The International Digital Entertainment Festival Melbourne 08 (or iDef for short) is on THIS week. Hosting a series of digital entertainment events and activities including the Digital Lifestyle Show, eGames Expo and Develop, an ICT Symposium and Careers Expo, it’s bound to be a great time.

14 - 16 Nov ‘08
Melbourne Exhibition Centre
eGames is the premium [...]

Any serious contender in the Australian video game industry will need to get ready for another year of GCAP this November 19 - 22 at the Hilton hotel in Brisbane, Queensland.
With four days of presentations and keynotes from a wide variety of established names in the business there’s something for people from any side of the [...]

Join your fellow gamers for some drinks and games at the 4th Official Gamers Meetup (and the 2nd Melbourne one)! Hosted and organised by Australian Gamer and Gamers Events. The whole team from AG will be at this one, various people from eGames and the general Australian gaming community, as well as Jordan and myself.

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Join your fellow gamers for some drinks and games at the 4th Brisbane Gamers Meetup!
Held at the local chinese restaurant/pool hall/arcade Cybercity 2002 in fortitude Valley, enjoy some cheap dinner then mash buttons on the arcade machines, play some pool, or belt out a tune in our own personal karoke room. BYO Drinks.

Activision and Alienware are teaming up to host a huge event in Melbourne, Australia for the launch of Call Of Duty: World At War.

Running 24 hours long this November 8th, the event is looking to be a real blast. Not only will Call Of Duty: World At War be playable across 100 XBOX 360s and [...]

James Gunn (Slither) and his brothers Brian and Sean made a PG rated “porn” movie starring Aria Giovanni and Nathan Fillion (Firefly).

Source: Spike

Recently a personal friend Joab Gilroy from GameArena appeared on the ABC program “Q & A”, discussing the R rating issue in Australia.

Got an opinion? Let us know below!

Next of interest on the E3 2008 line up is Rockstar’s announcement for the Nintendo DS - Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars (GTA CW).
After the mild success of GTA Advance, and the obvious triumph of the latest Grand Theft Auto IV, GTA CW is another welcome addition to the handheld library of GTA games.
Rockstar Leeds [...]

With the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) underway yet again at the Los Angeles Convention Center the usual flurry of news and goss is coming at us left right and center.
I can’t begin to contain the buzz around the industries biggest (yet now significantly smaller) gaming convention, with key notes already held by the big three, [...]

Who said games aren’t art? Recently Ubisoft decided to show off their latest wares at their prominent Ubidays 08 event, going down in style at the Louvre Museum, Paris. Apart from lots of coverage on already known works such as Far Cry 2, a slew of promising sequels and more vague titles were announced throughout [...]