IGN has a Top Ten Developer questionnaire with the one and only Christie Cooper, Business Director at Pandemic Studios in Brisbane. It's great to come across interviews with some of the less well known people in the local games industry (unless I'm totally wrong and everyone knows Christie!), and especially one who is such a pivotal part of the Pandemic team. Christie has had a long history with Pandemic and answers a few things on the Brisbane studio, the teams and the culture at Pandemic,…
The AJN (Australian Jewish News) website has an article on the Hits of the ?80s exhibition that is currently held at the Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI) Games Lab. They throw a few questions towards Alfred Milgrom, who co-founded of Beam Software and also opened the exhibition, on a few things about the early days of game development...
It was a very exciting time,? Milgrom, 59, told the AJN. ?We didn?t really know what the potential was going to be. It was a very small industry at…
GameIndustry.biz reports that the GO3 Electronic Entertainment Expo has extended the date for early bird discount bookings to February 15. You can get some substantial savings if you book your tickets now at www.go3.com.au/conference/index.html . There's also a special rate for students who want to attend the expo, and early discount bookings apply to you lot as well, so if you want to save a big chunk off the normal ticket price, you have a month left!
GO3 starts March 30 to April 1 in Perth…
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Sydney Opera House announces major gamer event for June 2007
Giant screens... A full orchestra and choir... A superstar conductor... And the epic sounds of video games. This is PLAY! A Video Game Symphony.
After sell-out shows across North America and Europe, PLAY! A Video Game Symphony is heading to the Sydney Opera House in June 2007 for an Australian exclusive.
Brought to vibrant life by the Sydney Symphony under conductor and grammy award winner Arnie Roth, PLAY! is an…
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Matt and Yug have a new article up AustralianGamer.com on their tour of Pandemic Studios in Brisbane. They also took a few photos along the way as well as sit down for a chat with Pandemics' John Passfield (Creative Director) and Dylan Miklashek (Senior Producer) on the Australian studio, the BioWare relationship (the two companies partnered up around mid last year), Destroy All Humans! 2, and a whole other things. Unfortunately, they couldn't transcribe the rest of the interview, but it's a…
Gamasutra has an extraordinary feature up on their site which covers the publicly available development contract between Spark (the developer) and publisher Activision on the game "Call of Duty: The Finest Hour".
The circumstances for this entire document being available to the public has been due to the legal battle between Spark and Activision, and it's an extremely rare look into the "typical" agreements and terms (including information on milestone payments etc) that a developer and…
Yes indeed, the epic Warlords franchise created by Steve Fawkner, founder of Aussie developer Infinite Interactive, is being remade - and this time for the Nintendo DS. The strategy game is being made by the developer, Glyphic Entertainment and publisher Strategy First, finally bringing the universe back to life. Steve Fawkner had the following to say:
The Warlords turn-based strategy series is a natural fit for the intuitive stylus-based interface of the Nintendo DS. We are very excited to be…
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New cybersport football game developed in Australia
A Brisbane based sporting organisation 727 Football Academy has recently unveiled the most dynamic and innovative football (soccer) game format. Known as 727 Football, the game has been developed by local Brisbane based football coach Paul Fitzgerald.
727 Football has undergone over 18 months of field testing, R&D of game format and laws and has been played and filmed in match situations. The organisation has registered a…
Yes, it's a few weeks late, but voting has finally started on the 2006 Sumea Awards! Hop on over to the voting page and make your selections now! The rules are pretty simple...
1. You can vote in any category you like.
If there are any categories that you are uncertain of, feel free to not vote in it. You can choose to vote in all categories, or just one. However:
2. You must at least vote in category #13 - The developer of the Year category. Yes, we want everyone to vote in this one! And hey,…
