Exclusive New Song Created For Game

LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO (February 9^th , 2010) – SEGA^® Europe Ltd  and SEGA^® of America, Inc. are excited to announce that two-time Grammy-nominated heavy metal superstars Lamb of God are creating an exclusive song for the upcoming blockbuster title, Iron Man 2: The Videogame. The all-new song, “Hit the Wall,” serves as the perfect complement to the nonstop super-powered action of the game, which heads to consoles and handheld systems everywhere in April 2010. The game is based on the cinematic universe featured in Marvel Studios’ Iron Man 2, in theatres beginning end of April, 2010.

A third-person action-adventure shooter, Iron Man 2: The Videogame teams the finesse of Iron Man with the brute strength of War Machine, who makes his grandest appearance as a playable character in any video game to date. An original story, co-written by Eisner award  winning Iron Man comic author Matt Fraction, introduces players to popular Marvel Super Villains exclusive to the game, such as Crimson Dynamo.

“The music of Lamb of God definitely evokes the intensity of Iron Man action, and we are very excited to have them working with us for the game,” said Sean Ratcliffe, Vice President of Marketing, SEGA of America. “This new track will add even more atmosphere to the cinematic gaming experience that Iron Man 2 brings to the table.”

Lamb of God has been together for over 15 years and grew from a relatively unknown group to leaders at the top of the heavy metal ladder. Having recently completed a tour opening for Metallica and earning a nomination for a 2010 Grammy Award, Lamb of God continue to bring the music their fans are begging for. Enjoying sold-out concerts around the world, Lamb of God have released several albums including Sacrament, which landed in the top 10 of the Billboard charts, became the top-selling metal album of 2006, and earned them their first Grammy nomination. The band is made up of guitarist Willie Adler, Willie’s drummer brother Chris Adler, bassist John Campbell, guitarist Mark Morton and vocalist Randy Blythe. Their most recent album Wrath was released in March 2009 and made it to No. 2 on the Billboard charts. They are about to embark on an international tour taking them around the world with stops all over Europe and the U.S.

“Working on a piece of music specifically for the Iron Man 2 video game was a new challenge for us,” says Blythe. “A few of us are real game and comic fans, so the partnership with SEGA has been really exciting. We can’t wait to play the game and hear our music as Iron Man kicks a**.”

Iron Man 2: The Videogame will be available on Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, PSP (PlayStation®Portable) system, Wii™ home video game system and Nintendo DS™.

For more information, please visit the official site at www.sega.com/ironman2

Expand your Empire with Elite Units of the East

New Empire: Total War DLC Released Today

 LONDON (8^th January, 2010) – SEGA Europe Ltd. today announced that new downloadable content for the critically acclaimed Empire: Total War will be available today via Steam. Featuring 12 new unit types for the Maratha Confederacy and the Ottoman factions, this downloadable content will add an extra layer to the already in-depth offering that is Empire: Total War.

Empire: Total War is set in the 18^th century, a turbulent era that was the most requested by Total War’s loyal fan base, and a period alive with global conflict, revolutionary fervour and technological advances. With themes such as the Industrial Revolution, America’s struggle for independence, the race to control Eastern trade routes and the globalisation of war on land and sea, Empire: Total War is the richest and most dynamic PC strategy game of all time. Empire: Total War is available in stores now exclusively for PC.

For more information about the game, please visit www.totalwar.com.

The highly acclaimed 2D fighting game releases its own iPhone App!
Click for Blazblue iPhone Application

Gold Coast: 5th February 2010. All Interactive Entertainment (AIE) together with N3V Games are pleased to announce an iPhone application for BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger that is now FREE to download from the iPhone App Store.

The iPhone App includes a monster content pack for all the BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger fans to enjoy including access to loads of Blazblue artwork, characters, competitions, moves, reviews, video and more! Plus the App gives you the chance to WIN your very own copy of the game.

