#W00T Panning timelapse head & egg timer! Nom nom nom... @camarush

#W00T. Another cool gadget for my ever expanding camera bag. The Camalapse - it's not just a cheap and cheerful panning timelapse head but it's also a nifty little egg timer too. Nom, nom, nom...

It's size means that it has limited use for broadcast TV unless you're using a mini-camera like the GoProHD (which just about squeezes through into the list of cameras that we can, and can not, use depending on the situation). For me, it's good fun and another way to play with my iPhone camera.

Incredible floaty-glidey Steadicam shot at Eurovision

This is a phenomenal shot, possibly wasted on Eurovision, but quite remarkable when you see how it was done.

This shot was created using a steadicam. This is a stabilizing camera mount, which mechanically isolates the operator's movement from the camera, allowing a very smooth shot even when the operator is moving quickly over an uneven surface. In other words, it helps create an elegant floaty-glidey feel.

You can now get a steadicam for the iPhone... I'm drooling!

Frozen Heist - a story told in one single gobsmacking tracking shot

If you're a fan of special effects then watch 'Philip's Carousel' aka 'Frozen Heist'. This is an extraordinary use of a motion controlled tracking system to tell a story in a single, action-packed, gobsmacking, continuous shot. Then watch the 'making-off' to see the wonderful simplicity and genius behind it.

Produced to promote Philips new range of TVs. Watch other films here.

Brian Cox & Dara O Briain are Starstruck: Starlight Camera debuts on Stargazing Live

BBC Two, 3rd, 4th & 5th January, 2011

Professor Brian Cox and Dara O Briain bring the wonders of the night sky to BBC2. Stargazing LIVE reveals stunning images from Earth’s most powerful telescopes - and beyond - during three nights of extraordinary astronomical events. Brian will act as guide, using his infectious enthusiasm for science and his trademark demonstrations to take Dara and the audience on a whistle stop tour of our galaxy, teaching them the basics of how to identify, image and photograph the wonders they see above them.

Mark Thompson, the resident astronomer on the The One Show will join Brian and Dara at Jodrell Bank, whilst Bang Goes The Theory’s Liz Bonnin will report live every day from Hawaii. Together the team will showcase the three biggest astronomical events of the year as Jupiter aligns with Uranus, the sun is partially eclipsed by the moon and meteors rain down across the country.

Prof Brian Cox & Dara O Briain (Photo: BBC)

HD Filming in Lowlight, Moonlight & Starlight

If you're a Wildlife filmmaker you may also be interested to know that Stargazing Live is also the debut of the Lunax Starlight HD Camera. This revolutionary piece of kit has been developed in Bristol by kit design company, TShed and award-winning wildlife film-makers Justine Evans, Ted Giffords & Nick Turner. Not only is the picture quality superb, the kit is so easy to use it is bringing no/low light shooting within every film-maker's reach.

Read more about the Starlight camera
"Inspired by Martin Dohrn's innovative use of image intensifying technology our High Definition image intensifying camera is the first starlight camera in the world to feature both HD resolution and an HD-SDI output in one package. Footage in moonlight and starlight can now be captured at unsurpassed resolution on the move thanks to our camera operator friendly design..."

Green Screen movie extravaganza & how to film a growing woodland

I knew Green Screen was fab but I never realised just how much it was used in the movies. I guess it's a lot cheaper and easier than shutting down streets, organising permits and flying actors and crews to remote locations. I knocked together my own budget Green Screen for a festival and here's a quick guide.



Time Warp in Natural History

Green screen is very rarely used in Natural History film making but it was used tremendously in combination with time-lapse photography to create a much acclaimed scene for the BBC series Life. The 'making of' from the Plants episode revealed the skill and effort behind creating one of natural history's most ambitious sequences. To create a scene of a growing English woodland. The back plates were filmed at the mysterious Wistmans Wood in the middle of Dartmoor.

A spot of tech helps people rise in the midst of a polar winter

I'm lucky to have spent some time on the arctic Island of Svalbard (my posts from Svalbard),  and have stayed at the 'roughty toughty' town of Longyearbyen, one of the worlds most northerly settlements. I was there in the summer and the biggest problem I faced was getting to sleep under canvass in a place where the sun never sets - and the ice cold wind never stops howling. But there is another side to the frozen coin that I am yet to experience - 24 hour darkness. I can only imagine how that must effect the human psyche.

