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The UK’s Ministry of Culture, Media and Sport has formally started an investigation into the legality of Canada’s tax incentives for games studios. MCV sister site Develop has the full story – head over there for the full details.

Dr. Tanya Byron has rubbished media reports that her Government Review into digital entertainment recommends stricter legal penalties for UK retailers. Early national newspaper articles printed on the morning of the Review claimed that Byron had suggested ‘retailers who sell video games to anyone under the age rating on the …

Ken Kutaragi was amazing. In the early days we would go to Japan with business plans that we thought were aggressive. He would say: ‘You don’t understand. We are here to change the world. Your forecasts look high in the old world, but PlayStation is for everyone, not just hardcore …

Sister site Develop has the full story – head over there for more.

Electronic Arts has amended its hostile tender offer for Take Two, and stated that in attempting to delay the deal Take Two could be increasing risk for its shareholders. While Take Two stalled the deal by moving its annual meeting of stockholders to April 17th, EA has now given the …

You’re a national newspaper editor. You need a serious think piece in the wake of the Byron Review’s largely sensible recommendations, but no-one in the office quite cuts the mustard. Who you gonna call…? That’s right. Anne Diamond. In perhaps the finest piece of national games-focused journalism of the year, …

The march of big media into games continues apace: following bolstered games divisions at Warner Bros and Disney, now Viacom-owned Paramount has announced its intention to enter games publishing – as we revealed earlier this month. A story on Variety confirms the move. Paramount’s first slate of games will be …

A handful of the UK’s finest video games companies have pledged to make this year’s MCV Excellence Awards the best ever by sponsoring vital elements of the evening. Nintendo returns as the MCV Awards’ Exclusive Retail Partner, sponsoring the entire retail category of awards – which takes in Independent Retailer, …

The changes s uggested by Dr. Tanya Byron in her Review of digital entertainment today – and backed by leading Ministers – won’t actually have any practical effect until 2010. That’s according to the report itself, which sets out a timetable for when Byron’s recommendations will be implemented. It reads: …

– Why commission the report at all when there is no known problem that needs addressing? This is just another waste of taxpayers money and an example of blame culture running amok. The nanny state out of control. There are far more pressing social issues that the government continually fails …