AusGamers has a few new faces that will be helping us bring a wider variety of content across the site in 2009 to hopefully make things a little more interesting. In addition to increased review coverage, we're aiming to step up the informational pieces as well, and hopefully get some good discussion happening.

Stepping things up today is Mike Bantick, with a bit of a predictive look into 2009. Mike chats with Aussie developer Trent Kusters, Designer at Melbourne based Torus Games about the general state of game development in Australia, the effects of the current global economic issues and some educated speculation on what we can except to see more and less of on both the PC and home console platforms throughout 2009.

Click on through for all the details and feel free to share your own thoughts in the comments.