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  • Aussies Spend (Nearly) $2bn On Videogames In 2008

    Recession? We don’t appear to know the meaning of the word. The Interactive Entertainment Association of Australia has announced the local industry generated just a smidgeon under $2 billion last year. That’s up a remarkable 47% on 2007. So-called “family games” were the biggest growth area, with GfK sales data showing the genre expanded 137%…


  • GDAA And IEAA Forge Game Tax Alliance, Heads To War

    Tax cuts for Australian game developers. It’s not a big ask, and certainly a justified one; the industry rakes in around $136 million a year, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. We know the last federal government had little interest in the idea, and that Labor senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and…