30 Mayıs 2012 Çarşamba

Mass Effect 3: Rebellion Pack Revealed

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This coming Tuesday, BioWare will release the next map pack for Mass Effect 3.  Entitled the "Rebellion Pack," it will contain two new maps, six new classes, three new weapons, and more.  The best part:  It's free.

That's right, this Multiplayer add-on will be free on all platforms.

You can check out the full details on the Mass Effect 3: Rebellion Pack, including a small FAQ, right here.

Batman Arkham

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Its been two years since Batman Arkham Asylum was released, and developer Rocksteady studios has finally created this tremendous sequel...
Batman Arkham City. The size and scope of this game has been expanded on every level over its predecessor.

The premise of the game consists of a large concrete wall that has been built around a section of Gotham City, creating Arkham City, a new home/jail for the criminally insane, where no rules exists, enabling the inmates to rule themselves. The story revolves around Dr. Hugo Strange running of the asylum, and the seemingly imminent death of the Joker. These are the main plot's of the story, and each is interesting and exciting in its own way. Being housed in this city are Batman's most hated villains such as the Penguin, Mr. Freeze, Two Face and many more.

The sounds of the game are terrific. Mark Hamill (Joker) and Kevin Conroy (Dark Knight), do a fantastic job in their voice over roles. They both bring an intensity and believability to their perspective characters in the way that they each deliver their dialogue. Other background chatter from evil villains breaths life into Gotham City, while perfectly setting the mood of the game.

The gameplay basics are going to be familiar if you played Arkham Asylum. Multipliers, combos, special moves and gadgets will now add to Batman's arsenal. Rocksteady also added other features to keep you interested like counters that take down several people at once, the ability to dive bomb while gliding and turn backup for altitude, and a hot key attached to Batman's weapons to use in battle. Gadgets were always a big part of Batman and it's no different in this game. Exploding gel, Remote electrical charge, and others still have a place on Batman's utility belt. Getting back to playability, combat is smooth and fluid (no sticking points) and Batman's movements and agility in this open world environment are exceptional.


The graphics that make up Arkham City are extremely detailed with large buildings and a dark shade emphasizing the overall mood of the game. A good portion of the missions take place inside (e.g. The Museum) which are as visually impressive as the outside environments, and the characters all posses similar looking attributes to their comic book counterparts.

Batman: Arkham City is packed with things to do. Besides having many places to explore in this vast open world environment, you also have a dozen side missions, solving...get this, 400 Riddler challenges, 24 challenge maps, and the addition of Catwomen missions with maps that also come with new purchases.
Batman: Arkham City has everything that you want in a video game. It has an interesting storyline, plenty of action, sharp graphic's, sound and plenty to do to keep you occupied. This game is a must play for Batman enthusiast's or anyone else. The game is well made and offers hours and hours of exciting, addicting, fun. This is one game you don't want to miss!



Arkham City Review

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A World of differnece. Arkham City Review

The greatest suspension of disbelief mandated by Batman: Arkham City isn't that there exists an underground crime ring of costumed supervillains -- rather, that they've been given free roam in a sizable, corded-off chunk of Gotham. It's a government-sanctioned world where everyone tries to kill everyone else, sometimes with guns, which prisoners characteristically aren't permitted to possess. Such a place shouldn't exist; which is exactly why Bruce Wayne has taken it upon himself to shut it down.

ARKHAM CITY REVIEW

Arkham City lacks the raw acreage of a Liberty City, Stillwater or Rome, but provides much more space between its key structures than was present in Arkham Asylum. Batman zips between enemy hideouts using a satisfying system of locomotion; though your destination may occasionally look distant, it only takes a minute or two of gliding, diving to gain velocity and grappling between buildings to get just about anywhere you want to go.

Your effortless flight is impeded by thugs in the employ of the various archnemeses which wrestle for control of the landscape. Dispatching them in hand-to-hand combat requires the judicious use of the returning Freeflow system, which rewards well-aimed strikes and well-timed counters with combo boosts (that let you activate special attacks and garner extra experience). And it punishes clumsiness with ... well, death.

There are plenty of sidequests to divert your attention from the campaign, the most prevalent of which being The Riddler's hidden trophies and puzzles. There are 400 in total to discover, all of which unlock concept art, character trophies or challenge maps. After accruing enough, you'll also discover the location of Riddler's nefarious, Saw-like deathtraps, and the imperiled captives within.

There's more incentive to hunt down the Riddler's leavings this time around, though their sheer volume makes the earliest part of the game -- when you don't possess the gadgets required to access them -- pretty frustrating. It takes the Metroidvania philosophy of "come back when you're properly equipped" to an inscrutable extreme, though the ability to mark out-of-reach trophies on your map helps hugely in the endgame..



After all!!  The 72-year-old lore of the Batman universe is about as immutable as comic book icons come. If Batman: Arkham Asylum was evidence of Rocksteady's comprehension of the franchise, then Arkham City is proof of their understanding of its quiescence.

Robin in The Dark Knight Rises

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Dark Knight Rises Robin
It's a debate that's existed since Christopher Nolan rebooted Batman back in 2005. Could Robin the Boy Wonder fit in Nolan's reality bound universe. Stars such as Christian Bale have poured water over rumours over a potential third flick Robin appearance, but that hasn't stopped increasing fan boy speculation now that filming for The Dark Knight Rises is underway.

