There's a new game development course in New Zealand, which is being heralded as the first of it's kind there. The course will be specialising in programming and graphic design for games.
"In the first 12 weeks of the 64-week course, all game development students study together as one class.
Over the next twenty-six weeks, students focus on learning their chosen specialisation before rejoining to work together in teams to study advanced games content design and programming. The final 24 weeks…
Nocturnal Entertainment has announced that a updated version of Catapult will be released shortly (V1.22b).
In addition, their website sports a new look - including a new 'games' section. Finally, the Catapult competition has been given a two week extension - the final deadline is now the 31st of May.
See their website for full details : http://www.Nocturnal-Central.com!
Sumea Speed Paint is happening in just over an hours time! Jump into IRC where a few of us are idling in ;).. irc server is irc.uq.edu.au , at the channel #sumea !! I'll be posting the topic at 7pm Australian Eastern Time!!
*** Thanks to those who took part. Have a look at the piccies here!
Tom's Hardware has a very extensive and insightful write up on cheating in online games, running through some of the cheats that are being used in many of the popular online games at the moment (such as Counterstrike, Warcraft III, and Battlefield 1942).
"Cheating is now close to destroying entire gaming communities (Counter-Strike anyone?), and it's gotten to a point where developers are having to spend a large portion of their research and development time creating barriers against the…
IGN has a movie (and screenshots) of Atari Melbourne House's Playstation 2 game, Transformers Armada, straight from E3 2003!.. It's looking pretty awesome, so check it out!
Gameboy IGN has a brief look at Tantalus's Top Gear Rally, for the GameBoy Advance. There are a number of nice screenshots to look at, along with a large movie to download at their media page, so have a look!
Game-Culture.com reports on two seminars on game research in NSW and Queensland..
Ludic Moments - Artspace, Sydney, May 16
"Ludic Moments will examine the current state of the emerging field of humanities-based research into computer games."
From Space War! to the Ivory Tower - University of Queensland, Brisbane, May 26
"This seminar brings together internationally recognised computer game researchers for a ground-breaking event to explore current issues in game research. Questions to be…
Gamer's Pulse has a GREAT article on the Australian presence at E3. They managed to snag some answers from Evelyn Richardson (First Executive Director of The Game Developers? Association of Australia (GDAA) ), Tom Crago (CEO of Tantalus), Mark Bracken (Vice President of Marketing & Business Development at Ratbag), and Ross Symons (CEO of Bullant Studios).
There's some very interesting set of questions thrown at them, covering Australia's lack of an R rating for games, the Australian…
There is an irc log of the Tribes: Vengeance Q&A discussion with the Lead Designer at Irrational Games, a Producer from Sierra, a Vivendi Universal PR guy, and an Aussie local who is the Physics Programmer for Tribes: Vengeance, Gaffer!!. Read the irc log here.
Tantalus have revealed their E3 line up, with 4 titles to be seen at the show. They include Top Gear Rally, Monster Truck Madness, Woody Woodpecker in Crazy Castle 5 (for the Gameboy Advance), and Metal Shell for PS2 and Xbox.
You can download the press release at Tantalus's website.
IGN also has a brief summary on the e3 lineup from Tantalus.