Publisher: Gaijin Entertainment
Developer: Gaijin Entertainment / Skyfallen Entertainment
Genre: racing game / action 

MOSCOW, Russia, June 3 — Gaijin Entertainment is proud to announce the release Death Track: Resurrection, a new combat racing game for the PS3.  The eagerly anticipated offering is available for online purchase through PlayStation Network Europe for 14.99 EUR.

Death Track: Resurrection introduces high speed vehicular chaos to the PS3 as players travel to a future in which the world has been plunged into chaos. Traditional sports have been replaced by the far more aggressive and violent types of entertainment. The main event of the year, Survival Racing, is a world tournament that takes place in the largest cities across the globe. Powerful vehicles and spectacular road battles are performed by world-renown and feared drivers as they compete for glory and huge cash prizes. Players can enter this world alone or with a friend using split-screen and battle deadly AI’s, or join a game with 8 other drivers to really crank up the mayhem. 

Key features:

– 10 post-apocalyptic city tracks: New York, Paris, Bangkok, London, Vatican, Prague, Moscow, Istanbul, Tokyo and San Diego!

– 10 unique futuristic vehicles, 18 different upgrades, and more than 20 weapons;

– Storyline full motion video cutscenes.

– Easily recognizable locations with well known landmarks.

About Gaijin Entertainment:

Gaijin Entertainment specializes in the development of games for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.  The company also conducts technology-related research, allowing it to remain responsive to and on the cutting edge of the rapidly changing IT market. Currently, Gaijin is comprised of six departments and over 60 skilled team members.  The company’s projects have received numerous media and game industry awards, including KRI awards for “Best Simulator for Next-Gen Consoles” (IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey for the PS3 and Xbox 360), “Best Technologies” (Dagor Engine™), “Best Sound” and more. Learn more at http://www.gaijinent.com

PlayStation®3 system and Games for Windows® Demo Coming Late June 

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE) and TT Games are bringing the magic of LEGO® HARRY POTTER™: YEARS 1-4 to consumers with a demo scheduled to be available June 8^th for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.  The demo will also be available for PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC in late June.  The full game will hit store shelves beginning June 30^th in Australia.

Consumers will able to download the demo from Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation®Network for the PlayStation 3. 

The LEGO® HARRY POTTER™: YEARS 1-4 demo will give kids, parents and fans a glimpse into the magic that awaits them with gameplay that allows them to learn and cast spells, as well as explore the Forbidden Forest, one of the many iconic settings in the game. 

LEGO® HARRY POTTER™: YEARS 1-4 will give gamers the chance to experience the magic and adventure of the first four Harry Potter stories in a brand new way. Playing as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley™ and Hermione Granger™, as well as more than 150 other favourite characters, fans will have the opportunity to attend lessons, cast spells, mix potions, fly on broomsticks and complete tasks to earn rewards.  Throughout the game, players will also have the freedom to explore iconic settings from the wizarding world including Hogwarts™ castle, Diagon Alley, the Forbidden Forest and the village of Hogsmeade.

Please find attached assets from the game which you can post along with this great news.

For more information, please check out the official LEGO® HARRY POTTER™: YEARS 1-4 website at www.magicisbuilding.com.

Legendary former NBA star makes a virtual return to the hardwood this fall 

Sydney, Australia – June 4, 2010 – 2K Sports announced today that 14-time NBA All-Star, five-time NBA Most Valuable Player, six-time NBA World Champion and recent Hall of Fame inductee, Michael Jordan, will appear on the cover of NBA® 2K11. Jordan, who is considered by many as the greatest basketball player in history, will fittingly team up with the NBA 2K series, the top rated and top selling basketball simulation video game*.

“It’s an honor to be featured on the cover of NBA 2K11,” said Jordan, current majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats.  “I have no doubt that NBA 2K11 will be a big hit with gamers and basketball fans alike.  I’m looking forward to getting back out onto the court, virtually. Let’s hope they get my dunk from the foul line right.”