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger is gearing up to release across Australia and New Zealand on PLAYSTATION®3 and Xbox 360® platforms on 18 March 2010.

About BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
BlazBlue is a new experience in 2D weapons based fighting games making exceptional use of the power behind the Next Gen consoles and online gameplay networks. The game is created by Arc Works Systems, the Japanese developers behind the critically acclaimed, long running Guilty Gears fighting franchise which began in 1998.

BlazBlue has been hailed as the “game that every self-respecting console fighting fan should play”. It has already enjoyed huge success in Japan and critical acclaim in North America with most reviews rating the game 90% or higher, three giving it a perfect 100%!

Features:

• For those new to the fighting action genre, the game has been specifically designed so that it’s easy to pick up at the beginning, with an ever increasing depth which introduces new and more demanding skills.
• The game features an all-original goth-anime cast with intricately detailed hand drawn high-Definition character sprites. And they are a unique bunch indeed.
• A Plethora of Defensive and Offensive Options at Your Disposal – Take advantage of Barriers, Counter Assaults, Rapid Cancels, Barrier Bursts, Ukemi Tactics and Distortion Drives to turn the tide of battle.
• Drive your way to victory! Use the unique “Drive Attacks” specific to each character to decimate your opponent.
• Console-Exclusive Content – Brand new music, animations, backgrounds, and a fully fleshed-out story mode have been made exclusively for the console release.
• Online Battle – Train your skills online through ranked and player battles.

www.blazblue.com.au

ABOUT N3V GAMES:
Established in 2006 – head office in Gold Coast, Australia, N3V Games has built up a large partnership world wide as an independent games publisher. These partnerships consist of companies such as: 1C Company, Akella, CDV, DTP, EA, Endgame, Focus, Frozenbyte, GFI, Half Brick, Hot Head, Idea, JoWooD, Koch, Kylotonn, Lexis Numerique, Lighthouse, Merscom, Monte Cristo, Nintendo, Nobilis, Noviy Disk, Paradox, Playlogic, PQube, Real, Sony, Stardock, Techland, Timetrip and The Games Company just to name a few.

N3V are interested in evaluating console or PC product for publication and distribution rights either World Wide rights and/or for Australia and New Zealand.
www.n3vgames.com

ABOUT N3V ONLINE SHOP:
N3V has just released a brand new shop focused on providing gamers and entertainment lovers the most cost effective and greatest range of products to purchase online. Browse the shop to see that we have crammed it full of fantastic PC and console games as well as the latest and greatest DVD and Blu Ray movies! With a lightening fast distribution system in place and the highest quality control you will have no problems getting your orders on time and in the best conditions!
http://shop.n3vrf41l.com

ABOUT ALL INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT:
Based in the Gold Coast of Australia, All Interactive Entertainment (AIE) is a wholly owned subsidiary of All Interactive Distribution (AID) and holds the exclusive distribution rights for N3V Games in Australia and New Zealand. More information on AIE can be found at www.aie.allinteractive.com.au

AID was established in 1994 and over the last 15 years has grown into one of the largest distributors of interactive entertainment product in Australia. AID also acts as a sub-distributor for all of the video games and DVD publishers in Australia and distributes, on behalf of Nintendo, into the New Zealand market. More information on AID can be found at
www.allinteractive.com.au

Build a Day of Fun with your preschoolers with Handy Manny: Tooling Around released on Disney DVD for the first time 3 March 2010!

Join Manny Garcia – the newest handyman in the town. Handy Manny: Tooling Around comes to DVD for the first time, with bonus features including an interactive You Build It With Handy Manny game, and a bonus episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey’s Handy Helpers. Handy Manny encourages a real “can do” attitude! When tooling around with Manny and his boisterous bunch of tools, mums and kids will find valuable and inspiring messages about teamwork, friendship and community.

