Gaming

Creative tech entrepreneur Sam Ramlu leads a busy life with three ventures including gaming studios Mighty Eyes and Mad Carnival, and a digital developer called Method. Audio

A New Zealand company will soon begin a pilot for a video game that helps prisoners regulate their emotions. Audio

Players of this complex and very social game have been fighting monsters and weaving fantastical stories for half a century. Audio

A blobfish catching the bus. A goat and a possum arguing on the moon. A worm detective solving a ghost mystery. These are all possibilities in a new local game. Audio

A Samoan character has been introduced to the online gaming world of Overwatch 2. Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

Esports players say their sport is more than just time on the couch with a joystick – we have a national team, and it’s heading to global games at the end of the year. Audio

A computer game developer from Hawke's Bay has found massive success on the global sales charts with his new game, Sapiens. David Frampton is the solo developer of Sapiens, which shot to number two on… Audio

 At the Big Screen Symposium in Tamaki Makarau this weekend, a panel of writers will compare and contrast working in ideas for games, film and television. Panellist Henry Feltham from Dunedin talks to… Audio

Online gaming can be a gateway to problem gambling, and primary school children are allegedly being drawn in.

That's the shocking finding in the research, which identified young Pasifika as being at… Audio

Virtual production technologies and digital screens are set to change the way movies are made, but is New Zealand's film industry ready? Audio

Chelsea Rapp, who's the chair of the New Zealand Game Developers Association, joins us to bust some stereotypes about gaming! Audio

Maru Nihoniho is the first Maori woman to run her own gaming company. She's the brains behind Metia Interactive, which creates educational, interactive games, with Maori stories and language at their… Audio, Gallery

The world-wide gaming industry is big. It's really big. Just ten years ago it generated over 25 billion dollars of income a year in the US alone. Last year it took in 135 billion dollars. Taking in… Audio

Technology commentator Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to talk about the decision by China to limit children's gaming time to three hours per week. There's confusion over an upgrade to Windows - and the… Audio

Umurangi Generation, designed and developed by Ngai Te Rangi designer Naphtali Faulkner, the grand prize at the Independent Games Festival. Developer Naphtali Faulkner talks to Jesse. Audio

Are you a daydreamer? Many of us were as children, but as adults we find it increasingly harder to be pleasantly lost in our thoughts. Nick Buttrick was part of a team that published a study on… Audio

Senior psychology lecturer at Massey University Dr Aaron Drummond is calling for video gamers to be protected as addiction increases. His research has found 45 percent of games analysed meet the… Audio