Auran has released the trailer of their Trainz Railroad Simulator 2004, which is going gold on the 29th of September, and released shortly after that. You can check the 15mb trailer in the meantime at Gamershell!
In a recent conference held by the Office of Film and Literature Classification, overseas censors gave their opinion on games censorship in Australia. The Age reports...
..the director of the Film Classification Board of Sweden, Gunnel Arrback, said Australians were getting carried away about the dangers of computer games.
"In Sweden we don't control games at all," she told the OFLC International Ratings Conference. Ms Arrback said a number of studies had shown playing games allowed the release…
Film Victoria has extended the deadline for applications to the Game Content Development Program to Friday 3rd October 2003.
The objective of this Program is to assist established independent Victorian based game developers to produce market driven game titles in which they own the Intellectual Property (or a percentage thereof) and build stable businesses. Guidelines & application forms are available at www.film.vic.gov.au
If you would like to discuss an application, please contact Amelia…
Xbox Australia is set to revolutionise the world of entertainment with the arrival on 8 October 2003, of Xbox Live.
Picture a unified gaming arena, where players can go from game to game, meet with friends, chat with real voice, and stay as long as they want. This single destination is Xbox Live - the video gaming equivalent of the world's best theme park.
Xbox Live lets you chat with real voice the minute your system is fired up, easily track down your friends in any game, or find new gamers…
Gamershell and IGN have available new screenshots of Transformers: Armada, the PS2 game in development at Atari Melbourne House. There are 26 new screenshots in total, some of which showcase an *amazing* amount of tree, grass, and other foliage in game. Click here to see them at Gamershell or IGN.
Xboxworld.com.au has a new trailer available for download of Rugby League 2003, by New Zealand developers, Sidhe Interactive. Jump on over there and have a look!
Submitted by Matthew Riggall
Announcing "Antipode : The Insect Isles" an unsigned game for this years AGDC competition, from Big Toe Studios Australia.
Antipode is being developed by students from Melbourne Universities, as a Real-Time Strategy game built using OpenGL and SDL on a Windows platform. As a fully flexible 3D game, the player has a huge amount of control over the camera, to move around the environment.
Anyway, here's the website, so you can decide for yourself what you think! Any…
From the Austin Game Conference this last week was discussion of how "to combine the portability of cell phones with the power of virtual worlds to build a new gaming culture".
This could be a big feature for Citizen Zero:
"The first-person shooter called Citizen Zero will run on Microsoft's Xbox console, and allow people to play online over its Xlive service. Players won't be able to use their phones to access their accounts when the game launches, but the developer hopes its middleware will…
Submitted by Paul Bouckaert
University of Utrecht, Faculty of Arts, Department of New Media and Digital Culture organizes the inaugural world conference in digital games research. The conference will be the first official event of the new Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA). The Department of New Media and Digital Culture is collaborating closely with DiGRA, the Research Institute for History and Culture, the Institute for Media and Re/presentation (TFT & CIW), our sponsors like EA…
Thanks to Fips for passing on a rather interesting development regarding Micro Forte's MMORPG in production. A small paragraph in XBN magazine reveals they are working on a MMORPG 'tentaively' titled Identity Zero. Could it be that Citizen Zero has been renamed? View the scan of the XBN page at the Citizen Zero forum and see it for yourself. :)
