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Find out which Western Australian developers picked up the first state government funding for video games in over a decade.
Western Australian game developers will have access to the first government fundi in more than a decade with the announcement of The Interactive Pilot Fund.
Too bad if you wanted to use it for something else, if you played Pokémon in the 90s part of your visual cortex has specialised in recognising them all.
Freeplay Festival celebrates fifteen years of championing independent video games and challenging the status quo this year at a time when everyone could be considered indie.
Fly, hang out with your bird-mates, and listen to cool ambient tunes in Samurai Punk's Feather.
A curated and accessible list of games released last year that everyone can enjoy.
Keep those credit cards hot, because the Australian Government isn't about to stop you buying loot boxes any time soon
Maize Wallin is a musician and game designer, whose exploration of how we play musical instruments has lead to them designing Noise Drawers an virtual reality musical instrument game.
The Working Lunch is back for 2019 with applications open for women and non-binary participants.
Don't you forget about us says IGEA as Australia heads towards the next federal election.
Big or small, some gifts really make all the difference. We asked you what was your best video game gift ever and share some of our favourites!
The highly awarded Florence by Melbourne based studio Mountains, has secured three nominations at this year's Game Awards.
Billed as a Sims-killer, Habs by Sydney's Revie Studios fails to attract backers to their now cancelled crowdfunding campaign.
Making games is difficult and getting paid for it properly is even harder according to new statistics from Game Workers Unite Australia.
If you ever wanted to have a custom game for a loved one, HEART2GAME might be just what the "love doctor" ordered.
100 episodes down and we want to party with you at The Sewing Room in Perth on Friday July 13th 2018!
A whole lot of good dogs that need pats in Woof3d, a Wolfenstein 3d mod by Louis Roots.
Do yourself a favour and play this gorgeous love letter to Studio Ghibli's Kiki's Delivery Service.
Your request for even more discussion about the Australian Government response to the Video Game Development inquiry has been noted.
Strap yourself in, you've got 48 hours to make a game from start to finish at the Global Game Jam which celebrates it's 10th anniversary this year.
Don't let your fans' videos drown in an ocean of content, follow these simple tips to ensure your game gets the attention it deserves on Twitch, Youtube and Mixer.
Find out which Western Australian developers picked up the first state government funding for video games in over a decade.
Western Australian game developers will have access to the first government fundi in more than a decade with the announcement of The Interactive Pilot Fund.
Find out which Western Australian developers picked up the first state government funding for video games in over a decade.
I fixed a nuclear reactor so clearly I'm an engineer now... Sarah Survives Subnautica Part 3!
Download a free collection of bird themed games created for Perth's Potluck Collective by talented indie developers.
Please Father Christmas, I've been very good this year....and I NEED a cyclops... Sarah Survives Part 2!
How do you write a narrative when your audience can change the way they experience it? Recorded live at XR:WA 2019
How long can you survive against an endless onslaught of demons? Devil Daggers by Sorath will keep you on your toes with its 90's inspired FPS arena action,
Sarah strikes out on her own in a new series SARAH SURVIVES! How long can she survive in Subnautica?
Team up with friends and battle it out in the cute Pico Tanks by Melbourne's Panda Arcade.
It's a retro styled game with modern bones, Amid Evil by Indefatigable is how you remembered those early nineties shooters to be.
Ellie Balson designs games from an artist's perspective, making quirky and charming adventure games.
Recorded live at Supanova Perth 2019, how do some of your favourite creators keep creating?
What happens if you try to make the perfect 90s shooter with modern technology? Leon & Simon from Indefatigable tried to do just that with their game Amid Evil
Live. Die. Repeat. Watch Mitch and Fiona fight their way through a scary future in Void Bastards by Canberra's Blue Manchu Games.
Western Australia gets its very on interactive media festival with XR:WA, Kate Raynes-Goldie & Sof Mather are here to break it down.
Move around a flat arena in Teleblast, warping and then exploding your enemies. Developer Tim Veletta dropped by to play the game with us.
It's stylish, its tactical, it feels like you're inside a very dangerous comic book, it's Void Bastards by Canberra's Blue Manchu!
What do developers think of Screenwest's new Interactive Pilot Fund?
Western Australian game developers will have access to the first government fundi in more than a decade with the announcement of The Interactive Pilot Fund.
If you're into anthropomorphic Aussie animals smoking, drinking and investigating a mystery, you've got a very particular set of tastes, but STONE should be exactly what you're into.
