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Read More »EA makes new casual studio purchase
Electronic Arts has acquired the social games studio Ohai, according to reports. The deal has not been confirmed by EA, though investment publication Venturebeat believes the studio has been purchased for a small fee. Ohai raised $6 million in January 2009, though its first major Facebook project, the vampire MMO …
Read More »GameTech 2011 hailed a success, plans 2012 event
The GameTech 2011 event attracted over 100 executives and professionals from within the Australian games industry when it was held at Luna Park in Sydney in late June. After more than six months of planning the event alongside the iGEA and GDAA, Connect Events has confirmed to MCV Pacific that …
Read More »The Voxel Agents announces sales of Train Conductor series
Train Conductor and Train Conductor 2: USA have been hugely successful titles for freshman indie developer The Voxel Agents, just passing half a million paid sales and counting. Speaking exclusively to MCV Pacific, the developer has confirmed that the series currently averages 25’000 plays per day on iOS platforms, and …
Read More »Former Irrational developers announce Epoch
One of Australia’s newest developers, Uppercut Games, has announced its first title ‘Epoch’ for iPhone 3GS and iPad 1 and up. Epoch is an action-combat game which sees players taking control of a robot in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, and the focus is on cover-based shooting mechanics. The game will use …
Read More »Bigpoint and Spil strike surprise partnership
Two leading companies in the highly factionalised social games space have negotiated a surprise partnership. Bigpoint, which hires over 800 people and is considered one of the world’s five leading online games firms, will port selected games to a rival service hosted by the Netherlands-based Spil Games. Spil Games is …
Read More »World Cyber Games re-brands and re-launches in Australia
Triumph Leisure Solutions (TLS) has acquired the World Cyber Games (WCG) brand and plans to open e-sports up to a broader community, while raising the level of the competitions themselves. For the last few years, various Australian owners of the brand haven’t been able to bring the event to the …
Read More »Fan focus as Activision ups the ante in franchise battleground
An intensive live event designed to engage and excite Call of Duty fans will make them forget all about EA’s rival Battlefield. That’s presumably the intention of publisher Activision, which announced the COD XP event last week.XP is billed as the ultimate, fully-immerse live experience” by Activision Publishing CEO Eric …
Read More »QV Software scores Dead Island as exclusive
QV Software (QVS) has acquired the distribution rights to Dead Island for Australia and New Zealand. The controversial Techland-developed game will be one of QVS’ biggest ever releases. CEO Paul Elliot said: As a company, we take pride in aligning ourselves with market leading publishers and exciting brands and products. …
Read More »GMA Hall of Fame: Dave Cook
MCV talks to the previous winners of a Games Media Award. This week, NowGamer’s Dave Cook talks to MCV about life as a games journalist. How did it feel to win a Games Media Award last year? Unexpected as always. I thought my first win back in 2008 was a …
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