With the games industry rife with layoffs and studio closures in recent months, it's nice to come across something that actually celebrates our wonderful medium. Over in New Zealand, NZ Post has tipped its cap to the country's burgeoning game developers with a selection of stamps and collectibles.
The games in question here are Dredge, Into the Dead, Mini Metro, Depth, and Bloons TD 6. All were developed at studios in New Zealand and are now featured on official stamps, cards, collectibles pins, and more. How cool!
The official description of the collection reads:
"Games developed in New Zealand have run the gamut from multimillion bestsellers to winners of every major international game award, and these stamps showcase a diverse mix of those commercial and critical successes."
You can check out the full collection over on the NZ Post website, but here's a small peek at what's on offer...
Shout out goes to Timothy for highlighting this awesome move from NZ Post.
What do you make of these commemorative stamps from New Zealand? What other games would you like to see given the same treatment? Let us know with a comment.
[source collectables.nzpost.co.nz]
Comments 18
Of these games, I only played Dredge, but I can say it's well deserved in that case. Looking forward to the Iron Rig DLC.
Nice to see them use the Maori name for the country, as well as NZ, on the stamps. Shows how easy and simple it can be.
We need an Australian version of this!
It's like they always say, you know you've made it as a video game icon when you get your own stamp
@jolteon23 Since you mentioned I assume you know this better than I do but I've got a friend born in NZ and apparently they are pretty enthusiastic in keeping the native culture alive. I think it's great
Bloons is Kiwi made? Today I learned.
@Bobb I live on the other side of the planet, but yeah, it's such a refreshing attitude to have. It makes me happy to see
No TF2 Sniper
this is so cool! its always nice to see a little positive gaming news instead of the usual layoffs
It really is such a nice gesture and it's also interesting to learn that all these games have been developed in New Zealand!
That's nice! Here in Finland the national post office celebrated the most famous Finnish video game, Angry Birds, by giving them their own set of stamps back in 2013:
https://www.amusa.fi/sites/default/files/news/angry_birds_postimerkit.jpg
Sadly, they haven't done the same honours for Alan Wake or any other Remedy game.
Kiwi here, go us!!! Our studios here are doing so well! Its pretty mint that nz post has commerated our hard working developers.
@Bobb Kia ora! (Hello) yes we here in nz take immense pride in our culture, the Maori language is used everywhere here and its great!
He waahi pai a aotearoa, e whakaatu ana to tatou iwi me o tatou tikanga i roto i a tatou mahi.
(new zealand is a great place, our people and our culture shows through in our achievements)
Holy Moley, why are stamps so expensive in NZ? Or is the exchange rate just that good from the US?
@EmuRage its $2 to post a standard letter here then its $3.30 for large and $4.60 for oversize. In US$ that equates to $1.20 to $2.80 😀🇳🇿🇳🇿
Woah kiwi here - this is cool! I didn’t even realise we still had stamps let alone game related ones 😂
As I've said anytime when confronted with a stamp collection: Yep, those are stamps.
This is really cool. Good on New Zealand. Out of other gaming promotions or partnerships got to say this is a nice one.
Also makes it clear which came from New Zealand I didn't realise. Worthy highlights for sure. Even many Aussie ones I only sometimes hear about.
@Bobb unfortunately the current government is attempting to undo much of that, and being quite petty with things like changing around the order of names so English. But in general, NZ is more progressive with this kind of stuff than some countries
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