Boutique telecommunications and media company Kordia has reported an improved financial performance as investments made during the past few years begin to contribute. Net profit, before an income tax adjustment for the tax change to building depreciation and corporate tax rates, for the year ended 30 June 2010, improved by $3.3m to $2.2m.
Independent games studio Grinding Gear Games announced Path of Exile, a free-to-play PC online action Role-Playing Game (RPG) set in a dark fantasy world. The game will be available in early 2011.
Screen Hub will launch a new, mobile phone directory of the New Zealand and Australian film and television industries in November. Screen Hub mobile will place more than 7,000 film and television contacts at you fingertips. Simply search and click once to call or email anyone on the database. One click will even add that person or company to your phone's contacts.
Commercial is funny in itself, but we can''t help thinking that the Australian electorate has just done this to the entire political establishment. Pay attention or we will smash stuff!
Digital Pictures is having an excitement attack, as the 3D post on Sanctum come to a climax. The company is leading the charge into the sector, and honing its communication systems to cope.
Gary Hayes, the Founding Head of LAMP,the Laboratory for Advanced Media Production, at AFTRS, has taken support for transmedia projects to its next logical step - the borderless transnational net. It's formal structure is called StoryLabs.
A whole website attacking the US Food Network? Ptui, too easy. But one post did leave us caught between laughing and heaving, and we just wanted to share...
Dunedin based television production company NHNZ is tomorrow launching its first computer game designed exclusively for Facebook. Flutter was conceived by NHNZ's new games division Runaway, created last year to focus on meaningful social network games inspired by the world around us.
iView is the ABC’s internet catch‐up TV service - or so Auntie is promoting it as heavily as possible. But it has another function too, which will set some antennae twitching in the hive mind of independent documentary.
Ignored by the cruel swine in Canberra, blighted by stupid policy on both sides of politics, scarred by its own desperation, SBS reveals that it can't even afford the technology to provide a stream for ISP's to download without metering.
Other people think the big picture needs a spotlight in the election too. This one is about the technicalities of spectrum, all about a truckload of money and a future which could crimp so badly we would lose 3D TV. Wouldn't that be terrible? [yes, actually].