uDraw Selling Like Hot Cakes in the US and Set to Grace our Shores between February and March

The release of uDraw in the US on November 14 was met with lots of excitement.  The momentum continues to grow, with uDraw being listed as the MUST HAVE item on countless Christmas gift guides (including Amazon.com and CNN National). 

Yesterday, uDraw featured on the Ellen DeGeneres Show as one of the most coveted items on her ‘12 Days of Christmas’ segment. Check out the clip here.

uDraw is a touch-sensitive tablet available exclusively on the Wii.  It enables you to use your imagination and your artistic skills to paint, draw or colour in one of many pre-loaded colouring book images (great for the kids).  Also available exclusively for uDraw is family-favourite Pictionary and vinyl-toy inspired platformer Dood’s Big Adventure.

uDraw will be available in Australia and New Zealand between February and March – and it’s sure to be just as big a hit Down Under (if not bigger!).

For more information head to: www.worldofudraw.com

GRAN TURISMO® SERIES SALES EXCEED 60 MILLION UNITS WORLDWIDE

Over 5.5 million units of Gran Turismo®5 sold worldwide 12 days after the release 

Tokyo, Dec 10, 2010  – Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) announced today that the cumulative worldwide sales of the Gran Turismo® franchise, a genre-defining racing and car-life simulator available on PlayStation®, PlayStation®2, PlayStation®3 (PS3®) and PSP®(PlayStation®Portable), has exceeded 60 million units^* as of 6 December 2010.  This remarkable sales figure was achieved in just 12 years and 11 months since the Japanese launch of the first title in the franchise, Gran Turismo, in December 1997.

The Gran Turismo franchise, from the original Gran Turismo to the latest Gran Turismo®5, has continued to evolve alongside the PlayStation platforms.  With its outstanding game play, beautiful graphics and true to life driving simulation, the franchise is recognized as the world’s number one automotive game title on the PlayStation format, receiving high regard not just from game fans, but also from professional racing drivers and members of the automotive industry.

The ninth installment of the world’s best-selling racing franchise, Gran Turismo 5 for the PS3 system, features a completely new physics engine for an improved feel for steering during turns and drifts, delivering a more intuitive driving experience than ever before.  The game also features an impressive line-up of more than 1,000 licensed cars from the world’s top manufacturers.  Other highly anticipated features include stereoscopic 3D support, real-time car damage, dynamic weather effects and a deep online and community feature set where players can race online with up to 16 players through PlayStation®Network.  With the widest scope and depth of gameplay options in the Gran Turismo series, Gran Turismo 5 offers users an entertainment experience that is only possible on PS3.  As of 6 December, more than 5.5 million units of Gran Turismo 5 have been sold worldwide. Gran Turismo 5 will further continue to contribute to the expansion of the PS3 platform.

For all Gran Turismo fans around the world, SCEI and the developer of the Gran Turismo series – Polyphony Digital Inc., will continue hereon to vigorously promote development of the Gran Turismo series, which can be expected to evolve even further through the PS3 platform and broadband network environment.

*   Sell-in number

Cumulative Worldwide Sales of Gran Turismo Series (million units) 

*¹: Including series tiles

*²: Including Download Version and Spec?

Title Release Dates in Europe 

Gran Turismo  –  8 May 1998

Gran Turismo 2 –  28 January 2000

Gran Turismo 3 A-spec  –  20 July 2001

Gran Turismo Concept 2001 TOKYO – 17 July 2002

Gran Turismo 4 Prologue – 26 May 2004

Gran Turismo 4 –  9 March 2005

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue – 28 March 2008

Gran Turismo (PSP) –  1 October 2009

Gran Turismo 5 –  24 November 2010

Haarlem, The Netherlands – 10 December 2010 – Videogames publisher Iceberg Interactive and entertainment software developer and publisher Tripwire Interactive are happy to announce that Christmas is coming early for Killing Floor fans with the massive Twisted Christmas event starting next week, just in time for the holidays.

Featuring Christmas themed specimens replacing all of the regular baddies, a brand new level – Santa’s Evil Lair, Christmas themed achievements with a special unlockable character, an all new difficultly level and loads of new achievements this is THE gaming event of the holiday season.

And if a pile of free content wasn’t enough for you, the Killing Floor crew have enlisted the help of a special guest to battle these Yule-tide baddies – Team Fortress 2’s Pyro. And the sharing doesn’t end there as the Pyro will be bringing back a special Killing Floor item to TF2 with him – Mr. Foster’s trademark gas mask and business tie!

