Apr 29, 2010
Jason Hill at Screenplay writes that there is no doubt that games have a huge potential in terms of learning and education. Last week Dr Jeff Brand held a public lecture called ‘Video Games and The Future of the Knowledge Economy’. Dr Brand believes Australia can become a world leader in developing Serious Games for Teaching and Learning. To...
Apr 27, 2010
The following letter appeared in Issue #4 of Game Informer in 2010 who have kindly allowed us to reproduce the article. The letter was from Dr Scott Beattie, a Senior Lecturer at the Victoria Law School who is an expert in classification and censorship of new media. Dr Beattie believes there is a need for an R18+ Classification category and once we have...
Apr 23, 2010
As reported at Screenplay, the absence of an R18+ video game classification has lead many Australians to believe our country has an overly conservative or paranoid attitude to video games. This isn’t the view shared by Dr Jens Schroder, a visiting German sociologist who has completed a comphrensive study examining society’s perceptions of video...
Apr 19, 2010
nzherald.co.nz reports that some of New Zealand’s top corporate computer geeks are using computer games to improve the skills of young people in poor communities. The group, led by The Warehouse chief information officer Owen McCall, aims to install cast-off computers from businesses in 50 community centres around the country by the end of 2012. To read...
Apr 15, 2010
As reported at gamespot.com.au, the Australian retailer, GAME, is going to present the petitions to the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General on May 7, although they are still unclear if R18+ is on the agenda. To read the story, click...
