It’s finally time to… Unleash the ✦⁺₊✩GIRL POWER✩⁺₊✦ Don’t Stop, Girlypop! is officially OUT NOW!!!! You better be ready, because this sh❤t is serious 👇 https://bit.ly/45CRvme

We’re so excited to announce our Story-Rich Showcase! Our official showcase runs during the Summer Game Showcase 2026 timeframe, dedicated entirely to story-rich indie games with first looks, reveals, trailers, release dates, and dev-led storytelling 💝 More details soon! 🚶storyrich.games

Join Screenworks for an online panel where Australia's leading games professionals share practical advice, insights and real-world experiences that will help identify opportunities for those ambitious to build a career in the games industry. https://ow.ly/WHIz50Y4EBh

Who's going to SAGE this year? I'm gonna be in on the Friday by the looks of things and I'm keen to see buddies!

To celebrate our BIG RELEASE this week, we’re giving you girlypops world wide the chance to win a $100 Steam Gift Card!! 💗 Enter here: https://bit.ly/49RYkD7

Letter Coins got nominated for the 3rd Annual Thinky Games Awards for Best Pen and Paper Puzzle! 💜🥳🙌 You can check out Letter Coins and the rest of the incredible nominees here: thinkygames.com/events/awards/

Member Update! 🐈 Hungry Sky is adding Daily Puzzles to Nekograms+, the Apple Arcade version of their popular cat-themed puzzle game. Learn more: https://nekograms.com

We're looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team in Melbourne, Australia. Help us design, develop and maintain the high-performance backend services powering the @mod.io ecosystem. More info: apply.workable.com/modio/j/FE42...

🟡WINNIE'S HOLE is OUT NOW on Steam🟡 A weird new dark comedy roguelike from the creators of Ring of Pain! 🦠Play as a virus in the body and mind of Winnie 👁️Explore cellular worlds 💪Mutate and evolve for combo-driven combat 🐰Meet new friends and foes Buy now: store.steampowered.com/app/2319730/...

Sustained growth, new features, leading cross-platform UGC support, more than one game onboarding per week, industry analysis, as well as our plans and ambitions for next year, it's mod․io's 2025 year in review! blog.mod.io/2025-year-in...

The backstory behind one of four new commissioned games for ACMI’s Game Worlds - and you don’t even have to visit to play it. It’s also a lovely piece of speculative world building. (The other three new commissioned games are also online including one written for the Commodore 64)

ONE WEEK TO GO GIRLYPOPS!!!! 💗 To celebrate the release of Don’t Stop, Girlypop! next week, we’re giving you the chance to win this cute keyboard!! Don’t miss it!!! Enter here: https://bit.ly/49Oj4KB

The Creative Workplaces Survey has opened to the sector this week. This is your chance to share your experiences and help create the first national picture of what it’s really like to work in Australia’s creative industries. https://creativeworkplaces.gov.au/survey

It’s sad to see this event go. Massive kudos to the games event team who worked incredibly closely with industry to listen, evolve and deliver a great program each year. https://www.sxswsydney.com/press-releases/sxsw-sydney-concludes

We extended the applications for the IGEA x GDC Scholarship 2026! We’re offering 10 passes to help marginalised Australian devs attend GDC. Open to women, queer folks, First Nations, gender diverse, disabled, neurodiverse people & POC. Apply by 15 January: lnkd.in/dmRHW36E

Three Aussie titles are up as finalists for the D.I.C.E Awards! Congratulations to Powerhoof, Team Cherry and SMG Studios 🎉 https://www.interactive.org/awards/29th_dice_awards_finalists_93k3p1.asp

hello, please tell me which australian and new zealand-made games you are excited to see this year. i'm in listicle mode & would love to feature as many as possible. 🫶

We are once again putting together the ultimate list of upcoming Australian-developed video games. Tell us about your game: forms.office.com/r/d4E0jdPQGw Share or tag any Aussie game dev you know so they can be involved in the coverage! @igea.bsky.social checkpointgaming.net/features/202...

Applications close this Sunday for the IGEA x GDC Scholarship 2026! We’re offering 10 passes to help marginalised Australian devs attend GDC. Open to women, queer folks, First Nations, gender diverse, disabled, neurodiverse people & POC. https://forms.office.com/r/jPVxMTUgd8 #GDCScholarImpact

ALT: GAMES applications close in one week (midnight 11 Jan) if you want to apply do it now or you’ll forget and be so mad at yourself

Every year this is a manual process and almost certainly we've missed a few games. Submit your games here using our form and we'll get it added! www.sifter.com.au/add-my-game-...

We are so grateful to the Sifter team for again producing a definitive list of Australian made games this year. If you are looking for a new game to play over the holidays, check out this list from @sifterhq.bsky.social and support the Australian games community: www.sifter.com.au/post/2025-th...

Reminder: eSafety has published regulatory guidance ahead of the commencement of new industry codes designed to protect children. IGEA & eSafety are co-hosting a webinar on how Australian Age-Restricted Material Codes obligations will apply. https://ow.ly/Yw8T50XClwl

We have a guest post from the fabulous Sam Marsh of Supaglu! How do you know when to get a HR consultant? What size is 'big enough' for HR? Sam reveals all here: https://igea.net/2025/12/guest-post-hr-consultant/

eSafety has published regulatory guidance ahead of the commencement of new industry codes designed to protect children from exposure to inappropriate content. IGEA & eSafety are co-hosting a webinar on how Australian Age-Restricted Material Codes obligations will apply. https://ow.ly/Yw8T50XClwl

It's been a busy year at Yarn Spinner HQ and we have more things cooking than ever before. But we have also been thinking long-term about how YS can grow and thrive as a suite of free and paid tools supporting teams of all sizes. Check out our website revamp + 2026 roadmap at yarnspinner.dev/2026/

Applications are open for the IGEA x GDC Scholarship 2026! We’re offering 10 passes to help marginalised Australian devs attend GDC. Open to women, queer folks, First Nations, gender diverse, disabled, neurodiverse people & POC. Apply: https://forms.office.com/r/jPVxMTUgd8 #GDCScholarImpact

It's happening! 🎉🎉🎉 Screen Canberra has a new games fund! Read about it below and join us at Pizza & Pixels on Wednesday to learn more!

