NZ gaming industry outlines plan for home-grown 'Angry Birds'

NZ gaming industry outlines plan for home-grown 'Angry Birds'
Pattrick Smellie
By Pattrick Smellie Aug. 19 (BusinessDesk) - The government will look "very seriously" at recommendations from the New Zealand digital gaming industry for the establishment of a new NZ Games Investment Fund and associated NZ Interactive Commission, says Economic Development Minister Phil Twyford. Launching 'Interactive Aotearoa', a joint industry and government-funded report into the potential of the fast-growing sector, at the offices of Wellington digital games developer PikPok, Twyford was unwilling to put a timetable or define process...

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