Australske Team Bondi kom under beskydning kort efter de havde leveret L.A. Noire til RockStar Games og deres samarbejde blev indstillet kort efter. Bekyldninger om urimelige arbejdsforhold og det der var værre, var bare lidt af det firmaets altid åbenmundende grundlægger Brendan McNamara måtte lægge ryg til. McNamara har senest givet sin version af begivenhederne og nu er hans næste projekt blevet afsløret af indirekte veje. En artikel på Australian Financial Review om Mad Max-skaberen George Miller, afslører at han også har købt rettighederne til McNamaras næste spilprojekt, Whore of The Orient. Yderst fængende titel, men Miller vil også lave Mad Max-spil, men det er ganske tydeligt at han har en, pænt sagt, naivistisk tilgang til spilproduktion. Vi ser dog frem til at høre mere om begge projekter.

Which is why, after resisting the impulse for years, and watching imitators clean up, Miller is now finally going to make Mad Max, the game. Backed by Warner Bros, the game version of Fury Road was to be made in Sweden, until Miller saw what Team Bondi could do. He has also acquired the rights to Team Bondi founder Brendan McNamara’s next game, Whore Of The Orient.

“With the government’s support we can immediately go forward with two games,” says Mitchell. “Warner Bros is standing by, willing to do Fury Road; the incentive would bring it back here in a New York minute. It’s not immediately obvious but the potential in the video games sector is massive. Just from the statistics people are showing me, it’s a $60 billion industry fast-tracking towards $90 billion. And it’s not dominated by any particular country. Films are very expensive, so studios are making drastically fewer of them, but much higher quality, and they invest in sequels, because they know that they’ve got an opening which they don’t have to buy with their marketing dollars as aggressively.