It's official, we're the winners of the gaming category in the 2019 Australian Podcast Awards.
Feel the thrills of tearing through the waves and sea without ever leaving the shore in VR Regatta by Melbourne's MarineVerse.
All the winners from the 2019 Freeplay Festival Awards!
If you're up for a cyberpunk noir adventure game, then Tales of the Neon Sea might be just the lead you're chasing to blow this case wide open.
Too bad if you wanted to use it for something else, if you played Pokémon in the 90s part of your visual cortex has specialised in recognising them all.
Head back to a past that never was in Double Shot, an 1980s inspired neon cyberpunk VR bartending shooter.
Freeplay Festival celebrates fifteen years of championing independent video games and challenging the status quo this year at a time when everyone could be considered indie.
It's a dark and spooky fantasy game of hide and seek, and we sat down with one of the creators, James Koehne to see who was the best at being hidden!
Jump inside the gameboard with Tin Man Games' Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown a Playstation VR tabletop game.
How do you turn the ship from marketing & consulting company to full time game developer? Katie Stegs and the team at Lumi Interactive know how.
Fly, hang out with your bird-mates, and listen to cool ambient tunes in Samurai Punk's Feather.
It's the fifth anniversary of Stirfire Studio's Freedom Fall this year, so it seemed a perfect opportunity to jump into one of Perth's finest indie games.
We've been selected by the judges at the Australian Podcast awards as finalists for 2019!
What do you get when you combine Earthbound, Monkey Island and Groundhog Day? Mars Underground, a timelooping retro adventure.
A curated and accessible list of games released last year that everyone can enjoy.
Enter the fantasy world of Armello as anthromorphic characters battle for the crown in this digital boardgame from Melbourne's League of Geeks.
Can you survive in this multiplayer brawler, where every part of your body can be knocked off?
Keep those credit cards hot, because the Australian Government isn't about to stop you buying loot boxes any time soon
Maize Wallin is a musician and game designer, whose exploration of how we play musical instruments has lead to them designing Noise Drawers an virtual reality musical instrument game.
Watch Mitch get well and truly lost in space with Flat Earth Games' Objects in Space.
Meet some Sandgroper streamers, we went down to WesternAus Community meetup up to say hello.
It's fast, frantic and a little bit hypnotic, join us as we learn how Ian MacLarty developed his new space action game JUMPGRID!
Hyper Jam: It's stylish combat in a cyberpunk world where one of the Daft Punk robots can beat up Major Kusanagi. What more do you want?
Fight fires and more in a town where EVERYTHING burns in Paperville Panic!
The Working Lunch is back for 2019 with applications open for women and non-binary participants.
You know those crazy mini golf courses you designed as a kid? We'll now you can play them in Golf With Your Friends by Brisbane's Blacklight Interactive
Home is what you make it, and for developers at Perth's Global Game Jam, Northbridge became a supportive home of creativity.
Hundreds of Australian made games are on sale now!
Tactical strategy game Guile & Glory: Firstborn is the first project for Melbourne based Elston Studios and it's built on a love of tactical and tabletop games.
Wobble, whack and win in the wavey tube battle of your life with Inflatality by Hojo Studio and Deepforge Studios.
She and the Light Bearer is a storybook tale filled with Indonesian plants, history and culture from Surabaya based Mojiken Studio
Big or small, some gifts really make all the difference. We asked you what was your best video game gift ever and share some of our favourites!
Racing along the martian wastes with Desert Child by Oscar Brittain, a stylish scifi adventure game.
Don't you forget about us says IGEA as Australia heads towards the next federal election.
Ellen Jurik of Sydney's Blowfish Studios shares their adaptation of the classic children's novel Storm Boy.
How hard is it to work with a friend to push a few buttons and shoot a few hoops? Bloody hard it turns out.
Every single video from PAX Australia 2018, our PAXELSIFT series 3, available right here right now.
Clinton McCleary's first game Infliction isn't for the faint of heart, but it's definitely a powerful piece of horror storytelling.
A lot of spinoff media is just there to help advertise the original games, but Mitch reckons it's just as valid to enjoy spinoff and not care about about the source.
We're finalists for "Gaming Publication of the Year" at this year's Australian Gaming Awards, and we'd love your support and your vote to make it to the shortlist!
You awake to find yourself in a dark room... luckily Mitch & Scott are here with you as they play Stirfire Studio's newest game The Dark Room!
