A new site launched by Krome Studios showcases the staff's fortnightly challenges. It's a nifty insight into the creative brains when not focussed on game art, and should be interesting to watch grow. The current challenge of Pirates Vs. Ninjas is enough to pique anyone's curiosity.
Ever had the kooky urge to dress up like Ty the Tasmanian Tiger? Have secret fantasies about hand weaving a Spyro costume? Wanna win a Wii? Then be at Supernova in Brisbane on the 15th looking like a Krome character and you could be a lucky winner!
Participants must register their name and complete an entry form at the Krome Studios booth on Sunday 15th April between 10am ? 2.30pm and be wearing their costume. Costumes will be paraded and the winner will be announced on stage during CosPlay at…
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a business known for its cut-throat nature, Australian game developers are setting themselves apart from the rest of the highly competitive market by building a collaborative community. With less then 2,000 developers in the whole country, there is stronger affinity amongst the Australians that works toward the general good of their own.
In recent years, several of Australia?s game developers have teamed up on projects, lending their expertise…
Despite the rather low turn out at the midnight launches for the Playstation 3 around Australia, it looks like Sony's next-gen console has done fairly well during its first ten days of sales. The GfK figures are out and show that 27,083 PS3's were sold in Australia between March 23 and April 1, and combined with software sales, racked up $33 Million dollars worth of business. AustralianIT has compared Sony's numbers with the other competing consoles, with the PS3 doing pretty well against the…
Nintendo Australia have announced that Telstra will be opening up their wireless hotspots for Nintendo DS usage.
"This is an Australian first and is all about providing convenience through innovation, ensuring Nintendo DS users are automatically authenticated onto the Telstra Wireless Hotspot network whenever they enter a coverage zone."
The release mentions Melbourne and Sydney, but hopefully the service won't be limited to these regions. Simply allowing access at McDonalds hotspots would make…
Submitted by Ben Board (IR Gurus, and a coordinator of the chapter)
The IGDA Melbourne chapter has had a makeover for 2007. Come along, hang with your Melbourne dev homies, have a few gratis drinks and nibbles, hear some interesting talks, and grab some freebies.
Event lineup includes:
GDC Post-Mortem
Damian Scott on "The Psycho-Sexual Aesthetics of Gaming"
Katharine Neil on "Manifesto Games, the independent games initiative"
Four-player Wii Sports on the big screen
and so forth!
FREE BAR!…
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The "playability" market in Australia looks set to take off, with UsabilityOne hiring US playability guru, Keith Steury to head up its Sydney office.
UsabilityOne, Australia?s fastest-growing specialist usability firm looks set to revolutionise the gaming industry in Australia, with the appointment of US playability expert, Keith Steury.
Playability refers to the ease with which users can negotiate their way through video games and interactive media; making the technology…
I would say that one of the biggest compliments a game could get from the internets is receiving a positive nod from those Penny Arcade guys. The opposite could also be said if you were getting ripped by them. Thankfully, for Melbourne developers Infinite Interactive, Penny Arcade seem to love their RPG / Puzzle hybrid game Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords...
Puzzle Quest fever has apparently seized the f* reins here at headquarters. This is probably the last you'll hear of it, purely…
There's a very interesting and quite damning editorial up on Gamearena concerning Australian games "journalism" by someone who's been in the field for a number of years. Richie Young, former editor of the Official PlayStation 2 Magazine, slams the self-important attitudes of many of his colleagues, questions their journalistic integrity, and reveals some of the shenanigans that local games reviewers endulge in...
1)Fact: games reviewers have been offered either sex or money to change a review…
Gamespot reports that the Victorian State Government has donated eight Xbox 360 development kits worth A$65,000 to developers based in Victoria. The Game Developers Association of Australia will receive the kits and loan them out to various studios, large and small...
Tom Crago, president of the GDAA and the CEO of Tantalus Interactive, said the kits would be available not only to smaller developers, but larger studios as well. "We have this great platform now called Xbox Live Arcade, which…
