- 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 cultureblog , written byjournalist Jason Hill for theFairfax Media newspapersThe Age (Melbourne ) andThe 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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