2K Sports is paying homage to the NBA legend by placing him on the cover of its award-winning franchise. NBA 2K11 will continue to build upon the outstanding success of the NBA 2K series with continued improvements to the graphics, gameplay, signature styles and game modes seen in previous iterations.

“Without a doubt, Michael Jordan is the greatest of all time and we’re excited to partner with a living legend,” said Greg Thomas, president of product development for 2K Sports. “Working with Jordan adds tremendously to our game and lets us do things with NBA 2K11 that we’ve never been able to do before.”

NBA 2K11 is not yet rated by the Australian Classification Board and will be available October 8, 2010. For more information, please visit www.2ksports.com/nba2k11.

2K Sports is a division of 2K, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

*According to 2008 – 2010 Gamerankings.com and The NPD Group estimates of U.S. retail video game sales through April 2010

Sydney, AUSTRALIA. June 5th 2010 – This fall, living room legends and their friends will join together and embark on an epic rock journey to save rock n’ roll with Activision Publishing, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: ATVI) Guitar Hero®: Warriors of Rock.  The latest installment in the world’s most popular music game series, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock will once again redefine music gaming with an all-new, story-driven Quest Mode, a completely redesigned rock-inspired guitar controller, the biggest on-disc selection of rock music ever in a Guitar Hero® game and Quickplay+, which invites challenge-starved fanatics to test their rock skills in any of the on-disc or over 500 songs in the Guitar Hero Music Library.

Running on the powerful Guitar Hero engine that has been expanded and refined, coupled with the return of the critically acclaimed and fan favorite features like Party Play’s jump in/jump out gameplay, a host of Competitive modes and the ability to play any combination of guitar, bass, drums and vocals, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock offers the complete interactive and connected experience bringing friends and foes to the stage in the ultimate rock music adventure.

“Guitar Hero has set the standard for music based gaming and with Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock and the game’s all-new Quest Mode, robust and authentic set list, over-the-top challenges and rock-inspired new hardware, we are once again bringing the soul and energy of rock n’ roll to fans around the world,” said David Haddad, Chief Operating Officer, Guitar Hero.

In Quest Mode, using any combination of instruments, players will embark on a larger-than-life, epic rock journey from the stage of CBGBs, the infamous punk-rock club in New York City, to the molten lava fields of rock treachery as eight Guitar Hero characters transform into rock warriors that must join together to use their unique, game-changing powers to help the Demi-God of Rock take down “The Beast” and save rock n’ roll.

 “The world is a boring place. Come with me, and enter a world populated of Demi-Gods and Beasts. Transform from an everyday person and become the savior of rock and roll,” said Gene Simmons of KISS.  “It was an honor and privilege to narrate Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, even more so, to voice the Demi God. From the God of Thunder to the Demi-God, how cool is that…”

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock breathes new life into gamers’ current Guitar Hero music libraries providing literally hundreds of hours of replayability with the introduction of Quickplay+, which features 13 totally unique gameplay challenges for every on-disc track as well as most downloadable and importable songs from Guitar Hero® World Tour forward,.  Gamers will complete challenges such as Band Streak, High Score and Power Challenge, which allows players to choose any two warrior powers they have unlocked to try and earn ridiculously high scores, to rank up and unlock more rewards and content than ever before.  All-new Challenge Leaderboards have been created in order to capture the outrageous scores that are capable with Quickplay+.

Delivering the largest on-disc rock music set list to-date, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock features more than 90 tracks that include guitar shredding hits from bands such as Black Sabbath, Megadeth and Slipknot and larger than life anthems from Queen, Muse and KISS.  Additionally, Dave Mustaine of Megadeth wrote and recorded “Sudden Death,” an original track for the game, which was inspired by Quest Mode’s storyline.  Along with original songs, the set list also includes special re-records by famous artists and tracks from bands that are making their music video game debut.  The first songs off of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock’s set list to be revealed are:

·         AFI – “Dancing Through Sunday”

·         Anthrax – “Indians”

·         Avenged Sevenfold – “Bat Country”

·         Black Sabbath – “Children Of The Grave”

·         Buzzcocks – “What Do I Get?”

