Melbourne International Game Week in 2017.
Melbourne International Game Week in 2017.
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Melbourne festival showcases Australia’s impressive game dev growth

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Melbourne International Games Week (MIGW) showed off its event program today, and it sheds light on how big Australia’s game business has become.

Overall, there are 225 game companies in Australia, as of July 2017, and 75 percent of them are indies. Melbourne is the home for Australia’s largest games festival, and it’s part of the state of Victoria. Last year, more than 70,000 people participated in MIGW activities.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.