Feb 8, 2012
New Zealand – 9 February 2012 – The Interactive Games & Entertainment Association (iGEA), New Zealand’s interactive games industry body, with its independent market research group NPD, are pleased to announce that their retail measurement has captured close to 100% of NZ’s video and computer game retail data for the first time. The latest data...
Feb 5, 2012
Sydney, Australia – 6 February 2012 – Australia’s interactive games industry remains buoyant as the consumption of games continues to thrive, despite a 12.8 per cent contraction in ‘traditional retail’ computer and video games sales to $1.5 billion in 2011, according to the Interactive Games & Entertainment Association (iGEA). The latest data from...
Nov 17, 2011
iGEA’s submission to the ALRC National Classification Scheme Review Response to Discussion Paper 77
Nov 4, 2011
On Thursday 3 November, Channel 7 ran a story titled ‘Video Games Under Fire’. Due to the one sided view and absence of fact, we felt compelled to write to them. To see our letter, click here
Nov 4, 2011
Sydney, Australia Friday, 4th November 2011 The video games industry welcomes the proposed Guidelines for the Classification of Computer Games released today by The Minister for Home Affairs, Brendan O’Connor. These Guidelines open the way for the introduction of an R18+ category for video games. According to Ron Curry, CEO of Interactive Games &...
Oct 24, 2011
For immediate release Tuesday, 25th October Don’t think you’re a typical gamer? Think again! New Research Uncovers New Zealand’s Appetite for Video Games New research into how Kiwi’s are playing video games has found nine out of ten households own a device for playing games and nearly four in five parents with children (aged 18 and under)...
