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Jini Maxwell

Jini Maxwell is a curator at ACMI, and an award-winning videogame journalist. They curated ‘Honk: Untitled Goose Exhibition,’ co-curate Gay24, a monthly film night showcasing rare, radical and archival queer films. Jini is currently co-curating a major videogame exhibition at ACMI.

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Culture

Wholesome Direct’s journey to E3

From Discord to the front page of Twitch, Wholesome Games is changing the face of games. Wholesome Games founder Matthew Taylor tells us the full story of the grassroots organisation's strange journey to E3.

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Phantom Abyss is online multiplayer without the scheduling nightmare

Team WIBY's Ben Marrinan explains how they developed Phantom Abyss for a generation who treats games as a digital living room.

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Culture

NZ Games Festival: ‘The Pavs’ Awards winners and nominees 2021

Antifascist photography game Umurangi Generation cleaned up at NZ Games Fest's annual awards this year, with nods going to Best Friend Forever, Trigger Witch and more, across The Pavs ten categories.

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Game Development

Video game easter eggs prove that all games are personal

Triple-A games exist at a troubled intersection of art and capitalism. But there are hidden secrets in every game that reveal the human behind the machine.

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