Submitted by Peter Henderson
The 3rd annual Canberra Games Festival takes over the Nation?s Capital from 18-31 July 2006 and is shaping up to be the best Festival yet.
The Festival celebrates the positive contribution that games and interactive entertainment have made to our lives and our society. This year?s theme: Culture | Art | Identity recognises the increasing acceptance of games as a valid form of entertainment and as a genuine artistic medium.
The official Festival program is available…
The future of the gaming industry, presented by AIMIA QLD
Tuesday, July 18th
3:00pm - 5:30pm
Qantm College Auditorium
A look at what is on the horizon for the Australian games industry with the move into next generation consol development, the rise of casual gaming using mobile technologies and massively multiplayer online games.
Key players from the industry will give their insights into what the industry faces over the next few years as well as what it is currently doing to ramp up for the…
Thanks to Mick for posting about this in the forum...
According to a posting at the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC), the entity has refused to give official classification to Eidos' upcoming Atari Australia-distributed video game version of Reservoir Dogs, meaning that the game cannot be sold in stores.
The game's application for classification was filed by Atari, the game's publisher in Australia, but it appears that application failed to comply with the country'…
Although we won't see the game on shelves for quite some time yet, a teaser video for Hellboy has been released and is available at CVG. Hellboy is currently in development at Krome Studios who are planning its release date for 2007 to coincide with the opening of the Hellboy 2 movie. "Teaser" is a pretty good word to describe the video, with a quarter of it consisting of fading publisher and developer logos, and the rest is filled with brief fade-in fade-out CGI shots.
I'm sure it's worth a…
A new Sumea vote poll is up on the right of the main page. Vote clicking, opinions, and discussion required within!
Ok, a while ago, the issue of Government support was brought up again when no incentives / tax breaks were given to the local games industry (like they are given to the film industry) in the budget. Such incentives were deemed vital for the industry. So what do you think? Is the Government doing enough, can they do more? or should the industry even get handouts?
Jason Hill's Screenplay Blog has a blog entry on a recent achieivement by Tantalus in securing a publisher for Trickstar, a original futuristic racer for the Game Boy Advance. Tantalus CEO, Tom Crago, explains to Screenplay how difficult it is to get a publisher on board for Trickstar, a game that has been self funded by Tantalus which isn't linked to any existing franchise..
"It really is very close to impossible. The GBA business, more than perhaps any other platform, has been driven by…
RPG Vault has an interview up on their site with the developers of the Stargate Worlds MMO which uses BigWorld technology. Cheyenne Mountain explain why they went with the locally developed MMO suite of tools and server technology...
Why did you choose the BigWorld technology? What client- and server-side features made it the best choice for your game?
Colin McLaughlan: BigWorld provides both a client and server components for their MMO solution.
We selected BigWorld because of all the…
Sydney, Australia - June 23, 2006 - Home Entertainment Suppliers Pty Ltd (HES) announced today that Rugby League 2 will be available for Xbox on Thursday 13th July 2006.
Eagerly waiting Xbox owners will finally be able to enjoy the highly successful Rugby League 2 franchise on the Xbox video game console.
"Xbox owners have been very eager to know if Rugby League 2 for Xbox was going to eventuate," said David Robles, Business Development Manager for HES. "We are now pleased to announce that they…
There's an interesting article over at AustralianIT on an event held recently at Sydney's Hilton Hotel. Organised by advisory group Business Strategies International, it was an opportunity for entrepreneurs and small companies to pitch their ideas in front of potential investors and venture capitalists. One of those doing the pitching was Morgan Lean from Sydney's Epiphany Games, who are currently developing their massively multiplayer online role playing game, "Champions of Atlantis"...
Games…
Thanks to Lorien for posting this in the forum...
In case anyone hasn't seen acmipark and would like to you will have to head to acmi soon. I don't have an exact shutdown date, and will post it here when I get it.
It's going offline due to compatibility issues with new hardware, selecparks members now being spread all over the world, and (I gather) rather steep Renderware license costs for a non commercial project put on public display...
So what is acmipark?
acmipark is a virtual environment…
