Tag: Ron Curry

Games sector key to $190m Victorian screen strategy

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The local games development sector is a key focus of the Victorian government’s new $190 million screen strategy, announced just days after the federal government unveiled a tax incentive...

Lack of support for games sector is a tragedy

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
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

Posted on   |  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’

Posted on   |  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

Posted on   |  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

Posted on   |  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

Posted on   |  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

Posted on   |  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

Posted on   |  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...
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