New York, NY– December 10, 2010– Appular announces the release of its fifth title, Neo Defender 2, a retro-style arcade game for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. With a palette of brilliant colors, geometrically-designed foes, and simple yet challenging gameplay, Neo Defender 2 combines all of the elements that made vintage arcade games so remarkably mesmerizing and adds a 21st century twist with a full arsenal of weapons and power-ups.

In the midst of an intense intergalactic struggle for survival, the player is the sole defender of the last surviving craft and must prevail against an increasing wave of cosmic adversaries. Neo Defender 2 gives the player versatile shooting options with single touch, dual touch, and continuous firing modes to effectively defend against an onslaught of kamikaze crafts. The annihilation of enemies earns the player crystals to spend on purchasing shields, power-ups, nukes, and craft repairs that will better prepare them for their next epic battle.

As players strive for achievements such as Captain of the Stars and Captain of the Galaxy, they encounter aggressive bosses who appear in select levels alongside their cosmic minions. Neo Defender 2 features vibrant graphics and sound effects, taking its players on a heart-pumping thrill ride into deep space.

“Our goal with Neo Defender 2 is to bring the arcade style back for classic gaming fans, and infuse it with new elements like power-ups, weapons, and modern graphics,” says Scott Wilson-Billing, Software Developer for MeYuMe. “Playing arcade classics brings back great memories for gamers. Those older games have a certain nostalgic charm. Neo Defender 2 aims to bring back that wistfulness while adding features that today’s gamers have come to expect in a great title.”

Neo Defender 2 for iPhone and iPod touch is available for $0.99 on the iTunes App Store at:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/neodefender-2/id403744473?mt=8

Neo Defender 2 for iPad is available for $1.99 on the iTunes App Store at:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/neodefender-2-hd/id403746695?mt=8

Phone Screenshots:

iPad Screenshots:

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glAwfvX5_jc
(HD) Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QPFoheHOwM

About Xtremics:
Xtremics was setup in 2003 with a vision to create an IT services company that would deliver projects on time, on budget and to an agreed quality, every time. In 2009, the company realized that it needed to develop skills within the mobile software industry and spun off a small games company MeYuMe with the aim of re-using the skills learned from developing games for the iPhone and iPod touch in its core business. MeYuMe is now a leading publisher and developer for phone games and mobile games, built on a history of successful, quality, unique and fun games for everyone.

About Appular:
Appular is an NYC-based company whose mission is to share its world-class experience in marketing, promoting, and publishing apps with innovative mobile app developers across the globe. The Appular team has helped share a multitude of apps with millions of iPhone and Android users. For more information, visit www.appular.com.

All Online Features—Including Remix Games, JAM Party and Online Progression Also Available

10 December 2010, Australia – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) has announced that EA SPORTS™ NBA JAM —in high definition and featuring online* play—for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system is in stores now throughout Australia. Featuring gameplay that is true to the original, two distinct game modes—Classic Campaign and Remix Tour—plus a full complement of online modes, EA SPORTS NBA JAM offers something for everyone.

For the first time ever play the arcade classic basketball game online with every feature available immediately through a free title update for all connected fans. Gamers can take on all rivals playing Classic 2-on-2 online, measuring their success on Friends and Global Leaderboards. Connected fans will be able to team-up locally to compete online in Remix Games, including Domination Free-for-All, Elimination and 21. Fans will also be able to make it a Jam Party online by inviting up to three friends on separate consoles to play. Plus, gamers will be able to take on the world in Online Progression, levelling up through a series of challengers and secret online NBA JAM Challenges to unlock online exclusive rewards and hidden content in the ultimate quest for global bragging rights.

In Classic Campaign, players can take a trip down memory lane, individually or with a friend, as they play all 30 teams in the NBA in a worst to first ladder tournament. In Remix Tour, players will be faced with a new twist on the traditional NBA JAM experience. From boss battles against some of the NBA’s greatest legends to half-court game modes with distinct challenges and winning conditions, players will be taken through an NBA JAM experience completely unique to the basketball videogame genre while demonstrating classic arcade hoops at its best.

EA SPORTS stays true to the original NBA JAM with Tim Kitzrow reprising his role as the legendary announcer voicing all the classic lines from the original, unmatched player likeness and reactions that exaggerate the outrageous moves that make up the core NBA JAM experience, and hundreds of characters, secret teams, courts and secret items to unlock.

