http://www.gamearena.com.au/ GameArena - BigPond Games Channel http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4778227 Alan Wake is the star of a potentially spooky good game from developer Remedy in conjunction with global superpower Microsoft. His game (also called: Alan Wake) isn't dead, it's been sleeping at Duke Nukem's house. Rather than beat up some trash about "v... http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4778209 Dev diaries are so cool. You get part trailer, part game run-down and at the end of it you come away with more information and more eye-candy than when you started. This first Prince of Persia Dev Diary delivers on exactly that - there's some cool info o... http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4778019 EA has released a patch for the Spore Creature Creator only a week before the full game launches. The patch fixes a few small issues contained within the SCC and one big one - the ability to drag and drop creatures between Spore and the Spore Creature Cr... http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4777483 Is Madden 09 a worthwhile addition to the 20 year old series? Is it more than just a roster update in EA Sports legacy franchise? Should PC gamers be upset at the fact that Peter Moore decided not to bring Madden 09 to the PC? If you mess up bad enough t... http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4777432 H.A.W.X will have real life locations, accurately mapped to an incredible degree thanks to a partnership between Ubisoft and GeoEye, "a premier provider of satellite, aerial and geospatial information" and their Earth-imaging satellite IKONOS. Ubisoft pl... http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4777366 There's a new piece up on Gaming Liberty, it's the start of a fortnightly event where Greg Tanahill will help give us some insight into how a politician looks at games. Every two weeks we'll take your questions that you can ask in the comments (or PM me ... http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4777198 The Leipzig Games Convention 08 is the gift that keeps giving. In the good way. Our guys in Germany got us even more footage out of GC08 and it's just hit our video library in all its glory. Kicking things off we have a look at the EA press conference wh... http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4777181 So what if England beat Australia in the medal count. Who cares if we lost our last Rugby Union match to them. We're still tougher than them. How so? Well - apart from the Rugby League which would be an Australian sport if New Zealand would stop resistin... http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4777169 If you hate hip-hop, you'll probably want to skip this. Rapper The Game is willing to ante up for a $100K bet with "rapper and actor" Bow Wow over who owns who at Madden. Now, The Game's "The Documentary" kicked mucho ass, but since then he's fallen off... http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4777156 Jagged Alliance is coming to the Nintendo DS, a press release from publishers Empire Interactive announced today. The title is in development by Strategy First and Cypron Studios, and will be available on Nintendo's portable handheld in 2009. There are f... http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4777136 Yep, it's official now. Warhammer Online has reached gold status. Mythic CEO Mark Jacobs, "We've done our best to create the next great MMORPG experience, but it's the fans that will bring our world to life ... The Day of Reckoning approaches and it's g... http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4776213 AGD Interactive released Quest for Glory II VGA earlier this week. It's a freeware remake of the Sierra RPG/Adventure game Quest for Glory II. The game has been in development for about eight years and apart from the graphics the team at AGD also elimina... http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4775483 When Rockstar got in touch to tell us that Midnight Club LA would be playable at Shadow Wars, our first thought was "what a cool name for a LAN". However no, Shadow Wars is in fact *not* a LAN, but rather a b-boy festival/party of some note. Manning Bar a... http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4775440 In a recent interview the Executive Producer on Battlefield Heroes Ben Cousins (no, not the AFL player) stated that Battlefield Heroes is not delayed, as EA CEO John Riccitiello mistakenly announced earlier this year, because the game is already out. Whe... http://www.gamearena.com.au/news/read.php/4775316 Some of the data may be a little hazy, and some logic hopscotch may have been employed, but kudos to Richard Heeks of the University of Manchester for publishing a working paper on gold farming in MMOGs. Under the catchy title of "Current Analysis and F...