Lucky Melbourne artists and animation buffs will be treated to the latest and greatest in animated films from all around the world this June, at the Melbourne International Animation Festival at the ACMI Cinemas.
With 80+ films from 25+ countries in competition, this is your only opportunity to get a definitive big picture view of the very best recently released international and Australian animated shorts. Exciting, intriguing, inspiring, sometimes controversial, and always thoroughly…
It's just another seven and a half hours until Blizzard announces Starcraft 2 their next game. It What will it be Starcraft 2? kekekeke ^_____^
The rumour mill has been off the dial with this one, but a majority of the consensus is that Blizzard will be announcing a new Starcraft game. Or Diablo 3. Or World of Diablocraft: The Zerg Rush. Needless to say, we still won't be seeing this game for another three years or so, if Blizzard's track record will attest.
Seriously, if it's not Starcraft 2,…
A Nintendo Australia press release has revealed that the Nintendo DS has sold over 550,000 units in Australia since its launch in 2005. Adding to the impressive numbers, it was also confirmed that over 400,000 Touch Generation titles had been snapped up by consumers in the same period.
In typical Nintendo marketing fashion, the press release went on to detail the recently revealed More Brain Training from Dr. Kawashima: How Old is your Brain, and announced it would be hitting Aussie shores on…
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The Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE) today responded to a shortfall in relevant industry skill sets and education by launching its new Advanced Diploma of Professional Game Development. Developed over nine months through an exhaustive consultation process the new qualification has been nationally accredited and will be delivered at AIE?s Canberra and Melbourne campuses.
AIE Chief Executive Officer, Mr Ian Gibson says "This course is our equivalent of a next gen…
Jason Hill has an article up on The Age's LiveWire with new GDAA president, Tom Crago, on how the tax benefits and funding schemes that the local film industry enjoys could triple the size of the Australian games industry, if it were available to them. Tax benefits and funding schemes would mean that local developers could develop and reap the rewards of their own I.P. From the article...
(Tom) A better investment and regulatory environment here would see more Australian-owned intellectual…
GamePro magazine were lucky enough to be invited to check out the Looney Tunes title at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Looney Tunes is currently in development at Melbourne's Red Tribe for the PS2, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii.
In the June edition of GamePro, Looney Tunes was described as Ratchet & Clank meets Sonic, and was heralded for its great artwork and gameplay...
One of the most outstanding attributes in Looney Tunes the game is how accurately the game's designers have…
A game based on the Virginia Tech Massacre has recently been uploaded on indie game site newgrounds.com. In the game, you play South Korean-born Cho Seung-hui, who last month shot dead 32 fellow students at the Virginia Tech campus, in the worst massacre of its kind in the US. The aim of the game is to basically kill everyone in the game, optionally starting with Emily Jane Hilscher, Cho?s first victim.
The games creator, 21 year old Sydney resident, Ryan Lambourn, says he will remove the game…
The hottest place in gaming next week will be in Ballarat? Ballarat Get into Games (GiG), is an electronic games focused event in Ballarat, and is being supported by the Victorian Government, the University of Ballarat and the Game Developers Association of Australia (GDAA).
The event intends to highlight careers in the games industry as a viable option and avenues into the games industry as well as introducing the potential business opportunities in the Ballarat region to games developers.
It…
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A fun and informative night ..come along and see the 2007 Interzone Nullabor entrants present their work on the big screen! Following the popular vote at GO3, a panel of experts will reveal their decisions on this years Interzone Nullabor entrants.
Where: The Velvet Lounge (The Flying Scotsman)
639 Beaufort St, Mt Lawley
When: Tuesday, 22 May ? from 7:00PM
An IGDA-Perth Event.
I have a set of questions for Tom Crago, the new president for the Game Developers' Association of Australia sitting on my HD for a quite a while now, and I've been reluctant to send them off because, well, they're probably a bit too generic and predictable. I think an important interview like this will be better accomplished if the questions were from a variety of people with different perspectives on the GDAA and the Australian games industry.
So I'm taking a page from Slashdot and doing a…