Described by Gamesradar.com as “virtually perfect”, EA SPORTS NBA JAM for Wii™ is available in stores now. The game is currently the 8th highest rated sports game ever on the Wii** and EA SPORTS NBA JAM is rated G by the OFLC. Visit http://www.facebook.com/#!/NBAJAM to join the EA SPORTS NBA Jam Facebook group or visit http://nba-jam.easports.com for more information about the game.

For more information about EA SPORTS, including news, video, blogs, forums and game apps, please visit http://www.ea.com/au/genre/sports-games to connect, share and compete.

* Restrictions and conditions apply. Please visit www.ea.com for details
** According to Metacritic.com as of Nov. 10

Tron: Legacy An IMAX 3D Experience

IMAX moviegoers are set to experience even more of the visually breathtaking 3D action of Tron: Legacy with over 40 minutes of vertically expanded IMAX 3D footage, specifically designed to maximise the IMAX canvas.  Seven sequences on the Grid will expand on the IMAX screen, immersing you even more in the massive scope and scale of Tron Legacy. Sam Flynn (Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Bridges), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the digital world of Tron where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant Quorra (Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey of escape across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous. To launch Tron Legacy 3D, join us on the Grid at the IMAX Melbourne Museum plaza to experience a world’s first EXTREME 3D PROJECTION from 9-11pm on the 15, 16, and 17 December, 2010. Viewing is free and open to all.

Release Date: 16 December, 2010

Tickets: $24.00 adults, $19.50 concession, $17.50 child, $72.00 family (2 adults & 2 children)

Megamind: An IMAX 3D Experience

From the makers of Kung-Fu Panda and just in time for the summer holidays, comes the hilarious new family comedy, Megamind: An IMAX 3D Experience. See it on the biggest 3D screen in the southern hemisphere at IMAX Melbourne Museum. Megamind is the most brilliant super-villain the world has ever know, and the least successful. Over the years, he has tried to conquer Metro City in every imaginable way. Each attempt has been a colossal failure thanks to the caped superhero known as ‘Metro Man’, until Megamind actually defeats him during one of his botched evil plans. Suddenly, the fate of Metro City is threatened when a new villain arrives and chaos erupts, leaving everyone to wonder – can the world’s biggest “mind” actually be the one to save the day?

Release Date: 26 December, 2010

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

Egypt 3D: Secrets of the Pharaohs

Egypt 3D: Secrets of the Pharaohs takes us back thousands of years to explore the wonders of ancient Egypt in a modern day forensic adventure complete with tomb-raiders and hidden treasures. Moviegoers will unravel some of the mysteries enshrouding the ancient royal mummies, how they were embalmed, where they were hidden and the dramatic story of their recovery.

Release Date: 17 February, 2011

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

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

THE CONFLICT and the CASUALTIES OF WAR.

Madman proudly presents RESTREPO and THE MESSENGER – two films that respectively deal with modern warfare and the casualties thereof, available on DVD 16 February, 2011.

A National Geographic documentary production, RESTREPO takes place in what is considered to be one of the most dangerous postings of the war – the remote Korengal Valley in eastern Afghanistan – where the American soldiers of Second Platoon have secured a strategic outpost and named it in honour of the outfit’s fallen medic, PFC Juan Restrepo. 

This is the real ‘Hurt Locker’. Told in their own words, RESTREPO is the unflinching, on the ground story of the day to day lives of the soldiers of Second Platoon – a group of men who came to rely on each other under constant danger and emotional hardship, and were to become renowned as the “tip of the spear” for the American war effort in Afghanistan. 

From the lives of those on the front line, to those affected by the war at home – THE MESSENGER is the story of decorated combat soldier Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), recently returned from Iraq and assigned to the Army Casualty Notification service, a unit tasked with informing families of the death of their loved ones in the line of duty. Mentored by Capt. Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), Montgomery must learn to detach himself from the emotional challenges that the job presents – but all that begins to dissolve when he meets Olivia (Samantha Morton)…

Nominated for two 2009 Academy Awards®, THE MESSENGER is a powerful and poignant work which demonstrates that true scars of war are often wrought at home, not on the battlefield.

Experience the cutting-edge series’ final episodes!

Features all 19 episodes from season six, plus a featurette: Tell Me What You Don’t Like About Yourself

There’s nothing consumers won’t like about Warner Home Video’s (WHV) release of Nip/Tuck: The Complete Series, available in stores 2 February 2011. The set will retail for $59.95RRP. Episodes are also available to download from iTunes now for $1.99RRP each.