Like any handyman, Manny depends on his tools but Manny’s tools are a noisy, fussy, bickering bunch that makes life for this handyman a little hectic! Voiced by Hollywood star Wilmer Valderama (That 70’s Show), join Handy Manny and his team of mismatched tools as you work together to fix problems around the neighbourhood.

Handy work has never been so much fun for Pat – the bumbling hammer, Felipe – the ambitious screwdriver, Turner – the grumpy screwdriver and the rest of the posse as they repair the entire town of Sheet Rock Hills, one house at a time.

Also new to Playhouse Disney DVD: brighten your day and discover a rainbow of magical fun this March with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey’s Colour Adventure. All the color is disappearing from the Clubhouse! Will you help get it back? Grab your mouseketools and join the gang as they collect objects in red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple to power up Professor Von Drake’s Rainbow Color Machine. Come along for the ride with Mickey, Minnie and the entire Clubhouse gang as they embark on their most colourful journey yet, with a special bonus episode of Little Einsteins: The Blue Footed Booby Bird Ballet. 

Pack your bags again and discover some of the world’s most fun and fascinating sites when the Little Einsteins Go To America!  Whether you’re hiking, floating or skiing, get ready for the ultimate travel experience where you’ll discover non-stop adventure and breathtaking scenery with the Little Einsteins.

Next, it’s time to put on your detective hat and gear up for moreic Spanish language skills!DVD

 fun-filled adventures that celebrate being true to yourself. Your favourite Super-Sleuthing pals are back with My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Everyone is Special.  Cheer for Darby as she learns to ride her bike without training wheels for the very first time, help Tigger find special, one-of-a-kind exhibits for his new museum and much more! You’ll soon discover that although everybody in the Hundred Acre Wood may seem different, there’s something important that they – and you – all have in common: Everyone Is Special!

WHAT YOUR CHILD CAN ENJOY WITH PLAYHOUSE DISNEY:

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and My Friends Tigger and Pooh enables children to solve age-appropriate puzzles and tasks, work with numbers and identify shapes and gadgets. Little Einsteins helps to inspire creativity and music, and you’ll find messages of teamwork, friendship and community with the newest addition of Handy Manny: Tooling Around all while having fun with your favourite Playhouse Disney characters!

Other titles recently released to the Playhouse Disney DVD range include the full-length feature movie Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey’s Adventures in Wonderland.  My Friends Tigger and Pooh: Bedtime with Pooh and Little Einsteins: Go To Africa.

                                          Available to own on Disney DVD: 3 March 2010

                          Rated: G

Playhouse Disney DVD titles are distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.  A division of Walt Disney Studios (US), Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment is the worldwide marketing, sales and distribution company for all Walt Disney, Touchstone, Hollywood Pictures and Buena Vista DVD releases.  Buena Vista is the Australian sell-through market leader and has been a recognised world video / DVD industry leader for over a decade

GameRanger Plays Matchmaker for Lonely Hearts of Iron

Perth, Western Australia — February 14, 2010 —
GameRanger Technologies today announced that GameRanger, the leading
multiplayer matchmaking service for strategy games, now offers online
play for the Hearts of Iron series. The epic World War II games of
Grand Strategy will entice gamers to make war, not love, this
Valentine’s Day.

The Hearts of Iron series has become renowned for being the biggest,
most detailed and complete strategic game series on World War II ever
made. The game maps span the entire world and allow players to take
the War to any new front of their choosing. Any nation in the world is
playable, but the games focus on the epic struggle between the great
alliances of the new world orders Fascism, Communism and Democracy.

The full series currently includes:
– Hearts of Iron
– Hearts of Iron II
– Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday
– Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday: Armageddon
– Hearts of Iron III

For more information about Hearts of Iron, visit
http://www.paradoxplaza.com

GameRanger opened to PC gaming in November 2008 and now supports over
600 multiplayer games with its fast, easy to use interface. Unlike
other services, GameRanger solves router and firewall network problems
automatically, making it simple to play online with friends.

