Melbourne gaming seminar turns two with a DigiBLAST!

Mike Bantick
Thursday, 14 June 2007 07:18

Your IT - Entertainment

Those folks over at the Melbourne Dissecta gaming gab-fest are celebrating two years of outstanding video game related seminars – As part of the second anniversary, this month's seminar tells the story of a Melbourne designed handheld gaming console.

In what promises to be an interesting dissection of the gaming industry from all angles, business, hardware and software, this months landmark Dissecta event will focus on the DigiBLAST handheld gamine device release in Europe in 2005.

Speakers include Jefferson Harcourt, Managing Director of Grey Innovation, the makers of the DigiBLAST, and Grant Davies, head of Endgame Studios, developers of several fine action games for the
console.

What a DigiBLAST! includes a Q&A session and complimentary networking  after-show drinks. Dissecta is also putting together three massive prize  packs to giveaway on the night to celebrate its two year anniversary  featuring games from Vivendi, Atari, Activision, Mindscape, Red Ant  Enterprises, and more.

Tim Richards, founder and convenor of Dissecta, reflects that "It is a  great  privilege to be able to put on a forum like Dissecta and hear from so many  interesting speakers from across the video game industry over the past two  years.  We are very appreciative of the support Dissecta has received since  starting, from the video game industry, from speakers, and audiences, and  we  hope to be able to continue Dissecta as a grass roots initiative well into  the future. A special thank you must go out to our volunteers for making  each show happen, and to our host venue, the GDAA's Australian Games  Innovation Centre (the Academy of Interactive Entertainment's Presentation  Room)."

All tickets for What a DigiBLAST! are just AU$5 and booking is essential via  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; people are welcome to pay by  Paypal or on the night. All door proceeds will be donated to the Alfred  Foundation , with Tantalus  Interactive generously kicking in $250 for the Alfred Foundation as well.
The venue is the GDAA's Australian Games Innovation Centre (the Academy of  Interactive Entertainment's Presentation Room), Atari Building, Melbourne,  opposite Albert Park.

Happy Birthday Dissecta.