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UK games industry trade association was this evening raising a glass to a high-profile success – it was the one responsible for getting games into the Young Apprentice final. SPOILERS BELOW – YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED The final challenge on BBC One’s Young Apprentice this week asked its two finalists …
Read More »Meet the new UKIE CEO: it’s Dr Jo Twist
UK games industry trade association UKIE has scored a coup in hiring its new CEO. The organisation this morning confirmed that Dr Jo Twist – currently commissioning editor for education at UK broadcaster Channel 4 – will be joining as UKIE CEO from January 9th. UKIE has been on the …
Read More »Games industry piles on pressure for education reform
The government has admitted the way schools teach computing is flawed – now the UKIE-backed Next Gen Skills campaign wants games firms to help change the National Curriculum. Earlier this week, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)?published a response to the Livingstone-Hope Next Gen report, which criticised how …
Read More »UK Government responds to Livingstone-Hope
The UK Government hasmade public its response to the Livingstone-Hope Skills Review, which in February this year made recommendations to include computer science into the national curriculum. The statement from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport makes 85 distinct responses to the Livingstone-Hope report, which itself set out twenty …
Read More »‘A new Future business is taking shape’ – new CEO Wood
Future’s new CEO Mark Wood predicts the company will be quite different once it is ‘transition to a digital business model’ is complete. In his statement published with today’s full-year results – ‘disappointing’ numbers that show the US business dragging down UK performance – he said that Future sees opportunity …
Read More »Independent studio Playground Games joins Tiga
Leamington Spa based developer working on 'big budget' console game
Read More »Government had "no data" when formulating Digital Economy Act
The UK Government has amazingly admitted that it made no attempt to gather its own evidence when formulating its anti-piracy plans that were included in the controversial Digital Economy Bill. Instead, the decision to implement a three strikes” rule and demand that ISPs play a role in internet censorship was …
Read More »OnLive VP joins Disney Interactive
One of the leading executives at games streaming service OnLive has quit the firm for a role at Disney Interactive Media. John Spinale, who was until recently OnLive vice president of for games and media, has accepted the role of senior VP of social games at Disney. He’ll have a …
Read More »GamesAid Golf & Spa Day raises over £60,000
UK games industry charity GamesAid has announced its popular Gem Golf & Spa Day event raised an impressive 62,607.56 this year. The event was held on June 30th and invited members of the industry to enjoy a day of friendly golf tournaments or spa treatments. All proceeds – a 19 …
Read More »Can anyone beat Ubisoft?
Xbox and MCV will hold this year’s final networking night for retail and media on Thursday December 1st. Companies battling it out already include Tesco, Amazon, Comet, Turner Media Innovations, Gamespot, Videogamer.com, Future, Nintendo, Ubisoft, NCsoft, Gem, Lygo, Microsoft and newcomers Lick Creative. There is currently one team slot left, …
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