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Passionate about education and media literacy? Join the NFSA and create unforgettable learning experiences About the National Film and Sound Archive The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) is Australia’s audiovisual archive, telling the national story by collecting, preserving and sharing audiovisual media, the cultural experience platforms of our time. The collection itself dates back to 1935, making it one of the world’s oldest audiovisual collections.

Kiana Daniele is a certified Intimacy Coordinator and Director trained through SAG-AFTRA accredited program Principle Intimacy Professionals, with experience across stage and screen productions including Binge, ABC Studios and Channel 10. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Kiana is also an award-winning performer best known for the Australian tour of SIX, and brings a strong focus on collaboration, consent and performer wellbeing to her work.

Sea Life and Nintendo have brought their globally-renowned Animal Crossing: New Horizons collaboration back to Australia for a new season, with light tweaks making it stronger and more fun than its previous iteration. The exhibit runs to 23 August at Sea Life Sydney, and arrives at Sea Life Melbourne later in 2026. To celebrate its opening, ScreenHub was invited to attend an after-hours preview, complete with an appearance by everybody’s favourite secretary, Isabelle.

In a past now long gone, a physical game media release was lush. You’d get a nice box, a disc, and even a glossy manual with instructions on how to play, or little tidbits about game lore. Sometimes, you might’ve gotten a nice map for display, or a sticker. In the 2010s, the glossy manual was removed near-entirely as companies streamlined their physical media releases, and cut down on extraneous costs. In the 2020s, it’s now the humble disc which will face the same fate.

Screen Australia has announced the launch of two new initiatives focused on market and audience growth for Australian-made, theatrically-released feature films. Working alongside global development and research organisations Tatino Films and Publikum, it has development the new First Cut Lab, to strengthen narratives, as well as the Impact & Insights programs, which are aimed at providing filmmakers with audience insights.

Rhythm Paradise Groove, also known as Rhythm Heaven Groove in other territories, is a game that demands your attention. Whether locked onto the gaze of an all-seeing moon or bouncing fruits on the glistening pecs of a beach bodybuilder, you must give your all to accomplish its many musical tasks. And if you have not a skerrick of rhythm in your body, you might quickly find yourself failing over and over – to the disappointment of the game’s tiny fairy mascot and all of its little, adorable people.

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is an absolutely beautiful fighting game. Keeping pace with its punchy, fast-paced action, the visuals of the game are superbly sleek, reflecting the comic book nature of its source material. Any screenshot you could take of this game looks like a comic panel, with its sharp, cel-shaded art style making character models pop on-screen.

Two Point Studios began with a dream: to revive the classic business simulation gameplay genre for a new era, inspired by Bullfrog Productions’ classic 1997 game, Theme Hospital. Like-minded developers formed a unit in Farnham, Surrey in the UK in 2016, and worked together to create the smash hit Two Point Hospital, a spiritual Theme Hospital successor which gathered a passionate audience and inspired an array of game spin-offs.

Game studio Papergames has backtracked on plans to release a new love interest into popular mobile title Love and Deepspace, following extreme player backlash and criticism that allegedly resulted in cow dung being sent to the studio’s offices. Love and Deepspace’s Valko controversy – quick links The drama began with the announcement of love interest Valko, a werewolf with a ‘tough guy’ persona.

More than 70 designers and design associates have been nominated for the 2026 Australian Production Design Guild (APDG) Awards, competing for awards in 19 categories for outstanding designers in feature film, television, live performance and events. The nominees for production design for a feature film category are Steven Jones-Evans for Anaconda, Vanessa Cerne for Bring her Back, Bethany Ryan for Jimpa and Nicholas Dare for Together.