The eGames Expo is back and will be making yet another appearance in Melbourne on the 16th, 17th and 18th of November. The event is going to be held at the Melbourne Convention Centre and should host a huge number of companies vying for ultimate product exposure. No official list of exhibitors has been revealed yet, but you can check out their website here. We'll keep you updated though and will also be in full attendance when the event rolls around.

From the press release:

Key features of eGames 2007 will include:

• All the big brands, including PS3, Wii and Xbox.

• New product launches from leading suppliers and the opportunity to buy the latest products at the show.

• A central stage area featuring an ongoing schedule of keynote addresses, information sessions and entertainment.

• Designated lounge areas for general game play and specific eSport competition games zones.

• Presentations and information on careers in the games and entertainment industry.

• The Game Developers Association of Australia’s (GDAA) Game Connect Asia Pacific Conference will run concurrently with eGames 2007, providing benefits to both visitors, in particular from a careers and educational aspect in game development.

Great to see Australia taking the booming gaming industry seriously, and equally great to see the gaming industry taking Australia seriously.

So is this the one they were going to run last/this year in place of AGDC and then cancelled?

So is this the one they were going to run last/this year in place of AGDC and then cancelled?

Nah, I'm pretty sure this ran last year about two weeks after the game1/autosalon event.

Why melbourne tho? I thought brisbane housed the majority of development companies.

Apparently half the country's game development studios are in Victoria, if you believe what the state government here says. I guess a lot of them must be startups or relatively unknown ones though.

And yeah Game Connect was run last year in Brisbane, and eGames was run last year in Melbourne (I think), so now they're just joining up and making it one big event in Melbourne.

You guys gotta remember there's a lot of companies who do games based on movie rights, particularly for Disney and Dreamworks titles, that companies like Auran or Pandemic and all those other big studios up there which you guys would have heard of would have better things to bother with.
There's also a ton of companies who develop J2ME games and similar exclusively for Vodafone, Optus etc.
Plus, we have Melbourne House/Atari and Torus (neither of which, much like Auran, have done anything useful in the past dozen years, but hey, at least people have heard of them).

Melbourne House/Atari

Its Krome now :P

working at melbourne house

how many gaming companies does australia have? I thought it would be a handful of successful ones?

06/09/07

talk about thread revival

working at melbourne house

I often wonder what possesses someone to create an account, dig up an old thread and post something pointless. Are they trying to troll? I don't understand.