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As someone trying to be optimistic about the future media coverage of video games related culture despite the present failure of it to impact significantly on mainstream arts and cultural coverage discussed in passing here it was nice to see a minor breakthrough of sorts as the Sunday Times Style magazine carried a feature on Sony Playstation's Home this week. You can see it online… Continue

The University of Abertay Dundee is to become the UK’s first ever university centre of excellence for computer games education thanks to a £3 million investment from the Scottish Government.

Abertay’s Principal and… Continue

So the ministerial action plan discussed here now includes a new minister

The Dare graduates joining our… Continue

A couple of months ago I wrote to many of our games developer contacts inviting them to volunteer their staff to participate in Dare to be Digital 2009 on regional selection panels, as mentors and as judges for the teams this year. The plan is to form a “Developer Accord” with balanced industry participation in a wide range of events through the UK and Ireland, plus our remote selection events for China and India. The scale of the positive responses I… Continue