Call of Duty: Ghosts takes the critically-acclaimed franchise into the next generation. New world. New story. New, next-gen engine. Pre-order now at http://www.callofduty.com/ghosts/preorder.
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Blockbuster titles, Steven Spielberg-produced Halo TV series, and exclusive agreements with the NFL transform games, TV and entertainment for the 21st century living room.
The Video Reveal can be found at – http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/hub/reveal
REDMOND, Wash. — May 21, 2013 — A new vision for the future comes to life today as Microsoft Corp. unveils Xbox One, the all-in-one gaming and entertainment system created for today and the next generation. At Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash., the company showcased how Xbox One puts you at the center of all your games, TV, movies, music, sports and Skype.
“Xbox One is designed to deliver a whole new generation of blockbuster games, television and entertainment in a powerful, all-in-one device,” said Don Mattrick, president, Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft. “Our unique, modern architecture brings simplicity to the living room and, for the first time ever, the ability to instantly switch across your games and entertainment.”
Introducing Xbox One
With Xbox One, games push the boundaries of realism, and TV obeys your commands.1 Say “Xbox On” to launch your personalized Xbox One Home screen, discover what is popular on TV or see friends’ latest gaming achievements all using the most natural interface — your voice. The more you interact with Xbox One, the more it gets to know you and learns what you like. Some of the breakthrough Xbox One features that put you at the center of your living room entertainment include the following:
To create the most advanced Xbox system ever designed for games, TV and entertainment, Microsoft created a state-of-the-art gaming operating system and fused it with an equally amazing entertainment platform, so you will not have to switch inputs to watch TV or play a game. An eight-core, x86 processor and more than 5 billion transistors helps make lag and load times a thing of the past, so you can instantly jump between a game and your entertainment at lightning speed or run a host of apps right alongside your game with no loss in performance.
Introducing Xbox One titles and exclusives
Gaming on Xbox One immerses gamers in cinematic worlds that look like real life, with characters that feel more human than ever before. AAA blockbuster titles unveiled for Xbox One include the following:
In addition to the amazing lineup of games coming to Xbox One, Microsoft unveiled exclusive content partnerships with some of the top names in TV, sports and entertainment.
Introducing a new generation of Xbox Live
Xbox One is built to amplify an all-new generation of Xbox Live that is more powerful, more personal and more intelligent. Unleashing the virtually unlimited power of the cloud makes everything more convenient and accessible, from allowing games to be installed in segments so that gameplay can start quickly to updates downloading in the background. Save and store your personalized profile, games and entertainment in the cloud to access them anytime, from any Xbox One console.4 In addition, existing Xbox Live Gold Membership for Xbox 360 will seamlessly carry over to Xbox One.5 Xbox Live takes you deeper into the games you love with all-new features.
Introducing the Xbox One look and feel
New Xbox One hardware is sleek and modern and complements any décor. The console is shaped in the 16:9 aspect ratio and employs a horizontal orientation optimized for its high-speed Blu-ray™ disc player. It is molded in a deep and rich liquid black color and includes a distinctive beveled edge.
The completely redesigned, revolutionary 1080p Kinect is more precise, more responsive and more intuitive. Its unparalleled vision, motion and voice technology let you reach into games and entertainment like never before by dramatically expanding its field of view and fidelity. It works in nearly any lighting condition, recognizes precise motion control from a slight wrist rotation, and distinguishes your voice even in a noisy room using advanced noise isolation.
The class-leading Xbox controller is refreshed with more than 40 technical and design innovations. Updated directional pad, thumb stick and ergonomic fit immerse all gamers in ways that are uniquely Xbox, and precision and control have been dramatically increased with all new vibrating impulse triggers.6 The Xbox One Wireless Controller is designed to work in concert with the new Kinect, allowing the two to be paired automatically to create seamless player syncing.
Xbox One will launch in markets around the world later this year. Visit the new Xbox Wire blog at http://news.xbox.com for in-depth features on the new system, including photos and videos from the unveiling event and new and rotating content from Xbox. More details about Xbox One and blockbuster games will be explored at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in June.
Bryan Singer Tweets Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique on the set of X-Men: Days of Future Past. To be released in 2014, the story revolves around the X-Men who must travel in time to change a major historical event that could globally impact on man and mutant kind.
Courtesy of BryanSinger via Tiwtter - First look: #JenniferLawrence as a vengeful #Mystique. #XMen #DaysOfFuturePast
Pre-Order Now for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC for Exclusive Early Access to the Deathstroke Pack
Today, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment confirmed that Deathstroke will be a fully playable character in the challenge mode for Batman: Arkham Origins™. Fans who pre-order the game for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 system or Windows PC will receive exclusive early access to the Deathstroke pack.
