C&binet was a gathering of the great and good of the British creative industries at the swanky Grove Hotel. But did it achieve its aim of becoming a British Davos for our industry? The Cabinet Forum event...

The UK government has just released figures showing that the nine Regional Development Agencies have invested nearly £2 million pounds in the development of the games industry in England (and I mean England, the figures don’t cover...

The UK government’s knife czar has called for new taxes to be levied on violent games.  Richard Taylor, father of murdered schoolboy Damilola Taylor, was appointed by Gordon Brown last month, as a leading campaigner against the carrying...

As GameSpot.au runs a report suggesting Michael Atkinson is delaying discussion of legalising 18+ rated games, someone needs to ask: ‘does he have a point?’ A lot has been said over the past few years regarding Australia’s...

The Twitterverse’s satirical take on the Change4Life campaign Of course Change4Life doesn’t say reading kills – this is a satirical picture from the Twitterverse. The government and charities behind the Change4Life campaigns know that an anti-reading advertisement...

There has been some criticism in the blogosphere (and on PocketGamer) of the campaign launched by MCV against the ill-conceived advertisement put together by three British charities in support of the government’s Change for Life campaign. The...

Will the government ever stop using lazy, knee-jerk cliches when considering the games industry? The latest furore is a Change4Life ad published in women’s lifestyle magazines Star, Reveal and Heat, and revealed in MCV today. The ad,...