Film Victoria Digital Media Internship program places and subsidises media graduates in leading Victorian companies in roles including post-production, programming, games, animation, specialFX and producing. Deadline for host company registration and intern applications is November 6, 2006. For guidelines and application forms go to http://www.film.vic.gov.au/programs/program_pages/dmf_programs.shtml or contact Shiralee Saul (tel) 03 9660 3224 Mondays & Thursdays or email shiralee.saul@film…
Submitted by Bryn Giles
The Queensland Chapter of the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association is offering the chance for 10 students to showcase their work to a panel of industry employers and experts at the AIMIA Student Showcase and Job Skills Expo 2006.
Students will be selected by the Queensland AIMIA executive and will receive a booth free of charge to present their projects and material.
In conjunction with this showcase, the panel of employers and experts will also present a…
Since there's a little bit of quiet time in the news, I thought I'd make a post thanking all our sponsors on Sumea, old and new! I'm sure you've noticed the gradual increase in the number of logos appearing on the right of the page on the site, and I can tell you that the additional support for the site since Micro Forte and Big World Tech came on board as sponsors last April has been overwhelming.
The new sponsors who have kindly supported Sumea are: Qantm, Firemint, Tantalus, Auran, The…
Sponsored by Torus Games
17 October 2006, From 6:30pm, Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne, Australia, 9 October 2006 - Dissecta is pleased to present Tokyo is Game! Tuesday 17th October at 6:30pm in Melbourne Australia.
Game guru and journalist Jason Hill of daily newspapers The Age (Melbourne) and Sydney Morning Herald will provide an overview of this year's Tokyo Game Show, held late September. Dissecta will also present a swag of Japanese flavoured video clips in a little festival of high-rez…
Melbourne based developer Tantalus Interactive today announced the appointment of David Giles as Director of Development of the company. Founded in 1994, Tantalus is one of Australia's best regarded developers, and the appointment of Mr Giles sets the scene for the next phase in its growth. David has more than twelve years of experience in the video game industry, and was the Director of Development at Atari Melbourne House before leaving in 2004 to establish the Melbourne campus of the Academy…
(press release)
9th October 2006
Award winning mobile technology company ndWare has announced that its content creation tool Richmotion Live has now gone gold.
Richmotion is a technology suite that enables anyone to create media-rich, interactive content for a large range of mobile phones. The Richmotion Live release includes an easy to use PC editor, comprehensive user guide and samples. Various example implementations are included, such as quiz games, animated comics and single play…
Thanks to Redwyre for posting about this on the weekend. The Destroy All Humans! 2 website has been launched recently and contains a huge variety of info and downloads for fans of the locally developed action game.
I'll have to admit, the splash screen for the website confused me for a slight while, so for those as clueless as I was, you have to "scroll" through the planet and choose your region / local language to get into the site. Hopefully that'll save a few people from some mindless…
Firemint's "Mega Monster" has been nominated for the International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA). Mega Monster is a fully owned, original IP developed for high-end mobile devices by Melbourne based studio Firemint.
The title was one of 25 nominated from a list of more than 400 submissions worldwide (91% of which came from Europe, Asia & North America).
All the nominated games - will be shown on www.imgawards.com.
(press release)
Manifesto Games: The revolution has begun and it?s coming to a computer near you!
For Immediate Release
New York, New York -- September 27th, 2006
Manifesto Games officially launched today, and can be found at www.manifestogames.com. Gamers bored with franchise titles and the limited variety of the conventional game market now have a single place to go to find "the best of the rest," the games that the retail channel doesn't have the room for or feel it?s worth carrying.…
The anticipated full length trailer for L.A Noire can now be seen and downloaded at the Rockstar games website for Team Bondi's open-ended interactive detective game set in the late 1940's.