Extinction Smashes Its Way to Stores on April 10th, 2018

Extinction Smashes Its Way to Stores on April 10th, 2018

Extinction Smashes Its Way to Stores on April 10th, 2018

Pre-orders Available Now for Standard and Deluxe Editions

Sydney, Australia – January 31, 2018 — Originally announced in June of 2017 and followed by a strong showing at E3, Iron Galaxy and Modus Games are excited to announce the release date for Extinction. Prepare to save humanity from the formidable Ravenii on April 10th, 2018.

Pre-orders are available now for the standard and deluxe editions of Extinction. The game comes in both Standard Edition as well as Deluxe Edition, which includes the ‘Days of Dolorum’ season pass. Players who want the season pass at a later date can purchase it separately.

In Extinction, players take on the role of the hero, Avil. The last of the legendary Sentinels – the only warriors capable of toppling the Ravenii – he is all that stands between the towering ogres and the survival of the human race. Featuring insane skill-based combat that’s not for the squeamish, you’ll have to traverse the environment with precision while executing devastating attacks on your enemies. Use your whip to launch Avil into the air while dispatching a full-scale assault on monstrous beasts who want nothing more than to decimate you and your world. Annihilate all that stands between you and rescuing the people of Dolorum from extinction.

Extinction will be available on PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One and PC on April 10, 2018.

For more information:

• Head to Extinction.com
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About Turn Left

TLD is a privately owned independent software and accessories distributor providing quality, innovative interactive software titles and accessories across Australia and New Zealand. The company's main objective is to provide its clients and customers with category leading software and accessories brands that deliver a highly satisfying entertainment experience.

About Iron Galaxy

Located in Chicago and Orlando and founded in 2008, Iron Galaxy is a leading independent video game development studio that focuses on tech outsourcing, porting and developing quality games. The company’s most notable products include Killer Instinct, Wreckateer, Divekick and Videoball. For more information, please visit www.irongalaxystudios.com.

About Modus Games

Modus is a premier global publisher of video games across all major physical and digital entertainment platforms. The label prides itself on collaborating with talented developers around the world to bring innovative games to the masses. For inquiries, please email press@modusgames.com.

Game Info

Name: Extinction

Publisher: Modus Games

Developer: Iron Galaxy

Street Date: April 10th, 2018

Platforms: PlayStation®4 / Xbox One / PC (Windows)

Category: Action

Age rating: MA15+

NEW IN GTA ONLINE: PFISTER NEON SPORTS CAR & HARDEST TARGET MODE

NEW IN GTA ONLINE: PFISTER NEON SPORTS CAR & HARDEST TARGET MODE

NEW IN GTA ONLINE: PFISTER NEON SPORTS CAR & HARDEST TARGET MODE

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PFISTER NEON NOW AVAILABLE 

Forget what you know about electric automobiles, all those ridiculous eco-vans and toddler-sized sedans have been foreplay. A revolution is coming: this is your chance to be on the right side of it. Charge into the future with the Pfister Neon, available exclusively at Legendary Motorsport. 

NEW MODE: HARDEST TARGET

As it turns out, those imaginary haters you're always ranting about are real, heavily armed and totally out to get you. Jump into Hardest Target, a brand new mode now available in GTA Online with a clean objective - slaughter the other team's Target and protect your own at all costs. Only the Target's life matters (and you can rack up bonus points for Target-on-Target violence), so the gung-ho approach is strongly recommended. Keep an eye on the timer though - the designated Target switches every minute, meaning you could find yourself attracting some unwanted attention at the drop of a hat. Earn Double GTA$ & RP in Hardest Target now through February 5th.

BONUSES & DISCOUNTS 

CEOs and Gunrunners alike are set to profit this week with 25% more GTA$ on Special Cargo Deliveries as well as a 25% boost on Gunrunning Research & Manufacturing through February 5th. And if your current setup is missing a certain je ne sais quoi, get in gear with discounts on select Bunkers, Special Cargo Warehouses and more:

BUNKER DISCOUNTS

·         Farmhouse Bunker – 25% off

·         Thomson Scrapyard Bunker – 25% off

·         Bunker Renovations – 25% off (styles and add-ons)

·         Mobile Operation Center Cabs – 25% off

PROPERTIES & RENOVATIONS

·         Special Cargo Warehouses – 25% off 

·         Executive Office Renovations – 25% off 

VEHICLES & ARMOR

·         Cargobob – 35% off

·         LF-22 Starling – 25% off (Buy it Now & Trade Price)

·         Grotti Cheetah Classic – 25% off

·         Vehicle armor – 25% off

·         Bulletproof tires – 25% off

PREMIUM RACE & TIME TRIAL SCHEDULE

Drift through the Grand Senora Desert in this week's Premium Race or sprint through Vinewood Hills for big a GTA$ payout in this week's Time Trial, both available through February 5th:

·         Premium Race – "Rally" locked to Sports

·         Time Trial – "Casino"

Launch Premium Races through the Quick Job App on your in-game phone or via the yellow corona at Legion Square. The top three finishers will earn GTA$ and you'll get Triple RP regardless of where you place. To take a shot at the Time Trial, set a waypoint to the marker on your in-game map and enter via the purple corona. Beat par time and you'll be duly rewarded with GTA$ & RP.

