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Every winner of the 2020 Australian Game Developer Awards!
Art, Gameplay, Narrative, Sound Design, Music/Audio, AR/VR and Serious Games - an excellent lineup for 2019.
Aaron Eckhart never had to deal with fire lizards!
All the winners from the 2019 Freeplay Festival Awards!
Hundreds of Australian made games are on sale now!
They've called it Australia's Biggest Esports event, and Pixel Sift were there for the very first Melbourne Esports Open.
Every winner of the 2020 Australian Game Developer Awards!
Art, Gameplay, Narrative, Sound Design, Music/Audio, AR/VR and Serious Games - an excellent lineup for 2019.
Hundreds of indie games from all over the world showcased in playable pirate themepark.
Coral Island is a new take on the farming simulator by Indonesia studio Stairway Games that has become a smash hit on Kickstarter.
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.
5 million vikings can't be wrong about Valheim and how I stopped worrying and learned to love the loop in Loop Hero!
Find out what games made the cut and what goes into curating a video games museum.
Life takes you down many paths, but the best ones lead to the beach
Adventure and family walk hand in hand, in Henry Mosse and the Wormhole Conspiracy
Gianni isn't afraid of no ghosts in The Medium, while Adam collects critters and traverses platforms in Monster Sanctuary.
I've been through the desert on a horse with no name!
What do you get when you make a game based on purgatory inspired by your dreams? Rogue-like card based roleplaying game Doors of Insanity.
Explore a medieval cosmic fantasy adventure in the debut game from Melbourne's One Rat Games
What comes next when your first games were huge hits? Harry Nesbitt and Jair McBain on following up Alto's Adventure with their new studio Land & Sea.
Big small, indie or published, free or paid we've collected your submissions and here are 2020's Australian made games.
Here are our favourite games released in 2020, instant classics which will stand the test of time.
Jump back into the golden era of Group B rally with Dune Casu and Adrian Tosello
Head into the in-game past with Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity and actual past with Super Mario 3D All-Stars
“Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.” — Colin McRae
Explore the meta social world of HoloVista with Meredith Hall from Aconite
If everything seems under control, you are not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti
Visit Melbourne Fringe for the arts and culture all while playing Animal Crossing New Horizons!
Time to go a-viking in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla and *try* escape from the underworld in Hades
Josh Bush made a bee themed Real Time Strategy game called Hive Time and let players pay what they want... did it pay off?
Spill some blue blood in the arena in Fight Crab, a hilarious multiplayer fighting game where crustaceans battle to the death.
Become a terrible lizard in dinosaur MMO Path of Titans by Australian modder and developer Matthew "deathlyrage" Cassells
Friend or foe? You soon shall find, the Ring of Pain has much to hide in this spooky tactical card game.
Brigitta Rena started her career wanting to be an illustrator, but making the games she wants to play has now become her passion.
Every winner of the 2020 Australian Game Developer Awards!
The doors are open and the Inn is waiting for you!
Mitchell Clifford of Brisbane’s 5 Lives Studios shares the making of the nautical survival game Windbound
Grab your laptop and logon wherever you are from 3 October for MIGW2020
Lift with your legs, try not to smash too much ok?
Grab your camera and document the end of world in Umurangi Generation
Helping lost souls in The Last Campfire and jumping rolling and striving for that crown in Fall Guys.
You'd better hold on tight, spidermonkey...
It's a food fight to the death in Boomerang Fu a local multiplayer brawler for six players on Switch, Xbox One and Steam.
Join Daniel, Fiona and Mitch as they continue learning about the customers who enter Coffee Talk!
And you can visit LIGO in Minecraft yourself to learn about the physics of gravitational waves.
Crossy Road Castle is the sequel to one of the biggest Australian games ever made and Lead Artist Ashleigh Starmer-Lee brought the colourful characters from the first game to the new multiplayer platformer.
After all was said and done, we sure burned a lot of things in the part four of our Wildfire playthrough.
Build, fight, farm and explore in Len's Island by Flow Studio
Spring stealthily from rooftops in Ghost of Tsushima, and make pals with heaps of cute dancing critters in Ooblets
A new study from Massey University in New Zealand that collects and combines the work of previous studies shows there is no reason to believe violent video games cause violent behaviour.
Learning to externalise worries and seeking support is how you survive online according to YouTuber Daniel Harrison.
