The Digital Games Tax Offset will now extend to 'games as a service' projects, with additional funding on the way.
Multimedia specialist and software engineer are among 22 new roles included on the Priority Migration Skilled Occupation List, which offers priority visa processing, and possible paths to permanent residency.
Here’s what GWU Australia is doing to make freelance and precarious labourers a priority, and how people in other fields can push their unions to do the same:.
Foreign companies provide massive job boosts and up-skilling, but they have no interest in telling local stories, and they almost inevitably leave again.
Is a $500k minimum spend punishingly high? Is a 30% offset enough? What's different for film and TV? Game developers, welcome to the fight for federal screen support.
Victoria’s screen industry, encompassing film, television and videogames, today received a large investment commitment as part of a four-year strategy to help the state compete internationally.
Australia's first-ever nationwide tax offset for game development will be included in the next Budget, supercharging the local videogame industry.
'Not one dollar of any NSW Government screen funding supports video game development,' says IGEA.
MP Tim Watts' motion to recognise the social and economic contributions of videogames didn't shy away from the industry's flaws. It's the latest in a growing show of parliamentary support…
‘The one thing that you always have as a politician is a platform. I really want to put the enormous potential of the Australian videogame industry on that platform.’