Australia's Video Game Industry Voices Out!
July 6th 2007 10:37
The Games Developers Association of Australia has created a media statement in response to the 2007 Federal Budget: Wanting equal rebate treatment like the film’s industry.
Accounting for over 80 per cent of the industry, the GDAA press release claims that for every $10,000 spent in the film industry, only $3 contributes to the video game industry.
Other facts includes: domestic sales in the video game industry of around $400 million, export sales of $100 million and the creation of 1,600 jobs in the industry.
Well this is a huge claim by Australia's biggest video game industry body, it is true the industry here isn't as big as it deserves, which shows in the 2007 Budget. If the industry is big, then there would be a stronger coverage in video game news in Australia. Gosh it can be a lonely occupation sometimes.
*logo from gdaa.com.au
Quick News Headlines (sources from gamasutra, filefront, developmag, gamesindustry.biz, tech digest and PALGN)
- Quantic Dream (creators of the immersive story-telling game: Fahrenheit) has signed with Sony to create an exclusive title for the Playstation 3. Meanwhile Grand Theft Auto 4, Assassin’s Creed, Devil May Cry 4 and Virtua Fighter 5 are no longer exclusives.
- Timegate and Gamecock announces a partnership and new game: Sector 8.
- While Chemistry and Ghostlight work to create To End All Wars for the PS3/360.
- In Europe, Sony Pictures announced a 1000% boost in sales of Blu-ray disks since the PS3’s launch.
- GfK posts Pokemon Diamond and Pearl still on the top 2 sales chart.
- Metroid Prime 3 won’t have online play so the developers, Retro, can focus on an awesome single player experience, plus there will be three different control schemes to choose from.
- Square-Enix reveals an educational game range: DS style, with titles covering gardening, travel and classical music.
- Another ban in the world: The Darkness won’t see the light of day in Singapore.
- The 360 Elite, equipped with 120 gigs of hard drive, is launching in Japan on October 11th.
- Announced by Simpson’s creator, Matt Groaning, the next Simpson’s video game will have Matt Groaning as the end-of-game boss!
- EA announces “Family Play” for their Madden, Fifa and NBA titles on the Wii. It’s basically a ‘noob’ option for kids to play the games ‘shooting passing, snapping and throwing’ sections while the game plays automatically controls the player’ s teams movements.
- In the bizarre; reported last week, a 31 year old, female, Australian, WoW player has been arrested in the United States, for having a forbidden love affair with a 17-year old boy after they first met on WoW. It is believed the parents were involved in her arrest.
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