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Trade body ELSPA has praised the commitment pledged by the Conservative party’s Shadow Culture Minister Ed Vaizey at last night’s London Games Conference to explore ways to help the UK video games industry should his party win next year’s general election. We welcome much in Ed Vaizey’s speech,” ELSPA director …

GameCity 09: Labour Lord insists the industry needs structure more than anything else

Lobbyists and soncumer groups have been quick to condemn the government’s intention to push forward with a three-strikes” policy to cut the internet connections of those accused of online piracy. Introducing a tiered response to illegal filesharing is a good idea in theory, but only if the right people are …

Labour MP and Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has stated that the UK will follow the lead set by France in introducing a three-strikes-and-you’re-out” policy that will leave those accused of internet piracy without a broadband connection. Lord Mandelson wants those found guilty of repeat offences cut off within 15 months …

UK high street sales in the year up to October showed the most positive rate of growth in almost two years, research has shown. The CBI’s latest monthly Distributive Trades Survey showed that the high street expects even stronger sales growth in November. 41 per cent of respondents to the …

London Games Conference: Vaizey accuses Labour of "actively doing down the industry"

The UK’s leading video game retailer GAME is to open around 300 of its stores at midnight on the morning of Tuesday November 10th to usher in the release of the year’s most hyped game – Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Each store will open for around …

There were four high-profile new entries in the Top Ten of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 this week, but it was Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 that emerged as the chart victor claiming top spot. In second place is another debutant – Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport 3. The racing …

As Zavvi’s online rebirth continues to gather pace at the hands of new owners The Hut, the portal has revealed that it is to ditch its UK specific top-level domain and rebrand itself as Zavvi.com. The move comes as the brand announces its intentions to expand into the European market. …

The Government’s plans to fund the spread of high speed broadband through taxation is unfair – and could put games’ potential digital renaissance in jeopardy. That was the view from Shadow Culture Minister Ed Vaizey this week, speaking ahead of his keynote address at London Games Conference on Tuesday (October …