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Lack of support for games sector is a tragedy

A complete lack of federal support for local games development is a “real tragedy” and Labor will bring policies focused on the sector to the next election, shadow assistant...

Games sector preps for election

18 January 2019 | by Denham Sadler

The Australian game development sector hopes to drive part of the national debate in the lead up to this year’s federal election, seeking a new level of political support...

Senate looks into ‘loot boxes’

4 July 2018 | by James Riley

A senate inquiry has been launched into “loot boxes” in video games, with the potential for the controversial mechanisms to be regulated or completely banned. The motion to refer...

UN gaming disorder upsets developers

19 June 2018 | by James Riley

The UN health agency’s decision to list gaming addiction as a mental health condition for the first time has been criticised by Australian game developers, who say there isn’t...

Games industry: Not happy, Jan

31 January 2018 | by James Riley

The federal government has rejected nearly all the recommendations of a Senate inquiry into the local games development sector, leaving the industry “incredibly disappointed” and angry. The government tabled...

Govt misses own games deadline

15 January 2018 | by James Riley

The government failed to meet its own year-end deadline for tabling a response to a senate report on the local games development sector, even as the ‘zombie inquiry’ approaches...

Getting Australia into the R&D game

24 November 2017 | by Aimee Chanthadavong

South Australia is to get a new game developers co-working space in Adelaide courtesy of a $2 million state government grant to Canberra-based gaming sector incubation specialist Game Plus....

Zombie report gets a resurrection

19 June 2017 | by Stuart Kennedy

A recommendation from a long buried Senate report to reinstate a Federal funding program for the local video games industry got a thumbs up from another parliamentary report this...

Game developer inquiry ignored

11 May 2017 | by James Riley

Support for Australia’s struggling video game industry went missing in the Federal budget and now Green’s Senator Scott Ludlam is on the hunt for the Turnbull government’s response to...

Election 2016: Where to now?

27 April 2016 | by James Riley

With Australia having entered a faux election campaign, the time is ripe for a faux election preview. InnovationAus.com has been out testing the temperature of the ‘innovation electorate’ to...

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