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Starting tonight Halo 3, the final chapter of Microsoft s epic video game trilogy, finally goes on sale around the world. By the end of the week, fans in 37 countries will be playing the game Wired magazine recently called a cultural touchstone, a Star Wars for the thumb stick generation. In the United States, more than 10,000 retailers across the country are opening their doors at midnight tonight solely to sell copies of the game and accompanying Xbox 360 consoles and accessories. With nary a pirate, a spider or a wand in sight, day-one sales of the video game are expected to shatter entertainment sales records and top the biggest entertainment launches of all time.

Black Sea Studios has announced WorldShift. WorldShift is a cyber-fantasy RTS game set in a dark future of Earth, where today s civilization is only a fading mysterious legend. With WorldShift, Black Sea Studios are again offering really different, unexplored view on the RTS genre and a lot of deep, addictive gameplay. WorldShift had been in development for long time already and more announcements will follow in close future.

The new drive can read, write and rewrite to HD DVD-RW discs, as well as read and write to HD DVD-R discs and standard DVD and CD discs.Toshiba s SD-L912A enables mobile PCs to replace larger desktop systems in the home with this additional high-definition functionality. The drive allows backup of large-capacity PC hard disk drives to the reusable format of HD DVD-RW discs and provides capabilities to store data-rich, high-definition digital content. HD DVD-RW functionality also opens the door to a wide range of applications involving storage and rewriting of large volumes of data.

Atari announces that New York Times best-selling author Lorenzo Carcaterra has teamed up with the company as script writer on Alone in the Dark. Poised to redefine action gaming, Alone in the Dark will deliver blockbuster-action on a cataclysmic scale set in New York City s iconic Central Park. Alone in the Dark is being developed by Eden Games for Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system and Windows platform.

This week Wii owners can get in the ring with the Mega Drive version of one of the best fighting games of all time. Virtual Console is graced by the Virtua Fighter 2 a game which helped evolve the fighting genre into the modern era when it launched in 1996.

Even the noblest of Marvel s Super Heroes have a dark side – it s time to unleash yours in the Spider-Man 3 video game from Activision. Timed to the theatrical release of Sony Pictures Entertainment s Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios quot;Spider-Man 3 quot;, based on the famous Marvel characters, the game allows players to experience for the first time Spider-Man s mysterious black-suited persona, as well as heroic red suit while battling villains in a massive New York City playground teeming with activity.

SubRosaSoft has announced the immediate availability of MacLockPick, a new live forensics tool for extracting passwords, Internet history, and system settings from a suspect s Mac OS X computer. MacLockPick is an indispensable tool for law enforcement professionals to perform live forensics on Mac OS X systems. The solution is based on a USB Flash drive that can be inserted into a suspect s Mac OS X computer that is running (or sleeping). Once the MacLockPick software is run it will extract data from the Apple Keychain and system settings to provide the examiner fast access to the suspect s critical information with as little interaction or trace as possible.

Global Security One is warning parents that they need to remain vigilant with regards to their children s online activities, following the recent news that reports of websites featuring child abuse have gone up since 2005.