South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ will be available digitally on PS4 & Xbox One

South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ will be available digitally on PS4 & Xbox One

SOUTH PARK™: THE STICK OF TRUTH™ WILL BE AVAILABLE DIGITALLY ON PS4 & XBOX ONE

Ubisoft® has revealed that South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ will be available for purchase digitally on PlayStation® 4 computer entertainment system and Xbox One on February 13, 2018. This will be the first time the award winning title has been available as a stand-alone purchase for next gen consoles. South Park: The Stick of Truth is rated R18+ and will be available for $44.95AUD.

Click the image below to watch the South Park: The Stick of Truth E3 trailer

South Park: The Stick of Truth, the winner of numerous 2014 game of the year awards, transports players to the perilous battlefields of the fourth-grade playground, where a young hero will rise, destined to be South Park’s saviour. From the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes an epic quest to become… cool.

Arm yourself with weapons of legend to defeat underpants gnomes, hippies, and other forces of evil. Discover the lost Stick of Truth and succeed in earning your place alongside Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny as their new friend. Fail, and you will forever be known…as a loser.

More information on South Park is available at: www.southpark.ubisoft.com

Blade Runner 2049: Blu Ray Review

Blade Runner 2049: Blu Ray Review

"Drunk on the memory of perfection."

A line uttered late in the piece of Arrival and Incendies director Denis Villeneuve's 35 years-in-the-making Blade Runner sequel seems to typify everything the follow up to the Ridley Scott helmed sequel has to live up to.

It's an almost insurmountable task that Blade Runner 2049 has ahead of it, given the lasting legacy Scott's first film laid down in cinema lore.

But Canadian director Denis Villeneuve pretty much nails it here, imbuing his film with both the DNA traces of the first and degrees of its own identity. (Ironic for a film about replicants and arguments over who was the original and who was not, some may say.)

The story (such as it is) follows Ryan Gosling's cop K, a Blade Runner who is pulled into a conspiracy which could threaten the relationship between synths and humans after a discovery that his boss (an icy Robin Wright) orders him to shutdown.

It's hard to divulge much more of the plot due to Villeneuve's on screen plea before the film to withhold spoilers to preserve the experience for those coming into it.

And given how much of a career he's made of the journey and of enigmas (see Arrival, Enemy as prime examples) it's perhaps best to respect that.

Needless to say whereas the first Blade Runner centred on a quest for identity and a nagging discussion of self and self-awareness as it was pulled from Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the latest can't quite live up to the mysteries that preceded it.

But it comes damn near close, thanks to a self-referential riff on the first, the latest a story of sacrifice and of memory, and a film of tone and visuals up there with the best of the Villeneuve and Roger Deakins partnership.

Visually, the grime of the city sings out in terms of scope - and it's a darker, grittier cityscape than one last glimpsed in Weta's work on Ghost In The Shell, a dystopian depressingly tech-scattered world filled with sexualised holograms and copious Sony product placement. But its aesthetics are perfectly in keeping with the film's desire to be oh-so-pretty and depressing simultaneously.

As the puzzles within twist and reconfigure, the languid pace of the script by Logan's Michael Green and returning writer Hampton Fancher gives the film the enigmatic sheen it so desires to bathe in as it heads inexorably towards its destination. Themes of sacrifice, memory, creation and once again, identity reconvene into a relatively rich noir-esque story.

Gosling is more than a match for Ford's original is-he-or-isn't-he Deckard; relatively emotionless but showing cracks here and there, Gosling's K is a protagonist worthy of the successor. And Ford's grizzled Deckard gives the actor a welcome depth not glimpsed for years.
Cuban actress and Knock, Knock star Ana de Armas as Joi, the AI which lives with K, has a tenderness that's simultaneously endearing and yet saddening; and Sylvia Hoeks' Famke Janssen-esque Luv is a strong villainess that's as robotic as she is callous.

It's not all perfect though.

