user: Q: Follows on from the brilliant Splinter Cell: Conviction. Mark and execute function evolved into killing in motion mechanic. Voice control lets you distract enemies by making noise. Possible to control Sam Fisher through Kinect without controller. Smallville actor playing Sam Fisher.
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A: By. Talal Musa. PUBLISHED:. 11:34 EST, 15 April 2013. |. UPDATED:. 13:12 EST, 15 April 2013. He is one of the deadliest characters in gaming - an assassin feared by terrorists around the world. Glimpses of Sam Fisher have been few and far between, but this latest gameplay video shows he's lost none of his skills. Following on from the events of Splinter Cell: Conviction, the President orders all Third Echelon members to be terminated. New tricks ups his sleeve: The critically-acclaimed Conviction focused on action more so than the others, and Blacklist looks to take that premise further. Third Echelon have formed a terror ultimatum called 'The Blacklist' - a countdown of attacks on United Sates assets. Fourth Echelon is formed to take down the activists with Fisher at the helm. Conviction was more action orientated than the previous games, and Ubisoft are clearly not changing that formula with Blacklist. A new mechanic called 'killing in motion' evolves the silky-smooth mark and execute function, allowing Fisher to take down multiple foes when on the run. Interestingly, there is voice integration which allows players to distract enemies by making a noise, and Kinect sensor functionality that lets gamers move Fisher without using a controller. Perhaps the biggest change, though, is that Michael Ironside - the voice of Sam Fisher since the 2002 original - will not be reprising his role. Smallville actor Eric Johnson takes over, providing both the voice and the motion capture. The Splinter Cell movie has also been announced, with Inception and Bronson actor Tom Hardy taking on the lead role, with The International director, Eric Warren Singer, at the helm. A statement on the Splinter Cell website from Jean-Julien Baronnet - Ubisoft motion pictures chief executive officer - read: ' With actor Tom Hardy attached and screenwriter Eric Warren Singer to write the script, Ubisoft Motion Pictures will lead the development with the support of New Regency to bring the franchise to the big screen in a dynamic way. 'For Ubisoft Motion Pictures, creative control is key and New Regency shares our commitment to respecting the creative freedom of our team. Their ability to produce both blockbusters and intriguing indie hits is an ideal fit for the Splinter Cell franchise.' Splinter Cell Blacklist is released on August 23. WATCH THE LATEST TRAILER HERE:. Follow us on Twitter: @DailyMailGames and on Facebook: Daily Mail Games.


Q: A total of 89 defendants convicted of smuggling heroin from 2006 to 2012. Each was flanked by two police officers at special court in detention centre. A further 59 defendants were handed sentences ranging up to life in prison. Part of four rings which trafficked drugs from Laos into Vietnam and China.
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A: By. Simon Tomlinson. Thirty drug smugglers have been sentenced to death in Vietnam for trafficking more than 12 tons of heroin in the communist country's largest-ever narcotics case. The 21 men and nine women, all Vietnamese, were found guilty of drug trafficking, while a further 59 defendants were handed sentences ranging up to life in prison. Each appeared flanked by two police officers at the mass trial in Quang Ninh province, which was held in the yard of a detention centre, rather than a courtroom. 'This was Vietnam's largest ever trial in terms of defendants, the number of death penalties given out and the amount of heroin involved,' presiding judge Ngo Duc said after the verdict was read out in the northern province of Quang Ninh - which borders China. Justice en masse: Some 89 defendants are each flanked by two police officers as they are sentenced for heroin smuggling after Vietnam's biggest-ever drugs trial. 'Because. of the large number of defendants and the seriousness of the case, the. trial was held at the prison,' Mr Duc added after the 17-day trial. Investigators. said the defendants belonged to four international smuggling rings. responsible for trafficking heroin and other drugs from neighbouring. Laos into Vietnam and China since 2006. 'All. the defendants are Vietnamese and most of them came from Vietnam's. northwestern provinces,' court clerk Nguyen Trung Hieu told AFP. Vietnam's. remote northwestern region, which borders both China and Laos, is poor. and populated by a patchwork of ethnic minority groups. There have been previous smuggling cases in the area, which is far from the control of Hanoi. According. to a list of the defendants' names seen by AFP, some of the 89 people. were from ethnic minority groups but court officials could not confirm. their status. Facing lethal injection: Judges condemned 30 people to death for their part in trafficking the 12-ton haul. One of the leaders of the four smuggling rings broken up by the police remains at large, state media reported. Police disrupted the rings in August 2013, making mass arrests and seizing large quantities of illegal drugs. They also confiscated 20 luxury cars and dozens of guns and other weapons during the raid, state media reported. Communist Vietnam has some of the world's toughest anti-drug laws. Anyone. found guilty of possessing more than 600 grams (21 ounces) of heroin,. or more than 20 kilograms of opium, can face the death penalty. Convictions and sentences are usually revealed only by local media, which is strictly under state control. Thirteen received life in jail and 46 were given either prison terms of up to 20 years, or warnings, the government said in a statement on its Internet site. The. 