Castle Defense for iPad 2 introduces Eyetracking technology

TopWare and in-house developer Reality Pump have truly stepped up to the next level in fun for the iPad 2. This unique version of Two Worlds II: Castle Defense institutes 3D-ET™ technology in gaming for the first time ever. Making huge modifications to the strategy game’s engine for the mobile iOS platform, the Eyetracking system allows the player to “look around corners” in a strict sense of words.  All without the annoyance of any extra needed equipment like special glasses. The camera inside the iPad 2 recognizes the position of the viewer and changes the perspective of the game regarding the player’s point of view.

To allow everyone to experience this impressive new technology, 3D-ET™ is free even on the Lite version of Castle Defense, which can be upgraded with single level purchases. Of course, the offer is also available to owners of the full version.

TopWare Interactive CEO, Dirk P. Hassinger explains, “by introducing the new Eyetracking technology we are ahead of the competition once more and will expand this edge in the future. Right now we are adapting the system for more platforms like PC or Mac and will also present some challenging 3D surprises within the next couple of months.”

                                                                                                      

vzaar picks a winner from over 1,000 online business videos

vzaar, (http://www.vzaar.com/) a leading video hosting platform for business, today announced that the hotly contested vzaar 2011 online video competition has been won by Karl Taylor Photography (http://karltaylorphotography.com), with what vzaar CEO Stephen McCluskey describes as a film with “memorable, exquisite photography.”

Karl Taylor has been a professional photographer for over 15 years and has traveled the globe on assignments for some of the world’s most successful companies. His artistic film – one of many that are used on his company website to promote his business – won the title of Best Overall Video 2011 in the vzaar Video Festival, supported by Hollywood film director, Oliver Stone, who is a key shareholder in vzaar.

The winning videos can be viewed here (http://vzaar.com/about/award_winners_2011) on the vzaar website, along with the other winning entries which came out tops in three categories:

• The Best Product Video was won by the production company Hilltribe, www.hilltribetv.com, for a clearly interpreted, engaging and enticing cookery shoot for their client Muddy Boots burgers.
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• The Top Award for the Creative Use of Video was scooped up by Jimdo, www.jimdo.com, an innovative ecommerce and website building company, who cleverly used video to show effective collaboration and project workflow.
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• Best Video by a Creative Agency went to Outside Line, www.outsideline.co.uk , a full service digital agency, for their “superb, imaginative commercial” for Becks Beer.

Speaking on behalf of the judges, Mr McCluskey said the overall standard of entries was “incredibly high”, and it is very encouraging to discover that vzaar’s clients are producing work of such excellent quality to promote their businesses online.

According to Mr. McCluskey, “The winning entry stood out from the rest, however, because it featured a variety of compelling elements. The imagery was inspiring, the content was haunting, the soundtrack well edited and highly compatible.”

Each of the winners will be presented with a vzaar video festival award and a logo to feature on their websites.

vzaar hopes to make the highly successful contest an annual event aimed at spotlighting both cinematic creativity and production quality for online business videos.

EROTIBOT, a film by Naoyuki TOMOMATSU

Released in the UK on DVD on 26 September 2011

 

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SYNOPSIS:

Can love prevail over sex, money, androids, and ninjas?

Erotibot is the latest film from the production company behind the powerful earth, shattering Big Tits Zombie & ultra bloody gorefest The Horny House of Horror.

Tamayo (Mahiro Aine) is so adorable! From the time she was small she has been treated as the ultimate princess!  Tomayo, is heiress to her wealthy family’s fortunes.  In order to protect her from outside danger she is looked after by three android bodyguards. The first android is masterful and good looking. The second has beastlike strength, and the third is a clumsy misfit who can't seem to get anything right.  He fantasises over his mistress and is adored by her.  Together, the three androids help detect danger, and serve Tomayo during the day, and occasionally engage in after-dark 'bedroom protection' as well... Life is good! 

Meanwhile another family member, Tsukiyo (Japanese AV star Maria Ozawa) who is jealous of Tomayo, hires a private detective to spy on her.  He uncovers a dark secret that Tomayo is in fact the “bastard daughter” of a servant. When Tsukiyo discovers this, she is consumed by rage  believing Tomayo to be an embarrassment to the family and not ‘pure blood’. Along with her servant Azami (Asami, The Machine Girl, Robogeisha), she plots to regain the inheritance she believes to be hers!!! Can she distract the three Androids long enough to exact her plan?! Who will the Androids serve in the end?! Which Android will win Tamayo's love??!!

