Sony Online Entertainments Todd Carson spoke to Gamasutra recently on their work on downloadable games for the upcoming PS3 online network.
In particular Todd mentions Sony?s funding of Sidhe?s GripShift for the PS3, and other PSP ports for PS3?s online suite of games.
"Some of the fresh ideas that have already come out are games like Cash Guns Chaos, Gripshift - those are some of the new IPs that we have out there right now. We also have a new IP we?re bringing, High Stakes on the Vegas Strip…
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Call for e-Cinema Submissions
GRAPHITE 2007
1-4 December 2007
Perth, Western Australia
http://www.graphite.siggraph.org
ACM SIGGRAPH and the GRAPHITE 2007 organising committee invite you to participate in the 5th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and South East Asia, GRAPHITE 2007.
GRAPHITE 2007 will provide a unique atmosphere for researchers, technologists, artists, industry professionals, educators and students to mingle…
Time is running out for Gold Coast contestants taking part in an international competition for designing and developing electronic games.
They will be competing against contestants from Dundee in Scotland and Chuncheon City, Korea, in the competition that has been organised by the Global Digital City Network. The Global Digital City Network is a growing organisation of cities dedicated to promoting worldclass digital and knowledge-based industrial activity among members.
Gold Coast City Council…
The best StarCraft player in history, NaDa Lee, number 2 in the South Korean e-Sports Players Association (KeSPA), was reported to earn US$200,000 in 2005 from gaming alone.
23 year old Lee, who?s been playing StarCraft for 10 years, 6 of those professionally, and training 10 hours a day, says it?s not fun anymore, likening himself to a professional singer, who?s lost the love and enjoyment of singing. Lee is one of a new generation of professional gamers earning 6 figure salaries from prize…
Auran have now opened up the gates for beta testing of their Massively Multiplayer Online Third Person Slasher, Fury. A simple form could give you some early access to some good ol' fashioned violence, so sign up now!
In news that will most likely not interest too many fascinate and encourage inelligent debate for ProStreet racers everywhere, News.com.au reports that Krystal Forscutt is set to be lending her "talents" for the next iteration of the popular Need for Speed franchise entitled Need for Speed ProStreet. So who's Krystal, you may ask? She's the silicon enhanced brunette that entered the Australian Big Brother house last year. From News.com.au...
Representatives from international gaming company EA…
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Jason Hill has an interview up at Screenplay with Red Tribe CEO, Chris Mosley. The guys chat about why Chris left Blue Tongue (the game dev he helped co-found), how he is approaching game development with Red Tribe, and a whole heap about their new licensed game, Looney Tunes Acme Arsenal....
How did you score the Warner Bros deal?
It was a very difficult project to secure. It was a next-gen project, and we'd just started to put our technology together, we had something demonstrable and it was…
Computerworld.com.au has an article on the AIIA Borderless World Conference that was held just a few days ago. The panellists also talked about the problem of declining numbers in students enroling in IT, and skilled professionals making the move overseas. Co-founder and CEO of Auran, Graham Edelsten, had this to say about the games industry on the panel...
"Here we are in Australia, where our labour cost is so much higher," said Edelsten, who currently holds both director and chief financial…
From a journal of a girl who loves to cook comes this very awesome game related cake. It was made by uni student, Su-Yin, for a friend's housemate who happens to be an avid gamer that had a birthday coming up...
It always starts off with a sketch; which I was pretty happy with ... and began working on it 3 days ago. It does take many hours to painfully sculpt every little detail but the outcome usually is rewarding when more effort is put in.
Yes, this cake pic has been doing the rounds on the…
