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Capcom’s 2015 New York Comic-Con Line-Up

2015/10/05
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Geek News, News

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October 5, 2015 – Capcom will be paying a visit to East Coast fans this weekend for New York Comic Con 2015 (booth #1420) with a host of playable game demos and panels with game insights, plus collectibles and limited edition offerings at the Capcom Store!

GAME LINEUP

  • Umbrella Corps – This event marks the first time fans in North America will have the opportunity to play Umbrella Corps, the new fast-paced third-person multiplayer shooter set in theResident Evil universe. Coming early 2016 to PlayStation 4 and Windows PC.
  • Street Fighter V – Get fists-on time with the latest in the legendary fighting game franchise. Spend time with all the recently announced roster additions including Karin, Rashid and Zangief, and fists will fly if another new challenger decides to join the fight. Coming Spring 2016 to PlayStation 4 and Windows PC.
  • Resident Evil 0 – All aboard the Ecliptic Express in this beautifully remastered version of the story of what really happened before the iconic mansion incident that was the catalyst for the entire Resident Evil saga. Coming early 2016 to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC.
  • Mega Man Legacy Collection – Play all six of the original 8-bit Mega Man games, dig through a long history of concept sketches and production art, and post your best times in more than 50 remixed challenge stages. Out now digitally for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Windows PC. Coming early 2016 digitally for the Nintendo 3DS system, in addition to physical versions for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo 3DS.

PANELS

  • World of Capcom
    Thursday, Oct 8 from 6:45pm – 7:45pm in Room 1A10
    Come by to get the latest news and updates on all of Capcom’s highly anticipated games such as Street Fighter V, Umbrella Corps, Resident Evil 0 and Mega Man Legacy Collection. Additionally, attendees will be provided with a roundup including exclusive first looks of cool goods and collectibles based on popular Capcom IP.
  • Street Fighter V
    Saturday, Oct 10 from 5:30pm – 6:30pm in Room 1A10
    NYCC fans can get the latest news about this iconic video game franchise and the upcoming Street Fighter V. There will be a special appearance by Street Fighter executive producer Yoshinori Ono. Plus, get an insider’s sneak peek at the Street Fighter collectibles currently in the works as well as a surprise or two. Some lucky fans may even be selected from the audience to battle it out for awesome prizes and bragging rights!

Master of Orion First Look Gameplay Trailer

2015/10/02
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Geek News, News, Trailers / Videos, Windows PC News

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October 2, 2015 — Tune in for an exclusive Galactic News Network (GNN) broadcast to get a first look at Master of Orion’s campaign in action. Let the quirky, robotic GNN anchors be your interstellar guides with a breaking news report on the fearsome Sakkra and the ancient and intelligent Psilon Quanta.

As the broadcast continues, discover how various game mechanics will function, as each galactic news segment details everything from interstellar warfare to specialized research to diplomatic negotiations with other races. During this exclusive exploration, learn more of the potential dangers lurking in the star lanes, whether they be battles against malevolent forces or encounters with other races whose intentions are always in question.

Check out the Master of Orion video here:

Evil Twin Studios WARD 13 Trailer

2015/10/01
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Geek News, Halloween, News, Trailers / Videos

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October 1, 2015 – Evil Twin Studios Haunted Attraction Opens October 9! Prepare to experience WARD 13, an asylum for the mentally twisted, pathologically dangerous, and criminally insane. And those are just the doctors.

October 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24, 30, 31
7:00 – 11:00 PM
1020 El Centro Street, South Pasadena, CA
$15 online / $17 at the door

Tickets available now at
www.eviltwinstudios.com

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AOC Unveils Full HD USB Monitor

2015/09/30
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Geek News, News, Tech News

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Fremont, Calif. – September 30, 2015 – AOC, a worldwide leader in monitor display technology, today announces the AOC 16” HD Pro USB Monitor (E1659FWUX-PRO), with Full-HD powered by Display Link Technology. The HD Pro USB Monitor is the first of AOC’s USB-powered portable monitors to have Full-HD resolution. Its 300cd/m2 brightness makes it the brightest in its class. The widescreen monitor receives both power and signal via a single USB cable for plug-and-play connection. This means it does not require a power cord or VGA cable, so you have one less cord to worry about. It is ultra-lightweight and slim for maximum portability, making it perfect for displaying visuals such as business presentations or adding a second monitor to your desktop for increased productivity. The Mac and PC Compatible HD Pro USB Monitor is the perfect solution for the frequent traveler who needs to pack multiple displays, as it easily fits into a suitcase and comes with a carrying case. The monitor also comes with a foldable stand that goes from landscape to portrait view mode with auto-pivot. It is available for today on Amazon.com for $199.

