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Screen Australia Announces Three New National Games Development Funding Intiatives
Screen Australia has announced three new games development funding initiatives at GCAP 2023. The first of the three new programs is the Games Production Fund. This is to become Screen Australia’s flagship fund, absorbing and replacing the Games: Expansion Pack fund. Unlike the Expansion Pack funding, the Games Production Fund is designed to allow developers…
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Australian Digital Games Tax Offset Has Been Introduced To Parliament, Inching It Closer To Law
The Digital Games Tax Offset, which will allow Australian games developers access to a 30% rebate on projects costing up to $500,000, has been officially introduced to Parliament. It now begins the final part of its journey into law. We wrote about the Digital Games Tax Offset, or DGTO, last year when it was first…
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The Three Big Election Policies IGEA Think Could Kickstart The Australian Games Industry
The Interactive Games and Entertainment Association has outlined the policy pillars it hopes parties across Australia will commit to ahead of the 2022 Federal Election. It outlines these policies in a new publication called Backing The Game: IGEA’S 2022 Federal Election Policy Platform, which you can read in full right here. A PDF containing further…
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Why A Game Developer Is Running For The Senate
In the week leading up to the federal election, it’s fitting that news of the Australian Interactive Games Fund has cropped up again. I say that because before Australians are mandated to head to the polls for their traditional democracy sausage, I’ve been chatting with one federal candidate who firsthand understands the benefits of the…
