Bondi Beach in Australia closed due to a rare phenomenon

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A rare Phenomenon known as Algae Bloom has closed off the Bondi Beach In Sydney,Australia. An algal bloom which is a rapid increase of algae (typically microscopic) in an aquatic system and occurs in freshwater as well as marine environments closed Sydney's Bondi Beach to all the swimmers as the crimson tide came close towards the shore.

Clovelly Beach which was nearby was also closed as the authorities were conducting tests around the Tasman Sea.

Swimmers were advised to stay far from this as it was harmful.Even though this is not known to cause a lot of harm it can end up causing skin irritations for some. Some Lifeguards also said that it had a fishy smell to it.

This comes as a huge disappointment for tourists this holiday season who would have liked to have a dip in the water during the time when the Australia's summer temperatures peak up to 40C.

News Source:yahoo

The Shield continue to torment Ryback

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Raw kicked off with Ryback waiting to take revenge against the Shield who until this weeks Raw have tormented him,overpowered him and thrown him through the table twice.This week however Michael Cole did manage to get an interview from the Shield who said they are not working for CM Punk and are doing something that's right to do.This team definitely looks to have a lot of attitude and so far they have gotten away with a powerslam over Ryback Thrice.The John Cena AJ angle is becoming weaker as it looks to be fizzed out and i feel is being overdone as the same thing happens every week on Raw.Hopefully we will have something interesting to see in the upcoming weeks.Where is Brock Lesnar?he brings the intensity to a whole new level in the WWE.I would love to see Ryback face off against Brock Lesnar or probably Brock Lesnar and Ryback teaming up against the shield.That will be interesting to see.Apart from that The Great Khali has been back for the last two weeks which is great to see.Did you guys know Beth Phoenix is not a part of wwe anymore?thats really sad to see considering she was one of the most powerful WWE divas ever.The way things are going these days the entire focus of the WWE is on the Ryback-CM Punk-Shield and John Cena-AJ angle nothing more seems to be happening within it.With TLC around the corner hopefully we would have a much more stronger pay per view to see when compared to the Survivor Series.Below are the Raw Results for the event held on 26/11/2012

WWE Raw results for 26/11/2012
Ryback defeated Titus O’Neil (w/ Darren Young)
Alberto Del Rio defeated The Great Khali
Tamina Snuka defeated Alicia Fox
Kofi Kingston defeated Tensai
Rey Mysterio defeated Daniel Bryan
John Cena defeated Dolph Ziggler

Darksiders III will have a smaller world

After the success of Darksiders II hardcore gamers are already waiting for some news for the next installment (Darksiders 3)from what has been confirmed the upcoming installment will be smaller when compared to Darksiders II.While speaking to Videogamer Lead designer Haydn Dalton confirmed the following in the darksiders 3.

• A smaller world with a lot more interacting things.
• A higher polished environment.
• A lot more animated things in the environment.
• A lot more detail or destruction or whatever it might be in the world because of a reduce in size.

The size of the world in Darksiders 2 was four times bigger than the first installment that might have been the reason why the game was delayed.Dalton concluded by saying its not about the quantity but the quality of the game that mattered.

With a smaller world,a little bit of polish and lots more of destruction we can still expect a feast from Darksiders III.

Dishonored II will release in the near future

Nothing official out yet but if things are to be believed we can expect Dishonored II to release in the future.Pete Hines(Public Relations Manager) while speaking to Destructoid confirmed that the sales of this one of a kind game have gone over their expectations which makes them believe this game as their new franchise.

He further said that the game was listed as the #1 selling title during the holiday weekend and it has not let them down oversees either and also further confirmed that clearly they have a new franchise.

I finished this game a few weeks back and i must say it was very well made.It has a old age/new age touch to it.You can check out the pictures and videos of the gameplay from Dishonored along with a few other games here

Mrs Chu's Revenge in Sleeping Dogs

Today for some reason playing a Mission reminded me of Max Payne 3.Even though this game is entirely different from Max Payne III it has got the same intensity that makes you loose yourself within the game.Tracing the call was a little tough but i managed to crack it.In case if your stuck  follow the below steps

• After the device for trace opens up press the enter key at the highest signal.
  
• Press the  Q Button to trace
  
• When you press the Q button you will be able to trace different areas.trace all areas and check for a person speaking at the same position/place
  
• Once you have found a common person who is at the same point in every trace press the left key on the mouse to begin and complete trace.

In case if you still have a  problem check out the video towards the end of the post.

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Gangnam Style is now the most watched video on YouTube

Have you heard the Gangnam Style yet?If not you got to listen to this massive hit by PSY.This song has slowly got itself to the top of the YouTube's most watched video after surpassing Justin Beiber's song "Baby".

What i think makes this song stand out:

According to me a song such as this goes viral in most cases because of the unique dances moves which are not very tough for the viewers to perform.In the past there were massive hits like Macarena,The Ketchup Song,Tic Tic Tac etc even in those songs  the dance moves made the viewers want to learn and perform it.That might be one of the reasons why a non English song such as this is loved by a majority of people.This also truly proves that music has no language.As long as its unique no matter what people will end up loving it.

Whats More in Gangnam Style:

The number of viewers until now suggest that this might end up being the first video ever to reach 1 billion views on YouTube.Chances are quite good but we will have to wait and see if it really does cross the milestone.

Photo credit:Eva Rinald

750,000 Xbox 360 consoles sold during black friday

The reports have confirmed that Microsoft's Xbox 360 have sold around 750,000 consoles in the United States in between November 18-23.The most anticipated xbox 360 game "Halo 4" a few days back had reports which confirmed it made close to 220,000 dollars in 24 hours which makes this some what like a double delight for Microsoft.

Other Microsoft achievements on black friday include:

• The Xbox Live Gold subscription card sales increased to more than 50 percent year after year.
  
• More than 14 million people logged on to Xbox Live across the world on sunday alone. These users were said to tally in excess of 72 million combined hours of use on this day(sunday) alone.
  
  
• To sum it all up, entertainment application usage in the US on Xbox Live during Black Friday had a steady rise to 43 percent compared to last year.

Source:Gamespot