You know that painful feeling you get when you leave the house for work on dark winters morning, its 6am, your breath is like ice and your car is all frosted up. Well I imagine its a bit like that, all day long, and every time you step outside - for 5 months!

Thankfully Philips are on the case to make polar winter mornings a little easier...

The Sun never sets: our summer camp on Svalbard 

(Photo: Paul Williams)

The Sun never Rises: Winter in Longyearbyen

The film below may be a promotional film advertising the Philips Wake-Up Light, but it is atmospheric and captivating, and provides a little glimpse into the lives of the everyday folk that live out in an extraordinary frontier town.

Visit the Wake-Up Light website to find out more about the people and place of Longyearbyen.



Wake-Up Light... there must be an iPhone app somewhere that does this!


Meanwhile we have the chance to make better use of our daylight

Lesey @EnglshFolkFan told me about 10:10 Lighter Later 

Unfortunately I'm a it pessimistic about how much great ideas like this actually get considered by the big wigs who run our world, nether-the-less it sounds like a brilliant idea...

"Everybody loves the sunshine. But every year we set our clocks so that we get less of it in our lives, sleeping through the sunlit mornings while we use expensive, polluting electric lights to keep out the dark nights. Lighter Later is a campaign to brighten all of our days, by changing the clocks so we are awake when the sun is out. The idea is simple: we shift the clocks forward by one hour throughout the entire year. We would still put the clocks forward in spring and back in autumn, but we would have moved an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening, when more of us are awake to enjoy it. Lighter Later is also the best proof yet of 10:10’s bright idea – that cutting carbon and making life better can and should go hand in hand."

Sign the petition here: http://www.lighterlater.org/

A couple of benefits like I particularly like:
"Cut at least 447,000 tonnes of CO2 pollution – equivalent to more than 50,000 cars driving all the way around the world – each year."

"Make the nation happier – including reducing the effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder"

"Help make people healthier and tackle obesity by giving people more time to exercise and play sport outside in the evening."

Wildscreen 2010: Multiplatform workshop

Back by popular demand? For Wildscreen 2010 we're updating the workshop that we did for Wildscreen 2008. If you're attending the Wildscreen Film Festival and you're interested in finding out about Multiplatform production and how to engage an audience through social networking, please sign up.
Find out about this and other workshops at the Wildscreen festival website.

Breaking out of the Box – Multiplatform

14-10-2010, 10:00 - 13:00pm,
Marriot Hotel.

Do you Tweet, Tag, Ping, Follow or Poke? Are you hooked on Flickr, Tumblr, Delicious, Facebook, YouTube or Vimeo...? This workshop will give you an insight into the world of multiplatform, a world where you can put anything anywhere at anytime to create a unique and individual web experience.

You will work in teams to develop and pitch a multiplatform idea. Get to grips with the basics, understand some of the key tools available on the web, create and share content. Learn the rules, tips and tricks to producing a successful online presence, building and holding onto an audience.

I will be accompanied by a panel of experts:
Paul Deane (Senior Content Producer BBC Multiplatform)
Jeremy Torrance (Content Producer BBC Multiplatform)
Rachel Tomlinson (Assistant Content Producer BBC Multiplatform)
Together, this team have been responsible for much of the BBCs Natural History online output, from Springwatch and Big Cat Live, to the BBC's online compendium of life on Earth, Wildlife Finder.

10 steps to becoming a Covert Google Earth Surfer

If you are a Natural History film-maker than you will no doubt find Google Earth invaluable. Unfortunately some organizations seem to have put a block on this crucial piece of software - even years after it was first released! As a result they have limited, if not reduced, the 'productivity' of their staff. Here is a guide to Covert Google Earth surfing... use this at your own peril!

1. Visit the Google Earth website and download the 'Google Earth.exe' installation file. You'll need to save this to your computers non-networked drive it might be called the 'D' Drive.

