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UKIE calls on government to modernise Video Games Expenditure Credit ahead of Autumn Budget
Ahead of this week's Autumn Budget, UKIE is urging the UK government to modernise the Video Games Expenditure Credit (VGEC). The trade body is also pushing for a new fund to address the £500,000 to £2 million domestic growth capital…
Rockstar Games employees may vote to create the largest video game union in UK games history, and it's all happening around the release window of Grand Theft Auto 6
A date has been locked in for Rockstar Games employees to vote on whether to recognise their developer union. If successful, it will become the largest recognised union across the entirety of the UK video games industry. The vote, which runs from…
The Onion's First-Ever Video Game Skewers American Politics Just Ahead of the Midterms
For decades, satirical publication The Onion has been the leading voice for razor-sharp political comedy. Now, at a time when the site feels like it's reaching an unhinged peak, it can add another accomplishment to its résumé: video…
Why Isn't Anyone Funding Video Games Anymore?
These days it can be hard to remember, but the whirring machinery of the video game industry used to occasionally produce a successful hit without immediately collapsing and exploding. There are many factors to blame for this clear erosion of…
A24's Massive 180-Page Elden Ring Script Hints at a Nearly Three-Hour Epic That Could Break Video Game Movie Norms
A few new details on the story for A24's Elden Ring movie have emerged, including its possible runtime. And, if that remains the case, it's going to be epic. Deadline reports that writer-director Alex Garland's screenplay, based on FromSoftware's…
Cyprus has second smallest video game market in Europe
Cyprus has the second smallest video game market among 36 European countries, with only Malta spending less, according to a report published on Tuesday by the European audiovisual observatory. Consumer spending on video games in Cyprus reached…
'Women love video games,' Dressmaker dev says, there just aren't enough games for them: 'We were definitely targeting women from the get-go'
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Epic Games Is Suddenly Anti-AI Now That It's Being Hurt by It
For years now, the video game industry has been hellbent on adopting AI, using it for everything from rapidly cranking out code to auto-generating high-resolution textures and sloptastic upscaling algorithms. Some publishers have even relied on AI…
Take Two stock is a buy ahead of a GTA 6-fueled earnings boom, BofA says
November 19 will mark an event that some gamers have been waiting more than a decade for, but it should also be a date for investors to mark on their own calendars. We're talking about the release of Grand Theft Auto 6, Rockstar Games' sprawling…
Mass Effect' Voice Actors Show Support for Fans and Developers After BioWare Shutdown
Although Mass Effect fans may have an uphill battle on their hands to save the franchise, they are far from alone. Both Commander Shepard voice actors recently went live on Instagram to share their support, not just for disappointed fans, but for…
Why Party Plenums Matter So Much to Xi
Welcome to Foreign Policy 's China Brief. The highlights this week: The Chinese Communist Party begins its fifth plenum, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits Dandong, and China's first entirely AI-generated animated feature flops at the box…
Popular Christian YouTuber releases biblical fantasy novel meant to challenge today's dark content
Bible teacher and popular YouTuber Daniel Maritz is now sharing his take on the battle between light and darkness as the new co-author of the biblical fantasy novel 'Lightborn: Dawn of Darkness.' Maritz, who co-wrote the book with his brother…
'Hi Sandy. Are You Well? This Is Wrong.' 2 Doom Creators Are Arguing Over the Legendary First-Person Shooter's History
The 1993 first-person shooter Doom is legendary. Its place in history is both untouchable and inarguable. The details of that history, though, are currently being debated on social media. Not by fans, mind you, but instead by two of the very people…
EA shuts down legendary game studio BioWare after recent high-profile disappointments, controversies
Electronic Arts shut down BioWare, the longtime video game studio behind the 'Mass Effect' and 'Dragon Age' franchises, after years of disappointing releases and controversy over its games' identity-politics themes. BioWare, founded in 1995, has…
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Interior Night studio head Charu Desodt appointed chair of BAFTA Games Committee
Interior Night studio head Charu Desodt has been appointed chair of the BAFTA Games Committee. Desodt succeeds former Larian studio head Tara Saunders, who has since joined Lego Digital Play as senior people partner. 'As my tenure as chair of the…
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