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Updated: Sports Direct puts in offer to buy UK's GAME Digital for $66.1m, owns 38.49 per cent of retailer News Jun 6th, 2019

Updated: Sports Direct puts in offer to buy UK's GAME Digital for $66.1m, owns 38.49 per cent of retailer

Follows Mike Ashley's firm buying 8.59 per cent of chain's shares

UK competition body investigating how Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo handle subscription models News Apr 8th, 2019

UK competition body investigating how Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo handle subscription models

“We are fully prepared to take action”

REVEALED: Latest figures show a widening gender pay gap in the UK games industry News Apr 8th, 2019

REVEALED: Latest figures show a widening gender pay gap in the UK games industry

Median hourly wage gap widens by 4.78 per cent, mean figure shows four per cent broadening

Meet Riot 2.0: League of Legends firm talks about changing its culture, why it wants to make esports more inclusive and how it is preparing for its next project Interviews & Opinion Jan 31st, 2019

Meet Riot 2.0: League of Legends firm talks about changing its culture, why it wants to make esports more inclusive and how it is preparing for its next project

The League of Legends giant has just announced a brand new UK tournament that seems to be part of its PR rehabilitation

UK Parliament looking into rise of "immersive and addictive" tech News Dec 11th, 2018

UK Parliament looking into rise of "immersive and addictive" tech

"We have the opportunity now to shape that development, setting an agenda that benefits our economy and how we spend our leisure time, while ensuring the right safeguards are built in"

Why GAME's Player1Events esports and events division is vital to the UK retailer's future Interviews & Opinion Dec 7th, 2018

Why GAME's Player1Events esports and events division is vital to the UK retailer's future

Head of sales, marketing and content Sarah Whittaker tells us more

Wargaming: Edge Case acquisition has sped up development of new MMO News Nov 29th, 2018

Wargaming: Edge Case acquisition has sped up development of new MMO

Collaboration between the two firms has been on the cards for some time

Government figures point to video games contributing £1.069bn to UK economy in 2017 - but it's likely much more News Nov 28th, 2018

Government figures point to video games contributing £1.069bn to UK economy in 2017 - but it's likely much more

Flaws in the way DCMS has gathered this information - and the way that some games companies classify themselves - mean this figure is lower than it should be

What's going on with the UK games market? Feature Nov 20th, 2018

What's going on with the UK games market?

This is one of the most influential sectors around but the future is somewhat uncertain

PCGamesInsider.biz will be focusing on the UK games market for the next two weeks News Nov 19th, 2018

PCGamesInsider.biz will be focusing on the UK games market for the next two weeks

We'll be analysing the trends that are affecting this market at this point in time, such as jobs, education, tax relief and - of course - Brexit

Video games contributed $3.8bn to UK economy in 2016 News Oct 9th, 2018

Video games contributed $3.8bn to UK economy in 2016

And it provides 50,000 jobs

World of Tanks firm Wargaming rolls into the UK Job News Sep 18th, 2018

World of Tanks firm Wargaming rolls into the UK

New Guildford studio working on unannounced free-to-play MMO, in a shocking turn of events

Report: Over 200 UK divorces have cited Fortnite and other games since start of 2018 News Sep 17th, 2018

Report: Over 200 UK divorces have cited Fortnite and other games since start of 2018

Battle royale title joins addiction to drugs, gambling and alcohol as commonly expressed reasons for divorce

Bulletstorm studio People Can Fly opens new UK and Poland offices Job News May 16th, 2018

Bulletstorm studio People Can Fly opens new UK and Poland offices

New locations in Newcastle and Rzeszow working alongside studio's Warsaw home on new IP for Square Enix

Mafia III maker Hangar 13 opens UK office Job News May 15th, 2018

Mafia III maker Hangar 13 opens UK office

Fourth location for the developer

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