EA SPORTS MMA HITS STORES TODAY OFFERING AN AUTHENTIC MIXED MARTIAL ARTS EXPERIENCE

Go Beyond the Cage with Global Fighting Experiences, MMA Superstars
and Innovative Online Features

21 October 2010, Australia – Electronic Arts Inc. has today announced that EA SPORTS™ MMA is available in stores throughout Australia.

EA SPORTS MMA offers the most authentic, intense and broadest mixed martial arts experience to date, allowing players to travel the world and learn a multitude of fighting techniques and skills. The game features a vast array of world-class fighters, and players can extend their gaming experience online through a first-of-its-kind feature – EA SPORTS Live Broadcast.

Fighters can further showcase their MMA skills to the world through EA SPORTS Live Broadcast in which players can create their own fighter and then produce a hype video to get noticed by an actual EA SPORTS promoter. Once selected by the EA SPORTS promoter, players will be able to have their fight broadcast online through EA SPORTS Live Broadcast, while a live commentator calls every move made during the fight. Moreover, each EA SPORTS Live Broadcast fight can be viewed on game consoles or online via the web.

“EA SPORTS MMA is the most immersive and authentic mixed martial arts experience available, bringing together great fighters, opportunities to train and fight internationally and features that allow players to prove their skills online to a wide audience,” said EA SPORTS MMA Executive Producer Dale Jackson. “EA SPORTS is excited to bring this highly anticipated title to mixed martial arts fans and help grow the popularity of the sport worldwide.”

EA SPORTS MMA provides the definitive mixed martial arts experience, featuring multiple disciplines, rule sets, locations and fighters from all over the world. Players can fight in a ring, hexagonal or circular cage, and the MMA environment comes to life with ring girls, corner men and referees. Ring announcer Jimmy Lennon Jr. provides fighter introductions while Big John McCarthy officiates fights and MMA legend Frank Shamrock and commentator Mauro Ranallo call the action.

Through career mode, fighters will be able to train in locations around the world with legends of the sport such as Randy Couture, Pat Miletich, Rickson Gracie and Bas Rutten, visiting gyms in Japan, Brazil, Thailand and the U.S. While training internationally, players will teach their fighter new skills as they rise up the ranks to make it to one of the biggest stages in MMA – STRIKEFORCE.

Other key features within EA SPORTS MMA include:

Fighter Share – Players can put themselves into the world of MMA training and fighting and begin the quest to become a champion. They can upload photos of themselves and use Photo Game Face to create their own, personalised roster of fighters. Display and share these create-a-fighters via Fighter Share by uploading and browsing other created fighters. In addition, through Fighter Share players can download and try out any fighters created by the passionate EA SPORTS MMA community.

Customise Your Own Fight Card – Become a promoter and set up a night of fights with your friends. With the ability to host four fights per card with up to 10 people connected*, players can challenge each other to fights and talk trash while friends provide commentary to the fight.

Total Strike Control – Through an intuitive control system for striking, elbow, knees and kicks, players can go on the offensive with Total Strike Control, providing the utmost flexibility for their fighters. EA SPORTS MMA also provides the flexibility for those who prefer fighting using face buttons with the Classic Control scheme.

EA SPORTS MMA will be available on the Xbox 360®, PS3, iPhone® and iPod® touch.

For more information about EA SPORTS MMA, visit www.easportsmma.com or follow the game on Twitter at www.twitter.com/easportsmma and Facebook at www.facebook.com/easportsmma.

New 3DMark® 11 Trailer Released

Real-time DirectX 11 Graphics Showcased in High Temple Tech Demo

HELSINKI, FINLAND – October 21, 2010 – Futuremark®, the developer of the world’s most popular benchmarking software, today released a new trailer for 3DMark® 11, the latest version of their industry standard benchmark for real-time 3D graphics. The “High Temple” tech demo trailer shows advanced tessellation and lighting effects rendered in real-time by 3DMark 11’s native DirectX 11 engine. 3DMark 11 is due to be released later this year.