Many would argue that Robin has plagued the Batman franchise over the years. When Chris O'Donnell turned up as the angsty sidekick of Val Kilmer's Batman in Batman Forever, things went from bad to worst. A sequel later and we had one of the worst films of all time with Batman & Robin. History suggests Batman flicks should leave out Robin but that really doesn't have to be the case.
When we last saw the Caped Crusader back in The Dark Knight, he had become an outlaw after taking the fall for crimes he didn't commit. Now Batman is on the run, his tie with Commissioner Gordon will undoubtedly have been severed. With Rachel Dawes dead, Harvey Dent corrupted/presumed dead and Alfred getting old, Batman is ruining out of allies. Even Lucius Fox threatened to resign after questioning Batman's methods in The Dark Knight. With Bruce now a loner, enter Robin.
If The Dark Knight Rises wanted to go very dark with Robin it could do. After Robin's family are killed by the uprising criminality in Gotham, Bruce Wayne could adopt the teenager (I'll say 16+ as any younger it just becomes weird) as a political stunt to give Bruce some 'good' publicity by taking in an orphan. Secretly though, Bruce sees himself in Robin as they have both experienced their parents being killed by the criminals of the city. Having being raised by a butler for all his life however, Bruce struggles with the issue of parenthood, thus most of Robin's care is left in the hands of poor old Alfred, whilst Batman roams the streets of Gotham.


The Batman/Robin dynamic should take inspiration from Jeph Loeb's amazing book, Batman: Dark Victory. When Robin discovers the secret behind Batman's duel identity, things change. Now Bruce can steer Robin unlike in the direction he never had whilst he was young. Thus the training begins, and most of Robin's appearance in the film should be just training. We see Bruce undertake a serious amount of training in Batman Begins, therefore to have Robin up and ready straight away would be daft.
Robin is not like Batman, whilst Bats is a brawler, often taking on many enemies at one time, Robin is an acrobatic highflying fighter, which makes for the perfect team. The rest of Gotham's law forces aren't going to be pleased at how Bats is taking a teenager under is wing, therefore Robin should almost be a the perfect stealth weapon, making sure his enemies don't see him when he attacks.

He shouldn't be seen in official costume if he is going to be in The Dark Knight Rises, as I don't think viewers are quite ready for that yet. Instead he should just wear sleek, back clothing, no cape with a black mask, much like what Bruce wore for the first time in Batman Begins. I also don't think his character should be comedic as it ruins the dark aspect of the film. Rather than supply Batman with humour like he does in most adaptations, he should wither be a wiz with technology, providing Bats with extra support from the cave. If not, then he should be darker than Batman himself. Perhaps there could be a scene where Robin nearly crosses the line between justice and murder, only for Batman to have to reel him in last minute?
I know we probably won't see Robin in The Dark Knight Rises, but if this is going to be Nolan's last Bat flick then the film could set up Robin/Nightwing as the future protector of Gotham. It would make sense considering Warner Bros wouldn't want to go back to reboot just yet.

Or would they...
Robin in The Dark Knight Rises


Batman Arkham City Game Of The Year Edition

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Batman Arkham City Game Of The Year Edition Pre-Orders Now Available!!
 
GET YOUR PRE-ORDERS IN TODAY!

The Harley Quinn-related teases: today's announcement of a "Game of the Year Edition" re-release of Batman: Arkham City. Coming to PS3 and Xbox 360 May 29, the new version contains the "Harley Quinn's Revenge" expansion, along with the previously released Robin, Catwoman, and Nightwing packs and a set of alternate skins.In addition to all the in-game content the GOTY edition will contain a download of the Batman: Year One animated movie.

JUST CLICK ON PICTURE TO SECURE YOUR ORDER TODAY!!

Update: You don't have to wait until May, or buy the game again, to get the Harley Quinn DLC. It'll be sold separately starting April 30.

23 Mayıs 2012 Çarşamba

The Dark Knight Rises: NBA TV Spot and new promo posters debut

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As the next and final installment of Warner Bros. and Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight saga inches closer to its release date, a new set of promo posters and a TV Spot have been released for fans to take a look at!


The promotional images focus on Batman and Catwoman, while the first TV Spot combines footage everyone's seen in previous trailers with plays from the NBA! For more info, visit the source post at Comic Book Movie for the promo images and Bleeding Cool for the TV Spot!



The Dark Knight Rises - NBA TV Spot


The Dark Knight Rises sees the legend end on July 20.

UPDATE: Legendary Action Star Jackie Chan NOT retiring from action movies

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UPDATE: The initial reports were clarified by the stunt master himself via Facebook and Den of Geek. Jackie Chan will NOT be retiring from action cinema at all. Check out the source links above for more on the story.


 Here's the original article posted:


Many of you may know him as Drunken Master or the cop Lee from the Rush Hour movies, but regardless of how you've heard of him, Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan is a legend and icon. However, the man known for blending his martial arts prowess with his stuntman training and comedic antics has finally decided to put down the fighting gloves for good, announcing his retirement to the world during the Cannes Film Festival. His last film that he also directed, "Chinese Zodiac", will be the final film where he will be billed as an action star. Chan hopes to work on his acting muscles instead, and the 58-year old actor looks forward to taking it easy and resting well from the action and fighting spotlight.


Here's a look at the trailer his last film as an action star, Chinese Zodiac!






