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Funcom has revealed an exclusive preview of the next upcoming update for ‘The Secret World’ – Issue #6: The Last Train to Cairo. In this action filled update which is set to launch in early March, players will get to fight atop moving trains, travel back in time to ancient Egypt to secure powerful artifacts, fight with the awesome new Whip Auxiliary Weapon, reap great new rewards for Veterans and Recruiters and face down a new and terrible monster from another dimension in an epic raid size encounter! Read the rest of this entry »

The final chapter of Commander Shepard’s heroic saga draws near. BioWare has announced two new downloadable content packs for Mass Effect™ 3 – the single-player pack Mass Effect 3: Citadel and the multiplayer content Mass Effect 3: Reckoning. On February 26, Mass Effect 3: Reckoning will be free* to download, giving fans of the popular multiplayer mode in Mass Effect 3 access to new characters, weapons and upgrades. On March 5, Mass Effect 3: Citadel will be the last single player DLC pack for Mass Effect 3, giving fans one final, sentimental journey with Commander Shepard and their squad. Mass Effect 3: Citadel will be available for $14.99 or 1200 MS Points. Read the rest of this entry »

Paramount Pictures and leading video game publisher and developer Namco Bandai Partners UK have announced a pre-order and day-one purchase opportunity with all UK Game stores. The partnership allows any purchaser of Star Trek The Video Game on any format an exclusive complimentary ticket to this year’s hottest movie Star Trek Into Darkness, which releases in cinemas everywhere in May 2013. Star Trek The Video Game is currently in development at Digital Extremes. Read the rest of this entry »

More than 80 First LEGO League teams brought their robots, inventions and innovations to the First LEGO League (FLL) Championships held in Oshawa and Waterloo. “Senior Solutions”, this year’s challenge, asked teams of nine to fourteen year old builders to develop innovative ways to help senior citizens maintain their independence and quality of life, with over 80 different innovations proposed by teams to the judges at the two separate events held at UOIT in Oshawa on January 12th and at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo on January 13th. Read the rest of this entry »

Following last evening’s announcement of the PlayStation®4 from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE), Ubisoft® revealed that its highly anticipated open world action-adventure game Watch_Dogs™ will be available for the launch of the new system. In Watch_Dogs, players will experience the realities of living in our fully connected society, where individuals and corporations are at risk of exposure by our ever-increasing reliance on networks and technology. Read the rest of this entry »

Enterprise Information Management (EIM) developer OpenText™ has announced that Deutsche Bundesbank, the central bank of the Federal Republic of Germany, has selected OpenText to establish a digital environment that will safely house business critical assets and encourage increased productivity and collaboration. Deutsche Bundesbank is leveraging a number of integrated solutions from the OpenText Enterprise Content Management (ECM) suite, one of five foundational pillars of OpenText EIM, which enables organizations to manage information throughout its lifecycle, improve business productivity, and control the costs and risk associated with the growing volume and velocity of content being produced and published in the enterprise. Read the rest of this entry »

HootSuite has announced the next wave of new apps to be added to the social media manager’s App Directory, taking the total to 49 apps. This latest batch of applications is part of a plan for a major expansion of the App Directory in 2013, making it even easier to manage all of your social media needs from the comfort and familiarity of the HootSuite dashboard. These four apps are available to all users. Read the rest of this entry »

After an extensive coast-to-coast search for the most loveable, competitive and highly entertaining Canadians, Big Brother Canada has selected its houseguests for the eagerly awaited Canadian edition premiering February 27^th at 9pm ET/PT on Slice^TM. Of the 10,000 Canadians who auditioned only 15 have made it through to move into the Big Brother Canada house and compete for the grand prize of $100,000, a $25,000 gift card to The Brick and a brand new Chevrolet Trax. Read the rest of this entry »

Vantrix, a Montreal-based provider of mobile video optimization and policy enforcement solutions, and San Diego company QuickFire Networks, a pioneer of traffic processing platforms specifically designed for the exponentially increasing demands on today’s service provider network, have announced the availability of a next generation mobile video processing solution. Based on Intel® Core™ i7 processors, the QuickFire Networks’ new T-Video™ V1100 is the first purpose-built mobile video appliance delivering the dramatically improved density operators need to replace a full rack of standard servers with a single appliance, while enabling new services and delivering significantly better mobile video performance. Read the rest of this entry »

Unleash the power of Twitter Advertising directly from your dashboard with HootSuite and Twitter’s Promoted Products Integration, a newly announced bringing together the power of Twitter’s Promoted Products with HootSuite. For the first time, both social media buyers and social media practitioners can now work together to simplify the workflow associated with buying Promoted Tweets – and quickly amplify these messages in real-time from HootSuite’s dashboard. HootSuite customers can find more information and get started now. Read the rest of this entry »