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UKIE has reported that pirated video games may have cost the industry around 1.5bn in sales last year. The trade body has reported that several publishers have claimed illegally downloaded games could outnumber those sold legitimately by as much as 4:1 – and UKIE director general Michael Rawlinson claims that …

The Government’s Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) will now be solely responsible for the games industry. It means that the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) will no longer have anything to do with interactive entertainment sector. Games industry advocate Ed Vaizey, who was formerly a joint …

Andy Payne says intensive workloads should be 'consensual and not forced'

Call of Duty: Black Ops is the UK’s biggest selling game of the year, according to Gfk Chart-Track. The first person shooter – which sold 2m units in its first week on sale – beat off competition from FIFA 11, Just Dance and Red Dead Redemption to take the prize. …

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 …

The UK games industry has dismissed BBC’s Panorama report on games addiction for ‘failing’ to progress the debate. The BBC said that the show – which aired on Monday (December 6th) – would reveal the hidden psychological devices in games that are designed to keep us coming back.” But UKIE …

BBC’s suspicion-raising Panorama documentary on games addiction doesn’t air until Monday night – but details of the broadcast are already leaking out. Reports by the Press Association and the Scotsman today offer a preview of the documentary, and it seems the documentary will look closely at how games ‘trick’ players. …

Ahead of Panorama’s ‘Addicted to Games?’ broadcast next Monday, video games trade body UKIE has highlighted the lack of any scientific evidence linking video games to addiction. There is no official medical diagnosis of video game addiction, either from the American Medical Association or the World Health Organization,” director general …

A consortium of eight UK studios will band together under with a mission to build their own publishing business, in a new scheme backed by key trade associations and the government. This collaboration of digital, social and independent UK developers already has the support of creative industry investment group NESTA, …

Eight-studio collaboration backed by NESTA, Tiga, UKIE and Whitehall