'Chinese Zodiac' Trailer 2012 - Jackie Chan New Movie


Thanks Jackie, and enjoy your well deserved retirement! For more on the story, check out the source post at Bleeding Cool, Daily Mail, and Yahoo!

Bond returns as Skyfall teaser trailer debuts!

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Eon Productions, MGM, Columbia Pictures, and Sony Entertainment Pictures has released the long awaited teaser trailer to the next installment in the James Bond film series, Skyfall. The twenty-third film based on Ian Fleming's British Secret Service agent creation, Daniel Craig returns at Agent 007, and this adventure puts his loyalty to his boss M (played by Judi Dench) in question, as well as a daring new adventure for him to overcome when MI6 is attacked. Check out the new trailer below, and for more information, check out the source post at Comic Book Movie.


Skyfall Teaser

James Bond will return to cinemas with Skyfall on October 26!

The Dark Knight Rises: "A Fire Will Rise" Poster

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Warner Bros. has released a brand new poster for Christopher Nolan's final entry into his Batman film saga, The Dark Knight Rises. With the tagline "A Fire Will Rise", the poster shows a determined looking Batman (Christian Bale), as he stands in front of a city of falling debris with a Bat-shaped logo, which was the same background seen in the first teaser poster. Released via the official Facebook page of the movie, check out more details there.



Also, in case you haven't seen the third and final epic trailer to this much anticipated sequel to the Dark Knight Legend, here it is again for your viewing pleasure.





The Dark Knight Rises sees the end of a legend on July 20!

The Dark Knight Rises: Six New Character Posters!

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After yesterday's reveal of a brand new theatrical poster that received some mixed reactions from the fanbase, Warner Bros. has released a slew of awesome new character posters for Christopher Nolan's final chapter in his Batman film saga, The Dark Knight Rises! There are six of these posters, two of each featuring Batman (Christian Bale), Bane (Tom Hardy), and Catwoman (Anne Hathaway)!








Now that's what I'm talking about! For more info for these posters, check out the source post at SuperHeroHype and Yahoo! Movies!

The Dark Knight Rises shows the legend end and rise on July 20!

17 Mayıs 2012 Perşembe

Realising true potential of city,gurgaon^^

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              Gurgaon::::: A state capital!!                      Thecity produces almost 99% of all autos in the state. The annual revenue fromsales and purchase of property is about Rs 900 crore, way ahead of othercities. Gurgaon attracts 78% of the Foreign Direct Investment that flows intoHaryana. Nearly 300 of the Fortune 500 companies have a corporate presence inGurgaon. Almost all of Haryana's IT and BPO business resides here. And mostimportantly, it is the home to 20 lakh residents who are the stuff great citiesare built on: they are young, hardworking, educated and enterprising. Aseries of articles in TOI starting today pitching the need to make Gurgaon thenew capital of Haryana. If it ever becomes the capital, maybe the zillions ofmoney as taxes coming from Gurgaon would be used to improve its owninfrastructure as befitting a capital city.                     True,they break a traffic light or two; but that's only because they have to catch adeadline. The fact is in all of North India, there is no other city, with theexception of Delhi, which comes anywhere near the wealth and resources ofGurgaon. When the first issue of TOI-Gurgaon hit the stands a year ago, the MCGwas not an elected body. Now it is. The Metro had only just started, and now itis difficult to think of a Gurgaon without a Metro link to Delhi. When thisedition first came out, there was no sign of Rapid Metro. Now its progress isall too visible with the Cyber City looking like a war zone, and the oddbusiness visitor bracing for the bazooka.                      Thecity is changing, but randomly. If the state considers Gurgaon its futurecapital, the planning and development of the city will be done on a moresustainable level, not in this piecemeal fashion. It will be doing justice tothe mega-potential of the city, and will result in generating more revenue forthe state. In the next few days, TOI will feature a series of articleschampioning Gurgaon's right to become the capital of Haryana. The highlights ofthe campaign will include a detailed survey on what the residents feel aboutthe TOI agenda; a lead report focusing on the Gurgaon's strategic advantage incomparison with Chandigarh, or Panchkula (a recent pretender to the throne);interviews with policy makers, and comments from experts.

Uttar Pradesh cabinet decides to divide state into four

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In a move that Chief Minister Mayawati saidwas inspired by B.R. Ambedkar, the Uttar Pradesh cabinet Tuesday decided todivide the state into four:  Purvanchal,Pashchim Pradesh, Bundelkhand and Awadh Pradesh.While Mayawati had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on theissue, her cabinet took a formal decision to take it up as a resolution in thestate assembly during the winter session beginning Nov 21.“Wewill get a resolution passed by the assembly to divide the state into foursmaller states during the coming winter session to be opened on Nov 21,”Mayawati said at a press conference in Lukhnow.

