comes to the kingdom, including selecting their traits and their fatal flaw. Players can also get close to their characters, not only sending them on epic quests, but also making sure they carry out their daily responsibilities such as healing the sick, trading for exotic goods or forging armour.
The Sims Medieval, as well as the Limited Edition for PC/Mac, will be available in March 2011 for AU$99.99 and has not yet been rated by the OFLC. To download artwork, please visit www.info.ea.com. For more information about The Sims Medieval please visit www.info.ea.com or the official website at http://www.ea.com/au/thesimsmedieval.
*Conditions and restrictions apply. Please see http://www.ea.com/au/thesimsmedieval for details.
As the victim of a raw deal you must work alongside three other captured wastelanders to recover the legendary treasure of the Sierra Madre Casino. In Dead Money, your life hangs in the balance as you face new terrain, foes, and choices. It is up to you how you play your cards in the quest to survive.
Welcome to the Sierra Madre Casino! The casino’s mythical contents are lusted after by desperate wasteland scavengers, who tell stories of intact treasure of the old world buried deep within its vault. Lured here by a mysterious radio signal advertising the long-awaited grand opening of the casino, you are thrown into a high stakes game where you’ll have to work with three other lost souls if you want to survive.