High Temple is a demonstration of the DirectX 11 powered 3DMark 11 engine. The high definition 1080p trailer features a mysterious ruined temple hidden deep inside a lush jungle. Volumetric lighting illuminates the scene with bright sunlight filtering through the dense jungle. Tessellation is used to add rich detail to the temple carvings and the jungle foliage. Post processing delivers depth of field and other lens effects. The music is an original composition by renowned composer Pedro Macedo Camacho. The trailer, a selection of new screenshots and further information about 3DMark 11 can be found on the official website: http://www.3dmark.com/

“The High Temple tech demo showcases the amazing real-time graphics that are possible today using readily available DirectX 11 hardware,” said Jukka Mäkinen, Futuremark CEO, “With 3DMark 11 releasing later this year and an ever increasing number of games using DirectX 11 there is a lot to look forward to for PC gamers.”

The 3DMark 11 High Temple tech demo will be shown at the Antec booth at BlizzCon 2010 in Anaheim, California from October 22-23. The Antec logo placement within the High Temple tech demo is a special sponsorship arrangement between Antec and Futuremark. Advertising placements ensure that Futuremark can offer a free edition of the benchmark alongside the paid editions.

3DMark 11 will be released later this year. There will be a free edition allowing unlimited runs available at launch. 3DMark 11 will join existing Futuremark benchmarks 3DMark Vantage for DirectX 10 and 3DMark06 for DirectX 9. Please visit the official website for more details http://www.3dmark.com/ or follow Futuremark on Facebook for all the latest news: http://www.facebook.com/Futuremark/

Video enthusiasts can enjoy new premium software and exciting content, while learning how easy it is to use Nero’s new products to create professional movies through new interactive forum

Karlsbad, Germany (October 20, 2010) – Nero, creator of liquid media technology, today announced that Nero Multimedia Suite 10 Platinum HD and Nero Video Premium HD, two powerful multimedia bundles, are now available for purchase in retail stores worldwide and online at www.nero.com. Nero also launched its “Nero HD Theater” (www.nerohdtheater.com), an interactive site where creative video hobbyists can watch entertaining videos created using Nero software and learn how easily they too can create professional-looking movies. In addition, users can also share their own creations through the site with others within the 1.5 million member My Nero community (www.mynero.com). These two premium Nero suites will be distributed in Australia by QV Software, Nero volume licensing products are available through Communique.

The Nero Multimedia Suite 10 Platinum HD suite and Nero Video Premium HD both bring enhanced Blu-ray Playback capabilities to the table, unlocking a complete HD experience for creative enthusiasts and home hobbyists alike. They also include all new HD effects for video editing and enable users to seamlessly transfer their content from one device to another. All this and more presents users with powerful, yet easy-to-use, tools to meet their multimedia project needs, all at a highly competitive price point.

In addition, Nero users now have access to the all-new “Nero HD Theater,” which serves as an interactive forum to share and showcase professional and amateur video enthusiasts’ creative projects. “Nero HD Theater” includes three theaters: the Main Theater, where people can watch original HD movie projects created by up-and-coming directors using Nero’s tools; the Director’s Theater, where users can view “How To” video editing tutorials, “Behind the Scenes” workshops and director’s commentary videos; and the Indie Theater, where some of the best user-generated videos can be viewed by visitors and members of the My Nero community. Users can also connect with others, share tips, tricks and techniques and get support in the site’s forums.

“These new Nero products enable hobbyists to reach new heights with their video creativity, while allowing them to explore new possibilities with the HD features and effects,” said Jürgen Kurz, CEO, Nero AG. “The combination of the products’ attractive value-based pricing and their ease-of-use, together with the unique mix of showcased content, tips, tricks and community-based support resources found in the ‘Nero HD Theater,’ create a unique environment and a fun experience for our users to explore their creative talent.”

