Eurogamer has interviewed various European and International developers on who's at fault when games turn out bad. The blame pointed at Designers, individuals and inflexibility, project management, and external pressures.. The article is here.
Hey, Infogrames Melbourne House have had a web redesign. Looks good too.. The previous one was mostly a general Infogrames site, but this has a focus on the Melbourne studio, which is a good thing. Check out the new site! Oh, and also their Men in Black II pictures!
The final demo of Gore has been released. Gore, as you know, is the the FPS shooter from Eyecon/4D Rulers/Slam software. The demo is 101mbs large, and contains a section of the single player game and 2 online maps playable with Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Tactical and Capture the Flag modes. Here are some places to download the demo:
3d Gamers Blues News
So get downloading and tell us what you think in our forum!
Designation winners announced
By Rob Irwin, iTgraphics
Thursday, 13 June 2002
iTgraphics magazine held its inaugural designation awards at East Sydney's ultra-trendy M Restaurant and Bar, Wednesday evening.
The competition, for both student and professional designers, was broken into seven categories (Packaging; Multimedia; Web Site Design; Digital Imaging; Print - Advertising; Print - Corporate; and Short Animation), with an additional two awards for Outstanding Student and Outstanding…
Phantagram Interactive has announced that it will develope and publish a massively multiplayer online game based on the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon! They're also beta testing their current MMORPG Shining Lore.
This may be a rant, but isn't the market for MMORPGs saturated enough? Off the top of my head, we have Myst, Star Wars galaxies, The Matrix, Everquest 2, Asheron's Call 2, Citizen Zero, Final Fantasy XI, Neverwinter nights, and Morrowind in production or just released. I'm sure…
Nintendo has fallen well short of its sales target of Gamecubes in Australia, selling only 20,578 GameCube machines from its release in May 17 to June 16. They had expected to sell 50,000 machines. The news.com.au article here.
AustralianIT has another article on how our government neglects the games industry..
"The federal Budget allocated $20.5 million to the Australian Film Commission (AFC) for 2002-03, and provides generous tax incentives to those investing in the Australian film industry. In addition, several states have their own initiatives for the promotion of the film and television industries.
The AFC provides some funding for "interactive projects" - including video games, interactive television and…
Ok ladies and gentlemen the following is a quote from a post on the UrT forums, hope it's as good a piece of news for you all as it was for me,
"DRUG LORD 2: HARAMBIQUE has been RELEASED!!
The long awaited sequel to Drug Lord: Airstrip has finally been unleashed to the public!
Get your copy today!!
Downloads available at:
www.terroristz.net www.l0unge.com/ut/ut_druglord2.zip www.proscreed.co.uk/ut/ut_druglord2.zip http://kartikeya.zdwebhosting.com/ut_druglord2.zip
Other mirrors will be…
Since Gore is one of the latest games with an Australian connection to go gold, I've been hunting for some reviews. This is a positve one from MyGamer..
"The audio in this game was hands down the best part."
And a reader review from Shacknews..
"This game is fantastic! I'm really tough to please, having played the best games ever made. This "sleeper" title should be considered for Most Under-rated Game of the Year."
GamersHell had this to say..
"It looks like a nextgen console game." and "bad…
