LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 video game

Videogame Pieces Together Two of the World's Most Recognizable Brands to Introduce New Harry Potter Game Experience

Warner Interactive Entertainment and TT Games are teaming up with the LEGO Group, to merge two of the world’s most popular brands with the creation of LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4. Based on the first four Harry Potter books and movies that tell the story of Harry’s first four years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 offers an engaging mix of magical gameplay and light-hearted humour.

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 is being developed by TT Games and will be published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and is scheduled for release in 2010.

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 will give gamers the chance to experience the magic and adventure of Harry Potter in a new and uniquely LEGO way. Playing as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, as well as other favourite characters, gamers will have the opportunity to attend lessons, cast spells, mix potions, fly on broomsticks and complete tasks to earn house points. 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!

“With LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 we are creating an open, wide-ranging experience within Hogwarts that is full of fun and LEGO magic,” said Tom Stone, Managing Director, TT Games. “Harry Potter is one of the most beloved and well-respected characters, and we look forward to bringing gamers a new way of interacting in the universe with the LEGO games’ great humour and exploration.”

“Harry Potter is one of the world’s most popular and inspirational heroes, and LEGO® Harry Potter: Years 1-4 will appeal to a generation of gamers who grew up immersed in the Harry Potter books and films, and also loved playing with LEGO toys,” said Samantha Ryan, Senior Vice President, Development and Production, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. “The game is geared for players to experience a good mix of puzzle solving gameplay with exploration and battle in some of the most beloved Harry Potter environments, plus a few other surprises.”

“We’re excited to announce this gaming experience based on the amazing Harry Potter universe,” said Henrik Taudorf Lorensen, Vice President, New Business Development, the LEGO Group. “LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 is built around the same values of family-friendly creative game play that are present in other LEGO videogames, while delivering new elements of exploration and depth that we believe will engage children in imaginative play both virtually and physically.”

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Internet's leading Mafia-themed Massively-Multiplayer, Role-Playing Game (MMORPG), Omerta, is set to launch the long-awaited version 3.

In Omerta, the action plays out in a 1930's Mafia world, with locations in Sicily and the United States. The boss of the Mafia is Gianluca Barafranca. The goal of Omerta players is to take control of the venerable Don's organised crime empire.

Omerta players progress by stealing and racketeering, by robbing banks, and racing cars together with other players and eventually banding together to form Mafia families. The families do battle with each other, the Feds and Police, over lucrative 'turf' and control each city's contraband and gambling underworlds.

Omerta is free to play. The only requirements are a modest PC with an internet connection.

Omerta version 3 introduces exciting new features chosen by Omerta players. Omerta takes the ideas and wishes of its' player-community and turns their dreams into reality. “Our players know best, so we look to them for creative decision-making” says Omerta C.E.O. Steve Biddick

“The launch of version 3 is a huge milestone in Omerta's history. We've been doing this for nearly five years now and by listening to the player community and discussion of their suggestions, we are confident that we are presenting the players with what they want – of course, they designed most of these features themselves! Of course there will be divided opinion regarding some of the changes, but discussion is good for everyone!” comments Biddick.

One of the many new features in Omerta 3, is the addition of bodyguards with attitude. “The new bodyguard feature enables the hiring of seven new bodyguard types, each with a very different personality. Depending on which type you choose there can be a great variety of different accents to how the game is played. For example Lee is a bodyguard who defends whereas Vic is a crazed-killer who will help players who are on the attack.” adds Otto Adang, Omerta's product manager and chief designer. “We've made it so that you can pick-and-mix bodyguard types to make your own unique team – and they can all be trained to become better at being a bad guy!”.

“In version 3, we wanted to deliver an experience that breaths new life into the role-playing elements of the genre. The choices each player makes will have a big effect during the game and players will have to think much more strategically about the choices they make” added Steve Biddick. “Otto and the development team have made some great, imaginative changes”.

