News by Matt S. As all Australians know, there’s a federal election coming up in a little under two weeks now. Under normal circumstances this wouldn’t hold much interest to a gaming website, but as we’re an Australian publication, and as one political party has just announced something of intense…
Read MoreIn today’s edition of Friday afternoon nuttiness, an Australian politician, belonging to the Liberal Party of Australia, has written an opinion piece about the importance of the government supporting game development in Australia. You can read that piece here. There are noble words in that piece, to be sure. The…
Read MoreHow the Abbott government and Australia’s games industry is turning into a case of history repeating
Over at Crikey (one of Australia’s premier independent news outlets), I’ve penned a piece looking at some of the recent political events around the arts, and why Abbott’s government’s handling of the games industry is eerily similar to what happened to the film industry in the early years of that…
Read MoreNot a day after the depressing news that the Australian game development industry had shrunk to a third of the size of what it was a few years ago, the Federal Government announced the “winners” of its $6 million Games Enterprise investment into the growth and development of the industry.…
Read MoreIt looks like Australia is finally going to grow up and join the rest of the world, with the Australian Government introducing a bill to parliament to introduce a R18+ age category for video games. Previously the maximum age rating for a video game was MA15+, meaning that any game…
Read MoreIt looks like Australia is finally going to grow up and join the rest of the world, with the Australian Government introducing a bill to parliament to introduce a R18+ age category for video games. Previously the maximum age rating for a video game was MA15+, meaning that any game…
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