            “After the resolution was passed by theassembly, it would be sent to the central government that would be required totable it before parliament where it would have to be passed,” Mayawati Claiming that the move was inspired by herideologue Ambedkar's philosophy of building smaller units of governance forbetter law and order and to ensure uniform development, she said: “We proposeto reorganise Uttar Pradesh into the states of Purvanchal (East Uttar Pradesh),Pashchim Pradesh (West Uttar Pradesh), Bundelkhand (South Uttar Pradesh) andAwadh Pradesh (Central Uttar Pradesh).” Explaining the rationale behind themove, she added: "As we all know, UP is the country's most populous statewith the population shooting up to nearly 20 crore, which means that 16 percent of the country's population lives. It also has a gigantic area of 240,000sq km and that is what makes it unwieldy." Only a division can solve theproblems and remove the inherent imbalances, the chief minister said. "Themove would fulfil the much-awaited aspirations of the people living in each ofthe regions that have suffered on account of neglect and apathy of successivegovernments - either led by the Congress or the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)."             Accusing national governments of apathytowards her state, Mayawati said: "Even though UP had given the maximumnumber of prime ministers to the country, none cared to do something concretefor appropriate development of the state."             She claimed that hers was the onlygovernment that had shown sincere interest in comprehensive development.
             "Soon after we came to power on ourown strength in 2007, I not only wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seekinga special economic package of Rs.80,000 crore for the development of thebackward regions of Purvanchal and Bundelkhand but also met him personally, tono avail."           Critics::::::              Dividing UP into four states will directlyquadruple the overhead expenditure of the state. The sole objective of Mayawatiis to win the forth coming assembly elections, so that she can continue wearinggiant garlands made of currency notes of 1000 rupees denominations.

             Conclusion: Even though I have serious reservation in Mayawati holding any publicoffice whatsoever, she must be voted back to power, to save the environment.Same is also true for all other politicians of India, who are enjoying thefruits of the democracy of ever growing illiterate and barbarian psychedvoters.             Theruling Ministers of UP and its associates have Grabbed all the EMPTY LANDS inUP, making them richer and richer in these 4 years in the name of parks, etc.Now UP govt. wants to divide UP into 4regions as UP chief Minister wants a separate region to cover her Illegalproperties acquired by them during their rule...So, it's a Conspiracy theory of the presentUP govt. to hide their Black Money and all the Illegal Properties acquired bythem.             Dividing state for what reason? Is it dueunable to have better management with state missionaries?? It is true that UPis vast state and bigger than many foreign countries... And it is also truethat small states can have better prosperity and governance...             However, our track record with dividingstates seems to be good. And as far as Mayawati is concerned, this is justpolitical gimmick... She is trying her best to remain in power which is notgoing to happen post 2012...The most criminal state in the country!These butchers have not been able to eradicate murder or rape in 20000generations and so they now want to turn the minds of laymen towards efficientgovernance by division of states. Actually all these politicians desire is tocollectively cheat the taxpayer and treasury of billions of dollars afteranother round of election propaganda. In the name of development they havediverted millions of dollars into constructing third rate roads, horriblehospitals, and the dirtiest public latrines in the world which even animalswould never use.              This is just another trick of these dirtypoliticians to divert attention from the real issues of development of thestate. UP has the second largest GDP in Indiaafter Maharashtra and in spite of so much contribution to India's GDP, it hasthe maximum poverty & over population.              All the politicians in UP are canvassingvotes but hardly any one is bothered about the progress of the state. Smaller states are better run; you onlyhave to look at Uttarakhand, Chhatisgarh. The only exception is Jharkhand. Jharkhandunfortunately has too much natural wealth and no proper leader. She willprobably end up as another Laloo who was also invincible, once upon a time tillpeople saw through him.

Batman: Arkham City- release date of Wii U version

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Batman:Arkham City Arkham City was scripted by veteran is a 2011 action-adventure video game developed by Rocksteady Studios. It is the sequel to the 2009video game Batman: Arkham Asylum, based on the DC Comicssuperhero Batman.The game was released by Warner Bros. InteractiveEntertainment for the PlayStation 3,Xbox 360and Microsoft Windows. The game was officiallyannounced during the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards and was releasedworldwide for consoles, beginning in North America on October 18, 2011, with aPC version following on November 22, 2011. A Wii U version isset to release in 2012.comic book author Paul Dini,who also scripted Arkham Asylum. It features a main plot andside-missions that develop their own sub-plots. The main storyline revolvesaround Batman's imprisonment in Arkham City, a sprawling new super-prison fivetimes bigger than the original asylum and enclosing a wide variety ofindustrial districts, iconic locations and Gotham Citylandmarks. He must now stop mishaps occurring around this chaotic enclosure,mainly caused by his arch-nemesis the Joker.The game has received universal critical acclaim, making it one of the highestrated video games released in 2011.
Gameplay
Arkham City is an open world action videogame that incorporates elements of stealth and predator tactics. Allof the gadgets previously obtained in the first game are present at the startof Arkham City (with the exception of the Line Launcher and the UltraBatclaw, which is replaced with the regular Batclaw and Sonic Batarangs). Mostof them have improved or new capabilities; for example, the CryptographicSequencer can also track signals, the line launcher now can be deployed as atightrope and has a feature that allows Batman to flip over and launch anotherzipline, switching directions. The remote control Batarang now has a built inbrake and boost, and the grappling gun can now be used while gliding to boostBatman further up into the air. Four additional gadgets have been revealed:smoke pellets to confuse armed enemies when spotted by them, the RemoteElectrical Charge which is a sniper-like taser gun used to power generators andshock enemies, ice grenades used to freeze enemies and make pathways throughwater, and a balled rope for tying up enemies. The game incorporates morepuzzle elements; the use of Batman's "Detective Mode", whichhighlights elements such as enemy skeletons and clues on-screen, is used toperform forensic activities such as tracing the origin of a sniper round.The player also has access to acriminal database that tracks several investigations across the city and theforensic puzzles much like the first game, as well as an extensivecommunications interception and tracing network. However, Rocksteady's artdirector David Hego described the new detective mode as an "augmentedreality mode", and game director Sefton Hill has also stated that althoughenemies and evidence can be seen more clearly, the navigational part is toneddown as they found that some players completed Arkham Asylum usingdetective mode almost throughout the entire game. Optional challenges from theRiddler to collect hidden trophies placed around the city are also present, butrequire additional effort to locate, such as interrogation of men loyal to theRiddler, and the use of nearly all of Batman's gadgets to disable"traps" and barriers placed around them. After a certain number oftrophies are found, Batman must go rescue a hostage that the Riddler has captured,which requires him to disable death traps set by the Riddler. The player controls Batman, makingtheir way around Arkham City to complete mission objectives. In addition to theprimary mission, the game introduces secondary missions featuring a number ofkey characters and their stories. The player can opt to move silently, avoidinginmates and other enemies using a combination of gadgets to sneak up on enemiesto incapacitate them. Batman's gliding ability has also been upgraded, allowingplayers to dive downward and pull themselves back up, making it much faster tomove through the air.At other times, the player may beforced to fight inmates using an improved version of the Freeflow combat systemfrom Arkham Asylum, allowing for multiple simultaneous counters, theability to counter thrown objects, jump attacks, powerful multi-strikebeat-downs, upgraded Batarang and Batclaw attacks, and the ability to usegadgets such as the Explosive Gel and line launcher in Freeflow. Movement aboutthe city is made difficult due to the formation of gangs and territory betweenrival villains, such as Two-Face, The Penguin, and the Joker, that causesin-fighting that Batman may avoid.Catwomanis also a playable character with her own heist-focused storyline at specificpoints in the game. Her combat is more acrobatics-oriented and features herclaws, whip, and bolas.She has her own version of Detective Mode called "Thief Vision" tolocate items for stealing. Dax Ginn recently revealed at Gamescom that the gamehas about 40 hours of gameplay with the main campaign lasting 25 hours and 15hours for the side missions. The game also contains 436 Riddler challenges,which make up one of the multiple side missions that players can embark on atany given point in the game. Rather than rely on maps, the player can markriddler puzzles as they are found, if the player does not have the necessaryequipment to complete them. A portion of the puzzles are also specific toCatwoman, and can only be completed by her.

