Politics
Australian govt ironically surprises everyone with loot box classification announcement
Not even the local games industry was expecting the Coalition to make an election announcement about loot boxes.

Is the DGTO really going to help?
We chat to R&D tax incentive expert Ben Thompson from Techlever about the Digital Games Tax Offset and some of the issues he'd like to see addressed ahead of its introduction.

Italian museums now use cameras to see which art you look at most
Visitor's eyeballs will decide how these galleries redesign their layout and which artworks are put on prime display.

Lawyers go after Sega's "rigged" skill-based arcade machines
Key Master machines are off to court for being marketed as skill-based when manuals show how their settings really work.

"Cold snap means it isn't real" and other climate change myths busted
It isn't "good for us", it won't fix itself, and weather isn't climate. We bust the big myths wheeled out again and again by deniers.

Victoria's COVID vaccination booking system finally went online
After five months of delays and an overwhelmed phone hotline, Victorians can now check eligibility and book COVID vaccinations online.

AFP, FBI encryption operation was some truly amazing digital police work
Operation Ironside (aka Trojan Shield) was a crazy idea to begin with, and even crazier that it actually worked.