2. The first step in covert Google Earth use is to rename the downloaded file 'Google Earth.exe' to 'decoy.exe'. High-tech I.T.bots sweep through your computer for anything named "Google Earth" and then deploy their digital missiles to obliterate them from your system.
So to avoid this and to prevent a .exe from being an ex .exe - rename 'Google Earth.exe' to 'Decoy.exe'

3. Next - the point of no return - launch the installation of Google Earth by double clicking on 'Decoy.exe'

4. Go to C/ Documents and Setting/ Your Username/ Application Data/ Google/ Google Earth/ and once again change the 'Google Earth.exe' in this folder to 'Decoy2'.

If you've gotton this far without being shot by the I.T.erminators then well done.

5. Under the cover of darkness, right click on 'Decoy2.exe" and select 'send to desktop (shortcut)'.

6. Go to desktop, and while simultaneously looking over your shoulder, right click on the shortcut of "Decoy2" and select properties.

7. In the window that pops up click on "change icon" - try to withhold your excitement - any hint of this may alert the I.T. Bots.

8. Another window will pop up. browse for another icon, or paste this: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe into the browse box to give you access to a selection of carefully trained decept-icons.

9. Select an alternative icon from this platoon. My favourite decept-icon is the earth icon - very experienced in the field of covert Google Earth access.

10. You should now be ready for a life of secret Earth surfing.

The Earth is in your hands - enjoy, I hope it helps with planning your shoot.

- Matt the Mysterious

Doovling, the BBC & non-linear video navigation

I was recently sent an experimental mock up of a huge Collection of Natural History content made navigatable through something called Doovle, produced by Green Cathedral PLC.

I was interested in Doovle from a "Life" perspective (which is the series I am currently working on) and whether it was a way that we could split our 10 hours of broadcast programme content. When I use Doovle it really changes my viewing, and makes it completely non-linear. I was looking into Caterpillars recently for example and so just watched all the clips featuring caterpillars, pulled out from many different programmes to create a self-assembled "Life of the Caterpillar" - genius.

Green Cathedral has already officially Doovled the 1966 World Cup. Fawlty Towers and Blackadder which can be seen here. I enjoyed searching for words such as "Scrotum" "Turnip" and "Cunning".

Checking out Spinvox: Voice to Text, Phone to Blog...

http://www.spinvox.com/

SpinVox is a service that automatically converts incoming voicemails to text messages and delivers them to your handset. It's an interesting Web service that I've spent the evening testing. It's not very transparent about the payment plan for the different elements of the service (so keep an eye on your phone bill) but at least the first week is a free trial and certainly worth a go.

After a signing-up process that will leave some people confused, you select which of the different services you would like to use. In addition to the voicemail to sms text service, you can also opt to phone your blog, update your facebook status or twitter over the phone. You receive a unique phone number for each of these services which you can store and access as easy as calling Mum.

It worked pretty well in my trial, I called over a dozen times and spoke in various accents (it only recognises English, but not Yorkshirish) and I even mumbled at times. I'd give it 8 out of 10 for voice recognition (particulary when you consider that it is over a phone line) compared with 9 out of 10 for the Dragon Naturally Speaking desktop software which is also lots of fun to use - in a Trekkie sort of way!

For the most part Spinvox recognised the general gist of what I was saying, although missing out the odd verb can completely change the meaning of your message so be careful when calling the girlfriend... "Of course your bum did _ look big in that dress last night"
- Paul Williams

Three reasons why geek can be Sexy and Cool.

These girls are witty, intelligent, sexy and fun. They are, or were, the presenters of www.Rocketboom.com, my favorite video blog. It was the quirkiness of Amanda Congden which first got me hooked back in 2005, and since Joanne Colan became Anchor in 2006 she has really made it her own. The occasional appearance from Elspeth Rountree, who produces the show, adds greatly to the already eclectic range and style of the daily videos. You just can't appreciate Rocketboom until you've watched for at least two weeks. It might feel strange at first, a little weird, but then you're hooked, and you can't wait until the next episode.

Visit SexyGeeks for more sexy geeks.

clipped from reddit.wired.com Ellie Rountree by Anonymous Co-producer, resident blogger, and occasional host of Rocketboom. Super hot and highly knowledgeable of internets. Amanda Congdon by Travis Hardiman From her blog: "Amanda Congdon is the President of Oxmour Entertainment. She is a videoblogger, writer, actress and producer. You can watch and participate in her videoblogs on StarringAmandaCongdon.com... Amanda graduated Magna Cum Laude from Northwestern University with an undergraduate degree in Organizational Communications and later received her graduate degree in videoblogging at Rocketboom.com..." Joanne Colan by Travis Hardiman Wikipedia: "With an eye for irony and a comedic slant, she began hosting Rocketboom on July 12, 2006.[1]. She offers amusing and/or informative video clips and web links from a desk in the Rocketboom studio, and has delivered many Rocketboom field reports from the Lincoln Center, Coney Island and other New York locations."