Pricing and Availability
Nero Multimedia Suite 10 Platinum HD will be available from November in retail stores across Australia and online at www.nero.com AND www.qvsoftware.com.au (in Australia) for AUD $199.95. Nero Video Premium HD will also be available for AUD $129.95. Both products include Blu-ray Disc Playback capabilities at no extra cost, a feature that generally requires consumers to pay an expensive activation fee.
Owners of the standard Nero Multimedia Suite 10 can upgrade to Nero Multimedia Suite 10 Platinum HD at www.nero.com for a special price of AUD $29.95. Or they can choose to individually purchase the new Blu-ray Disc Playback or Move it plug-ins and/or the Nero Creative Collection Pack 1 at reasonable prices at www.nero.com.

For more information on Nero and its history, please visit www.nero.com. Become a fan of Nero on Facebook at www.facebook.com/nerosoftware, follow Nero on Twitter (@NeroSolutions) or join the My Nero community at http://my.nero.com.

About Nero
Nero, the creator of liquid media technology, enables liquid content creation and distribution anytime, anywhere, and on any device. The company provides consumers with the freedom to simply enjoy their music, photos, and videos, regardless of hardware or file format, by taking a unique platform neutral, standards-based approach to solution development. More than 300 million units of Nero’s trusted software solutions are used in the home, on the go, and professionally. Nero also provides strategic partners with cutting-edge applications, codecs, tools, software development kits, and programming interfaces for use with a variety of the latest platforms and devices. Products are available globally through hardware manufacturers, international partners, retailers, and directly through the Nero Online Shop at www.nero.com.
Headquartered in Karlsbad, Germany, Nero maintains regional offices in Karlsbad, Germany; Glendale, Calif., USA; Yokohama, Japan; and development centers in Karlsbad, Germany and Hangzhou, China.

Groundbreaking Nintendo DS™ Connectivity Allows Players to Share High Scores and Badge Achievements on Facebook and Twitter

Sydney, Australia – October 20, 2010 – Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announces TouchMaster: Connect, the fourth game in the successful TouchMaster series exclusively for the Nintendo DS™ and Nintendo DSi™ systems. Scheduled to release this December, the game features a compilation of 20 fun and addictive pick-up-and-play action, strategy, puzzle, trivia, and card games based upon AMI Entertainment Network’s successful Megatouch touchscreen games.

Today we present the brand new Official Trailer from the shocking new experience for Red Dead Redemption – Undead Nightmare.

Follow John Marston in this nightmarish adventure as he tries to find a cure for “a virulent plague turning people into flesh-eating crazies” (as Seth Briars so eloquently puts it in today’s new trailer). Featuring a full new single player story with all new gameplay and multiplayer modes – along with new weapons, zombie animals , mythical creatures and even a brand new secret location – the Undead Nightmare Pack will be available very soon for download via Playstation Network ($15.95) and Xbox Live (800 Microsoft Points).

A brand new faction – Private Military Company – reports in and enlarges the already enormous scope of Arma 

Prague, Czech Republic 14th October – Bohemia Interactive, the award winning Czech independent development studio, is pleased to announce a new official expansion of its military simulator titles Arma 2. A new add-on/DLC introducing the Private Military Company and it´s exotic equipment and placed in the story oriented storyline focused on new characters, is scheduled for release exclusively for PC on 24th November 2010.

One year after British and coalition armed forces successfully quelled the insurgent uprising in Takistan, the NATO Green Sea deployment is in the process of a strategic drawdown of its combat troops in the region. Private military contractors shoulder the burden of the increased workload, with competition rising between the multinational organisations for lucrative security contracts. Private Military Company, ION, Inc. (formerly Black Element), successfully bid for a contract – codenamed Black Gauntlet – to provide security for a UN investigation team as they seek to piece together information regarding Takistan’s abandoned nuclear weapons programme…

Arma 2: PMC, a new addon for Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead, will feature:

• New playable faction – Private Military Company
• Original singleplayer campaign with strong storyline unfolding across more than ten missions
• Fully implemented 2 player co-op mode
• New map featuring abandoned wasteland style military weapons test range environment, built upon brand new models and textures
• Unique new character models
• Exotic new weapons (AA-12, fully modelled XM8 variants)
• Detailed new vehicles (Ka-60 ‘Kasatka’, Armed Helicopter UAV, Armoured SUV)
• Numerous new engine updgrades, including full Shotgun Ballistics Modelling and in-game Video Playback

