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Australia’s Gaming Industry Is Weathering COVID-19 Just Fine, For Now
2Video games have proved to be incredibly resilient in today’s COVID-19 world, and according to a new survey from Australia’s main video game association that resilience has flowed through to local development.
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Federal Politicians Are Starting To ‘Get’ Video Games
The Australian games industry is pretty accustomed to working with a federal government that, for the most part, doesn’t quite get it. That disappointment and apathy came through in the recent response to the upper house inquiry into video games, with developers and industry frustrated over the government’s refusal to outwardly support a growing sector.…
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How Video Games Could Become Australia’s Next Clean Export
Innovative, technology-based and packed with “jobs of the future”, Australia’s video game industry has the potential to drive our next big “clean” export. Global revenue for games is expected to reach $US98 billion in the next two years. In the last financial year, 81 per cent of Australia’s game development industry income came from overseas…
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The IGEA Asks South Australia To Remove All ‘Gambling Starts With Games’ Advertisements
In response to a series of ads stating ‘Gambling Start With Games’, Ron Curry of the IGEA has written to the South Australian government asking that all advertisements be removed.