The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3versions of Arkham City include a stereoscopic 3D mode for 3D HDTVs andfor 2D HDTVs via Inficolor 3D glasses. It uses TriOviz for Games Technology, which is integrated with UnrealEngine 3. All Arkham City gameplay and cinematics have S3D support.

The Devil's Triangle.............

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The BermudaTriangle, also known as the Devil'sTriangle, is a region of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean in which a number of aircraft and surface vessels are alleged to have disappeared. Somepeople have claimed that these disappearances fall beyond the boundaries of human error, equipment failure or natural disasters. Popular culture hasattributed some of these disappearances to theparanormal, a suspension of the laws of physics, or activity by extraterrestrialbeings. Though asubstantial body of documentation exists showing numerous incidents to havebeen inaccurately reported or embellished by later authors, and numerousofficial agencies have gone on record as stating that the number and nature ofdisappearances is similar to any other area of ocean, proponents of paranormalphenomena claim that many have remained unexplained despite considerableinvestigation.
The Triangle AreaThe boundaries of the Triangle vary with the author; some statingits shape is akin to a trapezoid coveringthe Straits of Florida,the Bahamas andthe entire Caribbean islandarea and the Atlantic east to theAzores; others add to itthe Gulf of Mexico. The more familiar triangularboundary in most written works has as its points somewhere on the Atlanticcoast of Florida; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda, with most of the accidentsconcentrated along the southern boundary around the Bahamas and the FloridaStraits.The area is one of the most heavily-sailed shipping lanes in theworld, with ships crossing through it daily for ports in the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean Islands. Cruise ships are alsoplentiful, and pleasure craft regularly go back and forth between Florida andthe islands. It is also a heavily flown route for commercial and privateaircraft heading towards Florida, the Caribbean and South America from points north.


History of the Triangle story


Origins

The first article of any kind in which the legend of the Trianglebegan appeared in newspapers by E.V.W. Jones on September 16, 1950, through theAssociated Press. Two years later, Fate magazine published "Sea MysteryAt Our Back Door", a short article by George X. Sand covering the loss ofseveral planes and ships, including the loss of Flight 19, a group of five U.S. Navy TBM Avenger bombers on a training mission. Sand'sarticle was the first to lay out the now-familiar triangular area where thelosses took place. Flight 19 alone would be covered in the April 1962 issue of American Legion Magazine. It was claimed that the flight leaderhad been heard saying "We are entering white water, nothing seems right.We don't know where we are, the water is green, no white." It was alsoclaimed that officials at the Navy board of inquiry stated that the planes"flew off to Mars." This was the first article to connect thesupernatural to Flight 19, but it would take another author, Vincent Gaddis,writing in the February 1964 Argosy magazine to take Flight 19 togetherwith other mysterious disappearances and place it under the umbrella of a newcatchy name: "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle"; he would build on that article with amore detailed book, InvisibleHorizons, the next year. Others would follow with their ownworks: John Wallace Spencer (Limbo of the Lost, 1969, repr. 1973); Charles Berlitz (The Bermuda Triangle, 1974); Richard Winer (The Devil's Triangle, 1974) , and many others, all keeping to someof the same supernatural elements outlined by Eckert.