“One of the issues players were concerned with was the drudgery of starting off life at the bottom of the ladder, once one character had fallen victim to the attack of another” adds Otto. “So we came up with a solution: one of your bodyguards takes over when you die. With players remaining in the Omerta community for many years, this will make beginning again a lot more fun”.

The Omerta community numbers over 3.5 million registered players, with a constant presence of over 4000 people on the richly-moderated IRC server (internet relay chat) “That's where Omerta players do their Mafia business” says volunteer game-admin crew manager Bianca Evers, “we have a highly trained volunteer staff of over 200, mostly ex-players. They look after the newer players, moderate chat for unwanted content and generally help out”.

The actual launch date for Omerta 3 is still a closely-guarded secret and will only be made public once the beta-testing phase has been completed. For a chance to join in with beta testing and to register in advance of the launch of Omerta 3 you can visit http://www.omerta3.com

About Omerta:
Omerta – www.barafranca.com – began in 2003 as an amateur project, in a bedroom in Groningen, the Netherlands.

Omerta Game Ltd was founded in 2004 to manage and further develop Omerta. It now boasts a full-time staff of 18 people in four countries and a network of over 200 volunteers, spread over the whole globe.

Omerta is available in 29 languages, all of which are updated for the forthcoming launch of Omerta 3. Regional (single-language) versions are available in Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese/Brazilian, Turkish and the 'Nordic' languages (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish).

Omerta boasts typically more than 70,000 players logging in every day to chat, race cars and kill each other, all in the name of fun!

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Eidos unveils the first trailer for Just Cause 2 video game

Just Cause 2, from Avalanche Studios, will be showcased at E3 this year, but if you're not in LA, why not sit back and feast your eyes on the first ever trailer for the game.

Set on an Island Paradise, Just Cause 2 is an explosive open-world adventure of insane, adrenaline-fuelled stunts and action. Using the grapple and parachute combo, Just Cause 2 has no vertical limit and takes to the air like no other game.Just Cause 2, from Avalanche Studios, will be showcased at E3 this year, but if you're not in LA, why not sit back and feast your eyes on the first ever trailer for the game.

Watch the video here (disabled by publisher in some countries)...

Set on an Island Paradise, Just Cause 2 is an explosive open-world adventure of insane, adrenaline-fuelled stunts and action. Using the grapple and parachute combo, Just Cause 2 has no vertical limit and takes to the air like no other game. Just Cause 2 will be behind closed doors and strictly by appointment only. Rating pending, Just Cause 2 will be available on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Games for Windows, and PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system

Just Cause 2 will be behind closed doors and strictly by appointment only. Rating pending, Just Cause 2 will be available on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Games for Windows, and PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system.

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EA SPORTS Active EA Announces Second Installment in the New Line of Virtual Fitness Products - video

EA SPORTS, a label of Electronic Arts announce that EA SPORTS Active has eclipsed 600,000 units sold worldwide at retail in less than two weeks on the market. EA SPORTS Active, which hit stores on May 19th in North America and by May 22nd worldwide*, is a virtual fitness product developed exclusively for the Wii™ and offers the benefit of a personal trainer in a box with customizable workouts that can be done from the comfort of home.




“We’re delighted by the overwhelming response to EA SPORTS Active,” said Peter Moore, President, EA SPORTS. “This is, by far, the most successful launch of any Wii title in EA history, and even more encouraging is that our second week sales worldwide were as strong as our first week. Not only are we off to a great start at retail, but the feedback from people who are getting off the couch, breaking a sweat and using EA SPORTS Active to support living a healthier lifestyle, is that it is changing their lives.”

Critics and consumers alike have praised EA SPORTS Active. “EA SPORTS Active finally bridges the gap between house and gym, earning it top honors as the best exercise game currently out for the Wii,” according to 1up.com. In its five star review, Green Pixels says, “EA SPORTS Active easily wins top honors in this rapidly growing genre.”

EA SPORTS will expand the genre this holiday season with a new expansion pack for EA SPORTS Active, designed to work with the product just released. The expansion pack will bring the EA SPORTS Active workout to the next level by adding more challenge and variety, and users will keep their heart pumping through interactive circuit workouts featuring 30 brand new activities and exercises that target the upper and lower body, as well as cardio.

