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The Japanese games industry can’t match the technical advances of the US and Japanese gamers aren’t really interested in consoles anymore – that’s the assessment of Epic Games’ famed designer Cliff Bleszinski. When grilled on the subject by Xbox World 360 Magazine, as spotted by CVG, the Gears of War …
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Read More »LGC 09: Gordon Brown is failing games industry, say Tories
The Conservative Party this afternoon launched its biggest attack yet on the Government for its treatment of the UK games industry. Speaking at London Games Conference at BAFTA, Shadow Culture Minister Ed Vaizey told a packed room that a Tory Government would extend the remit of the Film Council to …
Read More »Gamescom ties MCV and Casualgaming.biz
New trade and consumer show Gamescom has appointed B2B leaders MCV and CasualGaming.biz as media partners. The event takes place in Cologne, starting with a trade-only day on Wednesday August 19th. An extra high circulation edition of MCV will be distributed in the Business Centre throughout the entire show, which …
Read More »Budget 2009: Govt has failed to back the games industry
Games industry group Tiga has slammed the Labour government for failing again to back one of the principal creative industries of the future.” In his Budget speech, delivered on Wednesday in the House of Commons, Alistair Darling failed to materialise any of the promises that Tiga was looking for. Speaking …
Read More »Games to overtake music with record 07 revenues
Games revenues will overtake cash generated by music at retail by the end of the year, according to Screen Digest. With interactive entertainment continuing its spectacular rise to prominence, demand for Nintendo hardware repeatedly hitting the headlines and the multi-billion dollar Activision Blizzard deal shocking the financial world, the games …
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