Posts tagged "video games"

The video game industry is calling on the federal government for a 30% tax offset, and small business ombudsman Kate Carnell is backing the sector.

EB Games has announced it will close 19 unprofitable locations as digital competition bites the veteran specialty retailer.

In front of 16,000 spectators, the finalists battled it out for the biggest prize pool in eSports history: US$30 million.

As Australian businesses enter the new financial year, IBISWorld reveals which industries are set to have a bumper 2018-19, and which are likely to struggle.

The Australian eSports fan base has more than doubled in the past two years, and the vast majority (66%) of those fans are between the ages of 18 and 34, and mostly male.

In an effort to increase female representation in Australia’s video game industry, Melbourne-based education and events startup Girl Geek Academy has launched Australia’s first all-women games creation hackathon.

In 2001, Daniel Visser, sick of working for large video game studios, set out on his own to start what is now one of Australia’s best-known …

A report from the Interactive Games and Entertainment Association has revealed the Australian video games industry is booming, despite industry figures saying federal funding for the sector has all but “disappeared”.

Customers have taken to social media in confusion after electronics retailer JB Hi-Fi  advertised a collection of video games as a “rac…

Several big name companies are hoping to tap into consumers’ nostalgia by re-releasing old favourites in new forms.

Today Microsoft rev…

Gone are the days of interviewing candidate after candidate in a stuffy meeting room just to ask them, “What are your strengths and weaknes…

When it comes to telemarketing practices, perhaps the most infuriating of them all is robocalling. This is where a machine automatically dia…