GameRanger runs on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 and is available
as a free download from http://www.GameRanger.com

About GameRanger

GameRanger is the longest running multiplayer online gaming service,
having originally opened to Mac gaming in 1999. In November 2008,
GameRanger expanded to PC gaming and now offers full lobby support for
over 600 games — significantly more than any other multiplayer
service — and is rapidly becoming the preferred choice of gamers for
playing their friends online. GameRanger Technologies is located in
Perth, Western Australia. For more information, visit
http://www.GameRanger.com and follow on http://twitter.com/GameRanger

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12/02/2010 – Major changes include: 

King Arthur – The Role-playing Wargame v1.04 

Neverending Feast Objective updated (Requires an earlier Save Game then the Objective.)

Faster Construction law – fixed

Wrath of Sir Galahad Objective fixed (non-closing bug)

Recruitment Camp freeze fixed

Banner of Deepwood and Banner of Cuchulainn – Multiplayer bug fixed

Sword of Taranis – Lightning spell effect fixed

Hero and unitkill summary fixed (at Restart Battle)

Non-available Knights on the Round Table – fixed

Sunshine and Smashing force spell duration updated

Hedgehog Defense skill – fixed

Unassailable Samhain army – fixed

Mercia Divided bug fixed

Movement point system updated

Magistrate building effect fixed

Drag& Drop option at battle spells selection

Highly Anticipated MMO for PC Releases with Over 1 Million Cryptic Accounts Created 

Sydney, Australia (February 11, 2010) – Atari, SA, one of the world’s most recognized videogame publishers, and acclaimed developer Cryptic Studios™, are proud to announce the bold new PC MMO, Star Trek Online available today in Australia and New Zealand. Already, over 1 million Star Trek fans have created accounts at the official websites.

Taking place in the year 2409, Star Trek Online boasts extraordinary features and lets fans both new and old experience unparalleled adventures.  Players have the opportunity to become a high ranking Starfleet officer and participate in missions that take them into the depths of space, across exotic planets and even inside other starships. Star Trek Online offers total customization, from a player’s avatar to the ship he captains.

“After much anticipation, we are pleased to present Star Trek Online to fans and gamers nationwide,” said Jeff Lapin, CEO of Atari, SA. “Throughout the last four decades, Star Trek has been a mainstay in pop culture, influencing legions of ‘trekkers’ through television, film, and more.  We expect Star Trek Online to give fans and gamers an unprecedented Star Trek experience.” 

Additionally, legendary actor Leonard Nimoy and Hollywood’s latest Spock, Zachary Quinto, have both lent their voices to the game.  Nimoy voices the introduction for Star Trek Online and other key scenes in-game. Quinto plays the part of an Emergency Medial Hologram and voices the tutorial for this first-of-a-kind massively multiplayer online role-playing game, teaching fans how to explore the Star Trek Online universe, improve their characters, attain higher ranks, succeed in space combat and excel on away missions.

Star Trek Online is a licensed product from CBS Consumer Products.  For more information, please visit: www.startrekonline.com and www.atari.com

SEAGATE SHIPS WORLD’S HIGHEST-CAPACITY, MOST RELIABLE SMALL FORM FACTOR ENTERPRISE DRIVE: THE SAVVIO 10K.4 HARD DRIVE

Enterprise storage systems can now move to 600GB capacity, 2 million hour MTBF solution

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. — February 11, 2010 — Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) today announced worldwide shipments of its Savvio^® 10K.4 hard disk drive (HDD), the world’s highest-capacity and most reliable 2.5-inch enterprise-class drive. Built for the demands of enterprise servers and to enable new levels of data density in external storage arrays, Savvio 10K.4 doubles the capacity of its nearest competitor to 600GB. It is also the first HDD to achieve an unprecedented 2 million hours Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) reliability rating.

