The games industry just can’t win. Earlier this week, a GAME employee acted with exemplary integrity for the good of our industry. He or she refused to serve a 17 year old boy a 15-rated game without...

This is a guest post from Konstantin Ewald, partner at Osborne Clarke, a law firm with a strong games practice. Games publishers operating in the German market do not now have to apply substantial new German Online...

This is a guest post from Konstantin Ewald, partner at Osborne Clarke, a law firm with a strong games practice. Since this post was written, two German states failed to ratify the law. The situation is currently...

Not entirely disimilar to my defence earlier this year of Iain Duncan Smith, I’m forced to jump to the aid of the man the games press loves to hate. There’s no doubt Keith Vaz has said some...

The Digital Economy Bill (among other things) proposes a new games classification regime in which, for the first time, the Video Standards Council would become responsible for classifying all games in the UK. While broadly the games...

Ghostbusters PS3: 12+   Ghostbusters Wii: 7+   I’m not sure I’ve seen this before. Ghostbusters, the game that Atari picked up after it was dropped by Activision and that Phil Harrison wants to turn into a...