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Read More »Trade body TIGA calls for more government help to support the UK games industry during the COVID-19 crisis
Ukie launches ‘shared industry resource’ Ukiepedia
"Collating facts, stats and other useful information about the UK and global games industry"
Read More »UK government investigation slams games industry for a ‘lack of honesty and transparency’ about loot boxes
"Loot box mechanics [...] should be of serious concern to the industry"
Read More »Ukie hopes its new diversity census will be the ‘most detailed analysis on the diversity of the industry’s workforce ever conducted’
"The anonymised data will then be aggregated and used to form a high level analysis of the make-up of the UK games industry"
Read More »New research shows a 19% drop in physical sales for UK entertainment sector
Amazon accounts for 25% of all spend in each category
Read More »Abertay University offers game dev resources thanks to £9m funding
Unis of Dundee and St Andrews partner on project to help SMEs
Read More »Is UK games development lagging behind the wave of games growth?
The Making Games In The UK report shows development staff hit an all-time high last year, but that's not the whole story
Read More »Ukie, TIGA and ‘BGI’ comment on £23.7m Creative Industries Review funding plan
Friday’s Independent Review of the Creative Industries – commissioned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport – was strongly in support of greater government funding for the games sector. It crucially proposed that an investment of 23.7m in the sector, targeted at smaller businesses, would deliver a GVA …
Read More »‘Government should invest £23.7 million over five years’ in games says Creative Industries report
Today saw the publishing of the much-awaited Independent Review of the Creative Industries (IRCI), which the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) commissioned out of the Industrial Strategy paper earlier this year. The headline statement was that the report supported calls for an extended UK games fund and …
Read More ȣ73m of video game tax relief paid out in 2016-17
73m in video games tax relief (VGTR) was paid out in the 2016-17 financial year, representing an increase of 60 per cent year-on-year, according to the latest figures from HMRC. VGTR was paid out relating to 280 claims in 2016-17, which shows a growth of 115 per cent compared to …
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