New and improved Solio charger

I've had the first edition Solio charger for the past few years and it's served me well for charging my various AV devices. It's not very useful in the UK but it does double up as a nice backup battery which can be charged from the mains before you leave on your journey (the first edition was even cheaper than a backup ipod battery).

clipped from www.thegadgetblog.com Similar in design to Better Energy Systems award-winning Classic, the Magnesium packs almost double the power and is the most powerful solar charger on the market. Engineered to meet the demands of the most serious adventurer, the new Solio Magnesium combines efficient solar cells, a powerful internal battery, and a rugged, environmentally friendly magnesium alloy shell. Available this month at a price of $199.95.

Dealing with my IAD (Internet Addiction Disorder)

To deal with my IAD (Internet addiction disorder), for two weeks I will not be checking or updating my facebook, twitter, myspace or blogs, I will not watch iPlayer, torrent or podcast.

I will not switch on my 24inch imac as soon as I arrive home and I will only use my PDA as a phone. I will ignore my yahoomail, googlemail and hotmail.co.uk and hotmail.com e-mail addresses.

I will not digg, stumble upon or add to del.icio.us.
I will not buy, or sell, from Amazon or Ebay.

The only e-mail I will check is my work e-mail.
Can I do this? Only time will tell.
- Paul Williams

Geolocated Media - I know where it's at!

I was recently at the HP Mediascape conference in Bristol, and wow, what a huge step geolocated media has taken these past few years. While it is still experimental, a bit clunky and semi-geeky (geek is cool ;) it is certainly a rapidly expanding medium. The conference featured case studies and presentations highlighting the immense potential for using this technology to enhance experiences of different environments and deliver content to an audience in a more dynamic and immersive way. From elements in alternative reality games to historical re-enactment tours around the Tower of London.

A Mediascape is a location-based experience, games and tours on a GPS handheld device. As you walk around a given area your GPS location triggers the playing of media in the application whether it be audio, images or video. As GPS devices become more widespread (how many people do you know with SatNav or a GPS mobile) this type of media becomes more justifiable for the big public service broadcasters to produce - they can reach more people. The British broadcasters already produce the best media in the world and this is yet another way in which our vast resources and archive can be re-packaged to reach a audience who might otherwise not receive this content -both at home and internationally.

HP have been developing this technology for a number of years and I remember Savannah which was created in associated with Futurelab and the BBC in Bristol. This was a strategy-based adventure game which allowed children to learn about life as a lion using their school playing field to mimic a Savannah, working together to hunt and survive. Read the Futurelab report here.

One I created earlier...NightlifeFor the nighttime challenge at the conference I, along with Mark Jacobs, Stuart Redding and Ed Drewitt, produced "Nighlife: World in a Square". We split Queens square, in Bristol, into four quarters, each representing a different continent. As you walk around the square you hear natural sounds from the nighttime of that continent - "can you guess where in the world you are?", walk a little further to see an image and hear a narration describing the natural sounds.

If Nightlife was an official geolocated experience connected to a public service production (channel4, BBC), we would need to include the capacity for the "immersee" to walk into any space, anywhere in the world, and unroll the experience around them, broadcasting not narrowcasting. And the Mscape software allows just that!

I found the Mscape creator software very intuitive and easy to work with, for the most part it is simply dragging and dropping onto a map. While you do need to understand the foundations of code to create more sophisticated experiences, anyone can get started with the basics. So download the toolkit and create a geolocated media guide around your garden. It may be a few years before the public service broadcasters can invest resources into producing such experiences for mass rollout but it is certainly worth keeping an eye on.
Paul Williams

Dodeca Camera: 360 Immersive Video

This is incredible! Dodeca 11 lensed camera to generate 360 immersive media.

If you want your audience to feel as though they are on location with you then check this out. It provides true 360 immersive video - panning within live action footage.

