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Tanya Byron today gave the thumbs up to the Government’s recommendations on video game classification. As part of its Digital Britain report, Westminster revealed earlier this week that PEGI is to become the sole age ratings model in the UK. Talking at the end of a vibrant Digital Safety conference …

PEGI will have to wait the best part of a year until it becomes the UK’s sole classification system by law. The proposal to implement PEGI as the UK’s only games age classification model, overseen by the Video Standards Council, was put forward by Labour in its Digital Britain White …

Christmas 2007 was a period to remember for the video games industry. It was a time of big sales numbers and bar-raising video games that continued to be popular well into 2008, from the record-breaking launch of Halo 3, to the reinvention of the Call of Duty franchise, via system-shifting …

After Square Enix’s purchase of Eidos in April, the once almighty Britsoft community is all but dead – with the proud exception of Codemasters. We caught up with the global boss of the firm to talk about the UK industry and the publisher’s slate of new titles. You’re putting your …

Global Xbox Live boss John Schappert will leave Microsoft on July 14th for Electronic Arts – two years after quitting the Redwood giant for the platform holder. Schappert will become COO at EA, replacing John Pleasants, who vacates the publisher. Schappert will be responsible for Worldwide Publishing, the Online Platform …

Games publishers are already manufacturing games boxes with PEGI’s ‘traffic light’ ratings on their cover – and hope to have the symbols on UK  boxes by the end of this summer. All new games released in Europe will feature the colour-coded symbols, after the UK Government gave the green light …

Two industry veterans have formed a new games distribution company, Solid Gold Games. Andrew Blumson and Russell Clark have set up the new company after more than a year away from the games industry. The two previously founded Just Distribution. Solid Gold Games will specialise in newly-released software and ‘closeout’ …

Gamestation will lose its product director, head of pre-owned and buying boss in August, as its York office is integrated into GAME’s Basingstoke HQ. MCV understands that around 60 central office staff have taken redundancy at the specialist – after almost all employees were offered the chance to re-locate to …

Future US president Jonathan Simpson-Bint is to step down on August 31st. According to Folio Simpson-Bint sent an email to staff that said he was leaving the company to start his own business. Simpson-Bint wrote: I’m leaving now simply because the time is right for me. I’ve never made any …

When CEO John Riccitiello memorably told MCV in 2003 that million sellers weren’t a big deal any more, this wasn’t what he had in mind. What’s gone wrong? The short-term diagnosis: Having stumbled in the transition, EA underestimated Wii, allowed costs to spiral, and made too many mediocre games and …