News by Matt S. Japanese game development favourite, GUST, has been shut up as a business as part of Koei Tecmo’s acquisition of the company. But don’t worry, the GUST developers will continue to do what they have always been doing – it’s just that they’ll be doing it as…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Airtight Games, the developer behind Murdered: Soul Suspect, Dark Void and Quantum Conundrum, has closed up shop, according to a report on Gamesindustry.biz. Apparently the shutdown of the Redmond headquarters has advanced quite far down the line, with the office equipment already up for sale. It’s…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Here’s a fascinating little fact I’ve come across; according to data from Newzoo, North America is no longer the biggest market for games. The USA is still the largest single market for games, reporting $20.5 billion in revenue from games, but looking at game revenue from…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Mindscape, the publisher of Tecmo Koei and Konami games in Australia, has announced a new partnership to bring retail games to our shores. That partnership is Rising Star Games, and the first games to come from this partnership will be Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Great…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Has Mario Kart 8 actually achieved the impossible and started a turnaround of the struggling Wii U? The first week of sales would actually suggest there’s merit to that idea. In the UK, Mario Kart’s first week of sales sent the Wii U sales soaring by…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. What we discovered last night: the Australian government has decided that it has no interest in funding game development any longer. It has emerged that the government did this without bothering to engage with the games industry first. Because, to be sarcastic, what could a game…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Two weeks ago, I was talking with Sebastian Perri, the Incubator Coordinator at the Canberra Campus for the Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE). I was chatting with him as research for an article that I was in the process of building, and as part of it,…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. It’s no secret; in recent years the Australian games industry has been struggling. A high dollar and increases in the cost of living has lead to studio closures and as a result the number of game developers working here is a fraction of what it once…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Here’s some big news; the developer of such fine games as those in the Armored Core and Dark Souls series, From Software, has been acquired by Kadokawa Shoten. Kadokawa isn’t a name that is especially well known in the west, but in Japan it is a major…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. We are fans of Ubisoft’s The Mighty Quest For Epic Loot, and in our recent review we argued that it’s one of the better examples of a free-to-play game. And it seems that the balance and effort that the publisher put into making something of a…
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