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Best video games from Australia and Aotearoa in 2020
In a year defined by isolation, protest, pandemic, and uncertainty, these games galvanised us, fostered solidarity, and provided comfort.

Bringing Games Tech On Country with Luggarrah
As videogame technology becomes even more relevant to a wider range of industries, how do we ensure rural communities aren't…

First Look at the Parliamentary Friends of Video Games
‘The one thing that you always have as a politician is a platform. I really want to put the enormous…

Videogames have a conflict mineral problem
Violence in Central Africa is so bound up with the minerals used in consumer tech, some call it the PlayStation…

When artists found Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it became a whole new world
Artists are hosting incredible digital events through Animal Crossing: New Horizons, in a time when COVID-19 made meeting in person…

POC game developers celebrate diversity with #IamPOCinPlay
The hashtag #IamPOCinPlay was created by POC in Play, a UK-based organisation that develops initiatives to promote and include People…

AIDC mentorship and $25k funding for documentary videogames
State of Play offers development funding and mentorship to strengthen and showcase the collaboration between nonfiction stories and gaming technologies…

Video games that will make you see death differently this Halloween
The interactive medium can engage players in profound questions about grief, mortality, and what it means to move on.

From Twitch streamer to studio lead, Loriipops is changing games culture
Lorien Gugich will bring six years of partnered Twitch streaming, experience in production and community management, and a passion for…

Cultural integrity and Indigenous collaboration on the Innchanted soundtrack
At Games Connect Asia Pacific Conference, composer Meena Shamaly detailed his collaborative process of composing a score alongside First Nations…