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With Call Of Duty: Ghosts, the Australian Classification Board again lets down the Australian public

October 28, 2013

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Opinion by Matt S. The Australian Classification Board has seen fit to give Call of Duty: Ghosts a MA15+ rating. This is the second-highest classification available in Australia and is intended to bar children under the age of 15 from playing the game under any capacity. But it isn’t the…

Australia’s gaming demographics and the problem of violence

October 22, 2013

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Opinion by Matt S. Yesterday, Australian industry body, iGEA, and Bond University, released the Digital Australia 2014 report. This report has been an annual release since 2005, and charts the demographics of people that play games within Australia, as well as their attitude towards games. The full report can be…

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October 16, 2013

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Remember how we reported the rather weird news that an Aussie developer was involved in the development of a lacrosse game? A sport that 99 per cent of Australians would barely be aware exists? The Kickstarter for that project is now live. It’s the US developer that Big Ant (the…

Interview: Nnooo on Aussie development, game shows, and deadly bunnies

October 15, 2013

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Interview by Aidan B. One of our favourite local developers was at the EB Games 2013 expo in a big way. Nnooo, having now picked up the publisher’s role for two locally developed games on console, had three games to show off at the show. Not a bad effort for…

Kickstarter is formally live in Australia

October 15, 2013

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It’s been coming for a while, but Kickstarter, that wonderful crowdfunding platform that allows game developers to directly ask the public for financing to build their games, has formally launched in Australia and New Zealand. This means that local developers, publishers, and anyone else with great ideas can create local…

Infinity Wars could well be the best digital card game to date

October 14, 2013

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Preview by Matt S. There’s no shortage of digital collectible card games (CCGs). From Magic: The Gathering and Might & Magic: Duel of Champions right through to little indie efforts like Orbs CCG, this is a genre that is remarkably good for game developers for two reasons; it keeps people…

Interview: Aussie indie on game development and the challenges of Kickstarter

October 10, 2013

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Interview by Aidan B. At the EB Games Expo 2013, one of the more entertaining sections was the Aussie indies section. Australia has a growing collection of high quality developers operating in small teams creating innovative and creative games, largely free of the constraints of working for a larger developer.…

To hell with Call of Duty, Nnooo’s announced a shooter with bunnies

October 2, 2013

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After a couple of announcements about games that it is set to publish for other developers, Nnooo has finally unveiled its first game since escapeVektor; Blast ‘Em Bunnies. Picture, if you will, the turret gun section of a FPS. Blast ‘Em Bunnies is an entire game built around that section.…

Aussie indie hit, Orbitor, coming to consoles courtesy of Nnooo

September 26, 2013

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The folks at Nnooo have been busy. It has only been a few short months since the developer announced it was taking a step into publishing in order to bring Cubemen 2 to the Wii U. Now it has taken on its second publishing project; the very high quality Aussie…

Marketing exec: For Ubisoft, it’s “not only having the great games, it’s having the great stories.”

September 16, 2013

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Article by Matt S Amongst the Western publishers, Ubisoft stands almost unique in its dedication to memorable characters and narratives. Or, in other words, if the western publishers were to create their own “Smash Bros”-style games, Ubisoft would have Rayman, Ezio, Connor, Jade, Aveline, Rabbids and a host of others.…

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With Call Of Duty: Ghosts, the Australian Classification Board again lets down the Australian public

Australia’s gaming demographics and the problem of violence

hey-so-that-weird-lacrosse-game-being

Interview: Nnooo on Aussie development, game shows, and deadly bunnies

Kickstarter is formally live in Australia

Infinity Wars could well be the best digital card game to date

Interview: Aussie indie on game development and the challenges of Kickstarter

To hell with Call of Duty, Nnooo’s announced a shooter with bunnies

Aussie indie hit, Orbitor, coming to consoles courtesy of Nnooo

Marketing exec: For Ubisoft, it’s “not only having the great games, it’s having the great stories.”