Video Games
NZ game studios aim for the big bucks
New Zealand video game developers have pitched an ambitious target of $1 billion revenue within the next decade.
Hamlet: The Video Game
Video games and Shakespearean text don’t often go together, but Hamlet: The Video Game stage show at the Court Theatre brings the story into today. It combines nerf guns, confetti blood and Angry… Audio
Game changer! The sand-box games transforming cities
Could online gaming help solve the problems of real cities in the future? 'Sand-box' games are starting to have a major impact on urban design by educating people about how to create sustainable… Video, Audio, Gallery
Video game changers
The first things that spring to mind when video games are mentioned are seldom positive, more likely bloody gun battles on the battlefield, or the adventures of Mario trying to rescue the Princess… Audio
Nights' culture -Video Games
Do you need a goal, or is an innovative world to explore enough? Video game reviewer Andrew Todd defends "walking simulators" Gone Home, Firewatch and The Stanley Parable. Audio
How video games are changing football
Popular video game titles like FIFA, Pro Evolution Soccer and Football Manager have sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide. Now these games have become so realistic they have started… Audio
A live orchestral salute to video game Final Fantasy
It's an unlikely idea - to stage an orchestral concert devoted to video-game music, but it seems to have taken the world by storm. When the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra announced they were playing… Audio
Extra Time for 7 October 2016
Two of New Zealand's Olympic champions have their medical records released by Russian hackers, but they're okay about it. The All Blacks prepare to match a test match winning streak. We hear from one… Audio
Dan Slevin: the accidental gamer
RNZ's film guy, Dan Slevin watches a lot of movies.... well he did, until he and his wife became addicted to gaming. He's been playing the FIFA soccer game, she's been playing the Lego computer games.
…Star Citizen: crowdfunding's biggest success story
Imagine a computer game where you can explore entire solar systems, walk on the surface of alien worlds, fly spaceships, mine asteroids, explore wormholes all with the kind of graphical fidelity you'd… Audio
Nights' Culture - Video Games
This week's cultural ambassador is 'Birth. Movies. Death' & GamePlanet reviewer Andrew Todd on the world of Virtual Reality. Audio
China shapes global entertainment industry
Once the preserve of Hollywood, Walt Disney and the US, China is having a massive and growing influence on the entertainment industry; in areas like film, TV, video games and theme parks. Adam Minter… Audio
Augmented Reality - Paul Spain
Why has Pokemon Go been so instantly successful? Technology Commentator Paul Spain explains why augmented reality's time has come. Audio
Nights' Culture - Video Games
Played in stadiums and arenas in front of a huge live audience, with millions watching online at home. It's not the superbowl but team-based video gaming. GamePlanet reviewer Andrew Todd attended a… Audio
James Portnow - ethical gaming
Like many teens growing up in the 90s James loved video games... but in his high school years that love became a damaging addiction. Eventually he overcame that compulsion and after a stint touring… Audio
Nights' Culture - Video Games
'Birth. Movies. Death' & GamePlanet reviewer Andrew Todd on saving the planet via a myriad of gaming platforms... how playing with friends online makes gaming more fun... Audio
Dunedin software developer throws lifeline to out of work
Employers are already looking to hire some of the software developers who will lose their jobs when the country's largest video gaming studio closes down. Audio
NZ's largest video game developer shuts suddenly -150 jobs
Gameloft is a Paris-owned company which was set up a branch in Auckland six years ago . Before it was suddenly shut yesterday, the Auckland studio had grown three times the size than the industry… Audio
Gameloft closes down and 150 people lose their jobs
New Zealand's largest video gaming studio is closing down and one hundred and fifty people are losing their jobs. Audio
Gaming Culture of the 1980s - Sarah Johnston
With Christmas just around the corner, computer games and gaming consoles are probably on the wish-lists in many households. It's more than 30 years since gaming culture arrived in New Zealand, not… Audio
