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An update from the government on industry-led measures to improve player protections with regards to loot boxes in video games.
How Gaming Duty is charged, and who has to pay.
Find out if you should pay Gaming Duty, how to register and how to pay.
Find out if you qualify for Video Games Expenditure Credits for Corporation Tax and what you can claim.
New guide for academics and industry aims to boost understanding of video games to support UK’s world leading sector
This notice provides legal and technical guidance about reforms to Remote Gaming Duty (RGD) from 1 December 2014.
A CMA investigation has provisionally concluded that Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision could result in higher prices, fewer choices, or less innovation for UK gamers.
The CMA has prevented Microsoft’s proposed purchase of Activision over concerns the deal would alter the future of the fast-growing cloud gaming market, leading to reduced innovation and less choice for UK gamers over the years to come.
Children and young people should not be able to buy in-game purchases known as ‘loot boxes’ in video games without parental consent
Government partners with leading UK video games companies to help get essential health messaging into more UK homes
Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture and the Digital Economy has today announced the first round of winners in the Government’s UK Games Fund.
The CMA has referred 3 online games to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to consider whether to launch investigations.
Andy Payne to create an innovative new business model for UK video games developers to distribute digital content.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
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