See the demonstration video for Humpback Whales, it blew me away. Other demo's here: http://demos.immersivemedia.com/

Imagine having this camera on a jeep while filming Big Cats, out filming Killer Whales hunting or placed amongst a badger set at night.

http://www.immersivemedia.com/

Also see their Geoimmersive Ruotes being produced in association with Google Maps: http://demos.immersivemedia.com/onlinecities/

The UK Supplier is TX Immersive Ltd who currently have 4 cameras in the UK.
http://www.tx-i.eu/

They also have another company called Transmission TX who have worked with remote live feedback, e,g, from cameras attached to Sherpas on Everest.

OUTPUT
Each Dodeca camera outputs high res jpegs at 480 lines, when the images are blended together it can create an image of 1100 lines which I am informed equates to 1080i HD.
The frame rate can be adjusted to create timelapse or slomo.

It has a live output but it does require blending time before immersive interaction. This could be done on a laptop in the field. The current base station records upto 6 hours of material at one time.

The dodeca camera can be worn and steadycams and stabalisers are available.
You can also operate it remotely - e.g. setup in the middle of a seal or penguin colony and record and operate from a kilometer away.

COST
Camera costs 80,000 pounds to buy so you might be best to dry hire - after a two week training course, (or wet hire with a trained user)

PLATFORM
Currently working on Flash in aticipation of Flash 10 released next year.
Phil Windley has some kit for getting live and store and foward media back from the field.

There are plugins available for the Open TV (Sky) platform, which would allow playback and control of immersive 360 degree video on the current generation of Sky Plus and HD boxes.

WEIGHT
Base unit is 10-15 kilograms
Also need to take recorder unit in a backpack.

Paul Williams

Rip Books to PDF

Put your entire library on a USB stick! This would be wonderful if only I could justify spending a thousand pounds. It's easy to rip CD's or DVD's but most people can't rip books. This device aims to make that a thing of the past by letting you make PDFs at 500 pages per hour, if you can turn them fast enough.
http://booksnap.atiz.com/

BBC "How we built Britain" and the amazing Microsoft Photosynth

Microsoft's Photosynth is a very exciting application being developed by Microsoft. I have been eagerly awaiting them to complete their technical trial for months so I can have a play!

How Microsoft describes Photosynth:
"Our software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space.

With Photosynth you can:
* Walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle.
* Seamlessly zoom in or out of a photo whether it's megapixels or gigapixels in size.
* See where pictures were taken in relation to one another.
* Find similar photos to the one you're currently viewing.
* Send a collection - or a particular view of one - to a friend.

See a video tour of the photosynth here

How We Built Britain
The BBC managed to jump into bed with Microsoft very early on for the online proposition of “How we built Britain”. The website which accompanies the TV series takes thousands of images from tourists submitted to flickr, to build a three-dimensional panorama that you can pan and zoom into.

You can still upload pictures to Flickr to join in.

Visit the website to view some of the first Photosynthed images here.

The site includes a wide range of modern and classical buildings from around the country, everything from the Royal Crescent in Bath to the Blackpool Ballroom. Photosynth for the first time allows photography to really capture the scale of a location and reflect the true magnificence of some of our greatest buildings.

The next time you visit a National Trust property remember to snap like crazy so you too can make the best of Photosynth.
I might just need to get myself a few more memory cards.

- Paul Williams

Multiplatform stuff to consider when planning an expedition

Depending on the length and remoteness of your expedition I would suggest that the best way for your to proceed would be to have someone at base who you can upload packets of information to, using a sat uplink, as the year progresses. I'm actually looking into doing a similar sort of thing from the Arctic and Antarctic - even more logistically challenging, and using Iridium Modems and Begans to get the data across. Assemble your clips, text etc, in the field and uplink these packages in the evenings to base, who can then do the final posting, youtube uploading, Google File generating etc. They can also monitor comments from visitors to the site.

LONG WAY DOWN
You might want to check out Long Way Down, a Ewan McGreggor Project: www.bbc.co.uk/longwaydown and http://www.longwaydown.com/ to see how they did it. Which was similar to how you propose, They used 3G whilst in Europe but from most of Africa they uploaded to base with a Satlink.

