Australian IT has another article about the booming games industry. It details the industry in Australia, how many students there are at the Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE) and what opportunities they have for the future. And it looks good.
"This industry's going to blow right apart, even triple in size. At the moment, the games industry is taking in more money than the box office.
"People are looking for more value for their money, like buying a game rather than going out to see a…
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3D Gamers has just put up a good selection of new pictures from Blue Tongue's Jurassic Park: Project Genesis game. If you want to see the pics, click here!
Activision has officially announced Doom 2 for the game boy advance, to be developed by Torus Games.
"DOOM II supports co-operative play so gamers can team-up to rid the world of hellspawn, or go head-to-head with up to four other players in classic Deathmatch mode where it's every marine for himself."
Read the planet gamecube article here.
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Games sure are gonna look cool in a couple of years, although the numbers thrown here may remind you of when Sony blurted something like a 75 million polygon per second Playstation 2.
"It will have the ability to do north of 1 trillion mathematical calculations per second, roughly 100 times more than a single Pentium 4 chip running at 2.5GHz...
IBM is expected to begin manufacturing Cell (the name of the chip) as soon as 2004 or possibly early 2005.. "
The Zdnet article here. Slashdot has it…
3D Action Planet has a great detailed look at Citizen Zero, a MMORPG/MMOAPG by Aussie developers Microforte..
"With all the upcoming MMORPGs coming out, this might be a fresh idea and will hopefully bring more action to the plethora of massively multiplayer online games."
View the article here..
Just got this from Zdnet.
"Dimsdale & Kreozot are independent Australian games developers currently working on a title called Tito the Bouncing Alien, a quirky platform action game. This is a project as-yet without official backing, which is attracting interest from games publishing houses around the world. Dimsdale & Kreozot are actively shopping for financiers."
They're based in Queensland, and you can check out their website here. You can read Zdnet's preview of their Tito, the…
Homelanfed.com has an interview with Jonathon Chey, the project manager and lead designer of Freedom Force by Irrational Games. The interview briefly hints on updates and the future of Freedom Force. It's good to hear that this game is doing so well. Read the interview here!