Britons Splash £200 Million On MMO Games

The future of GAME has been up in the air for several weeks now. Store closures were announced, administration declared and the slippery slope to the changed future of high street game retail is getting steeper and steeper as the...

Epic Games developer Rod Fergusson has said that he believes downloadable content - DLC - is part of the industry's fight against used game sales, and that gamers should realise the development of extra content takes much more...

One of the biggest video games festivals of Scotland, Future Games Contest,  has come to  Dundee this year. The competition will result in three winning teams to be announced on Sunday. The teams will be sent across...

It has been reported that a new first-person shooter for Kinect has made its way onto the developing table at Microsoft’s Vancouver-based Games Studio. The employees of the two floor MGS Vancouver studio, known as ...

The UK games business could raise £1 billion in extra revenue by 2014 if it can overcome a lack of understanding about the industry in schools, a recent review has revealed.The Livingstone-Hope review, released on Tuesday,...

Games companies in China are set to provide special monitoring services to parents in a bid to curb rising levels of Internet game addiction in the country.Led by the Ministry of Culture, a coalition of eight government...

The UK's most vocal anti-gaming MP Keith Vaz was spotted at an event organised by consumer group Gamer's Voice - and apparently he likes games after all. The event was also attended by culture minister Ed Vaizey and John...

Apple's Japanese division has agreed to replace all overheating first generation iPod Nanos following a request filed by Japanese authorities. The move is part of Apple's plans to deal with the increasing reports of iPod Nano...

In a bid to keep disgruntled UK game devs happy after the cancellation of games tax relief, the government has unveiled a £5 million investment project for the country's games businesses.  Culture Minister Ed Vaizey...

Tory Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has stated the UK games industry isn't going to collapse as a result of the cancellation of tax relief, saying suggestions to the contrary are "just so wide of the mark." Vaizey made the statement...

The UK Chancellor George Osborne has announced plans to to scrap the research and development tax relief scheme used by the UK video gaming industry.The announcement has not been well received by the gaming industry, which had...

UK games developers have just been dealt a financial blow by Chancellor George Osborne in his first budget, which sees the coalition Government scrapping the video games tax relief plans promised by Labour. In his speech today,...

IBM has created the world's greatest pub quizzer: a supercomputer that the company reckons can match the intelligence of the best trivia buffs.The electronic mastermind, Watson, has been entered into popular American TV game show...

Hard-up game developers in the UK may well have found a new friend in Liberal Democrat Culture secretary, Don Foster MP, who says that he’s “very sympathetic” towards the case for tax relief for the UK games...

Shadow minister for culture, Ed Vaizey, has slammed the government’s lack of proper support to UK’s gaming industry, which has been referred to as a critically significant economic growth area by him.Addressing the...