If you haven't heard of Hyperfocal Design, get on over to their website and check them out now! They're based in South Australia and they've been offering super high resolution texture sets (including HDRI versions) for years. They've also been generous enough to sponsor a few of their texture cd's in past Sumea challenges too.
As reported at pr-canada.net, Hyperfocal have gone nuts. They're practically giving away their professional quality sets with the new price.
HDRI Skies: Best Sellers…
Another title that Krome has had under development for a good while is the eagerly anticipated wii-fied version of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. IGN had a chat with Krome Studios producer, Ken Fox, with the interviewer diving straight into many questions about the wii-mote lightsaber controls...
IGN: A lot of games have tried for one-to-one swordplay, but none have nailed it. Are you going for it?
Ken Fox: I wouldn't describe what we're doing as one-to-one in the way that you might picture, but we…
IGN AU has had a tour of Krome Studios in Brisbane, and in the process scored themselves with a hands-on preview of Xbox 360 version of Hellboy: The Science of Evil. The previewer goes through some of Hellboy's moves, combo's, and weaponising capabilities, and also describes some of the variety of levels he was able to romp around in. It looks like IGN AU had a good go of Krome's heavily action oriented comic licensed game, but they left with the feeling that this isn't the ultimate Hellboy…
Games Developer Association of Australia CEO, Greg Bondar, has announced his resignation as CEO and will be finishing his duties on the 12th of July. After 18 months at the top spot with notable efforts on the Game Connect: Asia Pacific conference and the tax rebate push, Greg has decided to move on and pursue other opportunities.
Tsumea would like to thanks Greg for his hard work for the local games industry, and wishes him the best of luck with his next endeavour.
Screenplay has a great write up about local visual effects and animation company, Animal Logic, and their decision to create a game studio in Los Angeles rather than right here in Australia. We were a bit puzzled for various reasons on the news, but Jason Hill from Screenplay decided to chat to Animal Logic Chief Executive Officer, Zareh Nalbandian, on why they looked elsewhere to expand their business. Unfortunately, Animal Logic's reason to choose L.A can be summed up with two points. L.A…
Sidhe Interactive co-founder and managing director, Mario Wynards, has contributed to an article hosted at Businessweek on the current state of game development. The four page feature which presses the big questions on the current difficulties for game developers, outsourcing, and conservative publishers and how to pitch to them is put on Mario as well as other Presidents and CEO's of game companies those of inlcuding Silicon Knights, GarageGames, and Vicious Cycle Software...
Mario Wynands (Co…
It looks like Melbourne's world class mobile game developer is making inroads into console game development. In just the smallest amount of words on the Firemint website, the team have announced that they have just received developer approval from Nintendo for the Wii Platform.
Although mobile games are wildly different experiences to console games, reviewers have applauded Firemint's releases for their consolesque quality, so there's no doubt that Firemint can make the transition in terms of…
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(Chicago, ILLINOIS): Interzone Entertainment, parent company of Interzone Games and a BigWorld licensee, has announced its long-secret massively multiplayer online sports title, Interzone Futebol. The PC MMOG will first release in Portuguese for the Brazilian market, home to millions of avid futebol (soccer in the U.S.) fans and players, closely followed by international versions for worldwide release.
Interzone Futebol features team-based multiplayer matches, with every…
