Interested in learning more about what's on offer at Australia's national screen arts and broadcast School in 2010?
AFTRS is hosting its annual OPEN DAYS in Sydney - Saturday September 5 & Sunday September 6 from 10am to 3pm - both days.
Applications for AFTRS 2010 courses open on September 1, so now is the time to explore your options.
Some of the courses on offer at AFTRS in 2010 include:
+ Graduate Certificate in Games & Virtual Worlds
+ Graduate Certificate in 3D Animation
+…
Team name:
Team Tower City
Project name:
Prototype Project Tower City
Brief description & Target aim:
Tower City is a freeware project created for promoting the volunteers who help to create the demo and to claim they have worked in a team enviornment to produce a solid product. Tower City is a non-profit and non-paid project. Our desire to make a fun game and to impress our piers [and to maybe secure a job through it.] is our goal and reward.
We aim to release the finished product in…
The International Digital Entertainment Festival (iDEF) returns to Melbourne, Australia from October 30 – November 1, 2009. The festival will play host to a series of events and activities supporting and promoting the exciting and innovative digital world.
Located at the Royal Exhibition Building Carlton for the first time, the festival will include the eGames Expo, Digital Lifestyle Show and Develop ICT Skills and Careers Expo.
Title
International Digital Entertainment Festival
Incorporating…
While many studios are cautious when it comes to new gaming platforms, Halfbrick Studios have dived straight into the latest gaming platform, the PSP Minis (the downloadable content service for the Sony's PSP and PSP Go handhelds).
If you saw Sony's video from the recent Gamescom '09 event, you've already seen four of Halfbrick's Halfbrick Friday titles...
The games are:
Halfbrick Blast Off, Halfbrick Echoes, Halfbrick Zombies, and Halfbrick Rocket Racing. For a quick run down on these titles…
Kotaku AU has been keeping a keen eye out on the Australian prices for the new PSP Go and the PS3 slim products coming from Sony, and found themselves a bit astonished when the price was announced. From Kotaku AU...
Sony has confirmed the PSPgo will launch in Australia on October 1 and retail for $449.95. That's in line with the European price points, but considerably more expensive than the US.
It's also - remarkably - just $50 shy of the price of the new PS3 Slim.
The new PS3 price is a very…
New Zealand's premier games developer, Sidhe Interactive, got in a bit of a shock today when a lawyer representing the one and only, William Shatner, requested that the studio ceased working on a "mod" that contains William Shatner's image for their recently released casual game, Shatter.
Unfortunately for the Shatner estate, it seems that the mod was not actually real but a satirical mock up for one. It appeared over a week ago at Gameconsole.co.nz, written by "Krog".
Probably most amusing is…
Pocketgamer.biz have a great interview with Firemint CEO, Robert Murray, on their ambitious iPhone game, Real Racing. You'll find a lot of information on the AI, the engine, and numerous other technical accomplishments that Real Racing made, but what is remarkable is that this game was even made at all. Rob admits that a lot of money was spent creating Real Racing, as well as the infrastructure for the social connectivity capabilities, and that it made no business sense at all to do so. From…
A little bit late with this one, but Sidhe Interactive are making a big return to Rugby League with Rugby League 3, slated for late 2009. It seems the announcement has been causing a bit of a stir amongst fans as the game has been slated as a Wii exclusive.
The visuals of the game look great, the player models are fantastic and everything sports a much less saturated and more realistic look than the visuals in previous iterations of Rugby League and their Melbourne Cup Challenge title. The…
Brisbane, Australia — August, 2009 — 3 Blokes Studios, one of Australia’s leading casual and social games companies today announced that their new brain training game, Brainiversity 2, is available for Windows computers for USD $19.95.
Brainiversity 2 is a brain-training game designed to stimulate your brain and keep the mind active with 24 different games covering Language, Math, Memory and Analysis.
“Fans of the original Brainiversity, as well as new players, will love the sequel,” said John…
