Gordon Brown praises UK games sector

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has again talked up the British game industry, claiming that the nation’s developers are "by far the biggest producer of computer games in Europe."

Brown’s comments were made at the Global Investment Conference in London, where he and the business secretary Lord Mandelson offered assurance that Britain still provides good investment opportunities.

He told a packed room of that he would seek "new commitments of investment" into the sector, though – tellingly – was shy of detail.

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