{"id":19697,"date":"2025-08-10T07:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T05:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/tax-relief-and-carmen-sandiego-australias-once-dismissed-video-game-industry-is-finally-getting-a-leg-up\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T07:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T05:37:19","slug":"tax-relief-and-carmen-sandiego-australias-once-dismissed-video-game-industry-is-finally-getting-a-leg-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/tax-relief-and-carmen-sandiego-australias-once-dismissed-video-game-industry-is-finally-getting-a-leg-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax relief and Carmen Sandiego: Australia\u2019s once-dismissed video game industry is finally getting a leg-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government rebates and grants have finally put the country back on the map for the quick-moving field of professional game development<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2025\/aug\/10\/australia-news-live-anthony-albanese-israel-gaza-war-richard-marles-jeremy-rockliff-tasmania-greyhound-racing-ntwnfb\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The idea that video games are not \u201cserious things\u201d, says Ross Symons, overlooks the benefits they offer to gamers feeling isolated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing that struck me during Covid is that games were the way that people connected and stayed together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/aug\/10\/australia-video-game-industry-tax-relief-and-carmen-sandiego\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5868e86198c9dc6d78117b7ea2e61fb4429b0312\/2172_2075_4606_3685\/master\/4606.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8c0455dedd1a4583b8cf55cf75ee63ac\" title=\"Tax relief and Carmen Sandiego: Australia\u2019s once-dismissed video game industry is finally getting a leg-up\" \/>Government rebates and grants have finally put the country back on the map for the quick-moving field of professional game development<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>The idea that video games are not \u201cserious things\u201d, says Ross Symons, overlooks the benefits they offer to gamers feeling isolated.<br \/>\n\u201cOne thing that struck me during Covid is that games were the way that people connected and stayed together.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government rebates and grants have finally put the country back on the map for the quick-moving field of professional game development Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The idea that video games are not \u201cserious things\u201d, says Ross Symons, overlooks the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/tax-relief-and-carmen-sandiego-australias-once-dismissed-video-game-industry-is-finally-getting-a-leg-up\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tax relief and Carmen Sandiego: Australia\u2019s once-dismissed video game industry is finally getting a leg-up<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19697"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}