Games For Change is an international organisation with a lot of reach. Why, then, was its first Australian festival lacking an agenda for change?

Brendan Keogh’s new book about Spec Ops: The Line marks an important moment for writing about videogames.

Gambling and videogames should be a hot topic in Australia. So why is no-one concerned that EA’s FIFA 13 works with Virgin Gaming to allow players to bet on matches?

Oliver North: from the Iran-Contra scandal to consulting for a videogame developer

The classic poem updated for the bizarre world of mainstream videogames in 2012.

Watching Robin Hunicke play Journey—the videogame she worked on at thatgamecompany—at ACMI last week was a revelation. It was, in more ways than one, a moment to find your place in the universe.

At this year’s Game Connect Asia Pacific conference, the mood was split between change and consolidation for videogame makers.

Rayman: Jungle Run is a mobile game with a difference. It’s somewhere between a console and mobile game—not bigger, but deeper—making it one of the iOS and Android games of the year.

It’s a romantic idea, but we need to understand the differences between code and poetry while we embrace the idea of creative things being made with computer languages. The simple difference? Code does, while poetry doesn’t.

The speakers and attendees at this year’s Freeplay Festival pushed beyond the dialogue that we’ve been rehearsing for years about videogames and other media, aiming for something a little deeper, a little more rewarding, and hopefully, a little more honest.