Register now for the free OzViz 2010 conference on Dec 1st-3rd in Brisbane.
Includes a one-day, hands on workshop on OpenCL (the next standard in general purpose GPU and multi-core CPU computing) and a two-day conference featuring 20 presentations from industry and researchers.
Topics cover a range of technologies including computational fluid dynamics, colour mapping, real-time 2D->2D+Depth video conversion, real-time art and interactive graphics, high-performance GPU based visualisation,…
Rugby Union fans will be delighted to hear that Sidhe have been working on a game of their favourite sport with a release date to coincide with the 2011 Rugby World Cup which is being held in New Zealand next year. Announced today, Rugby Challenge will include a whole range of licensed teams and competitions, online multiplayer functionality, dynamic real-time commentary, and various player customisations. It's coming out for console and PC in Q3, 2011.
For those interested in finding out more…
Liah is a cute teenage witch designed to appear in a RPG as a mage.
She won AIE's character competition and now is on the Blue Studio door.
Concept art and wireframes here
Dr.D Studios are searching for talented entry level and junior level candidates to join our team as Technical Assistants across a variety of departments working on Happy Feet 2. This is an excellent opportunity to join a large established studio, work on a CG feature film, and increase your skill set and understanding of a feature pipeline. The role is ideal for candidates interested in pursuing a career as a Technical Director.
We are particularly interested in candidates with degrees in…
Congratulations to The Voxel Agents who've made the finalist cut for the IGF China awards for their appstore game, Train Conductor 2: USA. We're sending our best wishes to the guys for the competition, but in the meantime, The Voxel Agents are celebrating their great accomplishment in the awards as well as reaching the #1 Strategy position in 9 countries (with many more rapidly following) by releasing the first Train Conductor for free, starting today!
If you haven't had the chance to check out…
The report of Krome Studios closure last month also came with the news that the deal announced two months ago with Gamebryo middleware developer, Emergent Game Technologies, to share engine technology and the efforts of engineering teams was hitting some trouble is now being confirmed by a report on Gamasutra.
The CEO of Emergent, Scott Johnson, acknowledges a change in plans and that the agreement with Krome Studios has come to a "sudden and unexpected halt" in light of the recent troubles at…
Announced by Rockstar Games just over an hour ago is the news that the publisher will be showing off the first proper trailer for Team Bondi's 1940's era detective thriller game, L.A Noire, on Thursday, this week in the video section of the Rockstar website.
An early preview trailer for L.A Noire, a game which has been in production since 2004, was released back in 2006 which you can see below.
L.A Noire was expecting a release around September this year, however details in Take Two's fiscal…
IGN have a feature up covering the fall of Australia's largest game development studio, Krome Studios. With the contribution of several anonymous ex-Krome employees, the article paints a picture of a company that had so much talent and potential, but squandered its chances on tightly budgeted licensed titles hurried out to meet short development schedules. It meant little time for the polish needed for their games which unfortunately reflected in their metacritic scores, the standard of which…
Last year, we had the great fortune of being able to show off for the first time the last title that Adelaide's Ratbag games was working on before Midway Studios shut them down before Christmas, 2005. That title was The Wheelman for the PS2.
Other titles that Ratbag games was working on which went unpublished were other vehicle/action based games called Raid, and Scavenger. For those curious to see something of these games, someone has just uploaded the first public glimpses of it on youtube…