Matt Ditton on converting mobile "shoot em up" Shooty Skies into a VR experience in Shooty Skies Overdrive
Mastering the four elements was not as easy as they first thought!
Master the elements in this stealth game where everything burns!
Dan experiences the emotional and dark story in The Last of Us Part II and Gianni uses the power of rock to take down the Man in No Straight Roads.
Everything burns is a motto and a challenge to the player in Wildfire by Sneaky Bastards.
PAX Australia and PAX West won't be happening in person this year instead are combining and running as PAX Online.
Seize the night by its throat in this modern vampire roleplaying game by Wadjet Eye Games.
Gianni defeats the Arch-Illager in Minecraft Dungeons, and Viv works her way through the reps in Ring Fit Adventure
The first ever Gamescom Asia event has been delayed due to health concerns.
Hello you've called the wall flesh extermination company, how can we help?
Digital purchases are the same as physical purchases according to consumer regulator.
The cities strangest characters have entered the fray...
Chris Lee is a League of Legends coach and he’ll be guiding Australia’s winner of the Red Bull Solo Q tournament as they take on the world.
The ACCC has found consumers may be entitled to a refund for faulty experiences with Fallout 76.
Head into a a dark Victorian era battleground in Brimstone Brawlers by Ategig.
Get a new top down perspective on the beloved Gears of War series in Gears Tactics & XCOM: Chimera Squad mixes up the tactical experience in a surprising new take.
Clear furniture, avoid ghosts, and try not to break anything!
Get ready to spread your wings and take flight in the side-scrolling adventure Fledgling Heroes by Subtle Boom.
Switch between 3D and 2D modes and from ghost to cat form in Neko, Ghost Jump by Burgos Games!
Glenn Island is gone now, but it will be remembered. An interview with Max Myers, developer of [soon, only the ocean].
Put on your mask and fight for your freedom in Persona 5 Royal, and sometimes war actually does change in Fallout 76 Wastelanders.
Grab your mates and get ready to move in chaotic multiplayer game Moving Out by SMG Studio.
Walk through a multicultural shadow world with Greta in Projection: First Light
Do you want to play games professionally? Elfishguy and Raven can give you some pointers on how to make it in esports
Have the food fight of your life in the family friendly Butter Royale by Singapore's Mighty Bear Games.
Equip your materia and head into battle with Adam and chat to a banana with guns akimbo with Gianni in Mainstream Episode 11!
Take your very first steps into learning Japanese with Kana Quest!
“The act of fishing – for fish, dreams or whatever magic is available – is enough. It transports us to a special world, and a state of mind, where we are free." Fennel Hudson
Mick Gordon built DOOM Eternal's soundtrack upon the legacy of DOOM but without just repeating the past.
Climb higher, meet fantastic people and instruct the BOY!
"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after". Henry David Thoreau
Adam has been ripping and also tearing in Doom Eternal and Gianni has been chilling out in an island paradise in Animal Crossing New Horizons
Ron Curry CEO of Australian games industry peak body IGEA shares why they've merged with Game developer organisation GDAA
A new journey begins as Daniel and Mitch take the world of Midgard and follow the tale of Kratos and Atreus.
It's time to head back into the forest as Daniel and Mitch run and jump through lush worlds of Ori and the Will of the Wisps.
Do you know your カ from your ナ? Learn Japanese Katakana and Hiragana in Kana Quest by Melbourne's Not Dead Design.
Sarah is picking the right operator for the job in Rainbow Six Siege, and Gianni is climbing higher and higher in Crossy Road Castle
The two major industry organisations for the Australian Game Development Industry will merge after a vote from members.
“No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home.” Laura Marney
"Hey have your seen a sandwich that could take a bite out of you?"
A new study revealed that using games technology led to increased mobility in patients undergoing physical rehabilitation.
Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers, take to the skies as fantastic beasts in flying machines in Baron: Fur Is Gonna Fly
Sydney Based Researcher Dr Ben Abraham is conducting a survey as part of a larger project to investigate the carbon footprint of the games development industry.
Viv is trying to keep at least some patients alive in Two Point Hospital, and Mitch keeps missing those frames in Super Smash Bros Ultimate.
Beeps bloops and beats, Square Sounds is a celebration of chiptune and returns to Melbourne in 2020.