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Aussie Video Game Developers Are Doing Alright In The Pandemic After All
The Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (IGEA) report shows Aussie game developers are doing well after COVID.
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Someone Did The Maths On Which Dice Are The Best In Super Mario Party
Curious to find out which of the new character-specific dice in Super Mario Party was the best, a maths teacher in Ohio decided to research their underlying statistics. While he found that some characters are better for rolling higher numbers on average, the game is overall too random for character choice to always matter.
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The Typical Australian Gamer Is 32 Years Old
OK, this shouldn’t be news, but it’s always nice to have solid data to back you up when you’re stuck in an idiotic argument with a mouth-breathing talkback listener about how computer games are only for kids and thus can’t contain even a hint of adult activity. The annual Digital Australia report from the Interactive…
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Australian Bureau of Statistics Releases Data On Local Games Industry
The ABS has released hard numbers on the state of our local games industry. Don’t be shy – the data is available to anyone who wants to read it, including tech-savvy amphibians, extra-terrestrials and my grandma. While there’s a lot of interesting info in the report, I found the opening paragraphs the most poignant: At…