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 French constitutional court has ruled the so-called Hadopi law illegal. The law would have allowed a government commission, rather than a court, to disconnect people who repeatedly downloaded copyrighted content over the Internet. The constitutional court,...

This one leaves me somewhat speechless – although I suppose I really shouldn’t be surprised. Rendition: Guantanamo – from Scottish developer, T-Enterprise – isn’t a new announcement, but it made the news (general and specialist) recently for...

Frontier has just announced that it has joined ELSPA. The developer, famous for Dog’s Life and RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 and led by David Braben, says that “ ELSPA addresses what we as game creators feel are the...

The BBC reports that two EU Commissioners, Viviane Reding and Meglena Kuneva, are trying to make software (including games) subject to the EU Sales and Guarantees Directive. Which means that they games companies would have to offer...

I’m fed up. I’m fed up with reports on ‘gamer’ demographics being repackaged to suggest that they are, on the whole, anything other than the traditional young males (13 – 30) we used to assume. My ire’s...

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...