Love, tears, and laughs tell a fascinating story that will leave viewers satisfied with their choice in erotic Sci-fi Fantasy, and will answer that age old question "Do heiresses dream of erotic androids or cup noodles?” Erotibot is released on DVD in the UK by Bounty Films on 26 September 2011.

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SPECIAL FEATURES:

- Trailer

- New exclusive interviews with AV stars Maria Ozawa and Asami

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DETAILS:

Label: BOUNTY FILMS

DVD Catalogue No: BF88008

DVD Barcode: 5060225880080

DVD RRP: £16.34

Release Date: 26 September 2011

Certificate: 18

Run Time: 71 min. approx.

Format:  1.78:1 OAR/ Colour

Genre: Sci-Fi/ Erotica

Director: Naoyuki TOMOMATSU

Year: 2011

Country:  Japan

Language: Japanese

Subtitles: English (Optional)

GOSSIP GIRL: THE COMPLETE FOURTH SEASON

High Society and Low Blows Hit the Streets on DVD on 15 August 2011 

Here’s the dish, GG fans: Warner Home Video is bringing all 22 juicy episodes of Gossip Girl: The Complete Fourth Season to DVD on 15^th August to keep fans clued-in to the buzz, secrets and scandals of Manhattan’s elite.

Developed for television by Josh Schwartz (The O.C., Chuck) and Stephanie Savage (The O.C.), Gossip Girl: The Complete Fourth Season  stars many of young Hollywood’s hottest talent: Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, Taylor Momsen, Ed Westwick, and Jessica Szohr, with Kelly Rutherford and Matthew Settle.

Between Blair (Meester) and Serena’s (Lively) thrilling summer in Paris, Chuck’s (Westwick) new girlfriend and new identity, unexpected fatherhood for Dan (Badgely), a power play for Bass Industries, Blair’s too-haute-to-handle internship at Wmagazine and a vicious conspiracy that threatens to bring down one of your favorite Upper East Siders, season four sizzles with some very surprising hookups and meltdowns. With lies and betrayals at every turn, Serena, Blair, Nate (Crawford), Chuck, Dan struggle to keep their friends close and their frenemies closer…!

The five-disc set includes all 22 one-hour episodes from the fourth season, and nearly an hour of never-before-seen special features including two all-new featurettes, unaired scenes, and a gag reel.

Don’t miss out on all the goss with Gossip Girl: The Complete Fourth Season on DVD from 15^th August and available to download on iTunes now.

DVD SPECIAL FEATURES

Bisoux a Paris!: Go Abroad on a Spree in Paris with the Cast and Creative Team

Exposing Gossip Girl: The Making of Episode 18, The Kids Stay in the Picture

Gag Reel

Unaired Scenes

DEVIL BAT DIARY - The Journal of Johnny Layton

by Peter H. Brothers

 

Inspired by the famous 1940 film, “Devil Bat Diary” (ISBN: 9-781461-070924), tells the “true” story of what “really” happened to the unhappy citizens of Heathville, Illinois, during that terrible prewar summer, as recorded in the long-suppressed journals of Chicago City Register’s principal newspaper correspondent, Jonathan “Johnny” Layton.

 

The Devil Bats were furry fiends created by a scientific genius who believes himself wrongfully relegated to concocting perfumes and colognes which he despises for wages not worth mentioning.  So, as a means to an embittered end, he manufactures an evil ointment with a scent that so infuriates his giant bats to such an extent they feel compelled to tear the throats out of their unsuspecting victims.

 

“Devil Bat Diary” tells for the first time the full inside story of what took place in ways not possible to show to Production Code audiences back then: such as Chief Wilkins being in love with Layton, or that Mary was a religious lunatic, or that Maxine the French Maid does not was “zee Devil Bat” to be killed and that Layton and his partner “One-Shot” McGuire couldn’t stand the sight of each other!

 

Written to coincide with the 70^th Anniversary of the film’s release and dedicated to the eternal memory of Bela Lugosi, “Devil Bat Diary” is an unforgettably entertaining venture into a world filled with chirping Chiropterans, malicious murders, sacred sex and revolting revelations.

 

(Peter H. Brothers is also the author of “Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men – The Fantastic Cinema of Ishiro Honda.”)