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NBN Co, Creative Victoria, and Pax Aus invite educators and students to attend the three-day Games Careers Expo at the Melbourne International Games Week from 1 to 9 October.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, six people came together to create an incredible tale of crime and deceit. Now they face their next epic adventure at PAX Aus Online!

For the second year running, PAX Aus has had to be cancelled, but like a great game player with several lives up their sleeve, PAX is dusting itself off and restoring to an online spawn point.

In exactly 24 hours, and despite a bigger venue, the complete compliment of 3 day badges for the Penny Arcade eXpo Australia (PAXAus) have already sold out.

Infinity Amusements is ramping up its push to produce digital pinball machines.  The size, buttons and feel of a traditional cabinet, but with a huge video screen laid where the pinball once rolled.

Controversial upcoming video game Saints Row 4 has remained banned in Australia after a review found the game's 'drug use' was not permissible.

The first Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) show outside of US soil took place over the weekend.  PAXAus in Melbourne was seen as an overwhelming success.  Will it be back?

MOGA, the makers of devices that turn your Android phone or tablet into a fully-fledged hand-held gaming device, are coming to Australia. Iin fact, the MOGA Pocket is on sale at PAXAus as I write.  However, there has been some modification for the planned rollout in Aus.

Normally at a show/convention/festival such as PAXAus the big video game companies bring a couple of semi-trailer’s worth of gear.  Well the semi-trailers are here, but they are not laden with the brand names most in the mainstream would expect.

The recent addition of a R18+ rating for video games in Australia was widely celebrated by proponents of the rights of adults to consume all forms of entertainment aimed at them.  And then two games were refused classification, State of Decay and Saints Row IV.  Well State of Decay has been slightly altered and will be released, and all indications are that Saints Row IV will now make its way to Australian retail shelves.

At the opening of Game Connect 2012 (GCAP12) held in Melbourne today Victorian Minister for Innovation Louise Asher (through her proxy, Member for Prahran Clem Newton-Brown) announced that the first “outside US” location for the PAX game expo would be Melbourne in 2013 and 2014.