Ashes Cricket might be dead, but Big Ant reminds us that Bradman lives

A cheeky little email was dropped in my inbox this morning; Aussie-based Big Ant Studios has responded to the tragic news that Ashes Cricket 2013 is dead by releasing a new trailer for its upcoming Don Bradman Cricket 14 and reminding us that there is another cricket game on the way.

"Don Bradman set to save the Ashes" is the headline to the email. Cheeky indeed.

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Hey, so that weird lacrosse game being developed by Aussies is now on Kickstarter

Remember how we reported the rather weird news that an Aussie developer was involved in the development of a lacrosse game? A sport that 99 per cent of Australians would barely be aware exists?

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Aussies still can't release awesome cricket games, but they're making Lacrosse games now?

Big Ant Studios, the developer behind many sporting adaptations on consoles, including AFL Live and Rugby League Live, is working with Crosse Studios to release a lacrosse game.

Let's just start by pointing out how insane it is for an Australian developer to be working on lacrosse. You're lucky if you even meet a person in the country that has watched a lacrosse game, let alone played one. I'm sure it's a very fine sport, but Australian developers could be better spending their time working on sports Australians care about, methinks.

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Trailer: What's this? Another cricket game from Australia? Blimey!

Hot on the heels of the upcoming Ashes Cricket game from Aussie developer, Trickstar Games (and the publisher really should hurry up and release this game), another Australian developer is stepping in to attempt to provider the cricket nations around the world a FIFA-beater.

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