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Working with Alex Hope of Double Negative since July last year, I’ve had the privilege of leading the largest quantitative research study to date on skills in the video games industry and visual effects. We’ve conducted seven different research strands which covered children, parents, teachers, schools, colleges, universities, employers, employees …

Given that the new online world is being transformed by creative technology companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google and video games companies, it seems incredible that there is an absence of computer programming in schools. The UK has gone backwards at a time when the requirement for computer science as a …

Official UK video games trade body UKIE has welcomed the recommendations of today’s Livingstone-Hope skills review. The UK has a heritage in developing video games that we can be very proud of," UKIE director general Michael Rawlinson stated. "However, if we are to continue to produce world-class interactive entertainment we …

The long-awaited Livingstone-Hope Review has launched today with a call for the UK Education Department to make critical changes across the entire talent pipeline. The significant 88-page paper calls for new approaches at schools, at colleges, across universities and at within the games industry itself. Scroll below to find all …

Critical changes must be made throughout Britain’s academic infrastructure if the UK wants a new ‘golden age’ generation of game developers, a major new study has concluded. The Livingstone-Hope Review, released today at the behest of the Culture Department, has issued 20 recommendations to transform game academia not just at …

Ahead of its release in the UK this Friday, the first reviews of EA’s Dead Space 2 have appeared online – and the reception so far has been rapturous. The Xbox 360 version of EA’s sequel is currently averaging 90 per cent on Metacritic. "There are some decidedly spooky environments …

The Q4 sales season arrives with huge performances from Black Ops and FIFA 11. There’s less good news for industry favourite Tim Langdell, however, whose legal tirade is finally ended. Sony decided to lop 65 off the price of a PSPgo, but that’s quickly forgotten as details of two new …

As ‘Antennagate’ rumbled on Apple responded with one of the most astonishing press releases ever released – not that any of it stopped the iPhone 4 outselling Microsoft’s Kin by what can only be described as a gargantuan amount. Developer Tim Schafer laid into Bobby Kotick and Microsoft finally confirmed …

2010 will be remembered as a tough but successful year for the video game industry. It was the year that saw casual and online games played through social networks emerge from boxed products’ still large shadow as key forms of interactive entertainment. It seemed everyone was playing Angry Birds at …

At a time when Britain prepared for what would be an historic general election, the industry was still trying to assess the potential implications of The Digital Economy Bill. Meanwhile, the BBC rocked established games models by announcing four free Doctor Who games while Gizmodo got into all sorts of …