The highly awarded Florence by Melbourne based studio Mountains, has secured three nominations at this year's Game Awards.
STONE: Is this the first Ozploitation game? Greg Louden of Convict Games thinks so.
Combine your love of single player adventure books with your love of pushing buttons in PixelSiftPlays The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Tin Man Games
How Nintendo’s unlikeliest collaboration caught my attention again, two years after its explosive entrance into the mobile gaming scene.
There are emerging communities of developers from around the Asia-Pacific, and The Longitude Exhibition is a showcase of some of these games.
After many years of working without state government support, Western Australian developers have now have their first direct funding program.
Billed as a Sims-killer, Habs by Sydney's Revie Studios fails to attract backers to their now cancelled crowdfunding campaign.
We're teaming up with Party Loaded once again to share some of our favourite parts from PAXAUS 2018!
Break out the tequila we're playing the recently released Party Crashers with Giant Margarita!
A mobile Diablo style game? It works better than you think according to Zamfir Dimitru who is working on Dawnlade, a game that is just that.
We'll be all over Melbourne International Games Week and PAX AUS, it's going to be chock-a-block
Making games is difficult and getting paid for it properly is even harder according to new statistics from Game Workers Unite Australia.
Are you afraid of Australian spiders? Well you're going to be way more scared when you're shrunk to their size in Little Bit Lost!
John Robertson, comedian and performer joins us this episode as we learn about the Dark Room, his video game adaptation of the YouTube & stage show of the same name, a collaboration with Stirfire Studios.
We announce our Pixel Parties Prize Winner & an update on our where we'll be at PAXAUS 2018!
The internet comes at you fast take a journey with Mitch and learn why he thinks memes and folklore have more in common than you think.
Friendship, nostalgia and adventure in The Gardens Between by Melbourne's The Voxel Agents.
Mitch doesn't know anything about Spider-Man, but he sure talked about it on Episode #145 of Party Loaded!
Jeff and Locky from Grease Monkey Games take us on a ride with Torque Drift, their mobile competitive drift game.
If you every wanted to play as Nightcrawler from the X-Men then Mr Shifty by Queensland based developers Mr Shifty.
Daniel & James from Melbourne's Pixel Engineers join us to share Hunt 'N Sneak their asymetric local multiplayer game of light and shadow.
They've called it Australia's Biggest Esports event, and Pixel Sift were there for the very first Melbourne Esports Open.
It's been close a decade in the making, but now you can play Ben Porter's MoonQuest, a procedurally generated crafting platformer made in Melbourne.
Chomp your way to the top in Eatvolve by Melbourne's Aladar Apponyi, and how hard games with an audience are better than hard games on their own.
Scream your lungs out in Virtual Reality with Gattai Games scary horror game Stifled.
What if snake was a turn based puzzle game with time travel? Well now it is with Those Six Faces AKA Sean Simon's Snake Time!
If you ever wanted to have a custom game for a loved one, HEART2GAME might be just what the "love doctor" ordered.
Climb into your giant robot for a normal game of basketball just like humans always do in "Regular Human Basketball" by Melbourne's Powerhoof!
Take the game of life and death into your hands with Hand of Fate 2, now available on the Nintendo Switch.
Tim Colwill joins us to talk about how writing satire for his comedy games site Point &Clickbait, and working as a union organiser for Game Workers Unite Australia, both aim to get us to demand a better games industry.
We're so close to 100 episodes, and here is a special preview of all the games you can check out on the night!
Strap on your headphones and jump into a stylised 1980s vision of a computer battlefield with Desync by THE FOREGONE SYNDICATE.
Take to the skies with Abi Rahmani as your co-pilot, as we jump into the cockpit of Project Wingman made in Perth, Western Australia.
Stretch your body out and work with your buddy as the weirdest noodle team ever in Push Me Pull You by House House
The president is mad about something and he's gone for the nuclear option, luckily Matt Kelly is here from Mokomoto to talk us through it.
Super Smash Bros with Half-Life 2's Gravity Gun? That's Grabity by New Zealand based developers Ninja Thumbs.
100 episodes down and we want to party with you at The Sewing Room in Perth on Friday July 13th 2018!
What you can't see might just kill you, Justin Ng of Singaporean developer Gattai Games is our guest this week as we learn about his echolocation style first person games Muffled Warfare and Stifled.
Take the best bits of Portal 2, add some speed, and chuck it into an 80s style cyberspace mold and you'll have Nova Flow by Wrecked Angle Studios