Accompanying this news is the Batman: Arkham Origins Official Trailer which can be seen here.
Deathstroke will come complete with his own unique weapons and special moves, and will be playable in all challenge maps in the game, as well as two additional challenge maps that will be included with the pack. The pack will also contain two alternate Deathstroke character skins.
Developed by WB Games Montréal, Batman: Arkham Origins features an expanded Gotham City and introduces an original prequel storyline set several years before the events of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City. Taking place before the rise of Gotham City’s most dangerous criminals, the game showcases a young and unrefined Batman as he faces a defining moment in his early career as a crime fighter that sets his path to becoming the Dark Knight. As the story unfolds, players will meet many important characters for the first time and forge key relationships.
Batman: Arkham Origins is the next installment in the blockbuster Batman: Arkham videogame franchise and will be available for the Xbox 360®, PS3™, the Wii U™ system, and Windows PC. The game will release worldwide Oct. 25, 2013 along with Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate™ for Nintendo 3DS™ handheld system and PlayStation®Vita handheld entertainment system.
Discover the real Ice Age and the majestic prehistoric animals that lived in this harsh and beautiful lost world, in the new action-packed IMAX film, Titans of the Ice Age 3D. Titans of the Ice Age 3D opens at IMAX Melbourne Museum just in time for the winter school holidays on 20 June 2013.
Dazzling computer-generated imagery brings the Pleistocene Ice Age to life in IMAX 3D, 20,000 years back in time when woolly beasts such as sabre-toothed cats, giant ground sloths, dire wolves and the iconic woolly mammoth existed alongside humans.
“Megafauna, like dinosaurs before them, were huge prehistoric animals and IMAX 3D is the perfect canvas to showcase these spectacular beasts in their natural habitat”, said Dr Erich Fitzgerald, Senior Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology, Museum Victoria.
“The themes in Titans of the Ice Age 3D apply equally to Australian’s very own Ice Age giants, which included lost beasts such as the rhino-sized Diprotodon and the fearsome marsupial lion Thylacoleo that lived in Victoria not so long ago. These are megafauna we almost met, and the lessons revealed in Titans of the Ice Age 3D remind us how much our world has, and can, change.”
As well as being one of Australia’s most active palaeontologists, Dr Erich Fitzgerald helped develop Melbourne Museum’s 600 Million Years and Dinosaur Walk exhibitions, both which feature megafauna marsupials and are literally a minutes’ walk from IMAX, based at IMAX Melbourne Museum.
“Already made famous through Ice Age the movie, extraordinary fossil discoveries and cave paintings, the iconic woolly mammoth is brought to life in this film and we learn how they really lived thousands of years ago.”
In Titans of the Ice Age 3D, audiences will uncover amazing fossil discoveries including baby Lyuba, a female Woolly Mammoth calf recently exposed by the melting Siberian permafrost, now one of the best preserved mammoth mummies in the world. Audiences will also discover the story of Zed, one of the most complete Colombian Mammoth skeletons ever uncovered, extracted in 2008 from under a Los Angeles parking lot next to the famous La Brea Tar Pits.
Narrated by Academy Award winning actor Christopher Plummer, Titans of the Ice Age 3D is shot on location at Yellowstone National Park, the Northern Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains and Alaska.
Release Date: 20 June 2013
Where: IMAX Melbourne Museum, Carlton Gardens
Parking: Discounted undercover parking available, $15 before 5pm, $5 after 5pm
Tickets: $18.00 adults, $14.50 concession, $13.50 child, $55.00 family (2 adults & 2 children
Enquires: 03 9663 5454
Bookings: www.imaxmelbourne.com.au or at the box office
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The Story of the First Adventurers to Walk Across Victoria Island
Sydney Australia…May 21, 2013…
Distracted Media’s feature documentary “The Crossing” will cross the Tasman to be shown at the prestigious New Zealand Mountain Film Festival on Sunday July 7 at 4.00pm in Wanaka on the South Island. Recently announced as one of ten finalists in the 2013 Foxtel Australian Documentary Prize category in this year’s Sydney Film Festival* (Thursday June 6, 2013 at 6.15pm at Event Cinemas, George St, Sydney), “The Crossing” is the story of the infamous Victoria Island adventures of explorer, Clark Carter and his expedition partner, Chris Bray.
The award-winning filmmakers of Australian horror film, The Tunnel partnered with the Australian adventurers four years ago. Directed by Julian Harvey and with the support of Australian Geographic, iiNet and Gore-Tex®, the feature documentary details the first attempt in 2005 by Clark Carter and Chris Bray to navigate Victoria Island in the Arctic Circle. It will then recount when the pair returned in 2008 to finally complete the expedition.
