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Is NZ Set To Lose Critical Digital Industry Through Government Inaction In The Budget?
Wednesday, 17 May 2023, 3:22 pm | New Zealand Game Developers Association
If there is Government inaction in tomorrow’s Budget, this would be a strategic decision to consign the game development and interactive media sector to the dustbin, the New Zealand Game Developers Association (NZGDA) have said. This follows the Australian ... More >>
NZ Set To Lose Billion-dollar Industry Through Government Inaction
Friday, 28 April 2023, 10:03 am | New Zealand Game Developers Association
Government inaction in the May Budget would be a strategic decision to consign the game development and interactive media sector to the dustbin, the New Zealand Game Developers Association (NZGDA) said today. The suggestion to ask Australia to reverse ... More >>
Game Developers Have Had A Constructive Meeting With Digital Economy Minister
Thursday, 13 April 2023, 2:05 pm | New Zealand Game Developers Association
The New Zealand Game Developers Association (NZGDA) met with the Minister for the Digital Economy and Communications, Hon Ginny Andersen, late last week. The purpose of the meeting was to further raise concerns around the impact of the ... More >>
Government Is Letting Australia Steal Our Fastest-growing Export Sector
Tuesday, 28 March 2023, 4:50 pm | New Zealand Game Developers Association
New Zealand’s fastest-growing export sector is in crisis. Job growth at our largest studios has stalled, senior staff are being poached by Australian companies armed with aggressive government incentives, and Kiwi businesses are being forced to open ... More >>
NZGDA And The US Embassy Partner For Game Event Focused On Social Change
Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 2:29 pm | New Zealand Game Developers Association
The New Zealand Game Developers Association and the US Mission to Aotearoa New Zealand are partnering together to create Koia Jam, a game jam competition devised to stimulate New Zealand to think about anti-bullying, anti-harassment, and anti-disinformation ... More >>
Existing Government Measures Won’t Stop One Of Our Fastest-growing Sectors Moving To Australia
Thursday, 7 July 2022, 11:35 am | New Zealand Game Developers Association
“Existing government policies won’t stop New Zealand gaming and interactive media companies from choosing to expand in Australia instead of New Zealand,” New Zealand Game Developers Association (NZGDA) Chairman Chelsea Rapp said today. “Existing ... More >>
New Zealand Game Developers Association Prepares For Industry Growth With Executive Director Appointment
Thursday, 25 November 2021, 6:25 am | New Zealand Game Developers Association
Industry positions to achieve billion-dollar earnings by 2024. The not-for-profit New Zealand Game Developers Association (NZGDA) has been primarily volunteer driven, and delivered, since its inception in 2001. In the decade since the industry has ... More >>
NZ Interactive Games Grew $120m During Covid-19
Friday, 11 December 2020, 1:56 pm | New Zealand Game Developers Association
New Zealand’s video game developers have proven themselves resilient through Covid-19. Our interactive media sector earned $323.9 million in the year to 1 April 2020, an increase of $121 million in one year alone. The industry benefited both from being ... More >>
Interactive Game Exports Double in Two Years to $200m
Friday, 7 February 2020, 9:33 am | New Zealand Game Developers Association
New Zealand interactive game developers earned $203.4 million dollars during the 2019 financial year - double the $99.9m earned only two years earlier in 2017. The success comes from targeting audiences around the world and 96% of the industry’s ... More >>
Industry plan could create a billion dollar gaming sector
Monday, 19 August 2019, 10:02 am | New Zealand Game Developers Association
A new report says that an industry development plan for New Zealand’s interactive media and games sector could create a billion dollar export industry by 2024. Introducing a coordinated plan that invests in emerging talent and allows interactive media to ... More >>
NZ Game Studio revenues grow 43% to a record $143M
Thursday, 2 August 2018, 10:35 am | New Zealand Game Developers Association
NZ Game Studio revenues grow 43% to a record $143M, but new startups are missing out More >>
NZ Game Development Revenue Hits $100m
Monday, 4 September 2017, 9:52 am | New Zealand Game Developers Association
New Zealand’s game developers earned $99.87M in the financial year ending 31 March 2017 according to an independent survey of New Zealand Game Developers Association studios. That’s double-digit growth of 12% in the last year, up from to $88.9m ... More >>
NZ Game Developers Conference 2017 Schedule Announced
Monday, 7 August 2017, 11:18 am | New Zealand Game Developers Association
The New Zealand Game Developers Association has announced the speaker lineup for New Zealand’s premier game development conference at https://nzgdc17.sched.com/. More >>
NZ Game Developers Conference 2017 Tickets Available Now
Wednesday, 19 July 2017, 9:21 am | New Zealand Game Developers Association
The New Zealand Game Developers Association today announced that tickets are now available for New Zealand’s premier game development conference. More >>
NZ Video Game Exports Continue to Grow
Wednesday, 3 August 2016, 12:16 pm | New Zealand Game Developers Association
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 ... More >>
Jobs in NZ Games Industry Grow 30%
Friday, 21 August 2015, 7:49 am | New Zealand Game Developers Association
New Zealand’s video game studios created 134 new high-tech creative jobs in the last financial year, according to an independent survey by the New Zealand Game Developers Association. The sector now employs 568 fulltime employees and earned $78.7m in FY2015, ... More >>
NZ Video Games Industry Doubles Exports
Wednesday, 10 September 2014, 11:01 am | New Zealand Game Developers Association
Revenue from New Zealand-made video games and game apps more than doubled to $80.2 million in the year to 31 March 2014, according to an independent survey of NZ Game Developers Association members. 90% of those earnings were digital software exports, ... More >>
NZ Games Industry launches Business Startup Competition
Wednesday, 20 August 2014, 12:36 pm | New Zealand Game Developers Association
The New Zealand Game Developers Association has launched New Zealand’s first and only startup programme for interactive games businesses – the KiwiGameStarter. One promising games business will receive funding, software, marketing, legal and ... More >>
NZ Video Games Praised in Best of 2013 Lists
Wednesday, 18 December 2013, 4:50 pm | New Zealand Game Developers Association
Path of Exile by Grinding Gear Games has won GameSpot’s PC Game of the Year Award, Turbo Racing League by PikPok was the runner-up for Apple’s Best of 2013 Game of the Year, and indie developer Michael Brough was named one of the Top 10 Game Developers ... More >>
NZ-Made Video Games Industry Grew 86% in 2012
Wednesday, 30 October 2013, 9:15 am | New Zealand Game Developers Association
New Zealand-made mobile games have been downloaded over 130 million times in the last year and industry earnings grew 86% to $36.3 million dollars, according to an independent survey of New Zealand Game Developers Association members. The majority ... More >>