USB 3.0 technology achieves high transfer rates with its total of six wires to deliver high quality images. Designed with a piano-black glossy finish, this USB monitor has a 15.6 inch diagonally viewable image. The E1659FWUX-PRO USB Monitor offers a 500:1 contrast ratio, 11ms response time, and a 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution @60Hz.

The HD Pro USB Monitor with its foldable flexi-stand is ideal for viewing in landscape or portrait mode. Landscape mode is ideal for presentations and Excel sheets, while the Portrait mode conveniently gives you an easy vertical view of your instant messaging programs, infographics, or search results. This monitor has a unique auto-pivot feature that automatically adjusts the image according to the display’s orientation, so you will never have to change settings as you switch between landscape and portrait mode. The AOC HD Pro USB Monitor is also VESA 75 x 75 mm compliant, allowing you to easily mount the USB monitor to any wall. Multiple USB monitors can also be simultaneously connected to a single laptop or desktop computer to function as a multi-monitor PC or Mac, thanks to the built-in Display Link USB graphics.

E1659FWUX-PRO SPECIFICATIONS
Pixel Pitch 0.252 (H) mm x 0.252 (v) mm
Display Area 344.2 mm x 193.5 mm
Brightness 300 cd/m2 (typ)
Contrast Ratio 500:1 (static)
Response Time 11ms (GtG)
Viewing Angle Horizontal: 90 Degrees (CR>10)

Vertical: 65 Degrees (CR>10)
Scanning Frequency Horizontal: 48KHz

Vertical: 60 Hz
Optimal Resolution
Recommended		 1920×1080@60hz

1920×1080@60Hz
Supported Resolutions 640×480@60Hz for extended mode

800×600@60Hz for extended mode

1024×768@60Hz for extended mode

1366×768@60Hz for extended mode
Color Depth 262K
Connectors 1 x Micro USB 3.0
User Control None
Adjustability Tilt: 15° ~ 30°, Auto Pivot
Power Source PC USB 5V

To request more information on AOC displays, contact PR representative Jen Mangham at (305) 374-4404 x191 or jenmangham@maxborgesagency.com.

About AOC

AOC is the world’s largest manufacturer of LCD/LED monitors and HDTVs. With more than 60 years of design and manufacturing experience, AOC has earned a reputation for selling user-friendly, technologically advanced monitors, TVs and multi-functional displays. Every aspect of AOC’s global business focuses on the development of products that fit seamlessly into consumers’ digital lifestyle. For more information, please visit us.aoc.com. Connect with AOC on Facebook at Facebook.com/AOCAmericas and on Twitter at Twitter.com/aocusa.

ScreamFest LA Premiere of A Tricky Treat

2015/09/30
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Geek News, Halloween, Movie News, News

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(Hollywood, CA) – September 30th, 2015 – A Tricky Treat, a short horror comedy directed by acclaimed Canadian filmmaker PatriciaChica, has been honored with four awards at the Macabre Faire Film Festival showcase in New York.

–       Best Short Film:

Producers: Patricia Chica, Grace Santos, Byron A. Martin

Executive Producer: Tara Kurtz

Co-Executive Producers: Morris Umali, Adonai Interiano

–       Best Director: Patricia Chica

–       Best Editor: Patricia Chica

–       Best Special FX: Danny McCarthy (Special FX supervisor and the team of 800 lb Guerilla in San Diego), Henry Lipatov and Anton Golovchenko, VFX supervisors and the team of Fame Cube Production in the Ukraine)

“I’m extremely honored to share A Tricky Treat’s success with my team who helped bring it to life…or in this case…a macabre end! These awards represent four great reasons to support women directors coming up in genre filmmaking!”,exclaims director Patricia Chica.

Moreover, America’s largest and longest running horror film festival, Screamfest, will be hosting the Los Angeles premiere of A Tricky Treat at the TLC Chinese Theatre on Wednesday October 21st at 7pm. The film will screen before the feature film, The Hallow (The Woods). Director Patricia Chica, the cast, and crew will be present.

You can get your tickets here: http://screamfestla.com/tickets/tricky-treat

A Tricky Treat comes fresh off its World Premiere to an enthusiastic and packed house at Montreal’s prestigious Fantasia International Film Festival, where it competed as an Official Selection. It then had its American Premiere at DragonCon in Atlanta where it was a finalist for Best Horror Comedy.

