Category: Gaming news
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It’s official: R18+ game legislation passes
After a hard-fought campaign lasting several years, Australia’s video game industry and community has achieved a major victory with the passing last night of landmark legislation which will introduce a new R18+ classification for video games in Australia. read more
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PS4 games in development, we want to “build a great machine”
PS4 games are in development and Sony is concentrating on building a great machine before revealing any more details, revealed Sony Worldwide Studios US head, Scott Rohde. read more
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Electronic Arts Attending Ubuntu Developer Summit
One of the worlds largest games publishers – Electronic Arts – are to deliver a short presentation at next weeks Ubuntu Developer Summit. Read more
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Doom 3 Source Released
“Just like Quake 3 before it, the Doom 3 source code has been released to the public (minus rendering of stencil shadows via the ‘depth fail’ method, a functionality commonly known as ‘Carmack’s Reverse’).
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Battlefield 3 Gets a High Res Installation Option
Both the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions are confirmed to have installation options for high-resolution textures. read more
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Gran Turismo 5 Spec 2.0 Update Detailed
Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi has revealed the content of Gran Turismo 5’s recently announced Spec 2.0 update. read more
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Codemasters to launch free-to-play, online F1 game
Codemasters, developers of the multimillion selling, BAFTA winning F1 2010™ video game, have announced that F1 Online: The Game, a free-to-play browser game, is in production at Codemasters Studios and set to launch in the first quarter of 2012. read more
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Doom 3 Source-Code To Be Released This Year
Just as suspected: the source-code to id Software’s Doom 3 game will be publicly released this year!
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Video game bar open soon
A dedicated video game cocktail bar will open in Melbourne next month. read more
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Sony “rebuilding” PlayStation Network after attack
The outage of Sony’s PlayStation Network and Qriocity service, now in its fourth day, looks set to continue after the company said on Sunday that it is “rebuilding” its system to better guard against attacks. read more