Here are the details for the WIGI mixer on the 20th october
Women in Games International mixer
AB hotel
mezzanine level
crn of Glebe point Rd and Bridge rd
Glebe
Sydney
2037
7pm
Thanks to all our sponsors we have complimentary food and drink on the night
Team Bondi
TAFE-Enmore Design Centre-3D animation Department
GDAA-Games developers association Australia
AIE-canberra
Autodesk Australia
also thanks to Ubisoft for donation of some great Ubisoft products to give out on the night (if you have a…
Red Mile Entertainment has released a press release today announcing that Mike Fegan, Chief Executive of the recently acquired IR Gurus, will be joining Red Mile Entertainment as "head of international publishing"...
(press release)
SAUSALITO, CA -- 09/10/07 -- Red Mile Entertainment, Inc. (OTCBB: RDML) ("Red Mile"), a worldwide developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software, today announced that Mike Fegan has joined the Company as head of international publishing. In this role…
Now, we know Irrational Games Australia / 2K Australia had a little hand in developing BioShock, and it looks like they can look forward to working on it some more! From the same Take Two conference call that revealed the delay for Team Bondi's L.A Noire, comes news that BioShock will receive a follow up. BioShock sales have been so good that a sequel was warranted, with Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick touting some impressive numbers during the conference call. From Shacknews...
Another…
Kotaku has found out that Team Bondi's L.A Noire has been delayed, from nosing through publisher Take-Two's financial conference call details released today.
L.A Noire has been pushed out of Take Two's 2008 fiscal year release schedule, and will make headway on the Playstation 3 sometime in 2009. The comments at Kotaku suggest that there is still a possibility for a 2008 Christmas release of L.A Noire since Take Two has a peculiar fiscal year ending in November, while others have commented…
It was announced last week that Kwari was a licensee for the BigWorld Tech for their online first person shooter. More news today from Worthplaying.com reveal that Kwari is actually a title that has been in development at Micro Forte Canberra since mid last year...
Steve Wang, Head of Studios for Micro Fort? commented, "We're really excited by the recent announcement of Kwari and even more so to announce our involvement in bringing this unique game title to the table."
"Working on Kwari has…
The next Dissecta event will be taking an in-depth look at creating and commercialising, one of the less well known game industries in Australia - DVD board games.
While it doesn't usually enter people's minds, the video game industry co-exists closely with the board game industry. As video games have been growing and establishing their credentials as mainstream family entertainment, the board game industry has also been growing, partly due to a European renaissance spurring game design and…
There's an interesting article over at gameindustry.biz highlighting a particular panel session at the Games Convention Asia Conference on the struggles of original IP development. Sidhe Interactive's managing director, Mario Wynands, describes the income generating schemes his company has to take, ranging from outsourcing their talent, contract work, to presenting themselves constantly to publishers, all for the lofty goal of one day developing a game they can completely call their own..
"We'…
R U Game? Exclusive preview of Hellboy: The Science of Evil
the block, QUT creative industries precinct, Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove
when saturday 8 september, 10am - 2pm
FREE
Krome Studios and QUT Precincts present an exclusive first look at the latest Hellboy offering, Hellboy: The Science of Evil, when you test your skills at a free day of gaming in conjunction with The Vernacular Terrain exhibition.
Plus the Wii's will be out playing Zelda and Wario Ware
Can you believe that the next Game Connect: Asia Pacific conference is just over two months away?! The GCAP website has recently been updated with the speaker list for the conference which is being held in Melbourne on the 15-17th of November. The organisers have nabbed some very notable overseas speakers, including:
Susan O'Connor (Writer), recent projects include Gears of War and Bioshock.
Hitoshi Sakimoto, Composer for various Final Fantasy games including Final Fantasy XII
Paul Holman, Vice…
Gamasutra reports that two new licensees of Australia's BigWorld Tech have been announced. London studio, Kwari, will be using BigWorld for its online first-person shooter which uses a unique subscription model of paying for ammunition, and Bitcasters will be creating an MMO based around their Storm Hawks animated series...
Kwari is creating a new arena of online gaming that is set to change the way we play games," said John De Margheriti, BigWorld CEO. "We are pleased to provide a technology…
