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LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Bionic Gloves, the most feature-rich glove on the market, released its first tactical glove for military and first responders through an exclusive partnership with KGLOVES. It's the only tactical glove designed with Bionic technology and field-tested by military in Afghanistan and Iraq. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130614/CG32277) "It is an honor to create the Bionic KGLOVES tactical glove, such a technologically...
To Date, Chronicles' Fans Have Raised Nearly Fifty Percent of Author's Production Goal Through FaithLauncher Campaign - A Favorable Indicator For Godawa's Timeline. LOS ANGELES, June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Chronicles of the Nephilim fans are thirsting to download their audio versions of the (six books) saga, to the point that they're making certain Godawa has the resources he needs to produce them. All four of the first Chronicles' novels have been in the top ten or twenty of...
Additional Official Game Titles: Super Street Fighter® IV Arcade Edition Ver. 2012, StarCraft® II: Heart of the Swarm(TM), Warcraft® III: The Frozen Throne® SEOUL, South Korea, June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- World Cyber Games Inc. (WCG), organizer of the premier global game competition and festival, has announced three additional official game titles and two promotional game titles to be featured throughout 2013. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130614/HK30712 )...
NEWTON, N.H., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Paul C. Jensen, CEO of HALO Maritime Defense Systems (HMDS), announced today the addition of Greg Hersch to HALO's Board of Directors. Mr. Hersch replaces John Shephard who will remain involved with the company as a member of the Board of Advisors. Greg is a Senior Vice President in Wealth Management at UBS Financial Services in New York City. He has over twelve years of experience as a financial advisor working with a diverse range of...
KHANTY-MANSIYSK, Russia, June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Vietnam has recently joined the elite group of global chess powers - countries that are leaders in world chess, using the ancient game as a component of their public education and culture. Vietnam achieved its latest chess milestone when Vietnamese national Le Quang Liem won the FIDE World Blitz Championship earlier this month in the northern Russian city of Khanty-Mansiysk, the largest city and regional capital of Yugra, reports...
LONDON, June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- 6-7 June 2013 saw a host of sound aficionados gathering at Chelsea College of Art's Sounding Space symposium for discussions centred around the BE OPEN Sound Portal. This event was both a showcase for work produced by UAL students, who have been using the Portal to develop sound art, and marked the culmination of BE OPEN's year-long exploration into sensory design. The Portal is a state-of-the-art, ambisonic space, devised by BE...
The Highly Anticipated Sequel by Disney Interactive and SQUARE ENIX LOS ANGELES, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SQUARE ENIX, Inc., the publisher of SQUARE ENIX® interactive entertainment products in the Americas, today announced KINGDOM HEARTS III, the next chapter in the celebrated KINGDOM HEARTS franchise that marked its ten-year anniversary in March 2012. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130611/LA30208LOGO) KINGDOM HEARTS III features a mature Sora as the main...
LOS ANGELES, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ubitus Inc., the worldwide technology leader in cloud gaming solutions and NEXON are excited to announce today their partnership in Cloud Gaming. South Korea's best Kids game, NEXON's "CrazyArcade : BnB", a game where players trap opponents in bubbles, with 350,000 simultaneous players will be available on TV platform through Ubitus' telecom partners in South Korea, starting with LG Uplus' U+ tvG service, which is the world's first carrier...
Lottery's Best Odds of Winning $1 Million MIDDLETOWN, Pa., June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With less than a month remaining until the Pennsylvania Lottery's 16(th) Millionaire Raffle drawing takes place, ticket sales are picking up steam. As of today, 40 percent of the game's 500,000 available tickets have already sold. The Millionaire Raffle, to be drawn on July 6, offers the Pennsylvania Lottery's best odds for winning a million-dollar prize. Each $20 ticket offers a...
Two-year exclusive agreement with Activision's Call of Duty® brand launches with new limited edition headsets for stunning new title VALHALLA, N.Y., June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Turtle Beach, the leader in games audio, is announcing a new two-year partnership agreement with Activision Publishing, Inc. involving the blockbuster Call of Duty® video game franchise. As part of the agreement, Turtle Beach is unveiling a new line of limited edition headsets optimized for the...
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The Bally Astrocade is a video game console and simple computer combination manufactured by Midway. The original name was the Bally Home Library Computer released in 1977 by mail order only, but shipments were delayed and the system was renamed the Bally Professional Arcade. In 1979 Bally sold the Consumer Product Division and a partnership was formed and in 1981 the system was released as the Bally Computer System. In 1982 the name was changed to the Bally Astrocade and production of the...
The Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES for short, is an 8-bit video game console that was released in 1983 in Japan, 1985 in North America, 1986 in Europe, and 1987 in Australia. It was manufactured by Nintendo, originally called Famicom. The initial plans of the Famicom was to be a 16-bit computer with keyboard and floppy disc drive, but Nintendo president decided to build a cartridge-based game console instead. The Famicom was released on July 15, 1983 with Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong...
The Dreamcast is a video game console released by Sega in November 1998 in Japan, September 1999 in North America, October 1999 in Europe, and November 1999 in Australia. In the first 24 hours of release 225,132 units were sold and a total of 500,000 in the first two weeks. On January 31, 2001, Sega announced it would discontinue the production of the Dreamcast in March 2001 and concentrate solely on software. Even though the console production was discontinued, Sega of Japan still...
The Eurasian Hobby, a small slim falcon, belongs to a rather close knit group of similar falcons. Adults are grey on top with a dark crown and two short black stripes. The throat is white, the thighs and under tail coverts are a reddish-brown color, and the rest of the under parts are whitish with black streaks. The younger birds of this species are generally much browner, with scaled upper parts and streaked buffy thighs and under tail coverts. There is currently two subspecies recognized....
Dilophosaurus, meaning "two-crested lizard", was a theropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Period (Pliensbachian stage). It was first described 1954, but it did not recieve its current genus name until years later. It is one of the earliest known theropods, and one of the least understood as well. It was discovered by Sam Welles in the summer of 1942 and brought to Berkeley for cleaning and mounting. It was given the name Megalosaurus wetherilli. Welles returned to the dig site about ten...
