The Sydney based development studio has been recognised for their contributions to their state's exports at the 2019 NSW Premier's Export Awards.

The ACCC has found that Target may have breached Australian Consumer Law after some customers were told that faults that occurred 30 days after purchase were Sony's responsibility.

Well all up that's 28 interviews recorded live at PAX Australia 2019! Check out Day three here.

Nine more indie game interviews for you recorded live at PAX Australia 2019 including Broken Roads, Dead Static Drive and much much more.

Day one of PAX Australia 2019 is done and dusted here is everything we saw today!

Game Workers Unite Australia have survey developers across the country and have found that wages and job insecurity are top concerns.

Here are your champions for 2019 at the Australian Game Developer Awards.

Hurtle through space in as you work with your cosmonaut partner to solve problems on you spacecraft in Heavenly Bodies

If only a real world medicine degree was this easy.

Art, Gameplay, Narrative, Sound Design, Music/Audio, AR/VR and Serious Games - an excellent lineup for 2019.

Honk honk HONK!

“Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own." Samuel Johnson

A story set in a floating hospital ship in 1970s rural victoria, Wayward Strand is a game that's all about empathy.

Aaron Eckhart never had to deal with fire lizards!

It's tough, but if you give up it's not the end of the world, only your reputation in NEVER GIVE UP.

Absolutely nothing could go wrong deep diving in a cave 800 meters down.

Small and satisifying games for a tiny screen, Kepler Attack and Star Warp are designed to be played on your wristwatch.

Thomas Janson shares his PAX AUS indie showcase winning game Death Hall. I feel like this might be dangerous...

The ocean may be blue, but Sarah's Going Green!

“A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.” Amit Kalantri

Six games have been chosen for this year's indie showcase at PAX Australia, here are the five revealed so far.

Are you the best detective around? Well no you're the second best, but you'll solve this spooky mystery for sure.

Who would win? Eight Reaper Leviathans in close proximity or one Sarah with a submarine and a decoy.

Have games gotten easier or are we just better at playing them?

MASOCORE! That's the genre for Massive Monster's new game Never Give Up!

If a Sarah falls off a cliff on an island and breaks her ankles because she didn't want to take the path down... Does anyone hear her swear?

Two Aussie indie games have been selected for a new funding program from the makers of SUPERHOT.

Got an idea of the average gamer? We sit down with Ron Curry of IGEA and Dr Jeff Brand author of the DA20 report to find out.

Stealth, traps and home defence at all costs. Oh and you're a robot vacuum.

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

“I sing once more, the mild continuous epic of the soil” Vita Sackville-West

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?

“Fighting a battle with the earth seems like a plenty noble calling to me. Putting food on your table and on the plates of others - it's a quieter way. But it's a good way.” Rachel Fordham

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.

"A farm is a manipulative creature. There is no such thing as finished. Work comes in a stream and has no end. There are only the things that must be done now and things that can be done later." Kristin Kimball

"Farming is a profession of hope” Brian Brett

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

“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” Masanobu Fukuoka

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.

“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.” Wendell Berry

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.

Who thought that weekend errands could be this deadly?

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

How will Mitch go with his predictions for this year's upcoming E3? Only time will tell but I bet that Khajit dating sim is a sure bet.

Ian MacLarty makes small fascinating experiential games, and he's here this week to share his puzzle game Dissembler.

Grab your whip and your keyboard as we race our way through the City of Brass by Uppercut Games with some genius Twitch interactivity!

See with sound, then kill with bullets. Power up your robot body and get ready to shutdown your fellow machines in Muffled Warfare by Gattai Games.

A gun in every hand, bullets for any and all situations. Nick McDonnell of Samurai Punk takes us on a journey to "The American Dream"

It's the wild west, but not as you know it. Jump into the floating frontier and blast your enemies into the sky.

It's dark moody and full of pop culture references, it's a permadeath brawler from Singapore's Secret Base!

It's described as Grand Theft Cthulhu by its creator and we're digging it. Come for a cruise down the highway with our guest Mike Blackney and keep an eye out for monsters.

It's hilarious, it's fun and anyone will love The Adventure Pals by Massive Monster, a cartoon flash-game inspired platformer out now.

Jump through a geometric world at breakneck speed in Nova Flow a speedrunning platformer from Melbourne's Wrecked Angle Studios.

A whole lot of good dogs that need pats in Woof3d, a Wolfenstein 3d mod by Louis Roots.

Some critters have made fun of the President, and it's your chance to get revenge in Molemen Must Die by Mokomoto!

It all started with a Witch, Tim Bermanseder of Cardboard Keep shares with us his upcoming magical bullet (spell?) hell game Witch Thief!

Chibi warriors deal out robot destruction in Witch Beam's Assault Android Cactus!

Lovable robots of the near future just trying to find a place in this world. Listen to our conversation with Ally McLean of Robot House as we discuss RUMU and "The Working Lunch"

Build up the biggest combo you can while fighting your way through Sun Studio's stylish black and white sidescroller Armed With Wings: Rearmed

Build a beautiful underwater garden and learn more about our precious reefs in Rainbow Reef by Chaos Theory Games.

Do yourself a favour and play this gorgeous love letter to Studio Ghibli's Kiki's Delivery Service.

You are a square against the world in this retro inspired shooter built in the DOOM engine and developers James & Ben Paddock from Big Brik Games joined us in the studio this week for Pixel Sift Plays!

Your request for even more discussion about the Australian Government response to the Video Game Development inquiry has been noted.

Take a journey with Arina and Frendt as the explore surreal nostalgic worlds in The Gardens Between!

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.