New to the EA SPORTS Active expansion pack will be an emphasis on core exercises including curl ups, crunch & punches, and a warm up/cool down feature. Sports activities will include step aerobics, an obstacle course, squash and water skiing, while a new emphasis on combinations will populate the upper and lower body exercises. An all-new presentation will bring users to the tropics and will immerse them in warm weather activities in a picturesque setting. The product will also feature the Six-Week Challenge – another step in the journey towards better health and fitness with new daily workouts that ramp up in intensity each week. This personalized full body challenge will give users a new customizable weekly schedule and a weekly check-in with the virtual trainer to track calorie, weight and workout goals.

* EA SPORTS Active will ship to retailers in Japan on August 6th, 2009

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Blimp - The Flying Adventures on Appstore

Craneballs studios, an independent mobile developers, announces their frst game for iPhone and iPod touch: Blimp - The Flying Adventures.

Blimp - The Flying Adventures is 2D game, where you, as a blimp pilot, fly with your Blimp. Main features include piloting the blimp in a simulated gravity, maneuvering in a exciting world of platforms, walls, dangerous fames, radioactive fields or hot vents, performing various task and destroying enemy pillboxes, bunkers, tanks and blimps. The outstanding feature of this game is a stunning hand-painted graphics. The whole audio-visual experience is taken to the new level.

Extremely responsive controls allows you to precisely maneuver your blimp by tilting the device and touching the screen for different altitude.

"We've combined our many years of experience in graphic design with digital painting to create an unique and novel iPhone graphical environment. We wanted co come up with a perfect audio-visual experience for all players. We are not content with just ordinary applications and games, we want to make polished products everyone can enjoy," says Jan Cefelin, a graphic artist.

"The original visual experience is accompanied by an epic movie-grade soundtrack, with each theme completing the mood of each level and drawing the players deeper into the game," adds Jakub Smid, a graphic artist and music composer.

"We've tried to make the most of iPhone to implement all the gorgeous graphic," says Martin Chamrad, lead programmer.

Game story
The whole fantasy story takes place on merchant planet Solbot of the Wondda galaxy. The narrator is our hero, war veteran captain Zed Pelina, who leaves the Alliance after the battle of Solbot and finds a job at a merchant company. But the enemy conquerors form the planet Terra launch a new invasion and Zed returns to help save his friends, honor and the whole planet.

Features
- stunning graphics & artworks
- high quality particle effects (fires, steams, explosions, radiations etc.)
- 20 action packed levels
- interesting story throughout the campaign
- 5 completely different locations (dark forest, mines, snow mountains, red rocks...)
- deceitful enemies incl. tanks, gun nests, blimps, bunkers
- comic style briefs before each mission
- extremely responsive controls
- original soundtrack with 11 songs
- globalscore on facebook

Blimp - The Flying Adventures will be available on Appstore first week in June at 2.99$.

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Aztec legend video game Aztaka fact sheet with video

Inspired by Aztec legend, Aztaka will casts you into the middle of a war between the Gods and Mankind. Who will prevail? As Huitzilo, heir of the Sun God, skilled in both the arts of combat and magic, only you can save your people from the wrath of the Aztec Gods.

Aztaka features graphics of a quality never before seen in a game of this type. Grand, richly-detailed backdrops and fluid character animations will plunge you into the legend of Huitzilo and his quest to collect the seven Phonograms.



With 21 levels, Aztaka provides a veritable new universe for Action/RPG fans to explore.

Features

-Manipulate spiritual energy to solve mysteries and vanquish foes

-Enhance and customize your character by training skills and abilities, and acquiring ancient artifacts.

-Embark on optional side-quests to acquire valuable items and gold.

-Visit shops to buy and sell potions, rings, piercings and skills to aid in your travels.

