OS X Lion is the next major release of OS X, the worlda€™s most advanced desktop operating system. It includes over 250 new features that will transform how you interact with your Mac. Tap, swipe, and scroll your way through your apps using fluid Multi-Touch gestures that make everything you do feel more natural and direct. Full-screen apps take advantage of every pixel of your display a€” perfect for reading email, surfing the web, or browsing photos. Launchpad gives you instant access to all the apps on your Mac in a stunning new layout where you can quickly find any app and open it with a single click. And Mission Control brings together Expose, full-screen apps, Dashboard, and Spaces in one unified experience. With a gesture, your desktop zooms out, displaying a birda€™s-eye view of everything running on your Mac and making it easy to navigate anywhere with a click.

The sequel to Radical Entertainment's best-selling open-world action game of 2009, PROTOTYPE 2 takes the unsurpassed carnage of the original PROTOTYPE and continues the experience of becoming the ultimate shape-shifting weapon. You are Sgt James Heller, husband to a deceased wife and child and a soldier left simply to die

In Toy Story Mania, players experience the fast-paced, zany fun of the Toy Story Mania! theme park attraction, which is an interactive experience requiring 3D glasses and involving rapid or quick-firing shooting galleries. In addition to galleries adapted from the attraction, the game includes new and original galleries and a series of mini games, all hosted by beloved characters from the movies. The thematically-connected levels are designed for up to four players of all ages with competitive and co-operative multiplayer options. Toy Story Mania! also includes bonus 3D features, transforming the game experience with eye-popping visuals.

The Siemens PLM Software program encompassing both this strategic objective and the tactical objective for I-deas customers is called ?Evolution of Excellence.? This program combines the excellence from both the traditional I-deas product line and the Unigraphics product line to create a product with superior productivity called NX.

With its epic environments and warrior creature designs, we thought we d kick off our new games issue of ImagineFX by looking at the art of Guild Wars, ArenaNet s formidable fantasy computer game. Daniel Dociu, Kekai Kotaki, Kristen Perry and many more key artists tell us how they ve helped shape the Tyrian world and all its inhabitants.
From Guild Wars to Legends of Norrath and beyond, we speak to the award-winning artist Lucas Graciano on his work for the online-only trading card game, World of Warcraft and God of War. StarCraft 2 concept artist Luke Mr Jack Mancini leads a workshop in painting an epic alien battle, and Fantasy Flight Games man Igor Kieryluk takes on someone else s design concept to startling effect in his workshop.

We're here to help breathe new life into your diigital art this month. With exclusive cover art from the brilliant young artist Charlie Bowater leading the way, this issue is about strengthening the skills you have and learning a new set of them, to make you the best artist you can be in the new year.