'Golden Triangle' region covering part of Laos, Thailand and Myanmar. was formerly one of the world's top producers of opium and heroin but. has been overtaken by Afghanistan. After. a two-year hiatus in carrying out capital punishment due to problems. procuring chemicals for lethal injections, Vietnam executed its first. prisoner by the method last August. The country currently now has more than 700 prisoners on death row, according to media reports and an AFP tally. Many. have been sentenced for drug offences including dozens of foreigners -. although it has been decades since a foreign citizen was executed. Although. Vietnam does not release statistics on executions, rights group Amnesty. International recorded 86 new death sentences in 2012 while it said. five executions were carried out the previous year. Amnesty. said it was 'dismayed' to learn about the sentences, which come on top. of recent death sentences handed out in high-profile corruption and. embezzlement cases. 'Amnesty. International opposes the death penalty in all cases, without. exception,' Rupert Abbott, its researcher on Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam,. told AFP. 'Rather than. continuing to hand down death sentences, the Vietnamese authorities. should be moving towards abolition, in line with the global trend,' he. added. Due to problems with. both procuring and producing domestically the chemicals required for. lethal injections, some lawmakers have called for a return to executions. by firing squad.


Q: The New York City Marathon was canceled in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. Race organizers say runners can now get refund for their entry fees. Or runners can opt for guaranteed entry into an upcoming race.
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assistant: They never got to run their race because of Superstorm Sandy, but ING New York City Marathon entrants can now at least recoup their entry fee, organizers of the marquee 26-mile test of human endurance said Thursday. Citing "extraordinary circumstances," the New York Road Runners organization is offering runners the option of getting a full refund of their entry fee. Entry fees for the canceled 2012 race varied from $216 for members of the New York Road Runners and $255 for non-members to $347 for runners from outside the United States. The refund offer exclude an $11 processing fee, race organizers said. Race organizers also offered two other options -- a guaranteed place in the always-crowded field for the New York Marathon one year during the next three years, or guaranteed entry into the NYC Half Marathon in March. But in those cases, runners would not get back their fees for this year's race and they would have to pay fees for whichever future race they chose. Runners vented frustrations about the latter two options on the marathon's Facebook page, complaining that they unfairly created a one-race-for-two-fees deal. Meanwhile, John Shostrom,captain of the Brooklyn Road Runners, told CNN the offers by marathon organizers gave runners "a decent range of options to choose from." The situation is "really good for people who are leaning toward option one (refund of 2012 entry fee)." Shostrom, a copy editor for Sports Illustrated, said Thursday. But the other two options make for "an income maximizer for the Road Runners in terms of all those people who feel like they really have to do another race ... it's a way of getting double payment for one actual race." Whichever options runners choose, a considerable total amount of money is involved. For the 2011 New York City Marathon, more than 47,000 runners paid their fees and pounded the pavements on a 26.2-mile course that snaked through all five of the city's boroughs. The 2012 marathon, scheduled for November 4,was canceled for the first time in its history so as not to draw resources and attention away from the response to Superstorm Sandy, which had blasted the New York and New Jersey areas only days before. By the scheduled race day, many areas were still without electricity and thousands of people were in need of aid. Just as the cancellation marked a first for the marathon in its 42-year history, race organizers pointed out that the refund offer also was a first. "We started with the premise that despite (organizers') no-refund policy, we needed to be able to offer runners that choice. Beyond that, we wanted to make sure they had as full options to run again as possible," Mary Wittenberg, president and CEO of New York Road Runners told CNN in an e-mail. Wittenberg said while race organizers would have liked to have offered waived entry fees for other events, "we couldn't do that protect our other races and running programs." Runners have until January 25 to choose an option.