Create Sims with unique personalities, fulfill their desires, and control their lives within a living neighborhood. Unlock all-new Karma Powers and unleash them on your Sims: help your Sim “get lucky,” bless them with “instant beauty” or curse them with an “epic fail.” But use these powers wisely, because they may have unexpected results! Design and build your Sims’ dream home and share your creations with others.

Magicka is a satirical action-adventure game set in a rich fantasy world based on Norse mythology. The player assumes the role of a wizard from a sacred order tasked with stopping an evil sorcerer who has thrown the world into turmoil, his foul creations besieging the forces of good.

The BFD Deluxe Collection is the third expansion pack for FXpansion's BFD premium acoustic drum module. Unparalleled in its detail and recording quality, the Deluxe Collection was tracked at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio studio facility in Chicago. The pack contains some of the most sought-after drums and cymbals of all time, recorded at up to 127 velocity layers in pristine detail.

Microsoft has submitted a set of graphical programs Expression Studio 4.

Completing the Feature Animation Series, this DVD teaches various tools and techniques for creating the controls & flexibility necessary for animators to create the broad range of expressiveness essential to Feature Animation.
Starting with a set of 2D pose test drawings as our target reference, this tutorial covers two basic approaches for tackling the controls & deformations on a characters face: Direct or Joint-Based and Blendshape-Based Deformations. In the end both methods are essentially combined to create a face with direct deformers riding on top of blendshapes, allowing the maximum animator flexibility & control without sacrificing speed.

Presented by Studio One Expert William Edstrom Jr., this is the next level in Studio One training. Designed for the intermediate to advanced Studio One user, this series of in-depth videos will turn you into a Studio One power user fast...

4Harlem teens, Q, Bishop, Raheem and Steel, are out skipping school oneday when they find out an old friend was killed in a shootout at a bar.After this, Bishop tells his friends that they have no respect, orjuice. To get some, they rob a corner grocery store, but the lunaticBishop intentionally shoots the clerk for no apparent reason. They runinto an alley where Raheem tells Bishop to give him the gun, they fight,and Raheem gets shot. Only the other 3 know what happened, and Bishopwants to get rid of them too.

ThisSony Vegas training DVD set is sure to get you up to speed quickly andboost your skill to the next level. Start with raw footage and end upwith a great finished project that you publish on the Web or turn into aDVD or Blu-Ray disc. DVD Architect is covered too!

Studio Massive Black launches a series of training DVD Massive Black Artist Training, the first disc which will be Character Ideation by Marko Djurdjevic. According to one of the founders of the studio Jason Manley (Jason Manley), dvd contains five times more information than any other on the market.

Conventional software amps work on the basis of sterile-sounding impulse responses, which leave no space for the details in the characteristic sound of guitars and basses. All instruments tend to sound the same and exciting sound properties are replaced by standardized algorithms.

In this course, you'll learn to use Visual Studio 2010 to explore the Visual C -)--- language. The course starts with a quick overview of the .NET platform, examining assemblies, Microsoft Intermediate Language, Visual Studio profiles, XML comments, IntelliSense, and debugging. From there, you'll learn all the language features that you must internalize in order to create full-featured Web or Windows applications that make best use of the .NET platform. You'll learn about data types, variables, and operators, along with all the important flow control structures. You'll work through several examples demonstrating the power of the .NET Framework, and dig into creating and consuming your own classes and objects.

The disc has 20 hours of video tutorials. This time includes all the stages of creating the model from scratch. (21 videos lasting from 20 to 100 minutes).

TrackMania phenomenon is back! Full of adrenaline game TrackMania Canyon will give players a more vivid impression than the original TrackMania, played by millions. TrackMania goes far beyond the usual racing games and is fully customizable world tracks created by players themselves! Dead loops, trampolines, riding on walls and many other stunts - you have to race your whole life!

The full saga of Lather (pronounced leather) is tangled enough to give a migraine to all but committed Zappaphiles. Basically, what you need to know is that this project was originally conceived of as a four-record box set. When record company politics prevented its release in that format, much of the material was spread over the albums Live in New York, Sleep Dirt, Studio Tan, and Orchestral Favorites. This three-CD set presents the album as it was originally conceived, with the addition of four bonus tracks at the end. It mixes previously available material, alternate mixes, and edits, and previously unissued stuff, though only the most serious Zappa fans will have a good grip on exactly what has appeared where (the liner notes are surprisingly unexact in this regard). And the music? It's almost like a resume of Zappa's bag of tricks: Uncle Meat-like experimentation, intricate jazz-rock, straight hard rock, orchestral composition, and comedy. Some of those comedy tracks became some of his most notorious routines, like "Punky's Whips" and "Titties 'n Beer," which amounted to avant- rock for drunk frat boys and pot smoking, underachieving junior high school students. The juvenile humor, hamfisted parody of hard rock cliches, and the shaggy-dog opera of the 20-minute "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary" are outshone by the lengthy, more experimental instrumental passages. It's interesting, but exhausting to wade through all at once, and the avant-garde/composerly cuts are not as exceptional as his earlier work in this vein in the late '60s and early '70s. That means that this will appeal far more to the Zappa cultist than the general listener, though the Zappa cult -- which has been craving Lather in its original format for years -- is a pretty wide fan base in and of itself.