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…
(media release)
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…
(from the forum)
On behalf of iVEC, I would like to invite you to the iVEC Visualisation Seminar Series second presentation "Raytracing: your shadows for nothing and reflections for free"
In the last 12 months there have been a number of news articles about raytracing, many predicting raytracing will replace current graphics technology.
This seminar will explore the latest advances in raytracing on CPUs, GPUs and the Playstation 3 (CellBE processor), and will be followed by a discussion of…
I was hoping to post about this news last week, but my main source for the information, Actiontrip.com, keeps timing out for some reason. What I should've done was search elsewhere instead of waiting for it to come back up. But I digress...
Last week, a whole batch of new screenshots was released for Hellboy: Science of Evil, the current-gen action game in development at Krome Studios. It's been a while since we've seen the last batch of shots of the game, and while they looked nice then, they…
(from Truna!)
Just a reminder that there are TWO queensland games and igda events this week:
Casual Game-Making (FREE PUBLIC program)
Wednesday 2 April, 5-6pm @ the glasshouse, creative industries precinct, KG
Join Duncan Curtis and Marko Grgic of 3 Blokes Studios as they discuss the nature of developing and publishing independent and ‘casual’ games and the latest crazes to hit the ‘casual’ game market.
Queensland Games @ Supanova
Saturday - Sunday 5th, 6th April - all day Brisbane showgrounds…
PollDaddy.com, the service conducting the poll for or against the introduction of an R rating classification in Australia, has refined the poll votes on request by the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General who are relying on the results to determine whether the classification will go ahead. An official from PollDaddy.com has stated that voting abuses (such as votes containing duplicate ips) have been removed from the poll, updating the questionable results of 47% (7388 votes for) and 53% (…
As some of you may have been aware, on Friday Attorney Generals from each state met in South Australia to discuss, among other things, the R18+ classification for games. The result of the meeting was an agreement to canvas public opinion on the proposed introduction of the R18+ rating for games.
The Deputy Premier and Attorney-General Rob Hulls was positive about the agreement to consult on whether the R18+ classification should be introduced to the National Classification Scheme.
It seems…