Facility OKB-754 was the central hub of Takistan’s nuclear weapons programme, which reached it’s zennith in late 1999 with the detonation of a 5-10 kton device, before being forcibly abandoned due to sanctions from the international community. The test site was devastated by an underground detonation, which exceeded the expected yield and breached the surface of the ground, distributing a small quantity of radiation around the immediate area; forcing any local activity out of the region.

Operation Black Gauntlet follows a new recruit hired by ION, Inc., the PMC group tasked with providing security for a UN investigation team persuing information pertaining to Takistan’s abandoned nuclear weapons programme, as he executes a conflicted contract – spanning the breadth of the volatile nation – from inception to termination.

Set in the visually attractive environment of rugged Central Asia, Arma 2: Private Military Company will add even more depth to the already extensive size of the most realistic combat simulation experience available. Unprecedented freedom of movement, action and tactics – together with hundreds of models and epic sandbox-style maps – creates the most authentic military simulation game: war without the training wheels.

Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead, reinforced by the British Armed Forces, is available now! Check out the project´s homepage www.arma2.com and learn more about Arma 2: Combined Operations; a unique collection of the original Arma 2 and the massive standalone expansion pack, Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead.

Arma 2: Private Military Company will be deployed exclusively for PC on 24th November 2010. It will be available for GBP 7.99/EUR 8.99/USD 9.99

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18 October 2010

Bluemouth Interactive has today offered all health conscious gamers the perfect way to indulge their hobby while keeping trim at the same time with the Cyberbike™ Cycling Sports fitness bundle for Wii™. The official Cyberbike Cycling Sports fitness bundle provides an alternative and fun fitness programme for the whole family when released for Wii™ on 19th November.

A short video clip promoting this exciting product is available to view at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqYMawTiX2Y

The Cyberbike Magnetic Edition introduces a brand new way to exercise in the living room. The Cyberbike Cycling Sports game for Wii™ – included with the bike – invites players to use their ecocitizen’s head and legs to clean up the planet. Paths and roads must be cleared of the sources of pollution that are ruining the environment as players cycle along on some of the most improbable vehicles ever imagined – on land, sea and air. Using the Cyberbike included in the bundle, players are able to ride through 18 different circuits. Progression unlocks numerous accessories to
customise vehicles and equipment.

Up to four players can take turns to complete the in-game challenges on the Cyberbike Cycling Sports for Wii™. Fitness mode will allow adults to set a specific challenge based on distance, time or calorie burn to offer an alternative fitness regime.

The actual Cyberbike accessory is a slim, light and compact magnetic exercise bike, making it a practical fitness option for any space. The powerful magnet-based resistance chassis offers a scalable challenge which can be altered to suit the rider’s strength and height. The Cyberbike is also compatible for use on other Wii™ racing games, which are marked as Gamecube controller enabled. This includes one of the highest selling Wii™ games of all time…Mario Kart. In making the announcement, Bluemouth Interactive Director David Provan said, “The Cyberbike Cycling Sports fitness bundle is an amazing product. Like WiiFit™, this bundle offers health conscious Wii™ owners a fun and engaging way to mix game play whilst working up a sweat at the same time. It affords the owner an opportunity to get a solid work-out without leaving the comforts of home. This is a truly unique product.”

He added “The included Cyberbike™ magnetic exercise bike is the quality equivalent of many other exercise cycles retailing for $200. With our bundle you get the added bonus of a next generation game which gives the rider an interactive fun, fitness experience that burns calories while you play.”

He concluded by saying “This accessory, along with the many other accessories in our broad range, enhances the video-gaming experience for game-players. This particular bundle is also a perfect and unique gift for Mum this Christmas that can assist many with their New Year’s resolution promises long after the first week of January – and do so in a fun way”.

