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Consider yourself the next Kojima? Ready to become the next Rocksteady? Maybe you’ve got the skills to become a future Meier?
National Highways has enlisted the help of Minecraft, the world’s best-selling video game, to inspire the next generation of talented tech experts, engineers, scientists and mathematicians.
Ed Vaizey supports London Games Festival.
The CMA welcomes improvements made by Sony and Nintendo to their gaming subscription practices and has now closed its investigation into the online gaming sector.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is concerned that Microsoft’s anticipated purchase of Activision Blizzard could substantially lessen competition in gaming consoles, multi-game subscription services, and cloud gaming services (game streaming).
Latest move by Government to better protect children from unsuitable material
The Government has recognised the need to protect children from inappropriate content and has been working with industry representatives ahead…
From today, it is a criminal offence to sell video games with a “12” rating to those younger than that age.
A simpler and stronger age-rating system for video games will soon be law after proposals were today laid in Parliament
Mr Vaizey along with skills minister John Hayes welcomed an independent review of education and training in the UK games sector to be spearheaded…
Four awards and the Academy fellowship are presented to home-grown talent.
UK Global Screen Fund to continue following successful pilot which supported more than 65 productions
New system to give parents more confidence that children can only get suitable games.
The CMA has today issued updated provisional findings in its assessment of Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision.
Video games companies across the UK will be able to begin claiming tax relief up to 25% on their production costs from today.
European Commission gives the go ahead for a tax break for UK video games sector.
The Science and Innovation team in France have organised a workshop to increase collaboration between academics and games developers.
The CMA has secured improvements for Xbox online players, following concerns about Microsoft’s use of auto-renewing subscriptions for online gaming services.
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