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Surprise! EA Confirms Spore Creature Creator Coming To Aussie Papers
11:30AM Logan Booker | Sigh. It turns out EA’s exciting announcement was indeed the Spore Creature Creator/newspaper deal we revealed a few days ago. Don’t get me wrong, getting the app free ($2 for Mexicans) is a nice deal, but it’s small consolation for selling it at the NZ EA Store, while at the same time keeping us in the dark.
From the EA release:
The Spore Creature Creator will be available with the Herald Sun and The Saturday Daily Telegraph on Saturday, August 2, and with The Courier Mail on Saturday, August 30. The game will be free with The Saturday Daily Telegraph in New South Wales, and available for $2 with purchase of the Herald Sun in Victoria and The Courier-Mail in Queensland.
Exciting for the East coast, maybe, but not for NT, SA, WA or Tassie.
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Malcolm King Versus The Australian Games Industry
12:30PM Logan Booker | Update: Tantalus CEO Tom Crago has replied to Malcolm King, adding some much needed clarification and accuracy to the original article.
Yesterday, journalist Malcolm King posted a rather scathing opinion piece on the state of the Australian games industry over at the Courier Mail. Many of the statements made in the piece went against what I know to be true.
If the Internet were an online forum, King’s editorial would be considered an excellent attempt at trolling. So it pains me to write a reply, but to have a piece such as this in the open, without rebuttal, would be a disservice. More » 