Kusche's research

Lawrence David Kusche, a research librarian from Arizona State University and author of The Bermuda Triangle Mystery:Solved (1975) has challenged this trend. Kusche's researchrevealed a number of inaccuracies and inconsistencies between Berlitz'saccounts and statements from eyewitnesses, participants, and others involved inthe initial incidents. He noted cases where pertinent information wentunreported, such as the disappearance of round-the-world yachtsman Donald Crowhurst, which Berlitz hadpresented as a mystery, despite clear evidence to the contrary. Another examplewas the ore-carrier Berlitz recounted as lost without trace three days out ofan Atlantic port when it had been lost three daysout of a port with the same name in the Pacific Ocean. Kusche also argued that a largepercentage of the incidents which have sparked the Triangle's mysteriousinfluence actually occurred well outside it. Often his research wassurprisingly simple: he would go over period newspapers and see items likeweather reports that were never mentioned in the stories.Kusche came to a conclusion:§  Thenumber of ships and aircraft reported missing in the area was not significantlygreater, proportionally speaking, than in any other part of the ocean.§  Inan area frequented by tropicalstorms, the number of disappearances that did occur were, for the most part,neither disproportionate, unlikely, nor mysterious; furthermore, Berlitz andother writers would often fail to mention such storms.§  Thenumbers themselves had been exaggerated by sloppy research. A boat listed asmissing would be reported, but its eventual (if belated) return to port may nothave been reported.§  Somedisappearances had in fact, never happened. One plane crash was said to havetaken place in 1937 off DaytonaBeach, Florida, in front of hundreds of witnesses; a check of the local papersrevealed nothing.Kusche concluded that:The Legend of the Bermuda Triangle isa manufactured mystery… perpetuated by writers who either purposely orunknowingly made use of misconceptions, faulty reasoning, and sensationalism.

Further responsesThe marine insurer Lloyd's of London has determined the Triangle to be nomore dangerous than any other area of ocean, and does not charge unusual ratesfor passage through the region.United StatesCoast Guard recordsconfirm their conclusion. In fact, the number of supposed disappearances isrelatively insignificant considering the number of ships and aircraft whichpass through on a regular basis.The Coast Guard is also officially skeptical of the Triangle,noting that they collect and publish, through their inquiries, muchdocumentation contradicting many of the incidents written about by the Triangleauthors. In one such incident involving the 1972 explosion and sinking of thetanker V.A. Fogg in the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guardphotographed the wreck and recovered several bodies in contrast with oneTriangle author's claim that all the bodies had vanished, with the exception ofthe captain, who was found sitting in his cabin at his desk, clutching a coffeecup.

 

Supernatural explanations

Triangle writers have used a number of supernatural concepts toexplain the events. One explanation pins the blame on leftover technology fromthe mythical lost continent of Atlantis. Sometimes connected to the Atlantisstory is the submerged rock formation known as the Bimini Roadoff the island of Bimini in theBahamas, which is in the Triangle by some definitions. Followers of thepurported psychic Edgar Cayce takehis prediction that evidence of Atlantis would be found in 1968 as referring tothe discovery of the Bimini Road. Believers describe the formationas a road, wall, or other structure, though geologists consider it to be ofnatural origin. Other writers attribute the events to UFOs. This idea was used by Steven Spielberg for his science fiction film CloseEncounters of the Third Kind, which features the lost Flight 19as alien abductees.Charles Berlitz,grandson of a distinguished linguist and author of various additional books onanomalous phenomena, has kept in line with this extraordinary explanation, andattributed the losses in the Triangle to anomalous or unexplained forces. 

 

 Natural explanations

 

      Compass variations

Compass problemsare one of the cited phrases in many Triangle incidents. While some have theorizedthat unusual local magnetic anomalies may exist in the area, such anomalieshave not been shown to exist. It should also be remembered that compasses havenatural magnetic variations in relation to the Magnetic poles. For example, in the United States the only places where magnetic (compass)north and geographic (true) north are exactly the same are on a linerunning from Wisconsin tothe Gulf of Mexico. Navigators have known this forcenturies. But the public may not be as informed, and think there is somethingmysterious about a compass "changing" across an area as large as theTriangle, which it naturally will.Deliberate acts of destructionThis can fall into two categories: acts of war, and acts ofpiracy. Records in enemy files have been checked for numerous losses; whilemany sinkings have been attributed to surface raiders or submarines during the World Wars anddocumented in the various command log books, many others which have beensuspected as falling in that category have not been proven. It is suspectedthat the loss of USS Cyclops in 1918, as well as her sister ships Proteus and Nereus in World War II, were attributed to submarines,but no such link has been found in the German records.Piracy, as defined by the taking of a ship orsmall boat on the high seas, is an act which continues to this day. Whilepiracy for cargo theft is more common in the western Pacific and Indian oceans,drug smugglers do steal pleasure boats for smuggling operations, and may havebeen involved in crew and yacht disappearances in the Caribbean. Historicallyfamous pirates of the Caribbean (where piracy was common from about 1560 to the1760s) include Edward Teach (Blackbeard) and Jean Lafitte. Lafitte is sometimes said to bea Triangle victim himself.Gulf StreamThe Gulf Stream isan ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico, and then through the Straits of Florida,into the North Atlantic. In essence, it is a river within an ocean, and like ariver, it can and does carry floating objects. It has a surface velocity of up toabout 2.5 metres per second (5.6 mph). A small plane making a waterlanding or a boat having engine trouble will be carried away from its reportedposition by the current, as happened to the cabin cruiser Witchcraft on December 22, 1967, when it reportedengine trouble near the Miami buoy marker one mile (1.6 km) from shore, but wasnot there when a Coast Guard cutter arrived.

