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EDUCATION WEEK: Wilson and Rawlinson lend praise amid new calls for trade body unification
Read More »Tiga/UKIE differences ‘are disappearing’
EDUCATION WEEK: Differences between UKIE and TIGA 'are disappearing'
Read More »Fresh calls for UKIE-Tiga merger
EDUCATION WEEK: Livingstone-Hope Review urges better cooperation between the trade bodies
Read More »UKIE welcomes Livingstone-Hope review
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 …
Read More »Livingstone: A united industry makes sense
Following the surprise recommendation of a possible strategic alliance between UK games trade bodies UKIE and TIGA in today’s Livingstone-Hope skills review, report author Ian Livingstone has espouse the virtues of a possible union. "There is a fundamental difference between the two organisations historically," Livingstone told an audience in London …
Read More »UK’s trade bodies ‘must be united’
As part of its wide-reaching video games education review being revealed today, the Livingstone-Hope report has called for closer ties to be forged between the UK’s two main video games trade bodies – UKIE and TIGA. Progress is all about simplification not complication," the conclusion to the report reads. "In …
Read More »PEGI plans postponed until September
Confusion over whether games featuring video content still need a BBFC logo has temporarily derailed the implementation of PEGI. Now, PEGI will not be the sole legal rating system for games until September at the very earliest. A new DCMS proposal states that interactive entertainment which features linear content (such …
Read More »Gamers’ Voice calls for volunteers
Lobby group looks to expand; eyes web designers, graphic designers, writers
Read More »UKIE: Piracy cost £1.5bn in 2010
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 …
Read More »DCMS takes sole charge of games
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 …
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