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Today at the XMediaLab "Digital Worlds" conference in Melbourne (Australia), VastPark is announcing their upcoming Virtual Content Platform for creating and running your own virtual world and online games.
This release of VastPark, codename "Worlds Collide", marks a turning point in virtual world platforms due to its ease of use and speed of deployment. Liz Chung, Sales and Marketing Manager says "You can start from nothing to having created and published your own unique world…
With Australians now spending over a billion dollars per annum on games, big retailers are realising the value of game sales, and are increasing their shelf space and marketing to chase the gamer dollar. But before games were big business, dedicated games stores were few and far between, existing as enthusiast, and almost hobby shops. While many local independent games stores have struggled to stay afloat with the increased competition, GameTraders has been in business for 7 years now and in…
Melbourne, 9 August 2007 - Qantm College, Australia?s leading private provider of creative digital media education, will launch its new Melbourne campus next Thursday 16 August at 9.30am, along with two new games degree programs - Bachelor of Applied Multimedia and Bachelor of Interactive Entertainment.
The campus will be officially opened by Minister for Information and Communication Technology, the Hon. Theo Theophanous MP, in his first public appearance in the role, and will feature an…
It wasn't too long ago that I wrote in a Sumea news item that Firemint were on a role. With critically acclaimed and well received titles such as Madden NFL 07 and The Fast and the Furious: Fugitive, they've proven themselves quite an exceptional developer of mobile games. They're based in Melbourne, currently working on to their next big title, The World Rally Championship, and they've also recently been announced as the developer taking on the task of turning the winning Project Joystick game…
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2007 August 9 - Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will launch the Speed Racer videogame based on the upcoming film written and directed by the Wachowski brothers. Speed Racer is a Warner Bros. Pictures presentation in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, of a Silver Pictures production. The game will be available in 2008 on the Wii? and Nintendo DS? systems as the Speed Racer film hits theaters. It will be released on the PlayStation?2 computer entertainment system…
There has been a lot of hype around Microsofts answer to Mario Party - Viva Pinata: Party Animals. In fact, Party Animals is turning out to be a lot more hyped, and even more anticipated than the original; some people are whispering that it will be more fun too.
gameplayer has landed an interview with the Party Animals lead designer Cameron Davis, who describes the game as "all about fun". Davis argues that, unlike other 360 titles such as Gears of War, Party Animals is a game the whole family…
The Project Joystick competition, which you all know is a local competition formed by Telstra Bigpond and the ACMI which will give the winner the opportunity of having their game idea developed into a real game, ends in a few weeks.
Gamearena has just announced that Firemint will be the developer taking on the task in turning the winning idea into a reality. Firemint CEO, Rob Murray, quoted at Gamearena...
"We are really excited about working locally on Project Joystick. Not only will the idea…
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The growing demand in China for skilled game developers has resulted in an exclusive opportunity for Ian Gibson, CEO of Australia?s Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE), to address a select group of Chinese delegates at the world?s largest games event, Chinajoy.
Now in its fifth year, Chinajoy attracts many of the world?s leading game developers and technology manufacturers including Ubisoft, EA Games, Squareenix, Sony Computer Entertainment together with over 170,000…
This is a WIP of a hand I am modeling,
plan to add quite a bit more to this piece.
The middle of the palm is a bit over done, will tidy this up
tomorrow =)
(Modeled in Mudbox Pro.)
All crits n comments welcome
Josh Baré
[3DnuTTa]
august game_on: writing for games
tuesday 7th august @ 5.00pm - kguv community HUB
all welcome
Leanne Taylor has worked as a full-time writer with Pandemic Studios and now works as a freelance writer developing narratives for games. Join Leanne for an interactive workshop on 'how to develop a narrative in 5 minutes'
[map] [parking for shops and facilities available via blamey st, under the building]
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