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Tech: Aussie tax breaks put heat on NZ game makers

11:05 am on 1 December 2022

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Technology correspondent Peter Griffin looks at how the country's video games industry has become a creative powerhouse, generating $407m in the last financial year, and is now under threat from tax breaks across the Tasman.

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