AustralianIT reports that game development teachers in Victoria may be going back for some education themselves. The aim is to keep them on their toes with the latest industry techniques, in the hope of bringing out better graduate students ready for the industry...
"Victorian Information and Communication Technology Minister Marsha Thomson said the GDAA had been contracted to research, develop and initiate a professional development program for teachers and trainers of computer game courses…
Some news on Catapult, the GBA authoring software from Nocturnal Entertainment...
1. The Spanish version of Catapult v1.40b has been released today. The French version should be out within a week.
2. The Melbourne International College has licenced 'Catapult Educational' to be used within several of their IT courses next session. An official press release is pending...
For more news on Nocturnal Entertainment and Catapult, please click on the following link...
The Games and Girls Symposium: Getting Girls On The Games Agenda is a new Auckland based event looking to explore gender issues around videogaming. The all day symposium will be held on 7 July 2004 in the Auckland Town Hall.
The event will feature a range of speakers including industry professionals and academic researchers, as well as having an exhibition component.
The symposium is free to attend but is limited to 200 places with preregistration required. Download the schedule and…
Zaph has posted in the forum about Transformers Armada making an appearance on the rather infamous Penny Arcade website. Usually one would recoil in fear at the thought of their game being ridiculed before an audience of the many thousands that visit the site, but Atari Melbourne House have nothing to worry about, as the guys think the game is pretty damn good. :)
The comic on Transformers Aramada.. (contains adult humour)
The news story on Transformers Armada..
Thanks to Fips for letting us know that PMac (Lead Designer at Micro Forte) has revealed some more details on Citizen Zero through two posts on the official forum.
The first post talks explains what Factions are and how they come into play in the Citizen Zero world...
"A faction is a named large-scale social actor within the game world of CZ. Each faction has a headquarters, its own set of preferred hangouts and a cadre of NPC members and affiliates that offer PC members various services and…
Gaming Nexus has an interview with Ben Lee, the art director over at Irrational Games Canberra. You'll find out how Ben came to be at Irrational Games, his artistic influences, the art direction of Tribes Vengeance, and a whole lot of other things as well.
There's some great concept and ingame art there too, so it's definately worth checking out!
I know many of our visitors here went to the Free Play independant game developers conference in Melbourne a short while ago, so I'm sure this news will come as a great shock to a lot of you.
Cameron has posted the sad news that one of the participants of the conference has passed away. Adam Neykoff-Davies, from the Queensland University of Technology, exhibited the Faux Cave virtual reality solution in the demo room of Free Play. It's extremely tragic news for QUT since four of their students…
Vivendi Universal Games announced today that it is currently taking applications for the Tribes: Vengeance beta testing program, which will begin June 14th and run for several months. The closed beta program will begin with a very limited group but expand weekly until later this Summer when the public will be invited to partake in the testing. Tribes: Vengeance will ship to retail stores worldwide in October 2004.
Gamers interested in beta testing Tribes: Vengeance can visit the official…
Xboxworld.xl managed to get some new screenshots of Citizen Zero from Sydney developers, Micro Forte. The never before screenshots show off again the very pretty forest area of the world, a snow landscape occupied with a walking mech, and also a busy city zone with tonnes of characters walking around. It's looking great! Thanks again to Fips for clueing us in on the news :)
