Industry News

New just out from the NZGDA New Zealand’s game development industry grew 13% last year to earn $88.9m in the year ending 31 March 2016 according to an independent survey of New Zealand Game Developers Association studios. Almost all of that revenue (92%) came from exports of interactive software and on services.... Read More

Today, the Senate’s Environment and Communications References Committee officially published the Report on the future of Australia’s video game development industry. For your reference, here is a link to the report. IGEA made a submission to this inquiry last year and appeared in front of the committee hearing in March. Overall , the recommendations of the report are quite... Read More

Last Friday, 19 Feb the first round of hearings into the Senate inquiry into the Future of Australia's ... Read More

  PAX Australia officially the best in the business Top video game event wins Best Australian Show at EEAA awards   PAX Australia has been awarded the highest accolade in the events and exhibitions industry, taking out “Best Australian Show” at the Exhibition & Event Association of Australasia (EEAA) Awards on Wednesday... Read More

IGEA has just published a paper to provide the NZ government and public with a comprehensive understanding of how the Classification of video games is impacting interactive entertainment in New Zealand and the implications this has on a converged world. Click here to download Emerging Issues and Solutions for the Classification of Computer Games in New Zealand... Read More

We welcome the latest reform to the Classification Act which allows exemption arrangements for festivals and special events. The following statement was taken directly from www.classification.gov.au     11 September 2015, amendments to the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995 take effect that stream and simplify the classification exemption arrangements for special events like film... Read More