Watch the behind-the-scenes video of the World Premiere presentation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXUI_k0m_Xg

A Tricky Treat continues its festival run with screenings to come at these events:

SASKATOON FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL

(Sept 31-Oct 3 – Saskatoon, SK, Canada)

MILE HIGH HORROR FILM FESTIVAL

(Oct 1-4 – Denver, CO, USA)

CINETORO FILM FESTIVAL

(Oct 6-12 – Roldanillo, Colombia)

CENTRO CULTURAL PEDRO LOPEZ ELIAS

(Oct 7, Tepoztlan, Mexico City, Mexico)

OAXACA FILMFEST

(Oct 9-17 – Oaxaca, Mexico)

TELLURIDE HORROR SHOW

(Oct 16-18 – Telluride, CO, USA)

SCREAMFEST

(Oct 21st, 7pm, Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, CA, USA)

VORTEX SCI-FI, FANTASY & HORROR FILM FEST

(Oct 19-25, Providence, RI, USA)

LUND FANTASTIC INT’L FILM FESTIVAL

(Oct 22-31 – Lund, Sweden)

SCREAM QUEEN FILMFEST TOKYO

(Oct 24-31 – Tokyo, Japan)

MORBIDO FILM FESTIVAL

(Oct 28-Nov 1 – Puebla, Mexico)

EL CID HORROR SHORT FILM NIGHT

(Oct 28, Silver Lake, CA, USA)

RIP HORROR FILM FESTIVAL

(Oct 30-31 – Hollywood, CA, USA)

CENTRAL AMERICAN INT’L FILM FESTIVAL

(Nov 13-15 – Los Angeles, CA, USA)

…and many more… check our Facebook page for all the updates.

https://www.facebook.com/ATrickyTreat?fref=ts

The film was penned by award-winning writer Kamal John Iskander, executive produced by Tara Kurtz, produced by Patricia Chica, Grace Santos, Byron A. Martin, and co-executive produced by Adonai Interiano and Morris Umali.

Starring Leonard Waldner (the victim), Steve Brewster (father), Andrea Fletcher (mother), Keira McCarthy (daughter), and newcomer Marco Reilly (son). Key crew members include Imad Rhayem (DP), Gabrielle Giraud (Production Designer), Danny McCarthy (Special FX supervisor), Henry Lipatov and Anton Golovchenko (Visual FX supervisors), Valentina Badaracco (makeup), and RedLab Digital (post-production studio).

Fallout 4 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Charisma PSA Video

2015/09/30
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Geek News, News, PlayStation 4 News, Trailers / Videos, Windows PC News, Xbox One News

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September 30, 2015 – At Vault-Tec, we’re working around the clock to help prepare you for the possibility of total atomic annihilation with our educational series on the seven defining attributes that make you S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

In today’s chapter we focus on Charisma to help you better understand how to negotiate your way out of danger with unsavory characters and earn the trust of your fellow Wasteland inhabitants. You can share this video and help ensure the survival of your fellow citizens with the below YouTube link and embed.

For more survival tips from Vault-Tec, stay tuned next week to learn how your Intelligence is key to unlocking opportunity and adapting to your new world aboveground.

Remember, the rebuilding of this great nation of ours may fall to you so study these materials carefully to ensure you survive and thrive in a life aboveground.

Set to release worldwide on November 10, 2015 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC, Fallout 4 is the next generation of open-world gaming where every second is a fight for survival, and every choice is yours.

Fallout 4 has been rated M for Mature by the ESRB. For more information about the game visit: www.Fallout4.com.

WildStar Free to Play Launch Trailer

2015/09/29
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ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (September 29, 2015) – NCSOFT® and Carbine Studios™ announced today that WildStar is now free-to-play. Today, new and returning players in North America and Europe can get a free ticket to planet Nexus and experience all of the epic WildStar content that has been released over the past year.

“Today is an important milestone in WildStar’s history and the team has been working very hard to make sure the game is better than ever,” said Mike Donatelli, product director, Carbine Studios. “We received a ton of positive feedback from our fan base through our closed beta and have worked to create a game that is fun, accessible, and engaging for all players.”

Having originally launched with a subscription model in June of 2014 to critical acclaim, WildStar was the highest-rated MMO on Metacritic for the year. The game’s free-to-play launch marks a major moment in the game’s development, improving the overall experience for both old players and new. In addition to the new business model, the game is getting its most comprehensive update yet. Titled WildStar: Reloaded, the update brings new content, enhanced game systems, special in-game events and tons of quality of life improvements. Many players have returned to the community over the last few months, reinvigorated by the game’s improvements and new, exciting content.

Alongside the free-to-play launch and game update, NCSOFT and Carbine Studios revealed a brand new game trailer from Paris-based creative studio, Fortiche Productions, that can be viewed here:

To jump into WildStar today, players will simply need to create an NCSOFT account and download the client here: https://www.wildstar-online.com/en/freetoplay/.

