Last week Qantm College sent a whole new group of graduates into the real world, into a local industry racked with job losses and constant uncertainty. We caught up with two former students and spoke to Qantm themselves about their hopes and fears as the enter the brave new world of Australian games development.
Australia’s classification board has received an application for an M-rated game entitled “Paper, Scissors, Stone,” to be published jointly by Electronic Arts, BioWare and LucasArts. As amusing as the concept is, this is most likely Star Wars: The Old Republic, which will not include Australia (nor any countries outside North America or Europe) when the game launches Dec. 20.
It’s easy to look at Epoch in action and think it’s trying to be Gears of War for the iPhone. Easy, and thankfully, wrong.
A listing with Australia’s Classification Board says The Simpsons, the fondly remembered arcade beat-em-up, is coming soon to modern platforms.
Andrew Burdusel has a great habit of summing things up in a visual form, but with this piece – Australians in Video Games 3 – he has finally completed his incredible Aussies in Gaming trilogy. If you want to see a brilliant visual representation of practically every Australian character ever featured in a video game, then look no further.
This is a commercial currently airing on Australian TV. I won’t spoil the bizarre ending by telling you what it’s for, but that’s not the point. The point is how great the voxel effects look.