Humanerror

One of the most cited explanations in official inquiries as to theloss of any aircraft or vessel is human error. Whether deliberate oraccidental, humans have been known to make mistakes resulting in catastrophe,and losses within the Bermuda Triangle are no exception. For example, the CoastGuard cited a lack of proper training for the cleaning of volatile benzene residueas a reason for the loss of the tanker V.A.Fogg in 1972. Humanstubbornness may have caused businessman Harvey Conover to lose his sailingyacht, the Revonoc, as hesailed into the teeth of a storm south of Florida on January 1, 1958. Manylosses remain inconclusive due to the lack of wreckage which could be studied,a fact cited on many official reports.

Area51


Area 51 is a nickname for a military baselocated in the southern portion of Nevada in thewestern United States (83 miles north-northwest of downtown Las Vegas). Situated at its center, on thesouthern shore of Groom Lake, is a large secretive militaryairfield. The base's primary purpose is to support development and testing ofexperimental aircraft and weapons systems. The base lies within the United States AirForce's vast Nevada Testand Training Range. Although the facilities at the range are managedby the 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis Air Force Base,the Groom facility appears to be run as an adjunct of the Air Force Flight TestCenter (AFFTC) at Edwards Air ForceBase in the Mojave Desert, around 186 miles(300 km) southwest of Groom, nd as such the base is known as Air ForceFlight Test Center (Detachment 3) Other names used for the facility include Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, HomeBase, Watertown Strip, Groom Lake, and most recently Homey Airport. The area is part of the Nellis MilitaryOperations Area, and the restricted airspace around the field isreferred to as (R-4808N), known by the military pilots in the area as "TheBox."The intense secrecy surrounding the base, the very existence ofwhich the U.S. government barely acknowledges, has led it to become thefrequent subject of conspiracy theories and a central component to unidentifiedflying object (UFO)folklore.
GeographyArea 51 shares a border with the Yucca Flat regionof the Nevada Test Site (NTS), the location of 739 of the 928nuclear tests conducted by the UnitedStates Department of Energy atNTS. The YuccaMountain nuclear waste repository isapproximately 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Groom Lake.The same "Area xx"naming scheme is used for other parts of the Nevada Test Site.The area is connected to the internal NTS road network, with pavedroads leading south to Mercury andwest to Yucca Flat. Leading northeast from the lake, the wide andwell-maintained Groom Lake Road runs through a pass in the Jumbled Hills. Theroad formerly led to mines in the Groom basin, but has been improved sincetheir closure. Its winding course runs past a security checkpoint, but therestricted area around the base extends further east. After leaving therestricted area, Groom Lake Road descends eastward to the floor of the TikabooValley, passing the dirt-road entrances to several small ranches, beforeconverging with State Route 375,the "ExtraterrestrialHighway", south ofRachel.

Operations at Groom Lake

Groom Lake is not a conventional airbase, as frontline units arenot normally deployed there. It instead appears to be used during thedevelopment, testing, and training phases for new aircraft. Once these aircrafthave been approved by the United States AirForce or otheragencies such as the CIA,operation of that aircraft is generally conducted from a normal air force base.Groom is reported, however, to be the permanent home for a small number of Soviet-designed aircraft which are analyzed and used fortraining purposes.Soviet spy satellites obtained photographs of the Groom Lake areaduring the height of the Cold War, and later civilian satellites produceddetailed images of the base and its surroundings. These images support onlymodest conclusions about the base; they depict a nondescript base, longairstrip, hangars and the lake, but nothing that supports some of the claimsabout underground facilities.
Though no ICAO identifier for the base appears on anyofficial document, in December 2007, airline pilots noticed that the base hadappeared in their aircraft navigation systems' latest Jeppesen databaserevision as "KXTA".

 

U-2 program


Groom Lake was used for bombing and artillery practice during World War II, but was then abandoned untilApril 1955, when it was selected by Lockheed's Skunk Works teamas the ideal location to test the forthcoming U-2 spyplane. The lakebed made an idealstrip from which they could operate the troublesome test aircraft, and theEmigrant Valley's mountain ranges and the NTS perimeter protected the test sitefrom prying eyes and outside interference.Lockheed constructed a makeshift base at the location, then knownas Site II or "The Ranch", consisting of little more than a fewshelters, workshops and trailer homes in which to house its small team. In onlythree months a 5000-foot runway was constructed and was servicable by July 1955. TheRanch received its first U-2 delivery on July 24, 1955 from Burbank on a C-124 Globemaster II cargo plane, accompanied by Lockheedtechnicians on a Douglas DC-3. The first U-2 lifted off from atGroom on August 4, 1955. A U-2 fleet under the control of the CIA began overflights of Soviet territoryby mid-1956.During this period, the NTS continued to perform a series ofatmospheric nuclear explosions. U-2 operations throughout 1957 were frequentlydisrupted by the Plumbbob series of atomic tests, whichdetonated over two-dozen devices at the NTS. ThePlumbbob-Hood explosion on July 5 scattered fallout acrossGroom and forced a temporary evacuation.

