| 21 Dec 2007 |
Merry Christmas! Firemint will be closed from today for the Christmas/New Year summer holidays. |
| 17 Dec 2007 |
Firemint moves to its new studio. |
| 17 Nov 2007 |
The Fast and the Furious: Fugitive 3D, developed by Firemint for I-play, has won the Game Developer Association of Australia's Best Mobile Title award for 2007. Firemint has now won this award three years running, with previous winning titles EA Sports Madden NFL 07 3D in 2006 and Star Trek: The Cold Enemy in 2005. The GDAA awards were dominated by Puzzle Quest, which took out 5 of the 9 awards - congratulations to everyone at Infinite Interactive! |
| 17 Nov 2007 |
Firemint's Senior Producer, Ronald Haupt, presents "7 months, 7 people, 7 million units" at the Game Connection Asia Pacific conference. The presentation is available in PDF format (1.2MB). |
| 15 Nov 2007 |
Firemint's CEO, Robert Murray, has been appointed to the board of the GDAA, the Game Developers Association of Australia. |
| 31 Oct 2007 |
Firemint's CEO, Robert Murray, has been appointed to the board of Film Victoria. The board position is in addition to Rob's seat on the Film Victoria Evaluation and Advisory Committee which makes recommendations about funding decisions for film, TV and digital media projects. |
| 22 Oct 2007 |
The 2007 International Mobile Gaming Awards finalists have been posted on IMGA's site. |
| 16 Oct 2007 |
Firemint's FIA World Rally Championship 3D game has been selected as a finalist in the 3D category of the International Mobile Gaming Awards. At the last IMG Awards, Firemint's original IP Mega Monster won the Excellence in 3D award. |
| 7 Oct 2007 |
Congratulations to Ian Estes, the first ever US Mobile Gaming Champion in the Midnight Gaming Championship. Ian blazed through the game selected for the mobile category, I-play's The Fast & the Furious: Fugitive 3D, which was developed by Firemint. |
| 3 Oct 2007 |
Congratulations to Sherele Moody, winner of Telstra's Project Joystick competition. Firemint will be developing Sherele's game idea, starring Dudley the Dung Beetle, for mobile phone and PC. |
| 2 Oct 2007 |
Firemint has received a Commendation in the Information and Communication Technology category of the prestigious Governor of Victoria Export Awards. |
| 24 Sep 2007 |
International Mobile Gaming Awards entries are now closed - good luck to everyone who entered! |
| 22 Aug 2007 |
IGN reviews EA Sports Madden NFL 08 3D developed by Firemint. Madden 08 scores 8.0 and an IGN Editors' Choice Award. |
| 21 Aug 2007 |
A preview of WRC 3D (under development by Firemint) has been posted on YouTube. |
| 9 Aug 2007 |
BigPond GameArena has a video interview with Firemint about Project Joystick. |
| 8 Aug 2007 |
Firemint is announced as the developer of Project Joystick, Telstra's competition to find the best new game idea. |
| 24 Jul 2007 |
I-play announces WRC, with the 3D version of the first mobile game based on the FIA World Rally Championship to be developed by Firemint. |
| 26 Jun 2007 |
The Fast and the Furious: Fugitive 3D receives MobileGameFAQs' Gold Award and a score of 87/100. |
| 22 Jun 2007 |
IGN reviews The Fast and the Furious: Fugitive 3D, developed for I-play by Firemint. Fugitive receives IGN's Editor's Choice Award and a score of 8.8/10. |
| 21 Jun 2007 |
The 2007 International Mobile Gaming Awards are now open for entries. |
| 19 Jun 2007 |
I-play releases The Fast and the Furious: Fugitive 3D, developed by Firemint. |
| 15 May 2007 |
To support our continuing growth, Firemint has created a new position of Development Director to oversee all projects. Kynan Woodman has been promoted from Technical Director to Development Director, and Patrick Broddesson has been promoted from Lead Programmer to Technical Director. |
