Dan Marchant has been in the games industry for a long time, and knows his stuff. He’s been writing a series of posts about stupid reasons to go into game development. Here’s an excerpt from part 4:
The assumption seems to be that there are a huge number of developers out there who simply don’t [...]

Mere days after the conservative party voiced support for the games industry, David Cameron is banging the social decline drum. Rather predictably, video games are being dragged into it:
“Today’s document sets out our view on popular culture – that the companies which make music videos, films and computer games have a social responsibility not to [...]

PS2, PSP and Wii releases in the US this October.
The game will be released in North America on October 31 following the submission of a modified version of Manhunt 2. What’s been cut we don’t know yet. Nor do we know what the deal is in Europe.

It’s all happening in white hall – wii or no wii.
“I think that the games industry and games culture can play a very positive role in the development of young people. I have read with great interest about the UK’s first ever ‘games academy’ that has been created by three universities in collaboration with leading [...]

THE GOVERNMENT has reaffirmed its commitment to the games industry and announced plans for further economic support, after the Conservative Party claimed that Labour was not doing enough to support the sector in last week’s MCV.
Speaking exclusively to MCV, Margaret Hodge, Minister for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism said:
“We have definitely begun to more fully [...]

Oxford based middleware provider NaturalMotion have been working closely with quite a few developers worldwide, including RockStar and LucasArts, to integrate fluid procedural animation into their games. Today, they announced their own game IP: Backbreaker.
It sounds like it’s going to be more an arcade game than a sports simulation, which certainly suits the disaster-porn-esque rough [...]

This is an interesting counterpoint to the earlier post about Leipzig trying to tempt studios away from the UK. German developer Crytek, in response to proposed German laws on violent games, have said they would relocate to a different country if they were passed:
The largest German video games developer Crytek is threatening to move abroad [...]

Coverage of the storytelling panel at Leipzig is on Gamesindustry. The overall outcome seems to be the conclusion that game stories shouldn’t be more complex, because games don’t live up to it:
For Rolston, when asked about whether games should try to be less linear and more complex with their storylines, it was “the worst idea [...]

The US 8, UK 0.  Another loss to US investors.
Foundation 9 Entertainment has bought Sheffield-based developer Sumo Digital for an undisclosed sum.
Sumo has previously worked on titles as diverse as Outrun 2, Broken Sword and the PlayStation Network title Super Rub ‘a’ Dub, and recently established a development facility in Pune, India. The studio will [...]

“The UK development industry is under ‘great’ threat from a skillset crisis and the exodus of talent abroad – and the Government simply isn’t doing enough to stop it.”
That was the message from the Conservative Party this week, as it made a landmark attempt to build bridges with the UK’s interactive entertainment business.  Shadow secretary [...]