As mentioned on Irrational Games' website, The Elcectric Playground website has an interview Ian Vogel, Lead Designer for Irrational Games. He gives some great insights to their upcoming game, The Lost..
Read it here.
As the IT industry crumbles, the games industry is still doing the opposite.. smh.com.au writes:
"The value of Australian shipments of console and PC games each rose 22 per cent last financial year, to $250 million and $105 million respectively, according to market analysts Inform.
Despite a 12 per cent slide in the shipment of PC controllers such as joysticks, overall growth was a healthy 43 per cent, up to $684 million, from $480 million the previous year."
And due to our craptacular…
The new and improved site contains much, much more content on these Melbourne based developers, and what games they're working on. Go and check it out!
Gamespot has a brief write up about Ty, the Tasmanian Tiger, by Krome Studios, on their site. It pretty much sums up the game in general. Read it here. They've also chucked up some new screenshots here, but they don't seem to be showing up for me. You can try here instead.
Evolution Games, who are based in Queensland, have just snapped up a deal with THQ (which I 'think' is to continue developing for them.. if I'm wrong, let me know). Evolution games are in the final stages of developement of 'Rocket Power Beach Bandits' for PlayStation2 and GameCube..
"This will be the first GameCube title released by an Australian developer, and represents a significant milestone for Evolution Games. Three years on from our inception, we are now in a position where we can grow…
All the critiques for the Bad Girl modelling competition entries have been finished. Wanna read some harsh reviews by Paul Steed? Head over there and have a look :)
ok, I'm doing a test post to see if I can see why news posts are saving with the dates in YY/MM/DD format, instead of DD/MM/YY. I haven't done anything to the site code recently, so I'm stumped as to why this is happening now.. This seems to be affecting all news and member news posts :( argh!!! I hope it's a server thing..
** update - it's definately a server thing.. waiting on it to get fixed..
*** - ok.. all fixed now!!
Games industry 'booming'...
"Inform data shows retailers sold 9216 PS2 consoles, compared with 2020 units of Microsoft's Xbox and 1370 of Nintendo's GameCube, in the past week."
Read the article here.
Irrational Games has an official website for their eagerly waited title The Lost! Have a look at www.thelost.com ! At the moment, only the two outer rings contain content (You'll see what I mean when you have a look), but there are lots and lots of screenshots and character info there!
If you want to see larger screenshots (and video), you can always try IGN here!!..