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 “serious things”, says Ross Symons, overlooks the benefits they offer to gamers feeling isolated. “One thing that struck me during Covid is that games were the way that people connected and stayed together.” The chief executive of Big Ant Studios, a Melbourne based game developer, recalls when in 2010 the then opposition leader Tony Abbott...