·         Children Of Bodom – “If You Want Peace… Prepare For War”

·         The Cure – “Fascination Street”

·         Def Leppard – “Pour Some Sugar On Me (Live)”

·         Dethklok – “Bloodlines”

·         Dire Straits – “Money For Nothing”

·         DragonForce – “Fury of the Storm”

·         Drowning Pool – “Bodies”

·         Fall Out Boy – “Dance, Dance”

·         Foo Fighters – “No Way Back”

·         Foreigner – “Feels Like The First Time”

·         The Hives – “Tick Tick Boom”

·         Jane’s Addiction – “Been Caught Stealing”

·         Jethro Tull – “Aqualung”

·         KISS – “Love Gun”

·         Linkin Park – “Bleed It Out”

·         Megadeth – “Sudden Death”

·         Metallica & Ozzy Osbourne – “Paranoid (Live)”

·         Muse – “Uprising”

·         My Chemical Romance – “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)”

·         Night Ranger – “ (You Can Still) Rock In America”

·         Nine Inch Nails – “Wish”

·         The Offspring – “Self Esteem”

·         Queen – “Bohemian Rhapsody”

·         Rammstein – “Waidmanns Heil”

·         The Rolling Stones – “Stray Cat Blues”

·         Silversun Pickups – “There’s No Secrets This Year”

·         Slayer – “Chemical Warfare”

·         Slipknot – “Psychosocial”

·         Stone Temple Pilots – “Interstate Love Song”

·         ZZ Top – “Sharp Dressed Man (Live)”

To maximise players’ shredability, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock delivers the next evolution in finger-fretting with an all-new, show-stopping guitar controller that was inspired and born from the game’s unique art style and specifically made for shredding.

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock is being developed by Neversoft Entertainment for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and by Vicarious Visions for the Wii™ system from Nintendo.  The Wii version is not yet rated.  For more information about Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, please visit GuitarHero.com<http://www.guitarhero.com>.

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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is releasing the official F.E.A.R. 3 E3 trailer, which reveals new levels and enemies, and gives gamers a sneak peek into some of what they can expect to see at E3 next week! 

Also, check out the recently updated F.E.A.R. 3 website at www.whatisfear.com that includes newly revealed information on enemies and characters.

Set to release on the Xbox 360, PS3, and Windows PC, F.E.A.R. 3 is a heart-pounding paranormal horror first person shooter unleashing intense combat, compelling narrative and co-op play that evolves the franchise. Alma returns in F.E.A.R. 3 but this time her sons Point Man and Paxton Fettel are characters available to play in divergent co-op, giving players distinctly different abilities affecting their own play as well as the experience of their co-op partner. Gamers participate in single player or co-op modes as Point Man, and they can play cooperatively as his conniving brother Paxton Fettel whose incredible telekinetic power has given him life beyond the grave. The game is developed by Day 1 Studios, developer of the original F.E.A.R. console games in collaboration with Monolith Studios.

Provide your audience with an intimate look at F.E.A.R. 3 by posting the E3 trailer (view online here).

SYDNEY, Australia – June 8^th, 2010 – D3Publisher today announced that Despicable Me™: The Game™ for Wii™, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, and PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system, will feature the voice talent of Steve Carell.  In the video game that is based on the 3-D CGI feature film from Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment, Carell will reprise his onscreen-voiced role of Gru, one of the world’s greatest super-villains, as he plans the biggest heist in the history of the world.  He is going to steal the moon!  Despicable Me: The Game for Wii, PlayStation 2 system, and PSP system and Despicable Me: The Game – Minion Mayhem for Nintendo DS™ will be available across EMEA and Asia Pacific this Spring, to coincide with the Australian release dates of the movie.

In Despicable Me: The Game, players become the mastermind Gru as he plans and plots to build a rocket ship and steal the moon.  Players will command an army of  mischievous, little yellow minions to complete puzzles and missions and use an arsenal of despicable weapons and gadgets such as magnet guns, freeze rays and battle-ready vehicles to vanquish all who stand in their way.   Players will fly Gru’s aircraft in daring missions against his nemesis, Vector, and play as Gru or Vector in a variety of multiplayer air combat modes!  Despicable Me: The Game – Minion Mayhem offers Nintendo DS players an all-new adventure with a unique storyline and exclusive minions to command for hours of entertainment.

