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MELBOURNE - Tuesday 8 April, 2008 - Plans for the next eGames & Entertainment Expo in 2008 are well underway. Recognised as the leading exhibition for the electronic games and digital entertainment industries, event organisers Australasian Exhibitions & Events are gearing up for a bigger, bolder and more action packed expo than ever before!
The eGames & Entertainment Expo will be on again at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre from November 14 - 16, 2008. Many of the big…
Digital Media Scoping is a program supporting the early development stage of games concepts. Whether it's you, your company or your staff that has a spark of game design genius, the Scoping program can support this early level of original IP development. Pick your platform, pick your team and make it happen.
Funding can be used for:
- Market (gathering broadcaster or investor interest, identifying partners, legal issues)
- Audience (audience research, user testing)
- Technical (requirements…
Steam recently got a bunch of new games for their catalog from Ubisoft and Atari. “Awesome!” I hear you say? Well of course if you were in North America you would think that’s awesome, because you’d be able to download them all to your heart’s content, for the rest of the world you’ll just have to hear about how great it is from your North American friends. A few people, most likely not from North America, started a passive protest about this by creating the Steam group called the Rest of the…
LucasArts throw a heap of praise to the Krome people in Yahoo's video premiere of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed on the PS2, PSP and Wii.
In a look behind-the-scenes on the game, you'll see the various differences between the skus that make them unique, from the wii-mote action for the Nintendo Wii, the historical missions on the PSP, to the unique levels and characters that Krome built for the PS2.
Krome Studios CEO, Robert Walsh, also makes an appearance in the video, chiming in with some…
IGN has a short two minute trailer of Avatar: The Last Airbender - Into the Inferno which you can guess from the beginning of the footage is in development at THQ Studio Australia. It looks like a pretty fun and action packed game for the Nintendo Wii, and the film shows off some of the tricks you can pull off with the Wii-mote and nunchuck controls.
Rockstar has pre-cut their upcoming GTA IV for MA15+ Australian classification. This move is understandable considering every past version of GTA since it went to 3D has had to either be removed from shelves and cut, or cut to receive classification. The game, which has been classified MA15+ has been advised to contain advising "strong violence, strong coarse language, drug and sexual references". Rockstar declined to say what had been cut.
GTA has a release date of April 29 in Australia.
Screenplay is constructing a definitive list of reasons why we need an R rating classification for games in Australia, and is asking for readers to contribute to the list. The list is pretty exhaustive already, but if you have any more to add, please do head on over there and post it.
For those who have been keeping an eye on the R rating classification voting poll this week, things have turned around somewhat and the current results are 60% (7117 votes for the classification) to 40% (4721…
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Company expands offerings to benefit new marketplace of users
(April 3, 2008) - TurboSquid, home to the world's largest marketplace of royalty-free 3D models, is pleased to announce a newly-formed relationship with VastPark, a highly interactive platform geared toward the easy creation of games and virtual worlds.
Traditionally, when users want 3D content to populate a digital world, they have to go through the steps of purchasing the content online, downloading it, and…
Twofish, Inc. and VastPark Announce Twofish Elements™ License Agreement
Redwood City, CA - April 3, 2008 - Twofish, Inc., the first-of-its-kind economic platform provider for online entertainment properties, today announced a licensing agreement with virtual world platform developer VastPark for the Twofish Elements™ economic engine.
Twofish Elements is an exclusive technology that powers online economies by allowing partners to simply and dynamically control banking and inventory policies…
The 360 has been retailing in Australia for over two years now, and Screenplay thought it a good time to catch up with Xbox Product Marketing Manager Jeremy Hinton on a wide range of topics. The interview covers, the successes, such as Xbox Live, as well as the failures, such as the Red Ring and HD-DVD, of the 360 so far, as well as the retail pricing of games in Australia, television and movie downloads and briefly touching upon our R18+ (or lack of) classification issue.
I always think that…