I was at a talk about their project and they said the following: Web content/podcasts were "little moments of fun" mostly recorded on Mobile phone but also DV shot. 3G sent direct within Europe – Africa has no coverage, so satphone was used there. They sent in daily reports from the road - 115 clips in the 85 day expedition, 30-60 seconds each. Daily, or regular updates is very important to maintain an audience. They produced what is known as "Mashable content" allowing people to take bits away and embed on their own websites. Cycling websites etc and sites that were doing similar journeys. This allowed the word to spread about their project.

SUBSCRIBERS, PODCASTS & YOUTUBE
I would also set up an RSS feed so you can have subscribers to your blog and create a video/audio cast for iTunes. Youtube is an easy and free way to create a subscribable channel too. Photoblogs are very popular - using a service like Flickr or Panaramio, and along with Geotagging (see below) you could get the best out of these sites and see your photos on their map interfaces.

You might also want to consider tapping into the social network groups, namely Bebo, Myspace and Facebook - Bebo is about to break into the media market with the launch of a teen drama (Kate Modern)

I have written a quick guide on how to create a podcast here:

http://ironammonitetechnology.blogspot.com/2006/04/how-to-podcast-quick-guide.html

GEOTAGGING & GOOGLE EARTH
If you going to be travelling around much I would strongly urge to get into geotagging. We cannot underestimate how important this will be in the future, and how exciting it is at present. Ashley Highfield, director of BBC Future Media & Tech, said as much at the BBC Vision Multiplatform day.

Read my article about a little gadget that I use - cheap, easy and very effective. From this you can create a Geotrack which can be viewed on Google Earth (or any other global interface) as in the image below (you can also embed video and audio) - puts your media in a geographical context.

Also see why I think Geotagging is the next big thing.
And Geoblogging (put your blogs in a geographical context)

Not only does Geotagging put media and place together but it also allows you the capacity to leave "virtual graffiti" so people can access media about a location when they are at the location - using the power of Wifi or mobile internet. (see the mscapers project by HP).
Hope that helps,
Paul Williams

Philips 3-D TV

At the BBC Vision Multiplatform day last week the chaps at Kingswood Warren (the BBC's technological R&D dept) had a Philips 3D TV on display.

This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen, I was captivated and drooling - when can I have one? Apparently i'll have to wait 10 years before they are widespread in UK homes.

I have been playing around with 3D images and video quite a lot recently but this was something else. No 3D glasses required, no shutter glasses required, it was like I could reach in and touch what I was seeing. Like the TV was a window into another, and very real, world.

It works by splitting the light emitting from the screen so that the image reaching the left eye is slighting different to that reaching the right eye - stereoscopic. You have to be in the right spot (one of 8 viewing positions around the TV) to have the image correctly reach the eyes as stereoscopic, otherwise the image is a little blurry.

See the video below for a more complete explanation about this incredible technology:



Broadcasters should seriously reconsider 3D content – it looks like it is coming back in a much more dynamic way. First with video glasses, and then full 3D TVs, being spearheaded by computer gaming and 3D screens for computers.
- Paul Williams

Light Saber Wii Remote

This is just the coolest thing -I just had to post this to my blog too. I know some of my friends (some of which already have life size light sabers) will be drooling when they hear of this!

During a demonstration of LucasArts latest Star Wars video game - LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga for Wii, there was news that slipped of perhaps a motion-sensitive lightsaber action Wii remote in the offing. Could it be that gamers all over the world will be able to take their jedi fantasy up a new notch in the future? Lucas Arts has already admitted that internally, they’ve tested the possibilities. And this would seem like a natural step in the development process for Lucas Arts, who are currently engadged in creating an all lightsaber battle game for their faithful who will buy just about anything with the Star Wars logo on it.

Course, one could just take one of those cheap $7 Hasbro lightsabers and modify it by incorporating the Wii remote into it. I bet someone started working on that about 5 minutes after the Wii was released. It’s already been hacked for PC versions by the same guy who created iSaber for the MAC. But wouldn’t it be cool to have a WiiSaber to take on Darth Vader? Talk about “if you build it, they will come.” Just don’t go on some “damn fool idealistic crusade” once they do.

LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga is due for release on the Wii, Nintendo DS, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, and comes out on November 7 – just in time for Christmas.

From: Adele Chaplin Published: 13 Sep 2007, Newsbytes