Hans Zimmer's overly bombastic score lacks the subtlety of Vangelis' earlier score and has a tendency to shake the seats rather than emotionally rattle the core.
And Jared Leto's character, Niander Wallace, is frustrating in his arc and resolution thereof. There are some logical niggles that pepper the film as well, which are too spoilery to discuss.
It's almost as if outside of the core mystery that's being set up and the K and Deckard interaction, a little less thought has gone into the motives and actions at the expense of the world building.

There are inevitably nods to the first film - another version of the infamous origami unicorn exists and at least one shot of Gosling in the rain toward the end seems determined to re-frame the infamous Rutger Hauer rain-soaked shot - but it's fair to say that Villeneuve's managed to go his own way with Blade Runner 2049, which in itself is no mean feat.

Ultimately and against the odds, Blade Runner 2049 is less repli-can't, more repli-can.
Its reverence to its source material and the enduring legacy is both its strength and its occasional undoing. But it's once again a sign that perhaps director Denis Villenueve is a master of mystery, who takes the slightest story and, in this case, turns it into an artform of suspense and enigma that's as compelling and fascinating as it is emotionally distant.

Win a copy of WARU on DVD

Win a copy of WARU on DVD

Waru is a powerful, thought-provoking story from 8 female Maori directors.

The film premiered at this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival and is currently having a successful theatrical run throughout the country.

About Waru

Eight female Māori directors have each contributed a ten minute vignette, presented as a continuous shot in real time, that unfolds around the tangi (funeral) of a small boy (Waru) who died at the hands of his caregiver.

The vignettes are all subtly interlinked and each follow one of eight female Māori lead characters during the same moment in time as they come to terms with Waru's death and try to find a way forward in their community.

To win a copy, all you have to do is email  your details to this  address: darrensworldofentertainment@gmail.com or CLICK HERE NOW!

Include your name and address and title your email WARU!
Competition closes February 21st

Molly's Game: Film Review

Molly's Game: Film Review

Cast: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Michael cera, Chris O'Dowd, Kevin Costner
Director: Aaron Sorkin

Fusing Goodfellas and The Wolf Of Wall Street, Aaron Sorkin's take and directorial debut on the Molly Bloom story starts with an almighty bang, before settling for more conformist tropes of the biopic genre.

For those unfamiliar with the "Poker Princess", Bloom was the target of an FBI investigation over her running an underground poker empire which had members of the Russian mob attending.

But Bloom refused to give up the big names in the case, putting her on a collision course with a lawyer (Elba) and the authorities, determined to take her down.

Molly's Game, taken from the memoir Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker, starts with fire, a high stakes ticking story of Bloom's initial career as a skier, and how that fell apart when chance crippled her opportunity to take it to the next stage.

It's in the opening moments that Sorkin's penchant for sparkling dialogue combines expertly with clever editing and creates something that's tense with Chastain wonderfully espousing the words written for her Bloom.

Soon after, the polished and slick film settles for a calmer feel, one that's saddled with exposition and narration to tell the story - and while there's initial energy, the combination of that, flashbacks and sequences with Elba's lawyer Jaffey means the film loses some of its oomph.

But in the poker scenes, there's a palpable sense of tension and suspense - mostly due to how it's shot.

With Chastain's Bloom on the edges, and her business acumen being the main driver for her dilemma, there's a definite frisson bubbling away under these scenes.

Infuriatingly though, Sorkin's desire to characterise Bloom's reason for her predicament as being due to her relationship with her father is cloying at best and irritating given how much strength and independence he's imbued Chastain's Bloom with throughout. A reliance on flashbacks punches the sentiment further in, and even though Chastain and Costner work well on screen, it feels piecemeal and trite to boil it all down to this in the denouement.

Molly's Game is never better when Chastain is prowling through the screen.

With a sense of dynamism and a feeling of utter control, this is an anti-hero that we can get behind, even if the moral compass is guiding Bloom to her downfall and her reasoning. Chastain is electric and defies you to look away when she's in full control of proceedings, and the moments the cracks and chinks in the armour show, it's horrifyingly real and frighteningly vulnerable.

Ultimately, for Sorkin's debut behind the camera, he's relied on what you'd expect of him - dialogue heavy (a little too so in voiceover terms) and better in characterising moments for his protagonist rather than others around.

But nonetheless, Molly's Game is a film full of high stakes, led by a dazzling queen in this card deck - it's not exactly a full house, but it's certainly one that stacks the deck squarely in the chutzpah stakes and proves an occasional wild card.

Win a copy of Blade Runner 2049

Win a copy of Blade Runner 2049

About Blade Runner 2049

Officer K (Ryan Gosling), a new blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. 

His discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former blade runner who's been missing for 30 years.

To win a copy, all you have to do is email  your details to this  address: darrensworldofentertainment@gmail.com or CLICK HERE NOW!

Include your name and address and title your email BLADE!
Competition closes February 21st