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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

Last week was the biggest-grossing week ever for the UK games market – with 113.8m made in seven days. And the extra effect of this market boom? There are more gamers over here than ever before. According to UKIE, now one in three people in the UK is a gamer. …

The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment has announced that three new firms have signed up for membership. The latest companies to sign up with the games trade body are Target Media and the University of Abertay Dundee and international games publisher Atari. Target Media is a UK media agency that …