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'The economic and cultural value of the UK's video games and VFX sectors presents a great opportunity for UK-based businesses'

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 …

UKIE had reported that further delays are holding back the introduction of PEGI as the standard age rating system in the UK. Only last week, the games industry trade body said it expected the system to be implemented early next year. Now it appears this isn’t the case, although a …

Ferrari Challenge developer Eutechnyx will start publishing games after securing 1.8m in Government funding. The Gateshead-based company has received investment of around 10m altogether. The funding will be used primarily for Eutechnyx to publish their own games including free-to-play online racer and car community Auto Club Revolution. Additionally, the firm …

UK developer Eutechnyx has received a regional growth fund of 1.8m from the Government to fund an online racing game. The North-East based company said it will use the money to develop a publishing operation for its upcoming racer Auto Club Revolution, creating up to 190 new jobs. The new …

Up to 190 jobs to be created by studio for Auto Car Revolution publishing operation

Well, it finally happened. Steve Jobs’ consumer electronic empire Apple now has more money to play with than the US treasury – the world’s biggest economy and lynchpin of the Western financial system. According to US Treasury figures released this week, the United States has an operating cash balance of …

Education minister Michael Gove MP discusses the benefits of computer games as teaching tools

PSN may be back in key terrories such as the UK and US, but authorities in Japan have blocked public access to the service until further security assurances can be given. "We met with Sony on May 6th and 13th and basically we want two things from them," director of …

MPs have been in negotiations with Internet Service Providers and intellectual rights holders to create a system that would allow access to be blocked to certain websites. According to the Open Rights Group, a letter from Mr. Vaizey confirmed that he’d been in discussions with stakeholders to create a working …