As the industry’s only fourth generation, field-proven, 2.5-inch HDD designed for the enterprise, Savvio 10K.4 also features Protection Information for enhanced protection of data-in-flight, a self-encrypting drive (SED) option for the ultimate protection of sensitive data-at-rest and PowerChoice™, which allows the Savvio 10K.4 hard drive to deliver improved power savings during idle.

“Our customers face challenging storage needs requiring the most efficient use of space and power while maintaining the highest performance possible,” said Howard Shoobe, senior manager, Dell Storage Product Management. “The new 2.5-inch 10K-rpm 600GB capacity point allows a doubling of capacity within the same rack space of current 3.5-inch 15K 600GB drives while increasing overall system-level performance and decreasing power usage.” 

The combined features of Savvio 10K.4 deliver greater overall value and can reduce the total cost of ownership to IT organizations and administrators eager to optimize their data centre’s power and performance efficiency. Leveraging the enterprise 2.5-inch small form factor as its platform, Savvio 10K.4 serves as a powerful storage building block when compared to 3.5-inch based systems.

“A transition to 2.5-inch enterprise-class HDDs by server and storage system OEMs is building momentum,” said John Rydning, IDC’s research director for hard disk drives. “There continues to be nearly insatiable demand for digital content accessed via numerous applications and devices, content that is increasingly delivered from storage systems equipped with high capacity enterprise-class HDDs such as Seagate’s Savvio® 10K.4.”

For more information about Savvio 10K.4, visit:
seagate.com/www/en-us/products/servers/

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In 2010, Top Designs celebrates its tenth birthday at Melbourne Museum with the theme ‘then, now and beyond’. Since 2001 more than 1,000 students have exhibited outstanding work in Top Designs which has proved an important stepping stone for their future careers in design.

Top Designs is a major component of the VCE Season of Excellence, managed by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority. The exhibition features exemplary student design in a range of VCE studies: Design and Technology, Food and Technology, Systems Engineering, Media, VET Multimedia and Visual Communication and Design.

Works featured in the exhibition include: a Surfboard graphic design, Tribal Cocktail Frock, Variable Speed Control Spit Roast, War against the Veggies game, as well as a range of Short films, animation, print layout and photography.

Students from schools around Victoria are available for interviews and there are images available of some students and their works.

February 11^th, 2010 – Just two days after the announcement of the shooter Age of Zombies, Halfbrick is proud to announce its fourth PlayStation mini!

Take to the sky-high tracks with speed and precision in Rocket Racing, which challenges your reflexes and daring across 24 levels in Grand Prix, Challenge and Quick Race events. Drive like a true prodigy by mastering advanced drifting and wall-boosting techniques to get an edge over your opponents and achieve record times. Rocket Racing is intense action from the green light to the finish line!

Rocket Racing puts players in the sub-stratosphere on tracks suspended above the clouds and futuristic cities. Challenge mode features six tiers of unique racing and skill-based challenges, often featuring the signature “grinding” technique which is critical to achieving elite racing success! By adjusting the orientation of the racer against the walls, players can use rocket power to boost off at high speed as well as scoring points for longer and smoother grinds.

Grand Prix pits players against opponents in a series of races over four difficulty levels. Completionists can collect gold trophies as they race, and along with the Challenge mode, take steps to unlocking and winning every event in the game for the elusive 100% Award!

Finally, Party Mode puts up to four players in the hotseat as they take turns setting and breaking each other’s score on a huge variety of tracks. Party Mode even lets players customize how to win – be it with the fastest time, highest total or single grind score!

Rocket Racing will be released for PS3 and PSP minis on the PlayStation Store at US$4.99 in late February.

Debut trailer – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvlusxXNQbk

 About Halfbrick

Halfbrick is a professional game development studio based in Brisbane, Australia. Founded in 2001, it has developed popular titles for the Game Boy Advance, PSP, PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS, with expansion into XBLA, PS3 and iPhone development. For further information, please visit www.halfbrick.com and follow on Twitter, Youtube and Facebook!