Gaming!!!

[Tinman_auParticipant]

hey Renai!

I was poking around on the site and read your “About Us” section and noticed your press release about “Why I’m starting Delimiter”.

I’m pretty sure I remember reading your stuff on ZDnet and always found your articles (along with Davids and Joshs) some of the most insightful on Aussie oriented IT news/analysis (not blowing smoke, just a statement of fact).

In your “why I’m starting..” you mention:

“While I do follow international news, what I’m really fascinated with is Australia’s technology sector in all its facets (IT, telco, gaming, consumer gadgets and so on). I’ve worked in that sector myself.”

Gaming has always been the strongest attraction to the IT industry for me (a 50 YO gamer, and proud member of http://www.theoldergamers.com) and I was wondering what I might be able to do to help Delimiter get a better gaming news section? I’m not looking for a job (I already have a good one), but I’m actually pretty interested in how the games industry is doing in Australia (both as a “user” and how the “devs” here are coping with the GFC etc), plus we have some very interesting stuff going on here (like Euclideon and BigWorld). Not really that interested in seeing game reviews (they are a dime a dozen), but real Australian games industry news seems rather hard to find (Ausgamers and GameArena are OK for Aussie game news, but they focus more on the games than the companies/people, while http://www.gamesindustry.biz is good for industry news, but rarely has Australian content).

Might be a niche that an enterprising young journo can open up perhaps?

• This topic was modified 8 months ago by  Tinman_au.

[Renai LeMayKeymaster]

hey man,

you have a long memory!

I am a long-term gamer myself. I own a gaming PC, an Xbox 360 and just bought a PlayStation 3. I spend way too much time on these systems, depending on who you talk to … Starcraft II and Dark Souls/Demon’s Souls in particular being obsessions at the moment … or for the past 12 months.

I agree with you that Delimiter needs to cover gaming more. The problem is that about a year or so ago, virtually the entire gaming industry in Australia was either acquired or collapsed, and so there are very few development houses locally actually doing anything interesting. When there are interesting titles released locally, dev houses receive funding or other deals are struck, I definitely do report on them, and I also report on other issues such as the price of games locally (the ‘Australia tax’) as well as the R18+ laws.

But the truth is that there just isn’t that much news locally in this area. If there was more, I would report more on this area.

The best thing you can do to help me along in this area is to point me to things when they happen, or highlight interesting issues or companies to me, exactly as you have done in this post. This allows me to put them on my radar, and believe when I say, once something has gotten on my radar, it does not leave it. I have comprehensive editorial lists which go back years, and I refer to them if I need stories to follow up on. I have the memory of an elephant when it comes to Australia’s technology sector :)

Hope this helps answer your question!

Renai

[Tinman_auParticipant]

“Hope this helps answer your question!”

Yeah, cheers mate, it does indeed. If I hear of any aussie related gaming news I’ll keep you in mind.

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