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 issue of tax breaks for the games industry is a live one. Attractive tax breaks offered by Canada, France and many US states are drawing global publishers to build studios and recruit talent based on tax...

This is truly extraordinary. A Taiwanese news channel reporting on Bullygate concocts some CGI footage of Gordon Brown punching an aide and throwing a women from her chair. It’s not in English, so I can’t understand the...

Last week Times Online published this Iain Duncan Smith piece, in which the former Tory leader talks about children, and tax and booze… and briefly mentions violent video games. The relevant paragraph is this: “Innocence, he warns,...

This is a guest post from Dan Griliopoulos, games PR, journalist and former Parliamentary researcher The expenses scandal might have confirmed the suspicion that the only thing our politicians are professional about is lining their own pockets,...

Four gaming luminaries received an award in the New Year’s Honours this year. CBE for Rod Cousens, CEO of Codemasters and formerly of Acclaim OBE for Paul Jackson, former Director-General of ELSPA, the publishers’ association and now...

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...