-Challenging yet simple spell casting system

-Twenty-one unique and detailed levels

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Colin McRae's DiRT 2 video game E3 teaser trailer

Why get muddy when you can get DiRTy? With 40 of the world’s hottest bands, nine international locations and 100 amazing off-road events, Colin McRae: DiRT 2 is set to be the hottest festival ticket this year. Gamers can today get their first real taste of the game’s international events as Codemasters revealed the E3 2009 gameplay teaser video, now available from www.dirt2game.com.

From multi award-winning developer, Codemasters Racing Studio, Colin McRae: DiRT 2 builds on the acclaimed career mode of the best-selling original with the introduction of the “DiRT 2 World Tour”. Alive with vibrancy and colour and packed with attitude, this extreme sports festival takes in nine stunning locations around the world, each with a unique flavour that brings the very best of modern off-roading together into one engrossing, highly personalised racing experience.



Accompanied by 50 drivers, including Ken Block, Tanner Faust, Dave Mirra and Travis Pastrana, players will take part in 100 events, each partnered with some of the smartest brands around. As players travel to the international each location on the DiRT 2 World Tour, they’ll park up at international race festivals that are packed with noise and atmosphere, with hundreds of people in attendance and bands playing live sets on nearby stages.

As the video showcases, the action out on the track is hotter than ever too. With peerless visuals and lightning fast racing thrills, Colin McRae: DiRT 2’s drivers will be put through their paces in a variety of contemporary racing disciplines, including rally, rallycross and raid.

Colin McRae: DiRT 2 powerslides into stores this September for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system and Games For Windows LIVE, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS and PSP (PlayStation Portable) system .Use 'gamezplay' in your games searches for the latest info - it works

King of Pool Nintendo Wii pool video game soon...

King of Pool takes you into the world of the pool shark, where you’ll be playing against some of the best in order to climb the career ladder and go right to the top. With 11 standard games, 3 mini games, the trick shot challenge, 5 unique locations and a multiplayer mode, King of Pool gathers together one of the greatest collection of pool and snooker challenges in videogames.

Speaking about the new release Alex Bravve, Nordcurrent MD, said “Nordcurrent are always looking for great quality titles to bring to market, and King of Pool fits in with our remit of providing highly playable, challenging and, above all, fun titles to the European marketplace.” He continued “With King of Pool we’re building on the success of 101-in-1 and continuing to establish Nordcurrent as a worthy player in the UK publishing scene.”

King of Pool is being distributed by Trilogy and will be released on 5th June 2009, available for the Nintendo Wii, priced at £19.99.

Nordcurrent are the exciting young European publisher of hit title 101-in-1 Explosive Megamix and Minon: Everyday Hero.

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Batman Arkham Asylum video game now Play As Joker - first video

Eidos Interactive and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment are delighted that The Joker will be an exclusive playable character in Batman: Arkham Asylum for the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system. The character will be made available upon release as a free downloadable character through PlayStation Network for the PLAYSTATION 3 and can be played in Challenge Maps from the game.



Watch as his unique skills transform the challenge rooms of Batman Arkham Asylum unlike anything you've seen before.

Video here on my YouTube channel

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15%-35% price discount code for Mystic Mine video game

Koonsolo gives away coupon code 'MYSTIC' which allows you to buy their game 'Mystic Mine' on a 15% price reduction. This code is only valid until Sunday, May 14, so you will have to act fast! With the revenue gained from this promotion they will fund production of their next game.

To all their newsletter subscribers, they've already sent out a discount code for 35% off! If you have missed this, you might have a second chance to get your hands on this deal. If you subscribe to the newsletter before Saturday June 6, the developer will send you this code personally. Subscribe now at http://www.koonsolo.com/newsletter.php (unsubscribe at any time you want ;)).

How to take advantage of this price discount:
• Go to http://www.koonsolo.com/mysticmine/buy.php and select your version.
• On the buy page fill in the field 'Coupon Code (Optional):' with the provided coupon code.
• Click the 'Recalculate' button next to it and the discount is applied.
• Now you can fill in the rest of your details and buy Mystic Mine.
Have fun with the full version of the game!

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