For the second year running, Chromacon in partnership with NZ CODE and Disc 2 Games, will host the New Zealand Games pavilion at WePlay expo 2025 in Shanghai, China (Nov 22-23).

With the support of our partners at New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE), NZ CODE headed up a large contingent of Kiwis who made it across the Tasman for our fourth Melbourne International Games Week (MIGW) campaign. Pictured: CODE and NZTE cohort take on Melbourne International Games Week 2025. Overall, the combined CODE and NZTE cohort made up around 50 members to MIGW, including marquee events such as Game Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP) and PAX Australia, the largest digital

Expressions of Interest for CODE Round 7 Travel Grants open on Friday 24 October 2025.

$960,000 boost for game developers in CODE’s third national funding round

For the fourth year running, CODE brings together some of Aotearoa New Zealand's latest indie games to showcase at PAX Australia 2025....

CODE is pleased to announce Niberspace Ltd. is the first team to be awarded the Service Start Grant, a specialist, on demand grant around supporting service businesses in the game development sector, ideally developing original IP in Aotearoa New Zealand.

With partnership from our friends both at New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) and Representing Games, CODE supported fourteen teams to Gamescom, the biggest games industry event... in the world.

The New Zealand Centre of Digital Excellence (NZ CODE) announced four successful grant recipients as part of its tenth round of game...

Ten NZ studios traveled to GDC in San Francisco, USA in March, supported by CODE's fifth national Travel Grant round.

CODE introduces new Mentorship programme as part of Grant reception to help share knowledge between teams.

Dunedin-based Mune Studio, announces they will be shipping with support from Microsoft, launching on ID@Xbox this year.

Eight CODE Travel Grant recipients head to GDC in San Francisco, USA, to present at Representing Games 2025.

New year brings fresh funding rounds, global outreach, mentorship opportunities, workshops and events for CODE.

Chromacon, in partnership with CODE, PikPok and Dinosaur Polo Club, showcased eight NZ games at WePlay Expo 2024 in Shanghai, China.

12 studios from across Aotearoa received prototype and production funding in the NZ CODE's second national funding round.

NZ CODE headed up another huge contingent of Kiwis for our Melbourne International Games Week (MIGW) 2024 campaign.

CODE's booth at PAX AUS 2024 will support 18 studios to exhibit their games, from all corners of the country.

CODE sponsored nine studios to attend Gamescom in August 2024, the biggest gaming conference globally.

NZ CODE supported studios - Astronaut Diaries, Metia Interactive, and Mune Studio - secure pods on Ukiyo Studios’ booth at BitSummit 2024

Despite difficult times in the video game development industry internationally, Ōtepoti Dunedin and Aotearoa New Zealand continue to...