Australia’s new Digital Games Tax Offset (DGTO) program has announced its inaugural board members; Johanna Egger, Managing Director of Two Bulls, and Morgan Jaffit, known for his work at Defiant Development (Hand of Fate). They’ll serve three-year terms advising on DGTO applications, which provides a 30% tax rebate for game developers with costs exceeding AUD $500,000.

This week a new bill passed the Australian Senate, marking the initial step in modernising the National Classification Scheme. It empowers industry classifiers, expanding video game classification options. Hopefully no more stupid boomer-brained bans of videogames downunder.

With one strike already underway, SAG-AFTRA announced that it will seek authorisation for a second strike against major video game companies. In a statement, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher, blasted game companies for their ‘greed and disrespect’: “once again artificial intelligence is putting our members in jeopardy of reducing their opportunity to work, and once again, SAG-AFTRA is standing up to tyranny on behalf of its members.”

New DLC for The Case of the Golden Idol has been released, which is a good opportunity to shout out what was one of the best, most slept on releases of 2022. It’s called The Lemurian Vampire and it I can’t wait to get stuck into it. And if you like detective games and haven’t played Golden Idol, what are you waiting for?

The good peeps at Playables - in partnership with Panic - have announced their new game: Time Flies. “A game about our limited time in this world.”

Check out the announcement trailer here. Cool.

Finally, after like a year, we hear more about Soulframe - the new one from Digital Extremes, the team behind Warframe. A whole 31 minutes of gameplay even! Looks super cool.

IGN previews the ‘Nintendo-inspired’ visually stunning adventure game Plucky Squire, and interviews the team behind it. Can’t wait for this.

Get a load of this Project Mugen trailer, the open-world RPG, """Genshin-killer""". Looks fun, albeit seemingly completely shameless in its lifting of Spider-Man traversal animations.

Not entire sure what this ‘time-driven adventure with RPG elements’ is, but The Time I Have Left has a trailer and it looks interesting.

Just a few hours out from release, FROM and Bandai pull the hypetrain into the station with the Armored Core VI overview trailer. Let’s gooooo!