Submitted by Matt Wheatley
The Academy of Interactive Entertainment [AIE] was announced as the winner of the ACT Small Registered Training Organisation of the Year award at a gala event at Parliament House, Canberra, last Thursday night.
In accepting the award, Ian Gibson, Head of School at AIE Canberra, paid tribute to the ?people of good will? from government, Canberra Institute of Technology, industry and training associations who have supported AIE and ?the talented staff of great good…
Larissa Hjorth - RMIT University
By considering mediated concepts such as place and intimacy, this paper explores some of the cartographies of gaming and mobile technology and their replication of symbolic and traditional exchange rituals in South Korea.
Thursday 15 September 2005 at 7:30 pm
78-80 Curzon Street, North Melbourne, VIC 3051
Fees: Non-members: $5; Concession: $3; Members: Free
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I've just received the dates and addresses for the 3D Studio Max 8 launch events in Australia where you'll get to find a whole lot about the new features from Autodesks popular 3D program...
Melbourne - Monday 19 September 2005 Time: from 6pm onwards
Venue: Victorian College of the Arts,
School of Film & Television,
Grant St, Southbank, VIC 3006
Sydney - Wednesday 21 September 2005 Time: from 6pm onwards
Venue: The Fox and Lion Hotel,
The Entertainment Quarter, 1 Bent St, Fox Studios…
Submitted by Luke Van Leuveren
PALGN Launches Smart PSP Formatting
Sydney, Australia, 10 September 2005 - The PAL Gaming Network (PALGN) has today launched its new technology, designed to detect and correctly render web pages viewed via the PSP browser.
James Gay, PALGN's Manager says: "Those of you who have tried out the PSP browser are likely to find the experience akin to browsing on an old 468 computer with a dialup connection. Typical load times for most sites range from 60 seconds, up…
The Faculty of Information Technology Monash University is currently running a Maya 3D Competition.
The Competition has two categories
The first is open to all students in Secondary School and Tafe (conditions apply) in
Australia.
The second is the new "Open Category"
The "new" category (due to popular demand) is open to all non High school and Tafe students in Australia. (conditions apply)
The High School/Tafe category has two entry options:
1. Short Animation (no longer then 3 minutes)
2.…
Locally developed Half-Life 2 mod called Dystopia is finally coming! Set your alarm clocks for Saturday morning and join other eager fans in downloading this highly anticipated title. Dystopia could be described as a team-based first person shooter set in the future with mission objectives and classes for characters...
"By far the most common question we've recieved during development has been; "when's Dystopia coming out?" Right up until today the answer has always been "when it's done". Well…
Krome Studios have just put up the website for their latest Ty game called TY the Tasmanian Tiger 3: Night of the Quinkan. The site offers fans an array of cool information including:
- News: TY and his mates will provide regular news updates of the game and their status.
- EnTYclopedia: helpful information on things found in the game including characters, locations, vehicles, etc.
- Fun Page: as the name implies, visitors can entertain themselves with the many options found on this page…
Next week we'll be showing a DVD of the IGDA Quality of Life Summit keynote from GDC. There'll likely be some discussion on some of the issues raised afterwards. By all means turn up for the DVD, and then leave, or turn up in time to miss the DVD, and just enjoy a beer and a chat. It's entirely up to you, and you won't get frowned at either way.
Visit IGDA Melbourne for more info @ Http://www.igda.org/melbourne
Nocturnal Entertainment Australia together with web-hosting specialists TakeThisHost have formed an agreement with US publisher Telegames USA, which sees them as the exclusive importer/distributor of several of Telegames's Game Boy Advance(tm) titles within Australia. None of the titles have ever been released within Australia previously.
The two titles initially covered by the agreement are:
- "Ultimate Brain Games" (UBG): A compliation of classic board games including Chess, Checkers,…
Tuesday 6th September
Stomp was incorporated in 1994, and with its team of 100, has grown to become one of the largest independent entertainment distributors in Australia.
Stomp is a full service Import Distribution Company of music, music related merchandise, DVD movies, Gaming products, and fashion; currently supplying over 4000 retail stores throughout Australasia. Stomp's combined services allow our customers access to the widest range of product of any company in the marketplace. With a…
