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How Australian devs are rethinking game marketing
5+ hour, 49+ min ago (1174+ words) When it comes to creating a game, you might think the biggest pain point is the idea, or the design. Finding funding to get it off the ground? Finding the right people to build it? Or ensuring that it's actually…...
GAMING: Decoding the gaming industry's pricing experiments
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (768+ words) We're entering a weird new world when it comes to how you pay for video games. Consider the past month. We've seen price rises (mainly for consoles), price drops (Xbox Game Pass)and now, in hushed whispers across the gaming…...
GAMING: Rushed, relegated and reprimanded: the quiet crisis in games reviewing
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (1266+ words) Should there be a best practice guideline for media game reviews? Harrison Polites from Infinite Lives shares his thoughts....
GAMING: The games that got away - Dispatch, Hell is Us, Arc Raiders
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (937+ words) That's the challenge. And as I'm in transit this week: here's the solution. Micro-reviews that cover a breadth of games that allow me to give a verdict and say something interesting about them but not go into too much detail....
Still after a Switch 2 preorder? Time to book a holiday to Australia
1+ year, 1+ hour ago (260+ words) As hype for the Nintendo Switch 2 console leads to worldwide sellouts, there's still some places where its available. This is one of them....
GAMING: The potential legal battle brewing over Nintendo's new Switch 2 terms
10+ mon, 4+ day ago (514+ words) Nintendo can remotely disable Switch 2 consoles, potentially challenging Australian consumer protection laws. Harrison Polites explains why....
GAMING: Are you getting crushed in Pokemon Champions too?
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1313+ words) For me, it was like being warped into an alternative reality, where a kids" game that I"d re-engaged with for about a decade prior was suddenly cool again. Everyone was playing it. It filtered into my day job too....
GAMING: How Freeplay, one of Australia's leading indie videogame orgs, missed out on government funding
3+ mon, 6+ hour ago (1073+ words) News, Insights and Stories from the Australian and New Zealand tech ecosystem. While your average gamer will tell you that the three-day expo PAX is their absolute highlight of the week, those in the games industry will give you a…...
GAMING: Australian game dev's complicated relationship with government support
4+ week, 4+ hour ago (1536+ words) News, Insights and Stories from the Australian and New Zealand tech ecosystem. After years in game development obscurity following the global financial crisis, an article from Game Industry. biz" has called it: the resurgence of Australia's game development industry. But,…...
GAMING: The greatest moments
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (1870+ words) News, Insights and Stories from the Australian and New Zealand tech ecosystem. It doesn't have to be complicated or overly cinematic either. Even the earliest Mario games threw players a memorable curveball when they first learned that the princess is…...