May 15, 2010
Brian Crecente over at kotaku.com.au has written a great article on how to protect, not isolate your children when they want to play games online. There are even some pretty good instructions to ensure parental controls are set and recommendations as to how to monitor your children when they want to move into this arena. To read the article, click...
May 14, 2010
Nicki Phillips has written an interesting article for Digital Life over at smh.com.au about how virtual reality games are being used as anaesthesia for pain management. Whilst some parents would see video games as an unwelcome distraction, some parents welcome this distraction in helping their children who have suffered a serious injury. To read more about this...
May 11, 2010
Laura Parker at gamespot.com.au has written a fantastic story about the recently Government Report into R18+ public consultation. Following the initial news that 98.2 percent of the 59,678 public submissions received by the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department were in favour of introducing R18+, GameSpot AU has combed the report’s contents to...
May 11, 2010
Over at itnews.com.au, Liz Tay reports that the Australian game development industry is getting ‘serious’ about software development for medical, military and educational purposes. According to the iGEA commissioned 2009 Bond University report, 68 percent of Australians play computer games. This is a market Ben Kilsby, CEO of simulation company...
May 7, 2010
Based on the Minister’s media release, I thought we’d make an initial response and give some consideration to a more detailed reply later: We are pleased that this issue was included on the agenda for today’s Standing Committee of Attorney’s General meeting. As evidenced in the Attorney General’s status report, there is overwhelming interest...
