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:
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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…
THE Federal Court has ordered a Melbourne man to pay more than $200,000 for running an illegal business making and selling counterfeit PlayStation games.
The story here
Valve are releasing the patches this week (which I *think* will be on Wednesday)..
New client and server updates for Half-Life and Counter-Strike (Half-Life 1.1.1.0 and C.S. 1.5) will be released this week. Both updates include the Ricochet Mod, phase two of the recently introduced anti-cheat technology, a new Counter-Strike map (de_piranesi), as well as various fixes and tweaks. Server files will be released to the public Tuesday evening. Client files will be released for download Wednesday…
Posted by Brad Beddoes
Tycom Studios is currently search for talented individuals who are looking to get a start in the game development business to join our team as 2D and 3D artists/modellers/animators.
Specific information can be obtained from www.tycomstudios.com/content/jobs.shtml
A great article over at Gamasutra about the planning and process from design to execution of the levels in Max Payne.. a great insight ! Read it here!
*update* eh... they seem to have pushed it for subscribers now. Hope you caught it while it was there. :)
*another update* well, you can still view it if you register (it's for free)..
The Age has a nice list of their best 50 video games of all time.. and as the first paragraph of the article says, it sure is open to much debate. ;)
Personally, I would have put Tony Hawk (#48), Metal Gear Solid (#32), Street Fighter 2 (#30), Elite (#28), and Counterstrike (#27) much much higher.. and push back Halo a bit, and Myst (#12) way out of the top #50 :).. oh, and Tetris as #2..
On my top 50 list, I'd also include International Soccer (hey, it rocked!!), and Exploding Fist, on the '…
A very interesting thread over at Slashdot concerning online game cheating through exploits and hacks. .. the original zdnet article is over here.
"Game publishers and analysts expect the segment to grow significantly in the next few years--to as much as $1.8 billion in 2005 by some estimates."
To get the discussion board going (because I know there are PLENTY of you people visiting :)), I've made a thread here about Online game cheating.. what do you think can be done to prevent online game…