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The Australian video game market fell by 16 per cent in 2010, but the Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (iGEA) has insisted that the downturn is a blip – and that it will soon be heading for a new high. For the calendar year 2010, Australian sales reached AUD$1.7 billion, …
Read More »New Mana Bar to open in Melbourne
The Mana Bar, Australia’s only video game-themed cocktail bar, will open a second venue, in Melbourne, later this month – and has plans to eventually go global. The first venue opened in Brisbane on March 20 2010 and has been a huge success. The Melbourne bar will open on July …
Read More »Nokia’s N9 might skip UK
Nokia may not release the firm’s MeeGo-based N9 smartphone in the UK if an Inquirer report is to be believed. The Inq noticed that the UK fails to appear as a drop down option in the Nokia Europe Check Availability page for the Nokia N9. Other countries also don’t appear …
Read More »Digital faces confidence crisis
Sure, this recent spate of ‘digital terrorism’ has gone after community databases and arguably minor details. But the bigger question it poses about what happens to important personal and financial data must be heard by publishers. And the answer isn’t a quick ‘bung a security firm a hundred grand to …
Read More »Nintendo ups the ante
Best of all it is followed next by a new Resident Evil. Then there’s that line-up for Christmas – Star Fox, Mario Kart, Metal Gear Solid, Super Mario and Kid Icarus. 3DS is one of those machines that will benefit from word of mouth, and unique features such as Street …
Read More »E3: A feast for the senses, but little food for thought
Maybe those execs were all just hungry. After all, you can spend so much time in E3 meetings that you don’t get to eat. But the analogies have a point: the market is evolving, and games are fracturing into different sizes. So why was that message absent from the showfloor, …
Read More »Sega building ‘unique’ Vita game at new studio
Sega has today opened its third UK studio, formed from key staff that headed up the now-defunct Sega Racing Studio. The new group is formed of six talented staff that, in 2008, were given the chance to remain at Sega when the racing studio was shut and sold off. The …
Read More »E3 Review: Industry plays it safe
This year’s big LA show had the highest quality line-up ever seen at our annual trade event, says Michael French, but the best games were also me-too games, and the biggest announcements only addressed bigger broken promises Straight from the Games Journalist Book of Clichs Vol 2, I must begin …
Read More »E3 2011: Battlefield 3 set for iOS
EA is bolstering its mobile offering with new versions of its major franchises coming to the iPad and iPhone. A promotional video released by EA reveals that Madden, FIFA, Need for Speed and Battlefield are all coming to iOS. EA’s Battlefield 3 is headed for a face-off with Activision’s Call …
Read More »LulzSec exposes NHS security gaps
Infamous hack collective LulzSec has warned the NHS that its computer network is vulnerable to cyber attack. Lulz Security, which claims to have been behind recent PSN hacks, sent an email to NHS administrators exposing breaches the service’s network, the BBC reports. Playfully dubbing themselves ‘pirate-ninjas’, the groups published the …
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