Activision, the publisher of cult video games including Call of Duty, Guitar Hero and Skylanders, gave its designers a very specific brief for the design studio it is building in South Melbourne – it had to have a games room.

As a result, there will be a 67-square-metre dedicated games room within the entire floor that the Nasdaq-listed Activision is leasing in builder and developer Hickory’s newly built office tower at 68 Clarke Street on the southern edge of the Victorian capital.