Blackbird programs

Even before U-2 development was complete, Lockheed began work onits successor, the CIA's OXCART project, a Mach-3 high altitudereconnaissance aircraft, a later variant of whichbecame the famed USAF SR-71 Blackbird. The Blackbird's flightcharacteristics and maintenance requirements forced a massive expansion offacilities and runways at Groom Lake. By the time the first A-12 Blackbirdprototype flew at Groom in 1962, the main runway had been lengthened to 8,500ft (2,600 m), and the base boasted a complement of over 1,000 personnel. It hadfueling tanks, a control tower, and a baseball diamond.Security was greatly enhanced, the small civilian mine in the Groom basin wasclosed, and the area surrounding the valley was made an exclusive militarypreserve. Groom saw the first flight of most major Blackbird variants: A-12, the abortive YF-12 interceptorvariant, and the D-21 Blackbird-based drone project. The A-12 would remain atGroom Lake until 1968. (The SR-71 firstflew at Palmdale, California.)


Have Blue/F-117 program

The Lockheed Have Blue prototype stealth fighter (a smallercousin of the F-117 Nighthawk) first flew at Groom inDecember 1977. Testing of aseries of ultra-secret prototypes continued there until mid-1981, when testingtransitioned to the initial production of F-117 stealth fighters. In additionto flight-testing, Groom performed radar profiling, F-117 weapons testing, andwas the location for training of the first group of frontline USAF F-117pilots. Subsequently, the still highly classified active-service F-117operations moved to the nearby Tonopah Test Range,and finally to Holloman Air Force Base
Area51 border and warning sign stating that "photography is prohibited"and that "use of deadly force is authorized" under the terms of the1950 McCarranInternal Security Act. A government vehicle is parked on thehilltop; from there, security agents observe the approach to Groom Lake.Commuter service is provided along Groom Lake Road by a bus,catering to a small number of employees living in several small communitiesbeyond the NTS boundary (although it is not clear whether these workers areemployed at Groom or at other facilities in the NTS). The bus travels GroomLake Road and stops at Crystal Springs, Ash Springs,and Alamo, and parks at the Alamo courthouseovernight.

Runways

The airbase, given the ICAO airport identifier code of KXTA andlisted as "Homey Airport" inaviation GPSdatabases, has seven runways includingone that now appears to be closed. The closed runway, 14R/32L, is also by farthe longest with a total length of approximately 7,100 meters (23,300 ft), notincluding stopway. The other runways are two asphalt runways, the 14L/32R witha length of 3,650 meters (12,000 ft) and 12/30 with a length of 1,650 meters(5,400 ft), and four runways located on the salt lake. These four runways are09L/27R and 09R/27L, which are both approximately 3,500 meters (11,450 ft), and03L/21R and 03R/21L, which are both approximately 3,050 meters (10,000 ft). Thebase also has a helipad.The probably-inadvertent release of the airport dataled to advice by the AircraftOwners and Pilots Association (AOPA)that student pilots should be explicitly warned about KXTA, not to consider itas a waypoint or destination for any flight even though it now appears inpublic navigation databases.


Portrayal in media and popular culture

Popular culture often portrays Area 51 as a haven for extraterrestrials. The numerous conspiracytheories surrounding Area 51 have granted it a fairly high profile in popularculture, specifically in the area of science fiction. Dozens of films andtelevision programs deal with fictionalized events at the site. The followingis list of such media:§  Themost widely seen example is the 1996 actionfilm Independence Day,in which the complex is shown to have been studying the crashed scout ship fromthe Roswell UFO incident of 1947. The heroes of the film latermake their final attack from the airstrips at the base, and in a nod toestablished fact, Randy Quaid's character Russell Casse at onepoint refers to the base not being shown on a state map of Nevada.§  Thetelevision series Seven Days took place largely inside the Area 51complex itself, with the base depicted as being run by a covertNational SecurityAgency (NSA) operationwhich used time travel madepossible by alien technology recovered from the 1947 Roswell incident.§  Lara Croft infiltratesArea 51 in Tomb Raider 3. She must find a specialstone called "Element 115."§  Joanna Dark infiltratesArea 51 in the multi-million selling first person shooter video game Perfect Dark. Her objectives are to meetup with a fellow secret agent, find the autopsy lab of the assumed to be deadalien named Elvis, and to get out successfully.§  Inthe beginning of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,"Hangar 51" is revealed to be the location of the government warehouse where the Ark of the Covenant was stored at the end of Raiders of the LostArk, and where KGB agents go to recover the remains ofthe Roswell alien,eventually revealed to be an interdimensional being with a crystalline skeleton.Writer David Koeppacknowledged the number 51 as areference to popular beliefs about the connection between Roswell and Area 51. §  Inthe television series Stargate SG-1, Area 51 is used as afacility for storage and research of technology brought back to Earth from other planets.§  Inthe Metal Gear series, Area 51 turns out to be one ofthe headquarters of the Illuminati groupknown as The Patriots,who manipulate the government, public, and economy from behind the scenes. Thecharacter Raiden is injured during an attempt to rescue Sunny.§  Inthe comic Superman: Red Son, Abin Sur's body is stored in Area 51 by orderof J. Edgar Hoover. John F. Kennedy later gives Lex Luthoraccess to the base to developweapons to defeat the Soviet Union.§  Forthe finale of the documentary televisionseries UFO Hunters,Season Two, Area 51 was filmed in October 2008. The high definitionfootageaired February 25, 2009 on the History channel.