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byronicman When GAME lady was on stage at BAFTAs someone leaned into me and said: they better not go bust – they owe me half a million quid.
(Simon Byron, Premier PR) Tuesday, March 20th
ian_livingstone London Buses for the games industry. Nothing for years then computer science at school, high-speed broadband and tax breaks all come at once.
(Ian Livingstone, Eidos) Wednesday, March 21st
edfear The tax breaks need to support new startups and SMEs more than the big triple-A. UK’s big studios are mostly dead. Support the new shoots. (Ed Fear, Mediatonic) Wednesday, March 21st
milessi @edfear Really? Hope you don’t count us as a triple-A then. I want to lower unemployment& make our games better with the credit.
(Miles Jacobson, Sports Interactive) Wednesday, March 21st
Payneben Anyone see Labour were all wearing purple today in Parliament? It’s like they were a gang from Saints Row The Third, albeit a dull one. (Ben Payne, Microsoft) Wednesday, March 21st
Greenspeak @jasonkapalka If we could change the ending of Peggleso that the pegs win, that’d be great.
(Jeff Green, PopCap Games) Wednesday, March 21st
jasonkapalka @Greenspeak Get a couple thousand whiny asshats to spam PopCap with hatemail for a month and maybe we’d consider it. (Jason Kapalka, PopCap Games) Wednesday, March 21st
acton It’s official. Draw Somethinghas pretty much become my full time job. (Michael Acton Smith, Mind Candy) Wednesday, March 21st
Jam_sponge So UK game devs get tax breaks on the same day that retail collapses? Who wrote the script for this week? But clichéd, isn’t it?
(Matt Lees, OXM) Wednesday, March 21st
BenjaminCousins Is it just me, or is the whole app store and download speed in general slow in iOS today because of Angry Birds?
(Ben Cousins, ngmoco) Thursday, March 22nd
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The average price of a video game last year
£25.63 10m
Capcom’s sales target for action RPG Dragon’s Dogma
1,000
Shops selling games which have closed down since 2007
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