Marooned: Gaming industry laments funding and hiring challenges

Marooned: Gaming industry laments funding and hiring challenges
Henry Burrell
The gaming sector has weathered the covid storm but continues to suffer from a lack of funding and New Zealand’s closed borders, according to those in the industry.“Pre-covid, everyone we spoke to was expecting to continue that growth or expecting to do better. Post-covid it’s a whole other conversation,” Cassandra Gray, chairperson of the NZ Game Developers Association, told BusinessDesk.“The game industry is fairly lucky in that we were in some ways spared from a lot of the worst parts of lockdown because it&rsqu...

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