“It has been such an exciting journey that I am now thrilled to see “The Crossing” lined up for its third film festival. Last year the feature documentary had an excerpt played at the European Outdoor Film Tour and it was met with lots of positive feed-back so I can’t wait to see what locals here and in New Zealand think of “The Crossing”. The New Zealand Mountain Film Festival is the perfect fit for the film – what better place to screen an adventure film than in Wanaka – surrounded by the mountains and full of adventurous like-minded film-goers” said adventurer, Clark Carter.
‘The Crossing’ is a feature documentary following two young Australians, Clark Carter and Chris Bray as they set off on the adventure of a lifetime. The pair attempted to drag their home-made kayaks more than one thousand kilometres across a remote island in the arctic. Their story is equal parts rock n’ roll and youthful exuberance, resulting in disaster! They battled freezing temperatures, knee-deep mud, razor sharp rocks, got chased by wolves and hid from polar bears until finally being forced to admit their dream was over.
After 58 days alone in the wilderness, they had covered only a third of the distance. Unable to let go of their dream, three years later Clark and Chris confidently returned to finish the job. They were a little older, wiser and thought they knew what to expect from the island. They re-designed and re-built a custom cart to carry the five hundred kilograms of food and equipment needed to survive a hundred days in the arctic. After a positive start, things yet again take a turn for the worse. The duo soon realised the island isn’t going to let them across without a fight.
Edited from more than a hundred hours of stunning high definition footage shot by Clark Carter and Chris Bray, ‘The Crossing’ is an insight into the minds of two young adventurers biting off far more than they can chew. This story is an antidote to a world of instant gratification, showing that you
can achieve anything – but sometimes there ain’t no easy way.
Visit www.thecrossingfilm.net
Mobile users to save on time, space and data with AVG Image Shrinker and AVG Cleaner
SYDNEY – 21 May, 2013 – AVG Technologies N.V. (NYSE: AVG), the provider of Internet and mobile security, privacy and optimization to 150 million active users, has today announced two brand new applications in its mobile portfolio. AVG Cleaner and AVG Image Shrinker are now available for free for Android™ smartphones and tablets.
AVG Cleaner
Designed to enhance Android™ smartphone and tablet performance, AVG Cleaner allows users to monitor storage availability on their device and clean cache and unnecessary browser history files to free up memory and make more space. The application includes tools to automatically monitor device memory and storage, remove files, and schedule regular clean ups to keep the device running smoothly.
AVG Image Shrinker
Developed to help users save on data use and share their images more easily, AVG Image Shrinker is a free application which reduces image sizes and enables direct uploads to photo sharing sites, MMS or email directly from the application. Images can be uploaded straight to Facebook®, Pinterest™, Instagram™, Picasa™ and many other popular social network sites. By reducing the size of photos and images, users not only save on mobile data usage and the resulting costs, but also the time it takes to send or upload their photos.
“Nowadays we rely upon smartphones and tablets more than ever before, cramming our devices full to the brim with everything we need to maintain our busy digital lives. What people might not realise however is that all of the files related to apps, pictures, calls, texts, and Internet usage can take up excess space and consume large amounts of mobile data,” said Michael McKinnon, Security Advisor at AVG Technologies AU.
“Just as you would clear out your wardrobe to make space for new clothes or clean your PC disk from junk files, freeing up valuable memory on your smartphone by deleting redundant files is important to keep your device running smoothly and give you the freedom to use it as you wish – whether that means adding the apps you really want or taking and sharing a barrage of holiday snaps. Hassle-free performance products such as AVG Cleaner and AVG Image Shrinker enable users to easily and efficiently get the most out of the devices they rely upon every day.”
Today’s announcement follows the company’s recent release of AVG TuneUp ™, which was made available for free for Android smartphones and tablets in April 2013. Built to help users get improved performance from their devices, the application combines several performance tools including a task killer, battery saver and storage space manager, and also allows users to monitor their data usage.
For more information about either AVG Cleaner or AVG Image Shrinker and to download both applications directly please visit: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avg.cleaner
Children as young as eight (tweens) are adopting technology faster than expected, particularly social networking, with 67 per cent revealing they are currently using a social media site. They are also more advanced in their device usage with between three and four internet enabled devices being used by tweens at any one time.
Released at a roundtable discussion with Senator The Hon. Stephen Conroy Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy as part of National Cyber Security Awareness Week, the report titled Tweens, Teens and Technology Report is an extension of the McAfee Secret Life of Teens report last year and was commissioned to identify the online behaviour gaps between tweens, teens and parents in the digital world.
Key findings:
Commenting on the report Andrew Littleproud, President, McAfee Asia Pacific said, “The findings are a welcome spotlight on tweens. With the national rollout of the NBN and the increase use of devices by our younger audience in the homes, both parents and schools are encouraged to keep a close monitor on their child’s online behaviour to ensure they have safe online experiences.”