Despicable Me: The Game for Wii, PlayStation 2 system and PSP system is under development by Monkey Bar Games, a division of Vicious Cycle Software. Despicable Me: The Game – Minion Mayhem for Nintendo DS is under development by Way Forward

For more information on Despicable Me: The Game and Despicable Me: The Game – Minion Mayhem, including game features, screenshots, and videos, please visit www.DespicableMeTheGame.com.

Research In Motion (RIM) today announced Australian initiatives to promote innovation and opportunity in the mobility industry; the Australian launch of the BlackBerry® Super Apps Developer Challenge and the platinum sponsorship of mobile industry organisation Mobile Monday. 

Adele Beachley, Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand, RIM, said, “RIM hopes to encourage innovation in application development in the Australian mobile industry and we believe that launching the BlackBerry Super Apps Developer Challenge and sponsoring the Mobile Monday organisation are two ways for RIM to successfully contribute to our exciting local industry. The BlackBerry Super Apps Developer Challenge offers developers in the Asia Pacific an attractive prize package so we hope Australian developers are encouraged to enter and demonstrate their talent.”   

The BlackBerry Super Apps Developer Challenge invites developers to showcase applications that take advantage of the BlackBerry Application Platform’s unique capabilities. The BlackBerry Application Platform allows developers to quickly and easily build applications that seamlessly share information and interact with core BlackBerry applications or other third party applications.

The Challenge will recognise BlackBerry smartphone applications on a regional basis across four global regions – Asia Pacific, North America, Latin America and Europe/Middle East/Africa. Judges will evaluate applications submitted in seven categories: Productivity, Fun & Entertainment, Knowledge, Sharing, Navigate & Explore, Multi-media and In the Know.

Developers of applications selected at each finalist level will receive unique prizes to support their development on the BlackBerry platform and to help them achieve commercial success. There are over $1.5 million dollars in prizes to be won, including application promotion services, BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry App World™ marketing support, an Elite membership in the BlackBerry Alliance Program and more. 

Applications will be judged on quality, user experience and how effectively they have incorporated “Super App” characteristics. The Australian launch of the BlackBerry Super Apps Developer Challenge coincides with RIM’s announcement that it has signed a twelve month sponsorship deal with Mobile Monday’s Sydney and Melbourne chapters. Mobile Monday is a non-profit organisation with a mission to promote the Australian mobile industry and build networks within it.

Shane Williamson, Co-founder of Mobile Monday Sydney said, “Research In Motion is an industry leader in the mobility space and having their support will help us raise the profile of our organisation locally and the Australian mobile industry on a global scale. One of Mobile Monday’s key objectives is to promote innovation so we are very excited to help launch the BlackBerry Super Apps Developer Challenge in Australia.”

Information Links

To apply for the Super Apps Developer Challenge, visit http://bpf.wufoo.com/forms/2010-blackberry-super-apps-developer-challenge/ and complete the application form.

For more information on developing “Super Apps” on the BlackBerry Application Platform, please visit www.blackberry.com/developers/superapps.

Kalypso Media, a global publisher of award-winning PC and console games, and Akella, one of Eastern Europe’s leading development and publishing houses, today unveiled a brand new website for the upcoming epic turn-based strategy title – Disciples III: Renaissance. The site, located at www.disciples3.com, will play host to a wealth of game information, including artwork, screenshot galleries, videos, wallpapers, development highlights and much more. The site will be regularly updated with new content over the coming weeks to keep fans current with all the latest game information. Disciples III: Renaissance will be available on Windows PC in Australia and New Zealand in July 2010.

• Visit the new web site 

Disciples III: Renaissance is the next title in the award-winning Disciples series and represents a huge leap forward in the evolution of the turn-based RPG/strategy genre.  Building on the successes of the first two games, Disciples III: Renaissance introduces a host of new features as well as the compelling gameplay that made the previous titles so popular.