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New Zealand’s gaming industry is a silent juggernaut

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New Zealand’s game creators are competing for talent with a lavishly subsidised film sector, but they’re still finding ways to thrive, says Simon Dasan of Wellington powerhouse A44.  There’s an uncanny parallel between New Zealand’s gaming industry and Ashen – the action role-playing game which is one of its most accomplished and celebrated productions. Ashen’s … Read more

Ashen carries the hopes of a gaming nation

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As a homegrown project from a Lower Hutt based studio making its first-ever game, Lee Henaghan desperately wanted Ashen to be awesome – and he wasn’t disappointed. Gaming journalists have always copped criticism from the angriest corners of the internet; some of it deserved, most of it not so much. The chief complaint among the … Read more