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As of 4 November 2026, 471 games development & publishing companies are based in Australia; 5 are hiring right now and Haymarket has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 471
- Hiring now
- 5 · 2 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Game studios · 227
- Top city
- Haymarket · 28
- Parent market
- Media & content · 29,552
Games development & publishing in Australia, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Game studios | 227 | 48% |
| Mobile casual game studios | 116 | 25% |
| Tabletop game publishers | 88 | 19% |
| Game portals | 64 | 14% |
| Video game media | 62 | 13% |
| Other games development & publishing | 35 | 7% |
| Game development service studios | 26 | 6% |
| Private game servers | 24 | 5% |
| Other user content aggregator platforms | 3 | 1% |
| Anime manga fandom media | 1 | 0% |
| Artist studios | 1 | 0% |
| Book publishers | 1 | 0% |
| Composers | 1 | 0% |
| Conceptual installation artists | 1 | 0% |
| Digital design template shops | 1 | 0% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 385 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 52 · 2 |
| 11-50 employees | 26 · 2 |
| 51-200 employees | 5 · 0 |
| 201-500 employees | 1 · 0 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 1 · 1 |
| 10,001+ employees | 1 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Haymarket | 28 | 6% |
| Melbourne | 20 | 4% |
| Perth | 12 | 3% |
| Corio | 11 | 2% |
| Petrie Terrace | 7 | 1% |
| Adelaide Bc | 6 | 1% |
| Docklands | 6 | 1% |
| Grange | 5 | 1% |
| Newtown | 5 | 1% |
| Brisbane | 4 | 1% |
| Geelong | 4 | 1% |
| Sydney | 4 | 1% |
The biggest games development & publishing companies in Australia
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The stack of games development & publishing in Australia
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Other segments of media & content in Australia
Media & content in Australia, the whole market →
News & content portals · 12,703 →
User content aggregator platforms · 5,891 →
Visual art galleries & prints · 3,307 →
Travel blogs guides · 2,438 →
Books publishing & retail · 2,165 →
Writers & independent publishing · 1,803 →
Music & radio · 1,739 →
Creator channels & influencers · 1,117 →
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471 games development & publishing companies are based in Australia; 5 are hiring right now and Haymarket has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/media_content/australia/games_development_and_publishing)
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- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
Games development & publishing in Australia: questions
How many games development & publishing companies are there in Australia?
471 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Media & content → Games development & publishing → leaf niches such as game studios, mobile casual game studios, tabletop game publishers. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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