Screen Play (blog)

Screen Play (blog)

Infobox Website
name=Screen Play
url=http://blogs.theage.com.au/screenplay/
note: Also linked from SMH website
type = Videogame Industry & Culture
owner = Fairfax Media Limited
author = Jason Hill
launch date=2006

Screen Play is an Australian videogame culture blog, written by journalist Jason Hill for the Fairfax Media newspapers The Age (Melbourne) and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Screen Play was launched [ [http://blogs.theage.com.au/screenplay/archives//002113.html Screen Play's initial blog post] ] on May 5, 2006.In an initial post, Jason wrote that the blog would:

"...provide lively and entertaining coverage of the burgeoning games industry... a place where you can debate and share your thoughts on this exciting new medium. And hopefully, have plenty of fun."

Recurring stories/issues

Some of the issues that Screen Play has revisited on a regular basis include:
* "Australia's videogame ratings system" [ [http://blogs.theage.com.au/screenplay/archives//002154.html Screen Play - "Time to play hard"] ] - advocating the introduction of an R18+ classification
* "Australia's changing gaming demographics" [ [http://blogs.theage.com.au/screenplay/archives//002129.html Screen Play - "Playing up"] ]

Your Turn

On March 18, 2008, Screen Play launched [ [http://blogs.theage.com.au/screenplay/archives//008873.html Screen Play launched 'Your turn'] ] Your Turn, an initiative to encourage the blog's visitors to contribute their own essays on videogame culture. Another incentive to would-be writers was a monthly prize of a Sony Playstation 3.

Your Turn winning essays thus far have included themes such as "passing videogaming onto your children" [ [http://blogs.theage.com.au/screenplay/archives//009501.html Your Turn winner May 2008] ] , "how to game when you've hurt one arm" [ [http://blogs.theage.com.au/screenplay/archives//010072.html Your Turn winner July 2008] ] & an intensive investigation comparing Australia's game pricing to pricing in other territories [ [http://blogs.theage.com.au/screenplay/archives//009738.html Your Turn winner June 2008] ] .

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