Cyberbike Magnetic Edition will be distributed by Bluemouth Interactive exclusively for Nintendo Wii from 19th November 2010.

Available at Big W: Late November 2010. Product Code: BM3240. Suggested Retail Price: $199.95.

About Bluemouth Interactive
Bluemouth Interactive is the #1 supplier of video gaming accessories throughout Australia and New Zealand. Bluemouth is at the forefront of enhancing, improving and personalising the videogaming experience and lifestyle. Bluemouth holds preferred partner status within the video game licensed accessory category with major retailers: Big-W, EB Games, Kmart, Target, JB Hi- Fi, and GAME stores. Bluemouth’s range includes officially licensed Nintendo® DS and Wii™ products, officially licensed PlayStation® products and officially licensed Prima® strategy guides.

For the full range visit www.bluemouth.com.au / www.bluemouth.co.nz

20 October 2010

Bluemouth Interactive is inviting gamers to saddle up and ride out for the fastest gun duel to end them all, Western Heroes. Released exclusively for Wii™, Western Heroes will be bundled with a unique Wii™ Remote and Nunchuck rifle accessory – based on the famous Winchester rifle – when released in November 2010.

In a setting inspired by the great Spaghetti Westerns of the 20th century, Western Heroes tells the story of four seasoned compadres on a mission to foil the devious plans of the sinister Molina, who threatens to turn the rugged prairies into an industrial wasteland. Up to four players at a time will blast their way through classic ‘Wild West’ scenarios including a steam train, a cattle ranch, an old mine and many more. Completing story mode chapters unlocks additional challenges and survival mode levels for extended play to test players’ accuracy and reactions.

A short video clip promoting this exciting product is available to view at
http://www.facebook.com/bigben.interactive#!/video/video.php?v=453807413009

“We are renowned for innovations in videogame accessories, but the replica Winchester rifle accessory included in the Western Heroes bundle is one of the very best we have distributed” commented David Provan, Director Bluemouth Interactive. “With Western Heroes, we are confident that we have secured the perfect accompanying title to offer a Wild West experience like no other.”

The included Winchester replica rifle accessory is unique to the game, having never been available in Australia before. Its innovative design houses the Wii™ Remote in the barrel and the Nunchuck in the stock to provide an added level of immersion. The gun’s lever action beneath the trigger replicates the repeater action of Winchester rifle to ensure aspiring cowboys and cowgirls are given an ‘authentic’, Old-Western gaming experience.

David concluded by saying “This bundle, along with the many other accessories in our broad range, enhances the video-gaming experience for game-players. This particular bundle is the perfect arcade shooter for this Christmas and with the Winchester accessory included – it is unlike anything else in the marketplace right now”.

The Western Heroes bundle will be distributed by Bluemouth Interactive exclusively on Wii™ in November 2010 and will be available from leading videogaming retailers. Product Code: BM3241. Suggested Retail Price: $69.95.

Bluemouth website landing page:
http://www.bluemouth.com.au/products/615

About Bluemouth Interactive
Bluemouth Interactive is the #1 supplier of video gaming accessories throughout Australia and New Zealand. Bluemouth is at the forefront of enhancing, improving and personalising the videogaming experience and lifestyle. Bluemouth holds preferred partner status within the video game licensed accessory category with major retailers: Big-W, EB Games, Kmart, Target, JB Hi- Fi, and GAME stores. Bluemouth’s range includes officially licensed Nintendo® DS and Wii™ products, officially licensed PlayStation® products and officially licensed Prima® strategy guides. For the full range visit www.bluemouth.com.au / www.bluemouth.co.nz

Australia and New Zealand, 20 October, 2010 –
 
Nintendo announces that from 28 October 2010, Wii™, available in black or white, will come packaged with Wii Sports™ Resort, the new Wii Remote™ Plus and all for the same great value price of SRP AU $299.95. Wii will still include the original Wii™ Sports game and Nunchuk, but the original Wii Remote™ will be replaced with the brand new Wii Remote Plus.