Next Wave's Free Play, the hugely popular national conference for game artists, is happening one month from today, on the 18th of August at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Melbourne.
Next Wave is thrilled to announce that our Keynote speaker is Jonathan Blow from the USA, an industry legend, programmer and award-winning designer of Braid. Jonathan works primarily on advanced and experimental video games. Braid won the "Game Design" award at the Independent Games…
Sega is set to make a big return to Australia, with Gamespot breaking the news that Sega Australia will be established under heavy investment in Sydney. Sega's presence in Australia ended in 1998 when they sold off Sega Ozisoft, their local game distribution arm, to Atari Australia, however, they have made inroads back to the local scene somewhat with the 2005 acquisition of The Creative Assembly, picking up the local Brisbane arm of the studio responsible for the Total War series of games.…
Infinite Interactive are porting their successful title, Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, to PS2, PC and mobile. This is in addition to it already having been released for PSP and DS, and in development for XBLA and Wii. One obviously absent console is the PS3, though it seems logical that a version for download on the Playstation Network can't be far off.
Original developer Infinite Interactive will be handling the PC version and co-developing the mobile with THQ's Universomo studio;…
Submitted by Ulanda Blair, Special Projects Coordinator, Next Wave
Jonathan Blow (USA), programmer and award-winning designer of Braid will deliver the international keynote speech at Free Play 2007.
Jonathan Blow is a programmer and designer who works primarily on advanced and experimental video games. His game Braid is a meditation on loss and relationships where the player controls time to solve puzzles. Braid won the "Game Design" award at the Independent Games Festival in 2006.
For many…
Yeh, I know, I'm a bit late on this news, but I have been following all the commotion surrounding the recently announced PlayStation 3 console price cut, and boy, it's a bit of a mess, isn't it. I won't go into the details on which Sony head figure said what, and things are still sort of up in the air on whether the 60 gig HD version of the console will be phased out in which territories, but it looks like if you're after that particular model in Australia, don't expect to get it at a "price-…
There's some interesting news on Kotaku about a fairly massive Xbox 360 recall for all EB Games stores, Australia wide. From Kotaku...
Sources within the company have confirmed that two weeks ago (approx June 29) store managers were first asked by Head Office to test every unit in-stock for errors, but were then ordered last week to return their entire inventories of the console, as well as remove all 360 promotional material and dummy boxes from their stores. The recall is believed to be due…
Auran have announced a partnership with MMOG specialist, Alchemic Dream, for their new MMORPG, Fury. Alchemic Dream will be providing the customer support on Fury, and have provided this service for other big massively multiplayer games such as, RF Online, LOTR Online, Archlord and Second Life.
"Auran is paving the way in player vs player MMOGs with Fury. There is no game on earth that gives you such an intense combat feeling." comments St?phane Jankowski, Alchemic Dream's General Manager. "We…
Veteran game designer and programmer, John Passfield, has just finished his latest casual game offering, Brainiversity...
For the uninitiated, Brainiversity is a brain training style of game. It has 16 unique brain activities covering Language, Math, Analysis and Memory, a Daily Exam mode and a Chart function to record your results every day - plus a host of other cool features.
If there's something I definitely need more of, it's brain training. If you have a desire to flex some mental muscle…
Submitted by Ulanda Blair, Special Projects Coordinator, Next Wave Festival
Next Wave's Free Play, the hugely popular national conference for game artists is on again this August at ACMI. Free Play is an independent game developer's conference which caters for independent and DIY game developers, creatively frustrated professionals, game development students, digital artists and new media academics.
This year's conference is on Saturday the 18th of August from 9:30am to 8:30pm at the Australia…
Free public program - All welcome!!
Truna has sent the word that the Game On schedule for the next few months is up at the IGDA Greater Brisbane Chapter page. The upcoming events include:
August: tuesday 7th @ 5.00pm - a game writer's life ... with leanne taylor: how to develop an interactive narrative in 5 minutes!
September: tuesday 4th @ 5.00pm - theory meets the real world ... with our own matt ford ...
October: tuesday 2nd @ 5.00pm - a game animator's life ... with another one of our own:…
