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Monday, 11 June 2018 12:36

Behind NZ's quietly successful gaming exporters

Technology columnist Richard MacManus takes a closer look inside New Zealand's fast-growing computer gaming export sector, which employs hundreds of developers and is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, for Newsroom.

Source/ReadMore A Newsroom release by Richard MacManus

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Monday, 11 June 2018 10:15

Microsoft is building a game streaming service and new Xbox consoles

Microsoft is building a game streaming service and new Xbox consolesMicrosoft has been teasing it’s working on game streaming from the cloud recently, but today at E3 the company made it official.

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Thursday, 31 May 2018 16:25

Tencent Mobility snaps up Grinding Gear Games for more than $100M

Hong Kong-listed Tencent Mobility was granted Overseas Investment Office approval to buy up to 100 percent of video game developer Grinding Gear Games for more than $100 million

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Tuesday, 22 May 2018 09:50

Grinding Gear Games developer now possible to expand and hire

A Kiwi video game company founded in a New Lynn garage has sold up 80 per cent of its shares to a Chinese giant worth more than $800 billion. Chinese internet colossus Tencent Holdings has bought a controlling stake in West Auckland's Grinding Gear Games, which developed Path of Exile.