In Real Life

Check Out What Ex-Team Bondi Staff Are Wearing These Days…

Kotaku AU

Not too much I can say here, but I think these t-shirts are entirely appropriate!


December 31, 2011
PC

Is LA Noire Kotaku’s Game Of The Year?

The hardest thing at the end of the year is to parse yourself from the hype you’re experiencing and think back to the games you played during the summer, the spring and yes, 2011′s early months.


December 29, 2011
In Real Life

2011 In Games: L.A. Noire And The Notepad

Kotaku AU

While game news is light, and we’re reminiscing on a gaming year gone by, I thought I’d take the time to write about the games that defined my year. They weren’t necessarily classics — some I absolutely hated, some I fell head over heels for, but they’re all worth discussing. Today we’re looking at L.A. Noire.


November 28, 2011
News

George Miller Talks Video Games, Reveals Details On Brendan McNamara’s New Game

Kotaku AU

As you may already be aware, George Miller — director of Mad Max and, more recently, the Happy Feet series — has a keen interest in video games, setting up Kennedy Miller Mitchell, a games studio based in Sydney. Now, in an interview with the Australian Financial Review, Miller has revealed the studio intends to work in Brendan McNamara’s new game, titled ‘Whore of the Orient’.


November 13, 2011
News

Boss Of Ill-Fated LA Noire Studio Says His Next Game Is About A ‘Great Untold Story’

You might think that getting slagged as an intemperate martinet who alienated and exploited an overworked staff at a studio that completed just one video game before going bankrupt would be, well, limiting to one’s future career options. Not Brendan McNamara of the former Team Bondi.


November 10, 2011
News

L.A. Noire Creator Brendan McNamara Shopping Around A New Video Game Concept…

Kotaku AU

And speaking to Eurogamer, McNamara is claiming that it’s “one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century”. Intriguing.


October 20, 2011
PlayStation

L.A. Noire: The Complete Edition Hits Consoles Next Month

L.A. Noire: The Complete Edition is coming to the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 next month, Rockstar said this morning.


October 15, 2011
News

LA Noire Wins Popular Mechanics’ Breakthrough Award

Kotaku AU

It’s not in the business of making games any more and owes its employees and creditors a truckload of cash, but these niggling issues haven’t stopped Team Bondi from picking up a Breakthrough Award from Popular Mechanics for its MotionScan technology in LA Noire.


October 8, 2011
News

L.A. Noire Studio Owes $1 Million To Employees

Team Bondi, the Sydney studio that saved the worst year of its existence for the one in which it finally delivered L.A. Noire, owes its employees more than $US1 million, according to papers filed in the studio’s liquidation.


September 24, 2011
PC

Report: L.A. Noire ‘Complete Edition’ And PC Version Coming In November

Evidence of Rockstar Games reissuing crime thriller L.A. Noire later this year in the form of a “Complete Edition” has reportedly been spotted by Eurogamer Czech. That apparent re-release and the PC version of Team Bondi’s game are supposedly slated for November.