PAX Aus returns to Melbourne after a year online
PAX Aus have announced the festival will be held in person this year and gamers are rejoicing.
The lifetime climate cost of your next-gen console
Videogame consoles aren't covered under energy efficiency regulations in Australia and NZ, but that doesn't mean there isn't a price.
ACMI: Rebooting the museum of the moving image
After closing for a major make-over (and pandemic postponement) the Australian Centre for the Moving Image is re-opening with a…
Making video games for a dying planet
What can video games contribute to the climate conversation?
What 2020 taught us about games (and life)
Screenhub catches up with some of the leading lights of the local games industry, to hear about the lessons they…
The surprising ways games challenge how people think about themselves and the world
Increasingly, console games help us question the ways we see, think or feel about the world, the game, even ourselves.
Best video games from Australia and Aotearoa in 2020
In a year defined by isolation, protest, pandemic, and uncertainty, these games galvanised us, fostered solidarity, and provided comfort.
Bringing Games Tech On Country with Luggarrah
As videogame technology becomes even more relevant to a wider range of industries, how do we ensure rural communities aren't…
Videogames have a conflict mineral problem
Violence in Central Africa is so bound up with the minerals used in consumer tech, some call it the PlayStation…
When artists found Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it became a whole new world
Artists are hosting incredible digital events through Animal Crossing: New Horizons, in a time when COVID-19 made meeting in person…