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'We need to sustain success in one of our most important creative industries'

Chancellor Phillip Hammond detailed the new incentives and schemes designed to help digital industries in the UK

Speaking to The Times, the BGI's Rick Gibson talks about the need to create funding to help start-up companies get their feet on the ground

Following a petition for the government to address the legality of in-game loot boxes reaching over 10,000 signatures, the DCMS replies

The response from the DCMS department says that a close eye is being kept on the situation despite already being addressed in March 2017

Livingstone and Gibson backed initiative gets Sony, Rare, Playground Games, Jagex and others on board

Both UKIE and TIGA will back the newly proposed British Games Institute scheme to promote cultural, creative and economic impact of games.

Blueprint report launches at Parliament event in London, recommending more funding support and ‘games-as-culture’ promotion

Studios able to apply for grants of up to £25,000, with plans for fund to run up to 2019

TIGA calls for export tax relief, while UKIE urges for continued investment in Skills Investment Fund