Been waiting for the latest scoop on Wylde Society? ✨ Next week’s Wholesome Snack has the goods! 😌 Watch the show live on December 9th, 2025 starting at 12PM PT / 3PM ET / 7AM AUS on the @wholesomegames.com Youtube & Twitch. Join our mailing list for more tea! 💌 subscribepage.io/studiodrydoc...

IGEA is delighted to hear that Screen Canberra, in partnership with the ACT Government, has announced the Canberra Screen and Games Fund. Devs in the ACT will be able to access targeted investment for both early stage dev work, and for full scale production. https://ow.ly/iSY950XBEpu

You better save the date, because Don't Stop, Girlypop! is launching on... ✦⁺₊✩☽⋆𝓙𝓪𝓷𝓾𝓪𝓻𝔂 29 2026 ⋆☾✩⁺₊✦ Wishlist now to be notified as soon as we launch 👇 https://bit.ly/4pf7Y7X

Game developers - Screen Australia need your voices! Closing on the 7th of Dec, Screen Currency 2025 is a landmark study on the economic, social and cultural value of Australian screen and games. Make sure you're represented: https://ow.ly/mI1b50XB35q

League of Legends has been around for over 15 years. It's changed and evolved constantly, releasing new versions nearly every 2 weeks. This is a talk on the start of the refactoring process for our Particle System - how do we refactor something that is constantly shipping? Why would we even do that?

🐎 WIP Night is back! 🐎 It's a night for Sydney game devs to share their works-in-progress, with microtalks + 10 games to try! Check out what local devs have been cooking, plus some food and drinks! 🗓️12th Dec, Friday. 5:30-8:30PM 📌ACE Parramatta RSVP here: events.humanitix.com/wip-night-7-...

Last hours to vote!!

You have no idea how long I've been waiting to tell u. Don't Stop, Girlypop! releases ✦⁺₊✩☽⋆𝓙𝓪𝓷𝓾𝓪𝓻𝔂 29 2026 ⋆☾✩⁺₊✦ See the reveal here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bEz...

Did you know that Yarn Spinner tests and deploys all our software on some old PCs a friend found in a dumpster? 🗑️🔥 We entered a competition to win $5000 to buy better gear, so we can test and deploy to more storefronts and platforms. Now we need YOUR VOTE 🫵 Help us out? 💚 woobox.com/fw8p3z/galle...

IT'S NEARLY HERE!!! @itssarahwolfe.bsky.social (and Xavier Dunn and Candice Susnjar!)

Great to see so many Game Plus Adelaide members represented here!

Some familiar Australian titles took home some Golden Joystick Awards - Hollow Knight: Silksong for their two wins and Schedule 1 for it's win in the Breakout category! Congrats to the teams 🎉 https://checkpointgaming.net/news/2025/11/clair-obscur-dominates-the-2025-golden-joystick-awards/

Are you looking to promote Australia to a global market? IGEA has you covered with our Game On Australia website! Game on Australia is a digital showcase designed to shine a light on our world-class game development industry. https://ow.ly/yCg550XwAYi

We’re still on sale! This is a great way to help support us doing more awesome Yarn Spinner stuff. assetstore.unity.com/packages/too... #gamedev

A lovely article to start your week - jump in and learn about the thriving games industry scene happening in South Australia! https://thepostsa.au/industry/2025/11/11/beyond-silksong-sas-gaming-industry-levels-up/

Thanks everyone for dropping by our 4th iteration of the Games Exchange! We hope you had fun! 💜 For more photos, check out our quick summary blog here: noblesteedgames.com/blog/a-night... Stay tuned for our upcoming WIP Night event to finish off the year! 👀

If you haven't joined our Discord yet, can you even really call yourself a girlypop??!!! Click the link below to join NOW 💗 https://bit.ly/DSGDiscord

Introducing our Unreal Engine Sample Project! Based on Epic's Action RPG learning resource, this demo provides you with a live example of a project using the full range of mod.io's UE plugins and solutions. blog.mod.io/mod-io-unrea...

introducing the South Coast Prawns! Any theme song that spends time describing which team they are not displays a certain vulnerability. Nevertheless, fresh from the ocean, here they come! www.instagram.com/reel/DRROMCw... #projankfooty #wishlistnow

Omochapon is a #NoCode #SoloDev game that I released on the Switch. A major milestone for me as an #IndieDev and a stepping stone for my next titles! Would appreciate follows if you're interesting in my next game or how I work! 🙏🙏🙏

It's been a fabulous time for console anniversaries - let's take a look back and see all the wonderful ways the Wii changed our world! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-19/nintendo-wii-release-anniversary/105971384

The Screen Currency 2025 – Screen and Games Industry Survey is now open! The survey is a key input into Screen Currency 2025, a landmark study on the economic, social and cultural value of Australian screen and games sector. https://ow.ly/4m2H50XsucY