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:…
(press release)
Krome Studios announces the development of Viva Pinata: Party Animals
BRISBANE, Australia - July 11, 2007 Krome Studios, the largest independent videogame studio in Australia announced today that they are working with Microsoft Game Studios to deliver the next installment in the critically acclaimed Viva Pi?ata series, Viva Pi?ata: Party Animals. This marks the first time the two companies have joined forces. Viva Pinata: Party Animals is guaranteed to bring gamers and garden…
Sierra has announced that a follow up to The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night is on its way to the Wii, PlayStation 2, DS and Game Boy Advance. The console version of Eternal Night will be handled by Krome Studios who were also responsible for the previous console re-imagining of the popular long running franchise. Famed actors Elijah Wood and Gary Oldman will also be making a return, voicing the characters of Spyro and Ignitus. From the press release..
"We're really excited to continue the…
It looks like IR Gurus have another locally loved sports game in their hands with Ricky Ponting 2007 Pressure Play in the pipes for a release later this year on the PSP handheld. The guys at Gamespot AU have a quick question and answer session with chat with IR Gurus associate producer, Rhys Quinert, about the changes in the PSP port...
Rhys Quinert: It's been redesigned and reprogrammed specifically for the PSP. There have been a number of additions that differ from the console versions. Given…
Screen Play has a brief interview with the Victorian minister for Information and Communication Technology, Tim Holding, about the Victorian governments support of the Australian game development industry?s push for the same tax breaks, and Federal government funding schemes that the Australian film industry currently enjoys.
In the interview, Tim expresses his amazement at the Federal governments inability to grasp the huge opportunity they are missing out on by not promoting growth in an…
