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GAME Australia marketing director Ben Grant has announced his resignation today, and is hoping to move from retail to publishing. Grant began his career at GAME as a buyer in the UK, and has decided to move on after 15 years of service, effective after the close of GAME’s financial …
Read More »Cat Deeley to promote DanceStar Party
Consumers can participate in a competition today where Sony and Cat Deeley are looking to pick Australia’s DanceStar. The vivacious host of ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ US will be at Circular Quay, Sydney today to help host the competition, in honour of the launch of the new PS3 …
Read More »EA’s Origin draws 5m users
More than five million gamers use EA’s online download platform Origin every day, says the publisher’s COO Peter Moore. The former EA Sports boss told Screen Play about the service after being heckled at the EB Games Expo in Australia last weekend by one member of the audience. We’re only …
Read More »KMM Brisbane closes doors
Australian dev scene suffers devastating blow as Happy Feet Two studio shuts down
Read More »Peter Moore keynotes the EB Expo
TheCOO of EA, Peter Moore, has made a personal appearance at Australia’s biggest ever games event EB Expo to deliver a keynote address. His talk spent a considerable amount of time recounting the path games have trodden to get to where they are today, reminiscing about the pre-console FPS days, …
Read More »Aussie retailers break Batman: Arkham City release date
The Australian arm of video games retailer Electronics Boutique has begun selling Warner Interactive’s Batman: Arkham City a day ahead of its official release in the territory. And as a result, rival GAME has also gone live with its sales of the title on its website. The move was brazenly …
Read More »MCV Pacific launch party: In pictures
The regional games industry descended on Sydney last week to celebrate the launch of our new trade site, MCV Pacific. Publishers, retailers, developers, educators and more came out to celebrate with the MCV team and you can check out the pictures by clicking here. The aim of MCV Pacific is …
Read More »MCV Pacific launches for ANZ
Intent Media has launched its first international venture, with MCV Pacific going live this week. The aim of MCV Pacific is simple: to become a trusted and prolific resource for news affecting all games industry sectors; concentrating initially on Australia and New Zealand and then expanding to encompass every region. …
Read More »Resident Evil Revelations out January 27th
Capcom’s 3DS survival horror shooter Resident Evil Revelations will hit UK shelves in January next year. Like this year’s Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D, Nintendo will handle sales, marketing and distribution duties for Revelations throughout Europe and Australia. Capcom will remain publisher. Revelations is the second Resident Evil game on …
Read More »Sign up now for MCV Pacific launch
MCV Pacific goes live on Monday, October 3rd – and if you haven’t signed up for the associated editorial email services, you’ll be missing out. The new site – www.mcvpacific.com – will be the region’s first dedicated b2b media outlet and has already attracted the support of the biggest local …
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