What if I told you that vampires secretly ruled the world and it was up to you to take them down? Jump into Damsel by Queensland's Screwtape Studios and save the world one wooden stake at a time.

Strap into your DeLorean we're heading to the neo soaked retro eighties inspired streets of Hyper Jam with Roman Maksymyschyn of Melbourne's Bit Dragon.

Become the blob and work together with your mates to make it through this cute platformer by Melbourne's Harmonious Games

Combining RPG, Tabletop and action elements Hand of Fate 2 builds on what Morgan Jaffit and the team at Defiant Development achieved when creating the original game.

Work together for like 5 seconds, then it's a free for all as one player fights their way through the dungeon hindered by the friends who control monsters and traps in CRAWL by Powerhoof.

We're back for another live episode at Perth Games Festival and this year we're speaking with some early career developers from our home state of Western Australia.

Travers Dunkinson of Melbourne's Atomizer Games joins us this week to talk all about his stealth cat burglar game, HEIST.

This week on Pixel Sift Plays, we're sneaking through stealth platformer Wildfire by international team Sneaky Bastards.

Dylan J. Walker, Creative Director and developer from ONERAT GAMES joins us this week.

This week we jump into Butt Brawler BRIEF BATTLES by Adelaide's Juicy Cupcake! It's a local multiplayer tournament game where you pick up super powered undies to fight for victory.

Ed Orman from Uppercut Games joined us to discuss his latest game, City of Brass, a Rogue-lite FPS that pays tribute to the Arabian Knights tale of the same name.

We hit the floor of PAXAUS 2017 to record a special collaborative episode with fellow Perth podcasters, Party Loaded!

We've been smashing out interviews left right and centre and we present to you, PAXELSIFT DAY 3. Enjoy!

We're back again bringing you live interviews from the floor for Day Two of PAX Australia 2017, and we're looking at all things indie.

We're back for another year of PAX Australia coverage with #PAXELSIFT! Join us as we recap everything we saw on Day One of the convention.

This week Sarah and Nick jump into Hand of Fate a procedural tabletop/RPG hybrid from Brisbane's Defiant Development, in preparation for Hand of Fate 2 which is out in November.

Simon Boxer of Twice Different joins us this week to talk about making his brand new mobile game, Bounce House, a colourful endless runner style side scroller.

We sit down with Peter Curry, a Programmer & Designer from Dinosaur Polo Club, developers of Mini Metro. Mini Metro is a subway planning puzzle game, that puts the fun in fundamental transport logistics, with a great procedurally generated soundtrack and a fantastic minimalist design.

We're jumping in this week to a game that we've been following for a long time, it's the spritely multiplayer game BrambleLash by Bytesprite Games.

Michael Chu of Sydney’s Shadowplay Studios joined us to discuss his upcoming game Projection, being selected for the PAX Australia Indie Showcase, and rebuilding from scratch.

Matthew Sear and Jak Gem join us to play their Robot arena brawler COLLATERAL DAMAGE

Collateral Damage is a multiplayer area brawler featuring a cast of unique characters and diverse fighting styles and Perth’s very own Matthew Sears and Jak Gem from Artisans Games joined us this week.

Christy Dena a writer, designer and director at Universe Creation 101 joined us to talk about her online event “Crafting Intangibles“, a free online interactive writing event which you can watch online now.

Singaporean game developers Witching Hour Studios inspired by venetian swordfighting have put together a tactical RPG where magic is a finite resource.

Ian Gregory, Creative Director at Singaporean based Witching Hour Studios, speaks to us this week about his newest project Masquarada: Songs and Shadows.

To accompany their newest release Pete's Song, Aaran of Perth band Furniture went to Global Game Jam to make his very first game.

Paul Turbett and Anthony Sweet from Black Lab Games who are based in Perth talked to us about their latest project Battlestar Galactica Deadlock and we asked what it is like to be responsible for the new game adaptation of one of the most beloved science fiction series ever and how to write a game in an established universe.

Explore this peaceful world with us as we play Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles from Brisbane based Prideful Sloth.

Cheryl Vance & Joel Styles of Brisbane's Prideful Sloth join us to talk about Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles their peaceful exploration game.

Procedural generated rogue-lite Aura of Worlds from Melbourne's Cognitive Forge challenges Mitch & Nick this week!

Adric Polkinghorne has to spend a lot of time thinking about how kids can get themselves into strife, and he joins us this week to talk about his new game Think of the Children!

It's weird, it's wonderful and it's made in Perth Western Australia. Paradigm is a point and click adventure game from solo developer Jacob Janerka, and there is nothing quite like it!

International team Massive Monster's Jay Armstrong & Julian Wilton jump on the line to talk about their game The Adventure Pals which has grown out of the flash games of Newgrounds.

It's the best fun you can have while you're a bird playing basketball, it's BIRDSKETBALL, a hilarious couch multiplayer game from Waynetron.

David Clark programmed the indie darling Ori and the Blind Forest right here in Western Australia while working as an international team spread throughout the globe.

So it goes without saying that this reveal had a lot to prove, not just to those who have fallen in love with Bungie’s space magic universe, but those who felt let down by a final product that didn’t live up to expectations.

Games and how they relate to mental health has always been a hot topic and this week we speak to Dr Jennifer Hazel about how her organisation Checkpoint aims to help promote positive outcomes.

It's Mario Kart, pretty much the same as you know it, but on Nintendo's newest console. Adam Rida expert all things Nintendo joins us as we play through this new edition.

How do you show what your virtual reality game is like to people who might want to pull on their VR headsets?

Jump into this synthwave shooter designed for score attack and emulates competive online shooters for a singleplayer environment.

We jump into vertical RTS Forts with our podcast colleagues Ultra Super Mega, and see who really is the best at games.