April 6, 2022 Niantic Adds Nzxr Niantic acquires New Zealand-based AR studio NZXR Will become "integral part" of design and development teams for location-based AR titles
March 17, 2022 Gathering The Riffraff Tencent provides "significant" investment to RiffRaff Games Joshua Boggs rebrands MayDay, hires Guy 'Yug' Blomberg as studio director
November 19, 2021 Sweet Scaling iCandy acquires Lemon Sky Studios for $32.4 million, raises $29.1 million Backed by Animoca Brands
November 9, 2021 Starring Role Unity acquires Weta Digital, its tools and 275 staff for $1.6 billion A cash plus stock deal
August 26, 2021 Expanded Reach Niantic restores 80m interaction radius in Pokémon Go The increase was initially implemented to encourage social distancing
August 19, 2021 Ongoing Battle Roblox community is recreating mass shootings "We do not tolerate racism, discriminatory speech, or content related to tragic events"
May 26, 2021 Barry Is Back Update: Halfbrick Studios soft-launches Jetpack Joyride 2: Bullet Rush Available in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Spain
May 6, 2021 Done Deal Why Ninja Kiwi co-founders Chris and Stephen Harris felt now was the right time to sell "They understood our vision for the company"
October 28, 2020 Remote Vs Office Indie Mavens: Is there an overall benefit to going completely remote work or does a company still need an office? "Life is short, and the distractions are piling up. At what point do you need to majorly change your lifestyle to fit with an internet-enabled world?"
September 2, 2020 Gather Round CD Projekt-owned studio Spokko soft-launches The Witcher: Monster Slayer Available on the App Store in New Zealand
July 15, 2020 Doomsday Preppers Indie Spotlight: Flightless' John O'Reilly and Greg Harding on building Doomsday Vault from the "ground up" for Apple Arcade "Getting to where we are now has been a long path with many ups and downs"
July 9, 2020 From New Zealand With Love Making Of: Agent Intercept's race to Apple Arcade "We expect we will always hold a focus on mobile"
July 7, 2020 Catan Go Niantic soft launches next AR title Catan: World Explorers Available to download in New Zealand on Android
March 18, 2020 Postponed Event The New Zealand Games Festival is postponed till 2021 Due to the coronavirus
February 7, 2020 Huge Growth New Zealand's games industry doubles in revenue over two years 63 per cent of titles created are mobile apps
February 6, 2020 Making Of 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"
February 5, 2020 Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight: How Apple Arcade kept Dinosaur Polo Club from switching to console Co-founder Robert Curry talks Mini Motorways
October 31, 2019 $$$ New Zealand game industry gets $6m cash injection from government Dunedin is the country's new Centre for Digital Excellence
August 13, 2019 Jaffajam 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
May 24, 2019 Market Value Australia and New Zealand games markets worth combined $3.1 billion in 2018 Former worth $2.8bn; the latter $355.6m
April 23, 2019 Soft Launch Playrix soft-launches new match-three puzzler Wildscapes Available in Australia, Canada and New Zealand
April 17, 2019 Wingardium Leviosa Niantic soft-launches Harry Potter: Wizards Unite in New Zealand Can be downloaded through the App Store and Google play in the region
April 8, 2019 Job News Animoca Brands hires former Sony managing director Michael Ephraim as head of partnerships Will oversee Australia and New Zealand region
February 26, 2019 Britain Bound Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost launches in UK across iOS and Android Ireland, Canada, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand see release too
November 6, 2018 Lessons From Down Under 5 things we learned from the Melbourne International Games Week No amount of jet-lag can stop us learning enough to write this feature
October 25, 2018 Expansion 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
October 24, 2018 Woah 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
May 1, 2018 Indie Spotlight 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"
November 7, 2016 Cut Off Samsung to cut off phone call and messaging services for Galaxy Note 7 in New Zealand South Korean company takes further lengths to get users to exchange phones
August 12, 2016 Not Just A Fad Pokemon GO players are more engaged and willing to spend than ever In New Zealand anyway
May 27, 2016 Mz > Nz MZ to apply RTplatform technology to New Zealand's public transport system Game of War tech to run the buses on time
April 13, 2016 Climax Auckland Climax Studios opens new Auckland studio with ex-Gameloft employees Focuing on AR and VR projects
January 28, 2016 Going Down, Going Under 160 lose jobs as Gameloft closes Auckland studio New Zealand's biggest studio is no more