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Digital Games / Events / Play Now  11 Oct 2023

Play Now Melbourne 2023 highlights

Play Now Melbourne is Australia's pre-eminent games market. As part of Melbourne International Games Week, Play Now Melbourne was held on 5 October 2023 at the State Library of Victoria. It featured an impressive line-up of leading international and local publishers, platform holders and investors, hearing pitches from more than 40 projects from across Australia. Here are some of the highlights from the day.

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Features  15 Dec 2022

Press Play On Five Of The Hottest Melbourne Made Games This Summer

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Victorian talent sweep up top honours this awards season

An abundance of VicScreen-supported projects and talent have been recognised with top awards at the 2022 AACTA Awards and ADG Awards.

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Hazal Alakus on life behind the lens

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Melissa Black is writing a new direction 

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  8 Nov 2022

Animated comedy The Future of Everything debuts online

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Media Releases  8 Nov 2022

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Features  12 Oct 2022

Michael Hudson on breaking through

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Media Releases  7 Oct 2022

Vicscreen unveils new program for game developers

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Features  3 Oct 2022

Adrian Chiarella is embracing queer horror

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Media Releases  26 Sep 2022

Nine Australian writers set to accelerate their projects to the world stage

Nine Australian writers have been selected to participate in the highly coveted screenwriter accelerator, Impact Australia, delivered by Impact and Gentle Giant Media Group.