The Australian games industry, it's serious business.
Sure, we may be getting screwed over console hardware and software prices. Our exchange rate with the American dollar is something like .90, and whereas they pay $50 US for their games, we pay over $100 AU for ours. Go figure. But that hasn't hampered the enthusiasm for interactive games by Australians in the slightest. The Interactive Entertainment Association of Australia has announced some some exciting stats snatched from those GFK…
Gamespy has written up a preview of Krome's Hellboy: The Science of Evil on the Xbox 360 which was showcased at Comic-Con recently. There are some great insights into the combat elements of the game, as well as some tidbits on the co-op mode which can be played either online or via splitscreen. The article also reveals that Krome are hoping to include additional download episodes for Hellboy which will hopefully extend the lifetime of the title even further.
Gamespy did have some critique on…
Adelaide developer Silhouette Studios have released some videos of their up and coming Fantasy RPG, Tarien Flow.
The game is still in its early stages, and the videos show the games day/night cycle, some combat and a mini walkthrough of the town.
Tarien Flow is a single player RPG with some fresh and great ideas that we are currently keeping quiet about :) It is built on a modified TGEA using AFX.
FREE PLAY 2007_
Free Play is Next Wave's Independent Game Developers Conference
SATURDAY 18th AUGUST
9:30am to 8:30pm
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
Federation Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne
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Free Play caters for independent and DIY game developers, creatively frustrated professionals, game development students, digital artists and new media academics. Developed by the indie game community for the indie game community, Free Play provides the only forum for Australian…
A new video advertising Auran's online PvP focussed ORPG Fury takes a clever jab at other multi-player online RPG games that heavily consist of level grinding, such as the ever popular World of Warcraft and... well, the rest of them. In fact, if you are indeed a World of Warcraft player, it's highly likely that there's a pizza guy/girl making out with your significant other next door right now, if the video is to be believed. Of course, you're probably in the middle of a raid, so there's…
Gamespot AU broke the news last week that Sega is making a come back in Australia, leaving many with the lingering question "what the heck are they planning to do here?".
For the four tortured souls who asked that very question in our comments section, relief is at hand. Luke Plunkett, Associate Editor at Kotaku, made his way to the new offices of Sega Australia, which I am guessing isn't at the old Sega World at Darling Harbour, to ask them just that. Were they here to develop a super secret…
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MysticGD Announces EMotion FX 3.5 for Sony Computer Entertainment?s "PLAYSTATION?3"
ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, (July 25, 2007) ? Mystic Game Development, a pioneer in real-time character animation middleware, today announced that its latest next-gen product, EMotion FX 3, the real-time character animation SDK for next generation multi-core processor systems is now available for game titles developed for Sony Computer Entertainment?s ?PLAYSTATION?3?.
?We are pleased to join…
PALGN took part in the Sumea celebrations interview that I conducted recently, and they've been a website that I've admired for a long time, particularly since they do a mammoth task of running a general gaming website without the resources their bigger competitors have. And now they're going one step further by covering Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network games. I don't know how they do it all, but I bet it has something to do with an army of intelligent robots and a teleporter.
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If you thought e-sports was a concept confined to mad South Koreans, think again. A group of Melbourne Counter-Strike players going by the name Team Immunity made it to this years e-sports world cup in Paris to compete against teams from over 40 countries, many of them with professional sponsorship. Team Immunity is not entirely on their own though, and class themselves as "semi-professional", even being able to find a few sponsors to help with costs, and allow them to compete on some of the…
If you only attend one Dissecta event this year, make it this one. This next Dissecta event will feature such Aussie industry heavyweights as Tom Crago, CEO of Tantalus and President of the GDAA, and Jason Hill, journalist and Screenplay blogger. The speakers will be discussing what went on at the E3 this year, it's move from the biggest video game exhibition around to a more intimate affair, and some of the history surrounding the event. There will also be a selection of video clips from E3…
