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Article | 24/08/2012 IronMonkey and Firemint interview: Firemonkeys general manager, Tony Lay
Electronic Arts has brought together its two Australia based mobile development studios, IronMonkey and Firemint, to form Firemonkeys.
Article | 23/08/2012 Borderlands goes 8-bit in your browser
Borderlands 2 is quickly approaching its September 21st release date and, depending on your tastes, it may be one of the most anticipated games of the...
Article | 14/08/2012 New Sim City comes to the Mac in February
The newest version of Sim City—the popular franchise from Electronic Arts—will make its debut on Macs in February, the same time the game arrives on t...
Article | 14/08/2012 Valve Release Team Fortress 2 Mann Vs. Machine Update, Team Fortress 2 Invades Hero Academy
Free-to-play FPS juggernaut Team Fortress 2 is finally releasing its long-rumored cooperative mode. After years of team-based deathmatches and flag ca...
Article | 14/08/2012 Sims 3 interview: Supernatural assistant producer, Megan Myers
Before Megan Myers came to Electronic Arts, she worked as an educational technologist at a college in New York, where she created learning tools for p...
Article | 13/08/2012 Pokémon Art Show: 151 Pokémon, 151 Artists, 151 works of unadulterated awesome
Sometime back in January, a call went out for 151 artists to take part in an upcoming art show entitled Pokémon Battle Royale. Each of these artists w...
Article | 13/08/2012 Preview: The Sims 3: Supernatural expansion pack
The Sims 3 phenomenon is showing now signs of slowing down, with the seventh expansion to the game coming out.
Article | 11/08/2012 Zynga COO resigns
John Schappert, chief operating officer (COO) and director of online social gaming company Zynga, has resigned.
Article | 9/08/2012 Ouya ends Kickstarter campaign, prepares to launch Android-based console
Ouya, the upcoming Android-based game console from the company of the same name, ended its Kickstarter run Wednesday night, bringing in nearly $8.6 mi...
Article | 9/08/2012 Valve's Steam expands beyond games to take on app stores
Valve's Steam service isn't just for gamers anymore. Starting Sept. 5, the popular PC gaming service will offer other types of software for sale such ...
Article | 9/08/2012 Ford and Activision partner on a Ford Falcon Transformer
To celebrate the upcoming release of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Activision Blizzard has partnered with Ford Austr...
Article | 8/08/2012 DayZ To Become A Standalone Game
Yesterday we learned the popular zombie survival mod for ARMA II, DayZ, will be developed as a standalone game.
Article | 8/08/2012 IN PICTURES: Death visits THQ in Sydney
In anticipation of its biggest game release for the year, THQ held a stunt themed media event at Sun Studios in Alexandria, Sydney.
Article | 8/08/2012 A new kind of farming in World of Warcraft
Not content to recreate the entirety of Pokemon inside of their massively popular MMO, WoW has also unlocked a new farming simulator in their latest e...
Article | 30/07/2012 Gaming Top 5: How Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater influenced gaming
It may be hard now to imagine a time when skateboarding what not well represented in video games, but that was the situation until 1999 when the origi...
Article | 24/07/2012 Gaming Top 5: Games that made physics fun
Learning about physics may have been boring at school, but when it makes an appearance in the gameplay of a game, it’s a whole different story.
Article | 23/07/2012 Five Star Games becoming new Sega distributor in Australia “made sense”: former Sega MD
At the end of June, video game publisher and distributor, Sega, closed several of its local offices worldwide, including its Australian operation.
Article | 18/07/2012 Win an iPad or a Samsung Galaxy Tab in the 2012 PC World Media Usage survey
PC World is running its 2012 Media Usage survey, quizzing you on your Internet browsing habits and media consumption. We're interested in learning mor...
Article | 17/07/2012 The rise and fall of Sony
The Japanese electronics brand that once dominated that hearts and minds (not to mention wallets) of consumers is not quite as prolific these days as ...
Article | 10/07/2012 Angry Birds makers working on new Angry Pigs game
Rovio, the developers behind Angry Birds, are working on a sequel to the best selling app that will be played from the pigs' perspective.

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