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The New Zealand Games Festival is postponed till 2021 News Mar 18th, 2020

The New Zealand Games Festival is postponed till 2021

Due to the coronavirus

New Zealand's games industry doubles in revenue over two years News Feb 7th, 2020

New Zealand's games industry doubles in revenue over two years

63 per cent of titles created are mobile apps

Developing an AR game after the success of Pokémon GO: The making of Bird BnB Interview Feb 6th, 2020

Developing an AR game after the success of Pokémon GO: The making of Bird BnB

"The core gameplay is rooted in strong appointment and collection mechanics"

Indie Spotlight: How Apple Arcade kept Dinosaur Polo Club from switching to console Interview Feb 5th, 2020

Indie Spotlight: How Apple Arcade kept Dinosaur Polo Club from switching to console

Co-founder Robert Curry talks Mini Motorways

New Zealand game industry gets $6m cash injection from government News Oct 31st, 2019

New Zealand game industry gets $6m cash injection from government

Dunedin is the country's new Centre for Digital Excellence

as New Zealand hyper-casual start-up JaffaJam wants to shake up the sector Interview Aug 13th, 2019

New Zealand hyper-casual start-up JaffaJam wants to shake up the sector

Studio soft-launches new title Mountain Madness built on its own BubbleGum toolset

as Australia and New Zealand games markets worth combined $3.1 billion in 2018 News May 24th, 2019

Australia and New Zealand games markets worth combined $3.1 billion in 2018

Former worth $2.8bn; the latter $355.6m

1 Playrix soft-launches new match-three puzzler Wildscapes News Apr 23rd, 2019

Playrix soft-launches new match-three puzzler Wildscapes

Available in Australia, Canada and New Zealand

Niantic soft-launches Harry Potter: Wizards Unite in New Zealand News Apr 17th, 2019

Niantic soft-launches Harry Potter: Wizards Unite in New Zealand

Can be downloaded through the App Store and Google play in the region

as Animoca Brands hires former Sony managing director Michael Ephraim as head of partnerships Job News Apr 8th, 2019

Animoca Brands hires former Sony managing director Michael Ephraim as head of partnerships

Will oversee Australia and New Zealand region

Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost launches in UK across iOS and Android News Feb 26th, 2019

Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost launches in UK across iOS and Android

Ireland, Canada, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand see release too

as 5 things we learned from the Melbourne International Games Week Feature Nov 6th, 2018

5 things we learned from the Melbourne International Games Week

No amount of jet-lag can stop us learning enough to write this feature

as How the esports landscape will change in Australia and New Zealand over the coming 12 months News Oct 25th, 2018

How the esports landscape will change in Australia and New Zealand over the coming 12 months

ESL managing director and EGAA chairman Nick Zanzetti gave a talk on the topic at the Melbourne International Games Week

as Fortnite developer Epic Games to open new Australia and New Zealand branch Job News Oct 24th, 2018

Fortnite developer Epic Games to open new Australia and New Zealand branch

GDA Australia CEO Anthony Reed will be stepping down from his role to help start it up

as Indie Spotlight: Little Lost Fox's Niamh Fitzgerald on Valleys Between and finding the balance Interview May 1st, 2018

Indie Spotlight: Little Lost Fox's Niamh Fitzgerald on Valleys Between and finding the balance

"Some of my favourite days are ones where I get to focus on game design or technical art"

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