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Entries in ‘May 2008’ (23)

IP profile: RuneScape
Monday, 19th May 2008 at 9:40 am

IP profile: RuneScape

We look at the making of a highly-commercial, but under-exposed British super-hit…

Headstrong Games
Monday, 19th May 2008 at 3:37 pm

Headstrong Games

The final of Kuju's studios to get a rebrand, we take a look at what the Wii specialist has in store for the future...

Truth of Dare
Tuesday, 20th May 2008 at 10:59 am

Truth of Dare

Dare to be Digital is probably the most highly-regarded event in the games and education part of the industry’s yearly and busy calendar. We speak to Paul Durrant of organiser Abertay University to look back at how the competition has united the industry and discuss what lies in its future…

Networking opportunities
Tuesday, 20th May 2008 at 11:09 am

Networking opportunities

It may be the marvel of the modern age, but the internet can be a hairy place when dealing with time-critical applications like games. We take a look at the sector and what middleware companies are doing to help…

New Horizons
Wednesday, 21st May 2008 at 12:36 pm

New Horizons

Last month some members from the advisory board for June’s Codeworks GameHorizon convened to talk shop, so we took the chance to grill the assembled execs on the games market. Here’s what they had to say…

Games Up? The Stats
Tuesday, 27th May 2008 at 9:27 am

Games Up? The Stats

As part of the recently-announced Games Up? campaign lobbying for tax breaks for games studios and better higher education, the organisers have published stats and facts proving their case about the commercial strength of the UK.

The details, in full, are provided below:

Censorship from a 2020 perspective
Thursday, 29th May 2008 at 3:28 pm

Censorship from a 2020 perspective

One day – probably not too many years away – the currently infamous Byron Review will seem as applicable to gaming as ‘Here be dragons!’ scrawled on the edges of ancient maps, and the interactive entertainment of the future will find our agonising over age ratings laughable.

OPINION: Why 'Games Up?' makes sense
Friday, 30th May 2008 at 9:42 am

OPINION: Why 'Games Up?' makes sense

This weekend I did something I'm not proud of. I bought the Mail on Sunday.

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