Nip/Tuck explores the lives of doctors Sean McNamara and Christian Troy, two talented, hot-shot plastic surgeons whose initial query of patients, “Tell me what you don’t like about yourself,” sets the stage for a series filled with secrets and deception. As close friends and business partners who own an overwhelmingly successful plastic surgery practice, they attempt to bring inner peace and visceral contentment to their patients through external cosmetic surgery procedures. Although their clients aspire to cover up their pain, it is the surgeons who truly wear the masks of anguish, unhappiness and disillusionment. At midlife, the doctors question the prosperity that has brought them so much and yet has offered so little.

Over the course of six seasons, Dr. McNamara and Dr. Troy confront issues in their careers, families and romantic lives. First set in Miami’s South Beach and later moving to Los Angeles, the show’s cutting-edge stories range from funny to suspenseful to uncommonly powerful. Surgeries are graphically bold and sexuality is rampant.

In season six, and during a tough economy, the beautiful people elect not to have nip and tucks. So don’t expect McNamara/Troy to reject any cash-flow opportunities, no matter how dicey. Okay, maybe the docs will need to think about the state’s request to lipo a morbidly obese Death Row inmate so he can be executed. Elsewhere in the Nip/Tuck orbit: Matt sets out to earn coin at the beach as a mime (the turn his new career takes may leave you speechless). Kimber laments the decline of her line of sex toys. And that Christian-Liz marriage? Sooo over. Something else may be over, too. All the collagen in the world may not be enough to fill the personal and professional rifts between Christian and Sean. Tell us what you don’t like about each other, doctors!

Nip/Tuck stars Dylan Walsh, Julian McMahon, John Hensley, Roma Maffia, Kelly Carlson and Joely Richardson. From The Shephard/Robin Company in association with Warner Bros. Television, the series was created by Ryan Murphy (Glee, Popular). Executive producers for all six seasons include Murphy, Michael M. Robin, Greer Shephard, Lyn Greene & Richard Levine, Sean Jablonski, Jennifer Salt and Brad Falchuk. The series premiered in July 2003 on the FX cable network and, since its debut, the show has exploded to critical acclaim and earned multiple awards, including a Golden Globe® Award in 2005 for Best Television Series – Drama.

“From the moment Nip/Tuck premiered, it was clearly destined to become a revolutionary series. Viewers stayed captivated season after season with the show’s compelling storylines and powerful acting performances, not to mention its outrageousness and unpredictability,” said Caroline Skillen, WHV Marketing Director.

Episodes Featured

Episode 1: Don Hoberman
Episode 2: Enigma
Episode 3: Briggette Reinhart
Episode 4: Jenny Juggs
Episode 5: Abigail Sullivan
Episode 6: Alexis Stone
Episode 7: Alexis Stone II
Episode 8: Lola Wlodkowski
Episode 9: Benny Nilsson
Episode 10: Wesley Clovis
Episode 11: Dan Daly
Episode 12: Willow Banks
Episode 13: Joel Seabrook
Episode 14: Sheila Carlton
Episode 15: Virginia Hayes
Episode 16: Dr. Griffin
Episode 17: Christian Troy II
Episode 18: Walter & Edith Krieger
Episode 19: Hiro Yoshimura

Special Features:

Tell Me What You Don’t Like About Yourself – The Psychology Behind Plastic Surgery Featurette

Rating:

MA15+

Approx Runtime:

785 mins

Assets:

Pack shots, screen grabs and images available at www.whvdirect.com.au (graphic search)

Trailer available by request.

Contact:

Erin Falconer

erin.falconer@warnerbros.com

02/9495 3131

Lauren Grifoni

Lauren.grifoni@warnerbros.com

02/9495 3132

Credits:

About Warner Home Video

With operations in 90 international territories, Warner Home Video, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. Warner Home Video’s film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Entertainment, Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Home Video and New Line Home Entertainment.

About Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group brings together Warner Bros. Entertainment’s home video, digital distribution, interactive entertainment/videogames, direct-to-DVD production, technical operations and anti-piracy businesses in order to maximize current and next-generation distribution scenarios. WBHEG is responsible for the global distribution of content through DVD, electronic sell-through and VOD, and delivery of theatrical content to wireless and online channels, and is also a significant worldwide publisher for both internal and third party videogame titles.

Cheers,

Lauren Grifoni

Publicity Co-Ordinator

Warner Home Entertainment

Ph:+61 2 9495 3132

Email: lauren.grifoni@warnerbros.com

Web: www.warnerbros.com.au

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