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Other titles that Ratbag games was working on which went unpublished were other vehicle/action based games called Raid, and Scavenger.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…
Micro Forté was founded in 1985 by John De Margheriti with co-founders Steve Wang, Stephen Lewis and John Reidy, making the Sydney games company 25 years old this year. Other developers who've recently celebrated birthdays are Melbourne House with their 30th anniversary earlier this year, and Blue Tongue Entertainment who hit their 15th birthday just a few weeks ago. The company who has the oldest Australian games developer title is the Strategic Studies Group (SSG) who released their first…
Just before the Halloween weekend version 1.4 of ArtDeco Backgammon 3D went live across the world. Updated features include GameCenter integration for online multiplayer and iPad support.
ArtDeco Backgammon 3D is a universal game that makes it easy to play a casual game of backgammon with friends, near and far. Featuring local multiplayer over bluetooth as well as online multiplayer via GameCenter.
With HD graphics displaying at 60 fps for iPad and iPhone 4 it is a steal at AUD$2.50.
Get…
The tsumea Games listing
When we made the big switch to a new content management system from our own developed CMS back in 2007, we lost some website features in the process. From 2002, we had a pretty great local games listing on tsumea which listed all the games that were developed or in development in Australia and New Zealand. The games releases page was a great resource on all the new release titles and upcoming games from local developers.
Unfortunately, as the sole editor and maintainer…
Big Ant Studios are looking for a Support Assistant to tackle internal support requests and resource management. The perfect candidate will have proven experience working with hardware and wield a rock-solid understanding of Windows installation, maintenance, troubleshooting and networking.
Due to the mix of day-to-day requirements, you'll need excellent time management skills to schedule and prioritise tasks. To be considered for this role you must have a strong user service focus and…
One of the common questions raised after the news of Krome Studios' impending closure is what will become of the Game Room arcade. Krome took on the task for Microsoft of creating and updating Game Room, an online arcade space for Xbox 360 and PC with regular releases of downloadable retro games. It offered online multiplayer, cross platform leaderboards, voice chat, the ability to view other player replays, medals and achievements, and was launched on March 24, this year.
The Game Room has…
