Australia/UK's The Creative Assembly, well known for their 'Total War' historical strategy games, will be having their latest addition to the series, Medieval II: Total War, available to be purchased and downloaded directly to your PC via Steam. Available on the 15th of November (Tomorrow!), the game is already available for pre-loading in preparation for the official release.
The Australian Gamespot has released the local charts of the most popular games purchased from the 30th of October to the 5th of November. The data was supplied by Gfk Australia, and indicates what Aussie gamers have been purchasing in multiple platform categories and price categories. What full-priced games have we been purchasing over the week? Well, Krome’s very own The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning for the PS2 took the number 5 top selling position, and New Zealand’s…
If you've visited IGN in the past few days, you might've noticed that you get redirected to a brand new Australian version. Headed by Bennett Ring, who's been involved with magazines such as Atomic and PC PowerPlay, IGN.au will bring us not only all the content from the US version, but some exclusive local goodies too.
IR Gurus, a developer based in Melbourne, has been working on an aerial combat title called Heatseeker for the Nintendo Wii, Playstation 2 and the PSP. The publisher for the game, Codemasters, published a press release detailing a unique aspect to this action-oriented game, called the ‘Impact Cam’. The press release is as follows:
Explosions are good. However, watching state-of-the-art, military machines explode into blazing fireballs of fuel and molten metal in cinematic…
The Australian games industry lacks the programmers it needs, according to Evelyn Richardson, CEO of the Games Developer Association of Australia.
Ben Palmer, Executive Producer at IR Gurus, agrees, telling radio station 3RRR that:
"Programmers are the one we are desperately short of, there is a global drought of Programmers. We are hiring from all over the globe, but so is everybody else."
The war to dominate as a home entertainment package continues between the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3 – and the newest arsenal Microsoft has announced is the 360’s ability to download movie and television content direct to the console. This ability will become available to Xbox 360 users in the United States on November 22nd, and it has been confirmed that similar content will be available in Australia, though no confirmed dates have been given. Xbox Public Relations…
It's been a long time coming and those of us who aren't importing still have a while to wait, but the PlayStation 3 has just launched in Japan. As reported by The Age:
Supply is limited as Sony Corp., plagued with production problems, has managed to ready only 100,000 PlayStation 3 machines for the Japan launch date. When it goes on sale in the United States Nov. 17, some 400,000 PS3 consoles will be available. The sales date has been pushed back in Europe until March.
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Just in tiny for Christmas, oddly enough...
As reported in Atomic's weekly news round-up:
First off the rank is the massive entertainment pack, which includes the console (with hard drive), component cable, network cable, media remote, extra controller, Project Gotham 3, Dead or Alive 4 and a silver subscription to Xbox Live. That one?s $769.95.
The second bundle, dubbed the family fun pack, contains the console sans hard drive and with a single, wired controller, and a copy of Kameo: Elements…
PALGN caught up with Daniel Visser, CEO of Australian game development company, Wicked Witch, to have a chat about what is currently in production there, and to talk about what it’s like being a part of the Australian industry. When Daniel was asked if he saw it as a disadvantage to be situated in Australia, or if it was difficult to reach a global audience, he had the following to say:
Almost all of our business comes from overseas. We have clients in the USA, UK and many countries…
