Video game developers are venting frustration over what they say is government inaction in their industry, a week after the Federal Government tabled its response to an inquiry into the local games sector.

For thousands of members of a popular online entertainment universe, a convention held in Sydney over the weekend was a rare opportunity to meet face to face.

South Australia will become home to a new $26 million visual effects studio which lists Wonder Woman and The Shape of Water among its credits.

John Mahoney, the actor best-known for playing the cranky dad on TV show Frasier, dies in Chicago at the age of 77 after a brief hospitalisation.

The backlash to Marvel's Black Panther film shows we live in an age where black heroes, both fictional and real, are met with fierce resistance, writes Paul Verhoeven.