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Michael Ephraim, the VP and MD Sony Interactive Entertainment Australia and New Zealand, has left the platform holder. Rumours of his departure began to circulate last week, but MCV Pacific has now confirmed that he left the company last Friday. "Over the last 18 months the PlayStation business has been …
Read More »Australian college announces half a million in scholarships for games and film industries
half of these scholarships held for woman and underrepresented populations
Read More »Crossy Road developer Hipster Whale moves into publishing
Former Atari and Krome Studios vet Clara Reeves joins as president
Read More »Monument Valley lead designer forms new studio Mountains
Melbourne-based developer focusing on ‘small, beautiful games’
Read More »Australian Greens party calls for Producer Tax Offset for devs as part of $158m games investment
Political party also proposes revival of short-lived Australian Interactive Games Fund and $5m funding for creative working spaces
Read More »Valve loses Australian refund lawsuit
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has ruled that Valve’s Steam service breached Australian consumer law. A disagreement between Valve and the ACCC kicked off in 2014 when the Steam owner was sued over its lack of refund policy. Such a policy was eventually introduced last year, but that …
Read More »Target Australia enforces plain packaging for R18+ games
An Australian retailer has taken steps to reduce the appeal of games designed for those aged 18 and above. In much the same way as some territories have enforced the use of plain packaging for cigarettes, Attack of the Fanboy reports that Target is now displaying games with an R18+ …
Read More »PS4 smashed its Australian sales records over Christmas period
PlayStation 4 had quite the year in Australia in 2015. According to NPD Australia’s 2015 data Sony’s hardware was the best-selling home console of the year and was behind 59 per cent of all home console hardware unit sales. Furthermore, 59 per cent of console market value was made up …
Read More »Halo 5 to be played on world’s biggest flying screen
Australian Halo fans will get to see the first 15 minutes of the next entry in the sci-fi series the day before the game’s launch. But there’s a catch… …and the catch is that the display showing the campaign footage will be flying some 2,000 feet (609 metres) above the …
Read More »Australia has banned 220 games in the last four months
Over four times as many games have been banned in Australia in the last four months as were banned in the entirety of the period between 1994-2014. ABC reports that around 220 games have been banned since March, the majority of which are mobile titles. By contrast only 50 titles …
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