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Ukie and the VSC Rating Board have re-launched age rating site, AskAboutGames.com. The two organisations will jointly run and fund the website, which contains information about PEGI age ratings, online safety insight, advice on family-friendly games and tips on how to use parental controls effectively. Heading up the newly re-launched …

Konami’s PES 2018 beat a number of new releases to the top of the Japanese charts last week, including Nintendo’s Metroid: Samus Returns and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, according to the latest figures from Famitsu. The PS4 version of the game shifted over 69,000 units in its first week on …

The review by ITV Chair, Sir Peter Bazalgette, recommends that the UK games fund recieve an extra investment of £23.7m

Ukie has announced its new board of directors for 2017-18, with Revolution Software’s owner and COO Noirin Carmody acting as chair, Playmob’s chairman Ian Livingstone CBE as vice chair, and Take-Two Interactive’s senior director of sales UK and export Dave Gould as treasurer. The Ukie board is made up of …

Method has picked up a team for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds roster, signing three new players to back up Anssi ‘AndyPyro’ Huovinen, who competed under Method’s banner at the Gamescom PUBG invitational event.  The new roster is Jamon ‘RaptorDRaptor’ Moretz, Ludvik ‘Aitzy’ Jahnsen, Mathias ‘EnergeticTurtle’ Nielson and Huovinen.  "I wanted Raptor on …

CounterLogic Gaming is releasing its Overwatch team, joining dozens of organisations who have let their teams go in 2017. CLG announced their acquisition of an Overwatch team in December 2016 at Major League Gaming’s Vegas Overwatch tournament, and the roster has remained fairly stable despite a lack of major success …

Quoted by the news agency, the CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc says more competition will drive adoption and development

Today saw the publishing of the much-awaited Independent Review of the Creative Industries (IRCI), which the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) commissioned out of the Industrial Strategy paper earlier this year. The headline statement was that the report supported calls for an extended UK games fund and …

The game jam that creates audio games is raising funds for sight loss charities and starts on October 6th

HTC Vive is to boost the amount of revenue share developers receive on its global Viveport store to celebrate its one-year anniversary, the company has announced. This is in addition to a swathe of new features for developers that will be rolling out very soon. From October until the end …