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Review: New Pokemon Snap is picturesque, approachable, and fatally incurious
This adorable redux offers plentiful opportunities for cuteness, but not imagination, writes Jini Maxwell.
Review: Essays on Empathy reminded me of the importance of creative community
This stunning collection of scrappy narrative microgames showcase Deconstructeam’s forensic interest in human intimacy. More importantly, they show the way that games create spaces for creative communion.
Winners of the 2020 AGDAs announced
The Australian Game Developer Awards ceremony streamed live on Twitch in 2020, hosted by Jordan Raskopoulos. Here is the full list of nominees and winners.
What can SA’s Video Game Development Rebate do for local developers?
The SA Video Game Development Rebate, the first of its kind in Australia, is now available to SA devs. What can a rebate like this actually achieve?
Umurangi Generation wins highest honour at the IGF Awards
The Australian/Maori antifascist photography game took IGF 2021 Seumas McNally Grand Prize among brilliant competition.
The Indie Houses brings international collaboration to games publishing
The new publishing collective The Indie Houses brings together seven international games publishers with an 'indies for indies' approach. They announced a new publishing direct, a prototype development fund, and more.
The Australia Council for the Arts wants to fund videogames
The Australia Council's 2021-4 digital culture strategy makes funding videogames a priority, including non-commercial art games.
Tasmania Game Makers vie for national recognition
After Tasmanian game developers stayed silent on IGEA's national industry survey, an advocacy group is hoping to fill the gaps.
Sony to shut PlayStation Store for PS3, PSP, and Vita
The Playstation store will no longer be accessible through PlayStation 3 consoles from July 2, and will shutter a month later for PSP and PS Vita.
Screen Tasmania supports a new videogame in latest funding round
Five projects have gained a share of $60,000 funding through Screen Tasmania as part of the state’s Cultural and Creative Industries Recovery Strategy.