About WildStar®

Critically acclaimed and now free-to-play, WildStar is a sci-fi MMO of epic proportions set on the mysterious planet Nexus. Blast off to a huge and amazingly vibrant world packed with unique characters, exotic locations, thrilling challenges, and dark mysteries. Experience exhilarating action combat, deep character customization, and one of the most powerful housing systems ever seen in an MMORPG as you work alongside the citizens of Nexus to solve the primordial puzzles of the universe itself.

For more on WildStar head over to: www.wildstar-online.com

About Carbine Studios™

Carbine Studios is a software development company focused on making high-quality, and conceptually innovative Massively Multiplayer Online games.

Located in Aliso Viejo, Calif., Carbine was founded in 2005 as a division of NCSOFT Corporation by a dedicated team of game industry veterans who have contributed to watershed franchises such as World of Warcraft, EverQuest, Diablo and Fallout. The studio is hard at work on their sci-fi themed MMORPG, WildStar. For more information on Carbine Studios, please visit www.carbinestudios.com.

About NCSOFT West

NCSOFT® is the world’s premier publisher and developer of massively multiplayer online games, including the critically acclaimed Aion®, Blade & Soul®, Lineage®, Guild Wars® and WildStar® franchises. NCSOFT West is a division of NCSOFT that holds operating responsibilities for North America, Europe, South America and Australia/New Zealand. More information can be found at www.ncsoft.com.

Daybreak Games Crowns H1Z1 Invitational Winners

2015/09/28
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SAN FRANCISCO – Sept. 28, 2015 – Daybreak Games has declared Twitch personalities Ninja and MrGrimmmz as the victors of its first-ever H1Z1 Invitational at TwitchCon this weekend. The two champions received $19,932 apiece, with the rest of the $173,320 overall prize pool distributed incrementally between the remaining top 10 finishers.

Tyler Blevins aka Ninja – a former Halo world champion – hails from Illinois and has been streaming games on Twitch for about three years, boasting over 100,000 followers. MrGrimmmz, from California, had logged more H1Z1 Battle Royale matches than any of the other participants in the last few months, with his viewers having watched him play more than 20,000 minutes of H1Z1.

The H1Z1 Invitational consisted of two standard Battle Royale matches, with half of the prize money split among the top 10 finishers of game one and the other half divided among the top 10 finishers of game two. With no repeats in the top 10, Ninja and MrGrimmmz faced different opponents in the final fight – Ninja overcame well-known League of Legends broadcaster Trick2g while MrGrimmmz won an exciting shotgun shootout with JoshOG. The H1Z1 Invitational was MrGrimmmz’s first tournament and Ninja’s first PC tournament.

The H1Z1 Invitational pitted more than 55 of Twitch’s most popular broadcasters, including LIRIK, Sodapoppin, summit1g, LegendaryLea, and Towelliee, against one another in PLAYERUNKNOWN’s Battle Royale, the nail-biting last-man-standing mode found in the zombie survival game H1Z1. They were joined by four players chosen from the H1Z1 community through Daybreak’s Road to TwitchCon competition. One player also earned a seat in the Invitational on-site, winning the Qualification Championship Battle Royale the day before the tournament.

The vast majority of the prize pool was fueled by community purchases of the H1Z1 Invitational Crate Key, which offered players exclusive in-game emotes, skins and more. Over 140,000 concurrent viewers tuned in to Twitch to watch the triumph and heartbreak of the H1Z1 Invitational unfold live.

For more information on the event, prize pool and individual participants, please visit www.h1z1.com/invitational.

About H1Z1 & Battle Royale

Enter a world that has been overrun by zombies and fellow survivors since the H1Z1 virus outbreak. Fight for your life against the infected and against the brutality of others as you attempt to live and see another day. Will you survive?

Created by PLAYERUNKNOWN, Battle Royale is the ultimate survival game-mode in H1Z1, where the most skilled players prove they have what it takes to be the last one standing.

H1Z1 is currently a Steam Early Access title. More information can be found on the official website at www.H1Z1.com, or the H1Z1 Steam page.

About Daybreak Game Company

Daybreak Game Company LLC is a worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online games and emergent gameplay. Best known for its blockbuster hits and franchises such as EverQuest®, EverQuest®II,PlanetSide®2, DC Universe™ Online,  H1Z1™, Landmark™ and the highly anticipated EverQuest Next™, Daybreak creates, develops and provides compelling online entertainment for a variety of platforms.

To learn more, visit www.DaybreakGameCompany.com.